kntfkr posted:

Everything about borderlands makes me mad. I've never played it, it's just I look at it and I hate it.

deep dish peat moss posted:

The Switch isn't really that successful. Its main benefit and the reason it has been able to sell so well is because it released between console generations for the other big consoles. PS4 and Xbox One were both 2013. The Switch came out 4 years later in 2017 with zero competition and spent 3+ years as the only "recent" console on the market before the PS5 and XBox Series S released (and we've seen how well that has gone, largely because of supply issues), and it's still the only easily-accessible recent console. It has a higher margin (like $40 per console sold compared to $10 for a PS4). But the PS5's margin is even higher (~$50/console).

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That loving Sned posted:

This is a good recap of the series. I did try the early games in PCSX2 a while back and the first few stages weren’t exactly a cakewalk.

I’m just not a fan of the quantity over quality approach of the series. It doesn’t matter if the Orochi games have Ryu Hyabusa or William from Nioh if they have to be simplified to use the same combat system as all the other characters.

galagazombie posted:

Correct. For all its jankyness the gameplay had unique and fun systems instead of being another interchangeable cover shooter. Plus it had a beautiful “everything is rounded chrome and form fitting bodysuits” aesthetic straight out of the 1960’s instead of generic blocky space marines of the sequels. And finally had a 10/10 smooth electonic soundtrack instead of generic Hans Zimmer knockoffs. Plus it was a great self contained story and detailed setting that the sequels all retconned and shat over.

satanic splash-back posted:

I remember mass effect 2 playing like a lovely knock off of gears instead of being a semi unique rpg game pretty much entirely because press a to do everything was in vogue.

kntfkr posted:

galagazombie posted:

Is there another character whose fallen from grace as much as Sonic yet still gets games? Usually a series gets canned after only one or two clunkers. But Sonic hasn’t had a well received game since the Genesis (barring Mania, which wasn’t actually made by the Sonic devs) yet they just keep churning em out.

itry posted:

So, snarky option - maybe fighting games aren't as interesting to compete with repeatedly dying in a pvp shooter. Or maybe the charm was always being right next to the other person you were playing against and now that most gamers are online, it's just not that interesting.

George posted:

So obviously square is bad now and modern FF is just the scraps of failed games sewn together into an incoherent mess, but what galls me the most is their approach to remaking their good games.

when FF6 came out it was a cutting-edge AAA game. one of the reasons the genre is dead is that any game that looks like that is a half-baked indie project, and so the FF6 remake makes it look like a half-baked indie project.

I hope this gets figured out eventually but for the most part I think I'm doomed to sit in my porch with a shotgun yelling at clouds.

George posted:

yeah but a lot of that is how they redid all the character sprites for no reason and made them look dumber.

roomtone posted:

obviously ff7r wouldn't have been the same - totally revamped gameplay, graphics +20 years of quality, and hopefully - hopefully! - some new details and explorations of the original concepts which make it even more enjoyable.

the problems with ff7r were never 'it's not the same', it's that it's not a remake, it's a weird sideways sequel, and they substitute or even add in a whole lot of dumb crap which has no emotional impact.

they've went to the ff7 well so many times over the years and i think a lot of people were hoping this was going to a solid faithful update with cool new features and modern storytelling. we got a bit of that, but we also got a lot of robotic sidequests, horny fanservice, and hyperdimensional reality is in our hands crap which wiped the possibility of the rest being good. no expansion of midgar or the social dynamics going on there, which they really should have if they were going to set a 30+ hour game in it.

roomtone posted:

kojima was maybe at his best in mgs2 with his insane rejecting of snake and making the whole game about cultural memes, in very early internet times, and about what people will attach to and what should be discarded. that's a theme. i understand being annoyed by it, but it's something to dive into and i will Get Nuts when a game gives me a reason.

ff7r is uh, let's change fate. here's a 300 foot monster.

tango alpha delta posted:

e: circle is used instead of x to select. Must be the Japanese version.

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

there is a reson for that. Japanese people read things left to right, and x-box exists

Waltzing Along posted:

Talos Principle? More like Tall rear end pee nipple!

Waltzing Along posted:

Cuz soulsborne games are literally the same thing as Battletoads. Many situation you have no chance until you have failed because you don't know what is coming. You only progress after rote memorization. Repeat.

It was a big complaint about Battletoads yet people praise it with fromsoft. Souls fans are the worst.

Vandar posted:

Considering the time period that OOT came out and the system it was on, I feel like it's okay to cut it a little bit of slack as far as Hyrule Field goes.

Anyone who says they played OOT back in the 90s and wasn't blown away the first time they left the forest and wandered out into the field is trying to get one over on someone.

Fur20 posted:

Deadly Premonition is my baseline for calling something truly poorly optimized. It is no holds barred what-the-gently caress badly optimized. The longer your computer has been on, the slower the game runs, and the more frames it skips. Yes, you read that right: it's based on the amount of time since your last cold boot

Fur20 posted:

if i had to guess you're talking about octopath traveler, where you have four passive skill slots but it's not as though you're ever going to equip anything but No Ambushes, Crit Damage Up, +100 to the character's key stat, and Break Damage Limit

like why is Break Damage Limit even a skill in a game where you're expected to have it because normal, non-optional bosses have nearly 1MM hp, just don't program a soft damage cap you dumb asses

giogadi posted:

Haha I just saw this. “You seem to be only considering graphics. But you aren’t considering <common and obvious GRAPHICS rendering techniques>”

I work on game engines both professionally and as a personal hobby. There is indeed a lot more to engines than graphics. But when you talk about “enabling artists to express themselves without limitations”, this is by definition a graphics problem to solve.

Sapozhnik posted:

i liked undertale and thought it was well executed but it was very much a one and done thing for me and i also thought the SuPeR WaCkY characters were a bit annoying and the self aware wackiness fell flat

can definitely understand how fifteen-year-olds might turn that game into an entire Identity tho

QuarkJets posted:

I thought it was conveying that you also wouldn't need the turrets anymore if you started using the more alien powers.

Wasn't that like 1/3rd of the powers? And by mid-game turrets aren't even good anymore lol

Earwicker posted:

diablo iv release is reminding me of something i think about every time there's a big "diablo-like" game released:

why is the genre called that when faerie tale adventure (1987) clearly did it first?

Ocean Book posted:

4x strategy game, but with metaprogression