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Are videogames for children?

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...Okay? But what does most of that have to do with Thief and the drunk guard/Benny?
(Yes, it's a tranny. Real name: Mike Chrzanowski (Source: it's still listed on mobygames' page for Thief))
 
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Mentioned in the DS thread as well, but the Director's Cut version of Death Stranding just shadow dropped on XBox, currently at a sale price of £17. Zero publicity from what I can tell, but I'm legitimately happy - the game hit at exactly the right time in my life, and I'm glad console warrior shit is no longer in the way.

Now give me Nioh, you faggots.
 
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Finished Metaphor: ReFantazio and Frostpunk 2 today.

Metaphor was great, if a bit too hard at times (particularly some optional endgame stuff towards the end that was just unfun) and the last quarter felt like it was dragged on a bit too much with multiple scenes repeating the same information/stuff over and over. There have been some people calling it woke because of the underlying messages of "racism bad" and "democracy good (mostly)" but I didn't get that at all. All in all a solid Persona-like game, would recommend.

Frostpunk was less good, though I loved the aesthetic and music of the game, it was worse than the first one in most ways. It's also strangely balanced in terms of its chapters, with the first 2 being extremely long and the last two being very, very short. Like, the difference between 3-4 hours and 30 minutes. A poster in here said it already but once you get your resources squared away the campaign becomes pretty hard to fail, and I was pretty much just coasting my way through the back half of chapter 3 all the way to the ending. I'm glad I played it but it was just okay.

I'm moving on to the new Dragon Age, which I already know I'm gonna be annoyed by, but I'm curious as to just how bad it is and it's not like I'm actually paying for it. 🏴‍☠️
 
Finding myself in quite the rut. I usually have 2-3 games of several genres; low-effort collectathon, 20 min indie shit like Bloons, and a few game I really wanna get into but require an actual push of effort. However these days when I set up a good 9-12 games, I always hit these moments of complete sobriety where I go "wait a minute, fighting games fucking blow!", and I hide those 3 from my library. Suddenly my setup feels incomplete and it all crumbles.

There's a thin line between the delusion of "would be cool" and just.. playing a game and realizing it's fun and keep playing. And all the games I wanna play are on that line.
 
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I can't figure out (and don't want to risk my PC) if Dodi actually figured out a way to spoof the Denuvo activation instead of straight creaking it or if this is just a really elaborate way to install a bitcoin miner on every ones PC.
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I personally wouldn't mess around with this. Seems sketchy. Just wait for those games to have denuvo removed or for someone to inevitably come alone and crack it, not like there's any shortage of games to play.
 
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⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
Someone smarter than me should make a thread for discussion of the concept of "soul" in video games.
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Azumanga Daioh and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

In the last shot, she looks like a child's head with an adults body, in the other ones she doesn't look bad and it seems like she looks older but still young-ish. What is very noticeable is that the png got less detailed and her boobs got bigger with the style shift. They retained the background of the 2nd screencap so they still have the high-res assets, so why not use those instead? Seems like hitting the characters with the moe stick was a move made to justify a "remaster" or re-release of this vn
 
Reporting in on Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It's actually worse than I expected. I've heard over and over that "oh the story sucks but the combat is awesome" but it's just not. I feel like I'm going crazy because it feels clunky and unfun most of the time, not the Devil May Cry-like action combat I was led to expect. The companions are also the least likeable bunch in any game I've encountered, with Taash (the "non-binary") especially bad. They screech at you to respect their message and pronouns while actively denying the same for other characters, and when I did some googling I see nothing but lavish praise for this character. You can never call them out on the double standard. I don't understand.

I'm not a fan of the exploration, as it feels like it wants to be some weird cross between how it was in Inquisition but much more linear with some tiny metroidvania elements sprinkled in. The zones have a bunch of hidden stuff to find and to access them all you need to first recruit every character (making much exploration before that time pointless) to access their special field ability to be able to reach everywhere. They're all just a winding maze of corridors connected to a few arenas that are obvious locations for boss fights.

I will say the game looks good from a graphics standpoint even if the weird Pixar character aesthetic grinds my gears. The environments are nice to look at at the very least. The game also runs very well and I expect it to be playable on older rigs without too much work, so there's that.

I'm only 14 or so hours in and just got the full cast of characters so I have a ways to go but if I didn't have other stuff to play between sessions of this I'd probably have dropped it. Sad to see what became of the franchise, I only expect it to get worse, and I'm scared for Mass Effect 4.
 
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I got an email about the newly launched "GOG Preservation Program". GOG will put a "Good Old Game" label on games that are verified to work on modern Windows systems, starting with 100 games.
We make games live forever! Since 2008 we enhance good old games ourselves, to guarantee convenience and compatibility with modern systems. Even if the original developers of the game do not support it anymore.
  1. This game will work on current and future most popular Windows PC configurations. DRM-free.
  2. This is the best version of this game you can buy on any PC platform.
  3. We are the only platform to provide tech support for the games we sell. If some issues with the game appear, our Tech Support will help you solve them.
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In some cases they might have changed some code and fixed bugs, like for these:

But typically you will see something like this:
Changelog (13 November 2024)
Validated stability
Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11
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Ars Technica: GOG’s Preservation Program is the DRM-free store refocusing on the classics (archive)
 
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GOG put so much fucking effort into taking over, fixing, and making playable old games. Yet all we hear of them is LE POLISH CYBERFUNK AND WITCHESS 3!!!!

Anyway: Farm sim 25 is out and I unironically kinda like the idea of it. I saw a streamer go the distance and you ended up automating so many of the manual labor, meaning you went from farmer to manager. Sounds comfy. The reviews all say it either runs amazing or like complete hot shit, which is why I never got into Farm Sim 22. Here's hoping.
 
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