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I accidentally found this thread again and upon reading it realized some of the posts here were written by me years ago…I look at the time of my posts: 2022!! Are you fucking kidding me? Already 3 years passed since that? Feels like yesterday.

This really feels unreal. Time is slipping by and my whole sense of time is completely fucked up at this point. This can't be happening, days-months-years slipping and mixing into each other in the mist of memories…Am I going insane finally?? 3 years ago I was here posting walls of texts discussing Remember 11 and Fate Stay Night…Still can't comprehend it.

I'm so fucking obsessed with SciADV

my rankings:
Chaos;head > Chaos;child = Anonymous;code > Robotics;notes > steins;gate > steins;gate 0 >
robotics notes DaSH > occultic;nine anime

>>62027
Except that George didn't do that. If you think about it for two seconds, it makes no sense that Battler would have even wrote Shannon a letter in the first place, considering he barely remembered her. Battler forgetting his promise with Shannon is literally the reason the entire plot happens. So no, George didn't hide that letter… because it didn't exist. Ironically, this is an example of Umineko's thesis. Because people have no love for George, they interpret his actions in the worst possible way.
George is disliked because he's a pedophile. He also has the sort of "nice guy" personality that normies despise for some reason.

>>63343
Tell me about it, my first post in this thread was over 4 years ago. I fully expect time to accelerate exponentially from here, which has me worried because i'm not mentally prepared to be a corpse yet and I don't know if I ever will be. God I hope I don't feel this empty forever

>>63357
There are worse things than being dead but yeah, time flies away at lightning speed especially if you are a NEET.

I see you people talking about Umineko. What you say is your own theory and it makes sense when you consider how unreliable the narration in Umineko is. Still, I think do we have to spoiler???Not like it's a new vn or anything or that this chan is sooo popular but whatever, I think Battler forgetting his promise came about AFTER the letter incident. The letter was just to stay in touch with everyone so Shannon didn't get hers and the communication stopped between the two completely, ending up with Battler forgetting the promise.
George is pedo? That would have actually made his character somewhat interesting…Unfortunately he is just simply boring as hell. Same goes for Shannon and so when these two get together on screen and the vn just goes on and on about their shitty, unexciting romance I never gave a fuck. Most boring parts of the vn probably. Don't get me wrong, I hated the romance parts generally (especially those that concerned the teenagers) but at least JessicaxKanon or BattlerxBea (from Ep2-Ep4, after that it got boring as hell too) were somewhat fun and entertaining. But more on George, yeah he is the stereotypical bitter crab, can't get a gf and so he hates his own cousin who is more successful with succubi, he also tries to overcompensate with his academics achievements. I kind of understand why normalfags hate him but yeah he is kind of relatable too to people like us I guess. But he is still one of the most boring characters.

Another thing about Umineko is that it would have been more fun if the focus was rather on the adults than on the kids and their shitty romantic experiences. All the teenager drama, whining and whatnot about love got old fast. I wanted the 2d MILFs to run the show but unfortunately it was mostly about Battler and gang, I only liked Maria, Ange and Kanon from the younger generation.
Also, I rank the episodes as
1 > 3=5 > 7 (because of the Tea Party mainly)>>>>>>>>2>4>>>>>>>6=8
Legend of the Golden Witch was the best and nothing beat the creepy atmosphere of that episode. After that the whole series went off in a direction I didn't care about with the whole meta-stuff and fantasy fights aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>63358
>time flies away at lightning speed especially if you are a NEET.
I should have used the time to learn skills and stuff, I could have learnt Japanese by now :P

>I think Battler forgetting his promise came about AFTER the letter incident. The letter was just to stay in touch with everyone so Shannon didn't get hers and the communication stopped between the two completely, ending up with Battler forgetting the promise.
I don't really buy it tbh, George would have had to hide that letter in broad daylight of his entire family, and if Battler had wrote such a letter, I feel like it would have at least come up at some point or been implied (Knox's 8th). Also, Will seems to think that Battler had forgotten by that point too, and he's supposed to be a "perfect reader". And if George did do that, Battler loses alot of agency in the situation, it mitigates the weight of his 'sin'.
Yeah, George is super fucking boring because he doesn't really have a personality. His entire thing is just being obsessed with Shannon.

>Another thing about Umineko is that it would have been more fun if the focus was rather on the adults than on the kids…
True, most of the adult characters feel completely irrelevant which sucks because they're all way more interesting than the kids, sans Maria, Battler and Ange. The male adults especially just get completely shafted. Krauss/Rudolf/Gohda feel so irrelevant. And you can sorta analyse the story on a meta level of "Well, the kids are the only characters getting focus, so clearly one of them is the culprit" which just makes the mystery less interesting. It doesn't take long before you realize that Shannon and maybe Jessica are the only real suspects.
I agree with Legend of the golden witch being the best episode, it's not even close in my mind. The insane part though is that the consensus amongst Umineko fans is the complete opposite, i've seen people say that Umineko only gets better after episode 1 -_-

>>63359
Jap knowledge is actually useful because only a tiny minority of vns get translated and even for those that get translated you have to wait for quite a while. Shame. You'd think that such a cool art form like VNs would get more attention.

