/games/ - Games

>>34268
99% of indie projects don't blow up like that though. Corporate slop is more reliable income (usually).

>>34270
sure, but things don't have to go viral to be a fair income tho. It is more reliable big bucks to work on industry stuff tho.

>>34270
I keep underestimating how dumb, bydlo, and childlike the Western masses are true. Like I never gave a damn about Starfield. I am shocked people are still paying for this crap game. I am shocked people bought with honest to God working class wages, a fucking console version of Toddout 4. Or Toddout 76. Or that they pay for all that Paradox shit, or give EA their money.

I am shocked the amount of money people actually spend on these complete trash games, though maybe it's because they saw like one ad, are childlike and stupid and impulsive the way the corpos like it, and based on some shitty marketing thing pull the trigger then never play it past the character creator and never learn from their own mistakes.

It's almost like the Americans treat the act of buying itself like a rat pressing a cocaine button.
It would be easy to just hijack that mechanism preying on their fears and insecurities to then make them feel better about themselves after the buy. I strongly suspect this is why apple retards exist that buy iTrash.

>>34284
>the Western masses
Have you considered there are material reasons that AAA companies put out uninteresting intellectual property receptacles for games that isn't "le heckin sheeple aren't voting with the wallet hard enough."

Your favorite youtuber buying $200 open world games to tell you how poorly made they are is not representative of the proletariat as a whole. Slapping a national flag on that line of reasoning doesn't do anything.

>>34284
starfield wasn't that bad. yeah it wasn't high art but whatever, it was a waste of time for a few dozen actually hundred hours. you don't have to call people rats just for buying something you think wasn't that good. also it was on game pass anyways

Where's the Baldur's Gay eroge spin-off when we need it?

>>33836
yeah Japan wtf

>>33822
>>33833
most sales come from the first month or so, and all the streamers showing people what the game is like will mostly be playing the earliest parts. way less incentive to make the game not a piece of shit past that point.

the raphael song is cringe. i've seen some cope on reddit saying that it's supposed to be cringe and that in the context of d&d it's okay if it's cringe. but that's not true. the song is cringe because it's badly written. the rhyme scheme is doctor seuss level and the analogies/metaphors are are the most basic 1:1 simplistic shit. i get the impression that it was written by some person in the dev team whose actual job was some technical shit and they were unqualified for the task

>>34261
it came off as cheesy boss fight stuff and that is one the reasons i liked it though, that and the singing was competent.

i barely use my gpd win 4, i kinda just carry it around to play games with my sister when i visit my parents, i may get one of the newer retroid devices to play earthbound or something i dunno

>>32922
superpower 2 is too SIMPLE ANON. I NEED SOMETHING MORE.

>>32922
so happy to see superpower 2 mentioned. i really do think it has pretty much the best "template" for a geopolitical sim, it all flows together so well despite its numerous problems

Mao's legacy now tells you what techs due to the economy as a tooltip.

Qol is increasing.

Shallow af but cozy tbqh
It's just one of those games you mindlessly play after work like Microcosmum or something

>>32810
Why do these pictures look so… gray?

>>29791

Phoenix Point, thank me later.

>>34119
Played it already twice, good suggestion though. Polyphonic tendency for life.

>>30591
Battle Brothers and Wartales are great games both on management and tactical level.
But if you are looking something close to XCOM in terms of combat, I cant recommend Showgunners enough. There is virtually no management other than picking which gun to equip, and overworld consists of finding colectibles and solving puzzles, but it has the most tightly designed combat encounters of any of these games I played.

>>34119
I adored the writing (out of place ancom faction and wacky DLC arms dealer notwithstanding) and the desperate atmosphere the whole game had, enforced by how every mission you are under constant pressure, everything can go south due to single mistake. But for that to make for actually fun gameplay the mechanics need to be reliable and clearly communicated to the player. Instead I kept running into shit like bullets flying out of gun at bizarre angles, overwatch soldiers unloading magazine into a wall instead of approaching mutant, enemies hitting my guys through cover or wasting bunch of research time and resources on an armored transport because the game forgets to tell you its not something your soldiers take on missions but rather something you take on mission instead of your soldiers.

>>34111
I must be at like 200 hours at least… it's just so fucking repetitive and I have to savescum so much. I'm really thinking of just giving up. It doesn't help that my playstyle is kind of boring, I just give 90% of my troops the best sniper rifles I can buy/manufacture because it works for most all situations.

>>34040
>>34111
>>34238
lol anon seeing what you're going trough I'm almost sorry I talked about this mod, I'm currently midgame I think, mid 99, no idea how many hours I played, and it's true that it can be repetitive.
The thing is you have to progress fast if you can on the research tree and the interrogations to stop some missions for appearing, no idea how to get rid of those pesky "haunted houses/farms" though, I just don't do them anymore because those psy attack coming from the other side of the map are too annoying and I have a good score.
The game is throwing you some mean difficulty curve balls also, the red dawn HQ was annoying but man fuck the vampire castle DRAINING your balls sanity, I had to do it two times because I couldn't capture the queen the first time.

