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ScootsMcSkirt posted:cant believe not a single npc stopped to talk about what a great rack my character has u should play anime games
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I said come in! posted:I really don't get the point the author of this review is trying to make here, or why any of this matters? I think the concept is that games are having non-white dude protagonists now but always conveniently in situations where they never have to examine the concept of race/racism. So in this example the main character is a black lady(?) which is cool but then she gets sent to a magical realm where those traits aren't significant compared to being from Earth. Pwnstar fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Jan 23, 2023 |
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Oh my God, Grayson Morley, you can't just ask people why they're black
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:16 hours...what's the shortest "open world" game you've seen guys? I guess technically No More Heroes at 13.5 and Brutal Legend at 12 were my shortest OW games. A Short Hike
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Jan 23, 2023 18:52
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I think we should all play Forspoken to find out exactly what that reviewer means.
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Hwurmp posted:A Short Hike game owns
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Hwurmp posted:A Short Hike What a delightful little game that everyone should play.
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Interesting thread from the Scarlet Hollow/Slay the Princess dev on how they approached marketing the latter game. https://twitter.com/blacktabbygames/status/1617528958710616074
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Pwnstar posted:I think the concept is that games are having non-white dude protagonists now but always conveniently in situations where they never have to examine the concept of race/racism. So in this example the main character is a black lady(?) which is cool but then she gets sent to a magical realm where those traits aren't significant compared to being from Earth. Farcry 5 was way better at being meaningless
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Critiques on racial politics from gaming websites are pointless, but even if they did somehow strike a chord with game devs and industry execs world wide the response wouldn't be to start making smart, complex characters that reflect the reality of being black, or indeed any non-straight cis white male, in the world - it would be to stop making protagonists who aren't non-straight cis white males.
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Pwnstar posted:I think the concept is that games are having non-white dude protagonists now but always conveniently in situations where they never have to examine the concept of race/racism. So in this example the main character is a black lady(?) which is cool but then she gets sent to a magical realm where those traits don't matter compared to being from Earth.
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forget it volte, it's polygon
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StrixNebulosa posted:Today, to my shock, I discovered that Dark Devotion, Death's Gambit: Afterlife and Vigil the Longest Night aren't the same game. Despite having very similar art styles, being in the same genre, and having similarly wonky stories. I think I played all of them for a bit. Death's Gambit didn't click with me at all, Dark Devotion got quite difficult somewhere after .. half way point? I don't actually know how much game was left when I quit but I did finish Vigil: The longest night, which is kinda my recommendation for a sleeper good game in the treaded soulslikecombatbutsomeprecisionplatforming genre. I think I would compare it most with Salt & Sanctuary, but with more realistic graphics. The dark atmosphere and the way the areas were connected really impressed me and I had fun throughout my gameplay.
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Pwnstar posted:I think the concept is that games are having non-white dude protagonists now but always conveniently in situations where they never have to examine the concept of race/racism. So in this example the main character is a black lady(?) which is cool but then she gets sent to a magical realm where those traits aren't significant compared to being from Earth. why does a game have to examine racism just because it has a diverse cast This is still a really confusing criticism
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leftishly calling up Amazon to demand that they either retcon Jim Crow into LOTR or remove all the nonwhites from their tv show
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StrixNebulosa posted:Today, to my shock, I discovered that Dark Devotion, Death's Gambit: Afterlife and Vigil the Longest Night aren't the same game. Despite having very similar art styles, being in the same genre, and having similarly wonky stories. I've played Death's Gambit and Vigil: The Longest Night. I'd say nah to DG and yes to Vigil.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:leftishly calling up Amazon to demand that they either retcon Jim Crow into LOTR or remove all the nonwhites from their tv show Every time there’s a hobbit of color on the screen they should be writing some dialogue about how they have issues because they’re different
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Forspoken Release Trailer Exploits Bogus Accoladesquote:In one example, Square Enix lifted the word “Beautiful” from a December preview published over at Distractify. In context, however, the quote wasn’t saying that Forspoken was beautiful but that it had the “potential” to be a “beautiful story-driven game that will pull at your heartstrings with each new chapter.” It was, after all, a preview and not a review of the final game, though the site’s editor said she didn’t take issue with how the word was used. lol
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[impressively]....good at....making....fun - Game Informer
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it's fair to analyze the portrayal of the black protagonist in a game whose developers said they worked hard to give her a "hip-hoppy kind of walk". that review is not a great analysis, but someone will do a much better job of it meanwhile there's a new Steamworld game announced: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2134770/SteamWorld_Build/ this is a city builder, and not by Image & Form but Thunderful Development, and they also say they are working on three other Steamworld games. I'm not sure what to make of that. Is Image and Form no longer involved in Steamworld? is Thunderful Development their new name? i'm a little confused e: looked it up and apparently I&F was merged with Zoink and became Thunderful Development so this is still them. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Jan 23, 2023 |
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Also, they didn't send out pc review codes for Forspoken so it might just be a total mess.
