Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

Are videogames for children?

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Recently finished Mouthwashing. Probably my GOTY so far, although that's because nothing else has piqued my interest this year.

If you have a couple of hours, enjoy psychological horror, and can appreciate interesting writing, characterization, and storytelling techniques, give it a try.
It is basically a walking simulator with a few interactive sequences, but it doesn't overstay its welcome. Also the ambience is great.

Anyways, go play it.
 
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Has anyone tried London 2038? Been playing Remnant 2 recently and its dredged up some old memories of Hellgate London and 2038 looks like the closest thing to a revived Hellgate London I can find. Or are there better/more active options that I haven’t found?
 
SpellforceFan said:
Could anyone recommend a lore/story synopsis channel with longer videos (>1h) focusing on cold facts, instead of wild fanficion and flowery tales like Vaati? I'm looking for something to listen to when I'm cooking, and while I've managed to find a couple of videos (like the 6h metal gear timeline) and a single channel doing exactly what I'm looking for, the more I look for those kind of story supercuts, the more I find they're mostly editorialized videos where some neckbeard chomo-looking british/aussie man gushes about the cOmPlExItY and profoundness of a franchise, speculates more than summarizes, and it's just a front for his merch store or patreon.
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Some smaller channels that I like, might not be exactly what you want but give them a try:

William SRD covers RPGs, he goes into the setting of the tabletop version before going into the specific video game. His Shadowrun video is a big lore dump of the SR setting before going into the SNES Shadowrun game. Stuff like that. Can recommend.
Grim Beard is pretty good, covers different kinds of games, has a decent and entertaining tone. Slightly similar to Civvie11, so probably not what you look for.
TangoMushi covers horror, has the definitive video of NightCry, the spiritual successor to Clock Tower that sucked so badly that no one really bothered to make a video covering everything.
Majulaar I think is ok? idk, for some reason I confuse him with:
MrEdders123 oh jeez a 6 hour Planescape video? A 4 hour Soulbringer video? 2 hours of Crimson Skies, 3 hours of Myth 2, one hour of Time Gate(thank god someone covered that game because I'm not playing that shit even though I've always been curious, btw the game is the estranged grandfather of Assassin's Creed)
There's also Expleened, it's not what you're asking for but it is really funny.

No links because I'm lazy.
 
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Gog & Magog said:
Somebody on the subforum who's name I forgot recommended 13 Sentinels. I just wanna say: fuck you. You didn't tell me there'd be naked high schoolers. I usually avoid learning more about a game before buying if I hear it's got a good story. Clearly a mistake was made on my part. Worst of all I can't refund it. :mad:
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It's weeb shit, what did you expect?
 
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Almighty Space Duck said:
Has anyone tried London 2038? Been playing Remnant 2 recently and its dredged up some old memories of Hellgate London and 2038 looks like the closest thing to a revived Hellgate London I can find. Or are there better/more active options that I haven’t found?
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There's also Revival, what's singleplayer only but with a bunch of mods made for it, the downside is you need a (throwaway) account on their forum to see/download anything.
I quite like it personally, setting the mob spawns to x2 and then nuking everything makes the game surprisingly satisfying to play.
 
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How's Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous? I've been considering picking it up on PS5, but I don't really know if the game is decent or not?
 
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Now that's something you can actually have some hope for!
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There was some leaks a few months ago that it was happening, and they said it will be continuing the story from the first game with Amanda Ripley, while ignoring the mobile game that was supposed to be a sequel.

Whether it's a new space station or not as the setting will be interesting.
 
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Trying so fucking hard to find a good party-based game, but if it's too party-based, it ends up a TTRPG xcom style where companions can die or the game itself is balls hard. Too "much" party and it becomes 5 niggas in a line and it also becomes stupidly hard and you need to blow a tranny for a weapon called SPLEIPGNIR+9 ZETA to kill the third boss.

There's literally only Bioware games. Parties, degree of romance, visual progression in armor or age, without turning into a fucking novel alongside a dice based combat system. I guess there's all those Tales of games, but they seem like generic weeb mog.
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Alien Isolation 2 is in early development, with the original director returning.

