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In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Grapplejack posted:

I mean, we've had plenty of examples of female leads and non white dude leads, it's just that games companies have become so incredibly risk-averse that things that would have flown back in the day suddenly don't anymore.

where is beyond good and evil 2 ubisoft you fucks

Do you actually want Ubisoft to make that game.

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Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

The Shortest Path posted:

Serious question, are any of these actually good or is it just dating sims and porn games? The only VNs I've played are FSN and Hatoful Boyfriend which I understand are not particularly representative of the rest of the genre.

Root Double and World End Economica are genuinely good and worth the $12 tier alone, and Highway Blossom is pretty cute if you're into yuri, no idea on the rest.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

In Training posted:

Do you actually want Ubisoft to make that game.

they couldn't gently caress it up that badly, could they?

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Ancel is on it at least but who knows what comes out

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

In Training posted:

Do you actually want Ubisoft to make that game.

Michel Ancel is good

Sam Faust
Feb 20, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qop-QfUeX50

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

thumbnail making the :chloe: face

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Help Im Alive posted:

Michel Ancel is good

Isn't he making his own game separately ?

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



The trade press in film industry has been able to report on film earnings with relative accuracy for over a century, yet video game sales numbers are still determined by black magic and Sean Spicer-levels of press obfuscation

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

The trade press in film industry has been able to report on film earnings with relative accuracy for over a century, yet video game sales numbers are still determined by black magic and Sean Spicer-levels of press obfuscation

That stuff is largely made up too.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
Mench'n-a-go-go-baby!

Some of these character designs do deserve a better game to be in honestly.

Give that Mushroom some sort of third-person action platformer to gallivant around in.

Edit: Actually wasn't there a game released like a decade ago starring tall and lanky mushrooms?

Sunning
Sep 14, 2011
Nintendo Guru

The Shortest Path posted:

I find it really bizarre that with all the amazing games to come out in 2017 like Persona 5, Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, the new Fire Emblem, etc., a lovely overhyped multiplayer shooter outsells all of them.


Serious question, are any of these actually good or is it just dating sims and porn games? The only VNs I've played are FSN and Hatoful Boyfriend which I understand are not particularly representative of the rest of the genre.

Wildlands is an open world co-op military shooter. That's the superhero movie of the videogame industry.

I see Wildlands as sort of a Dead Island type game where its genre and co-op gameplay made up for the lack of polish and middling reviews. When Techland followed up Dead Island with Dying Light, they experienced much greater and immediate commercial success.

Grapplejack posted:

they couldn't gently caress it up that badly, could they?

Back when it was revealed, Ancel said he wanted to try new things with the sequel rather than iterate on the first game. So we could end up with a Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts type of sequel if the game ever comes to fruition.

MechaSeinfeld
Jan 2, 2008



why are they still trying to push some awful 'totally in your face' attitude. like who's gonna think "woah these heroes are badass? gently caress every other game and their weeny heroes"

Randy Pitchford should collab with David Jaffe to make the worst game imaginable and then whine on twitter forever so they don't make anything else

LawfulWaffle
Mar 11, 2014

Well, that aligns with the vibes I was getting. Which was, like, "normal" kinda vibes.

Viewtiful Jew posted:

Some of these character designs do deserve a better game to be in honestly.

Give that Mushroom some sort of third-person action platformer to gallivant around in.

Edit: Actually wasn't there a game released like a decade ago starring tall and lanky mushrooms?

Maybe this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68CK8ivxjHk

LawfulWaffle fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Jun 7, 2017

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
Mench'n-a-go-go-baby!

Yeah that was the one I was thinking of thanks.

Looper
Mar 1, 2012

Sunning posted:

Back when it was revealed, Ancel said he wanted to try new things with the sequel rather than iterate on the first game. So we could end up with a Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts type of sequel if the game ever comes to fruition.

It'll be open world

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox

In Training posted:

Just watch the whole show it's not even that long

I mean, it's 21 45 minute episodes + an hour and a half premiere. That's not a small amount of my life. I'll probably end up just watching it all though.

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/871760466393038851

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




In Training posted:

Isn't he making his own game separately ?

