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Panic! At The Tesco posted:Half Life 2 deathmatch was also pretty underrated. I used to love it. Got really good at doing the trick where you drop a grenade then quickly switch to the gravity gun to pick it up and fire it at folk. Killing people with toilets and radiators was fun too. Good stuff. Only problem with HL2DM is that it was slowly overtaken by the usual riff raff that wanted every round to be on giant empty maps and you just spent 40 minutes sniping with the magnum or crossbow. shacked up with Brenda posted:EDIT: which is of course my bad video game opinion, URU was the best myst game URU is both the best and worst Myst game. Has one of the coolest locations in the entire series, but also has loving platforming "puzzles".
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poverty goat posted:feels canonical imo Just like Starfleet captains.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:what new games are doing new things since portal? Tell me you never play new games that aren't triple A shooters or MOBAs without actually telling me that poverty goat posted:this is a natural consequence of games getting worse and worse over time mmmm hmmmm... Except that isn't really true. It just seems that way to you. There are games that cater to every single interest and type of game that you could imagine. Not to mention you can still play the old ones. John Murdoch posted:On the other hand, Gamers are a bunch of reactionary dipshits and their definition of regression is "any change I don't like for any reason". Very true. Not to say they aren't right sometimes, but I find this idea that at some point in the unspecified past games were better than they ever could be now pretty absurd on the face of it. I don't think people properly remember how little choice in terms of games we had back then, and how bad a lot of the games were. I mean, it's true that we have more bad games than at any point in the past, but the same goes for good games.
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Vic posted:Wait didn't Joker end up loving the ship? joker's interest is in the ship's AI. shepard just wants to get up in that exhaust pipe
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Archer666 posted:I'm too lazy to look into it, but I always wondered how this differs from the old cartoons like He-Man or Transformers which were made to peddle plastic crap to children. It all seems the same to me, just a different way to sell stuff to kids, and people being upset at it just being caught in the cycle of "Being old and not liking that things are different than when I was a kid". I sort of assume I've got at least a little bit of a rose tinted glasses thing going on. Looking back I remember playing a lot of stuff like M.C. Kids, Cool Spot, and that kind of thing without a thought. My dad probably knew he was renting an ad for me to play for the weekend, and even had to use fuel and physically drive me to the video store to get it and return it. I'd feel bad for my dad if he had to deal with modern efforts made to convince me to convince him that it's not only is it a good idea to pay something like $20 to be a walking Space Jam 2 ad, but essential to my social status among my other little nerd friends that I'm not a "default". Also he has a small window of time to decide before the skin is gone forever (for a few months), and you better believe that the second it's gone there's going be something else cool and priced at several thousand v-bucks available for the next 24 hours every single day that I am still playing this hugely popular otherwise free game available on almost every platform including mobile devices. Trying to imagine being a parent in that situation I'd hope I could be understanding enough to not get hung up on the negatives, but that doesn't mean the kid or their friends/peers would take the same consideration.
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i teach 10 year olds and a kid in my class told me that he spent 25 dollars of his own allowance money, 5 weeks worth, to buy an in game item for a JoJos Bizarre Adventure game within roblox. It was an item that lets you know when other items respawn.
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Halloween Jack posted:Why does her hair vanish the instant before she explodes? Because it's still in alpha. Even if you try playing it with GeForce NOW and set everything to max it runs like poo poo.
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Pubg/warzone/fortnite but instead of the map shrinking, the players get bigger
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you can still get into a quake champions game within five minutes, it's not dead. once you get into the first lobby you basically play with the same group of players and the queue goes faster you will probably get your rear end kicked, though
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hawowanlawow posted:you can still get into a quake champions game within five minutes, it's not dead. once you get into the first lobby you basically play with the same group of players and the queue goes faster just play Unreal Tournament 99, there are dedicated servers still up to this day. match making is bullshit corporate control
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Jestery posted:Pubg/warzone/fortnite but instead of the map shrinking, the players get bigger Deeply blessed
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Rutibex posted:just play Unreal Tournament 99, there are dedicated servers still up to this day. match making is bullshit corporate control There are still Quake 2 servers also, which is the least popular Quake.
