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Game of the Month #16 (January 2025): Iridion II (PC)
>What is this?
This is exactly how it sounds: A game is chosen each month (which will be relatively or totally obscure on purpose) with hopes of bringing new avenues of playing potential to anons with narrow video game perspectives. The goal isn't necessarily to pick bad games, but obscure ones nobody, or as few people as possible, have played. You can play the game and then use that fact as bragging rights to others! You can use it to broaden your backlog horizons! or you can forget about it. It's up to you.
THIS MONTH:
Iridion II (PC)
>Where do I get this?
7E2A1BD9
GUIDELINES FOR FUTURE GotMs:
Poll for February 2025:
https://poal.me/a35q30
If you do not like any of the games in the poll, you can either add a new entry manually, or reply to the OP with a different suggestion. Don't come crying to me if you don't like the game, blame democracy.
If you DO suggest a game though, please, report all relevant information on the game (magnet/dl link, interesting mods, guides, tutorials on tech, speedrun etc.).
Feel free to suggest any and every game you can think of, bonus points if it's games that barely anyone has played or talks about in the [Current Year] or that fit the month thematically. However, try and follow these rules:
1) No game that relies on modern hardware. If the game cannot be pirated or emulated properly, or no working emulator for the game exists, most people won't be able to enjoy it, rendering the thread kind of pointless;
2) No always-online games, meaning no live service games or mobile games that are dependent on external servers, unless a backup instance of said servers has been created by its fans or the offline content is significantly larger than the online content;
3) For multiplayer games, provide only free to play games that let players create their own servers, or games with local multiplayer that can be set up to play online (requires someone to be a hostfag, or, and may Allah forgive me for uttering these words, using Parsec);
4) No game that requires gimmicky controls to be enjoyable (guitar pedals, Wiimotes, cameras etc.) unless they can be easily remapped or translated into some other control scheme.
Previous Games of the Month:
https://reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeentry.co/p58zse2f
OP Copypasta:
https://reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeentry.co/akaqy3oq
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Switch 2 announced today
Edit:
It was announced. More details on April 2nd
https://youtu.be/itpcsQQvgAQ?si=cOMpOEsP1qTLkzO-
Basically everybody who's anybody in the game leaking scene says today Nintendo plans to shadowdrop a Switch 2 reveal, the 16th has been a consistent date thrown around for a little while now.
No games, no software, just a console reveal.
This is following huge Switch 2 leaks, up to and including actual photos of the console.
It's not anything interesting, it looks like a bigger Switch with the words "Nintendo Switch 2" on the back. This is a heavily cropped photo of an actual unit somebody has, they've posted better ones since but I don't want to go digging for them.
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Kingdom "Pozzload of" Come: Deliver(a shitty product)ance 2: Electric Boogaloo: Drama Edition
Hark, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 releases in just a few more days
Now, hold your excitement, because there has been some drama in the past few days which have incited speculation about the content of the game and not all of it is unjustified speculation.
I'll be including all known information about this situation in this thread, feel free to contribute anything you can find to help out.
<Where to start
A few days ago, there were several reports that the country of Saudi Arabia has banned - or at least, hasn't yet cleared - the release of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, with the alleged reason being that there are "unskippable gay scenes in story mode"
https://archive.ph/243kc
https://x.com/VGA4A/status/1879150290680893691
<Okay so this is just speculation based off of a precarious tweet from someone that isn't directly working with the Saudi government/licensing board?
Well, not quite. See, there is more to worry about. There are also leaks coming from /v/
on 4chan from someone who received an early copy and found something surprising in the game. Well, that just so happened to be an African dude. Now the history buffs among us might already consider this a little sus on its own, but for the rest of you out there, you might be interested to know that the inclusion of a black is very interesting indeed given the previous statements by the lead developer of Warhorse Studios - Daniel Vavra - the creator of Kingdom Come, having commented in the past saying "There were no black people in medieval Bohemia. Period." That original tweet was from 2015 shortly before KCD1 released and received quite a lot of controversy, that time from the left side.
Alright, so you may be asking yourself, why worry about rumors when Daniel Vavra himself is an avid twitter user and surely wasn't afraid in the past to set things straight. So concerned fans took to twitter to ask him, but Daniel Vavra was strangely....reluctant to clarify anything...
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Miku in Fartshite
Miku got added to Fortnite in the latest update
She joins other characters like:
>Ryu, Street Fighter
>Kratos, God of War (the PS4 version)
>Aloy, Horizon Zero Dawn
>Jill Valentine, Resident Evil
>Chris Redfield, Resident Evil
>Doom Slayer, (Nu)Doom
>Geralt Rivia, Witcher
>Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid
Thoughts? Who would you like to see in Fortnite? You DO play Fortnite, don't you anon ; v )
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IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT MUTHAFUCKA
...because I've lost control of my life.
WHATCHA'
>PLAYAN
>WATCHAN
>LISTENAN
>READAN
>EATAN
>DRINKAN
>FAPPAN
>FEELAN
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Another MMO Thread
The last one is sinking off the board, and the previous attempt at a new thread was done by a faggot who could not contain his shitposting.
What the fuck have you been playing lately?
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Drawthread - Comfy fall improvement
/v/ Draw Thread
Archive of last thread:
https://archive.ph/v1UHd
Last thread:
>>986513
Thread making resources + the OP can be found here:
https://mega.nz/#F!Suhz0D5Y!BSrBrV1kxK9B5G1SSiJmwQ
REMINDER TO SAVE THREADS LOCALLY (and all the pictures you want to) SINCE ARCHIVES DON'T HAVE IMAGES ANYMORE
Relevant Boards And Threads
>>>/loomis/
>>>smuglo.li/a/ - Drawing Improvement Club
>>>/a/2358 - /a/ Drawthread
>>>/drawarchive/ - Mirrored drawthreads with images; living archive
Books and Tutorials
If you're starting out, just have as much fun as possible and give it your best shot. Don't worry too much about these as they're info overload for absolute beginners.
Sometimes they get nuked but >we try to keep them updated.
https://sites.google.com/site/ourwici/
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/5strtvods5gda/Drawgfag_Resources
https://hubpages.com/art/how-to-draw-learn
Helpful Resources
Interested in learning how to draw? Check this shit out.
Learn fundamentals with exercises: drawabox.com
8Chan Art Wiki: infiniteart.wikia.com/wiki/InfiniteArt_Wiki
Online poses with timer: quickposes.com/en/gestures/timed
/loomis/ resource hub: web.archive.org/web/20190721220321/
http://www.8ch.net/loomis/hub.html
HOW TO DRAW - an /ic/ guide: hubpages.com/art/how-to-draw-learn
Great resources by /co/ veteran: comic-con.org/toucan
''Real life reference of normal people: oh-hi.info/
Animu key frames: sakugabooru.com
Drawfag resources:'' mediafire.com/folder/5strtvods5gda/Drawgfag_Resources
4/ic/ Resources:
/ic/ itself: Filled with namefag, cancer and horny art but its where all drawfagging began. Explore around, you can still find diamond in that septic tank.
/ic/ Beginner Guide: docs.google.com/document/d/1uwaXKU7ev6Tw_or__o8ARpUb6r2rCZYJGqwSFV9AD98/edit#bookmark=id.15jx3pyuimvj
Drawfag resources: mediafire.com/folder/5strtvods5gda/Drawgfag_Resources
Helpful Video Resources, mostly YouTube
ProkoTV: Good for basic anatomy needs
Sycra Yasin: General in-depth talk about ways to improve and being an artist''
CG Cookie / ConceptCookie: Advanced techniques and many livestreams (on Wednesdays) and tutorials
FZDSCHOOL: Founder of FZD School (in Singapore) Feng Zhu showcases his workflows by re-working art from his students
Scott Robertson: Advanced lessons on drawing fundamentals and concept artwork
Ctrl+Paint: Free lessons on basics and fundamentals of drawing and painting
Draw Mix Paint: Free lessons in traditional painting
Level Up Sessions: Livestreams and talks with professional artists
Booru and Delivery Archive
https://sites.google.com/site/ourwici/
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/5strtvods5gda/Drawgfag_Resources
https://hubpages.com/art/how-to-draw-learn
Helpful Resources
Interested in learning how to draw? Check this shit out.
Learn fundamentals with exercises: drawabox.com
8Chan Art Wiki: infiniteart.wikia.com/wiki/InfiniteArt_Wiki
Online poses with timer: quickposes.com/en/gestures/timed
/loomis/ resource hub: web.archive.org/web/20190721220321/
http://www.8ch.net/loomis/hub.html
HOW TO DRAW - an /ic/ guide: hubpages.com/art/how-to-draw-learn
Great resources by /co/ veteran: comic-con.org/toucan
''Real life reference of normal people: oh-hi.info/
Animu key frames: sakugabooru.com
Drawfag resources:'' mediafire.com/folder/5strtvods5gda/Drawgfag_Resources
4/ic/ Resources:
/ic/ itself: Filled with namefag, cancer and horny art but its where all drawfagging began. Explore around, you can still find diamond in that septic tank.
/ic/ Beginner Guide: docs.google.com/document/d/1uwaXKU7ev6Tw_or__o8ARpUb6r2rCZYJGqwSFV9AD98/edit#bookmark=id.15jx3pyuimvj
Drawfag resources: mediafire.com/folder/5strtvods5gda/Drawgfag_Resources
Helpful Video Resources, mostly YouTube
ProkoTV: Good for basic anatomy needs
Sycra Yasin: General in-depth talk about ways to improve and being an artist''
CG Cookie / ConceptCookie: Advanced techniques and many livestreams (on Wednesdays) and tutorials
FZDSCHOOL: Founder of FZD School (in Singapore) Feng Zhu showcases his workflows by re-working art from his students
Scott Robertson: Advanced lessons on drawing fundamentals and concept artwork
Ctrl+Paint: Free lessons on basics and fundamentals of drawing and painting
Draw Mix Paint: Free lessons in traditional painting
Level Up Sessions: Livestreams and talks with professional artists
Booru and Delivery Archive
https://ourobooru.booru.org/ (Superior new booru, continue using this until the new site works properly)
8-booru.booru.org/ (Retired booru because the owner is fucking dead)
https://ourobooru.art (New booru site, still being worked on)
https://consoletan.booru.org (An additional place to post consoletan artworks to)
Tips for a healthier Drawthread
>Spot out any autistic shitter and repeat offenders You know who they are unless you're new, in which case lurk moar.
>Anyone can participate, even if you're dog shit. The livelier it is, the better, but don't go begging for (you)s or pity. This is not deviantArt.
>If you do draw, draw to the best of your ability! If you're not giving it your all people will notice.
>Any drawfags with works in progress, please post any updates so that the requester and everyone else knows that people are still working hard!
>If for any reason a request is scrapped, upload what you have and say it's at its most complete state. Maybe ask if someone wants to take over and finish it for you.
>Comment. Every artist loves a compliment, it validates their hard work. Don't be afraid of dishing out them (you)s as long as you feel they deserve them.
LASTLY, PLEASE READ THIS
These threads are not meant to be spammed every day like a fucking general.
This isn't an art board. Give the Drawfags their time to do their thing and leave the thread-making to them.
Anyone attempting to make this thread in a newfag/cuckchan/low effort manner will be met with disdain and mockery.
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Onirism is no longer indie
Crimson Tales has struck a marketing deal with a recently created publisher named Shoreline Games, made by people who recently worked on vidya like Space Marine II or Subnautica's marketing. CT keeps full control of the dev while SG makes sure the game is marketed properly.
Also, the Onirism page in Shoreline Game's website claims the games is set to get its 1.0 release in Q3 2025, but knowing the game's many setbacks and what's left to do, they might not meet the deadline.
https://archive.is/7ksT7
Also, here's Blueberry's father, King Strawberry.
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PC Hardware & News Thread: SSD Edition
>Discuss PC Hardware & News
>Share Specs & Pics
Current News
>Ryzen 9000 X3D series out late Jan 2025
>RTX 5000 due early Q1 2025
>Intel's new CPUs suck ass and Intel is pozzed by DEI
Last thread
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Video Game Waifu Thread #2: Festive Fun Edition!
Previous waifu thread got bumplocked, so here's a new one! Just in time for the Christmas season as well!
So, /v/, who's your videogame waifu? Got some good art of her you simply must display? Done anything to show how much you care for that lass? Gather around and share! Or you can just talk about your favorite female charcters, if that's more your thing. Show us all why your waifu truly is the best girl!
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webm thread - member movies edition
They no longer make movies out of games, this time you get to play the movie!
You can be sure the second I find a nigger there will be a video of him getting whipped.
Last thread
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Successor Naming: Consoles, Games, & Other Related Paraphanalia
Do names matter? Do they really contribute to success or failure of a product?
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AI General ( Stable Diffusion / DALL-E / Chatbot / Voice Cloning )
Smug Spoiler Edition
[Copied from previous thread]
── ✦ ✦ ✦ ──
Use this thread as a catch-all for AI related topics. Try to stick to vidya & help your fellow anons out.
PLEASE SHARE EVERY NEW RESOURCE YOU FIND OR CREATE
── ✦ ✦ ✦ ──
Resources: https://pastebin.com/fLMeAMb1
Previous Thread: https://archive.fo/ZMDOK
Previous threads are moved to >>>/ais/
[500 posts or Page 13 before next thread]
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NIHON FALCOM THREAD: Forward Relentlessly Edition
I was hoping to make it to the shareholders meeting before the old thread got bumped off but it looks like we'll miss it by a couple of weeks.
>Latest News
-Falcom's 2024 title is all but confirmed to be Kuro No Kiseki 3. We don't have a title or any details yet, though, and likely won't until the shareholder's meeting in December.
-Ys X released on Playstation systems and Switch. As of now, no PC announcement has been made. CLE likely
will make one going by their track record, but who's to say when. Durante and his team will eventually make one too, as the norm is now for them to release the Japanese PC version and patch in the localization later. Either way, we likely won't see fan translation efforts until a PC version materializes. Thankfully, the Switch version will at least mean easy access to the Japanese script, which was a major problem when trying to translate Kuro 2. Speaking of...
-Kuro no Kiseki 2 has had it's main and sub scenarios translated. That is to say, main quest, side quests, events noted on the map and connect events. Most NPCs are still machine translated. This is following Kuro no Kiseki 1 which was completely translated down to the last NPC. This was all done before NISA even officially announced their Kuro localization. As long as they remain three years behind, this should stay the norm.
>Fan-translations
Kuro no Kiseki 1 Translation:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nN-39bcBkES4Wg-3-rGlRqTARuQhGybB?usp=sharing
Kuro no Kiseki 2 Translation:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/120XMXZinIOWUvzyFZj4bZRYBSoZGMChO?usp=drive_link
Hajimari no Kiseki Translation (NPCs incomplete. You might also have to use the CLE PC version and not Durante's. Not sure.):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WpcNwWXIAdrEitf7z0nIM6sZF7t3pQmw
Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana English patch:
https://files.catbox.moe/f9gv0g.zip
>Undubs
Mega of every undub:
https://mega.nz/#F!k5ZjwTCD!A4Uyb67OpQQ_qCoB-zvx0g
Merge the JP voices and Dummy files into one folder and dump that folder into the voice folder.
>Falcom pastebin (download links for scans, Falcom Magazine volumes, soundtracks and more)
pastebin.com/G2mswYCt
>Previous Thread: https://archive.ph/k1XLz
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Meta Thread
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Graphical Stagnation and Regression
<aka "they're gonna take you to the present, where your screen is fucking unpleasant" the thread
>aka grafix discussion bread
So I don't think it's much of a secret these days that despite
<TAA, with ghosting and trailing
<mandatory upscaling
<framegen
<raytracing and pathtracing
more and more games are shipping out in worse technical states asking for more power while less is delivered. There are a myriad of reasons for this state of affairs but TL;DR something systemic is definitely going on and it's led to ripple effects like gamers buying more PC indie titles, reevaluation of the eighth generation, backlash against Unreal Engine, and the Threat Interactive drama. "buy new GPU" is no longer a valid dismissal since Nvidia's poor showing at CES, with barely an uptick in compute and the push for 75% fake frames and neural texture compression.
Discuss this hot mess.
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The Video Game Industry is imploding
I wanted to make a thread for this since it seems every day there's either a massive amount of industry layoffs or some publisher splitting off. Most recently Toys for Bob and Saber Interactive have split from their previous holders with rumors of Gearbox being sold off or going private after splitting off from Embracer like Saber just did. Additionally 505 have just shut down a bunch of offices in Spain, Germany, and France.
Since just last holiday there have been over 15,000+ layoffs in the video games industry with a lot of companies restructuring like Embracer and Sony after deals with the Saudi's and the Chinese have basically gone sour. This is in addition to games like Spider-Man 2 (2023) costing over 300 million dollars and with the constant failures of live service games, it makes sense why the industry is experiencing a soft crash as it were. It remains to be seen what will come of the video games industry and what will rise from the ashes. I'm expecting to see more smaller publishers pop up while the current publishers will focus on making smaller games with tighter budgets. That being said no one really knows where the industry will go from here.
sources:
https://archive.ph/YI6OK
https://archive.is/ZzK5C
https://archive.ph/3z9RF
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How should gamers fight problems with modern games?
Greentext at least one problem and find solutions to the problem.
1) Bland "brown and bloom" colors and graphics, uncreative, uninviting, and visually unstimulating, that reduce atmosphere, emotional impact, and uniqueness
2) Crunch culture where employees work long hours under intense pressure to meet deadlines and deliver products, causing burnout and decreased product quaality
3) Degradation of the hobby as gaming became international and developers adapted design to cater to broader demographics
4) Digital rights management that requires online server authentication, or negatively impacts game performance, or limits how you can use the game
5) Diversity, equity, and inclusion biasing hiring processes at the expense of skills which reduces studio performance, competence, and morale
6) Excessive DLC that fragments the gaming experience, locking content behind additional purchases instead of including it in the initial release
7) Exploiting, cheating, and hacking online like aimbots and wallhacks, offline players usually know each other which discouraged local cheating due to social consequences
8) Game-as-a-service models, subscription and cloud services for gaming where you (((own nothing and be happy)))
9) Hyper-realism instead of artistic and aesthetic style, making games look generic as they strive for similar fidelity and lose unique artistic identity
10) Input lag making games feel more unresponsive, particularly in genres like fighting games, first-person shooters, or platformers needing precise movements or combos
11) Kernel-level anticheat that violate privacy and increases the risk malicious actors exploit security vulnerabiltiies to infect gamers with malware
12) Limited physical releases where many modern games are digital-only, and companies assume digital distribution, the PS5 Pro even lacks a disc drive
13) Loading screen saturation that frequently interrupts gameplay, wastes time, and breaks immersion
14) Monetization, microtransactions, loot boxes, and gambling mechanics and how developers design games around compulsive spending of players instead of delivering quality content
15) Movie games requiring significant "Triple A" budgets and minimizing player agency by sidelining gameplay and how they interact with the game world
16) Pay-to-win mechanics that let players gain advantages by purchasing powerful items or upgrades, undermining fair competition
17) Reduced challenge to cater to broader demographics as gameplay is de-emphasized
18) Releasing games incomplete with significant bugs then patching day one or over time with frequent updates instead of quality assurance, pre-ordering games encourages this too
19) System requirements where modern games require powerful hardware, making them less accessible, or large large with long download times so customers buy storage to play
20) Woke game narratives and character designs, prioritizing diversity over game quality, lacking positive role models, and abandoning game audiences for (((modern audiences)))
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Stream Thread 14: Album Cover
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Post link to your streams here.
Any subject: Games, movies, anime, art, programming, politics... whatever you like!
>How do I stream?
∙ Register an account at
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∙ Go to
My Channels under your avatar icon, top right.
∙ Create a channel, click on it and then the ⚙ icon (channel settings) to find your
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And remember.
HAVE FUN!
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LOL
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Nintendo Switch thread
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Minecraft General
For Minecraft discussion, builds, pictures, videos, and YouTube.
>Frequently Asked Stupid Questions
Q: I stopped playing months ago, what's new in Minecraft?
A:
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Version_history
Q: What launcher should I use?
A: PolyMC is the current flavor of multiMC fork.
Q: How do I install mods?
A: Download the Fabric or Forge modloaders, install for the version you want, and launch the game to generate the necessary files. then go through Curse's awful shitty search system until you find a mod you want, download it, and put it in your new mods folder in the minecraft directory. Check the mod's curse page for more specific installation requirements and dependencies.
