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Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Tenno I've sent you to venus for some much needed pipe cleaning. you need to pick up the case of exotic pleasures and deliver it to my quarters. The greneer are trying to break in so kill all 300 of them before you enter

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Caufman
May 7, 2007

Zzulu posted:

I'm at work but just google rule34 warframe

those are osme bigg butts for a warframe

Man, I thought you had something rarer than rule34.net

I'm going home. My orgasm is ruined, and not in the way I like!

Motherfucker
Jul 16, 2011

I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.
Dark Souls is way too fond of taking away player agency during combat and feels more like battling lovely controls than battling monsters.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)

Caufman posted:

Man, I thought you had something rarer than rule34.net

I'm going home. My orgasm is ruined, and not in the way I like!

I'm sorry senpai

I will try harder next time!!

*montage of me searching out the worst porns on the internet*

Caufman
May 7, 2007
Against my own gain, I'm going to tell you something, Zzulu-kun. Senpai will never notice you. Even if Senpai notices you, Senpai's attention will in some way ultimately cause you suffering. So notice yourself. And notice the greatest meaning of your truest self.

[After you leave, possibly saddened but definitely wizened, I sigh and return to my computer. It's another night of the same old bizarre non-dark web porn and shitposting.]

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

TheMostFrench posted:

Warframe has had pvp for at least a year or 2, it has 4 or 5 gametypes I think - A sports/rocket league style thing, deathmatch, CTF, domination/control point stuff, and a bounty mode (people on a kill streak are worth more points). Practically no one plays pvp though (like 1% of the player base last I read), and the pvp loot can't be used in pve.

I guess my unpopular opinion then, would be that i have 1000+ hours in warframe and think it's really good.

that's really sad that the pvp isn't popular, I don't find any challenge in doing pve stuff

a star war betamax
Sep 17, 2011

by Lowtax
Gary’s Answer
ZZT is better than Megazeux

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.

Chomp8645 posted:

Unironically there is more authenticity, character development, and just real human emotion in the quest "The Bloody Baron" alone than there is in most full video games.

And yet The Bloody Baron still has far less of those things than a good TV show, movie or book. I still think video games are the worst medium for telling a story and that they should stick to gameplay.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

maybe video games should just be textureless shapes in a void shooting at eachother and jumping on things

pure gameplay

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.

Caesar Saladin posted:

maybe video games should just be textureless shapes in a void shooting at eachother and jumping on things

pure gameplay

You're right, gameplay isn't the only thing that matters. Stuff like graphics, art style, setting, mood, etc. are also important. it's just depressing that some of the most popular and critically acclaimed games are games with "good" stories, but bad gameplay. I mean, if you like good stories there are plenty of them out there in other mediums. People are just turning games into barely interactive $60 movies. Oh, well.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

SNK's library is really overrated. Their only consistent strength was pixel art, and even then there were a lot of duds.

SpaceClown
Feb 13, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Caesar Saladin posted:

maybe video games should just be textureless shapes in a void shooting at eachother and jumping on things

pure gameplay

Video games shouldnt even have visual output. Play by sound alone.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

mystery fluid posted:

According to Steam, played 2 hours of Witcher 1. Geralt was lame and the combat was rear end. I hear neither of those things were fixed ever, so what I'm saying is gently caress the witcher games.

and if the setting was interesting at all, I'd just read the drat books

Agreed. Even the intro was painful to watch.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



witcher 1 is a good rpg hidden behind a terrible action game e: and it starts off real bad

anyone thinking about playing it, just play on easy and pinch your nose and know that it gets much better after the swamp in the third quest area

at least dice poker is way less irritating than gwent

poverty goat fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Jun 9, 2017

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

poverty goat posted:

witcher 1 is a good rpg hidden behind a terrible action game e: and it starts off real bad

anyone thinking about playing it, just play on easy and pinch your nose and know that it gets much better after the swamp in the third quest area

at least dice poker is way less irritating than gwent

Does it every stop smirking at you about how cool it's protagonist is?

