Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[Beautiful Man]

I want to expand on it. Gaming today is a travesty, we went from a profession filled with engineers that want games to be fun, into a profession filled with businessmen and artists who want to sell us shit in the former and showoff their talent in the latter.

No one cares about player enjoyment, just "engagement". And rather than make things that look good because they are designed well they just cram incredibly intensive features into shit models and call it a day.

Gaming has been extraordinarily corporate since its inception. Arcade machines only existed to suck quarters out of stupid kids looking for a cheap fix. Many older games were made extremely hard (often in unfair ways) just to keep people from realizing their 20(0) hour game is more like a 2 hour game. The Atari was sold for an equivalent of $350 bucks today and we all know how barebones and shitty those games were. For most of gaming's history, it's had a very draining atmosphere. I'd say for most of its existence as an industry it's been a travesty.
Even older "soulful" titles, such as those released by Nintendo, are overshadowed by Nintendo's inherent corporate nature.
The only good parts of the industry, and of gaming as a whole, existed in spite of this heavily corporate atmosphere. Those engineers you speak of.
I think you have a very flowery view of the medium, but nonetheless it is an ideal to strive toward, and somehow, even that which we did have was taken.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

Giving Deathloop a shot after Redfall turned out to be a slag heap, and I'm enjoying myself. Colt is a fun character, although Julianna is nowhere near as endearing as the writers think she is.

Just love causing havoc and gore.

Now go do Mooncrash, then Prey, then the dishonoured games and each time you go back you will have more fun

 

[Angry Muda]

This was so underwhelming

 

[Red flaming panda]

(Link)
hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boy

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I found an interesting new video game channel on YouTube. It's a small channel with a little less than 100,00 subscribers. It's like Civvie11 if Civvie did other games than just old FPS. He seems to be a bit of a leftist fag but it's not that intrusive. I can tolerate what I have seen so far so he can't be that bad. He is probably in his early 30's as well so he is definitely a Millennial and not some cringey Zoomer.

I will just avoid his videos and clear them out of my watch history. It's a shame because he can actually be funny. But I would rather not sit through leftist faggotry.

I don't know if I'm right but he seems to be heavily pushed by youtube/the algorithm right now. During the last two weeks my mainpage feed seemed to be 20% Grimbeard videos and I had never heard of that guy before. Looking at an open tab right now two of the three top recommended videos are grimbeard for some reason and there's more of them when scrolling down.

What I also found to be a bit curious is that he gets pretty good views for a channel that size but very few upboats. 200k views, 5k likes, that seems to be the behavior of people clicking a (recommended) video out of curiosity and then bailing.

 

[CuzinEd]

I don't know if I'm right but he seems to be heavily pushed by youtube/the algorithm right now. During the last two weeks my mainpage feed seemed to be 20% Grimbeard videos and I had never heard of that guy before. Looking at an open tab right now two of the three top recommended videos are grimbeard for some reason and there's more of them when scrolling down.

What I also found to be a bit curious is that he gets pretty good views for a channel that size but very few upboats. 200k views, 5k likes, that seems to be the behavior of people clicking a (recommended) video out of curiosity and then bailing.

I found him because I was watching videos about Fallout on YouTube and one of his videos popped up. I think it was the one about Fallout Tactics. I recently got back into Fallout. I just bought the Fallout trilogy off Ebay recently that includes Tactics. That's how I ran across his video and then I started watching others. But I didn't know how much of a leftist shitbag he was when I first found his videos.

Most people using YouTube and watching videos don't even have accounts. They also don't subscribe or like videos. They just watch and leave. People on YouTube are always begging for people to hit like subscribe and the bell button. It gets kind of annoying. If I like the content I will subscribe. If I find myself watching videos from a channel frequently I will subscribe. Youtube has basically neutered all the features anyway. Disliking a video hasn't done anything meaningful since the late 2000's when Google took control of YouTube. You used to be able to dislike shit videos and if it got enough dislikes it wouldn't be shown. That changed shortly after Google bought it. If you like or dislike a video it's just counted as an interaction. It actually boosts the videos popularity by disliking it. You can't see the number of dislikes anymore either. Not that it matters because it doesn't mean shit anyway.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

That's how I ran across his video and then I started watching others. But I didn't know how much of a leftist shitbag he was when I first found his videos.

I don't care about that unless it gets really annoying and in my face. Since he popped up all the time I've watched a couple of videos and they're fine even if they're meandering and wanky.

If you want something you haven't seen that is pretty decent I can recommend "William SRD", those are pretty good if you focus on the old DnD games. "Scott's Game Asylum" is a pretty good channel and a real dark horse, almost 9k subs! He gets 2-3k views per video! But he's enjoyable in my opinion.
And there's also Biancocup if you're into the meta of video essays about games.

