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Are videogames for children?

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EmpGulcasa said:
I was interested in the original Brigador because of the setting and art style but the game itself kicked my ass and I imagine this will do the same.
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Much less based on vehicle combat if you can believe it, game is hard but the AI is kind of retarded because I assume it's in an early state. The campaign "demo" is extremely short and only gives a taste of the wider game, the scavenger mode is great fun, stealing supplies and living out the insurgent terrorist fantasy they're selling with the sequel is really fun. Even if you struggled I still highly recommend you give it a shot.
 
The discourse around that Mixtape game is so fucking annoying.

"Who are you to decide what is and isn't a game? Isn't art subjective?"

Yes it is, but at certain point you're telling me a frog is an elephant and that's both objectively wrong and insulting to my intelligence.
 
Anyone here tried the new game Motorslice? I bought it since I had sort of followed the development, but I have been too busy to try it. Looks like a mix of Mirror's Edge, Shadow of the Colossus, and Nier Automata. Seems like it has positive reviews but was just curious if anyone had tried it.

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Remember, they did everything right, too. James Bond is already playing second fiddle to diversity recasts of the rest of the cast AND I'm pretty sure he has a black female handler to remind the player every few minutes that you can't risk white men getting uppity or forgetting their place.

Everything right and they still have to die. Amazing that people still aren't learning the lesson of what it means to be an "ally" with the left.
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It's funny, isn't it? Even when they make the White male indulgence fantasy directly antithetical to White men, it still isn't enough. It shows that you just shouldn't even try to placate them to begin with.
 
Jace on ice said:
"Who are you to decide what is and isn't a game? Isn't art subjective?"
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This is probably the worst fucking thing that managed to poison any discourse about video games. Sick and tired of this bullshit. Games are first and foremost products and need to be evaluated as such. Reviews are not think pieces or even worse opinions, they are meant to objectively evaluate if a game works as intended or not. And since this simple notion somehow got lost we have been blessed for years with broken games left and right. But its art so it's okay if its doesn't work, just a statement about how bad capitalism is or some other insane babble.

There are of course other metrics that make up games, and they can transcend just being mere products, but this is the cherry on top not the baseline.
 
i've been playing a lot of noita recently and the whole alchemy part of it is pissing me off. am i supposed to just dump all my potions into a pit to see what happens? hard to get to that point when the odds of me getting something that can heal myself are already really fucking low
it's still fun but holy fuck i hate getting noita'd
 
Jace on ice said:
The discourse around that Mixtape game is so fucking annoying.

"Who are you to decide what is and isn't a game? Isn't art subjective?"

Yes it is, but at certain point you're telling me a frog is an elephant and that's both objectively wrong and insulting to my intelligence.
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I'm so tired of the bullshit "video games are art". They are expensive toys.
(Broteam clip so expect it to be loud)

 
Been trying to play Farever, and I'm getting the network issues I expected out of an online game. It's a good bit of fun when it works properly, but thanks to Gumbloodwallman it apparently got picked up by, like, an additional ten thousand people. Devs say they only expected 5k at most, so shit is going down constantly and there are huge rollbacks (inconsistent. I had my character roll back an hour or so, but some streamers apparently had their level 20s rolled back to the starting zone lmao).
The perfect block system is fun when the networking is working, but that's not particularly common right now.
 
So, I recently found out that my dad had (for some reason) kept the 360 I had given him and my mom years ago to play a bunch of free card and board games they enjoyed that I had installed on it. Among the small pile of games he still had on disc was one I haven't thought of in years. Eternal Sonata. A lesser know, but still fantastic RPG that I remember buying almost at random due to the fact that it involved one of my favorite composers. I brought the old machine home, managed to hook it up, and god damn this game is as great as the day I first played it.

The story is great, the combat is fun, the mechanics have some unique features to them that makes the game stand out. And since it is a lesser known game, there aren't a billion guides online so I am having to figure this out on the fly from scratch. It reminds me of when I was a kid 30 years ago playing RPGs with no clue what I was doing and having a blast. I dont care about fucking up a fight, or missing some random objective that gives me the OH EM GEE BEST ARMOR IN THE GAME. I accept my fate, and just keep chugging along knowing I can win, but it won't be retard easy.

God I miss gaming like this. Now, when a game comes out you already have 200 walkthroughs to look at or 20 'every achievement first playthrough' videos on day 1. For us older gamers, there was a real sense of accomplishment when we beat a game. Maybe our strategy was bad, maybe our team build was dogshit, or our gear woefully under par. But when that final boss went down, we loved it all the same and knew damn well we had earned it. People now expect the easy route of others planning everything out in front of them so they never have to think or figure things out for themselves.

Man gaming isn't what it used to be. I need to smoke a cigg after that marathon session.
 
Norms Abused Liver said:
Now, when a game comes out you already have 200 walkthroughs to look at
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And not a single good one...it's always some bloated bullshit. Just give a map and markers pointing out items of interest.

Jace on ice said:
The discourse around that Mixtape game is so fucking annoying.
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Mixtape looks like shit, probably has barely any interactive parts, and looks like it's some sort of gay zoomer's idea of what the 1990s were like, but how woke is it?
 
Been finally getting around to using the Steam Deck I got earlier this year a bit more and honestly I'm really impressed with it.

It can handle PS4/Xbox One era stuff handily and will surprisingly run newer stuff well on low to medium settings most of the time. It excels for newer indie games, pretty much the ideal way to play them.

Using it to stream Gamepass stuff works fairly well after a bit of fiddling around but the real standout is using Chiaki to play your PS5 games on it. It works better than the PS Portal and it's free.

Apparently it can emulate the Switch as well but I haven't tried that yet because I already have a Switch so it seems a bit pointless to play games from that platform on another handheld.

I'll probably get the Steam Machine or whatever the fuck they are going to call it if it isn't a crazy price because the Deck has proven to me that a Linux based platform can actually work really well for gaming.
 
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