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galagazombie
Oct 31, 2011

A silly little mouse!
At least they didn’t name the third Xbox the Xbox 1 right?

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doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

What bothered me about the N64 wasn't the graphics, it was the sound. Something in the way they compressed the sounds made some games sound "chilly" to me, especially in contrast to the warmth of sound of the SNES, or a good old PC MIDI game soundtrack.

Also, people fuckin gamers care about how graphics are rendered way too much.

Duck and Cover
Apr 6, 2007

doctorfrog posted:

What bothered me about the N64 wasn't the graphics, it was the sound. Something in the way they compressed the sounds made some games sound "chilly" to me, especially in contrast to the warmth of sound of the SNES, or a good old PC MIDI game soundtrack.

Also, people fuckin gamers care about how graphics are rendered way too much.

I think you'll find people care about whatever the marketing tells them to care about. Oh we can't sell small cars people don't want them! *markets big trucks constantly and suggests you're not a man for having a big manly truck*. You're right they totally care too much about graphics.

Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Oct 29, 2021

pretty soft girl
Oct 1, 2004

my dead grandfather fights better than you

doctorfrog posted:

What bothered me about the N64 wasn't the graphics, it was the sound. Something in the way they compressed the sounds made some games sound "chilly" to me, especially in contrast to the warmth of sound of the SNES, or a good old PC MIDI game soundtrack.

Also, people fuckin gamers care about how graphics are rendered way too much.

I feel like this worked in some games favor like goldeneye and perfect dark because the hardware played to the intended feel of those soundtracks but otherwise yeah I agree. I sorta feel the same way about ps1's audio hardware when developers chose not to just use tracks off the cd. FF7's original arranged soundtrack honestly doesn't leave much of an impression on me compared to what the first six games did on weaker hardware

pretty soft girl
Oct 1, 2004

my dead grandfather fights better than you
My big dumb opinion is that street fighter ex+a has a way better soundtrack than third strike

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Clicking down the Thumbstick to sprint is fine

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


It got a bad rap because old games often didn't think to make it click to run and instead made you hold it down, which was loving insane and feels terrible. I think it's straight up muscle memory at this point for 99% of gamers and it only seems unpopular due to an extreme minority of vocal old farts that don't play many shooters, who are still traumatized by the terrible game controls of the late 90's and still try to hold the stick down all the time.

Vic
Nov 26, 2009

malae fidei cum XI_XXVI_MMIX
The best console name is clearly Dreamcast. Followed by Master System.

I have a little story around why the worst name is Playstation. My mom told me she wouldn't buy a playstation under any circumstances. It was a very firm and annoyed no every time I brought it up. When PS2 came out she commented how at least it's normal size. I got a little confused...

She took the name to literally mean what she saw in the store that one time. She didn't want to buy a whole heckin' station:



Oh mom you're such a noob.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

nvidiagouge posted:

The amount of porn and weeb poo poo on steam amuses me. It reminds me of the VHS rental places in my youth that had the walled off porn section, except much more shameful.

Steam is the adult video store with a single Star Wars pinball machine next to the front door, and the guy behind the counter keeps leering at you and trying to tell you about bitcoin

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


The best console name was from when Nabisco tried to get in on the console market.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

They also named the 4th xbox console the One+X so theoretically you can solve for any possible Xbox number. The improvement made the Fifth Xbox console was removing the legacy One value so you can immediately import any value for X

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



Steam has that really cool feature where you can tell it to never show you anything with certain keywords, so you can type in 'anime' and Steam suddenly magically becomes a usable product.

All storefronts should do this.

itry
Aug 23, 2019




Barudak posted:

They also named the 4th xbox console the One+X so theoretically you can solve for any possible Xbox number. The improvement made the Fifth Xbox console was removing the legacy One value so you can immediately import any value for X

:eng101:

Quote-Unquote posted:

Steam has that really cool feature where you can tell it to never show you anything with certain keywords, so you can type in 'anime' and Steam suddenly magically becomes a usable product.

All storefronts should do this.

It's community tags, so sometimes things that aren't anime are marked as anime.

A small price to pay.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

itry posted:

It's community tags, so sometimes things that aren't anime are marked as anime.

A small price to pay.

