E3 (but not really) 2022

Is Monster Hunter any good?
Monster Hunter as in whole series and each game on its own. Yes, they are all good.
But you have to ask yourself, what are you looking for.
Focusing at getting good fighting against boss fight with your own favourite weapon type? Yes.
Playing it because you like Souls series? I'd say no, I know few guys who love Dark Souls but they have zero interests in MonHun.

MonHun Rise is unironically the lowest barrier to entry in the entire series for now. For a few reasons:
1) Reducing amount of grind you need to craft armors and weapons.
2) Starting solo village quests have monster with much lower health comparing to previous games. So you can progress early game quite fast now.
3) New wire-bug mechanic allows people repositioning and get back up (after being knock down) faster so easier to "dodge" combo-wombo attack from monsters.
4) You have a pet dog to travel fast around the map, so chasing monster is much easier. Along with some point with specific wirebug for fast traveling.
5) This one is debatable, a few weapons get more quality of life, so they are even easier to use. Longsword is notorious for this version. Bow is broken (OP) with damage output it has, because of bugs. Some other weapons are a bit downgrade from MonHun World.
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6) Player character now has voiceline, you can hear your character calling out "danger" before monsters do their strong attack move, so you can dodge away or block/parry depends on your weapon.
 
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Why the uglier PSP version of 3 and not FES? Why not at least include FES?


I played P3 FES way back in 2008 and enjoyed it, but it was too much of a time investment to play P4 and P5, though these new ports make it more likely to happen.

Despite enjoying P3 it's still kind of strange to me how big the series became, it had a cult following at best in 2008.
I played P2 before I played P3 and even back then I kind of lamented the style change between the old and new games.

I liked P3 and P4, P4 moreso because I like mysteries and you didn't have to rely on retarded AI, but I found P5 tiresome. Everything that made the series different has become a cliche and it's attracted the most insufferable audience imaginable. Time to reinvent the wheel and shut those lunatic troons up.
 
Despite enjoying P3 it's still kind of strange to me how big the series became, it had a cult following at best in 2008.
Indeed, Persona was a very niche series most people hadn't heard of back when P3 and P4 came out but then P5 turned the games into a big mainstream series for some reason.
 
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Monster Hunter as in whole series and each game on its own. Yes, they are all good.
But you have to ask yourself, what are you looking for.
Focusing at getting good fighting against boss fight with your own favourite weapon type? Yes.
Playing it because you like Souls series? I'd say no, I know few guys who love Dark Souls but they have zero interests in MonHun.

MonHun Rise is unironically the lowest barrier to entry in the entire series for now. For a few reasons:
1) Reducing amount of grind you need to craft armors and weapons.
2) Starting solo village quests have monster with much lower health comparing to previous games. So you can progress early game quite fast now.
3) New wire-bug mechanic allows people repositioning and get back up (after being knock down) faster so easier to "dodge" combo-wombo attack from monsters.
4) You have a pet dog to travel fast around the map, so chasing monster is much easier. Along with some point with specific wirebug for fast traveling.
5) This one is debatable, a few weapons get more quality of life, so they are even easier to use. Longsword is notorious for this version. Bow is broken (OP) with damage output it has, because of bugs. Some other weapons are a bit downgrade from MonHun World.
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6) Player character now has voiceline, you can hear your character calling out "danger" before monsters do their strong attack move, so you can dodge away or block/parry depends on your weapon.
I started with 3U and always had a love hate relationship with the series.
Kinda lost interrest with all the changes in world.
I didn't enjoy the open world and mobile af hunters.
 
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Indeed, Persona was a very niche series most people hadn't heard of back when P3 and P4 came out but then P5 turned the games into a big mainstream series for some reason.
Right, P3 and P4 had a sizable cult following, but it was just that, a cult following, then P5 was a huge smash hit and unfortunately as if often the case the bigger the fandom the more obnoxious it becomes.