>Official stuff:
* Website -
http://minecraft.net
* Forums -
http://minecraftforum.net
* Mojang -
http://mojang.com
* Wiki -
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com
>Launchers:
* Prism (Regularly updated general purpose launcher) -
https://prismlauncher.org/
* PollyMC (Pirate friendly fork of Prism) -
https://github.com/fn2006/PollyMC
* PonyMC (Certified clown launcher) -
https://www.reddit.com/r/PolyMCLauncher/
>Mod downloads and wikis:
* Curseforge (the biggest mod/texturepack/resources repository) -
https://minecraft.curseforge.com/
* Feed the Beast (another big repository) -
http://feed-the-beast.com
* FTB wiki (the biggest mod wiki) -
https://ftbwiki.org/Feed_The_Beast_Wiki
* The other ftb wiki (slightly less useful than the first) -
https://ftb.gamepedia.com/
* Japan forum (has some hidden gems, hope you speak 日本語) -
https://forum.civa.jp
* MCModBrowser -
https://mcmodbrowser.neocities.org
>Modding Tools and Documentation:
* Current Forge docs (1.15/1.16) -
https://mcforge.readthedocs.io
* Forge docs GitHub archive (1.12-1.16) -
https://github.com/MinecraftForge/Documentation
* Forge docs GitHub archive (1.7) -
https://skmedix.github.io/ForgeJavaDocs/javadoc/forge/1.7.10-10.13.4.1614/
* Fabric mod loader (1.14+) -
https://fabricmc.net/
* Example mods (1.8-1.15) -
https://github.com/TheGreyGhost/MinecraftByExample
* McJty tutorials (1.10/1.12/1.14) -
https://wiki.mcjty.eu/modding/index.php?title=Main_Page
* Open source mods list -
https://github.com/agaricusb/ForgeMod/wiki/List-of-Open-Source-Forge-Mods
* A bunch of docs about mod development for 1.7 -
https://gtnh.miraheze.org/wiki/Development
* A Guide for hosting your own server for
(((free))) [
(((free))) means paying with your personal info :^)] -
https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/how-to-set-up-and-run-a-really-powerful-free-minecraft-server-in-the-cloud
>Old mod links (you might find good stuff in here, but it's best to stick to curseforge for general purpose searches):
* Mod list -
http://bot.notenoughmods.com
* Another mod list -
http://modlist.mcf.li
* Resource links -
http://minecraftforum.net/forum/41-
* Beta repository -
https://archive.org/details/minecraftbeta1.7.3modarchive
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DONKEY KONG
D K
DONKEY KONG
Which is the best Donkey kong game and why is it tropical freeze? More importantly, how come Nintendo hasn't made any DK games lately? I have pretty much given up hope of a 3d collectathon like 64 but having Retro hammer out another 2d platformer can't be too much of a hassle. Maybe just have a new studio make a whole new kind of DK game? There is a lot of things you can do with DK and his extended family.
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Musou General: Dynasty Warriors Origins Special
Haven't seen much discussion or hype for this one, and that's probably warranted seeing what I've played of it thus far.
One hero, seven weapons, skill trees, wandering around an overworld map, side quests, collecting crafting materials, etc.
I'm new to the genre and the series, except for the excellent Hyrule Warriors (the first one, not the shitheap that was Age of Calamity), and while I do find it fun all I can see is shit that would piss off genre and series purists.
As a fairly distant outsider though, I admit I'm having fun, though not heaping gobs of it. The overworld map reminds me of Heroes of Might and Magic in a way.
DWO definitely could be better, but the main point is I'm absolutely lost with these fucking names. They all sound the same to me with few exceptions. I know of Lu Bu from the memes, and Cao Cao stands out because the name is pronounced Tsow Tsow which, OK, I'm familar with Welsh so I'll give that a pass, but fuck me everyone else is named Gaun Yu or Yu Guan or Lie Bu or Lei Schwang or some fucking thing. I'm lost as fuck.
The music is good though, it's the kind of upbeat energetic Jrock that usually accompanies these titles and other nip action games. Kind of reminds me of Ys 8's OST a bit, heavy on the guitar and drums.
The voice acting though, well, the lines are said and they're fairly clear but I guess it's hard to have passion for such stilted dialogue. I suppose it's a direct translation of the rather rigid Mandarin so I'd prefer that to some "punched up" localiser bullshit, so I'll give it a pass on that account.
Overall, I'd call the "modernising" of Dynasty Warriors a success, since I'm having fun and I'm not thrown into the middle of an existing franchise in which I'd be even more lost than I already am with these yellow turban fuckers in the Puyang province. I know there's some significance to the Puyang province, wasn't the communist party born there? Or Winnie the Pooh himself?
Fuck man, this is my first taste of bugman history and I'm lost.
But still, the game is fun for a complete newcomer, though whether that leads to greater sales...I don't know, I don't think so. Purists will likely be driven away and I didn't even know this game was a thing until I asked my local game store if anything had come out recently and I was bored so I picked it up (yeah I "bought" it but their generous return policy means I keep jack shit and get my money back on four out of five games).
According to the Playstation tracker thing I'm 16% of the way through the game and I've played probably two hours, so I'll likely be finished with the main campaign by the end of the weekend.
Any genre fans interested in this game and want to weigh in? I'm curious how you'd feel about it.
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Marvel Rivals Thread
Not sure if you fags saw the news, but apparently Overwatch has got its ass handed to it by the Chinese in the Hero Shooter department. If you have been living under a rock there's a new hero shooter ///game\\\ called Marvel Rivals that has been doing extremely well on Steam and the dev team even supports Linux/Steam Deck which is a huge shock considering how many devs don't bother supporting Linux on the anti-cheat side of things. It also has around 30 playable characters available for free and might be getting more modes such as a PvE mode in addition to the existing PvP modes.
I played the game for a bit, while I had some fun with the game, It's not something I can really put hours into. More like a short burst here and there, although that might be because I'm getting old. That being said I like blasting people around with The Punisher even if his logo is wrong. Although to be fair to this game, mostly everyone on the roster got a massive redesign specifically for the game. Honestly, I just like having a game where I can fuck around for an hour or two without having to boot into my Windows drive.
Have you guys played this game? If so what do you think about it.
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Vidya Lounge Thread
Welcome to /v/'s comfy lounge. This thread is for general discussion about /v/-related topics that don't deserve/fit in regular threads. The rules 'may be treated more flexibly here, but please take care not to make a mess and don't be a retard.
Rules:
1. The lounge is a shared community with /v/. Posters should have posts elsewhere on the board before entering the lounge.
2. Discussion should pertain to /v/-type content only, such as funposting about video games, more video games, industry matters, and gamer™ interests. Colouring outside the lines MAY be okay, however posters do so at their own risk with the understanding that said posts might be moderated without forewarning at any time.
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Touhou Thread: Take it Easy!!! Edition
A new thread for the series that defines the Otaku. Last thread was on post 500 and it's been a while since someone made a new thread, so I figured I'd do it myself. If you haven't had the chance, get Artificial Dream in Arcadia on steam since it's really good and the dev is making free DLC that lets people make their own dungeons. What 2hu and 2hu spin offs have you been playing /v/?
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Amateur Game Development General: Prototype and Production Edition
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Minor News Thread
Basically this is a thread for those minor news articles that are interesting but not necessary big enough to have their own thread. We will be taking the bigger stories from these threads and making them into their own threads, Anons are welcome to do the same. We will NOT be heavily enforcing these threads, so please keep that in mind. Basically things like game announcements, live stream events, new gaming hardware, etc. should have their own threads while shit like NEW GUILTY GEAR DLC 3 "SLAYER" or something like that should be posted in this thread. While we won't ban anyone for doing the former, we encourage anons to use their best judgement when posting news content.
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Short games
What are fairly short games under 3 hours worth experiencing and what impression did they leave on you?
Some people are busy, I can't experience 50 hour JRPGs anymore. Indies welcome, retros welcome. Anything short AND good.
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Mecha Thread
This month it will have been one year since the last thread.
Any decent upcoming Mecha Geimus anon?
Also, r8 my AC
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Video games as art
It's been 12 years since Roger Ebert said video games can never be art.
Was Ebert wrong?
Where, below, did Ebert go wrong?
What is art?
Can video games be art?
What video games are art?
>Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool’s errand, especially given the volume of messages I receive urging me to play this game or that and recant the error of my ways. Nevertheless, I remain convinced that in principle, video games cannot be art. Perhaps it is foolish of me to say “never,” because never, as Rick Wakeman informs us, is a long, long time. Let me just say that no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form.
>What stirs me to return to the subject? I was urged by a reader, Mark Johns, to consider a video of a TED talk given at USC by Kellee Santiago, a designer and producer of video games. I did so. I warmed to Santiago immediately. She is bright, confident, persuasive. But she is mistaken.
>I propose to take an unfair advantage. She spoke extemporaneously. I have the luxury of responding after consideration. If you want to follow along, I urge you to watch her talk, which is embedded below. It’s only 15 minutes long, and she makes the time pass quickly.
>She begins by saying video games “already ARE art.” Yet she concedes that I was correct when I wrote, “No one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great poets, filmmakers, novelists and poets.” To which I could have added painters, composers, and so on, but my point is clear.
>Then she shows a slide of a prehistoric cave painting, calling it “kind of chicken scratches on walls,” and contrasts it with Michelangelo’s ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Her point is that while video games may be closer to the chicken scratch end of the spectrum, I am foolish to assume they will not evolve.
>She then says speech began as a form of warning, and writing as a form of bookkeeping, but they evolved into storytelling and song. Actually, speech probably evolved into a form of storytelling and song long before writing was developed. And cave paintings were a form of storytelling, perhaps of religion, and certainly of the creation of beauty from those chicken-scratches Werner Herzog is even now filming in 3-D.
>Herzog believes, in fact, that the paintings on the wall of the Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc in Southern France should only be looked at in the context of the shadows cast on those dark walls by the fires built behind the artists, which suggests the cave paintings, their materials of charcoal and ochre and all that went into them were the fruition of a long gestation, not the beginning of something–and that the artists were enormously gifted. They were great artists at that time, geniuses with nothing to build on, and were not in the process of becoming Michelangelo or anyone else. Any gifted artist will tell you how much he admires the “line” of those prehistoric drawers in the dark, and with what economy and wit they evoked the animals they lived among.
>Santiago concedes that chess, football, baseball and even mah jong cannot be art, however elegant their rules. I agree. But of course that depends on the definition of art. She says the most articulate definition of art she’s found is the one in Wikipedia: “Art is the process of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions.” This is an intriguing definition, although as a chess player I might argue that my game fits the definition.
>Plato, via Aristotle, believed art should be defined as the imitation of nature. Seneca and Cicero essentially agreed. Wikipedia believes “Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more concerned with the expression of ideas…Key components of games are goals, rules, challenge, and interaction.”
>But we could play all day with definitions, and find exceptions to every one. For example, I tend to think of art as usually the creation of one artist. Yet a cathedral is the work of many, and is it not art? One could think of it as countless individual works of art unified by a common purpose. Is not a tribal dance an artwork, yet the collaboration of a community? Yes, but it reflects the work of individual choreographers. Everybody didn’t start dancing all at once.
>One obvious difference between art and games is that you can win a game. It has rules, points, objectives, and an outcome. Santiago might cite a immersive game without points or rules, but I would say then it ceases to be a game and becomes a representation of a story, a novel, a play, dance, a film. Those are things you cannot win; you can only experience them.
>She quotes Robert McKee’s definition of good writing as “being motivated by a desire to touch the audience.” This is not a useful definition, because a great deal of bad writing is also motivated by the same desire. I might argue that the novels of Cormac McCarthy are so motivated, and Nicholas Sparks would argue that his novels are so motivated. But when I say McCarthy is “better” than Sparks and that his novels are artworks, that is a subjective judgment, made on the basis of my taste (which I would argue is better than the taste of anyone who prefers Sparks).
>Santiago now phrases this in her terms: “Art is a way of communicating ideas to an audience in a way that the audience finds engaging.” Yet what ideas are contained in Stravinsky, Picasso, “Night of the Hunter,” “Persona,” “Waiting for Godot,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?” Oh, you can perform an exegesis or a paraphrase, but then you are creating your own art object from the materials at hand.
>Kellee Santiago has arrived at this point lacking a convincing definition of art. But is Plato’s any better? Does art grow better the more it imitates nature? My notion is that it grows better the more it improves or alters nature through an passage through what we might call the artist’s soul, or vision. Countless artists have drawn countless nudes. They are all working from nature. Some of there paintings are masterpieces, most are very bad indeed. How do we tell the difference? We know. It is a matter, yes, of taste.
>Santiago now supplies samples of a video game named “Waco Resurrection” (above), in which the player, as David Koresh, defends his Branch Davidian compound against FBI agents. The graphics show the protagonist exchanging gunfire with agents according to the rules of the game. Although the player must don a Koresh mask and inspire his followers to play, the game looks from her samples like one more brainless shooting-gallery.
>“Waco Resurrection” may indeed be a great game, but as potential art it still hasn’t reached the level of chicken scratches, she defends the game not as a record of what happened at Waco, but “as how we feel happened in our culture and society.” Having seen the 1997 documentary “Waco: The Rules of Engagement,” I would in contrast award the game a Fail in this category. The documentary made an enormous appeal to my senses and emotions, although I am not proposing it as art.
>Her next example is a game named “Braid” (above). This is a game “that explores our own relationship with our past…you encounter enemies and collect puzzle pieces, but there’s one key difference…you can’t die.” You can go back in time and correct your mistakes. In chess, this is known as taking back a move, and negates the whole discipline of the game. Nor am I persuaded that I can learn about my own past by taking back my mistakes in a video game. She also admires a story told between the games levels, which exhibits prose on the level of a wordy fortune cookie.
>We come to Example 3, “Flower” (above). A run-down city apartment has a single flower on the sill, which leads the player into a natural landscape. The game is “about trying to find a balance between elements of urban and the natural.” Nothing she shows from this game seemed of more than decorative interest on the level of a greeting card. Is the game scored? She doesn’t say. Do you win if you’re the first to find the balance between the urban and the natural? Can you control the flower? Does the game know what the ideal balance is?
>These three are just a small selection of games, she says, “that crossed that boundary into artistic expression.” IMHO, that boundary remains resolutely uncrossed. “Braid” has had a “great market impact,” she says, and “was the top-downloaded game on XBox Live Arcade.” All of these games have received “critical acclaim.”
>Now she shows stills from early silent films such as George Melies’ “A Voyage to the Moon” (1902), which were “equally simplistic.” Obviously, I’m hopelessly handicapped because of my love of cinema, but Melies seems to me vastly more advanced than her three modern video games. He has limited technical resources, but superior artistry and imagination.
>These days, she says, “grown-up gamers” hope for games that reach higher levels of “joy, or of ecstasy….catharsis.” These games (which she believes are already being made) “are being rewarded by audiences by high sales figures.” The only way I could experience joy or ecstasy from her games would be through profit participation.
>The three games she chooses as examples do not raise my hopes for a video game that will deserve my attention long enough to play it. They are, I regret to say, pathetic. I repeat: “No one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great poets, filmmakers, novelists and poets.”
>Why are gamers so intensely concerned, anyway, that games be defined as art? Bobby Fischer, Michael Jordan and Dick Butkus never said they thought their games were an art form. Nor did Shi Hua Chen, winner of the $500,000 World Series of Mah Jong in 2009. Why aren’t gamers content to play their games and simply enjoy themselves? They have my blessing, not that they care.
>Do they require validation? In defending their gaming against parents, spouses, children, partners, co-workers or other critics, do they want to be able to look up from the screen and explain, “I’m studying a great form of art?” Then let them say it, if it makes them happy.
>I allow Sangtiago the last word. Toward the end of her presentation, she shows a visual with six circles, which represent, I gather, the components now forming for her brave new world of video games as art. The circles are labeled: Development, Finance, Publishing, Marketing, Education, and Executive Management. I rest my case.
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Asscreed Shadows delayed AGAIN
This just in, Assassin's Creed: Shadows has been delayed another two months from January 9th to March 20th. This comes directly after the report from "People Make Games"
who I'm not going to link to since they're massive faggots, where one of their support studios "Brandoville" is charged with abusing Indonesia developers to make assets for the upcoming game. Not to mention the outright fuckery going on with Sweet Baby Inc and general disrespect towards Japanese culture, and you have a game that's set to crash and burn when it releases this March.
This is on top of the Guillemot brothers desperately trying to retain control of the company and is trying to go private as the Tencent buyout has currently haulted according to Insider-Gaming. This is ON TOP of the failures of Star Wars, Avatar, Skull and Bones, and XDefiant with some of their failing projects far exceeding 100 million. Finally Ubisoft is likely to go private in 2025 with people within Ubisoft themselves believing that nothing will actually change if an acquisition would take place.
Ubisoft is
FUCKED
https://archive.ph/wip/ZhFH8
https://archive.ph/wip/luh03
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Post about games that you just FINISHED
I seem to be getting the strange feeling more and more that the Anons who keep posting about the games they're "playing" never actually finish those games. As in they just drop the game after a certain point and lose interest in it for whatever reason (Even if it's a great game). So, to remedy that, let's have this thread, where Anons boast about crossing off another title on the backlog. And, to guilt all the other Anons into doing the same.
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QTDDTOT
you know the script, niggers
for any 8/16bit and certain ps1 games, i've been using the 6 btn megadrive/genesis controller, love the d-pad and clicky buttons, so my question is, should i re-order another 6btn megadrive, or is there a better alternative?
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Happy 2025
Happy new year fellas. How many games did you play/finish this last year?
pic related are all the games I finished, ordered from my favorite (Hollow Knight) to the worst, the last two are the only ones I could legitimately consider shit.
>inb4, why that many disney shovelware?
Those are part of a nostalgic binge I've been doing of games from my childhood.
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Witches!
Let us all post games where you can play as cute witches. In memory of our fallen anon. I thought I had lost this pic but I found it I am so happy.
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Sonic the Hedgehog
With Sonic X Shadow Generations coming out in less than a week, now is a good time for a new Sonic thread. Personally I'm quite excited for the game, and am surprised it hasn't already leaked since it usually leaks around this time. Although I'm kinda disappointed we haven't seen a proper Adventure remake yet, hopefully this game will be good and will lead to good things as time goes on. Oh, and hopefully we'll get a Shadow remake that's actually good this time. I doubt SEGA has the balls to make that kinda game in the modern age though. Are you looking forward to Shadow Generations? Do you think we'll get more Sonic stages as DLC? Or will the game just be average and a waste of money and the cycle will repeat itself all over again, even though Frontiers as a modded game is solid. Still, this is the thread to discuss anything and everything Sonic the Hedgehog! please don't porn dump, I'm looking at you Bui
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VIDYA NECROMANCY
Not games where you play as a necromancer, but reviving dead or dying studios.
Which studio would you restore to life to get their potential unlocked?
For me it would have to be Black Isle.
This would give us proper sequels to Baldur's Gate 2, Fallout 2, and Dark Alliance 2, as well as everything they could have done with the Aurora engine after that.
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MOUTHWASHING
Surprised no one here brought this game up, it's an interesting little indie game. It has honestly one of the worst main characters I've seen in a while, not like in a cringe way or a cartoonish way. But someone who'd exist in real life and pull this shit bad kinda way, Jimmy is a genuinely terrible human being.
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Fighting Game Thread: RONALDO CONFIRMED FOR BRAWL Edition
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New Announcements for Game Anime/Cartoons/Movies
Talk about new announcements for game anime/cartoons/movies.
Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 are getting film adaptations. Sony made the announcement during CES this morning.
Sony also announced a Ghost of Tsushima anime adaptation for Crunchyroll during CES.
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Vehicle simbiosis games
I'm looking for games were you have a simbiotic relationship with a vehicle as a gaming mechanic.
So not simply a lore point, both in-vehicle and the on-foot parts of the game are dictated and done by the player, not something like Front Mission Evolved where you getting out of the mecha was a cutscene and you had no agency over it nor driver 2 where getting out of the car had no use aside from some small easter eggs.
I'm talking about games where both are seamless and done at the player discretion and both are interesting, expected and important to the gameplay.
I know these 6 games and i love each one of them (okay, maybe not RESQ, but it still has it's place in my heart) and i also played most of the Blaster Master series too.
Is there any other game like that? exploration heavy games would be even better.
Things like Subnautica and Outer Wilds might apply, but they are very combat averse, so i dunno if they should.
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The Elder Scrolls thread
We have furries and they're all addicted to crack.
Covering the basic news.
>The Elder Scrolls VI is officially in early development, all eagerly await its 2065 release to play a TES game with even fewer RPG mechanics.
>Daggerfall Unity is leaving Beta and considering a full 1.0 release, the in-dev 0.16 release being the earliest candidate. This would mark the completion of its 9-year development and the first major TES engine port to be finished. The project will enter a stage of "post-release support" likely involving bug fixes and further modding improvements.
