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Are videogames for children?

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Retarded Weeb said:
I think more people who want to talk about JRPGs - especially in a way that presents yourself as authoritative like a youtube video - should play the old Wizardry games. They were the primary inspiration for the first generation of JRPG developers, and it's very enlightening to see the mechanics and tropes JRPGs commonly used in their original form. Things that might seem strange in old JRPGs become instantly understandable when you see where they cribbed from without having copied other interlocking mechanics. People will say things about Japanese developers taking inspiration from old Western RPGs and then JRPGs and WRPGs diverging from each other later, but there's a glaring blind spot in how clearly none of these people actually know anything about the games they diverged from.
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The PS2 Wizardy is also very much worth checking out.

It’s a bit more structured than some of the other entries, but it’s pretty awesome to play a Wizardry with a strongly-integrated story.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
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Sadly they are not dangerous Nintendogs-clones. Imagine how fun that would be. "jesus christ one of them fucking bit me again, where's the anti-venom for... what kind of snake was it? Quick! To the snake compendium, there's only five minutes until my character dies and this run is wiped!"
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I didn't know those were real, they look like parodies.

(oh they came out in America as Discovery Kids: Snake Safari & Spider Quest)
 
hog cranking frog said:
Is this anything like Subspace Continuum? I still lament that this style of game isn't done much. Have an old notebook somewhere full of ideas for a MMO top down space shooter like Subspace.
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It was a multiplayer 2d top down battlefield-esque in SPACE!!!! and it was fucking kino or at least it was when i was very young I just had a random flash of playing this and loving it.
 
I had been playing Deus Ex: Invisible War on my laptop, then switched to my destkop. GOG Galaxy asked me if the cloud saves were the authoritative ones or the desktop, so I told it cloud annnnnd it deleted all of them except the first one. So I went back to my laptop, told GOG Galaxy that the laptop was authoritative...and it downloaded the lone cloud save and deleted my laptop save.

Oh well, the game kind of sucked anyway.
 
clickbait said:

This game looks incredible imo.

Is thief playable on win11?
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I played one of the older Thief games and they were kinda boring. The stealth genre in general is hit or miss.

Also, that newer game you linked looks like it just rips everything that the Thief games already did. Those games need modern innovation, not new graphics and levels. They're kinda lacking in gameplay.
 
hog cranking frog said:
Is this anything like Subspace Continuum? I still lament that this style of game isn't done much. Have an old notebook somewhere full of ideas for a MMO top down space shooter like Subspace.
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Subspace Continuum was fun! Making me all nostalgic and misty eyed over here.

I love top-sown EV-esque games, and it pains me there are so few decent modern ones. I picked up Star Valor on steam a few months ago, but its...disappointing. Feels very hollow and empty after a while.

Starcom: Nexus and Starcom: Unknown Space were very enjoyable, though. Gave me mad vibes like Star Control 2 or Starflight. I fucking adored Starflight 1/2 back in the day. I even bought the official-then-unofficial third Starflight game Protostar: War on the Frontier.
 
Currently playing the shit out of Hollywood Animal. Enjoy the part of creating movies, finding ways to make them profitable and a brief fictionalized summary of Hollywood's history from the 1930s to the 1950s. (The second part ain't done yet)

Found it interesting that there was a segment where ze Germans decided to try and make a relationship with the player's studio. Seemed innocuous at first.

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Happy relationship after cooperation. And then I learned the happy trick of sending Hollywood stars for vacation there for Nazi gold.

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Then this guy shows up and wants me to fire ze Jews. Unfortunately, have no idea how to make that happen so next best thing is just to rob em and run.

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As a misc note, the swastika is not fully shown in this game. Just parts of it.

The game is strangely addicting. Making movies and doing Hollywood politics is fun as fuck.
 
Imam Shamil said:
I played one of the older Thief games and they were kinda boring. The stealth genre in general is hit or miss.

Also, that newer game you linked looks like it just rips everything that the Thief games already did. Those games need modern innovation, not new graphics and levels. They're kinda lacking in gameplay.
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No game needs modern anything, games have only gotten worse in the last 15 years with very few standouts. Stealth games have been incredibly dumbed down to nothing more than sound and line of sight, every game has that weird ramp up to be seen mechanic, complex ai behaviors have been completely stripped out of the equation. While so many games have stealth these days they're a small underdeveloped part of a larger whole with the only dedicated big budget stealth game being Hitman.
 
I looked back and I spent $42.04 on 8 steam games in 2025. I played those 8 games for a total of 21.97 Hours.
Is $1.91/hour good?
 
Imam Shamil said:
I played one of the older Thief games and they were kinda boring.
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They (first three games) are considered as some of the most atmospheric games ever made, did you play Thief (2014) 🤨
Last month they released Thief VR slop where you play as a woman, total feminization of everything.
Imam Shamil said:
modern innovation
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They pretty much perfected stealth, there is not really much you can innovate on. Maybe try out Mark of the Ninja or the Splinter Cell games.


So 2026, will Star Citizen: Squadron 42 be released this year 😹
 
cocainePRESIDENT said:
guys what games are you playing
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I finally ran through Subnautica, pretty good. I never grabbed Below Zero, though, and I'm not really looking to, reading about it. Just glad to knock another game off my backlog.

Otherwise, Autism simulators, lately. Sailwind, Stormworks, and Railroader, primarily. I'll probably pick up Following Seas, too. A little bit of Captain of Industry, and I pirated Republic of Pirates, and I'll probably grab a legit copy soon, as I seem to be enjoying it.

Winter is the only time life is slow enough to have good gaming sessions. I'm kind of itching to replay some stuff. Like maybe the Metro series, since I haven't played to DLCs for Exodus, yet. I've got the Redux versions of the first 2 in giveaways, but I haven't played them "redux'd" yet, so I'm tempted.
 
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