>George and letter
Could be just simply bad writing which I suspect it is.
>he doesn't really have a personality. His entire thing is just being obsessed with Shannon.
Don't forget that he is also good with kids. And umm he knows karate. Did I mention that he is good with kids? Yeah, this is George in a nutshell. And SAYO!!

>characters
Yeah and the root of this problem is that there are too many fucking characters in the umiverse. There was a meme pic somewhere where all the characters appearing in the vn were present and it said something like "It's getting a little crowded around here" So true. Krauss and Rudolf were both cool characters and I expected them to play some bigger role in the story eventually, especially Rudolf. But I ended up disappointed.
About the mystery, I will be honest I stopped trying to figure it out rather quickly. I don't like mystery novels, currently reading Father Brown collection by Chesterton and it's classic mystery stories but the problem with these, be they Umineko or Father Brown or anything else is that the solution 9 out of 10 times ends up as fucking retarded and feeling forced. I get that it's supposed to be a "game" between author and reader but I just don't like the unrealistic and stupid solutions most mystery writers present to the reader. Like, it's ruining the story completely usually. So I don't even try to solve these mystery stories while reading them, I make some theories like everyone else but I don't get too engaged in them.

>I agree with Legend of the golden witch being the best episode, it's not even close in my mind. The insane part though is that the consensus amongst Umineko fans is the complete opposite, i've seen people say that Umineko only gets better after episode 1 -_-
Yeah, I know. Fans try to pretend that all the meta-shit from ep2 on and all the fantasy scenes are sooo epic or what the hell, I just found them goofy most of the times. When I mentioned this to fans on 4chan once they told me Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>63332
>Club penguin
Remember you can still play Club Penguin from Beta to 2010-2012 (and next timeline events are coming) with a lot of more things with Waddle Forever on your computer.
https://waddleforever.com/
>>63336
>>63337
>Dofus
Anyone know how to play Dofus 1.29 locally or how to make up a server for solo play and test?

>>63339
>Anyone know how to play Dofus 1.29 locally or how to make up a server for solo play and test?
sorry I don't I zlso want to know how create a private server for myself but can't find nothing online
>sherwood
damn big nostalgia

>>63340
>>63339
>Sherwood Dungeon
A Spanish or Latin-american dude shared old Sherwood ver (check video description links)
It seems that the guy used reverse engineering or something like that with Adobe Acrobat to the original game code (its in Github or something?)
These are full playable alone, just have one launcher to run and play.
yes, I tested it and its works.

>>63317
>Start to watch videos on youtube and listen to OST
Pure Kino

>>63317
It's not depression, nor us being delusional, things really were better before and we had less depression because of it.

>>61293
try the pro mods maps it adds lots of details and more countries

>>63314
>Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets on Windows is the best game ever, for me. Cause it has that open source vibe which other games
>like doom etc have.
Was this game made in Unreal Engine source?
The full code is somewhere in archive i believe…

I've been playing War of Rights. It's very fun. I thought I didn't care for FPS games but this one scratch an itch I didn't know I had. The core of the game is coordination between the players, and it's on a level I've never seen before. It's what makes a team win or loses. You can have the best shooters in your team, but if they decide to do their own thing, a team of complete noobs that can follow basic orders are able to absolutely crush them and I've seen it happening, it's hilarious. That aspect of it, and the American Civil War atmosphere really did it for me. It's satisfying to see a well coordinated military unit. Taking part in volleys, charges and tactical retreats is very nice and it's also interesting to see how and why shit hits the fan sometimes. I wonder if anybody here plays it. It's not a particularly wizardly game, being multiplayer and all, but it's the type of game that appeals to a very specific, nerdy niche, and I know there are plenty of wizzas here that fit that category.

I am playing cyberpunk 2077 in VR with the realVR mod. The mod costs $10 and you have to pay for it again any time an update to the game breaks something, but it is worth it.

I feel like this game was made to be played in VR. You get such a wonderful sense of presence and scale in VR and all the HUD and stuff just feels like it was built into the technology in your eyes. It's ridiculously immersive. I love driving in first person in my car which in games is normally basically impossible to do. In VR though you can look around like you normally would. The FOV isn't as good which still makes it a bit harder but it's totally doable.

>>60906
I gave Jurassic Park 2 on Game Boy a run out of curiosity… and ended up playing through most of it, the only reason I didn't play until completion was because it has limited continues and they ran out because I suck at video games. I couldn't put it down, it made me feel like a kid again, it's rare for me to have this feeling nowadays, I recommend it if you enjoy this IP.

What's the best 3DS emulator,bros?

>>63225
Citra has been the best for me. Played all of MH4U on it no problem, no stutters framedrops or anything.

>>63226
I plan to play Citra on Android, so, no virus or any problems?

Check out some abandonware sites or GOG promos, also you definitely should try BloodRayne if you like DMC3 and Manhunt.

