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I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

No one is going to give a poo poo about Battlefield or Call of Duty this year. Everyone is playing Fortnite until Red Dead Redemption 2 comes out.

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homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Doorknob Slobber posted:

battlefield games are still doing poo poo in multiplayer no other games are really even trying so its not like they have any competition
the new battlefield sounds kinda nuts in that regard, but also very unlike previous battlefields. building emplacements and towing them around with vehicles, repairable buildings, shits crazy

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

glam rock hamhock posted:

I mean, only a loving idiot would consider putting a black guy or a woman on the cover controversial

Have you met Gamers?

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

I said come in! posted:

No one is going to give a poo poo about Battlefield or Call of Duty this year. Everyone is playing Fortnite until Red Dead Redemption 2 comes out.

This isn't true these games still sell in the millions

codenameFANGIO
May 4, 2012

What are you even booing here?

chumbler posted:

Have you met Gamers?

I try not to

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

chumbler posted:

Have you met Gamers?

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

~🚚special delivery~📦

quote:

Please bear in mind that leaving this content uncensored would result in the game being banned and us, Madmind Studio, being sued. That would simply lead to the studio being closed. Obviously, we don’t want this to happen and we hope that you understand it.

:thunk:

I have to wonder if this is some hype bullshit or if we now have the video game equivalent to A Serbian Film on our hands now.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Honestly no idea what they could put in that would result in them getting sued as well as the game being banned.

I mean I do but..

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

~🚚special delivery~📦
Genital physics and exploding children heads are in the PEGI approved list, so who the hell knows.

Game still doesn’t look as interesting as Scorn does anyway.

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

trying to hype people up for their game that is by all accounts total garbage

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Sakurazuka posted:

Honestly no idea what they could put in that would result in them getting sued as well as the game being banned.

I mean I do but..

Revenge porn

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Consensus seems to be that they have investors who could correctly cite breach of contract if they willingly let themselves be refused classification or banned in certain territories.

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

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Steve2911 posted:

Consensus seems to be that they have investors who could correctly cite breach of contract if they willingly let themselves be refused classification or banned in certain territories.

That makes more sense. Shame for the investors then, that’s probably the only chance they’d have had of getting anything out of this pile. :v:

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

Where do you even find investors for your demon rape game

axelblaze
Oct 18, 2006

Congratulations The One Concern!!!

You're addicted to Ivory!!

and...oh my...could you please...
oh my...

Grimey Drawer

Help Im Alive posted:

Where do you even find investors for your demon rape game

chumbler posted:

Have you met Gamers?

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Help Im Alive posted:

Where do you even find investors for your demon rape game
hmm... not big on rape but tell me more about the genital physics

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

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

I do noy understand why/how Path of Exile and Warframe are free. They are stupidly good, my god.

See, I started Warframe today and !? It is a good shooter/runner/ninja-er.

Sunning
Sep 14, 2011
Nintendo Guru

I said come in! posted:

No one is going to give a poo poo about Battlefield or Call of Duty this year. Everyone is playing Fortnite until Red Dead Redemption 2 comes out.

Not if PUBG can help it.



Help Im Alive posted:

Where do you even find investors for your demon rape game

Poland

Fun Fact: Many veteran Polish game developers first got into game development by making schlocky indie games with extreme violence and sex. Michał Madej, the lead designer for the Witcher, was known in the local industry for making a controversial Jagged Alliance/Fallout clone with rampant sex, violence, and drug use.



StrixNebulosa posted:

I do noy understand why/how Path of Exile and Warframe are free. They are stupidly good, my god.

See, I started Warframe today and !? It is a good shooter/runner/ninja-er.

It's 2018. F2P games have strong business models/investors, can attract good talent, and focus on creating a strong support base of core fans who buy high margin microtransactions.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



StrixNebulosa posted:

I do noy understand why/how Path of Exile and Warframe are free. They are stupidly good, my god.

See, I started Warframe today and !? It is a good shooter/runner/ninja-er.

PoE microtransactions are crazy expensive and their fans are loyal as hell (or at least they were when I played a few years ago).

