|
Which Nintendo character would you like to see in the next Soul Calibur game? This poll is closed. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowsette |
|
99 | 8.48% |
| Other |
|
53 | 4.54% |
| jenna got milked |
|
1015 | 86.98% |
| Total: | 1167 votes | ||
|
Grapplejack posted:Not really, unless you think video games are actual poison and you don't trust children or their parents to be able to handle themselves. i don't trust children or their parents to be able to handle themselves and also am myself firsthand evidence the brain rot that occurs from playing too many videogames as a child
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:14
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 29, 2024 00:10 |
|
|
Cowcaster posted:anyone old enough to have used the tape cassettes for loading games they were a bit before my time and also mainly a europe thing i think Yep, had an MSX compatible Spectravideo computer before the Amigas as well, and a plastic bag full of c-tapes with about 20 games on each. You'd have to wind the tape at the correct spot and actually type crazy commands like "load 'cas:', 8, 1" to make the thing go. I don't remember the MSX stuff being that popular though, like there were much more Commodore 64s and NES' around.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:15
|
|
|
Cowcaster posted:anyone old enough to have used the tape cassettes for loading games they were a bit before my time and also mainly a europe thing i think i never properly "used" one like owning one cos yeah, before my time, but ive used a tape system we had lying around and its actually painful
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:17
|
|
|
Get loving hosed Blizzard. KARMA! 
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:17
|
|
|
how does that gently caress blizzard exactly
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:18
|
|
|
oh no people still buy their games and pay for the sub and its the same price but now blizzard have less load on their servers haha take that!!!! eat your lowered cost of operations for no impact on your income!!!!
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:19
|
|
|
magnetic tape is a good format for some things but gaming is not one of them
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:19
|
|
|
Stux posted:oh no people still buy their games and pay for the sub and its the same price but now blizzard have less load on their servers haha take that!!!! eat your lowered cost of operations for no impact on your income!!!! it's actually bad for Blizzard to be in a cooperative relationship with the Chinese government, a market that every US tech and software firm desperately wants in on
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:19
|
|
|
Obra Dinn was a profoundly enjoyable experience but I can't help but feel some of the awe and sense of satasifaction was lost on me simply by how much of it I felt I could brute force. The number of deaths that were just 'well I feel I know 2/3 of these, I'm just going to cycle through every name until it clicks' was fairly frequent. Still every single time you clicked something and it shot back to black and hit you with that Success jingle was one of the best feelings ever.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:20
|
|
|
exquisite tea posted:Not sure how I feel about this latest Beatles mashup. This comment needs some respect. It probably went over a lot of peoples heads, though.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:22
|
|
|
I think the brute-force thing was unfortunate but a byproduct of the 3-at-a-time thing which was probably necessary for the game to not feel overwhelming. But yeah, like, I didn't get the "trick" with the Chinese sailors and had to brute-force the ones which weren't otherwise obvious, for instance. This guide is how you're "supposed" to identify everyone, by the way (obvious spoilers0 https://gameplay.tips/guides/3292-return-of-the-obra-dinn.html
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:22
|
|
|
StoryTime posted:I had an Amiga 500 and later an Amiga 1200 with a Blizzard 030 turbo with 4MB of extra RAM. They were pretty cool machines, although all ports of action games sucked on them because of the 1 button joystick. My friend had the Amiga port of Street Fighter 2 😬
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:22
|
|
|
The Walrus posted:Welp over the weekend I gave The Witcher 3 another try. I really was not a huge fan at all the first time I played. I didn't like Geralt, the world seemed overly confusing and not well explained, and the controls and battle system I both hated. I didn't like the witcher sense and how all the quests seemed to be 'follow the glowy bits' what if i dislike cd project red and don't want to give them any money?
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:23
|
|
|
Nate RFB posted:Obra Dinn was a profoundly enjoyable experience but I can't help but feel some of the awe and sense of satasifaction was lost on me simply by how much of it I felt I could brute force. The number of deaths that were just 'well I feel I know 2/3 of these, I'm just going to cycle through every name until it clicks' was fairly frequent. Still every single time you clicked something and it shot back to black and hit you with that Success jingle was one of the best feelings ever. I haven't done that yet, but I can totally see how the game can be abused in that fashion. Especially when one has eliminated a lot of possibilities.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:23
|
|
|
Sakurazuka posted:My friend had the Amiga port of Street Fighter 2 😬 I had Mortal Kombat II. The graphics for fatalities were on a separate diskette.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:24
|
|
|
Sakurazuka posted:My friend had the Amiga port of Street Fighter 2 😬 I only recently found out that there was a PC-Engine SF2 port which was apparently loving amazing, and was never released in the US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hToclCtLN1k
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:24
|
|
|
Looper posted:what if i dislike cd project red and don't want to give them any money? Russian key reseller/used disc on eBay
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:24
|
|
|
i think the other interesting thing is that the pc gaming stuff never really died in europe even after consoles took off. feels like int he US pc gaming only really became a major thing relatively recently while there was always pc games alongside consoles when i was growing up
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:24
|
|
|
StoryTime posted:I had Mortal Kombat II. The graphics for fatalities were on a separate diskette. Lol
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:25
|
|
|
Stux posted:i never properly "used" one like owning one cos yeah, before my time, but ive used a tape system we had lying around and its actually painful before my time as well but I had like 1 friend that had a system sitting around remember praying for it to actually successfully complete the tape load so we didn't have to start it over this was one of the things we used to try to play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedlam_(1982_video_game)
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:25
|
|
|
There was a time in the mid-2000s where PC gaming looked pretty grim, but the rise of digital distribution and the latest console generation essentially being PCs anyway have made it stronger than ever.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:31
|
|
|
Monkey Fracas posted:before my time as well but I had like 1 friend that had a system sitting around "The game is text only. Players move through the asylum by typing simple instructions using a verb-noun command such as, "go north" or "get the key". There are NPCs such as Houdini and Picasso that can be either helpful or an obstacle." this is the most unnervingly compelling description of a video game i've seen in a long time
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:33
|
|
Hey fun fact, the top loading deck of the NES was a completely cosmetic function added to the design to make it resemble the then-current technology of VCRs to set it apart from the atari, which still had a negative reputation due to the video game crash.Grapplejack posted:Not really, unless you think video games are actual poison and you don't trust children or their parents to be able to handle themselves. I am in favor of any policy that curbs the predatory practices of big corporations. Video games aren't poison but skinner boxed multi million dollar online experiences absolutely are, and they know it.
