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Doctor J Off
Dec 28, 2005

There Is

fridge corn posted:

Whether it's bioware or anime, the whole trend of ppl being very open about wanting to have sex with video game characters is just weird and problematic imo

Bioware games receive widespread acclaim before the last few games, and as creepy as Fire Emblem or Persona can get at least there's actual good RPG content to play in them

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Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

fridge corn posted:

Whether it's bioware or anime, the whole trend of ppl being very open about wanting to have sex with video game characters is just weird and problematic imo

Horny is the future, OP.


Buckle up because it's only gonna intensify!

Doctor J Off
Dec 28, 2005

There Is
super hornio brothers came out like 30 years ago so this isn't even new

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

Worst thing about Horniness in video games is that they have a bunch of sexualized people and then a few child-looking characters who the internet refers to as “cute” and that just seems like a dog whistle to me.

JollyBoyJohn
Feb 13, 2019

For Real!
Fire Emblem and Persona are at least cool enough games, I've played bits of some of them and while they have never clicked enough for me to see them to the end I can see the appeal and what they do well. Persona 5 in particular had an amazing battle system and incredible presentation but the overall story just didn't do anything for me and I petered out 40 hours in.

There are a lot of weirder out there ones that seemed strange to me though - Xenosaga, Ys, Disgaea, .hack, Megami Tensei, SaGa, that kind of thing. They seemed out there even for anime games.

Floodixor
Aug 22, 2003

Forums Electronic MusiciaBRRRIIINGYIPYIPYIPYIP
XCOM 2

Thanks thread, I'm gonna buy Frostpunk now and get sad

The Breakfast Sampler
Jan 1, 2006


JollyBoyJohn posted:

Fire Emblem and Persona are at least cool enough games, I've played bits of some of them and while they have never clicked enough for me to see them to the end I can see the appeal and what they do well. Persona 5 in particular had an amazing battle system and incredible presentation but the overall story just didn't do anything for me and I petered out 40 hours in.

There are a lot of weirder out there ones that seemed strange to me though - Xenosaga, Ys, Disgaea, .hack, Megami Tensei, SaGa, that kind of thing. They seemed out there even for anime games.

I've liked what I've played of Persona but I've never finished one (I think I picked up 2-4.) They just all overstay their welcome for me, more than 40 hours in a game is a big ask for me these days.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

fridge corn posted:

Whether it's bioware or anime, the whole trend of ppl being very open about wanting to have sex with video game characters is just weird and problematic imo

This is based.

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









!Klams posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0-0JvV-m3E

Watched this trailer today for The Riftmaker, and it's essentially Crimsonland meets Diablo via Starcraft 2 Custom maps.

Like none of the gameplay is new, but it looks really fun, watching that trailer, I want to be playing it myself. And it made me think, how when I was younger there were all these awesome games on the SNES and Atari ST that I thought, "Imagine how cool this would be in the future when you could do X with it!". Those games actually were cool and good, but they never really got updated in the ways I imagined, they only really got better graphics and more of the same.

I suppose what I'm thinking is like the way Peter Molyneux would say "Every character has a life with goals and ambitions that they're trying to fulfill and you can influence them" type stuff, just really outrageous nonsense, that actually nowadays is totally plausible.

Like imagine a game that was like Fallout 1 or 2, except no world map, no random encounters, just a living breathing city about the size of Orgrimmar where literally every character actually did have a life, a narrative, that you could interact with. I guess I'm picturing like a modern Hitman level, but instead of it being a stealth assassin game (you could have segments of that, but where failure state isn't that everyone goes immediately hostile) it's an RPG. Maybe make it a PI detective game, where you can choose to take on any number of crimes at various different levels of intensity.

I played the demo and it was lots of fun.

Play
Apr 25, 2006

Strong stroll for a mangy stray
I was thinking about something today: where the gently caress are all the hockey video games? I'll admit I haven't played one since NHL 94 but are there even modern ones? If there are they must be pretty poo poo since I've never heard of them. There should be a good hockey game.

