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The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

homeless snail posted:

my most anticipated western game of 2018 is wattam by keita takahashi (he lives in san francisco now so hes officially a western game developer thats the law)

wattam ftw

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chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Darksiders 3 is a western game that I am excited for.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001





Ty jesus

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon
Glorious

A Bag of Milk
Jul 3, 2007

I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Mak0rz posted:

Hollow Knight's final boss is unbelievably lovely and bad. Jesus Christ.

What's the problem? I like everything about that guy, from the style, the intro, to the mix of platforming and combat.

DisDisDis
Dec 22, 2013

rear end posted:

Have some respect for Game of the Year 2017.

I was gonna post "I liked [videogame thats not nier from 2017] too" to clown you but I can't think of a single game from 2017 i liked or played

DisDisDis
Dec 22, 2013
Anyway the bit where your handler cries on the phone with you about getting rejected by a girl is GOTY 2017

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Gossiping about how the commander is actually a total slob was also good.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

I'm looking forward to Spider-Man because I like Spider-Man

My phone autocorrected the name

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009
What is the definition of western games anyway, is it just "everything not made in asia" or is it specificially "anything made in north america" or is it "any game made primarily for english-speaking countries" or what

Like, is there a "central games" made up of europe? Is Australia grouped in with the west? Is it entirely just an "Asian/not Asian" binary thing?

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
games from 2017 I liked more than Nier Automata:

Danganronpa V3
Tales of Berseria
Fire Emblem Heroes
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Persona 5
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood
Fire Emblem Warriors
Super Mario Odessey

2017 was a good year for videogames

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

FirstAidKite posted:

What is the definition of western games anyway, is it just "everything not made in asia" or is it specificially "anything made in north america" or is it "any game made primarily for english-speaking countries" or what

Like, is there a "central games" made up of europe? Is Australia grouped in with the west? Is it entirely just an "Asian/not Asian" binary thing?

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

Okay but I don't understand how a picture of goatse answers my question

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

FirstAidKite posted:

What is the definition of western games anyway, is it just "everything not made in asia" or is it specificially "anything made in north america" or is it "any game made primarily for english-speaking countries" or what

Like, is there a "central games" made up of europe? Is Australia grouped in with the west? Is it entirely just an "Asian/not Asian" binary thing?
its the same definition as used everywhere else, any place dominated by the descendants of western european colonialists is culturally western. its not totally a monolith, different places definitely have their own perspectives on things, but by and large their views aren't gonna diverge that much compared to places outside of the western sphere.

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

A Bag of Milk posted:

What's the problem? I like everything about that guy, from the style, the intro, to the mix of platforming and combat.

It's that.

It could actually be fun if its attacks didn't do two masks of damage. Oh well.

Ms. Unsmiley
Feb 13, 2012

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

My Evo priority watch list:

1. Tekken 7
2. Soul Calibur VI
3. Puyo Puyo Tetris
4. Catherine
5. Windjammers
6. Smash 4 (I think I'm going to play Ultimate)
7. DBFZ (It's the most popular but I can't follow it at all and the matches are way too long)
8. Street Fighter V (sue me it still gets hype at Evo)

If anyone locates a Mario Tennis Aces stream that goes to number 2/3 instantly though

i'm looking forward to tekken 7, the soul calibur 6 and smash ultimate exhibitions, guilty gear, unist, bbtag, akatsuki blitzkampf, and maybe some of the other side tournaments if i remember to watch the vods. i'm working nights tomorrow and saturday so sunday top 8s are all i'll get to watch live

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon

FirstAidKite posted:

Okay but I don't understand how a picture of goatse answers my question

One way to view it is that modern civilization was born in the triangle with vertices in modern day Greece, Ethiopia, and Iran. Ancient humans emigrated from that region to populate the Earth. West of that region is "the west." East of that region is "the east." Granted, that's an interpretation based on my own upbringing. "West" has interchangeably referred to the countries of the western hemisphere, the NATO allies during the cold war, and any nation not part of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia (minus Russia and countries that were once part of the Soviet Union). This somehow counts Australia. As one can imagine, politics and racism play into various definitions.

Accordion Man
Nov 7, 2012


Buglord
I can alo understand being leery of TLOU 2 because I'm really getting the feeling that they're going to just fridge Ellie's girlfriend.

Also I'll also echo to play Masquerada, it is very good.

Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Aug 3, 2018

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon

Accordion Man posted:

I can alo understand being leery of TLOU 2 because I'm really getting the feeling that they're going to fridge Ellie's girlfriend.

I'd place my bet on the character dying but kidnapping is a possibility since the rescue of a romantic interest is such a universal game story convention.

al-azad
May 28, 2009



Accordion Man posted:

I can alo understand being leery of TLOU 2 because I'm really getting the feeling that they're going to just fridge Ellie's girlfriend.