As of now I use salvaged alien laser rifles, pulse rifles, black ops snipers with tritanium ammo, one or two smartgun, a minigun, a dog and a laser tank. I also give a smart pistol and a katana to my guy with the most TU who I also equip with a synthsuit built with what I could get from Osiron crates. Melee is OP in this mod. I also save scum, otherwise I would use explosives, mortars, grenade launchers, rocket launchers way way more

>>34181
Much better than when it first came out, get Toybox to fix the still broken stuff just in case.

>>34213
squatmunism

>>34181
This is literally one of the best crpgs I played already and I am barely past prologue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_25eAN2fo14
Like, my God dude

Also I should emphasize that due to this entire game universe being set up in the 1980s that while it is a direct rebuke of Thatcherite bullshit and policies [spoiler]keep in mind GW is literally British, the tongue in cheek poking fun at reactionaries routinely goes over their retarded Poes Law heads[/spoiler] but it was also quite clearly premised more off of Soviet stuff, given that again, 1980s.

Like the emperor of mankind is quite literally Space Stalin. That's the whole hilarious thing about the lore, Lorgar basically found out the hard way that Emprah is not only a dick he's also full of shit, and that is especially hilarious that the entire false, heretical Ecclesiarchy was literally made up by a fucking heretic traitor who helped start the Horus Heresy partly because the Emprah DESPISED religion in all its forms. There's a great part in the fluff where the Emperor hunts down and burns to death the last living priest on planet Earth. How in the fuck a bunch of reactionaries can like that is beyond me, but what I usually found is they're literally too retarded and pigshit ignorant (like all else) to know any better, and so they trundle along blithely thinking this setting agrees with them and their xenophobia. It's just priceless to me because the fake ass pseudo Catholic theme, if you actually know and understand the lore, the Emperor himself would literally murder the entire Ecclesiarchy and purge the fuck out of anybody else who supported it and had the audacity to worship him as a god or replace science and the glorification of rational secularism with religious superstition. It was quite literally a shitty, degraded version of Space Sovietism, it's basically if the space USSR grew so corrupt that someone made a state sanctioned church to worship Mao or Stalin as a god after they died. It's literally North Korea tier. That's part of the irony too, is it's actually one of the most shitty imperialistic societies out there, in much the same way as, who was it Orwell? That one author who was Socialist got horrified at the betrayal of Socialist values by the Stalinist crew. Oh and also that Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>34181
oh shit sorry and I didn't even answer your question, so far so good and I just really love Owlcat. I want them to actually have my money. But I also adore Slavic devs. Mainly, because for whatever strange reason they don't fucking suck like Western corpos, probly due to something called SOUL. Anyway I haven't noticed fuckery yet but supposedly that shit all come at act 4 or something. The first half was fine before, it may be fixed now anyway. Oh and also. Yes this is true, you get Iconoclast, Puritan, and Heretic. There's a choice I made that I literally didn't realize was gonna get me cut by a cursed warp artifact, I now am haunted by a demon. That, to be fair, I took for darkest hour accidentalyl having something to do with a heretical cult. This works really superbly for me, as I like to have an actual personal story arc and struggle with my characters, something that made some games like KOTOR more memorable by not knowing I was the big R, and drifting to the dark side, or VTMB and its whole deal, or even FNV slowly making me cold and callous just by dealing with wastelanders. It's something I particularly adore about RPGs, the ones that actually give you the option to have that kind of terrible push and pull temptation, the inward struggle against darkness and tyranny. Not just as a narrative plot, but truly having it incorporated in both headcanon and gameplay choices, and this game let's me really start off by being a crime lord with accidental flirtations with chaos that I used the devout voice, and got heretical and imperial tattoos. I want this character to struggle, even without being a psyker. And yeah you can do the psyker thing too.

I have no idea how all this works in gameplay as I not far yet, however this being Owlcat game will give you many such options including eventually alienating your party. Of the starting few, you have an iconoclast, a puritan, and a heretic (Tlas Idira and Argenta don't get along, Sister Argenta absolutely despises Idira and all psykers like her sanctioned or not so I'm pretty sure you'll lose your big gun sister of battle companion by going down that path)

>>30082
It's called the Ultramarines and Matt Ward and yes it does and yes it's fuckin retarded. Stupid mfers, you know, all that is Ultramar and RPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>23673
>left wing
Genestealers are quite LITERALLY how reactionary bullshit establishmentarians operate. Remember the Tea Party and Tea Party Express? Remember how those corpo RNC ghouls tried hijacking Anonymous and the whole "we are legion" thing for their teabaggotry?

Although I always thought the Trump thing hilarious because he's clearly of the ruinous powers trying to take down the imperium, cause a civil war, and spread the coof, the gift of Nurgle among his retarded followers.

>would I support
The fuck kind of full retard question even is that?
No, I don't support being assimilated into the same coopting corporatist hive which has coopted literally everything, even to the point of selling pretorn jeans for fucking 200$ USD that we would get that way by just being working poor. I swear the fucking commercialization and coopting of the working class is one of the most obnoxious fucking things.

>>23678
More or less how the fuck is Chaos remotely Socialistic though? They're literally egotists, fully self absorbed narcissists without any real code or honour well except maybe Khorne. I mean I guess maybe in the sense that many anarchists claim to be pro-communal pro-Social but realistically they aren't that kind of anarchist.

