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 No.27834[Reply]

We are not `hostile'. Hostility is unwarranted aggression! SNORT!

If you want to know about hostility, let us tell you about Culture Twelve!


 No.27796[Reply]

Based on the lore most of the damage dealt from the mass bombings took place between cities and not the vast amounts of and occupying earth. Granted a lot of land isn’t good to farm on either due to deficiencies of nutrients like nitrates or being too far from convenient water sources, the list keeps going but it does show that people could sort of thrive in a post atomic world with minimal repercussions and that’s sweet lore wise because it sets up a lot of questions about the world outside of the USA.

What’s the NCR doing in Mexico that makes travel there worthwhile enough to establish new territory, how’s china doing with all the infrastructure it’s built today and will build from 2076 to the years after the bombs, is the only region that still couldn’t get past the war just the USA? Is the rest of the planet just fine from all the years and since then people have gotten a lot better. Interesting
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 No.27823

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>>27796
Not only is Point Lookout horribly irradiated and filled with its own breed of mutants and full of ghouls, but there are places that are more or less pristine and where it actually rains in the Fallout US. Still filled with critters though.

 No.27824

>>27822
They fixed the sponges in the sequel

 No.27825

>>27815
Game design rant:
IMHO there is nothing wrong with difficulty levels that just differ in how much health and ammo the player has :P It's just that with a design like that while bother having a menu option for difficulty. The game can just start on hardest and change to the next easier mode once the player goes past some limit of ammo spent or health lost. In other words, designers can just put all these LDDs (="lazy difficulty distinction", just made that up) into scoring mechanics or achievements. Would it be always objectively better design to do this with LDD? I wouldn't go that far because I think there is a psychological difference in how the player experiences it.

 No.27828

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>>27825
I have not idea what you mean.
But anyway, difficulty setting need to always be aware of how they affect the game balance and interact with other systems. Pillars of Eternity 2 is both a good and a bad example. On highest difficulty there will be additional enemies spawned along the "normal" ones, often of different type and higher levels, making fights harder, but at the same time more fun and diverse, forcing you to devise new tactics to overcome them.
It also lowers your chance-to-hit. Now this is a game with very limited per-encounter ability action points, so often you will be allowed to use only cca. 3 abilities per character in single encounter. They often synergize together, you are expected to use abilities thoughtfully to be able to win. If you use ability and miss, it still counts as used and consumes your action points. Meaning maxed-out perception (which increases hit-chance) is basically a mandatory character build on higher difficulties, significantly constraining player freedom and creativity.

 No.27829

>>27796
I wouldnt be suprised that china has become dengist



 No.27675[Reply]

Anyone else into games centered on political simulation? A fav of mine is The New Campaign Trail, which is focused on the campaign - the mods included on the website are the bread and butter. Recs are 1864, 1972d, and 1996Powell.
Can be played here: https://www.newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/index.html
I've been trying to get into The Political Process but my eyes glaze over trying to parse it.
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 No.27703

>>27700
Bear in mind that the stuff in the "main" window is from the original website, and some of it is of dubious quality.

 No.27712

Suzerain and democracy 4 is based

 No.27784

anyone here able to win as Nader?

 No.27785

>>27784
No.
When I tried my best I not only got less votes than IRL Nader, but also somehow secured clear victory for Al Gore by flipping Missouri and Arkansas blue.

 No.27789

>>27785
That's what happened to me as well



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 No.27707[Reply]

I beat Celeste for the second time
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 No.27714

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 No.27715

I beat if one time and that was enough for me.

 No.27722

>>27715
At least attempt the b sides

 No.27727

Are you trans?

 No.27728

>>27727
No I just like platformers. Though I have noticed that I’ve been having to thoughts and dreams about being a woman since I’ve been trying to lose weight with the initial goal of making running and climbing a lot easier



 No.27645[Reply]

It's funny how the advertisement for "Tears of the Kingdom" featuring a sad man playing the game after his wife goes to bed and on the bus, syncs perfectly with Gary Jules version of "Mad World".

 No.27646

>he drowns exactly when the lyrics say it
that's gotta be edited come on

 No.27647

What the fuck it's not edited at all they actually just slapped the music on there.

 No.27649

What I find crazier btw IS THAT THE FUCKING RABBIT FROM DONNY DARKO IN THE THUMBNAILL???

splatoon takes place in a earth where humans die after 5 world wars? genocide? wtf

 No.27651

>>27649
>>27647
my man check the video description

 No.27678

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Imagine letting your wife going to bed like that



 No.27617[Reply]

I understand that in real life modern wars are generally slow due to the time it takes to actually schedule, strategize, mobilize and actually give commands to troops before any actual time is spent fighting and also the time it takes to do all of that once each firefight ends but in arma it feels noticeably slow compared to the violence seen in wars like the Tigray thing and Ukraine. Are wars really that slow paced or does it really depend on the region?
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 No.27643

>>27641
irl what you have as a result of this is concrete bunkers burried deep underground connected by tunnels with the occasional breakthrough via superior artilery and mechanized pushes.