Also I'll also echo to play Masquerada, it is very good.

I don't think they would do that twice and in the shadow of Lost Legacy.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

bloodychill posted:

One way to view it is that modern civilization was born in the triangle with vertices in modern day Greece, Ethiopia, and Iran. Ancient humans emigrated from that region to populate the Earth. West of that region is "the west." East of that region is "the east." Granted, that's an interpretation based on my own upbringing. "West" has interchangeably referred to the countries of the western hemisphere, the NATO allies during the cold war, and any nation not part of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia (minus Russia and countries that were once part of the Soviet Union). This somehow counts Australia. As one can imagine, politics and racism play into various definitions.

I was just making a joke about goatkcd

Hopper
Dec 28, 2004

BOOING! BOOING!
Grimey Drawer

bloodychill posted:

One way to view it is that modern civilization was born in the triangle with vertices in modern day Greece, Ethiopia, and Iran. Ancient humans emigrated from that region to populate the Earth. West of that region is "the west." East of that region is "the east." Granted, that's an interpretation based on my own upbringing. "West" has interchangeably referred to the countries of the western hemisphere, the NATO allies during the cold war, and any nation not part of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia (minus Russia and countries that were once part of the Soviet Union). This somehow counts Australia. As one can imagine, politics and racism play into various definitions.

The short answer is "Murrica isn't the center of the World"

Ometeotl
Feb 13, 2012



It's MISSEL! Or SISSLE!
I confused myself...



bloodychill posted:

In a less orientalist way maybe

lmao gently caress off

less laughter
May 7, 2012

Accelerock & Roll

bloodychill posted:

This somehow counts Australia.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Hopper posted:

The short answer is "Murrica isn't the center of the World"

Whoa hold up.


What?

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

chumbler posted:

Whoa hold up.


What?
this is the part where someone ironically posts a T-O map and starts talking about how they only play games from the antipodes

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

I’ve identified why Valkyrie Profile dungeons are good, despite not having the greatest music ever or being all that interesting to move around in: no random encounters!! And they’re over in half an hour!!

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Jay Rust posted:

I’ve identified why Valkyrie Profile dungeons are good, despite not having the greatest music ever or being all that interesting to move around in: no random encounters!! And they’re over in half an hour!!

what are you standards for music and interesting RPG movement if VP doesn't meet them

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Compared to other PS1 JRPGs I’ve played (which are basically just Final Fantasies) the tunes aren’t super memorable. And I’m playing on tablet, the controls are uhh not precise, but besides that the dungeons so far are either just corridors or just ladders everywhere

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
one of the game modes in mr. driller: drill land is a tower of druaga homage dungeon crawl thing. the opening is mr. driller's girlfriend/rival seeing that you need two people, one to be the princess and the other to be the knight, so she grabs mr. driller into it with her



you then control her digging deep down into an underground dungeon to rescue mr. driller dressed up as a princess

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Jay Rust posted:

Compared to other PS1 JRPGs I’ve played (which are basically just Final Fantasies) the tunes aren’t super memorable. And I’m playing on tablet, the controls are uhh not precise, but besides that the dungeons so far are either just corridors or just ladders everywhere

I guess the amount of platforming probably ramps up over time I don't really remember the early dungeons very well

I will fight you on the music though

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
also the bad guys of drill land are just the evil scientist disguised as a flashy theme park producer, and his cronies are now just his disgruntled, underpaid theme park staff. this game loving owns

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Post your fave VP tracks, I’m happy to be wrong

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Jay Rust posted:

Post your fave VP tracks, I’m happy to be wrong

geez there's too many

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KzFm_d2wk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVg1sqc7uHo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgtYdkLHdUc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G64A2sfyts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WACT478ehho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXE1JiW4Fp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfRi0Ln4UWc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJQy48G0kU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mErfg2Bv0yQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co_gXsOS25E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMoMPwtbKm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLjc17yLLVc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAQkt3C68Ws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwU62o3W-_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9wx_BEpc_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXtBWcPO_8M

It's all very Sakuraba. He basically just has one soundtrack in him which he just makes over and over. One other thing I noticed flipping through that is none of the songs go more than two minutes before looping

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmsV0RosOV4

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
i think sakuraba's stuff on the ps1 and some on the ps2 was pretty solid, his ps1 tracks are a lot more atmospheric but some of his ps2 battle themes are genuinely just solid little action beats.

it's his ps3 stuff onwards where he either does dark souls or complete discordant mess

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
The VP1 and Golden Sun soundtrack sound really similar

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

cheetah7071 posted:

The VP1 and Golden Sun soundtrack sound really similar

yes but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBHVhDLoRx0

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

None of those are bad, in fact they’re pretty good, I just wouldn’t listen to them on their own

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Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Star Ocean V has a good and very PS1 Sakuraba sounding soundtrack, shame about the rest of it.

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