|
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:35
|
|
|
I can't think of a moment where PC gaming looked even close to dead in the US unless the roughly semi-annual "is PC Gaming Dying" articles on GameSpy et al count.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:37
|
|
|
Cowcaster posted:didn't they announce they're remaking seiken densetsu 3 and slapping it out there Kind of but not really. What I mean is they absolutely announced a remake and it's coming in April at full price, but unlike the last two remakes they've been given a budget and time so it's not just a phone port and actually looks really well done. This in addition to finally porting the Switch collection with a new localization of SD3 with it.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:38
|
|
|
exquisite tea posted:There was a time in the mid-2000s where PC gaming looked pretty grim, but the rise of digital distribution and the latest console generation essentially being PCs anyway have made it stronger than ever. ah yeah the era of the radeon 9000 series pumping out top end performance for peanuts while the dual core athlons did the same to the cpu space after intels p4s draining everyones wallets just to overheat while games like hl2 came out. truly a dark era for pc gaming. also theyre not essentially PCs, they just use x86 instruction set cpus. on an apu. with very low clock speeds and significant gpu compute to compensate. and unified memory running gddr5. and low level APIs which have zero translation to PCs.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:39
|
|
|
i think it was a two-pronged fork being stuck in there of the genre of point-and-click-adventure games that were born from the tradition of the PC dominating text-adventure games gasping their last suppurating breath and the rise of the console wars both happening across the 90's that was the major driving force behind "pc gaming is dead!"
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:40
|
|
|
the darkest period for PC gaming in the US? the release of Doom 3!!!! honk honk
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:40
|
|
|
Feels Villeneuve posted:I can't think of a moment where PC gaming looked even close to dead in the US unless the roughly semi-annual "is PC Gaming Dying" articles on GameSpy et al count. I remember PC gaming from 2002-2007 as being a wasteland where nobody was developing for PC if it wasn't an FPS or MMO, digital distribution wasn't widespread so indie games hadn't really taken off yet, Japan had largely given up on the market, and console ports were scarce.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:41
|
|
|
the first PC game I played was this bike game called elasto mania in like 2002 which was the only game installed on the computers at the internet cafe thing that opened near my house when I was a kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Dz6Wtm1Go the lady who ran the place was very cool and would give me urls for websites with java games
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:43
|
|
|
exquisite tea posted:I remember PC gaming from 2002-2007 as being a wasteland where nobody was developing for PC if it wasn't an FPS or MMO, digital distribution wasn't widespread so indie games hadn't really taken off yet, Japan had largely given up on the market, and console ports were scarce. didn't PC gaming Japan until pretty recently have a reputation for being like all porno games or whatever like if you said you were into PC gaming people would think you were some kinda pervert
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:44
|
|
|
I survived this era by playing approximately 5 million hours of WoW and Quake 3 Arena.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:45
|
|
|
exquisite tea posted:I survived this era by playing approximately 5 million hours of WoW and Quake 3 Arena. 
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:47
|
|
|
exquisite tea posted:I remember PC gaming from 2002-2007 as being a wasteland where nobody was developing for PC if it wasn't an FPS or MMO, digital distribution wasn't widespread so indie games hadn't really taken off yet, Japan had largely given up on the market, and console ports were scarce. agreed its not like people like bioware were releasing stuff like nwn1 or kotor in that period. didnt have wc3 and frozen throne. morrowind and oblivion. dawn of war and coh 1. rise of nations. total war. evil genius. psychonauts. civ 4. the sims 2. defcon.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:49
|
|
|
I feel like there was a ton of creative development for PCs initially, then that energy moved to consoles as they got more popular, and now its kind of evenly distributed.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:53
|
|
|
There were multiple genres that for many years just only existed on PC or had very few console entries. 4x, RTS, FPS, whatever genre you can things like roller coaster tycoon. I don't buy the claim that PC gaming was ever dead in the US unless it so long ago it was before I was playing games yet.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:57
|
|
|
The actual worst period was probably in the lovely ports era, which was mainly some high-profile PC franchises getting developed for console and being compromised on PCs due to bad ports or console limitations, see: Deus Ex 2
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 18:58
|
|
|
Feels Villeneuve posted:The actual worst period was probably in the lovely ports era, which was mainly some high-profile PC franchises getting developed for console and being compromised on PCs due to bad ports or console limitations, see: Deus Ex 2 2002-2007 is that era!!
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 19:03
|
|
|
people, including devs at the time, liked to blame that stuff on consoles but i dont agree it was the case and it was just t he devs being dumb. deus ex 1 on ps2 just adjusted things from the pc release to work and was a good port. the biggest issues with deus ex 2 are nothing to do with hardware limitations but just bad design.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 19:09
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 29, 2024 00:10 |
|
|
also for every deus ex 2 there was a half life 2. every single era in history has both good and bad games from both established and new franchises. the mid 2000s produced some of the best PC RPGs ever as well as genre defining FPS and RTS games. to call it a bad era is just bizarre
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2020 19:11
|
|