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The final two, mountainous, eyes slow and luminous as they raise their weapons, vast like monuments
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What if one of the players was a lady and she got way bigger than the other players haha and she took her shoes off and started stepping on the other players hahaha What do you think her feet would smell like haha I want to smell them
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feet are ok i guess but what if you were all radioactive godzilla monsters getting larger and larger from the ambient radiation and slowly smashing up the city as you grow
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Making games match making only blows my mind. I never really got a solid answer when devs started doing it, just something about "maintenance and cost". But that doesn't make sense, because a lot of devs put a lot of work into developing and tweaking matchmaking for all the whiny bitches. It's not even a case of every match being hosted on their servers either, because if you let players host their own servers then you literally aren't paying for server time. That's on the players. As a dev just maintain the registry I guess. I know realistically the answer is "players having control of their own servers means less control for us" and I hate that. Players being shitheads? Let the server admins deal with that, because honestly a lot of good players that can socialise piss off a bunch of nerds and they should only be kicked from the nerd servers imo. It was always wonderful to see servers listed like "DM only, bullet time, randomised weapons" and poo poo. It went a great way to lengthening the game's life because you aren't playing the same maps, with the same everything all the time. Go vanilla, go hosed up, who cares.
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I guess because administrating a server works great on PC but is a massive pain in the rear end on console, so as console gamers became the primary audience of most AAA games they started shifting in that direction. Plus it's pretty overwhelming for a new/casual player to start up a game and get a giant list of 70 different nearby servers with different maps and rulesets compared to no-thinking-required "press butan get gameplay".
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My understanding is For players: its streamlined and easy to always find full, fair(ish) matches regardless of time of day thus keeping them in and engaged longer For Companies: Unified approach across console and PC, no need to worry about private servers sidestepping your monetizations
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I would not be surprised if there was data of a lot of new players starting up a game and seeing the server list of stupid names and going "welp i dunno what to do, seeya" that might have worked in the 90s when only power nerds play games but they want regular people to play games now.
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If you just join a server and play a bunch of games in a row when do see all the season rewards you got???
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Let's check in to see how my good pal Path of Exile is doing. https://steamcharts.com/app/238960 Looking good turns out when you nerf pretty much everything in your game people might stop playing it or even not try out the nerfs in the first place. I prefer matchmaking to servers, because I'm lazy. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Jul 29, 2021 |
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Caesar Saladin posted:I would not be surprised if there was data of a lot of new players starting up a game and seeing the server list of stupid names and going "welp i dunno what to do, seeya" I am an impatient child and quit games that made it too obtuse to just find other humans to play with. First, travel to the online hub room in the city, and from there you can requisition multiplayer missions. Once other people find your mi--- zzzzzzzzz
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Duck and Cover posted:Let's check in to see how my good pal Path of Exile is doing. On the one hand that game has had ridiculously extreme power creep over its 8 year lifespan and was probably due for a lot of nerfs, but on the other hand players just don't like that stuff regardless of how needed it really is. The struggles of a live service game.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:On the one hand that game has had ridiculously extreme power creep over its 8 year lifespan and was probably due for a lot of nerfs, but on the other hand players just don't like that stuff regardless of how needed it really is. The struggles of a live service game. A lot of players prefer their games to be bad and this is a source of great distress for game developers.
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Duck and Cover posted:Let's check in to see how my good pal Path of Exile is doing. i didn't stop playing! everyone please follow my Path of Exile: Expedition League lets play https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3973989 Rutibex posted:Mapping!