Zorodius
Feb 11, 2007

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BUY IT.
Everything about Witcher 1 is absolutely terrible. The game has no redeeming qualities of any kind.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



VideoTapir posted:

Does it every stop smirking at you about how cool it's protagonist is?

geralt is extremely cool

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

Zorodius posted:

Everything about Witcher 1 is absolutely terrible. The game has no redeeming qualities of any kind.

signalnoise
Mar 7, 2008

i was told my old av was distracting
Baldur's Gate and the rest of the original infinity engine games have horrible gameplay and I would rather just watch movies of them but Let's Play videos are dumb as hell

WAY TO GO WAMPA!!
Oct 27, 2007

:slick: :slick: :slick: :slick:
I really don't get how people can actually justify playing a game that gets good after "X" hours.

Like, I get that you probably barely value your time by simply playing videogames in the first place, but I'm not dropping 10 hours on anything just on the promise that it gets better. That's ridiculous.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:

I really don't get how people can actually justify playing a game that gets good after "X" hours.

Like, I get that you probably barely value your time by simply playing videogames in the first place, but I'm not dropping 10 hours on anything just on the promise that it gets better. That's ridiculous.

Have you never read a book? They go on like that for days

Video games are a huge step forward

Space Crabs
Mar 10, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Anyone who says Dragon Age 1 wasn't boring, easy and dumb is a loving liar. I have literally nothing better to do with my time and still couldn't stand it.

Oh hey a final battle is coming? Let me go recruit some dwarves. Oh we are going to go through 40 hours of the dwarven elections, talking to 30 NPCs to convince them of who they should vote for while I run a fetch ques *snoring*

I returned it after I woke up but not before I completely broke the games combat, I was never in any danger and that scripted sequence when you get surrounded by 50 soldiers? I steamrolled them all without losing any health and had to give myself up to the invincible quest NPC because that was how the scripted cutscene progressed.

WAY TO GO WAMPA!!
Oct 27, 2007

:slick: :slick: :slick: :slick:

poverty goat posted:

Have you never read a book? They go on like that for days

Video games are a huge step forward
I only read cereal boxes and the backs of shampoo bottles

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

VideoTapir posted:

Does it every stop smirking at you about how cool it's protagonist is?
The games do a really bad job of showing it by making Geralt handsome as hell with the voice of a g-spot strummer--and I'm not saying "you need to read the books to get it"--but the books do a much better job of showing why Geralt's "coolness" is in-fact not that cool. He's a pseudo-gypsy Orkin man in a world of provincial, uneducated backwash, conditioned to only give a gently caress about his paycheck and similarly square peg friends and an immortal love interest who toys with him constantly. It's got all the bleakness and sexual hang-ups you'd expect from a lonely Eastern European man who grew up under the Soviet Union and didn't really get to creatively express himself until the Iron Curtain fell. If the games weren't so painfully in-love with a romantic medieval world as its foundation (because that makes for a stronger "twist" feeling to the player), he'd make a good salt on typical game protagonists like what they were going for in GTAV.

Blazing Ownager
Jun 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:

I really don't get how people can actually justify playing a game that gets good after "X" hours.

Like, I get that you probably barely value your time by simply playing videogames in the first place, but I'm not dropping 10 hours on anything just on the promise that it gets better. That's ridiculous.

Same reason you can sometimes give a TV show a shot after a lovely first season, sometimes it's worth it. That said there has to be a reasonable line. When I hear someone tell me a Final Fantasy game "gets good 40 hours in" I'm like "WHO THE gently caress CARES AT THAT POINT?"

But if it's like an hour or two, then sure. I hated the first hour of the first Deus Ex (Blasphemy, I know) because nothing seemed to make sense but then the whole game immediately turned around when you got to UNATCO. That's kind of where I put the acceptable line.

Blazing Ownager
Jun 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Trunko posted:

ZZT is better than Megazeux

I'd kickstarter the poo poo out of a ZZT revival

signalnoise
Mar 7, 2008

i was told my old av was distracting

mind the walrus posted:

The games do a really bad job of showing it by making Geralt handsome as hell with the voice of a g-spot strummer--and I'm not saying "you need to read the books to get it"--but the books do a much better job of showing why Geralt's "coolness" is in-fact not that cool. He's a pseudo-gypsy Orkin man in a world of provincial, uneducated backwash, conditioned to only give a gently caress about his paycheck and similarly square peg friends and an immortal love interest who toys with him constantly. It's got all the bleakness and sexual hang-ups you'd expect from a lonely Eastern European man who grew up under the Soviet Union and didn't really get to creatively express himself until the Iron Curtain fell. If the games weren't so painfully in-love with a romantic medieval world as its foundation (because that makes for a stronger "twist" feeling to the player), he'd make a good salt on typical game protagonists like what they were going for in GTAV.