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The 7th Guest posted:it's fair to analyze the portrayal of the black protagonist in a game whose developers said they worked hard to give her a "hip-hoppy kind of walk". that review is not a great analysis, but someone will do a much better job of it is it perhaps an exaggerated swagger
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Wiltsghost posted:Also, they didn't send out pc review codes for Forspoken so it might just be a total mess.
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Trickyblackjack posted:I think we should all play Forspoken to find out exactly what that reviewer means. Found Greg Forspoken's account
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To be somewhat fair, minimum specs are probably going to go up in general as devs stop releasing on the PS4 and Xbone and finally focus on the PS5 and Series S & X. We haven't had many games so far that skipped the last generation due to shortages, but they're starting to happen. Forspoken, Returnal and the Dead Space remake are all skipping the last gen of consoles and have fairly high minimum specs (all say they require 16GB of ram and a 10 series card for Nivida)
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Mierenneuker posted:I think it happened at the end of 2021, it was not a recent thing. Okay so I was going off of this support article which is dated this month and refers to a January cutoff date. I tried actually searching and you're close, this happened in January of 2021, evidenced by such articles as this, which links... to that exact same support article, including an identical copy-and-paste of its current contents. I then noticed that it says "Updated" next to the date, so... they overwrote the original post date with an updated version of the article that does not actually contain an update? Crawling the snapshots on archive.org reveals that, yes, the page is seemingly "updated" every few days or so. What a uniquely useless/misleading way of timestamping your support articles.
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lol https://twitter.com/MckKirk/status/1617530521273405445
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Veotax posted:To be somewhat fair, minimum specs are probably going to go up in general as devs stop releasing on the PS4 and Xbone and finally focus on the PS5 and Series S & X. We haven't had many games so far that skipped the last generation due to shortages, but they're starting to happen.
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Veotax posted:To be somewhat fair, minimum specs are probably going to go up in general as devs stop releasing on the PS4 and Xbone and finally focus on the PS5 and Series S & X. We haven't had many games so far that skipped the last generation due to shortages, but they're starting to happen.
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I said somewhat fair, I wasn't defending the game that much. Also, I'm an idiot and skimmed Kins' post and didn't take in the resolution and framerate.
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Sounds like Forspoken bad, thank god, I can continue being a racist.
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for all the negative press blowing up about it, it looks like forspoken's sitting at #2 on steam's "top sellers" list. right behind the harry potter game at #1. i don't appreciate that.
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Cowcaster posted:for all the negative press blowing up about it, it looks like forspoken's sitting at #2 on steam's "top sellers" list. CONSUME MEDIA
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The Kins posted:Returnal and Dead Space's recommended specs don't ask for 24gb RAM while still being stuck on 30fps (the "ultra" specs, the only ones that list 60fps, demand a whopping 32gb!) the mid specs were for 30fps 1440p though the specs to hit 60 on 1080p (the only resolution that matters) are gonna be lower also it sounded to me like 720p on the min specs was "you cant play the game with a monitor smaller than this", not "this is all you can get with these specs" but idk i guess we'll see
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That review wasnt even that negative. It made it sound like it had typical AAA game drawbacks but with more fun combat than usual. A bland underutilized open world, excessive dialogue, side quests with uneven tone, and too much time dedicated to learning the mechanics is like every high budget game for the last 15 years.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:u should play anime games im replaying Disco Elysium right now. Does that count?
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The Verge review is semi-positive about the game as an idea but even makes it seem like they ended up rushing Forspoken out the door, just a insanely detailed and complex combat system that boils down to "run in circle, spam the element enemy is weak to" and the last 'boss' is basically just a playable cutscene.quote:Narratively, Forspoken is interesting; mechanically and technically, not so much. The game feels unfinished, like there’s a level of technical polish missing. "Game seems unfinished, it's my GOTY" lol pentyne fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Jan 23, 2023 |
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Hmm, maybe Forespoken won't do so well. Better double the price to recoup some costs.
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