>Skyblivion posted a new status report, showing major progress. There's too much to cover, I recommend watching their 2023 roadmap if interested https://yewtu.be/watch?v=H1q1nXLDjB8
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#GamerGate + #NotYourShield [#GG + #NYS]: Shit's on fire yo Edition
ONGOING DISCUSSIONS:
>Alyssa Mercante, Other Staff, No Longer Working At Kotaku
https://archive.ph/nekgy
>HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ZOEPOST THAT STARTED IT ALL!: You did it Gaymergays!
https://archive.is/5h44h
>Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will not award “Erotica” points for taking cleavage and crotch photos like original
https://archive.ph/4sTGR
>Game Informer is DEAD
https://archive.ph/jWMly
>Sweet Baby Inc designer attempts to censor Steam Curator List highlighting which games the company were hired for-
has now surpassed 400,000 subscribers
https://archive.is/6BHuP https://archive.is/OSsi2
>IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more
https://archive.ph/HNnJS
>Nintendo Of America Appears To Turn ‘Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’s Character Into Transgender
https://archive.ph/4oNPC https://archive.ph/7ASdr
>Kotaku Writer Targets YouTuber’s Wife, Game Dev Calls for More
https://archive.is/MQCr5
>Deidetected.com Website By Sweet Baby Inc List Creator Kabrutus Launches
https://archive.is/jGzXI
>Helldivers 2 Community Manager Fired After PSN Controversy; Sony Cancels Mandatory Helldivers 2 PSN Linking Update
https://archive.is/7OUyl https://archive.is/9rKLK
>Kotaku EIC Resigns Over New Editorial Edict; More staff lay-offs follow Nathan Grayson exits The Washington Post as it shuts down Launcher, their gaming section
https://archive.ph/Oojm4 https://archive.is/fo8Qw https://archive.is/B9wT2
>Vice to lay off hundreds of staffers, stop publishing content on its website
https://archive.ph/wip/O036P
>Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth content being localized during development comes under scrutiny
https://archive.is/1b5Dj https://archive.is/8IBSn
>Feminist Frequency is dead
https://archive.is/gHAZc
>Buzzfeed News is shutting down
https://archive.is/mI2rz
>The Gamer Praises Censorship in ‘Resident Evil 4’ Remake, Claims Original Game’s Panty Shots Encourage “Misogynistic Behaviour In Real Life”
https://archive.is/qGtKO
>Chris Avellone wins seven figures lawsuit, possible return to video games industry
https://archive.is/ZDgT7
>GJP is attacking Valve over not supporting BLM
https://archive.vn/12kPM
>Nathan Grayson laid off as The Washington Post shuts down Launcher, their gaming section
https://archive.is/B9wT2
>Limited Run Games fires employee after complaints over who she follows on Twitter
https://archive.vn/obNiJ
>Regulators (FTC) Look To Block Microsoft Acquisition Of Activision Blizzard Inc
https://archive.ph/rKNDf
>EU antitrust regulators to probe Microsoft's $69 billion Activision bid
https://archive.ph/SqhgU
>IGN Journalist who reviewed The Last of Us Part 2 joins Naughty Dog as Editorial Content Manager
https://archive.ph/eTmtu
https://pastebin.com/GGG5Kwdr
>Arc System Works confirms that Bridget is trans
https://archive.ph/lkbiL
>Cloudflare bans Kiwifarms
https://archive.ph/5ziDX
>Ben Kuchera claims he was fired by Vox Media for taking time off to deal with his children being sexually abused
https://archive.ph/nB79z
>Wiki is up again!
https://ggwiki.deepfreeze.it/index.php/Main_Page
CURRENT TASKS:
1. OPERATION MAX REVIVE
Rebuild the board's userbase and activity through simple, but effective methods
1. Post across the entire board
Activity creates activity. Use threads you like, make new ones if topics don't exist. Easy examples are Drawthreads and Friday Night threads, go request or draw something right now.
2. Recruit and recover lost or potential anons
Use this site's OC and features to entice anons if necessary when recruiting, just inform that we are alive.
Here's some sites and links with at least some confirmed anons that can be recruited again:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/8chotwheels
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SSAVCH
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/video_games
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/8chmohun
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/8chan_monster
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/GoodLuckEbolaChan
https://steamcommunity.com/search/groups/#text=8ch.net
https://steamcommunity.com/search/groups/#text=8chan
Other sites that might yield fruitful results and have anons (art sites use an account so you can see 18+ content):
https://www.deviantart.com/search?q=Vivian+James
https://www.newgrounds.com/search/summary?suitabilities=etm&terms=Vivian%20James
https://twitter.com/search?q=Vivian%20James&src=typed_query&f=image
https://rpgcodex.net/
https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/
Somewhere on Telegram
Just searching up GG or 8chan-related terms on certain places/sites can get you possible results.
3. Make your own OC/Memes/Content
Doesn't matter what it is even if its just simple edits or full-on drawings or webms, just make it and have fun. Ask in thread for software recs if necessary.
4. Encourage or create fun events, activities, projects, etc.
Think things like 8chanmania, weekly streams, re-translation projects, demo days, or zzz's gaming magazine for example. If you want to do something, try making or reviving it, it can't hurt and these things are great for the board.
5. Use other boards
All it takes for a board to grow is at least 2 dedicated anons using it. Don't be afraid to make a post, check places periodically, shill, or what have you. Don't force discussions to boards, just encourage the usage of them.
2. OPERATION TRAJAN:
Collect and catalog all of the various localization and censorship accounts of past video games into a single repository from these sources:
romhacking.net
The_Cutting_Room_Floor/tcrf.net
Segaretro.org
https://redirect.invidious.io/channel/UCFItIX8SIs4zqhJCHpbeV1A
Examples:
http://archive.vn/XQOHW
Sony's policies forces censorship; JP devs allegedly have to go through ENG approval process: https://archive.fo/awzFF
- Japanese blog post about it:
https://archive.fo/bF9bE
Sony Japan President Says PS4 Censorship Policy Is To Match Global Standards And Protect Kids: https://archive.fo/U3GLa
- Confirms censorship was deliberate:
https://archive.fo/XgAgP
- No rules for censorship policies, games judged case-by-case:
https://archive.fo/37DhK
- Marvelous partner starts petition against policy:
https://archive.fo/rxQtf https://archive.fo/84UHo
• Twitterfags: Tweet with Sony's stock code $SNE so that investors see your tweets and know you're pissed.
• Consider spreading OP Timber materials to targets as well:
http://archive.vn/URjtu
ONGOING TASKS:
A. Operation Download And Conquer: Loosen the death-grip of Google that has taken hold of the internet's audio and video services
>>>/t/5546
B. Support archive.fo! Accountability needs proof:
https://liberapay.com/archiveis/donate
C. OP DisNod: Contact the FTC and advertisers about violations and unethical practices
http://archive.vn/9bylT
D. Internet Censorship happenings: Spread the word about the dangers of FOSTA/CLOUD act/Article 13, etc.
https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-act-violates-constitution
E. OP End the Era: Dig into resetera and their connections to journos, devs, etc.
http://archive.vn/JfuSb
Reminders (important, READ THESE!):
• Use
https://archive.today to deny sites ad revenue and traffic and preserve pages in case they are deleted later
• Be civil if you have to argue with people on Twitter, Tumblr or any forum - don't make us look like douchebags
• Do not accept requests for any goal, demand lists or personal army requests:
https://pastebin.com/p5dVp1e5
• Beware COINTELPRO: The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies:
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
•
STOP REPLYING TO BAITS AND OBVIOUS DERAILMENT ATTEMPTS, JUST REPORT AND FILTER
Resources
>Summaries of #GamerGate:
•
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=wy9bisUIP3w - #GamerGate - If It's Not About Ethics
•
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=5fnRSL3d_xU - #GamerGate in 60 Seconds
•
https://archive.fo/23Fde - GamerGate: A State of the Union Address
>Background and Evidence for #GamerGate:
• The #GamerGate Dossier:
https://archive.fo/nv1Fb
• #GamerGate Wiki:
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Worst video game titles
We often hear about the worst video games of all time, but what about the worst video game titles of all time?
Starting off with two of the most obvious ones
>Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
That's pronounced "three hundred fifty eight over two". Yes, they want you to pronounce it "over" but didn't bother writing it as an over. It only "works" in Japanese because furigana can tell you its pronounced that way, but its dumb even there.
>Infinite Undiscovery
Either an "undiscovery" is "lost", which would mean total amnesia (even walking, potentially even breathing), or an "undiscovery" is "not a discovery", which means the name is saying everything within is nothing new.
(dis)honorable mention
>Idea no Hi
This one tries to make a English pun that does not actually work. The official name in "Day of the Idea" and 1: While "idea" in standard romanization, "イデア" isn't pronounced anything like the English "Idea" (as in thought) 2: "イデア" is a person, so the definite article here is just Engrish.
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Emulation Megathread
What games are you emulating?
What do you need help emulating?
Post screenshots of games you are emulating.
Discuss games you are emulating.
Discuss hacks of games you are emulating.
ROMs
https://r-roms.github.io
Emulators
Nintendo Entertainment System
https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen2
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen2
https://nightly.link/bsnes-emu/bsnes/workflows/build/master
Nintendo 64
https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases
https://github.com/simple64/simple64/releases
https://github.com/Rosalie241/RMG/releases
GameCube/Wii
https://dolphin-emu.org/download/#download-dev
Wii U
https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu/releases
Nintendo Switch
https://gamebanana.com/tools/16395
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Gaming-Related/Ryujinx.shtml
Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance
https://mgba.io/downloads.html#current-downloads
Nintendo DS
melonds.kuribo64.net/downloads.php
Nintendo 3DS
https://github.com/PabloMK7/citra/releases
Sega Genesis
https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases
Sega Dreamcast
https://redream.io/download
https://github.com/flyinghead/flycast/releases
PlayStation
https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases
PlayStation 2
https://pcsx2.net/downloads
PlayStation 3
https://rpcs3.net/download
PlayStation 4
https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4/releases
PlayStation Portable
https://nightly.link/hrydgard/ppsspp/workflows/build/master
PlayStation Vita
https://vita3k.github.io/#download
Xbox
https://github.com/xemu-project/xemu/releases
Xbox 360
https://github.com/xenia-project/release-builds-windows/releases
Arcade
https://www.mamedev.org/release.php
Flash
https://ruffle.rs/downloads
FAQ
Where do I get BIOS files, prod.keys, NAND dumps, system ROMs, and other firmware?
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Emulator_files
My PC is a toaster. Are there any emulators I can run?
Most emulators of the 16-bit era (fourth generation) and earlier consoles (e.g., Sega Genesis, NES, Atari 2600, etc.) can be run on any PC, even one with a CPU clock speed of below 1 GHz. higan is the only exception because it's highly accurate and requires a 3 GHz CPU for optimal performance. Other emulators such as Snes9x, Kega Fusion, Mesen, etc. can be run on any PC that can run Windows.
My save states do not work in the new version of the emulator I downloaded. Why?
Save states are not compatible between different versions of emulators, or between different emulators. Don't rely on them. Use real/battery saves which typically can be transferred, even if they need to be converted first.
My game isn't working. How do I resolve problems on my own?
Emulators can have stable builds that are weeks, months, and sometimes even years old. The "stable" version is often just a randomly picked dev (short for development) version, which is why the latest dev versions should often be preferred, as they solve emulation issues most of the time. If you're using a plugin-based emulator, graphical glitches and sound issues could be solved by changing the settings or using a different, better plugin altogether. Newer, more accurate emulators that do not use a plugin system may also be recommended. Try changing the graphics backend between OpenGL, Direct3D, and Vulkan. Sometimes, questions may have been asked and answered multiple times in the past. Check online. If you still can't find a solution, ask. Provide system specs, operating system, emulator, version, settings, plugins, system emulated, game emulated, and the problem itself.
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Speedrunning Megathread
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EDF Thread : No Epic Account needed edition
EDF 6 no longer requires epic gays store account to play multiplayer. We did it by passively sending ill will towards them.
Im getting my ass kicked in later missions on hard and have switched to hardest to get some better weapons, only to get obliterated in early missions. Grinding is hard and Im tempted to get a mod to cheese through missions.
Anon who's making edf mods, also has gdrive links in previous thread
https://next.nexusmods.com/profile/xdiesp/mods
Previous thread -
>>895955
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/40k/ Thread
Discuss Warhammer 40k games and lore.
Previous thread
>>1033135
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Freedom Wars Remastered
Freedom Wars Remastered released today. Is anyone playing this shit?
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Renewed Mario Paint Thread
The old thread was lost. Let's revive it and all try to participate this time, especially since everyone can post again.
If someone would be so good as to give a link to the Mario Paint download since I seem to have lost my archive file.
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TIGER & Other LCD Games
Damn I really miss these things. They need to make a come back as fully functional 1 bit graphic handhelds. Monochrome LCDs and basic bitch chips are really cheap now.
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Why are Japanese games more honest about the natural comeliness of under-18 year old girls?
Not even in a strictly sexual sense, just the fact that flowering youth is objectively, aesthetically beautiful, and young girls are cute and appealing as companions or mascots.
Like, there's this recent game I'm playing that's growing in popularity, and you can pick a little girl as a starting companion alongside a dog, kitten, or bear. And whenever a western streamer or youtuber reaches that point in the game, they always do an about take, you can see sweat drops forming on their head as they think of the socially appropriate westerner answer, and invariably pick the dog or bear because they 'aren't weird'.
What causes this unnatural behavior in western gamers?
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Indie Games
After years of avoiding indie games like the plague because of how cancerous the community surrounding them is, I've finally decided to give them a try. I really love the 16 and 32 bit eras of games but I've played virtually all of the ones from that period that I would be interested in to death and the only people who seem to still be making games like that are indies. But there are so many out there and I'm certain 99% of them are bad so I need your help. What are the best indie games reminiscent of old 16 and 32 bit games? I'm up for pretty much any genre, 2D or 3D, except horror and roguelikes. They don't have to look exactly like games from back then but I'd prefer something that doesn't push gay/tranny/furry/feminist pozz; at least, not explicitly.
I've already tried Undertale and I didn't like it.
Also, general indie games thread.
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UNCOMMON TIME 2024 CHRISTMAS THREAD!
CORRECT YEAR EDITION!
IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN! You are cordially invited to the UT Christmas Stream at
https://cytu.be/r/uncommontime There will be some new Tactics and ReTuned content
if Tactics and ReTuned devs remember to post a new link and I will DEFINITELY beat Arietta with only Teagan (probably not), but I will give it my all in the attempt. I don't know what else to say besides thank you for all the laughs, and I hope to see you there.
[addendum]
TEAGAN DID NOTHING WRONG!
START TIME: DECEMBER 7TH AT 3pm CDT/1pm PST/9pm for Britbongs/10pm for the rest of Europe
[Tentative Schedule subject to change if 8tv go's tits up]
Dec 7th: Start Vanilla UT plus Nuclear if there's time for it.
Dec 8th - 10th: Finish Vanilla UT content
Dec 11th: CODA and Duet, Start Tactics
Dec 12th - 13th: Finish Predecessors(Tactics) and move on to Retuned
IF a new version is available
Dec 14 - 15th: Finished ReTuned and may God have mercy upon my soul I'll stream Sullen Boku Girls Alliance if there's time.
[As stated above this schedule is subject to change depending on several factors including]
>8tv shits the bed, again.
>My internet dies, again.
>OBS is being a bitch, again.
>I'm taken away by the jews for internet crimes!
>How quickly I'm able to complete the content.
[Questions you may have]
>How long will you stream for?
I'll stream 5-6 hours. This is a good time frame to complete UT in a timely manner but also give anons a chance to see the important stuff like Nuclear Teags!
>Will the stream be recorded
Yes I will record the stream.
>Are you really half yid and half pizza?
Definitely!
>Will you stream a pre-stream
I may stream a bit early to test everything and make sure it works. But that remains to be determined, if I do I will announce it in the threads.
>Did Teagan really do nothing, or is Alto misunderstood?
YES!
>Is Teagan a nigger?
Most certainly Probably not!
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Share Thread - Chaika Forever v2.0
Previous Thread:
>>476242
SITES TO FIND SHIT, CHECK HERE BEFORE ASKING
Gitgud archive and Volafile are as good as dead and as such have been pruned entirely, don't rely on them for anything.
https://vimm.net - Accessible archive of retro console games.
https://gog-games.to - Downloads of GOG's titles. Owner throws tantrums a lot so the site occasionally goes down.
https://archive.org - Internet Archive, you would be very surprised how much is here if you go looking.
https://www.myabandonware.com - Mostly retro PC games, often obscure and "abandoned" titles.
The following are cracking/repacking sites. If there's a major release, it'll probably show up on one of these.
https://dodi-repacks.site
https://kaoskrew.org
https://fitgirl-repacks.site
Privacy and OPSEC tools
Try not to get yourself v&, OK?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_p2p#List_of_anonymous_P2P_networks_and_clients
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Anonymising_yourself
privacytools.io
thatoneprivacysite.net
Emulation
Think you're a bad enough dude to emulate games?
Be sure to visit our emulation sister thread.
>>1028520
For all your emulator needs, see GTW.
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
Want ROMs? No-Intro contains almost everything you'd ever want.
https://archive.org/details/ni-romsets
Platform-specific resources for trickier emulators.
https://wiki.rpcs3.net/ - PS3
https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/wiki 360
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Main_Page GameCube and Wii
https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Main_Page - PS2
https://yuzu-emu.org/wiki/ - Switch (Now defunct. Must be accessed through Internet Archive.)
Guide to a Happy Share Thread
>Requesters
1. Before requesting, search online and even use distributed search engines (e.g. InfraSearch, Opencola, YaCy, FAROO).
2. Look in linked sites at the top of the OP
3. Be as specific as possible. A title, release year and cover art will help.
4. Some links might purposely be misleading by having spaces, lines, keys & passwords split in the post. This includes torrent hashes.
a. If you see a string of characters (e.g. c12fe1c06bba254a9dc9f519b335aa7c1367a88a) with or without dashes, it is a magnet link.
b. If your bittorrent is shit, prepend magnet:?xt=urn:btih: to the string.
c. Find and Replace (sed/tr/awk) is your friend.
>Uploaders
1. Try to make sure whatever you post isn't infected with 15 different Russian crypto miners.
2. Please make sure your files actually work.
3. If your link is password protected, PLEASE provide it. This isn't Cicada 3301, nobody wants to play riddles.
4. If there are any special provisions in playing a game, such as requiring SmartSteamEmu or a cracked executable, don't assume everybody knows that and provide clear instructions.
5. Try to avoid uploading to sites that require an account or throttle download speed.
a. ESPECIALLY not websites that make you jump through hoops to setup an account. Again, nobody likes riddles.
b. Websites that limit you to one download at a time or every X number of hours should also be avoided.
6. No "Oh, you can find that on SLSK" or "This private tracker has the upload!". Don't defer to private communities and don't just tell somebody where the files are, actually share them!
Most importantly,
DO WHAT YOU WANT BECAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE.
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Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make
https://archive.is/fnNYh
An article from Bloomberg goes into what's behind the ballooning cost of games, and it comes to the conclusion it's actually not "muh gwafix". The TL;DR is
<incompetence
<terrible workflow
<bad production pipelines
<no clear development plan
Some quotes from the article.
"le reddit spacing" to make it clear these are separate and out of context
>I had coffee with a video-game developer who told me that work was slow and that they’d been spending half of their days watching Netflix.
>There was the developer who couldn’t work because the game’s tools weren’t ready. There was the team that had to drop everything they were doing because the creative director had played Breath of the Wild over the weekend and came away with some Great Ideas. There were the artists who were blocked from working as they waited for a colleague to finish a design.
>A small part of a game’s budget might go to miscellaneous costs like office rent and computer equipment, but the vast majority is earmarked for labor. Let’s do some quick napkin math. If you have 100 employees and you’re estimating $15,000 a month for each one, you’re spending $18 million a year. But these days, the top game studios are much bigger than that. So if you have 300 employees and you’re estimating $20,000 a month for each one (got to pay good wages to compete in 2025), you’re spending $72 million a year.
Anon's note: If you think $20,000 a month is crazy, wages can be even higher than that. I think some of the positions at Riot start at
$35,000 per month.
>games are growing more expensive because of rampant mismanagement — because of companies chasing trends, making bad bets and lacking a clear creative vision. Inefficient workflows, technological shifts and insecure executives can all be the cause of wasted time, which equates to higher budgets. A common example these days is taking a team with years of experience making single-player games and pivoting them to a multiplayer game as a service.
Thoughts? It's not a long read, I recommend checking it out.
