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Are videogames for children?


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I've had the pleasure of playing Peripeteia. It's a lot of fun, also filled with weird shit (in a good sense). I recommend trying the demo out if you enjoyed playing the original Deus Ex or E.Y.E.
In it's current state it's a bit jank. You can sequence break stuff easily if you explore on your own, which you are meant to do, and there's a lot of ways you can traverse a level, many of which are not obvious to you until you master the movement. Lots of guns, (if you can find them!), decent gunplay, pretty good aestethics. No DEI shit. If anything, this game seems to be made by channers.
The early access version contains 5 main levels currently, you can expect 8-12 hours playtime. I have 30 hours on it at the moment, i replayed levels multiple times to try and find all the routes and hidden stuff and still come across new weapons or shortcuts I haven't seen.
 
Its entirely style, they have an option to disable it. I just don't know how on earth anyone thought it was a good choice.

It feels like an outgrowth of the "movie game" genre, which is part of the "games are art" movement which has damaged the industry. The fundamental problem is that movies are supposed to be 24 fps, modern games should be a minimum of 30.
 
Its entirely style, they have an option to disable it. I just don't know how on earth anyone thought it was a good choice.
This is what happens when you let an artist have free reign on decision making.

its doing a little better now at about 1200 players on steam, but dont forget this is on gamepass too, so the majority of players are likely there, and microsoft has yet to release the numbers on how this does.
no one is buying gamepass for this game though so any plays are coincidental.
 
Play it with an Aureal card and say that again. (please notice that sounds adhere to screen space, anything 4:3 will be weird in wider resolutions)
Creative wanted them gone for a reason.
creative has always been absolute cancer, people rage about EA and other shitters, creative had them beat by a mile.
as much as software sound sucks if it means creative gets shit on hard that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

iirc there's also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_TrueAudio but it never made much of an impact.
 
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Who's ready for the twitter feminist vs 'gaming incest community' fight that's about to go viral? (I must still have a lot of innocence because I had no idea the latter was an actual thing...at least not to the extent to call it a community)

You can 'dominate' your mom, sister, aunt, any female family member you want, even if they say no and you get points for it.

Devs from Alabama by any chance?



This gameplay is not even worth watching it's pretty boring since it's just the start of the game but it gives you an idea of how it works.




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Finished Card-en-Ciel today, and was pleasantly surprised. It's my first roguelite/deckbuilder in a while and I always forget how much I enjoy this type of game. If you can get past all the anime stuff, which I know some people here hate, it's a solid game and the gameplay loop was quite addicting.
 
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Who's ready for the twitter feminist vs 'gaming incest community' fight that's about to go viral? (I must still have a lot of innocence because I had no idea the latter was an actual thing...at least not to the extent to call it a community)

You can 'dominate' your mom, sister, aunt, any female family member you want, even if they say no and you get points for it.

Devs from Alabama by any chance?



This gameplay is not even worth watching it's pretty boring since it's just the start of the game but it gives you an idea of how it works.




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I looked it up and it's a porn game and not a real video game. Steam already sells porn games that contains similar and worse things so why did this blow up?
I doubt anyone will actually care about this controversy because it's porn.
Edit: looks like the dev is pulling the game himself from steam.
 
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I finally got around to starting a playthrough of Terminator: Resistance.

I don't think I'm a huge amount in, but from what I've seen so far I'd give it like a 6.5 or a 7 on a scale where a 5 is a perfectly boring game, not good or bad.

The lip syncing sucks, the NPCs haven't pulled me in and I'm mashing skip on all conversations at this point. It's the kind of game where it really doesn't need XP/leveling, they could've just diagetically 'leveled up' your skills from story events, and it claims 'your choices matter' but like I said I'm not emotionally invested and the choices seem to mostly be between "Be reasonable" and "Be a prick senselessly" so that you can see a pop up that says "X appreciated/disliked that".

With all that said, actual moment-to-moment gameplay is alright and it feels A LOT like playing the ASHES series of Doom total conversions: Find junk for crafting, find secrets, do sidequests the NPCs at the hub area hand out.

It also sells the feeling of Post-Judgement-Day very well. I blew up a hospital full of nigh-indestructible T-800s and while sneaking away from the scene I was legitimately nervous when I saw an endless line of T-800s marching towards the building. A sidequest to photograph a huge T-47 mech thing freaked the shit out of me when the mech started jumping over ambulances and buildings I was using as cover, to speedily and effectively flank me.
It does a good job of making several terminator types so far feel very intimidating, although it can definitely feel like they're a bit TOO strong this early.

Like I said, actually pretty good 6.5 or 7 outta 10, it's not gonna blow your ass off but it's good if you really just wanna play something Terminator related, and I'm keen to finish the two story campaigns so I can try out the side mode that I think may be a "play as a Terminator Infiltrator" roguelikey thing.
 
I finally got around to starting a playthrough of Terminator: Resistance.

I don't think I'm a huge amount in, but from what I've seen so far I'd give it like a 6.5 or a 7 on a scale where a 5 is a perfectly boring game, not good or bad.

