Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

[Fabricant451]

@Dynamo Frokane Assuming you liked Saya, then Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer is good, it's cyberpunk and by the same author as Saya. Phantom of Inferno is pretty good, though it can be a bit edgy as is the case for Urobuchi. I assume the samurai one is Full Metal Daemon: Muramasa or Hanachirasu, so if you didn't like one maybe try the other? I liked Gekkō no Carnevale for the setting really, but I like a bit of modern gothic every now and then. Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate are also good, with Steins;Gate being the superior one.

[Dolerman]

@Fabricant451

I'll check out KikoKugai then,

nothing says Christmas spirit like cyber-loli incest stories.

Yeah it was Hanachirasu, I couldn't take that shit seriously.

The MC was a bishonen version of the protagonist of that Hatred game.

Ive heard that the Phantom of Inferno doesn't have H-Scenes in all english versions. Its not that I need the titillation of mediocre lewd artwork from 1998 but playing a 'clean' version of VN just doesn't sit right with me.

[Dolerman]

@Dynamo Frokane Assuming you liked Saya

@Fabricant451

Did you think I changed my avatar for irony?

[Dolerman]

20 Hours in and Red Dead is boring as shit.

@Dynamo Frokane

I disagree with this.

@Fabricant451

RDR 2 likely winning GOTY is just proof that putting out a tedious, blatantly unfun chore of a game is fine so long as Rockstar is on the box

-Fabricant451

[Fabricant451]

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RDR 2 likely winning GOTY is just proof that putting out a tedious, blatantly unfun chore of a game is fine so long as Rockstar is on the box

-Fabricant451

@Dynamo Frokane

Yeah weird how playing a game can, like, I dunno, color and change opinions. Odd that someone enjoying the game at the start only to find incredible flaws the more they played it can happen. It's like...it's like why people should tend to finish something before making a truly declarative review or whatever. If you want some kind of medal for saying it first then congratulations, you crossed the finish line first.

[Dolerman]

It's like...it's like why people should tend to finish something before making a truly declarative review or whatever.

@Fabricant451

I disagree with this. I disagree with some other points made, like the shooting mechanic being cumbersome and personally never running into a situation where I needed to keep hunting in order to feed the camp (especially since fishing takes less time and if you upgrade the camp fully food basically handles itself), and I think the brawling is bad, but the slow pace is kind of the most fascinating aspect of the game to me. Fascinating is a word I keep coming back to with Red Dead Redemption 2 because so many of its design decisions seem so deliberately obtuse, archaic, or otherwise a matter of respecting 'realism' over concepts like 'moment to moment fun'. Whereas most open world games have fast travel unlocked almost by default, here you have to unlock it deep in a menu and you still have to manually travel back to a central location just to travel elsewhere which makes you wonder why you bothered going back to camp and not just taken the journey to the town or wherever yourself.

I've barely interacted with the story, I'm only shortly into chapter three and already find the narrative of the feuding families far too familiar to care - there is almost no way to make a Hatfield/McCoy or Capulet/Montague type story interesting and from what I've played so far I don't think Rockstar will change that - and most of the gang members are one note that's been plucked to death. The game, to me, is at its best when it's just that frontier survival simulator of going out, tracking animals and looking for that perfect three star animal and getting the clean kill, taking the pelt to camp while selling the crappier pelts, then going after a legendary animal and taking a trip to the trapper. The problem with that is far too often the other part of the game gets in the way, with the random events popping up and all of them falling into basically four categories of dull.

One of the best times I had with the game was treasure hunting simply because it fell in line with how I was already playing the game. The serial killer mission was fun as well from an exploration aspect - and then it glitched out on me once it was resolved and the culprit fell through the geometry and I was reminded I was playing a video game again.

RDR2 is a game I think people will get out of it what they put into it. It's often chunky to control and it does a terrible job explaining its systems and I honestly think people who just wanted GTA but with horses are going to come away upset with how much it isn't that and how much it is a survival game down to weight management and needing to change your clothes or hide your face or remembering to take weapons off your horse.