A lot of this is stuff you've likely already thought or noticed, but never saw articulated.
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DOOM/Retro FPS: Shy Skellys
No Christmas theme. Demons don't celebrate Christmas.
Old thread:
>>937850
Post anything relating to
>DOOM
>its wads
>its sequels
>its community
>its copycats
>all 90s FPS related accessories
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Zelda/Link OR Zelink Thread
>2025 EDITION
Hello again everyone and Happy New Year! This thread is dedicated to the most prolific and wholesome videogame pairing ever, Zelda and Link!
Discussion about the Zelda series itself and other Zelda girls is completely welcome here, as are other Zelda pairings and stuff.
Share your cute Zelda art, Zelda doujins, and other Zelda things!
The Zelink MEGA (3000+ images of Zelink organized by game) kinda outdated
https://mega.nz/file/hJwElSLZ#CeH5wAZBUXJ_qiQWrGJBkhjzVjyAxURFh1BTESXKOXs
The mega will be updated once per month
Rules:
1. Keep it civil.
2. No NTR/cuckold/demoralization culture.
3. Be kind to others
Previous:
>>924272
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UMPC/Handheld thread
Old thread:
>>608298
News
>The Rog Ally has released, and it's.. fine. The claimed 2-3x performance boost was closer to 5%-30% and the custom GUI isn't anywhere near the level of the Deck
>The Edion in Osaka talked about last thread has set up a longer-term or possibly permanent Steam Deck display following a presumably successful 'trial market', Japan is now one of the few, if not only, countries to sell the Steam Deck at major retailers
>Computer and hardware manufacturer Orange Pi has soft-announced their first handheld after a leak. It reportedly accommodates both Linux/Windows, the device will either use a 7800U or a RK3588S processor for the higher-end model and will launch in October with three models costing between an estimated 1500元 ($220) and 3500元 ($500), though prices are not final. There is no publicly known name for the device yet
>Gaming analyst firm Omdia estimates Steam Deck has sold over 2,000,000 units so far, having sold 1,600,000 in 2021 alone, and will likely surpass 3,000,000 this year. This makes the SD not just the bestselling UMPC in history, but possibly majority of UMPC sales ever. The firm believes the device "will open the door to a new PC gaming product category"
Thread questions
>What do you own?
>What are you playing on it?
>Anybody gotten involved in the scary world of hardmodding yet, and how did it go?
>Anything you're excited for?
CES 2025 UPDATE
Lenovo Legion Go S will be the first non-Steam device to use the OS.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/529834914570306831
A big takeaway here
>In addition, the same work that we are doing to support the Lenovo Legion Go S will improve compatibility with other handhelds. Ahead of Legion Go S shipping, we will be shipping a beta of SteamOS which should improve the experience on other handhelds, and users can download and test this themselves. And of course we'll continue adding support and improving the experience with future releases.
So they're now allowing users to download SteamOS directly, though it still sounds like it's a handheld-focused version of the OS.
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IT FINALLY HAPPENED
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Homebrew and Modding Thread
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Games Carried Completely by One Non-Gameplay Element
I was recently reminded of some games which, in my opinion, were carried entirely by the soundtrack. Immediately the ones which come to mind are things like whatever Tim Follin produced music for, like Pictionary on the NES, but also more contemporary titles like Skyrim and Mechanicus. Then this got me thinking about the other games out there which got completely carried by some other non-gameplay related element, like the story or the art style. I'm not talking a mix of one thing or another, but something going so far and beyond the rest of the characteristics of the game that it is recognized/remembered as the sole thing the game had going for it. I suppose another example would be Little Witch Nobeta which has pretty forgettable combat and even worse aspects besides, but it remembered because it has one cute girl in it whom the devs are not afraid at all to lewd in their official merchandise and marketing.
Post some other examples which spring to mind, be it for soundtrack, artstyle, or something else - as long as it doesn't pertain to the gameplay.
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Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale HD Edition announced for PC
CAPITALISM IS BACK
GET FUCKED COMMIES
EasyGameStation has announced Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale HD Edition, a remastered version of the December 31, 2007-released item shop simulation game / action RPG. It will launch in 2025 in Japan.
Personally I hope they don't fuck up the localization considering how much of a mees that scene is. Although considering how influential this game was for PC, it's entirely possible some tranny within a company like XSEED or NISA will try and ruin it. Still we can worry about that when the time comes, right now I'm just happy this exist.
https://x.com/Recettear_EGS/status/1873564667366506965?
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recomend me a game, anons
I'm finding that i've gotten bored of my current library. what are some good games that you've guys have played? they don't have to be recent, or anything.
for some pointers, here's some games i really enjoyed, and why i like them (and some reasons i don't)
>Noita
good: wand tinkering is really fun, falling sand simulation is interesting to play with
bad: poor balance, underdeveloped mechanics.
>KSP
good: rocket go fwoosh. flying your own crafts is cool. successful missions are rewarding
bad: performance, requires a physics degree to play optimally.
>F:NV
good: lots of dialogue options, colorful characters, and memorable locations.
bad: start of the game (and whole main quest) is very linear, and DLCs are pretty mid.
>skyrim
good: beautiful environment, fun to wander around, non-commital builds.
bad: gameplay is very simple, baby'd mechanics, lack of choice.
>TF2
good: laid back and casual game, lots of weapon variety, a lot of personality
bad: too much mediocre content, gotten a bit stale.
>Factorio
good: puzzles are simple, but come together to be complex, rewards thinking but does not demand it
bad: gameplay is the same across playthroughs - lacks replayability
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Dragon's Dogma 2: CapJews
So it seems that the launch of this game was piss poor due to the bad performance issues and normalfags waking up to the DRM/Microtransactions shit. Still there's a good game to be found, and I hope everyone is enjoying the game as much as I am.
Just recently capcom released a new patch where they added a New Game function in addition to a FPS Lock for console fags. In addition to being able to get your own house earlier in the game, and changing Art of Metamorphosis to 99 instead of 2 in the Pawn Guild, thus eliminating the need for microtransactions altogether.
Sadly it seems the performance issues won't be release until later this year since it seems capcom needs some more time to cook the game and have it working with DLSS3 and other techniques to make the game actually run at a bearable framerate.
Still with all of the complaints they got, hopefully they can have some options to fix the performance issues by using the GPU a bit more in towns. Still, have you been enjoying the game /v/?
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Gensokyo Massacre: cuz I'm bored edition
I feel like playing another game of EratohoK, so I will probably start one up tomorrow and post screenshots and commentary as I play it. What to expect:
> a war strategy game with Touhou characters
> and porn
> and lots of other characters we've added in earlier threads
> Set kill rate to "high" and watch them all die
It will probably take a week to finish. If you want to recommend yet another new character before I start, I can add them.
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Blue Archive new thread
Making a new thread for the hit game taking the comiket doujin world by storm! The last thread
>>793596 hit the bump limit, so I decided to make a new one as well considering we're close to the anniversary events
>What is Blue Archive?
A mobile game on iOS and Android, you play as a male teacher in a world where the only other humans are all female. Command your students as you take down enemies and learn about the world you've been thrust into. You're sure to find a favorite among the many students available to you. Also the soundtrack of the game is easily top tier.
>Is this a gacha game?
Yeah, it's a mobage, but F2P users are capable of winning as well on their own pace, and in the late-game, the gap between F2P and P2W is very small indeed - perhaps even nonexistent. Many of the students in this game are available for free (and useful on raids) without even rolling once in the gacha system (Over time you have a chance at unlocking students by beating the hard mode levels)
>Are the girls cute?
Yes
For the loli fan out there, sate your thirsts on this game with the most lolis per capita out of every mobage out there. For the hagfan or oppailoli fan, this game can cater to your needs as well.
>Isn't this game censored?
Since China doesn't like nudity in any fashion, the game was split so that the chinks have their own censored version. The NA and JP versions are unaffected and the lolis untouched.
>Can I play it on my PC?
Yes, with the mobile phone to PC emulator LDPlayer or Bluestacks
>How do I play?
Here are some useful links
https://bluearchive.nexon.com/home
https://rentry.org/how2playba
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Elin/Elona Thread/General: 8ternal League of Nefia
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/v/idya Summer/Beach Art thread
Post /v/idya characters in beach attire and the like.
We used to have artdump threads like these on an annual basis but this place caught the gay so let's change that.
If you want to request season-appropriate art the drawthread is next door
>>986513
yes OP pieces are from a preexisting thread
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Vita thread: Enjoying Infinity Onion Rings Edition
Who knew they were so tasty.
I hope you fags have been having some fun on your Vita's.
Whatcha
>PLAYAN
>HACKAN
>BUYAN (kek)
>WANTAN
PREVIOUS THREADS:
https://ghostbin.com/paste/d2BOH
https://archive.is/xQU91 (Gitgud hackpaste)
Last thread:
https://archive.is/gdH0I
There are also numerous Vita threads across the webring as well.
Check out
>>>/vita/ and feel free to contribute, tis' a new board dedicated to the amazing device we all know and love. It could use some threads, CSS, assets, banners, and whatever anons feel like suggesting or making.
First-time buyer's FAQ:
https://pastebin.com/Xhz0ijN6
Physical game list (Western/Asia-English/EU released):
http://web.archive.org/web/20190705133424/http://retailgames.net/playstation-vita/complete-list/
Vita hacking:
https://gitgud.io/8vitagen/hackpaste/blob/master/guides/vitahacking.md#vita-hacking https://vita.hacks.guide/
Vita homebrew/plug-ins:
https://gitgud.io/8vitagen/hackpaste/blob/master/guides/vitahomebrew.md#vita-homebrew-and-taihen-plug-in-recommendations
Vita game mods:
https://gitgud.io/8vitagen/hackpaste/blob/master/guides/vitamods.md#vita-game-mods
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OkS1S2sJqs2p8jp6pxBfrQkHT4Tn2-__NmAl6BYIUw8/
Make bounties for ports/features for the Vita here:
https://github.com/vita-nuova/bounties
Consoletan booru:
https://consoletan.booru.org
I haven't played on my Vita in a fair while as I've been on more of an anime tear and I'm very busy with life, but hopefully this summer I'll have some time after
finals to enjoy on my Vita.
How about you anons?
Feel free to do writeups and reviews of games you've played as well, they may end up getting added to the chart (eventually).
Make sure you treat your Vita well. always love her, and never abandon her or allow her to be damaged or broken or you're no better than Soyny.
And reminder not to buy anything digital that supports Soyny (unless its for archival, sharing and piracy purposes ofc, which might become important pretty soon).
NEWS
Monster Hunter Frontier is back on the Vita, this should be a guide or something for getting it working:
https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=wdH1CweG1Js
A big Vita themes place went down but they came back I think (more or less):
https://psvt.ovh/
(Backup version)
http://qcnnvxi.cluster027.hosting.ovh.net/
MGBA version 0.10.2 released with some minor Vita improvements, but I still think its an imperfect emulator, haven't tested it in a long while though:
https://mgba.io/2023/04/23/mgba-0.10.2/
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Squilliam compilation thread – The End of E3gelion
> -1085 days until E3
Since it's summertime and E3 is officially dead and buried, I'm making one final Squilliam compilation video. Any Squilliam ideas you've been sitting on, this is your chance to get them in. Let's take a moment to remember the time every studio used to gather in one place to present their latest and greatest, before everyone started holding their own little conference no one cares about. If you have any memorable moments of past E3s, good or bad, post them in this thread. For old time's sake and so I can put some of it into the video.
>I'm a newfag and what is this?
It's been an 8chan tradition to make OC from a template based on Squilliam from Spongebob getting a heart attack. Download a template, open it in your favorite drawing/editing software and go nuts. When you're done, post it here (in a reply to the right anchor post to help me keep track of it).
>How long do I have?
I'm aiming for Sunday the 23rd of June as submission deadline, the video will be released sometime after that.
>Can [board] on the webring participate?
Of course! Whether it's a video game board, or just a hangout board interested in making OC. All I ask is that you help me find it by cross-posting your stuff here and linking it to the proper anchors. Feel free to share in your post what board you're representing.
>What song are you going to use?
Walk Away by Dokken
>Is there gonna be a mosaic?
Yes, see the later post. Try to make your squares E3-related if you can, this is about the death of E3, after all.
>Are we never gonna see another compilation again?
You probably will, I hope to make another one with a new template next year. I'm not making any promises, however.
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What was the last game to have a rockin'/upbeat soundtrack?
The only thing I remember people saying about Wanted: Dead was that it had a great choice in music, but it's just a general question about what happened to games that used to have rockin', upbeat, fast, and loud music in general? I know these types of songs are still coming out (Especially in Japan), but I cannot think of a single game that really incorporates them outside of rhythm games you find in the arcade. Regular games just seem to have become dominated by grand orchestral music like they're trying to be some opera. So where are the games with the loud fast-paced music that's guaranteed to cause hearing loss?
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RGH3 Xbox's
How is the OG Xbox emulation going on the modded 360s, I hear some games are still glitching like they have aids? though I love these things it's like a literal time machine kek.
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/Fit/ness 'games' thread - Do you even /fit/ games bro?
Didn't have this kind of thread for a long while so its time to make another one.
Talk about which fitness games to play, what kind of diet works and what doesn't. Do you use any games as warmup for gym? Post game progress, advice, exercises and how to sail through your 20s, 30s being vfit. Your body will thank you in the coming years
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'Team Fortress' issue no. 7 has released
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Girls Frontline 2
https://gf2exilium.sunborngame.com/
So this just came out globally recently. Is anyone playing it? Any fans of the original mobage/kusoge? This one plays a lot like XCOM, kind of. The similarities end pretty quickly when compared to XCOM but it's the best one most people will be familiar with. The visual style is 3D anime, but in my opinion, tastefully done.
Not a shill by the way
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AI RPG Text Adventure
https://perchance.org/ai-rpg
Let's start a thread and share the results of our stories. I've been playing around with this and want to see what others can do with it.
This is a digital dm. It can run any campaign you give it
and it doesn't seem as restricted like other chat AIs. It goes along with some weird shit. Fantasy, modern day, sci fi. If you can think of it, it can do it if you give it some form of goal. I haven't played around with this part enough, but I assume you can make it stick to different rule sets or game mechanics if you explain it.
Fill out the top box with the rules and world building. it will generate a paragraph of setting and other characters. You can then tell it what you'll do next or just hit continue and it will keep the story going without your input (often creating actions on your part). If you don't like something, you can directly edit the story text. Just delete a few lines here and there or rewrite it yourself and it parses that text as it continues the story.
If you click generate template on the tracked info, it will keep a track of inventory, stats, character relationships and whatever else you want to write in there like a notepad.
Play a game. Post your story highlights in this thread.
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jackbox
>ctrl + f "jackbox"
<no results
What's /v/'s stance on jackbox? Would anyone be willing to join if I hosted?
Also /v/ackbox thread
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Sexy Sprites (part 2)
Continuing from the old one
>>516987
Here's what i spent working ALL DAY.
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GamerGate AMA
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Fear & Hunger
So I finally got 1&2 after it spending years under the radar for me, I should note I had zero idea of these games besides them being girmdark.
>Game is a horror turn based RPG
>Big point of combat is dismemberment
<Enemies can very easily do the same to you including blinding the party
>Shit is also based on the toss of a coin
>Items are also RNG
<RNG will rape you harder the enemies will
>Grinding much like last remnant will get you nowhere
>Choosing your starting character and knowing to use them is the difference between a good run and bad run
>You will be raped
<In the literal sense
>Sound design is excellent
>Each time you get into combat you feel the insane risk of each encounter
>The Eclipse style monsters and tier events
>Some enemies can be talked to while giving you a thrashing
>NPCs range from insane to tragic
<You can recruit several
>Game might be more obtuse then a Souls game in certain regards
>Piss easy to absolutely fuck yourself over
>Items can be used to fuck over enemies or bypass things in the dungeon
>Multiple endings
I'm going to start 2 soon but I thoroughly enjoyed 1.
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#AskMeAboutGamerGate on X and Bluesky
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Gachashit Ghetto - Mobage Galore
Aka be glad
(((Tel Aviv))) only knows how to make
Raid: Shadow Legends edition.
Given how many anons here play these titles and request an area to discuss them beyond
Blue Archive >>1034800, given how many JP devs have fled to mobile as some of their more senile contemporaries chase the dead ESG gold rush, given how the
bishoujo market is concentrated in mobage, and given how many players have actually banded together and organized to repel and BTFO globohomo as of late, I think a mini
>>>/vmg/ is warranted. As OP I however get to christen it a "ghetto" until somebody else takes over the succeeding OPs.
Do note that all discussion related to the technological and industry dynamic shifts these live services (yes they are live services) propose as well as topics directly pertaining to their cross-platform nature (i.e talking about how
Aether Gazer is available on both PC and mobile or the number of gacha games on Steam) should be directed to this thread instead
>>986877 If you want to discuss, say, how
Lies of P and
Brown Dust 2 were both developed by Neowiz, or how neato
Versus and
Relink are as part of Cygames'
Granblue Fantasy IP, do it over there. You can talk about
Action Taimanin's 4th anniversary, you can't talk about how well it runs on PC here.
Non-gacha MMOs should also be directed to the existing MMO thread
>>897003
Post memes, post updates to your chosen main gacha, post liveblogs of your playthroughs, post artdumps, post collabs, post obscure JP and about-to-EOS gachas, post about how the fuck match-three RPGs are still on the market, post about
Senran Kagura New Link and
Dead or Alive: Penis Vacation, complain about drama and monetization and mixed toilet games and girls trying to push their otome bishie gachas, just make your contributions high effort and high quality
and try to max out 8chan's 5-file 50MB upload limit. You are allowed to be horny about certain characters, but your posts about them must be substantive (no
>>>/vb/ template posting, for example).
<geez, are you smug's owner
No, I care about digital hygiene and board nettiquette.
NEWS AT A GLANCE
Going to try to hash out a format since this is very new for 8/v/.
>GFL2, the successor to many anons' favorite gacha circa 2017, is set to come to Global this fall with a closed beta test and prereg being held. (Read: they need that gweilo piggu money.) Luckily, they are cranking up that fanservice, of which I won't post yet because this OP needs to cover multiple titles.
>Unluckily, the CN state censor department has randomly struck a bunch of gachas with notices to sharpie over their character designs, the most notable of which was Snowbreak, enrager of BPD harpies everywhere, and Path to Nowhere. For the time being, Snowbreak has elected to use the localization toggle as a way to technically comply with said censor wave while still giving its playerbase what it wants; its future is still uncertain though as the devs continue to give Winnie the Pooh the finger. It seems like more and more that CN devs need to move off West Taiwan's mainland if they are to realize their creative and financial ambitions.
>In general, the global economic downturn has meant that the gacha market has slowly been contracting on mobile. PC, however, seems to be booming as devs find that players are willing to open their wallets without having to pay Apple and Gulag the provider tax.
>Arknights and Nikke are holding their 5.5 and 2nd anniversaries respectively, with both of them making big stinks about how they have new anime projects in the pipeline, never mind how all people remember from Blue Archive airing is Iori's toes getting sucked.
>Azur Promilia has started receiving age ratings in Taiwan.
>Mihomo has rebranded its Harvest Moon knockoff project from Asteweave Heaven to Petit Planet.
>Uma Musume is gearing up for a global release. When? Not clear. This is for umaanon though.
>Infinity Nikki is making waves as a big open world gacha that Soyny is banking on to get some crumbs after chasing off every Asian third party in existence.
>Persona X, the one with the hag, has been spotted on Steam's database as coming to Global on PC.
>Atelier Resleriana seems to want to apologize for Koei Tecmo's egregious globohomo censorship by parading the cast out for the obligatory summer event with bikini and swimsuit costumes. Unfortunately, it doesn't undo the fact that policore safety shorts are being slapped everywhere faster than pedophiles can slap children's asses.
>Tribe Nine is a thing. Came and went on Steam Next Fest.
>Dead or Alive: Penis Vacation is pushing out Prism onto consoles, but the original gacha still exists in its glory.
>I'm going to go out on a limb and start editorializing, because Netease has the unenviable task of trying to sell Destiny Rising to the gacha demographic and it is hilarious. Yes, I'm sure pronouns are going to help it compete with big titty anime girls.
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///I would put resources to combat gaming and gambling addiction here...if I HAD ANY\\\
Play responsibly and don't pay any money, how about that. Should be the norm but we have an awful lot of newfags here on the younger side who have yet to benefit from elders' experience.
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Unicorn Overlord a masterpiece you should not buy
/v/ I'm here to say after playing it via emulation of the Switch version that Unicorn Overlord is a masterpiece , 10/10 and as the kids would say GOAT. If not for the fact Elden Meme's DLC is coming out and the potential of Metaphor: ReFantazio, I would say this is JPRG of 2024 hands fucking down. This might even surpass Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir , Dragon's Crown and 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim as Vanillaware's best game, it's that fucking good.