 

[CuzinEd]

I don't care about that unless it gets really annoying and in my face. Since he popped up all the time I've watched a couple of videos and they're fine even if they're meandering and wanky.

If you want something you haven't seen that is pretty decent I can recommend "William SRD", those are pretty good if you focus on the old DnD games. "Scott's Game Asylum" is a pretty good channel and a real dark horse, almost 9k subs! He gets 2-3k views per video! But he's enjoyable in my opinion.
And there's also Biancocup if you're into the meta of video essays about games.

Same with me. But I don't want to get hit with it all the time. I don't care if they talk about games but keep your shitty political opinions to yourself. I am not the kind of person that looks for people to reaffirm my political beliefs like some people do. But I don't want to be preached at. You can talk about the political aspects of a game. But I don't want to hear orange man bad or how I am dirty smelly racist. The moment they start acting like faggots about it I am out though.


Another channel I was watching was called Noah Caldwell Gervais. He has a video about Fallout as well. That's how I found him a few years ago. He is hipster fag though and he was talking about the old WW2 era Call of Duty games and went off on some rant about the "working class men and women around the world rising up to fight Fascism" and I kind of started avoiding his videos. But the biggest reason is he doesn't make them much. He started doing videos like 10 years ago. He said he wanted to be a video game journalist or something like that. That profession is pretty much dead and died with the video game magazines. I guess he didn't have it in him to be a YouTube star or whatever. That's where all the video game stuff went.

Here is decade old video about the first Fallout game.

Here is another video I watched. It's the one about that Mad Max game from 2015 or 2016.

I think he is some kind of rich kid or trust fund baby.

I will check out those channels you recommended though. Thanks.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

It says a lot that my original fat XBOX has kept me focused on my gaming priorities since my fat PS2 console is currently out of commission. I’m having fun playing a lot of the old games from 2003.

It makes me want to play OddWorld: Munch’s Odysee next.

 

[Articles and Nudes]

Booooo. I was really enjoying Deathloop, but the game hung when I was moving to another area and I lost all my progress; including a nifty laser cannon and dual pistols that can be turned into a rifle. Yes, they were infused.

I know the game is all about repetition, but man that took the momentum out of me.

 

[Pissmaster]

Booooo. I was really enjoying Deathloop, but the game hung when I was moving to another area and I lost all my progress; including a nifty laser cannon and dual pistols that can be turned into a rifle. Yes, they were infused.

I know the game is all about repetition, but man that took the momentum out of me.

Yeah, welcome to Deathloop. For every single thing that game does right, it does something colossally stupid. I hope you didn't pay much for it.

 

[Burt Ryan]

Fuck, Diablo 4 beta is good. Like an actual solid experience, it runs extremely well and I can foresee Blizzard kinda making a slight comeback with this.

 

[CuzinEd]

So I bought some physical copies of PC games off Ebay. I was looking for PC exlcusives games that I thought would still work and could be installed from the disc so they just wouldn't be dust collectors but could actually be used. I already had 3 physical PC games. Fallout Fallout 2 and the Doom Collectors Edition from 2003. Fallout 1 and 2 are the dual Jewel/plastic CD case pack that was sold in stores in 2000-2002 probably. I bought that off Ebay in the late 2000's. The Doom Collectors Edition I got in Walmart in 2003 for about $20. It's complete with the Doom 3 preview content CD. I remember my old PC from back then couldn't even display the Doom 3 content. It could but it any videos moved really slow. It was also pretty slow with the other content.

I picked up a copy of the Fallout Trilogy that was released in the late 2000's. It has Fallout Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics. I think it was released by Interplay at Bethesda's request or something like that. It's from the time when Bethesda bought Fallout from Interplay. I have an extra copy of both the original Fallout games and Tactics now. You can never have enough Fallout.

I added VtM: Bloodlines to my collection. I started playing it last year and found out it was actually a pretty good game. I have heard you can still install it and play from the discs. I have 3 CD's. It came in the box with the manual as well. Its not a thick manual just like what you would see in games back then. I also got a sealed copy of STALKER SOC and a opened but complete collectors edition of Call of Pripyat. I have heard they can be installed and played still as well.

I saw someone selling Duke 3D atomic edition on ebay and the disc was in good shape so I got it. I never owned a physical copy of that game except on the PS back in the late 90's. I did a google search and saw that you can install and play it from the disc and use EDuke32 or Raze. I would probably use Raze. If you are going to collect PC games then why not have one of the most iconic games in the collection?

Just a correction for the statement above. I have more than the original 3 games. I forgot I also have the Diablo II Battle Chest I bought in Walmart in probably 2014. I saw it was on sale and it was the last one so I bought it. I think I only paid $25 for it.

I am thinking about adding FEAR to my collection because I think it was PC exclusive at first and then got ported to the 360 and ps3. I will look into if it can be installed and played still.

