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Are videogames for children?


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Does anyone have recommendations for novelizations of popular games? Like Fallout games, Elden Ring, The Last of Us, Call of Duty, etc? I have always been interested in the lore and stories of the games but I am too blind and graphics are the most incomprehensible thing for me to look at. I fucking hate 99% of video essay youtubers too, so "five hours of autism guy droning on in Standard Youtuber Voice" is not an option. I like books.
"First Flight" for the Kerbal Space Program; the platinum standard of fanfics. An absolute 1000+ page doorstopper of a book with insane levels (as in Lord of the Rings worthy) of worldbuilding.

 

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Does anyone have recommendations for novelizations of popular games? Like Fallout games, Elden Ring, The Last of Us, Call of Duty, etc? I have always been interested in the lore and stories of the games but I am too blind and graphics are the most incomprehensible thing for me to look at. I fucking hate 99% of video essay youtubers too, so "five hours of autism guy droning on in Standard Youtuber Voice" is not an option. I like books.
Return to the beginning.....of the Worlds of Power.

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What's the newest game you people played and really enjoyed?

Kunitsu-gami is looking really good from the demo I finished. I'm actually excited to play the full game in about a week from now. I dunno how it got greenlit considering it has no chance in hell of meeting whatever insane sales goals capcom expects but at least I'll have fun with it.

Unrelated note, it's hilarious how capcom is already killing Exoprimal updates after not even a year. Trash should have been free to play but capcom is too far up it's own ass to ever consider using that model.
 
I never heard of those. Tempted to look up that Blaster Master book tbh. Metal Gear would make for an interesting read too.
You gotta remember when they were written (early 90s) and their target audience (young boys) so don't expect much. The creator of the series tried his best but the writers took some liberties after playing the games. Funny enough elements of the Blaster Master book actually ended up in Playstation Blaster Master game and Blaster Master Zero series.
 
Didnt watch the stream but Hidden Palace, a game preservation group, has released multiple prototypes of a port of Hard-Boiled (1997) for the Sega Saturn.
Game was originally released on Ps1.
Along with this, a game called out of the vortex was also released under Hidden Palace.
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I also think someone on the discord may have a prototype of the pc port of super bubsy, but I could also be reading things incorrectly.
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Ive been playing Tunguska the visitation. Its a neat roadside picnic game, the aiming is a little frustrating at times but the dev clearly has passion in the project.
 
New LE cycle starts tomorrow. Everyone is going mana stacking sorc it seems?
Going in blind and I picked mana stacking sorc, at the very worst Lightning Blast can (tediously) carry me with practically nothing, by stacking repeat cast chance nodes and Convergence. Still haven't decided if I want to risk fighting against the market meta or gamba with the Circle of Fortune.
 
What's the newest game you people played and really enjoyed? It's hard for me to remember anything newer than Metal Gear Rising or Deus Ex: Mankind Divided both of which I liked.
I believe that freely available video game engines such as UE, Unity, Godot etc. accelerated the growth of mediocre indie-bullshit video games made by people with profile bios like "Deidre Gwyneth, transfem lesbian, xhe/xhem, wiccan, diaper fetishist, tarot card enjoyer" which on their turn lowered the standards for AAA studios.
Am I just an old fart (slightly over 20 yo) or are things really like that?
Indie-wise, Tiny Rogues really held my attention for a while and I still return to it relatively often. The dev is pretty good about showing new shit he's working on on Xitter and I'm looking forward to the next updates.

AAA-wise, Elden Ring despite its many flaws (many of which reveal themselves on repeat playthrough or just the last stretch of the game post-Margit) really nailed the "Wow, I wonder what's over there?" sense of wonder and kept me hooked for that playthrough. Hell, I forgot enough of the game that past Limgrave and most of Liurnia that when i made a new character for the DLC, i got to experience some of that immersion again. I have, however, become much more critical of the attack timings that are intentionally made to fuck with you, like Hourah Loux's mid-air slowdown. For a boss or two, it's fine, but I don't enjoy it becoming a mechanic of every fight.

As for the fagdevs, I think they're a parallel issue. Shareholders and profit chasing are the most detrimental to good game design large-scale. Even if the Poz-walkers fall out of favor, it won't stop EA from printing another shitzillion bucks with FIFA 27's Gamba Boxes.
Side note: Death to the French Government for continuing to fund these faggy artsy walking simulators.
 
Has anyone here played Space Wreck? It's an isometric rpg like Fallout or Arcanum where you can interact with a lot of the world in interesting ways, like removing a floor panel to go to the floor below without taking the elevator and kicking people into space. Also combat is optional, you can avoid or talk your way out of every fight. It's pretty fun, but I don't like the graphics at all, so I don't want to buy it unless I'm sure it doesn't completely fall apart after the demo, I've been burned on that a bit recently (fuck venture to the vile.)

 
Going in blind and I picked mana stacking sorc, at the very worst Lightning Blast can (tediously) carry me with practically nothing, by stacking repeat cast chance nodes and Convergence. Still haven't decided if I want to risk fighting against the market meta or gamba with the Circle of Fortune.
I started mana stacking sorc as well, but arcane ascendance is a pain in the ass, clunky af. I ditched it after making it to monos and levelled up a spellblade that uses dagoraths claw and enigma, much smoother, will be finishing regular monos today.
 