<But anon you just spend the first bit of this post practically on the knees sucking it off why are you saying not buy it?
The localisation of this game is not great and if you're a Vanillaware fag like I am you should not support the English version of this game period, if you want to support Vanillaware go buy a JP copy of this from Amazon jp or other moon storefront. Yes it's not totally pozzed like say FE or others have been but it still changes the tone and intent of the game
>WHO CARES IF THE DIALOGUE IS FLOWERY ANON?
You should care as it's still an alter of the original work and an utter disrespect of Vanillaware
>WHERE IS THE PC VERSION YOU NIGGER?
There is none as for whatever reason the CEO of Vanillware is super butthurt towards PC as platform, which is a shame as the mods of this game would be amazing and patches to unfuck the localisation would also be very welcomed. I think this would've added another 500k sales or even more if it was on steam as let's face it consoles are pretty much dying, even in Japan PC has gotten pretty big (not big enough where it's fully taken over like the west and Slavland), even Atlus was scratching their heads on why Vanillaware asked them to not allow a PC version.
>DOES THIS GAME HAVE WAIFUS?
Yes it does and they are all amazing but if you're a hag lover like myself Yahna is best girl.
>WHERE CAN ONE EUMLATE IT?
Ryujinx is what I used and I'm unsure if there are others, so perhaps a kind anon could correct me.
<Closing notes
If you're looking for something that beats modern FE(FE: Three Houses wasn't too bad but I understand why people might not care for it) this next to StellaGlow will fill that Strategy JRPG niche. How many hours you anons put into it and and who were your favourites? Also SCARLETT A SHIT!
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"Romeo and Juliet" style endings/relationships in games
For some reason, I'm rather interested in stories where something like this happens
>Star-crossed lovers
>Seems to be a perfect pair
>They get into some sort of trouble and have to separate or can never see each other again, or one of them loses their memories or something like that
Maybe I'm just feeling masochistic. I don't know. In any case, the only ones like this I can think of are
<Tatsuya and Maya in Persona 2
<Kurisu and Okabe in Steins;Gate Unless you count the true ending
<Professor Layton and Claire from the Unwound Future
Got any more? Post them ITT. Bonus points if it's not just from visual novels because I could probably name a few more from that genre.
Also use this thread to post some good couples from vidya in general.
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AI General ( DALL-E 3 / Stable Diffusion / Voice Cloning / Chatbot )
Just Like One Of My Japanese Animes Edition
[Copied OP from previous thread]
Use this thread as a catch-all for AI related topics. Try to stick to vidya and help your fellow anons out.
PLEASE SHARE EVERY NEW RESOURCE YOU FIND
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Resources: https://pastebin.com/fLMeAMb1
Previous Thread: https://archive.fo/SLOaP
Previous threads are moved to >>>/ais/
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How to fix vocal minorities?
>game is enjoyed by majority as it is
>minority see it doesn't suits their worldview
>band up with their small group of friends and start bombarding the companies with complaints and takes
>majority doesn't bother to respond or give a fuck because they have actual lives and things to do
>companies thought the minority opinion is the majority and bends to their views
>now the game is the minoritys personal fucktoy and another game is ruined
How can we fix this? Most people have actual lives to live and can't afford to fight competitive autists, cultural warriors and so all day...
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Anon's Bizarre Adventure AKA /v/ makes an RPG maker game
What happened to it? I feel like working on it again, but i don't have the latest version.
For those that don't know, here’s how it works.
Everyone is taking turns downloading the newest version of the game, making contributions before reuploading it for someone else to work on it. Only one person can actively work on it at a time. This is because if two people make overlapping changes to the database, scripts or switches, they will conflict resulting in one person having to redo all their work. Changes to the map and events can be copy-pasted from one version of a project to another so you’re free to work on new maps and new events if its not your turn and add them to the current version of the game once it is your turn.
It should work like this. OP posts newest version of the map. The first person (Anon #1) to respond to OP stating that he’s going to work on it becomes the active game dev. Once Anon #1 finishes and re-uploads it, the first person to respond to him gets to work on it. So on and so forth. Additionally, whenever you re-upload a new version, reply to the anchor post, it’ll make things a lot easier.
General Rules
>Don’t mess with maps, events or anything else you didn’t make. Although, adding minor stuff like a connection between two areas or fixing bugs and typos is all fine.
>If you’re ok with others editing your stuff, leave a note saying so.
>You’re free to add characters and the like, to the inter-dimensional tavern.
>You’re also free to make changes to game settings, unless its something we’ve agreed upon (we’ll probably do this via a poll)
>We also have a dedicated board now >>>/bizarre/ come post and check it out! (The exact way we use, and the general purpose of the board in relation to the threads on /v/ will probably change change over time. However there will
always be threads maintained on /v/, regardless of what happens on the board.)
Current version of the game:
UNKNOWN! I HAVE 0.55 BUT I'M NOT SURE IF IT'S THE LATEST ONE. IF YOU HAVE A LATER VERSION AVAILABLE POST IT!
RPG Maker VX ACE magnet: This one contains all the DLC
76UC6DG7
Sprites and stuff: Feel free to steal
https://rpg-maker-artists.deviantart.com/gallery/25208345/RPG-Maker-Sprites
You can also steal more shit from the XV Ace steam workshop using this
http://steamworkshopdownloader.com/
Archive of Previous Thread:
https://8kun.top/v/res/16890428.html (Threads here aren't archived)
FAQ
>How do I RPG Maker VX Ace?
Here’s a good tutorial series if you want to learn how to use it. inb4 jewtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzqt1PzBxxQ&list=PLzevVXwTX9wipsdJnTsuzUoCLb9v5npat
>What about RPG Maker MV?
We decided in the last thread that we’re using VX Ace. We’re not changing this again. Get it out of your head right now. If you made content in MV you’ll have to back port it to VX Ace. It sucks, but we’re not doing any more engine changes.
>Why don't you fucks use version control?
Like RPG Maker MV, we tried that and the project died. Nobody wanted to learn git. It can't be helped. Plus someone needs a
(((premium))) account if we want the project to be private.
>Are you guys affiliated with [PUT ANY OTHER /v/ PROJECT HERE]
No, the group creating this game is not a stable dev group and is only comprised of random anons who get interested in the project enough to start developing is.
>Add X to the Game!
Suggestions are fine, but if you want something added to the game. DO IT YOURSELF. Its not that hard.
>What should I add?
Go nuts, add whatever the hell you like! (However, please keep in mind that if the filesize of this project gets too large it’ll become unruly to work with. So please be somewhat conservative when adding large music or .ogv files.)
>Is OP a faggot?
Yes. Forever and ever.
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STOP KILLING GAMES CAMPAIGN
TO EUROBROS AND STRAYAN ANONS: YOU CAN DO YOUR PART AND TAKE ACTION TO MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD, AS A CONSUMER, TO STOP GAMES AS A SERVICE.
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70Xc9CStoE
>An increasing number of videogames are sold as goods, but designed to be completely unplayable for everyone as soon as support ends. The legality of this practice is untested worldwide, and many governments do not have clear laws regarding these actions. It is our goal to have authorities examine this behavior and hopefully end it, as it is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media.
This campaign originally started from some youtuber who hated the fact that The Crew, an Ubishit racing game, would close their online services and making the game he purchased basically unplayable. Even if it would technically be possible to run the game offline, it's unfortunately prevented by DRM and other jewish nonsense plaguing modern gaming today. He is making a rallying campaign, asking for the 12 million people who effectively got scammed after buying The Crew to make their voice heard and complain about this, so that governments can take action and hopefully set a precedent to destroy GAAS as we know it in an effort to preserve videogames.
Any step taken towards making publishers and greedy kike game companies release offline versions of multiplayer-only games is a win. Any effort contributing to popularizing the now lost practice of giving server tools to gamers for them to make their own community servers is a good thing in my eyes.
If you care about vidya, it's in your best interest to spread awareness of this campaign and do as much as you possibly can, even if you don't like the EU. Sign petitions, screech about it, etc. They've shown that they can seriously cripple anti-consumer practices, as seen with Apple.
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Souls Thread: Melina has no closure edition.
Let's discuss Elden Meme and the other souls games (Sekiro included).
I hope everyone is enjoying the expansion for Elden Ring and let's hope that Black Myth: Wukong won't be chink trash. I've personally been having a great time with SoTE save for the sheer lack of closure for Melina and other lose ends. The lack of new endings and
questionable final boss with Shota Femto and his buck broken brother along with some story flaws are my biggest gripes out of what is otherwise a very solid DLC. Last thread
>>985814
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Fae & fay
Videogames either all about fairy tales or just have a lot of fairy tale creatures such as satyrs, changelings, trolls and faeries. I have been in a weird mood all day thinking about the fae. but reading about the dreaming changeling isn't quenching my thirst for fay. I want more.
Now I know of a few games that has fairies. Quite a few of them. Legend of zelda has multiple different types. Dragons crown has a tinkerbell look alike following you all around. I think one of the other vanillaware games has you playing a fairy as well. Was it odin sphere or grim grimoire? Unicorn overlord does have elves with their fairy companions but I barely noticed the fairies during my playthrough. Fairies were a pretty big part of FFXIVs shadowbringer expansion but I am really burned out on that game. Total warhammer does have a lot of fey creatures spread throughout the beastmen and the wood elves.
Preferably I would want something like a role playing game set in a feywild type world. I am willing to try other things though. I know there is one fairy RPG on XBLA but I only played the demo for it years ago and I don't think its even available anymore.
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Luanti thread
I'm afraid to make a Luanti thread because the game is much better than Minecraft. It's the definitive block building video game. (popularity is not a measure of quality). I'm afraid to make a thread and advertise it's existence for fear of it becoming too popular (normalfags ruin everything).
I'm going to make 1 thread about it (per imageboard) and that's it because the userbase is a bit TOO small for my taste and this game could use a bit more players.
>How is Luanti better than Minecraft
-it is a self contained and simple application. The audio always works, the game always runs reliably.
-simple and intuitive Linux and Windows support
-it is a convenient platform for mods. This is a big deal. Mods are a 1 click install. There's been times where I didn't like something about the base game so I immediately went and downloaded a mod and the problem was fixed in 5 minutes.
-Open source for maximum customizability
-every aspect of this game is free as in costs no money.
-no corporate faggotry overlordom from micro$oft
-Online play is simple and intuitive
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Gorbino's quest
You know what you need? A CEO mindset. You gotta get up early everyday and grind away at the meat mines. You gotta have a 10 year plan. If you don't have this you are never getting your own house. You're just going to remain some fucking loser. What are you waiting for? Buy stocks in Gorbinos quest and get filthy rich you dumbfuck. You want to know why Gorbinos quest is the best game in the world? because it is the only one you idiot. They don't have a choice. They gotta buy it and the chunkopops.
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2024 in reflection
Well /v/ it's the last day of 2024 and for others it's 2025 already. I thought it be nice to reflect on what might've been a turning point in history, not only for gaming but the world in general.
In 2024 we had notable games and DLC (for better or for worse)
>Balatro coming out of nowhere and wowing people
>Granblue Fantasy Relink finally coming out and being a good ARPG
>Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth continuing the Yakuza series surprisingly great shift into turn based RPGs
>Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was a total failure and might've been the death warrant of Rocksteady
>Unicorn Overlord which many consider to be Vanillaware's Magnum opus but mired with controversy over it's flowerily localisation which in turn brought back the heated discourse over localisation
>Dragon's Dogma 2 finally came out to a mess of micro transactions, horrid optimisation issues, DEI and questionable design choices
>Helldivers winning hearts by being a fun team TPS and breaking hearts with Sony and Arrowhead fucking things up
Elden meme's DLC comes out to universal acclaim and sparks the conservation of how DLC should be made from now on
>Earth Defense Force 6 need I even say more /v/?
>Black Myth: Wukong despite the games media trying everything to shill against it breaks every record for player count on steam and beyond
>Concord becomes the biggest disaster in gaming's history
>Star Wars Outlaws is a total flop for Ubisoft and adds to the company's woes
> Astro Bot a decent platformer that Sony paid to win the shill awards 2024
>40k Space Marines 2 won the hearts of 40k tards and gamers alike with the game just being an unapologetic 7th gen action TPS that kept to the lore of the series
>FF 16 PC finally comes out of the Nogame5's prison but with mixed attention
>Frostpunk 2 comes out and autism ensures
>The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
>Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP comes out much to everyone's pleasure
>The Forever Winter an early access grimdark survival horror TPS that surprisingly has potential to perhaps be a big grimdark franchise
>Mouthwashing an indie game that awed people with it's real depiction of a narcissist who ruins the lives of anyone he interacts with
>Starfield: Shattered Space comes out and no one gives an iota of a fuck
>Silent Hill 2's (((remake)))
>Metaphor: ReFantazio (one of the weirdest on this list) a game that went under the radar despite being Atlus game it has a lackluster localisation and feels rushed but most notably the game's nuanced approach to politics caused spergs on the right, left and centre to meltdown
>Slay the Princess's The Pristine Cut DLC expanded the game to large degree
>Dragon Age: The Failguard a game that is so hard into sjw gender politics and dumbed down the RPGs aspects of the game so hard that normalfags simply couldn't stomach it
>Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered a pleasant surprise for Suda51 fans
>Slitterhead a game that took gameplay elements from Gravity Rush/Daze and siren
>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl for better or for worse came out
>Indiana Jones and the Great Circle which despite being an Indiana Jones game has gone under the radar with low player counts
>Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered
>MiSide a yandere indie game that unlike Yandere Sim actually came out and
We had an interesting year for games /v/ but lets get to the fall of AAA studios and defeat/weakening of the left's hold on entertainment
>Ubisoft's attack on the Japanese with AssCreed Shadows has utterly destroyed the company along with other bad choices due to incompetency or DEI brain rot Tencent will most likely buy them up
>Sony's near billion dollar lost with Concord along with DEI/SJW or plan bad business choices ravaging it's studios has left it in fucking shambles to the point they bribed Doritos Pope to give their one non sjw game the award
>Rocksteady is effectively a support studio due to Suicide Squad and WB might kill it off anytime
>M$ pretty much gave up on the Xbox brand and their attempts to rebrand 343 into Halo studios failed due to still having the Halo hating sjws in charge
>Bungie is falling apart and Marty O'Donnell is having a fucking blast watching it happen
>ND's latest "masterpiece" by (((Cuckmann))) plot was leaked and it's even worse then expected
>Suckerpunch killed the goodwill they built over the years by hiring a Japanese American whore brainwashed by retarded sjw gender politics as lead for the next Ghost game
< Interestingly Jin's VA had a total sperg out over Orange man so bad that even normalfags mocked him
>It has become mainstream to mock Sjweeb localisers to the point normalfags are pushing for AI to replace the cocksuckers
>GW is trying to play both sjws and 40ktards with the female custodies
>BioWare's failure with Failguard has shattered moral and lead to employees leaking shit out of spite
>Rockstar has been infested with sjws which leads to GTA 6's future being uncertain
>Journalists still are getting BTFO'd daily
>Orange man winning again has caused every sjw in gaming and entertainment to not even get angry but just become genuinely depressed
This was a year where normalfags simply couldn't fucking take it anymore and it shows /v/. They rejected the AAA trash, sjws and even elected Trump again all in 10 anniversary of Gamergate.
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Metaphor: ReFantazio thread
I'm the OP of the original thread and since the last thread got ruined by autism. I decided to make a new thread focusing on discussing the game and making OC. Since I'm one of the maybe three people on this whole board playing, I'll give my impressions and speculations.
>This game was rushed in aspects
>The game does have Romance but it's half assed in the weirdest ways
>Localisation is ass
>Bong VAs are tolerable but JP is always better
>Game isn't sjw but pretty critical of all the character's respective ideologies
>It's genuinely critical of the MC's idealism
>He and the party accept that they've been naive at certain realties
>The rival throne candidates's views are also pointed at being flawed having pros
>Some more incorrect then others (The eat the rich beast girl is given a nasty wake up over her fantasy Marxism for one example)
>Game is much more traditional JRPG meets SMT meets FF style job system meets modified Persona links
>The tolerance virtue is a lot more nuanced then what twitter sjws or RW twitter grifters would tell you
>Some of the Not social links are clearly romantic in nature but Atlus cut them
>Speculate they wanted to test the waters by not fully adding it but not fully removing it either
>Think they'll cave with a "Throne edition" that adds full on romance and other stuff that was cut
>They cucked out on giving true changeable gear
>You can change weapons and buy armour
>But save for costume skins they don't change outward party appearance when you put on armour from a shop
>Like XB2 you can chain combos with your party with the press turn system
>PC version despite denuvo hasn't ran like ass on my five year old rig
<I'm just as surprised as you anons
>Strohl and the male party members are bros
>Hulkenberg might be best girl due how much of a spergy dork she is
Note there is a way to play the full game by hacking the demo, which I'll try looking for.
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Christmas Hat Thread
IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR
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2024's biggest sales flops
As the end of the year approaches, let's talk about some of 2024's biggest flops, where the budgets were high and the games still bombed. What went so unbelievably wrong with them?
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Printed Advertisement
Video Game ads, from the days of printed media.
TALK ABOUT THEM OR SHUT IT!
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Old 8/v/ Nostalgia Thread
Post what you've got. I have more stuff on my computer but it's going to take some time find it all.
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Xmas thread
Happy Holidays Merry Christmas faggots
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3D Printing
A thread for anything related to 3D printing and video games: figurines, controller stands, battery covers that keep getting lost, cool cases, mods and enhancements, etcetera.
What cool enhancements, whether practical or just aesthetic, should I print for my old consoles? Say, for example, my Sega Genesis model 2?
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Traditional Roguelikes
Thread for discussion of traditional roguelikes:
>share screenshots, characters, & runs / stories
Traditional Roguelikes
DCSS (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup)
https://crawl.develz.org/download.htm
ADOM
https://www.adom.de/home/downloads.html
Brogue
https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE/releases
Dwarf Fortress (LNP)
https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=7622
Rogue
https://github.com/mikeyk730/Rogue-Collection
Nethack
https://nethack.org/v367/downloads.html
Angband
https://rephial.org/
TGGW (The Ground Gives Way)
https://www.thegroundgivesway.com/download/
Infra Arcane (Infra Arcana)
https://sites.google.com/site/infraarcana/home
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead:
https://cataclysmdda.org/
DoomRL
https://drl.chaosforge.org/downloads
Rogue Fable III:
https://armorgames.com/rogue-fable-iii-game/18602
IVAN:
https://attnam.com/projects
Recommendations:
Elona, TOME, Caves of Qud, Cogmind, Elona, Zorbus, Rogue Fable IV, Path of Achra, Rift Wizard, Golden Krone Hotel, Jupiter Hell
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Perfect Games
Are there any games which you consider to be perfect vidya?
Just pure distilled quality.
Here are two games I consider to be near-perfect (they have their glitches and exploits like any other piece of software).
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The forgotten art of convenience
So I got a sudden urge to play Runescape (2007scape, it should go without saying) again after however many years. Didn't have anything spectacular in mind, mostly just wanted to fuck about in Lumbridge, murder a few chickens, chop a few trees, basically just live out the experience of being a noob again for shits and giggles.
Now, back in the day, all you needed in order to start playing was to go to the website, open the game, click "new account", come up with a username and a password, and you were good to go. Upon trying to set up an account, this was my experience:
>Game is no longer browser based, you have to download a client to even run it
>Click to make new account
>Game opens up my web browser
>Have to enter account info there, can no longer do so in the game window
>Click to make new account
>Get redirected like, 4 times
>Have to fill out captcha not once, but twice
>Have to give an e-mail address, game no longer accepts usernames
>Don't feel like giving my actual e-mail address
>Make throwaway Gmail account
>Enter it in
>Webpage decides I've put in "too many requests" and blocks me from finishing the process
>Attempt to finish signing up on my phone browser
>Blocked on there as well
>After an hour or so, decide to try again
>Get redirected multiple times, again
>Have to fill out multiple captchas, again
>Finally am able to finish creating the account
>Open up client
>Enter in the email I just signed up with
>"New accounts must use the Jagex Launcher"
>Have to download an entire launcher, alongside the client, in order for the game to allow me to connect
>Decide it's no longer worth it and give up the attempt
When and why did simple convenience become such a no-no in the gaming world? Why is all this bullshit involved with something as simple as setting up an account, that benefits absolutely no-one and serves no purpose but to hinder and infuriate people who just want to play the fucking game? It's not just Runescape, either. Almost every game you come across now requires some sort of sign up that requires forking over email addresses, signing up for special accounts, whatever. Then, years later, these companies have a security breach, and whoops, all your accounts and e-mail addresses or whatever are out there in the hands of whomever, because these companies apparently absolutely NEEDED to have them, for some reason, just to let you play a 30 year old game for a few hours.