 

[Articles and Nudes]

Fuck, Diablo 4 beta is good. Like an actual solid experience, it runs extremely well and I can foresee Blizzard kinda making a slight comeback with this.

I'm legitimately excited for it, and kept playing the Server Slam even after both my chosen classes were level 20. Combat and killing was just so satisfying.

It helps that they've been transparent as hell with the game so far, especially in regards to microtransactions - although after the Immortal catastrophe they didn't really have a choice. The game might turn into liquid shit during Act 2, and I'm not expecting much from the story, but I've really enjoyed it so far.

 

[Burt Ryan]

I'm legitimately excited for it, and kept playing the Server Slam even after both my chosen classes were level 20. Combat and killing was just so satisfying.

It helps that they've been transparent as hell with the game so far, especially in regards to microtransactions - although after the Immortal catastrophe they didn't really have a choice. The game might turn into liquid shit during Act 2, and I'm not expecting much from the story, but I've really enjoyed it so far.

My only big unknown is the endgame content. I kinda look forward to a sort of Adventure Mode like we had it in Diablo 3, and Nephalem gauntlets of sort. I didn't bother to bring the characters up to lvl 20, I'm already enjoying the game as is for now. Some notes from what I've played:

• The game is a lot more cinematic, I do like that your character actually feels like a character in the story instead of being the NPC of sorts in the cutscenes, like it was in Diablo 3 with Tyrael and Leah.
• The dungeons are pretty long, and even the average run-of-the-mill bosses are pretty tough compared to 3.
• In terms of classes, my ranking based on how much I enjoyed them:
  1. Necromancer (Army of Darkness up in here, with all the spooky skellies wreaking shit up)​
  2. Druid (I love the shapeshifting aspect, and how tanky they are)​
  3. Sorceress (I called my char Azula and made her shoot lightning and fire. Enough said.)​
  4. Barbarian (The skills that turn the enemies HP into a giant DoT are pretty cool)​
  5. Assassin (They look pretty squishy in terms of HP and I'm not that big of a fan, for now at least.)​
• The overworld stuff is fun, finding events and world bosses is cool, and I definitely won't even bother with PvP. Fuck that shit.​

The other game I got on my radar which was basically my buy list for June is Street Fighter 6, and I can't wait to play more of World Tour.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

@Professor G. Raff sounds fascinating, thank you very much. Love seeing things that gamify stuff that's not just "kill 10 million more goblins/zombies/aliens with your sword/gun/laser gun."

@Professor G. Raff
Started playing The Amazing American Circus. It's an interesting game. I was playing Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, similar Americana go-trek-on-a-map-during-a-time-period type thing, and this is so much better just for virtue of having an actual game. It's disappointing it doesn't animate the individual acts (because I have no idea what the fuck most of them are), but decent to play.

Made a beeline for Salt Lake City and got a kick out of the audience being extremely uptight humorless Mormons and preachers. And the based Polack devs don't give a shit about being offensive, having whooping Indians waving tomahawks around in the air is exactly the kind of thing that shouldn't be a problem but no American would do now. And educational, little details on the cities better than WTWTLW does.

This seems like a real admirable game - if not in gameplay then at least in its clear love for its subject matter - and I got it as part of a developer bundle with a French Revolution judge game and a Trans-Siberian railroad survival game too for real cheap. Seems like they (Juggler Games) fill a real niche of historical games that don't fit the mold in genre or setting.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

Appears an old favorite of mine is being open-sourced and preserved. Feel free to work on it!

https://github.com/suomipelit/kops - Gravitational 2D shooter game from the 90's

 

[Cod of War]

Hankering to play some H3VR and saw mods for Fallout: NV guns and recreation of DOOM's E1M1. Tried them out and...

The mod were made by the same user, Sylvia247.
I literally can't get away from this shit.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Appears an old favorite of mine is being open-sourced and preserved. Feel free to work on it!

https://github.com/suomipelit/kops - Gravitational 2D shooter game from the 90's

That really, really looks like an old Amiga game that I enjoyed playing with friends. It had splitscreen multiplayer and different modes, one of which was "race" and it was great fun.
It might have been Gravity Force or a clone of it

Fantastic game.

I'm definitely going to check that out but the new Zelda arrived and it reminded me that I never played Deadly Premonition 2 so I'm doing that right now...

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

That really, really looks like an old Amiga game that I enjoyed playing with friends. It had splitscreen multiplayer and different modes, one of which was "race" and it was great fun.
It might have been Gravity Force or a clone of it
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Fantastic game.

I'm definitely going to check that out but the new Zelda arrived and it reminded me that I never played Deadly Premonition 2 so I'm doing that right now...

Back in the day, the 4-player (!!!) splitscreen was one of the very few ways that 4 kids could game together if you crowded around the keyboard just right. It was an absolute answer to prayer if your family couldn't afford a console and 4 controllers.