The lip syncing sucks, the NPCs haven't pulled me in and I'm mashing skip on all conversations at this point. It's the kind of game where it really doesn't need XP/leveling, they could've just diagetically 'leveled up' your skills from story events, and it claims 'your choices matter' but like I said I'm not emotionally invested and the choices seem to mostly be between "Be reasonable" and "Be a prick senselessly" so that you can see a pop up that says "X appreciated/disliked that".

With all that said, actual moment-to-moment gameplay is alright and it feels A LOT like playing the ASHES series of Doom total conversions: Find junk for crafting, find secrets, do sidequests the NPCs at the hub area hand out.

It also sells the feeling of Post-Judgement-Day very well. I blew up a hospital full of nigh-indestructible T-800s and while sneaking away from the scene I was legitimately nervous when I saw an endless line of T-800s marching towards the building. A sidequest to photograph a huge T-47 mech thing freaked the shit out of me when the mech started jumping over ambulances and buildings I was using as cover, to speedily and effectively flank me.
It does a good job of making several terminator types so far feel very intimidating, although it can definitely feel like they're a bit TOO strong this early.

Like I said, actually pretty good 6.5 or 7 outta 10, it's not gonna blow your ass off but it's good if you really just wanna play something Terminator related, and I'm keen to finish the two story campaigns so I can try out the side mode that I think may be a "play as a Terminator Infiltrator" roguelikey thing.
Make sure to pick up the Robocop game by the same studio.

Its Robocop/10
 
I bought it recently on sale. It's buggy but it's a solid Robocop game.
There are a few bugs yeah but I didn't run into any...uh...Ubisoft tier bugs where NPCs just straight broke.

And you can shoot badguys in the dick...
 
Finished my 100% run of AC Shadows and it ended in a wet fart at about 81 hours. The lip syncing broke in the final cutscene of Yasuke's story which made it very comical, and at the very end they throw in some breadcrumbs for the 2 people who liked the modern day storyline that made absolutely no sense to me - and that's after playing all of the games except for Mirage. 5/10 game, play it only if you enjoy the gameplay style of the open world ACs and can ignore the laughable premise and disjointed story.
 
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There are a few bugs yeah but I didn't run into any...uh...Ubisoft tier bugs where NPCs just straight broke.

And you can shoot badguys in the dick...
The consistent bug I get is during some cutscenes, Robo will duplicate in the scene over top of himself and it looks like he's warping reality since only one model is moving. And when the scene is done he's still there motionless.
 
The consistent bug I get is during some cutscenes, Robo will duplicate in the scene over top of himself and it looks like he's warping reality since only one model is moving. And when the scene is done he's still there motionless.
That is weird..I never had that when I played it.
 
Been un/installing games more often recently than usual. I really can't tell wtf I wanna play. MMOs haven't had a grip on me in years but it's all I think of currently because I know they're games I'll boot up instantly. I got indies I want to beat but lack the gamer juice to just do a few tomb raider levels before work or 3 hours of Going Medieval cause it pleases my eyes.

As if 8 levels in GW2, a game I won't play in the long term, is any better..
5/10 game, play it only if you enjoy the gameplay style of the open world ACs and can ignore the laughable premise and disjointed story.
Pretty well sums up my 'enjoyment' with modern AC games, granted Odyssey was fucking kino, colorful and upbeat. I'll get it on one of those infamous -80% Ubisoft sales in the future. I'd probably be better off getting sushi of tushimi in the meantime but it looks too soul esque for my taste.
I looked it up and it's a porn game and not a real video game. Steam already sells porn games that contains similar and worse things so why did this blow up?
Because we haven't moved past "THIS GAME LETS YOU KICK BABIES!" and then it's a 5 min flash game. It generates headlines in a boring climate, which is now, given it's all "fat tits", "korean fuckdoll" or "dustborn v39 just bombed".
 
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Pretty well sums up my 'enjoyment' with modern AC games, granted Odyssey was fucking kino, colorful and upbeat. I'll get it on one of those infamous -80% Ubisoft sales in the future. I'd probably be better off getting sushi of tushimi in the meantime but it looks too soul esque for my taste.
Ghost of Tsushima is very much not souls-like. I 100%'d it and suck at hard games. It's superior to AC Shadows in literally every way and I can't recommend it enough if you like open world games.
 
Finished Card-en-Ciel today, and was pleasantly surprised. It's my first roguelite/deckbuilder in a while and I always forget how much I enjoy this type of game. If you can get past all the anime stuff, which I know some people here hate, it's a solid game and the gameplay loop was quite addicting.
How's it compare to Mega Man Battle Network?
 
it annoys me to no end how most Developers for PvP games still do not understand the general population of a game doesnt want to play against sweaty kids and streamers, Bungie released their big Trials rework for Destiny 2 yesterday and the modes matchmaking is still god-awful despite changing how getting trials rep works, these streamers are pathetic losers who contribute nothing to video games other than informing the devs how unfun they want a game to be (also they contribute nothing to society in general but thats a discussion for another time)
Devs have clear numbers showing they do, that's the problem. It's also impossible to have a game compete with the giants without a progression system and skins since most people won't play more than 10 hours without some kind of carrot on a stick.
 
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