precision posted:

nothing turns me off some streamer's videos like the "HEYYYYYY GUYS AND GIRLS THIS IS YA BOY PRECISION WITH ANOTHER MASTER CLASS SPEED RUN NO ITEM FINAL DESTINATION INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO SHOUT OUT TO MY SPONSOR SHITBOX"

Blackfyre posted:

Yeah, aside from loving Operation Flashpoint many years ago I've not been an arma lover. I enjoyed some of the stories etc from DayZ but it was laborious to play (similar to my thoughts on EVE).

Had a quick look online and many people say it's fun to play and a way better game than DayZ etc but then there was an article on RPS basically saying 'nope it's still bad like DayZ is for this writer, and the players suck'. Wondered if people cared here since there was no thread I could see and it might be cool in teams of 2/3.

exquisite tea posted:

All comic book plots are inherently absurd, but the only ones that really annoy me are those that demand to be taken with the utmost sincerity.

Blackfyre posted:

Oh man I'm out of touch, thought RPS was meant to be ok. I don't often read it anymore as I found there were a lot of fluff pieces I wasn't interested in so generally just see articles when looking up info on a specific game.

Welp guess I might have to use this voucher then to give it a punt!

Serf posted:

I've yet to see a journalist who was good at a videogame in the sense that we've come to expect from streamers and youtube and whatnot. But I reckon they don't really need to be.

Cardboard Box A posted:

Cowcaster posted:

there's literally a kung fu panda picture in there. and a sylvester stallone

Bicyclops posted:

I mean, as far as advertising goes, it's better than virtually ever commercial I can remember having to sit through, or flash ads, or Facebook sidebar ads, or the godawful ones that I have to see on the subway every morning.

Lurdiak posted:

It's not about his death it's about how the loss hurts others, sheesh.

Larryb posted:

True, there still could be a similar gimmick but maybe something the player character doesn't have direct control of. I can almost guarantee there's going to be some kind of mechanic or else there won't be much of a game (this is still kind of pointless to begin with seeing as we already know how this is going to end, but maybe they'll find some way to make it interesting).

corn in the bible posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWnuxCm8_ig

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

The last metroid is in captivity.

The galaxy is at peace.

glam rock hamhock posted:

That is not even close to the first use of voice acting in a game.

Guy Mann posted:

http://www.retronauts.com/?p=459

The Retronauts about the history of voice acting in videogames is about as in-depth a look at the topic as you can get.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Another visitor!

Stay a while... stay forever!

Viewtiful Jew posted:

"I had to give up my life in Japan and become a fisherman in the cold reaches of Alaska. Konami would never find me there."

an actual dog posted:

Yakuza and Persona are 'on that list' of games Sega wants to bring to PC. It's not confirmation but this is good news, I was thinking that there might be an agreement between Sega and Sony that kept those games off of PC but apparently not.

corn in the bible posted:

dragon age inquisition sucks a lot

corn in the bible posted:

people make fun of mass effect andromeda but it's way better than da 2 or 3

Nina posted:

The main story ending is garbage and removing the AI customization sucked but other than those DA Inquisition was thoroughly enjoyable to me.

Jay Rust posted:

What are people's desert island game?

exquisite tea posted:

While there are things you can do to mitigate it, I think the structure of team-based competition itself will just always make it easier and very convenient to displace blame onto others, usually strangers on the internet that you don't care about. I think this manifests in the overall tone and discussion of the game itself even, if you compare the way FG/RTS players talk about themselves to say a MOBA community. There's a certain learned humility that comes from getting beat down in 1v1 over and over again.

Looper posted:

that's a nice picture but a terrible dad!

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Everyone should play Grandia 2, it's amazing and I love the combat system.

Jay Rust posted:

I haven't played any Metal Gear game past Solid 3, I think they're cool but dumb

Guy Mann posted:

Monopoly is pretty fun and moves quickly if you actually read and follow the rules so, for example, every time someone lands on an unoccupied space and they don't buy it it kicks off a bidding war. Most of its reputation as terrible game comes from people ignoring the rules and inventing their own so games turn into hours-long stalemates where the winner is whoever lands on Free Parking and gets thousands of dollars of free money built up over the game.

exquisite tea posted:

I'm really kind of bad at "making my own fun" in games and for me the most enjoyment usually comes out of executing something really well or getting into an involved story.

