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Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

its weird that you interpreted that as actual porn to be jacked off to, its clearly just showing how Geralt is a badass that bangs chicks

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Jim Barris
Aug 13, 2009

Anime Store Adventure posted:

Yeah I am usually okay with either a character creator and a silent protagonist you can paint yourself onto or a written, set character. For some reason though that dude just doesn't hit me right and he feels worse than Autistic Batman from the new Deus Ex.

Is it wrong that the lovingly animated naked girl in the bath at the start immediately made me think "this game isn't for me" because my brain made the association that if it opens with jackoff bait, it's also horrible spergy poo poo?

That might not be fair to the game, but it's still an immediate mental association.

If seeing a naked lady makes you think of horrible spergy poo poo, well yes, that is a problem.

Anime Store Adventure
May 6, 2009


Jim Barris posted:

If seeing a naked lady makes you think of horrible spergy poo poo, well yes, that is a problem.

In a video game, yes. They didn't put it in because nerds love artful nudity. :rolleyes:


Caesar Saladin posted:

its weird that you interpreted that as actual porn to be jacked off to, its clearly just showing how Geralt is a badass that bangs chicks

I guess. It just felt really... dumb. I guess it felt like a teenaged boy telling me a story and saying "he's super cool and TOTALLY fucks hot naked chicks!"

Maybe I'm not articulating it right but essentially that scene felt contrived since I didn't play the previous games and didn't know the characters but hey here's a sexy naked body real quick.

Anime Store Adventure fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Jun 3, 2017

Jim Barris
Aug 13, 2009

Anime Store Adventure posted:

In a video game, yes. They didn't put it in because nerds love artful nudity. :rolleyes:
I don't get it. Personally, I like tits. It doesn't bother me if they throw some tits in a game, whatever man, I'm cool with it. Hell throw some butts in there too while you're at it.

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
if i see artful nudity, it becomes vulgar when i start masturbating to it.

Anime Store Adventure
May 6, 2009


Jim Barris posted:

I don't get it. Personally, I like tits. It doesn't bother me if they throw some tits in a game, whatever man, I'm cool with it. Hell throw some butts in there too while you're at it.

I don't begrudge you that, I think it was more the timing of the scene that bugged me? I don't know. I might be grasping at straws because didn't like the Witcher and it seems to be critically acclaimed. I can't put a finger on why I don't like it. It was both story and mechanically that I felt it failed. Nothing reached out and hooked me.

Jim Barris
Aug 13, 2009

Orkin Mang posted:

if i see artful nudity, it becomes vulgar when i start masturbating to it.
Yeah the same thing happens to the works of Egon Schiele when I crank one out to 'nude lying on her stomach'.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

i think the books are full of tits and stuff, it would be untrue to the material to leave out the tits, and also naked ladies are definitely part of fantasy books for a long time

witcher 3 does a pretty bearable job of presenting an adult relationship with his main woman Yennefer

Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

Yennefer is a hella stupid name

Anime Store Adventure
May 6, 2009


Caesar Saladin posted:

i think the books are full of tits and stuff, it would be untrue to the material to leave out the tits, and also naked ladies are definitely part of fantasy books for a long time

witcher 3 does a pretty bearable job of presenting an adult relationship with his main woman Yennefer

Alright so maybe I'm off base then. I just couldn't get into the poo poo. Maybe starting with the third instance of the series completely blind wasn't smart.

Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk

a bone to pick posted:

I have never finished a witcher game but I've played all 3.

I absolutely love the lore and the attention to detail, but the gameplay always sucks

Jim Barris
Aug 13, 2009

Anime Store Adventure posted:

Alright so maybe I'm off base then. I just couldn't get into the poo poo. Maybe starting with the third instance of the series completely blind wasn't smart.
Nah. You didn't like the game, man, and that is ok.

The Dennis System
Aug 4, 2014

Nothing in Jurassic World is natural, we have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth.

Vegetable posted:

Yennefer is a hella stupid name

She's hot so I don't care.

Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Jim Barris posted:

Yeah the same thing happens to the works of Egon Schiele when I crank one out to 'nude lying on her stomach'.

same but 1916self portrait

GIANT OUIJA BOARD
Aug 22, 2011

177 Years of Your Dick
All
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Stop
Kojima makes lousy video games which get lost entirely up their own assholes.

