SelenicMartian posted:

Blue On Blue posted:

You're right aside from the 'is actually really good' part for Death Stranding

It looks like the most boring thing to play, and i really enjoyed farming simulator and truck simulator.

It's basically being described as a walking simulator interspersed with long rear end cut scenes

Mind you everything is really pretty and done well, so it at least succeeded at that

Sum Mors posted:

Any huge embarrassments i've missed at CitCon or otherwise?

Kikas posted:

E: taxxe, straight from my garden

SelenicMartian posted:

Bumble He posted:

pacific palisades? next to chris' mansion?
(dont worry i do not want you to self-dox)

Kikas posted:

Wrong continent.

SelenicMartian posted:

Zaphod42 posted:

I'm with y'all. I think Kojima gets credit for what a lot of other people working under him do, unsung heroes who go "gently caress, he wants us to do WHAT? and we have HOW LONG? Okay, guess I won't go home this weekend..." and jam out the code needed to make his insane game concepts a reality.

He's got some really creepy and cliche attitudes but somehow gets a pass from almost every gamer, to the point where many of them worship at the altar of Kojima-san. Its like some weird meme that somehow everybody embraced and became reality, added with Geoff Keighley fawning all over him has built up this mystique that he's an amazing auture and I don't buy it.

Death Stranding looks like a cool movie with some short stealth & shooting sections we've done in MGS games a million times, plus some other gameplay that seems half-baked and real boring.

Kojima is Japanese Molyneux. But that's still loads better than being Chris Roberts. If Kojima makes a movie (and apparently he may) it'll probably have some cringey stuff but it won't be "space bulldozer pushes girlfriend's spaceship off the poop deck" bad.

SelenicMartian posted:

Iceclaw posted:

A lot of them are, at their core, pc master race-ers. So console stuff aren't really games to them.

Saladin Rising posted:

Quite a few of the Star Citizen backers are also older dudes who probably haven't played games since the late 90's/early 2000's. So of course they're impressed with Star Citizen, they'd be impressed with any game that came out after 2010. I say this because in a way, I almost fall into that category. I think I've posted this before, but I was amazed with the graphics on Portal 2 and Borderlands when I played them last year. I was similarly amazed with Breath of the Wild played largely in handheld mode, but that one is a more universally acclaimed game. When the games you're most familiar with are 15 years old, anything vaguely modern looks impressive.


The secret is, fun matters more than graphics. Splatoon is cartoony, unrealistic, and fun as gently caress, as is Mario Odyssey. Breath of the Wild looks slightly more realistic, but still has you climbing giant towers and jumping off them with a handheld paraglider. Civilization 5 looks semi-realistic, but let me tell you about the 1800 year permanent war between the Communist Zulus and the Fascist Babyonians, which ended when the Zulus dropped nukes on 3 Babyonian cities and destroyed 12 Babyonian Giant Death Robots while Zulu X-Com squads captured the burned, radioactive husks of those cities. Oh, and Poland launched a starship to Alpha Centari in 1600's.

Semi-tangential, but I have spent less than $500 on all of the above fun, and $300 of that was buying a Switch. I'm still boggled at how much money Citizens can piss away on absolutely nothing; I only got a Switch and Breath of the Wild when I was super, super sure that buying it was worthwhile for the fun and gameplay I'd get back. Meanwhile Citizens will spend $500 on a JPG when they could have bought 7 or 8 games and played them for hundreds of hours and had way more fun.

SelenicMartian posted:

QA
QA started learning the subsumption visualizer to better ebug cinematic cutscenes and player-NPC interactions. They began creating new cinematic-focused test suites that will help them check cutscenes are playing correctly in the editor. Testing of the game’s various wild lines continued and documentation was made to explain how these cutscenes should be tested going forward. Further improvements to usables went into game-dev, which will be tested to ensure the correct animations are being used and that the AI is using them appropriately. These new usables will eventually be added to the PU, where they will become part of the team’s regular social AI testing.

"The Narrative Team continued its progress on tackling the in-game text"

Kikas posted:

What I loving joke. I love it.


E: taxxe, straight from my garden

Dynastocles posted:

Over-under on how many of them are dummy accounts? Something about "Wow, years later and I am still amazed every day, I can't wait for Star Citizen to be released and then to enjoy it!" - type comments make me think Russian bot farm more than organic engagement.