What's the newest game you people played and really enjoyed? It's hard for me to remember anything newer than Metal Gear Rising or Deus Ex: Mankind Divided both of which I liked.
I believe that freely available video game engines such as UE, Unity, Godot etc. accelerated the growth of mediocre indie-bullshit video games made by people with profile bios like "Deidre Gwyneth, transfem lesbian, xhe/xhem, wiccan, diaper fetishist, tarot card enjoyer" which on their turn lowered the standards for AAA studios.
Am I just an old fart (slightly over 20 yo) or are things really like that?
sturgeon's law mate. you probably just don't know or don't remember anything besides the "classics".
it's kinda like rick beato complaining about spotify and easy to make music. just like easy to use engines of course make it easy to make mid games, you have to remember people don't start out as high-profile AAAA devs or designers. more people making more videogames is a plus overall, the real issue is that due to circumstances they're inevitably tied to certain genres (you obviously won't find an indie destiny with the same production value), which if you don't like or care about those, already means they basically don't exist. it also means for lot of people that don't know anything else besides AAAA graphics it's automatically "pixelshit" etc. (often a zoomer thing because they never witnessed the evolution from 8-bit to now) or secondaries who want sonyslop which are more elaborate telltale-"games" than actual games.

the next is discoverability, the more mid games the more noise to find the good stuff, however the ratio will more or less the same, which means there are also more "good" games - and no, shit like greenlight or any other "gatekeeping" is a retarded solution proposed by retards. people will still be lazy, if they can't bother to check out steam next fest or any channels for recommendations (or even the fucking steam discovery queue instead of "new releases") any pre-selection doesn't help.

anyway, new games a shit. there's a reason a large chunk of money is generated by games 6+ years old. luckily due to numbers there's plenty of stuff to play that isn't AAA slop, fuck there's a reason millions jumped on the genshin/hsr train, and there's even more stuff coming out.
 
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The past few days had me spending almost an hour and a half playing LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game for the PS2, and it was so much fun.

It almost made me forget that I still have to finish Manhunt, and I haven’t played it in months.
 
What's the newest game you people played and really enjoyed? It's hard for me to remember anything newer than Metal Gear Rising or Deus Ex: Mankind Divided both of which I liked.
I believe that freely available video game engines such as UE, Unity, Godot etc. accelerated the growth of mediocre indie-bullshit video games made by people with profile bios like "Deidre Gwyneth, transfem lesbian, xhe/xhem, wiccan, diaper fetishist, tarot card enjoyer" which on their turn lowered the standards for AAA studios.
Am I just an old fart (slightly over 20 yo) or are things really like that?
Alright, I've changed my answer, it's Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, I just bought it the other day and it's a lot of fun, takes me back to good old days.
 
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Is Easy Anti-Cheat good, or is it one of those rootkit type anti-cheats/drm people complain about?

I ask because I bought some steam games on summer sale. It demands to be run as admin to install Easy Anti-Cheat. I say no because I only want to play Single Player, but the game closes instead. Don't know if I should get a refund or not.
 
Is Easy Anti-Cheat good, or is it one of those rootkit type anti-cheats/drm people complain about?

I ask because I bought some steam games on summer sale. It demands to be run as admin to install Easy Anti-Cheat. I say no because I only want to play Single Player, but the game closes instead. Don't know if I should get a refund or not.
It is a kernel-level anti-cheat, but probably the most tolerated one. Many games that use it support a Linux version for playing in Proton, which placates most people who would care about it. Only inconvenience it's been to me is that it doesn't work if you run Windows in test mode with driver signature verification off.

Check the game's PCGW article and Steam forums to see if you can run the game without EAC by running a different executable or adding some arguments or something. You often can.
 
Is Easy Anti-Cheat good, or is it one of those rootkit type anti-cheats/drm people complain about?

I ask because I bought some steam games on summer sale. It demands to be run as admin to install Easy Anti-Cheat. I say no because I only want to play Single Player, but the game closes instead. Don't know if I should get a refund or not.
It's owned by Epic Games
 
Is Easy Anti-Cheat good, or is it one of those rootkit type anti-cheats/drm people complain about?

I ask because I bought some steam games on summer sale. It demands to be run as admin to install Easy Anti-Cheat. I say no because I only want to play Single Player, but the game closes instead. Don't know if I should get a refund or not.
It's kernel level, but I've had no issue with it.

It beats the shitshow going on at Riot Games with Vanguard. I used to play League but uninstalled the second they put Vanguard in the game, I don't want that bullshit on startup nonsense on my computer. Riot Games client in general is basically a virus, it's extremely difficult to remove. You can't uninstall it from the program list or through control panel, it embeds in some retarded file somewhere and you have to just send it to the recycle bin. I actually had to google and go through a walkthrough on how to get rid of it lol. The entire company and their chink overlords at Tencent need to be nuked.
 
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