And before anyone starts saying "It's to deter bots", no, no it absolutely is not. Anyone who has ever played free to play Runescape for more than 5 seconds will tell you that free to play is absolutely filled to the brim with bots, to the point where the game becomes borderline unplayable for legitimate players on more populated worlds. Anyone who has played for any length of time can tell you that Jagex absolutely, positively, does not give a FUCK about getting rid of bots or doing anything to solve or address the bot problem. Anyone trying to tell you that all these extra steps are some attempt on their part to try and deter these people (who probably have automated programs that do the entire signup process for them anyway) is completely delusional.
So, I guess the TL;DR version of my post is: What is the point of all these extra steps in the signup process for pretty much everything? Why is a simple username and password not sufficient anymore?
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JRPG/RPG recommendation thread
I'm still new (；^ω^）!
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Statlet and Waldorf Thread: The Game Awards Post Show
With the inclusion of Statler and Waldorf as the best parts of that shitshow, I found this twitter template and think it's a great opportunity for anons to make some great jokes at the expense of the show. Let's get creative, shall we?
Posting the template first and then the examples
(courtesy of @oreste_comics)
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Anoncraft
Welcome to Anoncraft, A Cracked Vanilla Minecraft 1.21 SMP for /vm/.
>Server IP: anoncraft.cc
>Map: map.anoncraft.cc
Come join one of the largest Minecraft communities in /vm/! Now with full support for cracked accounts!
>Server News:
- Explosions and more explosions.
- Merry Christmas
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Featured Game: Namco Museum Vol. 1 (PSX)
>What is this?
Games are chosen (relatively or totally obscure on purpose) with hopes of bringing new avenues of playing potential to anons with narrow video game perspectives. The goal isn't necessarily to pick bad games, but obscure ones nobody, or as few people as possible, have played. You can play the game and then use that fact as bragging rights to others! You can use it to broaden your backlog horizons! or you can forget about it. It's up to you.
THIS GAME:
Namco Museum Vol. 1 (PSX)
>Where do I get this?
Namco Museum Vol. 1 (PSX):
https://romhustler.org/rom/psx/namco-museum-vol1-u-slus-00215
MAME set including Arcade games in Namco Museum Vol. 1 (PSX):
https://pleasuredome.github.io/pleasuredome/mame/
Ports of Arcade games in Namco Museum Vol. 1 (PSX):
Pac-Man (NES):
https://files.catbox.moe/sp4ndz.nes
Pac-Man (SNES):
https://files.catbox.moe/vh30uq.sfc
Galaga (NES):
https://files.catbox.moe/oilynj.nes
>How does it play?
Namco Museum Vol. 1 (PSX) was the first volume in the
Namco Museum collection. The player walks into a virtual museum, the games are surrounded by its mainboards, marketing material and concept art. The games that are featured are:
- Pac-Man;
- Rally-X;
- New Rally-X;
- Galaga;
- Toy Pop;
- Pole Position;
- Bosconian.
>Next Game
For the next game, the theme will be
Shoot 'em ups! Poll:
https://poal.me/6p7abo
The next games will be all about
Shoot 'em up titles. The entries must be in the
Shoot 'em up category.
GUIDELINES FOR FUTURE FEATURED GAMES:
If you do not like any of the games in the poll, you can either add a new entry manually, or reply to the OP.
If you DO suggest a game though, please, report all relevant information on the game (magnet/dl link, interesting mods, guides, tutorials on tech, speedrun etc.).
Feel free to suggest any and every game you can think of, bonus points if it's games that barely anyone has played or talks about in the [Current Year] or that fit the time of the year thematically. However, try and follow these rules:
1) No game that relies on modern hardware. If the game cannot be pirated or emulated properly, or no working emulator for the game exists, most people won't be able to enjoy it, rendering the thread kind of pointless;
2) No always-online games, meaning no live service games or mobile games that are dependent on external servers, unless a backup instance of said servers has been created by its fans or the offline content is significantly larger than the online content;
3) For multiplayer games, provide only free to play games that let players create their own servers, or games with local multiplayer that can be set up to play online (requires someone to be a hostfag, or, and may Allah forgive me for uttering these words, using Parsec);
4) No game that requires gimmicky controls to be enjoyable (guitar pedals, Wiimotes, cameras etc.) unless they can be easily remapped or translated into some other control scheme.
Previous Featured Games:
https://unknown.spam/4azon9x8
OP Copypasta:
https://unknown.spam/u2fcpagd
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Eroge
Last thread is on page 12 and beyond the bump limit, but eroge marches steadily onward. Just at the beginning of this month, Monster Girl Quest:Paradox Part 3 finally released, making the game complete unless I missed something about them extending it to a 4th part. Available here,
https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/work/=/product_id/RJ01114724.html
I do not yet know where to pirate it, but I'm sure it will crop up one of my usual sites around when translation is finished.
Still being actively translated, you can follow translation progress here,
https://arzorx.wordpress.com/
Given Part 2 took 3 months from the date of release, I except this one take at least that long, if not at least 4 months, as it's larger. In the meanwhile, I'm sure there's anons learning JP that may still enjoy the game, or may even want to contact the current team to contribute to the translation in the coming months.
Also mentioned at the end of the last thread and currently in development with a free demo is Princess Reconquista. Play a (totally not) Central/South American Princess and fight off your white (totally not) Spaniard conquerors in a pixelshit action game. Makes the mistake of losing being the method of accessing many scenes, but you can also tempt your enemies and watch other girls get
BLEACHED.
https://sorry-carl.itch.io/princess-reconquista
Last thread
>>819339
https://archive.is/CEm8b
Someone else archived it just 8 hours ago. What a coincidence.
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Sony may be buying Kadokawa
Sony Group Corporation in talks to acquire Kadokawa Corporation
https://archive.ph/5paYG
>Sony Group Corporation is in talks to acquire Kadokawa Corporation, according to a Reuters report citing two sources familiar with the matter.
>Talks between the two sides are reportedly ongoing, and a deal could be signed in the coming weeks if successful, the sources said.
>Sony Group Corporation declined to comment when asked by Reuters. Kadokawa Corporation said it could not comment.
I would like to inform people that this
isn't Sony Interactive here in America. This is Sony HQ in Japan (Which makes things a hundred times worse):
https://infogalactic.com/info/Sony
And here is a list of all of Kadokawa's current assets:
https://archive.ph/WbpFw#Group_companies
In addition to video games, they also own book publications, film divisions, and NicoNico (Japanese JewTube). Everything about this deal is bad and no one is happy as the acquisition would result in Sony controling the overwhelming majority of Japanese entertainment.
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Visual Novel General
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Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered
So I finished getting all the Achievements, in both games of the remaster, and thought I'd give a run-down of things, since currently the remaster has some good points, but is also a bit rough around the edges.
When it comes to the Graphics, I'd describe SR1 as the kind of graphical update that is like putting on a par of glasses to see more clearly. The developers of this remaster were able to get the original images that were used for all of the textures, so all the textures in the game are the pretty much the same just in a higher resolution, although at some points it can feel like this added Clarity to everything can remove a some of the grit that the original visuals lend to the art style.
There are new character models for every being in the games, and some of SR1's new models now actually have their lips move when they are speaking. SR1 also features a day and night cycle now, which was cut from it's original release.
Both games now feature Subtitles, and you can change the Language of the voice acting if you want.
When it comes to SR2 the Graphical improvements can feel a lot less noticeable, and there is actually a reason for this. Where with SR1 they were able to use the original assets to make smaller sized textures more clear, SR2 has it's textures stretched over much larger peaces of Geometry, so using those original assets just achieve the same result as they are stretched too far for the texture to look good. Outside the new character models, only smaller objects will have more noticeable improvements due to this.
The new character models look good in SR2, but in some cases they can lose a little something during the cutscenes compared to the original models, as the cutscenes are designed with the original models in mind.
In terms of gameplay content, the games are very much still the same as they ever were, I think the just streamlined the controls so SR1 and SR2 both use the same control scheme, and you are now a bit more in control of the camera in SR1. There is a Map now for SR1, and when hovering over areas it'll show a notification of the collectables you have or haven't acquired, so that can be useful.
The most Significant addition to this remaster is the section for the Lost Levels, it features access to play and explore the cut levels from SR1, which they did need to remove quite a bit from.
Now the main negatives of this Remaster is that in its current state it has it's fair share of bugs. I didn't encounter too many in my play time, but others have seen a lot. It's possible for a loading zone to not render the game world right and to just be standing in a black void, until you have the game re-load again. Some people have managed to have block puzzles messed up and be rendered impossible to solve, some have claimed the Night time lighting is way too dark for them, making the game unplayable until day, SR2 just has this Black Cube show up in the Air Forge when viewing the remastered Graphics.
Personally I didn't have a bad Experience with this remaster, but it undoubtably needs an update or two, before it's in a complete state.
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Project Cyrodiil: Abecean Shores released
Trailer:
https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=Ys09ASlNy4U
>what is this?
Project Cyrodiil: Abecean Shores is a massive, free, fan-made expansion to
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. It adds a large chunk of the province Cyrodiil
>how big is it
Not counting water tiles for either, this new area is half the size of the original game. Unlike the original game, Abecean Shores has actual content in its water cells where the original game's water was just empty once you left the coast, which pushes the actual size of the release even further.
>Oblivion was boring
Project Cyrodiil is
not a recreation of the world of
Oblivion, but rather a depiction of Cyrodiil as it was in pre-
Oblivion lore.
>are there quests or is it just an empty land
There's plenty of quests. In-fact there's even a "main quest" of sorts in the Anvil government questline
>how powerful does my character need to be
It is entirely possible to play the new content from level 1.
>what do I need to play this
You need
Morrowind with both official expansions (any modern release, including "Game of the Year Edition", has them), the newest Tamriel Data, and the Abecean Shores release itself. Additionally you will neeed either the very newest (experimental build 0.49, not the "current" 0.48) engine replacement OpenMW (Recommended: Morrowind.exe was never made with the expectation anyone would be this far from the origin and has significant jitter due to point imprecision, and is super unstable even without that issue) or, if you're insisting on using the original engine, MWSE with Morrowind Code Patch, UI Expansion, and Morrowind Graphics Extender to minimize the many issues encountered.
Links:
YOU NEED BOTH
Project Cyrodiil:
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/44922?tab=description
Tamriel Data:
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/44537
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Music thread
Last one is bumplocked and at Page 10
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Exploits and glitches in videogames thread
Do you like to discover advantageous exploits and glitches in video games? Do you know videogame exploits that affect the mechanics in a useful or broken or fun way?
The Video Game Glitches Wiki is a wiki about exploits and glitches that anyone can edit, with 1,235 articles since January 2006. Go to the Video Game Glitches Wiki, bring an exploit or glitch back, and discuss it, or discuss an exploit or glitch you found or know.
https://glitches.fandom.com/wiki/Video_Game_Glitches_Wiki
Some exploits and glitches have been iconic and memorable. in Sid Meier's Civilization, Gandhi, an extremely peaceful leader, has a peace rating so low that an integer overflow glitch causes it to wrap around to 255, instead of dropping to -1, which causes Gandhi to turn into an absolute warmonger.
Games such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong have kill screens. Pac-Man's involves a half-developed 255th level which is impossible to complete, while Donkey Kong's 117th level gives the player 4 seconds to win.
The Minus World glitch (World -1) is found at the end of World 1-2 in Super Mario Bros. At the end of World 1-2, Mario can squeeze between bricks that separate normal exits from the Warp Zone. Jumping through these, Mario finds himself in a copy of World 7-2 that endlessly loops.
When video games came on a cartridge, you could cause glitches by simply tugging and dislodging the cartridge. One example was in Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 64. If you snuck up on the guards and tugged slightly on its left, they spin out of control like a tornado.
World of Warcraft had a corrupted blood incident in September 2005 when a new boss was introduced, Hakkar the Soulflayer. Hallar could cast a spell on the player intended to last for only a couple of seconds, except it didn't and was contagious. The effects killed off lower-levelled players and players soon began quarantining and avoiding populated places while others continued to spread the infection to others. Real-world epidemiologists studied this glitch.
What sites and YouTube channels cover exploits and glitches? youtube.com/@AStartShow/playlists has playlists of exploits and glitches like Son of a Glitch, Glitch Shorts, Glitchmas, Minor Glitches, 12 Days of Glitchmas, Son of a Glitchfest, and Son of a Glitch Speedruns.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM /co/
I hope you all got some good vidya for Christmas.
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Nobody actually ever plays video games
>New report claims gamers spend more time watching videos about gaming than playing games
https://archive.fo/mo7lF
https://archive.fo/XOAD7
<Gamers are spending more time watching videos about gaming on YouTube and Twitch than playing games themselves.
So here is my question: If no one is playing video games, why are we wasting time buying the damn things? Even if you're only pirating games, why waste the time downloading the fucking things?
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Midna
So... if I've found Midna (imp form) unironically sexually attractive phisically, and I've also been attracted to her personality and even her voice since the mid 2000s, what am I?
Not a furry, right? She doesn't count as that because she's not an animal, right?
This would be closer to finding hot an alien. The thing is, all fuckin' furries must fuckin' hang so I wanna know whether or not I'm one. I hope I'm not.
If I am I'll probably have to kill myself.
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Vidya Oekaki Art Thread!
Thread for sharing your Oekaki art of vidya characters/Locales
I present you all with Smaus, the bunty hunty
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Granblue Fantasy - /gbfg/
Touch the Cow
Edition
Crews
1.Infinity - 692908
2.Kihou - 740471
3.Sky Lords - 733000
4.Raven Nest (Dead) - 1024216
5.Heaven&Hel (Dead) - 933194
Guides and info
https://gbf.wiki/
>How do I even play this shit?
You can play it from your browser by going to
http://game.granbluefantasy.jp/
>I'm not going to use google botnet to play this.
You can use chrome alternatives, such as Slimjet or Iridium. If you don't like doing that, use an agent spoofer for the browser you do use to spoof chrome.
Relink
http://relink.granbluefantasy.jp/
Versus
https://versus.granbluefantasy.jp/
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Do you own any vidya merchandise?
Toys, t-shirts, kitchenware, statues, etc.
If not, Is there any you would like to own but is too expensive/not worth it?
If you don't know, Resaurus is a toy company from the late 90s which made toys from vidya franchises at from the time. They went bankrupt shortly after due to how high detailed these figures were compared to their prices, making them unprofitable. Because of this they will fetch very high prices in today's market.
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XSeed: "Senran Kagura Would not Prosper in the West in This Day and Age"
This really needs its own thread because of how right
STUPID this shit is. This is like banning RPGs on the Sega Saturn levels of stupid, all because of retarded twitter/reddit/discord politics. These people can't see outside their little Californian bubble, and it pisses me the fuck off. The console game market is run by people who hate games, that's the only excuse I can think of when explaining this malicious ignorance.
It's been proven time and time again that these games sell as long as there's a good gameplay structure. Even with an above average gameplay structure, Stellar Blade selling over a million copies in the past year alone PROVES that now is the best time to release Senran Kagura
IN SPITE of gaming journalists and the reddit/twitter/discord grooming audience.
Not only that, but the entire mobile market with games like Blue Archive and NIKKE is making millions of dollars in capital. You could make the market that "Oh it's just whales", but I would argue that's not a legitimate excuse when Stellar Blade sells over a million copies and other games like fucking Capes don't even sell close to that. That's not to mention Flintlock that has its numbers inflated by Gamepass only sold half the amount of Stellar Blade with a much bigger marketing campaign.
There's no excuse for this level of stupidity, but what can we do about it? Maybe we can contact shareholders and have them communicate our issues through them? There's no excuse for this level of incompetence, although I'd personally argue that it's maliciousness considering everything I've talked about.
sauce:
https://noisypixel.net/xseed-games-ken-berry-interview/
https://archive.ph/N2zJb
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When will the false dilemma end?
Why is there no such thing as a plot-driven open world game?
Why do all developers seem to have this brain parasite that only allows them to make great, compelling and memorable narratives *OR* huge, exciting and completely seamless world to explore, but *NEVER* the two things together?
No, excuses such as "open world and plot-driven are inherently incompatible" are 100% bullshit because there is no conceivable reason why that should be the case.
As a thought experiment, take Xenoblade Chronicles X, probably the best open-world ever made, but practically devoid of story; now imagine it having the story of Xenogears; or, better yet, imagine if Xenogears got remade with an open world in the same exact style as Xenoblade Chronicles X.
Would that somehow magically make the world or exploration any less compelling? No, it wouldn't, in the slightest. Would the story somehow magically lose its power? Again, no. No reason why it should.
So, why?
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Can someone please make a list of all jRPGs that match the description in pic related?
Right now the only ones I know are Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Vesperia.
Does anybody know other ones?
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Game of the Month #15 (December's Long Haul): Lobotomy Corporation (PC)
>What is this?
This is exactly how it sounds: A game is chosen each month (which will be relatively or totally obscure on purpose) with hopes of bringing new avenues of playing potential to anons with narrow video game perspectives. The goal isn't necessarily to pick bad games, but obscure ones nobody, or as few people as possible, have played. You can play the game and then use that fact as bragging rights to others! You can use it to broaden your backlog horizons! or you can forget about it. It's up to you.
THIS MONTH:
Lobotomy Corporation (PC)
>Where do I get this?
aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56LyMhc1JOSFNJYUIhbGh1QVRaQWptbUFmQVNTWnZMaUdHeVBWNVZvWUJrZkx3dF9OeGd2UHljSQ==
aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56LyMhaFZ0Z2pDQlEhN0xRS1ozN2kxdWZKdFlBUENST19lWE9GTE90NFdfdUFmdFUweU5QMnNqZw==
>Next Month
For January, the theme will be
One Coin January! Poll:
https://poal.me/4vqyi4
In honor of the long defunct /1cc/ board, next month's games will be all about
Arcade titles. More specifically, the entries must pertain to one or more of the following categories:
- The game is a pure Arcade game that can be emulated with MAME or similar emulators (i.e. Sunset Riders for Arcade cabinets);
- The game is a remake of an Arcade cabinet (i.e. THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake);
- The game is a port of an Arcade game (i.e. Virtua Striker 3 (Ver. 2002));
- The game is a collection of Arcade titles (i.e. Namco Museum Vol. 1).
BONUS ROUD
As the entries are all titles that can be reasonably beat within a couple of hours at best, in January we will celebrate the new year with
THREE games being voted as the Games of the Month! So don't forget to make your voice heard!
GUIDELINES FOR FUTURE GotMs:
If you do not like any of the games in the poll, you can either add a new entry manually, or reply to the OP with a different suggestion. Don't come crying to me if you don't like the game, blame democracy.
If you DO suggest a game though, please, report all relevant information on the game (magnet/dl link, interesting mods, guides, tutorials on tech, speedrun etc.).
Feel free to suggest any and every game you can think of, bonus points if it's games that barely anyone has played or talks about in the [Current Year] or that fit the month thematically. However, try and follow these rules:
1) No game that relies on modern hardware. If the game cannot be pirated or emulated properly, or no working emulator for the game exists, most people won't be able to enjoy it, rendering the thread kind of pointless;
2) No always-online games, meaning no live service games or mobile games that are dependent on external servers, unless a backup instance of said servers has been created by its fans or the offline content is significantly larger than the online content;
3) For multiplayer games, provide only free to play games that let players create their own servers, or games with local multiplayer that can be set up to play online (requires someone to be a hostfag, or, and may Allah forgive me for uttering these words, using Parsec);
4) No game that requires gimmicky controls to be enjoyable (guitar pedals, Wiimotes, cameras etc.) unless they can be easily remapped or translated into some other control scheme.
Previous Games of the Month:
https://unknown.spam/p58zse2f
OP Copypasta:
https://unknown.spam/akaqy3oq
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So new AI has had some time to mature. Are there any games that make good use of it as tactical and strategic opponents in any genre aside from chess and such? Any smart RTS game? An adventure game where others in the world have their own agendas? An RPG with opponents that are smart with their weapons and the territory or a companion with unique lines and an ability to use tactics?
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RTS/Strategy thread
Post your favorite quotes, talk about your favorite or old games, shitpost, discuss upcoming stuff.