What sucks is lost in the mix is best girl, Mitsuru, rarely do you see much acknowledgment of her from people, it seems like the vast majority of the "fans" started with P5, maybe went back and played P4, but have not actually played P3, P4 and P5 overshadow P3 so much it's not funny and that's to say nothing of the original 2 games.

E3 2022 has been especially disturbing due to the amount of cunny appreciators I've seen so far.

What happened to this hobby?
As it has turned out people spending so much time in the virtual worlds of video games and internet has made people become detached from reality.

I think of Brian Oblivion's statement in Videodrome, "television is reality and reality is less than television" just supplant TV for internet/games.

So much of modern politics literally just boils down to the fight to force people to play pretend alongside delusional people.
 
P4 was never obscure, it was a popular hit, but the audience grew exponentially with P5.

P3 really doesn't get nearly as much attention despite being the one that started the formula followed by P4 and P5.
 
Overall, the industry is in pretty bad shape and i honestly couldn't name something off the top of my head that i am looking forward to in the couple of years.
There are several upcoming games that gained my interest, feel free to check if there is anything up your alley

Actual new games:
-Earth Defense Force 6 (waiting for the PC port rather than ever spending money on a PS5)
-Xenoblade 3
-Fire Emblem Three Hopes
-Ground Divers
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
-Metal Slug Tactics
-Labyrinth of Zangetsu
-Azure Striker Gunvolt 3

Ports/remakes:
-Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief
-GrimGrimoire OnceMore
-Earth Defense Force 4.1 for Nintendo Switch
-LIVE A LIVE
-Akiba's Trip 2 (Switch port)
-Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony

I don't disagree with the consensus about the vidya industry being in bad shape (especially the state of western games), but it means you gotta dig up to find what you may like.
 
P4 was never obscure, it was a popular hit, but the audience grew exponentially with P5.

P3 really doesn't get nearly as much attention despite being the one that started the formula followed by P4 and P5.
I only knew about Persona 4 because of all the fanart I kept seeing on Deviantart way back when the game came out (circa 2009ish) and since I had never heard of Persona 3 (or the first two PS1 games) I thought it was some old obscure game until I looked it up and found out that it was a brand new PS2 game which took me by surprise since most people had long stopped playing PS2 games and moved onto the 360/PS3 by that point.

Then again back when I was in high school I had some friends who were "survival horror fans" who played all the Resident Evil games like myself but none of them had ever played a Silent Hill game, I was always the only one in my friend group who had ever played those games so YMMV.
 
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E3 2022 has been especially disturbing due to the amount of cunny appreciators I've seen so far.

What happened to this hobby?

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Cute and Funny :smug:

P4 was never obscure, it was a popular hit, but the audience grew exponentially with P5.

P3 really doesn't get nearly as much attention despite being the one that started the formula followed by P4 and P5.
I think P3 came out during a time before ps3 launch which was not good idea. P4 I think come out a 1 year later after P3 and PS3 didn't have much to offer when came to games at the time.
 
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I'm surprised you guys had not heard of Gunfire Reborn. It was everywhere a few months back. It's not bad as a short co-op shooter.

As for System Shock.
The game has been in development for over 5 years. They never even updated the kickstarter rewards.
I'm out of the loop. Is that the same one that raised a bunch of money on Kickstarter by promising a remake, then then proceeded to burn all the money on pointless bullshit to "appeal to a wider audience"?

Is there actually a market for these manager games? I can understand the ones where you actually drive the car but this is just an autism simulator.
F1 manger ? Really ??
This is what I don't get about the 4chan/Crowbcat/Reddit/"Gamer" audience.

"Boring! Seen it all before. Remakes, sequels, rip offs, and globohobo. Yawn."
*something different comes along
"Wtf is this? This looks like autism. Fuck off with this indie shit! Where's the new Zelda?"

didn't Games Workshop go woke a while back?
Yes. They released a few crappy books and made a few Tweets, but as I predicted, GW doesn't give the slightest bit of a fuck what their fans think and does what it wants. The fanbase has been mad at GW for some reason or another since third edition 40k, it's just background noise to them at this point.