It's definitely the shining example of a game made on a modest budget that manages to be free, extremely good and lacking in any sort of gameplay altering purchases (again, last I played). Puts a whole lot of other devs to shame.

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused
People talking about Tales games made me go back and listen to more Symphonia songs and I forgot how much I liked some of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IW9PfusRd0

I just wish my memories of this music wasn't accompanied by the characters all doing stupid poo poo.


This is interesting to me because it blatantly obvious that Fortnite copied PUBG but like, PUBG didn't invent this genre. They just popularized it and made devs realize they could cash in hard on it. Plus with how much games already borrow from one another I don't see them having much of a legal leg to stand on.

StrixNebulosa posted:

I do noy understand why/how Path of Exile and Warframe are free. They are stupidly good, my god.

See, I started Warframe today and !? It is a good shooter/runner/ninja-er.

Microtransactions make more money than regular business models now because they prey on people that will plunk thousands of dollars into the game without a second thought. It doesn't matter if your game is free when some players are spending more money than you would get from dozens of traditional sales. Also I dunno how those games handle their microtransactions but a lot of them use predatory business tactics that are akin to gambling but without any form of regulation.

Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 23:16 on May 28, 2018

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
i'd remember tales of symphonia's music more fondly if it didn't have two battle themes that get insanely tedious to listen to, which is kind of a problem with all of sakuraba's tales soundtracks other than eternia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Es6Ic8cR9E

it really makes me sad go shiina didn't compose more for the series after legendia because he's a lot better at composing battle music that doesn't drill itself into your head too harshly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpkV3MHdQmo

The Colonel fucked around with this message at 23:18 on May 28, 2018

Samuringa
Mar 27, 2017

Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.

how come this 8-bit has such a sorrowful writing, is this an actual game released during that era or something retro?

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

Samuringa posted:

how come this 8-bit has such a sorrowful writing, is this an actual game released during that era or something retro?

it's bloodstained: curse of the moon

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused
Its weird to me that so many games can only have one general battle song when Earthbound figured out it was better to have a bunch back in 1994.

Hell I wouldn't be surprised if there were games that came before Earthbound that had a bunch of battle songs.

Samuringa posted:

how come this 8-bit has such a sorrowful writing, is this an actual game released during that era or something retro?

Its Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon and it came out literally this month. Its supposed to be a retro game reminiscent of the old Castlevania titles to promote Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which is gonna be a modern Castlevania spiritual successor.

Apparently its really good if you like retro platformers but my classic platforming skills are on par with a drunken cow most of the time.

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

Internet Kraken posted:

This is interesting to me because it blatantly obvious that Fortnite copied PUBG but like, PUBG didn't invent this genre. They just popularized it and made devs realize they could cash in hard on it. Plus with how much games already borrow from one another I don't see them having much of a legal leg to stand on.


It's going to be weird as hell if Bluehole suing Epic over Fortnite becomes the thing a fair amount of people remember when PUBG is brought up years from now. Instead of the actual game itself, or rather the zeitgeist around everyone playing the game during the second half 2017, instead they'll remember that Fortnite overtook it almost every aspect and the devs responded by taking Epic to court.

If it like actually happens and this ends up going through the system.

Samuringa
Mar 27, 2017

Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.

The Colonel posted:

it's bloodstained: curse of the moon

Oh, that makes more sense. It was already on my wishlist but that makes it stand out more.

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

Internet Kraken posted:

Its weird to me that so many games can only have one general battle song when Earthbound figured out it was better to have a bunch back in 1994.

