Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

You're probably on the money that an adventure game or something like that would be the hardest to pull off if the context is that he'd have all his power at their fullest, I think it's just the easiest to pull off. Infamous and Prototype are examples of how you could do it, but the stumbling block I get to personally there is that I don't know what'd be a good setup that wouldn't force you to break character while also providing you with a satisfying gameplay challenge. Not saying it can't be done, I'm sure someone smarter and more well-versed in the fiction than me could pull it off. All they gotta do is stop trying to put the square peg into that round hole.

Honestly I don't think you even need to worry about challenge when fighting ordinary mooks. Arkham series is not even slightly challenging but it's super-fun. The best parts of games like Prototype and even Trepang2 is when the player is so absolutely unstoppable that enemies are basically shitting their pants when you show up. I'm always reminded of those scenes from Smallville where Clark fights bank robbers and shit and it's basically just him trolling them the entire time and not really taking it seriously.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I can recommend the Surge. I bounced off of Surge 2 hard though, the atmosphere just felt like a large step down.

The atmosphere and level design was a huge step down, but the gameplay and customization was a big step up. It makes it difficult to decide which to play. Kind of like Xcom EW and Xcom 2.

Any recommendations on horror/survival horror games? Looking at new releases and seeing a constant stream of haunted house walking sims is disheartening. I'll probably try those Daymare: 1998 games, heard they were alright, but I'm interested if anybody's played anything good recently.

Yes, and no. Unfortunately.

The problem is the usual recommendations like Alisa have serious flaws, while Back in 1995 is just plane awful.

Alisa nails the look of classic survival horror while being it's own thing, but the combat and puzzles are annoying, and the game doesn't seem finished to me as large chunks of the story appear to be missing, the ending coming out of nowhere. It has been updated a lot since I last played close to release.


I have a bunch of games on my backlog.

I've heard good things about Tormented Souls.

Chitin looks good, and it's free.

Compound Fracture isn't out yet but looks good, while Dino Trauma is Compound Fracture at home. A friend tells me it's good so if you want some Dino Crisis inspired game, give it a whirl maybe.

Choo choo Charles is on my list. I hear people complain it's 3 hours long and that it's basically a meme game, but I'm fine with those things. You know what you're in for when you buy it.


Most of my time with horror games as of late have been spent with old games. Silent Hill 4 and Resident Evil 2 on emulators. I was thinking of playing Obscure since I've not played that one.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

Eiyuden chronicle is....uhh.....well its translation is shit

Okay. I'm two hours in and so far I agree with *some* of the complaints. A lot of the ones listed happen very early in the game and with one character. It definitely feels like a self-insert by a localiser and it feels really off. She's also incredibly fucking annoying.

However, there are other parts I've seen that seem like they're written quite well but it's two male characters. So it seems like the broads are the ones suffering in this game.

One line stuck out to me where one character is referred to as "miss" and she corrects them and tells them it's "countess". I could be reading too much into it and it could just be royalty being stuck up.

I'm only two hours in so I'll keep going to see.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

They're also saying it glitches which renders you unable to recruit a certain character?

 

[BananaSplit²]

Any recommendations on horror/survival horror games? Looking at new releases and seeing a constant stream of haunted house walking sims is disheartening. I'll probably try those Daymare: 1998 games, heard they were alright, but I'm interested if anybody's played anything good recently.

The Yomawari franchise, which is available on Steam (Original, sequel and third title), Switch and PS4.
Kids trying to survive a town invaded by spirits of all kinds at night, with only pebbles and a flashlight. Gameplay is also heavily into trial-and-error.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Part of what made Superman interesting was his try-to-save-everybody approach. The idea shouldn't really be combat-focused, it should be more strategy-focused.

There should be a way for you to gain a significant way into the game just by sprinting for the exit in every scenario and not bothering to save anybody before getting the worst ending as the game lectures you on what a heartless bastard you are.

So... A flying Crazy Taxi style game? With Superhot-like mechanics to simulate his speed.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

This might actually be achievable with VR but I wonder how you could make a Daredevil game and basically rely exclusively on audio?

 

[EmpGulcasa]

I adore the Suikoden games and so I kickstarted Eiyuden Chronicles years ago, and it finally released recently. It's.. fine, which is kind of disappointing. The pixel art is fantastic, and it really is the only JRPG since Suikoden that has felt like anything close. That said, the localization is just awful and it feels like it's lacking in a lot of polish. The characters are mostly uninteresting and a lot of them feel like they're just there to remind people of better characters from Suikoden 2. I'm enjoying the game well enough, there's nothing else out there that scratches the same itch, but man.