Can't lie, this is pretty fucking based.


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Alien is such an odd IP. Owned by Disney, kept relevant, new games constantly, new movies "constantly", yet never really achieved more than a novel 8/10 one-off like Isolation or Romulus. They're making Alien: Earth set before any other media in the IP and it sounds kinda shit honestly. But then you got that old-ass AvP game that everyone played? Worse franchises to stan, I guess. SCORN!
 
Has a PDF of Jason Schrier's Blizzard book been posted anywhere yet? I don't want to give the twat money and just want to see if there's actual stuff in it beyond "Kotick bad, diversity is our strength."
 
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I played Pac-Man World for the PS1, and I question why we can’t make more open world games with Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man doing co-op together. It’s kind of like playing Klonoa: Fantasy Reverie, but better.
 
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mandatorylurk said:
Has a PDF of Jason Schrier's Blizzard book been posted anywhere yet? I don't want to give the twat money and just want to see if there's actual stuff in it beyond "Kotick bad, diversity is our strength."
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Nothing yet (checked libgen and some public indexes), but it'll probably drop in the next 36hrs. If you can stomach lurking 4chan there might be copies posted there soon.
 
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Kingdom: Two Crowns, a minimalist pixel art tower defense, turned garbage with the release of the new Greek DLC + mandatory update to the base game. Sweet Baby Inc oversaw their last (standalone, bad) installment and it seems the rot has set in: not so much active muhdiversity (although I'm softlocked) as a hall pass to feel entitled to do retarded anti-player shit.
  • The DLC is broken (softlocked)
  • Added "female" workers, now the most meaningful difference between workers is their hairstyle (no game effect)
    • Profession (massive game effect) is determined by the color of clothes. Fuck the colorblind?
    • Vagrants (also massive game effect) now have the same colorful clothes as citizens, not the torn rags they used to wear. I guess rags are classist discrimination.
    • the woke watchlist complained about racial diversity, but different skin colors actually liven up and make visually distinct the masses of identical workers, which would otherwise meld together in monstrous blobs
  • Gross "bloom filter" over everything (in a pixel art game!)
  • Stupid particle effects (according to complaints: I didn't see how bad it gets in the base game because I'm trying for a refund of the DLC).
  • The tutorial that people were complaining about is now
    • more misleading,
    • less skippable despite promises,
    • does not point at correct objects,
    • actively gives bad advice to stand and wait until workers complete their tasks,
    • has spoilers and untimely late game advice.
  • Cosmetic DLC which they assured was tee hee totally optional, but there's an in-game ad for it and 6 visually "locked" skins that outnumber the setting's actual thematic skins (3 to 5 depending on setting).
 
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Anyone here a fan of the first no more room in hell. They released a gameplay video after some big investor piled money into no more room in hell 2, curious what you all think I have mixed feelings.


Over all I think it is good but I am not happy with a few things. It seems like the old inventory system has been removed, the one with the wheel for items and weapons with different things taking more or less space on the wheel depending on their size. I also am not happy that they seem to be straying away from the minimal UI, in earlier versions of No More Room In hell 2 videos there was a tablet you would have to pull out to see objectives and the map, I am upset thats gone and replaced with big ugly generic objective pop ups.

Game still looks fun but I am worried they are simplifying shit for casual game faggots.

Apparently they also removed zombie children, which makes me worried that they are catering to people who didn't actually play the first game. I don't know, I am very mixed on it, I think the open world style will be fun, but I really hope they don't sell out to the hordes of faggots who will buy it, play once, never play again while the fans get left with all the concessions made for them.

But on the plus side I think their map and level designers are doing great. Everything I have seen on the mapping end looks amazing. Broadway III looks amazing and their idea for the powerplant map sounds really fun.



What do you all think, comes out on earlier access on the 22nd so we should find out soon. So many flops recently I really hope it's good but I am suspicious as hell.
 
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