Upcoming stuff:
>Company of Heroes 3
>Homeworld 3
>Sins of a Solar Empire 2
>Ratten Reich
>The Great War Western Front
>WarNo
>Broken Arrow
>Xenonauts 2
>Touhou Empires
>Men of War 2
>Tempest Rising
>SeaPower
A remaster of Tiberian Sun/Red Alert 2 much like the OG would be nice, though I doubt they wouldn't fuck up the spritework on them since that has way higher definition and small details than the original.
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ITT: Characters that flopped and how they could've been salvaged
With pic related, I think he could've been much better if he had been programmed to be a more cerebral boss fight where you have to flexibilize your strategies in order to beat him, possibly based on your class and those of your party members. Snipe your big guns, suppress your sniper, maybe some weird supertech that lets him cuck your biotics, and so on. If you rely on one playstyle for most of the game and get complacent he'll wreck your shit and force you out of your comfort zone. His tactics evolve across his multiple boss fights and you have to keep up and avoid stagnating or relying too much on one thing, as well as beat him to the punch.
Personality is a more complicated subject. I think he could've benefited from being more no-nonsense, crib off some traits off Shepard to add to his status as an arch-enemy, either bringing his own party members with distinct personalities and skillsets to counter yours or leaning more on his one-man-army hype and make him a cold and detached warrior type. Maybe if you feel adventurous you could have him pick up traits that depends on how you played your Shepard's personality for added contrast. TL;DR: Make him someone you have to struggle to beat, and you WANT to beat to prove yourself superior.
What about you? Any characters you could mention that had wasted potential but could've been good?
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Zelda/Link OR Zelink Thread
This thread is dedicated to the most prolific and wholesome videogame pairing ever, Zelda and Link!
Discussion about the Zelda series itself and other girls is completely welcome here, as are other pairings and stuff.
Share your cute art, doujins, and other things!
The Zelink MEGA (3000+ images of Zelink organized by game)
https://mega.nz/file/UUAiVILT#qrE4vrrk8iGRv-JjkTBF4tgyXCUJMFXOglD3g_jMnnA
The mega will be updated once per month
Rules:
1. Keep it civil.
2. No NTR/cuckold/demoralization culture.
3. Be kind to others
Previous:
>>910969
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Cuhrayzee Vidya
I haven't seen a thread discussing stylish action for a while, let's change that. Honestly I was kinda disappointed with Bayonetta 3, it wasn't nearly as good as the previous two games and I feel basically killed the series seeing as Kamiya left Platinum in order to work at Hamster probably. Still, it's kinda sad that Bayonetta was destined to die a mediocre death. That said as for Bayonetta's twin IP Astral Chain, apparently Nintendo completely owns the rights to that IP now, so hopefully we can see them develop the sequel in house since I would love to see how Nintendo tackles these kinds of games.
Other than a few indie games, there's not really much going on with the genre. The Genokids demo was top notch and I highly recommend everyone here give it a chance, but other than that I'm waiting to hear about some surprise hits like Hi-Fi Rush since that was an extremely pleasant surprise and was actually did better than both Microsoft and Bethesda expected it to be. So hopefully we'll see a new Hi-Fi Rush in the future.
Other than that, I'm sure Capcom is gonna remake DMC1 or DMC3 at some point in the near future, and like I said before Hi-Fi Rush did surprisingly well. So I strongly doubt the genre is dead, but that it usually takes a bit to get one of these games off the ground since Souls is the hot sauce these days. Still, what cuhrayzee games are you playing right now /v/? I'm going through Ninja Gaiden and God Hand myself, enjoying them as always.
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Favorite gay character thread
I am going to start with my 2 favourite homos. Takatoshi Hijiyama and Tsukasa Okino. I find their relationship really cute. How Hijiyama will spend a good chunk of his story wondering if he is gay while Okino teases him.
Editing the OP because I fucked up the merge
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Xbox will no longer have permanent console exclusives going forward, according to Jez Corden
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Games that made you feel
This thread isn't specifically about sadness, it can be a wide range of things. Wherever you felt surprise at how good or shit a game was, anger due to something that happened in game or external factors, excitement at an unexpected announcement or at an extremely cool set piece or moment, as long as the game elicited a strong emotion out of you while playing. You can go with something that you played recently or one of your favorite games.
I'll give one of my favorites, Nier Automata. It's a basic choice, but it's the first time I remember a game being able to make me react to something strongly. I had already thoroughly enjoyed the game but by the time I had gotten to Ending E and the credits sequence the game really got to me. It was amazing, the way the music was synced to the scene and how hopeful it felt after seeing so many characters die shitty deaths just really hit hard. It's the second time a game has gotten me teary eyed.
Looking forward to hearing what you anons have to say!
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Shoot em' Ups
Does anyone here play shoot em ups? Let's have a shmup thread! space dad shmups and anime bullet hells alike are welcome. just go for the clear my nigga!
>How can i play retro shmups on pc?
With shmupmame. it's a fork of mame optimized to reduce input lag as much as possible alongside some other benefits like gadgets and replays. Here's a link to a preconfigured install with the some of the more popular shmups (mostly cave)
https://archive.org/details/mature-dot-dodging-games-gaiden-v-1.0.7z
of course you dont have to use shmupmame, you could use mame, fbneo, retroarch, or even support the official ports on steam/switch. What matters is actually playing the games!
>What about touhou?
Here's a collection of all the games with the english patch preinstalled.
https://nyaa.si/view/1743411
What games in the genre are you favorite? What games are you trying to 1cc currently? I'm a total shitter trying to get my skills up, but I'm closing in on a Deathsmiles clear.
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Shin Megami Tensei Thread
Just an SMT General thread since the previous one's now gone and I wanted to post some news in regards to SMT V.
There's a trailer for the new SMT V: Vengeance and there's been some new content reveals so far for both the English & Japanese versions of Both Trailers.
>Protags friends can be used as extra party members as previously revealed but they take up a slot in your combat party.
>Introduction of teleporters that function similarly to leylines without loading transitions within the overworld.
>Azazel and Mastema are confirmed with the former revealed as an obtainable demon fusion.
>You fight all four of the Qadištu at some point and the fight has up to five press turn actions.
>They have an AOE Alimighty magatsuhi skill called Qadištu's Entropy that fully heals all of the Qadištu and deals damage on all targets with heavy damage.
>Lilith's Skill Earth Mother can nullify physical attacks and remove Debuffs.
>Naamah's Capitulate to pleasure removes all stat buffs.
>Could be a scripted boss fight considering the cutscene that follows it up has Nahobino Acquiring a new ninja-esque form.
> A New Area known as the Shakan that relates to the transformation and the form has a 4x hit Hama skill called Paraselene Blur.
>More scenes involving Khonsu implying greater plot relevance this time.
>You can play as Nahoheeho in the overworld after encountering him at some point.
>Confirmed New demons in the trailer are Amabie, Gurr/Gurulu, Azazel, Mastema, and Kinmamon.
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Loli games
With the demo confirming Dragon's Dogma 2 is shit, even beyond lack of loli MC, let's talk about games that do let you play as a loli. Any recommendations for games not on this chart?
With mods Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord lets you play as a loli using base game assets. It's a pretty fun experience. During Early Access they actually had nipples and a barbie doll lower half, but this was changed near the final version. Since the same update made everyone's underwear part of their body, it's likely due to consoles than specifically anti-loli. Anyone know if there's a mod to restore these bodies? I haven't played in a year and I'm hoping for a new land mod to release in a playable state before giving another go with my new GPU.
Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim and Fallout 4 all let you play as a loli with mods (3 also makes you play as a loli during a brief tutorial section). Unfortunately most clothing/armor doesn't really fit your character (at best she'll grow boobs) and only Fallout 4 has a mostly complete set of alternate models for clothing (I think there was also a mod for Skyrim to dynamically resize things but I have no idea what it was). Otherwise it works pretty well and is pretty fun. Only reason to play Fallout 4.
The demo for the new Alone in the Dark is a short prologue starring a little girl in a dress. Has anyone ripped the model/used cheat engine freecam/etc. to see if she's properly modeled or if the devs took the cowardly way out?
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Super Mario /v/orld Thread
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/v/ is formally invited to the /christmas/ interboard event of 2024
Merry Christmas, anon. You are invited to this year's
>>>/christmas/ event. This project aims to gather anons from different board from inside and outside 8chan and hang out together and have fun. The planned date is December 14 and 15, so I hope I'll see you there.
If you have any questions about the event, please make me know here or in the organization thread
>>>/christmas/3691
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Game Awards 2024 Thread
IT'S OVER
IT'S TIME FOR THE BIGGEST VIDEO GAME EVEN OF THE YEAR™.....
ARE YOU EXCITED TO VOTE FOR YOUR TOTALLY UNBIASED SELECTION OF THE BEST VIDEO GAMES OF THE YEAR?
READY OR NOT, IT'S COMING.....
Who do you wish to win?
Who do you think will win?
What funny shenanigans will occur this time?
Will Geoff Keighley drop the facade that he isn't just a paid industry shill who should fuck off and realize he will never be taken seriously no matter how many big events he plans like this?
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God Games
>tfw the only decent modern God Game is worldbox.
This thread is to talk about the almost dead genre of God Games a simulation subgenre where you play as the almighty deity and watch shit unfold or at the very least manipulate a somewhat complex simulation to get a specific outcome. Examples include Sim Earth, Worldbox, Black and White games and some other.
>Do City Builders count?
Depends. I personally don't count them in the genre as I believe that God games are about manipulating a sandbox environment and watching shit unfold rather than about solving logistical challenges and city planning, but some people consider it a part of the genre.
>What are the good games?
EarthSim, Black and White, Wordlbox and that's about all of the ones that I could find.
Galimulator is also a thing if you want to do nothing more than just watch things unfold rather than have more control over the simulation.
Species is incredibly janky and also in the "watch shit unfold" category but it's a cool evolution simulator. You can change the way that things evolve by introducing different environmental challenges or fucking with their genetics to see what kind of abominations you will come across.
Some people consider Spore a part of this category, I would not agree with them but if you can get over the pain of not getting the version promised to you it can still somewhat scratch the itch.
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Animated PNG thread - Rebuilt Geocities Edition
Suggested from
>>1031266 in the sexy sprite thread
The idea is very simple: You take your GIFs & convert them to APNG.
Why would you want to do this? Let me explain
>APNG is usually smaller in file size vs. GIF while still maintaining the same quality
>thus, APNG images in posts endlessly loop without having to click on them due to the smaller filesizes.
<GIF animations not so much even with the fewer frames of animation
Based on my testings, here is what I have determined to get working APNG animations on the posts in this site
>must not exceed above 25.00 KB in file size
>must not exceed above above 220px x 220px in image size
Use this website to convert your GIFs to APNGs:
https://ezgif.com/gif-to-apng
Then repost them if they meet the above criteria.
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Slay the Princess: Pristine Cut
Recently played STP and has surprisingly fun time with it. I thought it'd be doki or Stanley Parable clone but it ended up being this bizarre horror love story. The director's cut is this fall and thought it's a better time to discuss this weird little game. What routes were /v/'s favorites?
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R thread
STALKER 2 development blog just released with some gameplay
>TAA everywhere
>Generic visuals and music
>FarCry towers
>Yellow paint on wood boards and stairs as a "clue"
>Press X to use canned animations
>Console gameplay
>Console UI
>Creative Director is a woman
Fucking hell, it hurts
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Space Marine 2 and 40k thread
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Games in 2024
now that we are on the second half of the year. What games released this year had /v/ played? bonus points if you write what you think about them
i only played 3
>Balatro
Basically poker but rogue-like it's breddy good, was very fun at the begining but after wining a couple of runs i got bored quickly, but i still once in a while return to it to do a couple of runs.
>Crow Country
it was a nice surprise, a new survival horror with interesting enemy designs, i haven't played the hard mode added after release so i can't say much about that, but for what i've played, i felt it leaned too much on the easy side.
>Nine Sols
Hollow knigh meets Sekiro's gameplay. without a doubt my GOTY for this year. is a game that did everything well especially the gameplay, when it click it fucking CLICK, and it has the best bosses in a while.
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ITT: Kusoge you like
I dunno why. But I just like some bad games. Like You are Empty. Despite looking linda like ass, being buggy. Story not making sense and feeling like someone who hit the crackpipe wrote it. And english voiceacting is super bad.
But enjoyed playing it. Either because of the depressing soviet artstyle. Or the fine gameplay loop. I just find it fun.
What about you anon
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Did Call of Duty kill arena shooters?
I've been thinking about this for a while, mainly after playing a few rounds in the Arcade mode of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 that came with my Game Pass subscription. Do you guys think Call of Duty killed the modern arena shooter? I'm asking since we don't really have an active platform in these types of games outside small communities that gather together on a Friday night. I'm mainly concerned since I remember looking for a classic FPS to play with a group of 16 people, and I just couldn't find one. The numbers are too little for there to be a sustained player base. This comes after the failure of Halo Infinite which was really killed by Microsoft's desperate desire for a live service game for the Xbox platform.
This isn't to say I don't enjoy Call of Duty, as it IS a guilty pleasure of mine to fuck around and shoot people without thinking about it. Although my main concern is that games like Quake don't really exist anymore since there aren't any people willing to join a match at 3AM on a Tuesday, which is sad, but it appears to be the reality of the situation that only games like Call of Duty have the numbers to support a PVP Team Deathmatch like mode. I know Ubisoft tried putting out a F2P version of Call of Duty called XDefiant, although it failed due to Ubisoft refusing to put the game on Steam because they're kinda retarded.
What do you think about these popcorn shooters like Call of Duty, Halo, XDefiant, Quake, etc?. Do you think they deserve the fate of being lost to time, or is it just an issue of promotion.
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Sony reportedly working on new (actual) handheld
Reporting from Bloomberg.
https://archive.is/4VRRs
Very quick notes, there isn't much to the article so I can condense all its info down.
>console is early in production
>inspired by the Steam Deck
>is what the Portal was meant to be?
>planned 8-inches
>isn't planned to be new architecture, will be based on the PS5
>likely several years away
I wonder if they'll call it the PS5 Portable or the PSP2?
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Advance Wars By Web
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P: 10
Fighting Game Thread: God I hope I can change the face in Tekken 8 Edition
>News:
<TEKKEN 8 Stream Confirms Iconic Costumes, In-Game Shop, Eddy Gordo on Character Select / Main Menu
https://archive.is/SNs8h
<Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves released a new trailer and gameplay information
https://archive.is/Ltp8b
>Project L Officially Named "2XKO", New Gameplay Trailer, 2025 Release Window Announced
https://archive.is/7quK5
>Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising 2B Released, New Trailer / Character Guide, Version 1.21 Update
https://archive.ph/EtazP
<Street Fighter 6: Akuma DLC teased
>EVO 2024 Games List
Just look at the embeds
<MultiVersus will relaunch on May 28
https://archive.is/EysY7
<Under Night in Birth 2 mostly fixed on PC
https://archive.is/TicWs
REMINDER
Always remember to bully Josh! The only way the bullying will end is when the
Gigamaidens finally releases.
Which is NEVER
Oh, and if you're sick of the modern gaming autism then just play Third Strike or Guilty Gear:
https://fightcaderoms.com/
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Dragon Quest General
Do you like playing Dragon Quest, anon?
Are you looking forward to Dragon Quest XII or the new Monster spinoff?
Which girl is the best girl?
Which monster is the best monster?
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Web and Flash Games
Usually these kinds of threads begin with the mandatory "back in my day" type of post, but I really wanted to know something about the anons who were too young to be there when web-based games were the undisputed kings: have you ever played any of these games, and if so, what's your stance on them compared to your other gaming experiences?
Also, don't forget to check out the Flashpoint Project at
https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ and the very large collection of games they have.
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The cross-platform singularity: the convergence of PC and mobile gaming
I've been struggling to make a thread like this because of how to express such a niche topic that gets zero attention. But here goes:
Over the past few years, a certain game Genshit Impact blew up and changed the mobile market completely. A key factor to its success was not only that it was chinkshit BOTW but it was playable outside of muh wife's boyfriend's Switch for "free." Suddenly, the field went from disposable side games played by turd worlders to being taken seriously overnight. And with it came the copycats, and with that came the need to grow and grab more dollars free of Grapple and Gulag's clutches. Thus the PC clients and controller support rolled out.
The advent of Unity and Unreal to Eastern devs, combined with chinks and gooks growing up with always online games and expanding in soft power, while the Nipponese gravitate increasingly towards portability, has resulted in a glut of titles that are available on both PC and phones (sometimes web). As more and more of them come out, some of them, in the spirit of Ross Freeman, convert themselves into packaged games you can purchase on retail. Some mobile devs capitalize off their success on phones to develop real hardcore games.
Meanwhile, hardcore games have slowly adopted the same live service trappings of mobile titles, and handheld game ports are making more money than ever.
<battle passes
<microtransaction shops, lootboxes, and gachas
<deckbuilding
<wikis and metas
<"gameplay loops"
<limited time collabs and crossovers
All the talk about normalfag gamers suddenly discovering indie games is BS as Palworld and Helldivers 2 were both live service games that happened to have the aesthetic of hardcore games. This development is what flash games and handheld titles were leading up to.
My thesis is that games will eventually be designed for both mobile and PC from the ground up, due to the rise of the East in influence, and the future of gaming relies on the direction this development takes, for the better or worse. Ideally all games will start out free, replacing traditional demos, but there will be an option to buy the game outright or play it with microtransactions. Alternatively, hardcore games will be ported to ARM as we are starting to see over the years, with Crapple and Microshit making a huge push with ISA translation.
Pros
>devs essentially have more creative freedom
>low budget and barrier of entry, means a return to the PS2 era of development
>shift to developing for multiple resolutions which helps with preservation as upscaling and temporal aliasing become more popular; something I've seen that is interesting is that some mobile games are designed at a 1:1 ratio so they can adapt to any screen
>smaller gaymen devices are kewl
>grawfix will stop being wanked over and focus will be on battery life and thermals instead
>hot anime babes will eventually cleanse and purify the Jewish rot of the West
Cons
<the live service approach is akin to commercial serial storytelling and most of it fucking sucks, especially with the hero collectors
<mobile gamers are fucking stupid and the mobile market is predatory; there's increasing tribalism over fucking gachas and online shooters like they're football teams
<mobile games tend to have high marketing budgets to try to expand player bases which is not much better than the current triple gAAAy norm
<many mobile games are just rehashes of other concepts, not that that changes much either
<mobile games developed improperly cause heat issues with devices that only have passive cooling
<treadmill work, dailies and external reward campaigns
<devs are also stupid as shit, Alchemy Stars is a 2D gacha that is as big as some AAA games in file size, I started this thread because of how some successful mobile games run like shit and are unoptimized on phones
<mobile gamers understand nothing about technicals
<trannylators
Discuss the inane technical, economic and sociopolitical ramifications, like Fortnite and Roblox just being lesser copies of GMod.
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Game of the Month #14 (Fanservice Frenzy Edition): Pseudoregalia (PC)
>What is this?
This is exactly how it sounds: A game is chosen each month (which will be relatively or totally obscure on purpose) with hopes of bringing new avenues of playing potential to anons with narrow video game perspectives. The goal isn't necessarily to pick bad games, but obscure ones nobody, or as few people as possible, have played. You can play the game and then use that fact as bragging rights to others! You can use it to broaden your backlog horizons! or you can forget about it. It's up to you.
THIS MONTH:
Pseudoregalia (PC)
>Where do I get this?
https://multiup.org/561d1ade2b2085ad61059aae41a0fd3a
GUIDELINES FOR FUTURE GotMs:
Poll for December 2024: December's Long Haul!
https://poal.me/7yo83j
This month we'll celebrate those titles that take absurdly long to beat, let alone 100%, or that take place over the span of an extremely long time, be it years, decades or even eras. Pick any game, as long as it meets the criteria, it can make it to next month's thread!
If you do not like any of the games in the poll, you can either add a new entry manually, or reply to the OP with a different suggestion. Don't come crying to me if you don't like the game, blame democracy.
If you DO suggest a game though, please, report all relevant information on the game (magnet/dl link, interesting mods, guides, tutorials on tech, speedrun etc.).
Feel free to suggest any and every game you can think of, bonus points if it's games that barely anyone has played or talks about in the [Current Year] or that fit the month thematically. However, try and follow these rules:
1) No game that relies on modern hardware. If the game cannot be pirated or emulated properly, or no working emulator for the game exists, most people won't be able to enjoy it, rendering the thread kind of pointless;
2) No always-online games, meaning no live service games or mobile games that are dependent on external servers, unless a backup instance of said servers has been created by its fans or the offline content is significantly larger than the online content;
3) For multiplayer games, provide only free to play games that let players create their own servers, or games with local multiplayer that can be set up to play online (requires someone to be a hostfag, or, and may Allah forgive me for uttering these words, using Parsec);
4) No game that requires gimmicky controls to be enjoyable (guitar pedals, Wiimotes, cameras etc.) unless they can be easily remapped or translated into some other control scheme.