This is the first game I've actually been invested in to be touched by a shitty localization job at this scale and it really sucks knowing that I'm missing out on a better product because someone thinks they know better than I do what I as a westerner want.

 

[Asian tech support]

Has anyone tried Sker Ritual? I've been thinking about giving it a shot. I know there's a demo; I'm just lazy.

 

[Scarthew]

It's a problem you see a lot really, everyone trying to fit everything into the same mold on some level.
>Uhh how do I make an Arkham Asylum about him?
>I know I make him on par with Batman!

When in reality anything of the sort is just barking up the wrong tree. Try different genres, scale the threat and opposition differently, or do what the above poster said and build objectives around his personality where you must think and make the right choices to get the best outcome. I could see something like an adventure game working well for a lot of this since that moves the challenge away from having to somehow shoehorn fighting mooks into it.

He can fly, they should make a game about flying to objectives so you can feel like superman. Maybe some kind of waypoint system to guide players, like goal rings.

 

[WULULULULU]

These past few days have been some of the more annoying announcements when it comes to games
>Fallout shills still in full force
>Stellar Blade turns out to have been censored not by Sony but by Shift Up themselves
>Garry's Mod has 20 years of history wiped out as a Nintendo DMCA troll successfully convinces the retard devs to delete them all.
>Escape from Tarkov manages to outjew the Russian game-space by releasing a $250 Edition of the game after the failure of the Arena gamemode, complete with P2W mechanics and the game isn't even finished.

 

[Thiletonomics]

So apparently MapleStory is still around as a game, and one livestreamer, niru, was about to hit the game's Level Cap of 300, but then goes on a rant about the state of the game, ends the stream, and doesn't even level to level 300.

For context, leveling up from 299 to 300 requires 1,737,759,854,037,637 EXP, and he needed 12,164,318,978,263 more EXP to level up. Are there any other games where the EXP requirement to level reaches those levels of insane numbers?

 

[Google.com]

Holy fucking shit, Starbase after running out of money and pausing development for 3 years is actually resuming development

Game was very well done but suffered from a buggy launch and the bizarre decision to split their player base between a test server which frequently updated and wiped and a main server which suffered from basically no updates and high grind.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Starbase after running out of money and pausing development for 3 years is actually resuming development

Fingers crossed for Intersteller Marines...


Unrelated. I got WarPips on sale the other day. Binged it for 4 hours, then played more of it today. Great fun for the £3 it cost. Worth looking at if you're into tug-of-war style wargames.

 

[I'm Really Feeling It]

Any JRPG fans who have played Harvestella? It's on a 50% discount for me on Steam and a lot of the reviews rag on it based on its full price. The lack of character customization doesn't sound too thrilling but I do feel attracted towards something trying to combine RPG and farming. I used to like Rune Factory as a child but really don't like Stardew Valley, for context.

 

[ZMOT]

Fingers crossed for Intersteller Marines...

my man!

This might actually be achievable with VR but I wonder how you could make a Daredevil game and basically rely exclusively on audio?

I'm pretty sure I saw a teaser about a game like that once, not sure if it was VR tho.
daredevil vision with sonar pulses rendering everything in wireframe could be highly vomit-inducing in current state VR, maybe that's why I never heard much about it afterwards.

Any recommendations on horror/survival horror games?

tempted to say forspoken, good luck trying to survive the horror of modern western writing...

 

[Xenomorph]

Here is your average brit bong retro game reviewer, Kim Justice here has 90k subs currently. I'd imagine their comment section is heavily monitored.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Here is your average brit bong retro game reviewer, Kim Justice here has 90k subs currently. I'd imagine their comment section is heavily monitored.

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and to think, i saw the trespasser video from this channel. it was a pretty good video. didnt need to see the person tho

 

[Book Thief]

Finally, after four straight months of faggots DDOSing the Left 4 Dead 2 servers, we're finally free. Now I don't have to play on some faggot's modded server where an idling Tank can teleport onto you and punch you with absolutely no warning, which if you play Expert like I do, is an instant incapacitation. With no warning, I want to emphasize.

Why do these assholes think reinventing the wheel is a good idea?

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

and to think, i saw the trespasser video from this channel. it was a pretty good video. didnt need to see the person tho

The faggy voice and the lisp is incredibly annoying.