The game seems like it was designed around trying to take the Mexico moment from the first game and making an entire game to feel like that, and it is full of those kind of moments. Those personal, immersive moments like when I had a particularly lengthy ride back to town after a hunt and as I slowly trotted along up a hill, the sun was setting at just the right moment to bathe the nearby town in its glow as a perfectly timed musical cue played. It was terrific in a way many games try to emulate in their narrative moments to ill effect.

I don't know if I'm having fun with it. But I'm constantly fascinated by it and this weekend I played it for about five hours and all I actually accomplished was killing an alligator, a beaver, and a deer. And even still I was enthralled for the entire time.

@Fabricant451

Couldn't agree more.

[Fabricant451]

TIL a review is the same as impressions

And even then that 'gotcha' isn't exactly me singing its praises, man.

[Mogget]

I wish macs could play more than 5 games. I really want to play Fallout.

[Carlyle]

Y2K came 19 years late for 76. Apparently, now that it is 2019, you have to wait 9,999 hours to even launch the nukes. It's only a year worth of waiting.

[Bee]

FORZA HORIZON 4 IS AN AMAZING AND GORGEOUS GAME IT IS EASILY THE BEST RACING GAME TO COME OUT IN 2018

three problems though

there aren't really enough cars in the wheelspins... i don't wanna get clothes and emotes i want free cars!

sounds are kinda wonky??? why does my porsche sound like my nissan skyline???

WHERE IS MY TOYOTA AND MITSUBISHI???

@Bee

update: mitsubishi is back in the game woooooooooooooo

[DELETED jdl3932]

Found a loophole that allows me to get any version of Minecraft for free, minus multiplayer or skins.

[mickilennial]

Been generally enjoying World of Warcraft again, for reasons unknown to me.

[Carlyle]

Been generally enjoying World of Warcraft again, for reasons unknown to me.

@Inkarnate

If you want to speed level our night elves or pandas hmu

[mickilennial]

If you want to speed level our night elves or pandas hmu

@Euphonium

Might be taking a break for a few days or longer, put too much time than actual RPing.

[Bee]

i played the RE2 one-shot demo and lemme just say that i am absolutely PUMPED to play the full game.

also the hong kong massacre is out, if any of y'all are interested in top down shooters made by indie studios. i know i'm gonna get it as soon as i can afford it.

[OwO]

anthem demo is pretty enjoyable so far

ya kno, besides all of the tech issues of the demo

combat feels like Mass Effect, The Division, Dark Void (REMEMBER THAT?), and Destiny fused together decently.

not the best game i've played, but it's not bad.

[DELETED jdl3932]

I remember Dark Void.

It was pretty fun.

For me anyway.

DEATH TO ALL SNAKE/ANNUNAKI DIMENSION JUMPING BASTARDS!!!!

[Carlyle]

If I had a nickel for every unaware and ignorant tank I've had to deal with in LFG, I'd be rather rich right now. Been grinding levels on my WoW alts this month, and I've had tanks refuse to let me catch up, LoS me, and whine when I can't heal because I'm out of mana from blowing my cooldowns trying to keep them alive after zerg rushing into a room and pulling everything.

Today while playing my warlock I had a tank that beat all the previous tanks out of the water. The group had already used up all their kicks when I joined, so they couldn't kick him (apparently the tank wanted to kick others without realizing he was kick-worthy himself). He'd run off while we were still fighting mobs, and was playing Fury rather than Prot (the tanking spec). His excuse was that he was "topping DPS" and "was helping clear the dungeon faster", but it becomes an issue when he dies every other pull and nearly wipes the group.

Kind of sad when a warlock has to ensure a group has access to soulstone/healthstones and also tank with their voidwalker on top of DPSing when most old content is able to be steamrolled with little input these days.

[DELETED jdl3932]

Dark Soul's servers be like...

"SOFTBAN! YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BRING BALANCE TO THE SERVERS!"

[Hero]

In spite of the numerous leaks I've somehow managed to come out unscathed, I'm ready to embrace Kingdom Hearts 3 and it will feel so cathartic. Super hype for it.