The books are great, and the witchers are all oblivious and ignorant of everything that isn't part of their job. When Ciri was growing up Triss had to step in to remind them all that periods are a thing and there was a reason that Ciri didn't perform as well one week a month and looked like she was constantly in pain that whole time. Basically everyone who lived at kaer morhen is dumb

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax
i like how in grand theft auto you can go around and pop pop cap dudes in the dome haha

Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

What's the alternative to fetch quests in an RPG? People poo poo on it but I honestly don't think there's anything more to an RPG than variations on a fetch quest, interspersed by boss fights.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



There's an old Polish Witcher tv show and I only watched the first episode but it was all about vesimir taking kid geralt from his family and making him into a Witcher, which is to say it was a really long child abuse montage

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


Vegetable posted:

What's the alternative to fetch quests in an RPG? People poo poo on it but I honestly don't think there's anything more to an RPG than variations on a fetch quest, interspersed by boss fights.

Crafting quests, where you fetch different materials in order to create something and them bring it back to the NPC

WAY TO GO WAMPA!!
Oct 27, 2007

:slick: :slick: :slick: :slick:
• Kill 10 bandits
• Talk with all the NPC's
• Go to new area

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
I feel like this is only an unpopular goon opinion that most real people share but I am a huge Lore-Tard and an epic fantasy grognard but seriously I recommend everyone skip the switcher 1-2. The story is written such that w1-2 basically do nothing to contribute to the plot of W3 and all the best characters can be spawned just by saying that they are alive.

All you need to know about W1-2 is Geralt is like if the dude from Memento if he were also a highlander scientist exterminator. He fucks up monsters, he bwns as hard as he pwnz, and a constantly ripped dude who can't possibly get you syphilis or pregnant is honestly believably popular in this environment.

Zane
Nov 14, 2007
the old woman in w1 who constantly cockblocks you from shani and speaks nightmarishly translated polish-english is kind of good. I do remember that

edit: w1 is sort of good if you value the capacity for an artistic work to put you into heightened and exquisitely terrible affective states. if you have a fever or a head cold and play through all of the swamps in one sitting for example you can feel as though you are slowly being melted by demons and/or buried alive.

Zane fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Jun 9, 2017

signalnoise
Mar 7, 2008

i was told my old av was distracting

Vegetable posted:

What's the alternative to fetch quests in an RPG? People poo poo on it but I honestly don't think there's anything more to an RPG than variations on a fetch quest, interspersed by boss fights.

A lovely RPG I guess. There are games where you have to figure something out and follow leads and poo poo like that, with multiple ways to solve the problem. whoa

phasmid
Jan 16, 2015

Booty Shaker
SILENT MAJORITY
I have never played the witcher and because of its fans, I am probably never going to. Whenever people tell me a game is "deep" or "dark" I generally check out. And I have a good friend who loves the witcher and sincerely says "well, you won't get it if you don't read the books."

He is 33. How the gently caress can you find sword and sorcery poo poo deep at that age? That's like when you go to imdb and realize that the popularity of movies is based on what kids vote for. So good movies take a backseat to Iron Man.

gently caress the witcher and gently caress the people who play it.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

phasmid posted:

I have never played the witcher and because of its fans, I am probably never going to. Whenever people tell me a game is "deep" or "dark" I generally check out. And I have a good friend who loves the witcher and sincerely says "well, you won't get it if you don't read the books."

He is 33. How the gently caress can you find sword and sorcery poo poo deep at that age? That's like when you go to imdb and realize that the popularity of movies is based on what kids vote for. So good movies take a backseat to Iron Man.

gently caress the witcher and gently caress the people who play it.

lol

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

phasmid posted:

So good movies take a backseat to Iron Man.

Iron Man is a good movie

phasmid
Jan 16, 2015

Booty Shaker
SILENT MAJORITY

a bone to pick posted:

Iron Man is a good movie

It is not.

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Meme Emulator
Oct 4, 2000

The Dennis System posted:

And yet The Bloody Baron still has far less of those things than a good TV show, movie or book. I still think video games are the worst medium for telling a story and that they should stick to gameplay.

Video games can tell a good story but they need to do it thru the environment. Cutscenes are mostly garbage

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