Number_6
Jul 23, 2006

BAN ALL GAS GUZZLERS

(except for mine)
Pillbug
Flight sims got too complicated and up their own rear end, trying to simulate every radar sub-mode and MFD button press of the real thing. We need flight sims that capture the excitement and general tactics of flying and air combat without forcing the player to memorize 42 steps just to target an enemy and get a missile to come off the rail.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Counter Strike sucks a lot.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

WRPG: A game with no anime bullshit and usually based on European Medieval Fantasy

CRPG: A really spergy western RPG

JRPG: Full of loving anime bullshit

ARPG: diablo or diablo clones that break your mouse

Game with RPG elements: All of them

ERPG: janky and broken

RRPG: Russian Rocket Propelled Grenade

SRPG: Sexual Role Playing

The Jumpoff
May 4, 2011
Your dad's in the Russian Mafia, that's the jumpoff!

mystery fluid posted:

There's no mention of Call of Pripyat in your post which is a shameful omission.


my current unpopular opinion is that the fog and sandstorms in bf1 look cool and cut down on snipers, which makes them A+ in my book

Will seond the BF1 opinion. But now let me talk about how much i love Call of Pripyat. I played the base game for 80 hours in the first two weeks it came out. One of my biggest "well, gently caress" moments was losing my save file that was 100% completed that had every single weapon in the game and every armor set you could get since you could only side with either Duty or Freedom.

Unpopular opinion time: i love sniping in BF1 because with the Martini Henry i feel i can actually contribute to capping the objectives.

The Dennis System
Aug 4, 2014

Nothing in Jurassic World is natural, we have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth.
The Steam in game fps counter is ludicrously small.

Space Camp fuckup
Aug 2, 2003

Number_6 posted:

Flight sims got too complicated and up their own rear end, trying to simulate every radar sub-mode and MFD button press of the real thing. We need flight sims that capture the excitement and general tactics of flying and air combat without forcing the player to memorize 42 steps just to target an enemy and get a missile to come off the rail.

You might like War Thunder

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

mind the walrus posted:

Counter Strike sucks a lot.

Counter Strike is fun on a LAN, if you play less realistic maps.

The Dennis System
Aug 4, 2014

Nothing in Jurassic World is natural, we have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth.
Deus Ex: MD gameplay = find a vent, crawl to the checkpoint.

TheMostFrench
Jul 12, 2009

Stop for me, it's the claw!



This is what CS is meant to be - loving around on rats with too loud music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6YHTGvHU50

Anime Store Adventure
May 6, 2009


TheMostFrench posted:

This is what CS is meant to be - loving around on rats with too loud music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6YHTGvHU50

poo poo I almost forgot about Rats maps and while i didn't jump into CS until source they were still the best.

I also really enjoyed surf maps.

I remember when GO came out as this weird competitive 5v5 with a marketplace and I was so insanely confused because I was like "Where are Rats/Surf/16v16 and a bunch of weird rear end custom maps?" I'm sure they still exist but I was literally amazed that CS wasn't focused on the bizarre mishmash of fun random poo poo I played in 2007.

I refer to my earlier point of "once people can monetize games it ruins everything" since now I have to know 'calls' and 'don't peek' and all this dumb poo poo as well as some dumb meta about when or how to buy things. I'm sure that has existed forever but boo to that, let me press B... A? To buy the standard M4 kit and then sprint around hoping I get kills in 16v16 chaos mode.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
What are calls and don't peek?

Man, all this talk of crazy game modes makes me want to fire up Sven coop. Or maybe see if anyone is playing brain bread.

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Feb 11, 2007

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I never understood the point of Counterstrike. It's the most generic shooter possible, but you buy stuff between rounds? And everyone plays the same map a billion times? What's the appeal?

