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nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

rezatahs posted:

i know it's all in its infancy but i've never seen a vr game that looked any fun. call me in 10 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ4gpjwJa08


??????


i mean i cant think of another one besides that portal vive game but hey they look cool at least. i'll play one in like five years when the headsets get sold off at firesale cost

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nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

notZaar posted:

Actually hissy fits are extremely effective today, just look at the public's reaction to Bruce Jenner coming out. Every public figure was deathly scared of going against the narrative that he is a brave role model.

she's a drat hero for being famous and rich enough to pressure people into not making fun of her dick

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

Y-Hat posted:

and a trump presidency will lead to the porn dark ages. what's your point

video games have become garbage over the past decade anyway because all of the mid-sized companies have either been bought out or gone bankrupt, and the rise of indie games has resulted in the planet-sized egos of the people who make them. also konami's sitting on a bunch of IPs (MGS, Castlevania, Silent Hill, Contra, Mystical Ninja, Bomberman ever since Hudson Soft died out, just to name a few) but they're not making video games out of them anymore

id argue that video games are getting garbage because there hasn't been any sort of mechanical innovation and we keep forgetting about poo poo that is actually fun and well made. like i guess game designers just follow trends but the modern trends don't really make great games, if anything they're kind of counter-intuitive to the good game thing

like ubisoft has made the exact same identical game three, four times a year for like half a decade at this point.

the first person shooter has been in a hole since call of duty and to a lesser extent halo. i dont particularly dislike call of duty it just isnt the ur-shooter. you can make a first person shooter that isn't claustrophobic and disorienting, aim down sights and sprinting are not necessary

they're releasing skyrim again to great fanfare despite the fact that its basically a half assed fan project that still contains pitfalls that have been in their engine since morrowind. it aint bad, but its so flawed anything more than light praise comes off as empty

someone makes a good lite game like gone home and people lose their minds over it for being sjw trash and boring despite the fact that it just stole bioshock's storytelling style and did it better (without anything else, lol)

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax
yes, but now my japanese visual novel shoujo lolita games are being imported with censored art, and i will not stand for this bullshit!!!!!

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax
im actually really glad for overwatch because not only does it buck a lot of boring game design trends but they also didn't decide to make everyone a loving grimdark robot or a chest-heavy muscle man.

like i dont give a poo poo about playing as a russian lesbian, i am just glad there are choices other than 'man whose pectorals are 75% of his body mass'

it still falls victim to some questionable design like the invisible walls and making everything idiot friendly but they are not crippling flaws

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax
yeah and if the other team also coordinates pressing q you probably won't win

my initial opinion of overwatch was bad because it has a stupid barrier for entry, children can pick it up and do good. unfortunately i equated ease of picking up with skill cap

robot ninja 'definitely not grey fox' genji requires about as much skill as being good at quake

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

afeelgoodpoop posted:

overwatch is such rear end and gently caress anyone that likes it. zero inertia like free to play korean fps cept with rear end women you can ogle and moba like spells in an overly designed tf2 ripoff setting. oh cool my hero can climb up walls or teleport? oh the levels were made unfun by the overengineering of the levels so you cant even get on most roofs. gently caress the normie gamer plague, their probably voting hillary anyway.

actually you can get on top most roofs and it is a viable if not necessary strategy because only like four of the characters can get up there. its just not the roofs that exist as the boundaries of the level. hope this helps!

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

Gammatron 64 posted:

Basically video games have turned into Hollywood and that's why they suck. It costs insane amounts of money to make a big movie, so they make them all sequels and remakes so people go see them and try to make them appeal to as wide of an audience as possible. Likewise it takes a stupid amount of money and manpower to make a video game and that leads to people playing it safe. If your project bombs, you're totally hosed. It doesn't help that all the middle-tier devs went the way of the dodo so now just the big giants and little cellphone shovelware companies and indie devs who are up their own assholes are left. Technology improved but the actual economics and logistics of making games that take advantage of this improved tech just couldn't keep up. They also all still cost $60 but cost way more to make, so they have to release half finished games with DLC you get later to even make a profit.

tl;dr Capitalism ruined video games along with everything else

basically yeah

its funny because all of the focus on expensive garbage basically took effort away from actually designing compelling and interesting gameplay systems. instead of work going into 'is moving my character fun? is shooting fun?' all of the effort goes into animating the multitude of carabiners on player models and making sure the environments look photo realistic enough when none of those things are really actually important to the core gameplay

crysis is still fun and looks good, not because the game tried really hard to look ~real~ but because they also tried to make it fun. picking up a turtle and beastmode predator jumping on top of a beach house and chucking that turtle into an enemy soldier is good. that is fun. that is how you make a game fun. the graphics improved the experience yes but they didn't clearly skimp on major game systems by making it look good, or try to quantify 'fun' into units and spread them out on the map with an arrow pointing to them

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nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

afeelgoodpoop posted:

yes, even boundries between the ridiculous corridors in the same level which seem to be the thing they thought people liked most about tf2 cause they're everywhere and mega gay.

thats qhat the q is for dummy

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