Captain Invictus posted:

Where's mischief makers

Snak posted:

I recently picked up Darkest Dungeon again, and they've done a bunch of updates since launch. For one, there are difficulty modes now. I don't think there's any shame in starting on the lower difficulty to get more a feel for how things work.

I got back into it because I bounced of FTL (which I had also played before) really hard. I want to love FTL. It's extemely my poo poo and I love most of the game. My problem with it is pretty fundamental though: In a game where a short stretch of bad luck at any time can be a game over, the gameplay should be quick. FTL's real-time combat mechanic makes it easy to end up in fights where nothing is happening except ever 11-15 seconds you shoot at the other ship and they shoot at you. You both have shields and you both have like 30% dodge. And whether you win or lose this fight, it's long and boring and tedious as hell. And so many factors of the game are luck, that it's easy to just get behind the economy curve and be hosed. The failure state of a run feels long and tedious and completely out of your control. Fun when you have some good luck, but not fun when you have some bad luck.

When I bounced of FTL, I still had a roguelike hankering, so I picked up Binding of Isaac: Rebirth again. I had also played it before, and it's a neat concept, but I don't really like it either. For a different, but similar reason than with FTL. I find the gameply of Isaac to be boring 80% of the time. Most of the rooms are straightforward and not that engaging to play. Then you get to a really challenging room, and it's fun, but whether you win or die, you're back to boring rooms. Now, it still plays very fast, so that gives it a plus of FTL, but I'm terrible at the game and I don't really care for the projectile physics which make it really hard to play the way I would play a twin stick shooter.

So, recognizing that half of my beef with Isaac was the controls, I remember Neon Chrome, which is actually a twin-stick shooter, and has a cyberpunk theme rather than a poopy baby theme. (don't get me wrong, Isaac is cool, it's just doesn't really work for me). Neon Chrome is perfect for me. I'm not great at it, but I don't have problems with the controls and it's never boring. Sometimes I run through a level like John Wick, and sometimes I die almost immediately.

Darkest Dungeon has similar RNG "issues" as FTL, but it doesn't have the same "forced passivity" that disliked about FTL. In Darkest Dungeon, rather than waiting for your laser to fire every 11 seconds hoping that it magically disables the enemies weapons before you die, you are constantly scraping and clawing for every shred of health and damage. It's much more engaged.

And furthermore, both Darkest Dungeon and Neon Chrome have a system of persistent upgrades, which means that if you wipe on a run, you aren't actually back to square one like you just installed the game. FTL and Isaac both have unlock-able characters, which is similar, but not the same.

So yeah, maybe I'm not cutout for "real" roguelikes, but I've found that these types of differences in "game feel" or "gameplay experience" really make a big difference for me.

The White Dragon posted:

i know what you mean, it's more higher-level mastery of specific systems, right? part of me always feels a little "wait it doesn't feel that way for me" when i see complaints about its randomness. in many games, i've only come across a situation where i didn't get offered at least one of the tools i need to finish the game (or at least get to the final sector) a few times. and if you get the crystal species event, that's like the instant win button

at the same time, i understand the sentiment because i still remember what it felt like to be fairly confused at the game when i first played it. i wouldn't have stuck to it as well as i did without a lot of help from my friend who'd played it before.

Snak posted:

I've literally been killed during the first battle of the game before.

I have read all the advice. I understand how to play the game. If my attack misses 5 times in a row and the enemies doesn't, there's nothing I can do about that, and Injad to wait 60 seconds for it to play out. Once, i jumped to 4 empty systems in a row, putting me in a huge resource deficit.

Snak posted:

You can't run away until your jump drive is charged...

But I'm really curious now. Do you have more information or links? Should I just google it?

When I googled it before, all I found was really condescending stuff...

Snak posted:

Literally the first thing he does is restart the game because he want's a better exit location.

But I'm officially convinced. it seems that with the proper skills, luck is a much smaller factor than it seems to a less skilled player. I still don't really enjoy a lot of the gameplay, and all the searching I've done trying to find advice just seems to reveal a toxic comminity of assholes, and 90% of the advice is on how to beat the final boss, not how to survive the journey there.

corn in the bible posted:

Endorph posted:

notch has done literally nothing with his money besides sit around and be miserable all day, which is insane to me. do coke, man. buy the rights to chrono trigger and remake it as an fps. you could do literally anything you wanted.