Hell I wouldn't be surprised if there were games that came before Earthbound that had a bunch of battle songs.

earthbound's battle system is really slow and it has a high encounter rate so it kind of needs a lot of variety to keep it interesting, vs more ps1 and beyond-era stuff expecting battles to mostly last less than a minute and throw less at you than older jrpgs in general so composing a bunch of music would feel like wasted effort

i think the best in-between is just music that pumps you up, but doesn't go in super mega hard. trails games are kind of the ideal example, every trails game has a generic battle theme that starts off very soft and if the battle goes on for like a minute or so it builds into something heavier before calming back down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-azjB3lsUTU

while imo one of the worse examples would be tales of xillia's battle theme, which skips the build-up entirely and tries to kick right into action and the result is that you don't have any time to get the melody or like. anything. and you hear that opening so many times that it just kind of melts together and stops feeling like a song and starts feeling like some unintelligible noise. sakuraba's tales soundtracks have this issue in general but xillia is the worst because it's just impossible to grasp any kind of progression in any of its music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DclRB1rlKac

the alternative to that imo is like, chrono trigger where the battle song is fine but because you run through fights so quickly and it throws so many at you and it has such a short loop it just kind of hammers the first five notes into your head repeatedly and you never get a feel for it as an actual song

Sunning
Sep 14, 2011
Nintendo Guru

Internet Kraken posted:

This is interesting to me because it blatantly obvious that Fortnite copied PUBG but like, PUBG didn't invent this genre. They just popularized it and made devs realize they could cash in hard on it. Plus with how much games already borrow from one another I don't see them having much of a legal leg to stand on.

Brendan Greene/PlayUnknown is a licensor of the Battle Royale game mode. Sony Online Entertainment/Daybreak approached him to establishing a licensing agreement with H1Z1. So there is some legal precedence.

Samuringa
Mar 27, 2017

Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.
is there anything PC people won't break apart

https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1001229175687139328

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
my favorite example of a game entirely not understanding the best way to use its music is sonic unleashed having some really cool stage music that constantly gets overridden by an obnoxious battle theme that someone decided should open the most loud, repetitive way possible, resulting in it being literally the only track anybody remembers from the game because it's the only one you ever actually get to hear and every time you hear it it just bashes its way into your ear drums

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

The Colonel posted:

my favorite example of a game entirely not understanding the best way to use its music is sonic unleashed having some really cool stage music that constantly gets overridden by an obnoxious battle theme that someone decided should open the most loud, repetitive way possible, resulting in it being literally the only track anybody remembers from the game because it's the only one you ever actually get to hear and every time you hear it it just bashes its way into your ear drums

Everytime the Incredibles theme starts playing in Incredibles 2 I'm gonna be thinking that the Werehog is just around the corner.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Before I do an effortpost is there a thread for old games with coop campaigns? Things like Syndicate (2012) or Dead Space 3

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Samuringa posted:

is there anything PC people won't break apart

https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1001229175687139328

drat that's fuckin rad I was cheering for trevor to smash that car up the entire time

al-azad
May 28, 2009



Grandia has the best battle music because it’s like 30 seconds of getting you pumped and if the fight goes beyond that it’s sick guitar solos until you beat it.

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

Internet Kraken posted:

This is interesting to me because it blatantly obvious that Fortnite copied PUBG but like, PUBG didn't invent this genre. They just popularized it and made devs realize they could cash in hard on it. Plus with how much games already borrow from one another I don't see them having much of a legal leg to stand on.

you're right, reverse engineering gameplay concepts is not illegal... but i do want to see pubg slink away with their tail between their legs for ever :unsmigghh:

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
i love the wild arms 1 and 2 soundtracks but they also kind of have the issue of opening WAY TOO LOUD

so i really appreciate how fuckin slow and tense the wild arms 3 battle theme is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ1a6gMjrpc

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
During my inter patch hiatus in ffxiv I never really had any desire to come back and I thought maybe I wasn't on a break but had actually quit and when the next patch hit I'd play for a day and then confirm that I was quitting for good. But playing again is like coming home to a comfy bed and I forgot how much I liked this game

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

The Colonel posted:

my favorite example of a game entirely not understanding the best way to use its music is sonic unleashed having some really cool stage music that constantly gets overridden by an obnoxious battle theme that someone decided should open the most loud, repetitive way possible, resulting in it being literally the only track anybody remembers from the game because it's the only one you ever actually get to hear and every time you hear it it just bashes its way into your ear drums

i didn't play sonic unleashed but the only track i remember from it is Rooftop Run and that song is good. that's my story op

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homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

its like the time capcom sued data east because they made a bad sf2 ripoff, except the opposite

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