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Are videogames for children?

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Articles and Nudes said:
Pretty sure I've asked this already, but is Yakuzo 0 intended to be played before or after Kiwami?

XBox, so I can't get the originals.
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Lots of people start with Yakuza 0, so it's fine to play before the rest of the series. It's named 0 because it's canonically the first one, despite releasing between Y5 and 6
 
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You're not missing much, its been going to shit even more so than usual lately
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I have always had a thing against paying to play a game I already paid for. The idea of a subscription fee to play a game I paid for never sat well with me. I never had a PC capable of playing it back then anyway.
 
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Tacitus Kilgore said:
I have always had a thing against paying to play a game I already paid for. The idea of a subscription fee to play a game I paid for never sat well with me. I never had a PC capable of playing it back then anyway.
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It used to have a understandable reason but now days its just a cash grab.

Back in the earlier days the idea was MMO's are extremely expensive to make and continue developing new content for so they would charge a fee to help fund a new steady stream of content. But then came the cash shops, overpriced account "services", selling gold / in game currencies and so on but the subscription requirement remained.
 
The Cycle, a pretty arcade-y, fast paced, sci fi battle royale has been radically retooled for this "season" as essentially Escape from Tarkov in space. Genuinely disoriented when I joined my first game this season.
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I finished Asura's wrath for the first time, its not a good game tbh, its not bad either, its just mediocre.
I liked the story and loved the presentation and art, but the gameplay is so simple, so repetitive that it just isnt fun
 
man i got back into planetside 2 and it just feels like being in a traffic jam with the dumbest motherfuckers alive. NC can't read, VS is a bunch of furfags, and TR is a bunch of 40k larpers trying to make a point.
 
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Am I the only one that saw people shilling for the "Games no longer needs a lives systems due to X game, lives systems are arcadic". It makes me wonder if its truly because it's superior (and in some cases i feel it does, like Rayman or Super Meat Boy), or if its a way for game reviewers (both journo and youtubers) love it due to them not needing to "Git Gud" idk I feel its being shilled too hard by certain people for it to not have an alternative motive/reason.
 
DukeFredrickofStLouis said:
Am I the only one that saw people shilling for the "Games no longer needs a lives systems due to X game, lives systems are arcadic". It makes me wonder if its truly because it's superior (and in some cases i feel it does, like Rayman or Super Meat Boy), or if its a way for game reviewers (both journo and youtubers) love it due to them not needing to "Git Gud" idk I feel its being shilled too hard by certain people for it to not have an alternative motive/reason.
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I've seen it before to, and in a way, they're not wrong. Lives existed so arcade cabinets could hoover as many quarters from your, or so you wouldn't finish your copy of Megaman 2 inside of an hour and never buy another game again.

Now, there's really no reason for lives, since games are naturally long enough to be worth your money (usually), and arcades are fucking dead.
 
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DukeFredrickofStLouis said:
Am I the only one that saw people shilling for the "Games no longer needs a lives systems due to X game, lives systems are arcadic". It makes me wonder if its truly because it's superior (and in some cases i feel it does, like Rayman or Super Meat Boy), or if its a way for game reviewers (both journo and youtubers) love it due to them not needing to "Git Gud" idk I feel its being shilled too hard by certain people for it to not have an alternative motive/reason.
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It depends on the game. Look at Mario 64, that was a pretty early game that showed that lives were more or less pointless. You either get punted out of the painting or punted to the castle entrance(I think) and spend a minute running back to the painting you were in. That felt like archaic nonsense.
 
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Anyone anticipating the game called Scorn? I remember hearing about it a few years ago and was intrigued by the biomechanical premise mixed with horror and lot of HR Giger style art. I enjoyed Soma and Scorn seems like the single player horror adventure we've been waiting for. It's tastefully being released this October.

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DukeFredrickofStLouis said:
Am I the only one that saw people shilling for the "Games no longer needs a lives systems due to X game, lives systems are arcadic". It makes me wonder if its truly because it's superior (and in some cases i feel it does, like Rayman or Super Meat Boy), or if its a way for game reviewers (both journo and youtubers) love it due to them not needing to "Git Gud" idk I feel its being shilled too hard by certain people for it to not have an alternative motive/reason.
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Like all mechanics, whether or not a lives system is a good addition to a game is entirely on a game-by-game basis. Some benefit from it, some don't.

Half-Life with a lives system would be fucking wack.

Sifu having a lives system is rad.
 
The Quarry's writing is so fucking terrible. Supermassive had one good "game" (Until Dawn) using the formula then must've gotten high off their own farts that every "game" thereafter has zoomer tier dialouge that none of the characters feel like real people. Beyond that, the graphics have downgraded so much compared to Until Dawn that some characters are close to uncanny valley territory.
 
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Is Diablo 2 & 3 worth playing once they hit Game Pass (pending the Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard)?

I've become somewhat interested since the Diablo 4 gameplay reveal, although the shit surrounding Immortal makes me a bit wary.
 
Vault Boy said:
Is Diablo 2 & 3 worth playing once they hit Game Pass (pending the Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard)?

I've become somewhat interested since the Diablo 4 gameplay reveal, although the shit surrounding Immortal makes me a bit wary.
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Diablo 1 and 2 are pretty good.

Diablo 3 is uh...
 
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