 No.27644

>>27643
Assuming staff could afford that and were willing to blow the funds for it yeah

 No.27652

>>27641
Immersive Ukraine simulation for western mercenaries. kek

 No.27656

>>27652
Kinda real tho. ArmA 3 went out to create a combat environment we had not seen until Armenia vs Azerbaijan or Ukr vs Russia now and in hindsight they were on point

 No.27674

>>27656
Of course they were. ArmA is a commercial version of a real combat sim that real soldiers play.



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 No.27552[Reply]

In Reggie’s autobiography, he talks about his time at Panda Express, and how he was excited to push the chain to compete against small family-run Chinese food restaurants. He left the company after they decided to pull back on expanding.
The book is a real eye-opener, because he just comes off as a vapid, asshole business guy who kept failing upwards until he lucked into working at Wii-era Nintendo and became famous on the internet because of e3 banter memes.
Anyway, the new Zelda has leaked onto the internet and it is incredibly easy to find and emulate.
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 No.27628

>>27627
Do they even exist? I thought they alienated pretty much everyone at this point except for the most casual of consumers.

 No.27631

>>27628
I don't think there's actually any EA 'fans' but there are people who dutifully buy the the new FIFA/Madden/etc every single year

 No.27632

>>27628
The casual consumer is the biggest demographic after all.

 No.27638

>>27627
Paradox paypigs are worse.
Just checks the reviews and discussions on Steam when a new DLC comes out.

 No.27673

>>27638
Stay mad.



 No.27457[Reply]

Due to the lore most of the infected should ideally be bloaters due to how long the games take place in after the outbreak but based off demographics of the infected it’s obvious there’s way more runners and at times clickers than the fully blown mutated shamblers and bloaters running about indicating most of the infected are fresh victims, not casualties that got bit when the cordyceps started spreading for the first time. And that also means that in the timespan the last of us games actually take place in the spread of the fungi has actually gotten worse not weakened with time
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 No.27543

>>27542
I'm afraid femboy disease is psychologically transmitted

 No.27544

>>27543
I'll have to quaruntine I suppose from this femboy board.

 No.27546

>>27544
Too late pal. You might as well stay with us now.

 No.27566

>>27541
Project Zomboid is not wacko enough for me.
In CDDA I'm past the shitty interface now that I have some muscle memory to navigate the menus, there's just still a lot to learn so I keep dying but I'm getting better.

 No.27648

>>27457
it's okay floor
i will protect you



 No.27624[Reply]

Tlou2
Dark souls 2
And rainbow 6 look so much better in the trailer for one reason, the lighting. Same goes for unrecorded. Games use ambient lighting way to fucking much and rarely will you be in any space that’s genuinely dark in a natural sense since that hides shit the player needs to see for gameplay purposes but in the end games look generally way fucking worse no matter how advanced the graphics are. Which makes me question how can games use ambient lighting less to make games look significantly better…

sad

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>>27624
Yeah, its lazy and it sucks. Thats why some of the older games like Half-Life 2, Doom 3 and FEAR look so favorable compared to even some of the newer titles, because they used ambient lighting sparingly if ever and instead used static and dynamic light sources to light levels up and made use of various lighting tricks like chiaroscuro to create mood in their scenes.

 No.27630

>>27626
It’s not even just that it’s the colour choice
Take a look at this frame from fear and compare it to an ordinary screenshot of dying light 2s map, far cry 6, and watch dogs legion. If the UI for fear was disabled this image would look convincing but with the new games they have so many over saturated colours that it looks fake. Maybe this was for stylistic reasons so these games could consistently look good in the future but for me I hold the sentiment that it just makes these games look cartoonish similar to Fortnite

 No.27633

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It's a fixed capital vs variable capital thing. It's simply more labor intensive to set up the kind of lighting you want, which imitates the lighting techniques of film crews and tries to carefully select the proper light for each important element. Ambient lighting lets you drop your light sources into the level and let the computer do all the work. It might be more "realistic" but that's not the same as looking good. A lot of people focused on graphics tend to think of video games more as visual simulations than as visual art.

There's a bit from the Lord of the Rings commentary tracks where Elijah Wood talks about a conversation he had with the lighting guy about a particular scene. The scene involves a close-up on Frodo's face as he's facing a wall, with the camera being positioned "inside" the wall. Wood observed that in that position his face should be too dark for the camera to see anything and jokingly asked the lighting guy where the light's coming from. He replied "the same place as the music."



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 No.28517[Reply]

>Create a video game
>it's an RPG where you're basically a Lenin-type figure
>you're trying to lead a revolution
>the main quest is class struggle
>all the side quests and distractions are idpol and culture war nonsense, where you're trying to get people off that path and back onto the main questline
>this is the message of the game, as conveyed through its structure

good idea or bad idea?
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 No.28585

>>28581
wow comrade gratis digital produce is underfunded???

 No.28586

>>28585
it's not always gratis
what is a common thing is that dev offer consulting services, making the software itself a loss leader

 No.28587

>>28586
*devs

 No.28588

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 No.28589

>>28583
not a bad idea. probably text would be easiest way to pull it off. maybe painted illustrations
I've had some training in what to do if you arrive at a disaster scene like a car crash. one thing people tend to do is become confused and just wander off



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