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The only way to fix this is for Zana to live on our couch and also we must do missions for her to accomplish some mysterious ends. She says you have to beat up her old room mates and get some gems to put into these slots on the map and its this whole big thing. Its not hard to figure out but if you want to min max it you need to read a wiki. Our character has no objection to this so Zana moves in! She also sells maps which is handy:
Sister Cassia can "anoint" amulets with oils that allow you to get a free passive tree node (even if you are not connected to it on the tree). I will be making on of her amulets once I have more money!
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Meme Poker Party posted:A lot of players prefer their games to be bad and this is a source of great distress for game developers. I think at a certain point the happiness of the players is more important than the developers vision. Yes players are idiots, and yes they may not know what the gently caress they want but sometimes they actually do.
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Chris and co. founded the company and called it Grinding Gears. They made their fortune by selling diablo2 items. I think they know exactly who they are dealing with.
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Serephina posted:Jesus christ that sounds awful, I don't miss Diablo at all. I honestly thought you where being sarcastic there for a bit. its is awful, i have a genuine problem
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Rutibex posted:its is awful, i have a genuine problem You will click those shards exile! No pain no gain. edit: "Still sane exile?" HAAHHAAHAAHAHahahahahahahhahahahahahahhaahahaha. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Jul 29, 2021 |
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Path of Exhile sucks balls, it belongs with Loadout and Warframe in the "games done much better elsewhere" category
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:i teach 10 year olds and a kid in my class told me that he spent 25 dollars of his own allowance money, 5 weeks worth, to buy an in game item for a JoJos Bizarre Adventure game within roblox. It was an item that lets you know when other items respawn. When I was like 12 I bought Runescape membership from the phone number you could call. My mom assumed I paid for some weird phone sex stuff and grounded me but I never corrected her, I correctly assumed that Runescape membership was more embarrassing than phone sex
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Path of Exhile sucks balls, it belongs with Loadout and Warframe in the "games done much better elsewhere" category the other Diablo clones are too slow. except maybe Hades but I don't know if that counts as a diablo (maybe reverse diablo)
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Path of Exhile sucks balls, it belongs with Loadout and Warframe in the "games done much better elsewhere" category Hahhahahahahaha someone actually remembers Loadout.
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All I remember from Loadout is when they sabotaged themselves by adding nudity to a mass-appeal-looking game. I'm 80% convinced it was made for tax purposes.
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Rutibex posted:the other Diablo clones are too slow. except maybe Hades but I don't know if that counts as a diablo (maybe reverse diablo) Hades is a mile long and an inch deep, Diablo by contrast is a 5 mile squared cube, I love them both but they are different games. Path of Exhile is just slow and clunky and too dark and it feels like a game designed by people with zero sense of humour. Workaday Wizard posted:Hahhahahahahaha someone actually remembers Loadout. I only remember Loadout in the context of totally average games bettered by the time they came out. In another universe Loadout is the surprise hit Fortnite became.
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If you drop random loot from enemies I'll probably get bored and not finish your game. I did somehow beat one of them called Viking: Something Something Midgard and in addition to being obscenely mediocre, I did not once find a single weapon better than what I was holding from around 2/3rds of the game to the end so why even have that system at all.
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A shitload of video game design is basically just 'other game had this, so we have it' with no regard as to whether it actually contributes anything. That Zero Punctuation review of Sekiro comes to mind where game design process should go like treating a hoarder- go down every single feature and mechanic in the game and ask 'Does this meaningfully improve the gameplay experience?' Would save a lot of time, effort and money, too.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That Zero Punctuation review of Sekiro comes to mind where game design process should go like treating a hoarder- go down every single feature and mechanic in the game and ask 'Does this meaningfully improve the gameplay experience?' Would save a lot of time, effort and money, too. Deus Ex Invisible War is a textbook example of where the developers did exactly as you suggest, a drawback to that approach is it can strip a game of much of it's personality, mostly as it's nebulous what "improving the gameplay experience" even means. SCheeseman fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Jul 29, 2021 |
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Rutibex posted:the other Diablo clones are too slow. rip Marvel Heroes
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