Better safe than sorry, I say

meat police
Nov 14, 2015

nvidiagouge posted:

The amount of porn and weeb poo poo on steam amuses me. It reminds me of the VHS rental places in my youth that had the walled off porn section, except much more shameful.

they let you choose a few tags to filter out games, even with jrpg, anime, visual novel completely blocked this is the first thing to greet me today



spoiler'd for borderline nsfw weeb shtuff
lmfao who is buying this poo poo

meat police fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Oct 30, 2021

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

You forgot to block "Juicy Halloween"

Serephina
Nov 8, 2005

恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー
Don't use tags to filter out smut. Well ok, do filter out tags, but for getting rid of smut untick the "adult only sexual content" checkbox that's right above the tag filter. AO stuff is all worthless trash, you'll still get all the 'normal' games such as Witcher3 etc

Edit: oh, and thanks for linking that image. What a lovely eyeful.

meat police
Nov 14, 2015

Serephina posted:

Don't use tags to filter out smut. Well ok, do filter out tags, but for getting rid of smut untick the "adult only sexual content" checkbox that's right above the tag filter. AO stuff is all worthless trash, you'll still get all the 'normal' games such as Witcher3 etc

Edit: oh, and thanks for linking that image. What a lovely eyeful.

ahh yeah, beans. i'll spoiler it my bad

meat police fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Oct 30, 2021

galagazombie
Oct 31, 2011

A silly little mouse!
It’s just, why porn games? We live in an age where your phone has the largest repository of free porn in human history. Why pay money for low quality porn you have to play a lovely game to even access? Hell the jpgs will be ripped and put up for free anyway if you absolutely must jack off to this one specific image.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

galagazombie posted:

It’s just, why porn games? We live in an age where your phone has the largest repository of free porn in human history. Why pay money for low quality porn you have to play a lovely game to even access? Hell the jpgs will be ripped and put up for free anyway if you absolutely must jack off to this one specific image.

You loving simpleton, which part of Juicy Halloween do you not understand?

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


Quote-Unquote posted:

Steam has that really cool feature where you can tell it to never show you anything with certain keywords, so you can type in 'anime' and Steam suddenly magically becomes a usable product.

All storefronts should do this.

Just block the word "Hentai" and it becomes a normal game storefront. I did it within an hour of getting back into PC gaming and I never get weird suggestions.

Lol I literally went searching for that feature so quick. A bunch of the top VR games were called things like "hentai commander 4"

nvidiagouge
Sep 30, 2021

by Fluffdaddy

meat police posted:

they let you choose a few tags to filter out games, even with jrpg, anime, visual novel completely blocked this is the first thing to greet me today



spoiler'd for borderline nsfw weeb shtuff
lmfao who is buying this poo poo

It's 2021 and there are still suckers paying hand over fist for porn when it's free all over I don't get it at all, man.

I intentionally don't filter out that stuff because it amuses me, though. It's how I feel superior to the younger generation: By knowing what they jack off to.




God, I hope it's the younger generation.

PsionicAnt
Jul 16, 2001
:yikes:

itry
Aug 23, 2019




galagazombie posted:

It’s just, why porn games? We live in an age where your phone has the largest repository of free porn in human history. Why pay money for low quality porn you have to play a lovely game to even access? Hell the jpgs will be ripped and put up for free anyway if you absolutely must jack off to this one specific image.

"Why not just use pornhub?" I tell the woman at the cafeteria reading 50 Shades of Grey.

People like what they like.

Edit: Also one's interactive and one isn't. I assume that's the attraction.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

galagazombie posted:

It’s just, why porn games? We live in an age where your phone has the largest repository of free porn in human history. Why pay money for low quality porn you have to play a lovely game to even access? Hell the jpgs will be ripped and put up for free anyway if you absolutely must jack off to this one specific image.

some people are just so horny they can't even play video games to take a break from their horniness, they just go from reading horny fan fiction to watching horny anime to playing horny anime games, its just non stop weeb horniness.

Caesar Saladin fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Oct 31, 2021

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Caesar Saladin posted:

some people are just so horny they can't even play video games to take a break from their horniness, they just go from reading horny fan fiction to watching horny anime to playing horny anime games, its just non stop ween horniness.