Agent 64 Goldeneye clone looks good ngl
There's a Goldeneye parody game called The Spy Who Shot Me, might be worth looking into if you like Goldeneye clones. I've not played it myself.

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EDF: Dinosaur Edition
If that was real, I'd play it.



People say there will be a crash, but I don't see it happening with the modern consoomer mindset.
We're already in one. I've of the belief gaming crashed around the release of the PS4 (if not sooner) and has never really recovered.

When will vidja get good again? The industry just gets worse every single year.
You have to decide what you want. This has been a problem I've seen from wokeshit to VR. I won't repeat the joke, but there is truth to people complaining about the focus on graphics then handwave indie games as "pixelshit" or "ugly", complain that games are all remakes and sequels and then only buy known AAA franchises, complain about games being pozzed and then expect woke AAA to fix it.

Finally all caught up.
 
there is truth to people complaining about the focus on graphics then handwave indie games as "pixelshit" or "ugly", complain that games are all remakes and sequels and then only buy known AAA franchises, complain about games being pozzed and then expect woke AAA to fix it.
I mean most of the excitement I have with games almost entirely comes from Indie games, I only want these smaller games to actually have serious development budget behind them. In the 90's a full studio would work on a 32-bit RPG or SRPG, now that's rare to almost nonexistent. At best you'll get a small team within a larger company (where they hide all their OG designers) get thrown a few bucks to hush them up every 7 years to make something old school.

A lot of these problems stems from the death of AA development not the consumer. I remember in the PS2 era any asshole could make a weird ass game and make a living without needing Activision-tier budgets. Now its either Indie or AAA with no real in-between. Kickstarters have helped, but its annoying consumers have to always shoulder the risk just to get some basic originality akin to the 90's and 00's. I don't really blame the consumer, its the market that's gone to shit.
 
I'm surprised you guys had not heard of Gunfire Reborn. It was everywhere a few months back. It's not bad as a short co-op shooter.

As for System Shock.

I'm out of the loop. Is that the same one that raised a bunch of money on Kickstarter by promising a remake, then then proceeded to burn all the money on pointless bullshit to "appeal to a wider audience"?
I'm guessing what happened is System Shock started life as a direct update of the original game just with new graphics before they decided to make it more of an actual remake ie new levels and things.


This is what I don't get about the 4chan/Crowbcat/Reddit/"Gamer" audience.

"Boring! Seen it all before. Remakes, sequels, rip offs, and globohobo. Yawn."
*something different comes along
"Wtf is this? This looks like autism. Fuck off with this indie shit! Where's the new Zelda?"
I really don't get that type of gamer either.


We're already in one. I've of the belief gaming crashed around the release of the PS4 (if not sooner) and has never really recovered.
The crash happened in 2008 with the Great Recession, we probably would have got new consoles around 2010 but they extended the life with Kinect and Move for a few more years, the Xbox 360 was fucking 8 years old before it got a successor, the original Xbox only lasted 4 years, then when a new Xbox did come out it was underpowered and sold more as a way to watch "TV, SPORTS, TV, SPORTS" than something that plays video games.

Truly 2008 was the end of the salad days, Metal Gear went to shit, Silent Hill went to shit, the last good Castlevania was released, Episode 3 never materialized after 2007, the industry has been running on momentum ever since and the momentum is finally about to run out, at least in the west.
 
E3 2022 has been especially disturbing due to the amount of cunny appreciators I've seen so far.

What happened to this hobby?

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Legend has it that if you say “cunny” three times in the mirror while it’s dark and you’re all alone, a mythical creature will show up behind you and tap on the shoulder saying, “We need to talk... right over there”

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