Yes he half works for ubi and half not. Its weird. Hes also making ps4 exclusive Wild while making bge2

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



I always thought that Ubi made Far Cry Primal, a game where you play a prehistoric shamanistic warrior who bonds with animals and rides a bear, in order to undercut Wild, a game where you play a prehistoric shamanistic warrior who bonds with animals and rides a bear

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

Mordja posted:

Abort, abort!

Ometeotl posted:

Don't respond in earnest to a silly oddium post, that's how she absorbs people's essence!

Sorry, I wasn't sure what oddium was trying to say in that post is all. Not even in a "why do you think this" kind of way but in a "I don't understand this post" kind of way, sorry.

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

my posts have been compared to the works of ts eliot, and Thoreau. humbly, bravely, i agree

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
my posts have been compared to two different boxes of fridge poetry magnets shaken up with half of them stuck to each other

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


I've started reading the Awful Fantasy LP again

I'm... not sure why

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-y69ELWNyA&t=86s

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

Endorph posted:

http://gematsu.com/2017/04/persona-5-worldwide-shipments-top-1-5-million

persona 5 sold about 600-700k in japan. please account for the other 800ish k.

doubling your native sales globally sounds neat on paper but only really counts when you're a blockbuster movie working in nine or ten figures. with the astronomical price of top-shelf game development, yeah, it made money against its operational expenses, but if it was their only ip, they'd be in deep poo poo i bet

like statistically the population of the us is three times that of japan, and that's discounting canadian, australian, and european markets and yet they only sold around the same amount of copies abroad as they did in their home market

there's a good reason atlus casts a wide net as a publisher

Fur20 fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Jun 7, 2017

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

I'm having fun with Anno 1404. Are the other ones good?

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Jay Rust posted:

I'm having fun with Anno 1404. Are the other ones good?

Yeah. 2070 is much better than the bizarrely low Steam reviews suggest.

Looper
Mar 1, 2012

oddium posted:

my posts have been compared to the works of ts eliot, and Thoreau. humbly, bravely, i agree

i disagree, mostly because thoreau's an idiot

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

thoreau would load up lake maps in garry's mod and spawn in like just 100 watermelons

LawfulWaffle
Mar 11, 2014

Well, that aligns with the vibes I was getting. Which was, like, "normal" kinda vibes.
Thoreau would make a Rust LP where he made a big show of doing everything himself but later would be found to have used a modified private server in a revelation that many would compare to Man vs Wild

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

The White Dragon posted:

doubling your native sales globally sounds neat on paper but only really counts when you're a blockbuster movie working in nine or ten figures. with the astronomical price of top-shelf game development, yeah, it made money against its operational expenses, but if it was their only ip, they'd be in deep poo poo i bet

persona isn't an AAA game

DLC Inc
Jun 1, 2011

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

I always thought that Ubi made Far Cry Primal, a game where you play a prehistoric shamanistic warrior who bonds with animals and rides a bear, in order to undercut Wild, a game where you play a prehistoric shamanistic warrior who bonds with animals and rides a bear

Wild def looks way better and more fun than Primal so Ubisoft hosed up because an unreleased game still looks better than their poo poo. No idea if Wild is still in development so I hope we see it at E3 on the Sony stage.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
I finally got the community center built in stardew valley and I'm just... underwhelmed. That was a lot of effort for something that barely seems to have a positive impact.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Now you can obsessively optimize your farm for maximal profits/ideal appearance.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
Minecraft updated, and it's quite colorful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2dQuIIUT-o&hd=1

I like the wallpaper they made



colors~

Phantasium
Dec 27, 2012

Cowcaster posted:

my posts have most often been compared to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLKnCeeAW48

Phantasium fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Jun 7, 2017

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug

Phantasium posted:

drat that's just a rainbow, I was hoping it was a LGBTQ ally thing just as another way to tell notch to gently caress off.

What?

mutata
Mar 1, 2003

Notch is a terrible, insane person now.

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Phantasium
Dec 27, 2012


Maybe I'm following a tortured bit of logic, but I think it would be lovely if there was a named update to Minecraft explicitly embracing the LGBTQ community as I feel that would piss off notch?

I mean maybe notch in his making GBS threads the bed state has not actually come out against LGBTQ people but I've kind of walled that off in my mind as him being the type of shithead that would be bothered by something like that.

But it's just an update emphasizing having nicer colors.

Phantasium fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Jun 7, 2017

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