Bofast posted:

I think you might be overestimating how many people respect Kojima instead of just viewing him as weird but sort of interesting/amusing. Even fans of the MGS series that I know seem to be rather split on the more recent games.

Bofast posted:

It's not exactly weird to be amazed with Breath of the Wild when it (framerate issues aside) largely managed to recapture that sense of danger, magic and wonder that the first 5 or so Zelda games had. I suspect it was probably made largely by younger devs who grew up wanting to replicate that NES/SNES era magic, though it could just have been a fortunate combination of circumstances.

Hav posted:

You should get on that Virginia Creeper, it's a pain in the arse once established.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Would you rather be blowing up churches and deporting civilians like the Global Defense Initiative?! *spits*

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Yes, but also, good art design is always more important than pure fidelity. All 3 of these games are beautiful in their own right because of distinct, well-realized art styles. They're also timeless - look at how well Wind Waker held up, especially in it's HD remake.

Bofast posted:

I think you might be overestimating how many people respect Kojima instead of just viewing him as weird but sort of interesting/amusing. Even fans of the MGS series that I know seem to be rather split on the more recent games.

his nibs posted:

this thread needs moma

Megalobster posted:

Kojima's games are just more "interactive" versions of David's Cage "games" when you look at it carefully. I'm taking the piss but he's genuinely one of the most overrated "Game designers" out there, and MGS is probably the most overrated Japanese AAA franchise.

The best MGS game is Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, because it had actual gameplay, had no 30 minutes long cringe cutscenes, Kojima wasn't involved, and was dev'd by a studio that makes actual games instead of boring 10 minutes long """""""""stealth"""""""" gameplay sessions that are just breaks for the godawful cutscenes.

quote:

-Once ship is destroyed the Bounties body is floating in space
-Accidentally fly your Defender into the Bounty's Body
-Body Clips through your ship and gets stuck on the instrument pannel of your cockpit.

Zaphod42 posted:

Yeah, but there's soooo many people who legit lose their poo poo over him.

Like Norman Reedus himself was just talking about Kojima, and he's literally said "I met this guy Kojima, he hung out at my house, he seems like a nice and normal guy. Then we go outside and people fall over and start crying when they see him, and I'm like, whoa, who is this guy Kojima?"

For Norman Reedus, himself a TV star, to have that reaction about a celebrity, they have to have a massive, fanatical following.

I mean you have to imagine Reedus himself has a ton of fangirls, right? What would it take for him to be like "holy poo poo these guys are huge fans of Kojima" ?? There's definitely something unique about Kojima among gamers compared to basically any other game developer I can think of. I'm really struggling to think of anybody who commands the same clout and fanatical devotion that he does.

I think you may be underestimating it.

Fidelitious posted:

I played all the MGS games via that MGS HD Collection on PS3 a couple years ago, that being the first time I had ever played one. Followed it up with MGS4 and 5.

As a review of Kojima, I don't remember a loving thing about most of the story as it was all weird conspiracy nonsense. The gameplay was fairly solid throughout although I imagine it was more interesting on its initial release than it was when I ended up playing it. MGS5 was a fairly big departure but I quite liked that one.

In the end, nothing particularly outstanding about them but solid. Maybe if he had made less weird-rear end storylines I would have cared to remember what was going on.

his nibs posted:

this thread needs moma

Zaphod42 posted:

Yeah, but there's soooo many people who legit lose their poo poo over him.

Like Norman Reedus himself was just talking about Kojima, and he's literally said "I met this guy Kojima, he hung out at my house, he seems like a nice and normal guy. Then we go outside and people fall over and start crying when they see him, and I'm like, whoa, who is this guy Kojima?"

For Norman Reedus, himself a TV star, to have that reaction about a celebrity, they have to have a massive, fanatical following.

I mean you have to imagine Reedus himself has a ton of fangirls, right? What would it take for him to be like "holy poo poo these guys are huge fans of Kojima" ?? There's definitely something unique about Kojima among gamers compared to basically any other game developer I can think of. I'm really struggling to think of anybody who commands the same clout and fanatical devotion that he does.

I think you may be underestimating it.

Thom12255 posted:

Just a matter of building the house (of a 100 systems).