>>23679
A lot of genestealer cults hide by pretending to be worshipers of the emperor. And try to skirt by the law and notice by being as goody twoshoes publicly as possible while subverting all the systems. They're way more like the fascists tbh. Like, it's to the point where an inquisitor can basically just write off yet another failed uprising on some hive city as the type of failed leftist Decembrist type stupid shit incompetence uprising that is no more heretical than it is xeno.
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>>33765
I have played a lot of games, and I would considered ARMA 3 to be the end point of realism, I don't think there is a single reason to go beyond that.

>>33795
What game is the first screenshot?

>>34188
Final Fantasy Type-0

ps1 and ps1 graphics feel so oddly dreamlike and comfy, realism could never

>>34190
my point is that the realism of PS2 era is enough, anything beyond that is entirely a waste of space more often then not.

The world of Teyvat - and Celestia in particular - is a reflection of the neoliberal world order as someone of the mid 2010s might understand it. As we live under capitalist realism, so to do the people of Teyvat live under Celestain realism. The overgods of Celestia are the god-hegemons of Teyvat; their Heavenly Principles decide what is good and what is not, their agents the Archons deliver blessings to their faithful.
Dig deeper and we see how this is all a lie. Of Sun And Moon revealed that they are but interlopers and not the original gods, that their world order is as artificial as the capitalist one of our world. And it is upkept in much the same way, with blood. Teyvat's beautiful scenery is built upon the corpses of the many civilisations that came before and drew Celestia's ire, with at least 3 genocides (likely more) that can be linked directly to Celestian action. Civilisations that advanced too far for their liking and started questioning the world order (or just fell out of favour as happened to Sal Vindagnyr) were both physically annihilated with the Nails and literally rewritten out of history with Irminsul. Knowing this true history is of course forbidden, as Orobashi found out the hard way when he got his coils on Of Sun And Moon and got sentenced to death immediately and his followers condemned to cultural genocide.
And as much as it is in our world, there is seemingly nobody who can take up the banner of resistance. This knowledge has been successfully suppressed outside the mainstream, and even if it was known everyone is too preoccupied with their lives, making a living on the "surface"; what does some kooky old history matter to them, they've got to feed themselves in the here and now. Nobody's got the time for some revolution against the whole world order.

Try Arknights first, much easier to analyze since the politics is a lot more grounded. Also the structure is a lot more chapterized, since there's no open world stuff.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/verse/verse11.htm
Invocation of One in Despair

So a god has snatched from me my all
In the curse and rack of Destiny.
All his worlds are gone beyond recall!
Nothing but revenge is left to me!

On myself revenge I'll proudly wreak,
On that being, that enthroned Lord,
Make my strength a patchwork of what's weak,
Leave my better self without reward!

I shall build my throne high overhead,
Cold, tremendous shall its summit be.
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>>34099
>Marxist Themes in [non-Marxist work]
Don't be like an Evafag plz.

well theres a water spirit frog thats a communist

>>34056
Another example from Tekken would be the Mishima family. the three are basically the progressions of Karate. Heihachi uses old-school Okinawan style, Kazuya comes from a background of Karate fighters who transitioned to kick-boxing and Jin is the prototypical Karate-based kick-boxer who didn't have to adapt his style.

>>34058
OKINAWA IN THE HOUSE REPRESENT

>>34057
Street Fighter is the better game and that's all that matters to me

fighting manga are filled with this. Pretty much the entire case of early Baki and Kengan were based on real MMA fighters or pro-wrestlers.

>Andreas Regan - He is based on the real-life professional wrestler, André the Giant and El Gigante.
>Zulu - He is based on the real-life fighter Rei Zulu.
>Dentoranee Sitpika - The character is based on the real-life Muay Thai fighter named Changpuek Kiatsongrit.
>Kanji Igari - Kanji Igari is based on the real-life professional wrestler Antonio Inoki
>Kinryuuzan - He is based on former sumo wrestler Takanohana Kouji.
>Izou Motobe - The character is based on the real-life Japanese martial artist Seishi Horibe.
>Kaiou Retsu - Kaiou Retsu is based on the real-life Chiinese martial artist Bruce Lee.
>Sergei Taktarov - He is based on the Russian fighter Oleg Taktarov.
>Raberto Gueran - The character is based on the real-life Panamanian former professional boxer Raberto Durán.
>Kiyosumi Katou - The character is based on the real-life karateka named Kiyotaka Katou.
>Kaoru Hanayama - The character is based on the real-life yakuza, Kei Hanagata.
>Roland Istaz - He is based on the real-life Belgian professional wrestler Karl Charles Istaz.
>Iron Michael - He is based on the real-life American former professional boxer, Iron Mike Tyson.
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this is probably one of the best games ever made, gianni is pretty mid on it THOUGH

SÉX with fps

>>30697
People rediscovering boomer shooters again. Maybe CoD games weren't as fun as people claimed them to be.
>>33897
I'm not fond of shoving objects into my ass BUT…

how the fuck do i p-rank shit in act ii