Also I like american football games a lot, NFL needs to not renew their exclusivity contract with EA and let better publishers take a shot

The Breakfast Sampler posted:

I've liked what I've played of Persona but I've never finished one (I think I picked up 2-4.) They just all overstay their welcome for me, more than 40 hours in a game is a big ask for me these days.

I can't even remember the last time I spent 40 hours on a single video game. Maybe Skyrim on the XBOX 360 when I was doing a lot of cocaine in college

sebmojo posted:

I played the demo and it was lots of fun.

Yeah I enjoyed the demo okay although it's not necessarily the type of thing I like, not a big base builder or defense game fan, but I did like how it did something a bit different. Nice graphics and such too, but I do wonder about replayability, whether it has an actual extended story or if it will just be a rinse and repeat type thing

lurker2006
Jul 30, 2019

Play posted:

I was thinking about something today: where the gently caress are all the hockey video games? I'll admit I haven't played one since NHL 94 but are there even modern ones? If there are they must be pretty poo poo since I've never heard of them. There should be a good hockey game.

Also I like american football games a lot, NFL needs to not renew their exclusivity contract with EA and let better publishers take a shot
edit:nvm they still make hockey games apparently.

lurker2006 fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Apr 23, 2021

its_my_birthday
Sep 18, 2020
greedfall and outerworlds really prove that the type of games bioware made even when they were competent don't really hold up anymore. they're boring as gently caress. I know they're not bioware games, but when they were released they universally hailed as the type of games bioware used to make.

and has anyone actually completed dragon age inquisition.

they were cool at the time, but too many good games have been released since that prove you don't need boring as gently caress dialogue to have an engaging story held up by fun gameplay.

i think the mass effect collection will be interesting in showing they don't hold up

Fighting Elegy
Jan 2, 2007
I do not masturbate; I FIGHT!

JollyBoyJohn posted:

Nier Automata is the most overrated game I've ever heard of. Its not even that bad its just the fans are real weidos and raise the game up to be a 10/10 life changing experience when its a pervy shitey action rpg with a very poor combat system and an above average narrative

this is good to hear. I will never play this game because I live with a woman and wouldn't want to be caught dead playing a game that looks like porn. Almost thought I might be missing on some worthwhile stuff

Fighting Elegy
Jan 2, 2007
I do not masturbate; I FIGHT!
Call of Cthulhu (2018) is a good game. Putting RPG elements into an investigative/adventure game is a fun idea and the different paths and ways you can get through the mystery based on your different stats is solid. Voice acting is solid for the most part too.

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

Fighting Elegy posted:

this is good to hear. I will never play this game because I live with a woman and wouldn't want to be caught dead playing a game that looks like porn. Almost thought I might be missing on some worthwhile stuff

As Yoko Taro said, Nier Automata's success is a fluke. He makes particular video games that don't have mass appeal, so it's weird that it was as popular as it was. Like a Gaspar Noe movie being hailed as a box office smash.

That being said, it's... fine and arguably pretty good if you don't try to engage too much with the combat, which is also... fine. It's not really more pervy than a lot of other JRPGs, I don't know where that all comes from. Like, FF12 has way hornier character design. If it helps, most of the game is played as 9S (you're supposed to play through the game many times).

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth
lol Nier Automata does not look porn. That's just internet memes.


It just looks like anime.

lurker2006
Jul 30, 2019

Fighting Elegy posted:

Call of Cthulhu (2018) is a good game. Putting RPG elements into an investigative/adventure game is a fun idea and the different paths and ways you can get through the mystery based on your different stats is solid. Voice acting is solid for the most part too.
From what I've heard people are roped in by the premise and that famous chase sequence in the inn but then they realize they have to go through a really incompetently made fps.
edit: wrong Cthulhu game

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

Meme Poker Party posted:

lol Nier Automata does not look porn. That's just internet memes.


It just looks like anime.

So which is it? Are there gratuitous boobies and rear end or not? You can't just tell me it doesn't have them and then immediately turn around and say it does.

Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here
If Nier: A is porn, then it is the least titillating, amish porn ever.
If Nier: A is a video game, then it is the least titillating, amish video game ever.
If Nier: A is fiction, zzzzz.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug
I kind of want the nier remake but the fact it’s teen nier instead of old nier is a bummer.