Then the horny posting starts...

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

everytime thy watch any movie or tv show they rush to the internet to find images people have drawn of every single combination of every character loving eachother

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth
It's a horny world out there, folks.

WILDTURKEY101
Mar 7, 2005

Look to your left. Look to your right. Only one of you is going to pass this course.
Still proud of the fact that none of my characters in any Bioware games have ever hosed one of their teammates. I am the leader. It would be bad for morale and there are power differentials at play here. I have a job to do.

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?

Mass Effect 's opener sans Arrival really should have been an awkward meeting with hr over their horn dogging.

syntaxfunction
Oct 27, 2010

WILDTURKEY101 posted:

Still proud of the fact that none of my characters in any Bioware games have ever hosed one of their teammates. I am the leader. It would be bad for morale and there are power differentials at play here. I have a job to do.

I just wanted to be Garrus' bro but they wouldn't let me, they just kept nudging to "hey have sex" and I'm like that's weird he's my buddy and I don't feel that way?

And then he shut me out and wouldn't talk to me if I didn't put out. Pretty hosed up Bioware.

WILDTURKEY101
Mar 7, 2005

Look to your left. Look to your right. Only one of you is going to pass this course.

syntaxfunction posted:

I just wanted to be Garrus' bro but they wouldn't let me, they just kept nudging to "hey have sex" and I'm like that's weird he's my buddy and I don't feel that way?

And then he shut me out and wouldn't talk to me if I didn't put out. Pretty hosed up Bioware.

My God, have you played Dragon Age? Its actually hard to not gently caress anyone in that game but i managed.

In Witcher 1 when you gently caress you straight up get a naked trading card of whoever you hosed lmao.

NikkolasKing
Apr 3, 2010



I dunno, I played as Femshep and never had any problems with turning Garrus down. I didn't even date anybody in ME2, either.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

syntaxfunction posted:

I just wanted to be Garrus' bro but they wouldn't let me, they just kept nudging to "hey have sex" and I'm like that's weird he's my buddy and I don't feel that way?

And then he shut me out and wouldn't talk to me if I didn't put out. Pretty hosed up Bioware.

seriously though, i wonder what his dick looks like

i bet the bellend opens up like a flower

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

hosed up we know what talis sweat tastes like but not what garruses dick looks like

Samuel L. Hacksaw
Mar 26, 2007

Never Stop Posting
He could have a hemi-penis. Or like, you know the alien mini-jaws?

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Gaius Marius posted:

hosed up we know what talis sweat tastes like but not what garruses dick looks like

Maybe you don't

Vandar
Sep 14, 2007

Isn't That Right, Chairman?



nvidiagouge posted:

Xenoblade Chronicles X on Wii U was a good advancement of the JRPG formula and combat system and I'm kind of disappointed the story got so weird and turned so many people in later sequels off because it felt like mechanically they were taking the genre in a good direction.

The Xenoblade games basically just use MMO combat like Final Fantasy 12 did. That style of combat is...okay, but a big turnoff for a lot of people.

Dewgy posted:

And there’s some absolutely insane reasons behind that: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/04/making-crash-bandicoot-part-3/

The whole set of articles are worth a read, but the tl;dr for this part of the discussion is they did enormous amounts of precalculations on $100,000 SGI workstations to optimize the levels so that there were never more than 800 triangles on the screen at any time.

Crash 1 also used enough disc loading calls to exceed the expected lifetime of the PS1’s disc drive in a single playthrough.

Just absolutely bonkers levels of work went into making that game look good, and basically all of it was to work around what the PSX couldn’t do.

I love that series of articles. Other devs thinking that Crash 1 looked so good because Naughty Dog was getting secret information from Sony is kind of great.

Sinbad's Sex Tape
Mar 21, 2004
Stuck in a giant clam
Replaying the Mass Effect trilogy this year I noticed that the first two had a few romance responses but by ME3 every conversation response was romantic. That poo poo rocks and every game should just let you be Austin Powers horny all the time.

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Barudak
May 7, 2007

I like that in ME2 if you werent a serial workplace sexual harasser your "romantic partner from the first game" photo would be of the Normandy 1.

Which is good because somehow the Normandy 2 becomes fuckable

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