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

nigga crab pollock posted:

hahaha

when i first played overwatch i hated it and i called my friends retards for telling me it was a good game but it grew on me significantly and i have like 80 hours in the game, purely because genji.

the movement abilities and skillset of genji in overwatch is the best innovation in the first person shooter made since quake 3. you might just say 'uh dude he's literally the scout, literally just the scout except without a shotgun' but he doesn't just double jump he can climb up walls about thirty feet into the air and vault over obstacles and ledges and both of those things are just passive abilities with no cooldown. paired with his cooldown dash you basically never have to touch the ground. it's the most satisfying and entertaining movement set i've ever played in any game and it gives you such a ridiculous degree of freedom and verticality it's really really fun

i guess the hard counters are kind of lame but its not like there arent other fun characters. im a big fan of THE vulcan cannon robot that people are still dumb enough to try and play chicken against

overwatch didn't invent poo poo, you could do all that stuff in Quake 1 Future vs Fantasy mod

spudsbuckley
Aug 29, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

(and can't post for 5 years!)

Zorodius posted:

I never understood the point of Counterstrike. It's the most generic shooter possible, but you buy stuff between rounds? And everyone plays the same map a billion times? What's the appeal?

It's supposed to be tactical and whatnot and it is great fun to play with a group of friends.

Also, the "gun-feel" is awesome and the standard maps are all really good.

ishikabibble
Jan 21, 2012

Anime Store Adventure posted:

I don't begrudge you that, I think it was more the timing of the scene that bugged me? I don't know. I might be grasping at straws because didn't like the Witcher and it seems to be critically acclaimed. I can't put a finger on why I don't like it. It was both story and mechanically that I felt it failed. Nothing reached out and hooked me.

It's entirely legitimate to be bothered by a videogame shoving unrelated tits in your face and it's entirely fair to say 'hey yeah maybe don't do that'. Especially for a series where the first entry had literal pinup trading cards for every woman Geralt could sleep with.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Zorodius posted:

I never understood the point of Counterstrike. It's the most generic shooter possible, but you buy stuff between rounds? And everyone plays the same map a billion times? What's the appeal?

It wasn't quite so generic when it came out.

Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk

Counter strike was fun because it was a big change of pace from other shooters at the time. During that era you had stuff like Unreal Tournament and Quake III being the "normal" type of shooter so a tactical "realistic" shooter with real guns was neat.

It also had a very different pace to other shooters as well. Unreal and Quake being super fast shooters where you spam rockets everywhere while Counter-strike was more about looking around corners carefully, sniping or ambushing people.

The fact that you only got 1 life and then had to wait for the next round was also huge and changed the pacing of the game massively. The new weapon loadout system was one of the earliest "progression" based equipment systems in FPS games.

Also, it had huge community support and you could download thousands of skins, models, guns and maps for the game to change everything up if you wanted to

Counter-Strike was brilliant for its time and is the reason that realistic shooters became the new norm for the entire genre

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



counterstrike afaik is the only shooter where you can spraypaint goatse on the wall

Tallgeese
May 11, 2008

MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR


nigga crab pollock posted:

the movement abilities and skillset of genji in overwatch is the best innovation in the first person shooter made since quake 3. you might just say 'uh dude he's literally the scout, literally just the scout except without a shotgun' but he doesn't just double jump he can climb up walls about thirty feet into the air and vault over obstacles and ledges and both of those things are just passive abilities with no cooldown. paired with his cooldown dash you basically never have to touch the ground. it's the most satisfying and entertaining movement set i've ever played in any game and it gives you such a ridiculous degree of freedom and verticality it's really really fun

You want the greatest movement set in any game?

Look up Age of Wushu. I will never understand how that happened in an MMO.

Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk

poverty goat posted:

counterstrike afaik is the only shooter where you can spraypaint goatse on the wall


No you could do that in Team Fortress 2 as well

lots of porn sprays to be had

phasmid
Jan 16, 2015

Booty Shaker
SILENT MAJORITY

Fartbox posted:

No you could do that in Team Fortress 2 as well

Okay, but we can agree that both games and their fans are bad, right?

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth
My personal sincerely held but unpopular video game opinion: Designing ships in space 4x games is stupid and shouldn't be a thing.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

poverty goat posted:

counterstrike afaik is the only shooter where you can spraypaint goatse on the wall

Well that and every other game on the same engines.

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nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:

Kojima makes lousy video games which get lost entirely up their own assholes.

if you follow them up that rear end in a top hat i think you'll find some surprisingly good games metal gear solid 1 is a true classic

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