Also I didn’t like N:A so I’m not too sure about it but at least the original didn’t have the stupid beginning with no save points.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Whatever the fire emblem game on the DS was where in between missions your characters would be like "lets chat" and it would send you to some weird room where they would stare blankly at you while you, like, patted their head or whatever the hell to boost hearts that I couldn't figure out what they even did got me to nope out of that series.

Combat also seemed entirely dependent on how often you forced two characters to smooch yet I was not allowed to build the Sacred Band of Thebes which is some bullshit.

bad sugarpop habit
Apr 15, 2021

Ugly In The Morning posted:

I kind of want the nier remake but the fact it’s teen nier instead of old nier is a bummer.

Also I didn’t like N:A so I’m not too sure about it but at least the original didn’t have the stupid beginning with no save points.

i was all down to hate Teenage Nier Protagonist but then there was some breathless article on a Kotaku-esque blog about how awful teenage Nier Guy is and the writing was straight-up so abysmal that i decided i needed to at least give it a shot if i got the chance because i didn't want to sound like that person

at the same time this is a loving mood for me right now and idfk https://kotaku.com/the-nier-replicant-remaster-does-many-good-things-and-o-1846743596

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

FoolyCharged posted:

So which is it? Are there gratuitous boobies and rear end or not? You can't just tell me it doesn't have them and then immediately turn around and say it does.

There really is not.

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

The most gratuitous rear end is the one that appears when the screen is off

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

jokes posted:

The most gratuitous rear end is the one that appears when the screen is off

But that's true of everything I play/watch!

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

less boobs in games, more hogs, the bigger the better

its why i'm buying cyberpunk when it hits ps5

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

Caesar Saladin posted:

less boobs in games, more hogs, the bigger the better

Could there ever be a better case for "why not both"????

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Meme Poker Party posted:

Could there ever be a better case for "why not both"????

Futas are the future.

William Henry Hairytaint
Oct 29, 2011



I think video games need more hugging

bad sugarpop habit
Apr 15, 2021

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

I think video games need more hugging

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

Meme Poker Party posted:

Could there ever be a better case for "why not both"????

All depicted genders sexualized or none. This Is The Way.

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch

Meme Poker Party posted:

Could there ever be a better case for "why not both"????

Yeah more trans rep in videogames imo

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

jokes posted:

All depicted genders sexualized or none. This Is The Way.

You load up a new game and start character creation. You see three sliders.


GENDER.................|---------O--------|

BAZONGAS........... |-----------------O|

THE DONGA..........|-----------------O|


The gender slider defaults at 0.5 but can be moved. The others are locked to maximum.

William Henry Hairytaint
Oct 29, 2011



I feel small boobs are woefully under-represented in video games. All boobs deserve love.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

also more close ups of feet

Doctor J Off
Dec 28, 2005

There Is

Barudak posted:

Whatever the fire emblem game on the DS was where in between missions your characters would be like "lets chat" and it would send you to some weird room where they would stare blankly at you while you, like, patted their head or whatever the hell to boost hearts that I couldn't figure out what they even did got me to nope out of that series.

Combat also seemed entirely dependent on how often you forced two characters to smooch yet I was not allowed to build the Sacred Band of Thebes which is some bullshit.

Please blow dry your waifu using the ds microphone to build your relationship points. This is why I stopped playing Nintendo games

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




Meme Poker Party posted:

You load up a new game and start character creation. You see three sliders.


GENDER.................|---------O--------|

BAZONGAS........... |-----------------O|

THE DONGA..........|-----------------O|


The gender slider defaults at 0.5 but can be moved. The others are locked to maximum.

That's just saints row

bad sugarpop habit
Apr 15, 2021

jokes posted:

All depicted genders sexualized or none. This Is The Way.

the Dragon's Crown route



also unironically

site posted:

Yeah more trans rep in videogames imo


E: actually i just remembered the existence of bioware so like, idk, maybe hold off on that stuff weird thirsty video game writers, we'll probably be a'ight

bad sugarpop habit fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Apr 24, 2021

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Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

I think video games need more hugging

I think they need more hand-holding. And what I mean by that is Ico is better than Nier.

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