Previous Games of the Month:
https://rentry.co/p58zse2f
OP Copypasta:
https://rentry.co/akaqy3oq
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webm thread - No more 360p rips edition
Hey, did you know Bobbypills of
Peepoodo fame put out an animated series for
Dead Cells? Me neither, but here're the encodes of the first half of the series.
>where other half
Working on those when the time comes.
On another note, have you a moment for the word and gospel of our savior SVT-AV1-PSY?
https://github.com/gianni-rosato/aviator (Linux only)
https://github.com/Nj0be/HandBrake-SVT-AV1-PSY (All desktop OSes)
https://github.com/staxrip/staxrip (Wangblows)
>why use this
Maximum bitrate efficiency in compression, mah boi. Set speed to 4, CRF to 56, Opus bitrate to 16k, QP compress to 3, and variance octile to 8/8ths and you're off to the races, now faster than ever. Higher resolutions, longer runtimes, the works. With enough ingenuity entire shows and movies can be uploaded here.
If you want to stick with VP9 and are on Linux I heartily recommend
https://codeberg.org/deterenkelt/Nadeshiko/ as your one-stop shop to eliminate any encoding headaches. Here's to a better 8chan on mark/v/
and no more 360p videos unless they're super long, of course
Last bread
>>992920
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Steam Controller 2
How much are you looking forward to buying this?
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P: 10
Atelier Thread: Beginner Friendly Edition
What's your favourite game in the Atelier series?
Who is best girl?
Where would you suggest newcomers start?
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Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP
This used to be a console exclusive (PS3/X360), but it's out already on PC along with those other new consoles (no word on Steam Deck support yet). There's supposedly no censorship, but the licensed music and DLC are removed. Discuss the gameplay, plot, and more here.
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Shuhei Yoshida to leave Sony Interactive Entertainment on January 15, 2025
“I’m leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment on January 15, 2025…,” Yoshida said in an Official PlayStation Podcast interview. “It’s like announcing the launch date of a new game, [something] I haven’t done for a long time [laughs].”
He continued, “I’ve been with PlayStation from the beginning, and this is my 31st year with PlayStation. And when I hit 30 years, I was thinking, hmm, it may be about time for me to move on. You know, the company’s been doing great. I love [PlayStation 5], I love the games that are coming out on this platform. And we have new generations of management who I respect and admire. And I’m so excited for the future of PlayStation. So you know, PlayStation is in really good hands. I thought, okay, this is my time.”
Yoshida joined Sony Interactive Entertainment, then Sony Computer Entertainment, when it was still just a department under PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi.
“Ken’s team was doing the development, and there was another team under Sony Music Entertainment Japan making games for Super Nintendo, and that was another small team preparing to make games for PlayStation,” Yoshida said. “So the two teams merged, Ken’s team under Sony and Sato-san’s team under Sony Music Entertainment Japan, to create Sony Computer Entertainment in November 1993. When the company was established as a joint venture, we held a party and everybody was in one room at the hotel [laughs]. I remember we had about 80 people total. We were very small.”
Yoshida’s job was to talk to publishers and developers in Japan, making phone calls and visits in hopes that they would make games for PlayStation. Yoshida eventually became president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, today known as PlayStation Studios, before stepping down to lead Sony Interactive Entertainment’s indie games initiative.
“When I was managing [PlayStation Studios] working with big studios, making AAA games was great,” Yoshida said. “However, when I went to events like E3 or Gamescom, I always went to the indie game area. And I found games that I liked, and oftentimes the developer was there showcasing it. So I’d take a photo with the developer, trying to help promote these games.”
As for what the future holds, Yoshida said while he has no plans yet, he would like to stay in the industry, helping independent game developers.
“I have a couple of events to visit. The Game Awards are in December. I have commitments to the Taipei Game Show in January and DICE Summit in February, because I’m on the board… so that I’ll continue to do. But other than that, I have no plan. I enjoy my free time… I would like to continue to help indie developers or indie publishers if they need me. So I’ll probably continue to help these creative, talented indie teams in the future.”
Personally I think this is just more signs that PlayStation wants to shed itself of its Japanese roots and continue bleeding money. We've already seen how the brand keeps wanting to push AAA cinematic shit with how they shutdown Japan Studio and are just tripping down on bad decisions. Although this could also be a sign of a complete shift in terms of how PlayStation is handled as Sony President, COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki says that PlayStation are currently reforming their gaming business, although how they reform said business could go one of two ways either they could have more of a free market approach or they can once again double down.
Still this is pretty big news and I hope Sony moves the PlayStation HQ out of California. and gains a more "free market" approach where ecchi developers can make games for the PlayStation platform again rather than relying on AAAA cinematic shit to dominate the industry. The brand has been dead to me for a while, so I'm unsure what to expect at this point.
https://blog.playstation.com/2024/11/26/all-good-things-a-look-back-at-shuhei-yoshidas-31-years-with-playstation/
https://archive.ph/wip/qOuVJ
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Have more recent versions of these, or better infographics?
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Japanese learning thread
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Amateur Game Development General: Be Kind To Beginners Edition
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DOOM/Retro FPS: Everyone is here
Has anyone ever got a gamenight of Samsara going on? I know we had one for Christmas of 2018, but I'm surprised we haven't got one going since then. Here's a link to the updated mod if you guys wanna get a gamenight going on.
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=74652
That being said:
Post anything relating to
>DOOM
>its wads
>its sequels
>its community
>its copycats
>all 90s FPS related accessories
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NES/Famicom thread! Replacing the 72 pin connector for glorious memories
I wanna have my NES working properly, and since the cartridge connection seemed pretty precarious (the screen had a tendency to go gray randomly and no cartridge connected well at the first try) I figured it could be the 72 pin connector.
Is this gon' be easy? Or will it be impossible? Will my dreams come true?
Let's see. Also, let's talk about the NES/Famicoim.
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Half-Life 2 and its episodes are free, they already released the update
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Please, help me to find this mysterious fps.
>Pic not related but its something from a cop
I don't remember the name of the game but I remember this
>Fps
>Zombies (looks normal not like mutants i think maybe some mutants)
>Source engine? (Or mod of half life source?)
>Looks like left 4 dead (or mod of l4d?)
>Look like Estranged (in history topic)
>2009-2012 fps vibe maybe?
>You're a police guy (or soldier?), lost, in a route and walk to a "empty" town
>game completely at night with shadows (entire game occurs at night except the end at morning i think)
>there's a level in a hospital with a lot of zombies
>there's a electric granade or something like that
>gravity gun with color blue or something?
>Bill from left 4 dead as npc? (or a para-military npc that look like bill)
I don't remember more about the game. I'm sure it was an official game or a mod but it was very long.
>Also
You were a cop (off duty) traveling a route and your car broke down or you had an accident, then you would walk to a nearby town (in the middle of nowhere in the countryside) and find it empty and then face a wave of zombies. There was a whole level in a hospital and the whole game took place in the dark except for the ending which was in the morning. There was an npc friend that look like para-military or something that gave you a gravity gun and I think some electric grenades or something.
I don't remember more, but I remember it as a long game and for some reason I associate it with left 4 dead and half life blue shift or one of the other stories.
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Concord - flop of the decade?
If you're unaware, the Sony-backed GaaS Concord just launched to an astounding 660 peak players. Not 6600, but six hundred and sixty-six. Currently sitting at 407.
This is a flop on a level that is genuinely astounding. Battleborn launched to 12000~ players, LawBreakers launched to 7579. Gollum launched to 768.
This game was in development for eight years, is getting an episode on the upcoming Secret Level show, and had a budget estimated at well over $100,000,000. All of that to hit a peak player count rivalling Far Cry Primal on a random Monday. The game didn't even enter Steam's top 500 and is about to drop out of the top 1000.
It's a failure the likes of which I can only compare to The Culling 2. I would not be surprised if this game ended Sony's live service ambitions here and now, this is nearly unprecedented in the AAA space.
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Star Wars Outlaws turns out to be brutal flop - only one million copies sold
This seemed large enough to be posted outside of minor news.
https://archive.ph/O10dQ
The sales targets are not known, but Ubisoft has publicly admitted they're lower than than expected.
It's currently believed this might be the reason AC: Shadows was delayed, not the controversies surrounding it.
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Major release Unknown 9: Awakening goes by practically unheard of, peaking at 224 players and mostly negative reviews
Less players than Concord, by the way. Bandi Namco were trying to build an entire multimedia IP out of this, they bought the studio outright in 2020. AMD were giving codes away with hardware purchases. They really thought they had something here.
How does stuff like this keep happening?
https://archive.is/jAkAY
I only vaguely remember this for having been at one of those Xbox showcases. It's gotten pretty middling reviews from the press too, largely getting 5s.
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Games where the villain technically won in the end.
/v/ what are some games where the main villain technically won? My example is Metal Gear Rising, Armstrong technically won in the end as he got Raiden to accept his ideology in the end.
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Dragon age.
I want to talk about dragon age.
>Beat DA:O a few months ago as a dual wielding warrior.
>Think to myself to play as a mage.
>Never finish mage playthrough.
>Thanks to technical problems I never will and also my warrior is forever gone.
>After fixing my technical problems I finally make a new character.
>Dalish elf rogue.
>Plan to be a total bitch with a bow.
>Playing on hard and noticing that Bow kinda sucks.
>Don't want to pivot to another dual-wielding bastard.
>Try and look up online and the best bow in the game requires me to make a guy kill himself.
>Other alternatives either suck dick or they are shit you get from the DLC for free (already destroyed them).
>Kinda just want to make a new character but I still want to make archer work.
What do I do /v/? Is there something I need to do to make bow rogue good? Also discuss Origins in general and why Sten is the best companion.
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2009 legacy league of legends
Take down if you feel fit. But I'm not the most savvy with trying to get old games to work and figured I'd make a post here where riot cucks wont touch.
So I noticed you can get a copy of the 2009 cd League of Legends on internet archive. I wanted to see about hosting some old league with friend's but every ounce of research I do to see if there's anyway to do that with the files. But I just get stuff about riot taking down fan project attempts to revive old league. I just want to have a silly time with the superior version of league with friend's so any software savvy peep's able to tell me how I might be able to achieve my goal?
On another note favorite splash-art or design from classic league?
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MONSTER HUNTER THREAD: (Breath of the) Wilds Edition.
So the beta for MonHun Wilds is out and I've played it.
It's OK.
I'm not a hardcore Monster Hunter fan, I only played World and Rise up to the end of the story and didn't go for any post-game content, but this is way more casual-friendly than the previous entries.
The camera now locks on to the monster instead of just centering on them for a split second.
I could spam attacks with dual blades and interrupt at a moment's notice with the dodge roll, so I didn't have to pace my button presses.
The wound feature is pretty cool. Basically you just attack one body part over and over until it glows red, then enter focus mode with L2 and press R1, and you do a super move on it. Focus mode lets you basically strafe and finely aim your attacks like it's a third-person shooter.
The new support creature, the seikret, is cool. It automatically follows the monster's scent once you're on it so tracking the monster is now piss-easy.
I only did the first hunt against the giant toad, I turned it off after that. There is another hunt you can do afterwards but I wanted to get back to the Romancing Saga 2 remake.
Overall, I think I would play it. I expect hardcore MonHun fans will be pissed at how baby-mode it is now though. I'm nowhere near a seasoned veteran and I played it just like Dark Souls and that worked fine for me. YMMV.
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PC Hardware & News Thread: CPU Edition
>Discuss PC Hardware & News
>Share Specs & Pics
Current News
>Ryzen 9000 series out next month
>Snapdragon elite X chips use 65% less battery then AMD and Intel chips
>Intel runs hot
Last thread
>>870915
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Prediction thread
Conjecture based on how the industry and companies operate:
>Half Life title will be released with the Steam Deck 2, won't be Half Life 3
>Switch successor will be unveiled in February, right before the financial quarter ends as Nintendo stated
>Ubisoft will start selling their aseets and IP to other companies after Asscreed: Nigger flops
>EA will gut Bioware like a fish early next year
>AAA companies outside EA will dial back on the poz due to Trumpstein winning
>PS6 and the next Xbox will sell like absolute dogshit
>GTA6 will be ported to PC in less than 6 months
>S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 will be fun but pale in comparison to the originals atmosphere
>Metroid Prime 4 will skip the Switch
>Bloodborne fully emulateable on PC late next year
Feel free to post your own predictions
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/v/ specific gamenight servers
In light of the fun TF2 gamenight, I wish to start some sort of collaborative effort to maintain a list of active /v/ servers, so that our gamenights can be easier to organize.
If you have any specific server you're hosting, or know that the people hosting are old 8chan anons or otherwise cool guys, let me know and I'll add them to the pile.
REDCHANNIT OFFICIAL SITE: https://redchanit.xyz/
Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
(Courtesy of zombie9143): 198.72.135.130:27015
Minecraft
Mikecraft 1.20.1 (Courtesy of segamastersystem): 51.81.52.43:25571
Matchaland 1.20.1: 199.247.69.220:25565
Boba changed Matchaland Minceraft to 1.20.2 vanilla
https://matchaland.net/minecraft and here's its dynmap:
http://199.247.69.220:8123/
Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 (zombie9143): 198.72.135.130:35600
/v/craft IP: mc.chimpout.club:25600
Open Fortress
https://openfortress.fun/
>REDchanit:
OF, Custom Maps, Custom Playermodels: 35.132.109.29:27015
Pre-Fortress 2
https://prefortress.com/
>REDchanit
PF2, some custom maps: 35.132.109.29:26335
Quake III Arena
35.132.109.29:34560
QuakeWorld
35.132.109.29:27960
Sven Co-op
REDchanit Half-Life Sven Co-op 35.132.109.29:34560
Has the following campaigns, plus all default maps:
Half-Life Opposing Force
Blue Shift
Quake (Shareware)
Ocarina of Time (Deku Tree)
Half-Quake Crack-Life
Bonus Levels:
Deathmatch
Classic Quake
DM Maps (DM2, DM4, DM6)
Ricochet
Sneed
Use these
https://anonfiles.com/F5zbF059z9/SvenCoopAddins_7z
SRB2K
Sleepychan's server: 45.63.8.116
>How to play: https://archive.fo/TPXTs
Team Fortress Classic
TFC (Goldsrc): 35.132.109.29:34531
TF2 Servers
(All TF2 servers have a Custom Classes plugin which features the Civilian from TF2C and Merc from Open Fortress)
>REDchanit
Site for all servers if they ever change IPs:
https://redchanit.xyz/servers.html
Valve Maps + Custom Maps: 35.132.109.29:25565
VScript Custom Maps + MvM Upgrades Maps: 35.132.109.29:51840
"SoapDM" Team Deathmatch: 35.132.109.29:27335
>Matchaland
Official Valve Maps Only: 199.247.69.220:27015
Custom Maps Only: 199.247.69.220:27045
Mann vs Machine: 199.247.69.220:27055
100 Players: 199.247.69.220:27065
Freak Fortress / Vs Saxton Hale 199.247.69.220:27075
TF2Classic Servers
https://tf2classic.com/
>REDchanit
TF2C + Custom Weapons: 35.132.109.29:27020
(Features a few custom weapons, nothing too crazy, mostly weapons from previous builds of TF2C which got cut like the Sten Gun and Poacher's Pride. Also features custom player models of extended-universe TF2 characters within the TF2C community like Janitor, Driver etc. If that's too much for you I recommend playing Matchaland TF2C insttead since it's totally vanilla TF2C basically)
>Matchaland:
TF2C Official Maps Only: 199.247.69.220:27025
TF2C Custom Maps Only: 199.247.69.220:27035
Official Maps (TF2C) 199.247.69.220:27025
Custom Maps (TF2C) 199.247.69.220:27035
Xonotic
167.114.96.61
Download and install version 0.8.6:
Windows:
https://dl.xonotic.org/xonotic-0.8.6.zip or any other mirrors at
https://xonotic.org/download/
Other systems: it may be available as a package in your system. If not, use the same download as Windows.
Official newbie guide:
https://xonotic.org/guide Xonotic wiki:
https://gitlab.com/xonotic/xonotic/-/wikis/home
How to join
>Launch Xonotic
>Complete the new player setup
>Go to multiplayer
>Enter the server IP in "Address" at the bottom and press Join
If your server is not on the list, just let me know. Additionally, consider checking out
https://rentry.org/abmfz for updates.
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Blizzard completely redid the botched Warcraft III remaster
They also remade Warcraft I and II.
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Project borealis came out
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Itsuno is leaving Capcom
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Sega Dreamcast 25th Anniversary
Happy Birthday Sega Dreamcast.
Happy 25th Anniversary of the Sega Dreamcast's Release in America
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Game of the Month #13 (One Year of Gaming Edition): Barkley, Shut up and Jam: Gaiden (PC)
Happy Anniversary, Gamers!
>What is this?
This is exactly how it sounds: A game is chosen each month (which will be relatively or totally obscure on purpose) with hopes of bringing new avenues of playing potential to anons with narrow video game perspectives. The goal isn't necessarily to pick bad games, but obscure ones nobody, or as few people as possible, have played. You can play the game and then use that fact as bragging rights to others! You can use it to broaden your backlog horizons! or you can forget about it. It's up to you.
THIS MONTH:
Tales of Game's Studios Presents Chef Boyardee's Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa
>Where do I get this?
https://www.talesofgames.com/related_game/barkley-shut-up-jam-gaiden/
https://archive.org/details/Barkley_Shut_Up_and_Jam_Gaiden
GUIDELINES FOR FUTURE GotMs:
Poll for November 2024:
November Fanservice Frenzy! https://poal.me/gu2u9q
If you do not like any of the games in the poll, you can either add a new entry manually, or reply to the OP with a different suggestion. Don't come crying to me if you don't like the game, blame democracy.
If you DO suggest a game though, please, report all relevant information on the game (magnet/dl link, interesting mods, guides, tutorials on tech, speedrun etc.).
Feel free to suggest any and every game you can think of, bonus points if it's games that barely anyone has played or talks about in the [Current Year] or that fit the month thematically. However, try and follow these rules:
1) No game that relies on modern hardware. If the game cannot be pirated or emulated properly, or no working emulator for the game exists, most people won't be able to enjoy it, rendering the thread kind of pointless;
2) No always-online games, meaning no live service games or mobile games that are dependent on external servers, unless a backup instance of said servers has been created by its fans or the offline content is significantly larger than the online content;
3) For multiplayer games, provide only free to play games that let players create their own servers, or games with local multiplayer that can be set up to play online (requires someone to be a hostfag, or, and may Allah forgive me for uttering these words, using Parsec);
4) No game that requires gimmicky controls to be enjoyable (guitar pedals, Wiimotes, cameras etc.) unless they can be easily remapped or translated into some other control scheme.
Previous Games of the Month:
https://rentry.co/p58zse2f
OP Copypasta:
https://rentry.co/akaqy3oq
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Video Game Waifu Thread: Haydee Edition
/v/, who is your video game waifu? Mine is definitely Haydee. I love her curvy body and thick round ass. I believe she would make a submissive loyal house wife. I know some may call me a nigger lover but when served properly, chocolate is delicious dish.
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Metal Gear Solid
I've been thinking about Vol 2 of the Master collection. There is no doubt Peace Walker is going to be apart of it, and MGS4 has to be the main draw of the package, otherwise they don't really have much to sell that people don't already have access to on modern platforms.
But that's making me think Peace Walker is built entirely around Co-op so they will be supporting that, and that's making me think if they are working on PW's MP stuff then there is a chance they're also going to relaunch MGS4's Multiplayer, I'm not gonna hold my breath of course they didn't bother with MGS3's MP, still seems like there is a slim chance of it, but it's interesting to think about.
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VR Games
VR has been around for around ten years at this point, and personally while I think overall there's not a single game that I'd suggest is a "system seller" for any headset, I'm a bit curious to see if there's anything that has captured anyone's interest for more than a couple hours.
I'll list a few of mine in the thread.
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Vidya Enhacements: Mods, Romhacks, Remasters, Texture Packs, Undubs, ReShade, etc
Do you like to garnish your vidya experiences? Whenever I play a videogame, I like to see if there are enhanced fan made versions of them, and if there are I will play those instead of anything official, not that official is bad ofc but fans tend to make the better creative decisions. The most common mods are used in BOTW and minecrank, but it should be our duty to share the more obscure or newer mods to give anons a nice feeling of catharsis. That's what I'm doing. Check these two mods out, feel free to share your favorites too!
Sonic Free Riders: Controller Patch
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=VmK3rCxL4mE
Paper Mario: Originality King
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=blmnHQnVZTk