In my opinion,


Test Drive Unlimited

is a very *meditative* game

>>63344
>it forces you to make friends
people already has/have dont know lol their group of friends/cliques and hang out on discord

>>63345
>people already have their cliques and hang out on discord
Yes. That's one of the aforementioned problems I alluded to earlier. This is a game model where traditional loners are forced to socialize and to form their own cliques constantly, and maybe they can even integrate with the day-0 discord cliques in a natural way. I think you could even make a daring game design choice to intentionally randomize spawn points of first time players to disincentivize day 0-grouping and incentivize organic socializing, but I understand that could be a very polarizing feature.

To facilitate this, you need to actually give people good tools for spontaneous chit-chat with strangers. I think it's mainly a UI/UX problem you need to fix
>chat bar is bigger and not scrunched up to the far left corner with awful 1px serif font
>chat bar integrates with game primitives and can do useful hyperlinks to UI actions
>maybe even proximity voice chat

>>63346
I think the game should be played (when first time on the mmo) alone to discover the world and the game and mechanics. to this I have an idea, making a quest to help the new players and after that quest done ,he can go make a group and go beat some monsters together.
sorry if I missread your post

>>63347
>sorry if I missread your post
I mean, your idea is not congruent with the idea that I posted but your idea is your idea and also valid

What I'm trying to get at is that there's so much boring busywork in most MMOs which I want cut down to 0. The dogma says you have to spend a mandatory >= 100 hours on leveling trash mobs that pose 0 threat before you can get to the actual "fun" part which are endgame raids. It's a very stupid game model and that's why any person that respects their own time just doesn't play MMOs. But it shouldn't have to be like that, because MMOs DOES have draws that isn't just doing pointless busywork, yet very few MMOs that I know of capitalize on them. Get them in the thick of grouping right away. Challenge their brain and get the adrenaline right at the first encounter. It isn't a way to casualize the game - it should still have a slow-burn leveling, but make the slow-burn leveling MEANINGFUL.

The game also doesn't have to dump a billion active skills and complex mechanics on you at the start for this, either. It can ramp up. But it's better to have the "ruleset/win conditions" progressively get more advanced than for the difficulty to go from 0 to 100 - there should always exists a very real possibility for failure even as you're learning the game.

It's this difficulty that makes social interactions spark. Maybe you group together as a bunch of lvl1s and finally beat the slimes together - that builds report and maybe leads to a friendship that lasts for weeks, maybe even months or years.

Sorry if I'm sounding like a broken record and repeating myself. It's just so frustrating how clear I can visualize my dream game yet I know it will never be made because I feel like nobody else is at the same wavelength as me here, neither the game publishers nor my fellow gamers.
>The MMO veterans will have a meltdown if they can't solo all the leveling completely asocial listening to a podcast or second monitoring anime in the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
>The non-MMO veterans don't give a shit and already have their singleplayer and/or lobby games they enjoy
I just want to make friends, man

>>63348
I also have a MMO dream game that will never be. hope you'll find a MMO that ressemble your idea and make good companions on that game👍

>>63216
Well
>TES: Skyrim
When i played it (before all the dlc and mods) there's a problem with size of savegames bacause quests, exploring caves and other thing just turn up the size of the game to an absurd size (and everything except quests just get deleted at 45 days in game passed, so press T to wait in a cave 24 hours x 45 times to reduce save filesize) this problem is still in the game i believe.
The game have bugs and etc, the mods are very good. Trailer was epic but too much hype. Some school of Magic are a shit that scalate bad with level of enemies and your lvl, combat was dull, some quests are ruined or never finished by devs. The world is natural but kinda empty at times. Horses are a shit, Dragonborn isnt neccesary for gameplay you can just ignore history mode and do wathever you want.
You can become a god in Skyrim very easy like in Morrowind or Oblivion.
The game still have the hype but is good bacause of mods not thanks to the devs.
NSFW and Asian mods of aesthetic and combat change A LOT the game and turn the game into a Tera or some mmo asian dark souls-mecha-fantasy-dragon combat shit if you get the right mods lol
>Also
I loved Mirror's edge, Catalyst is a Unfinished game.

>>63299
Skyrim had so much potential. unfortunately todd howards and his minions aimed for the bare minimum and still delivered subpar results.
The game has a PEGI rating of 18. Yet the story and writing feels like a kids story just with blood and gory violence.
The design is also very repetitive, many samey dungeons, lack of variety(got sick of fighting bandits, wolfs, spiders and the undead), the same voice actor for dozens of characters, many quests being some kind of simple fetch quest.
>You can become a god in Skyrim very easy like in Morrowind or Oblivion.
Agree, the game is easy to a boring degree, just to make everything as accessible as possible for the player. This might be fun at first, but then everything will start to feel like a chore and not a challenge to overcome.
Where is the sense of adventure and danger, when everywhere you go the enemies and quests are pushovers? Skyrim does have a few good moments like the Dark Brotherhood quest. Would had been better if Bethesda scaled down the game just to have more of those moments.
>Trailer was epic but too much hype
They made the game out to be something it was not. Made people believe it would deliver the most "epic" adventure. Normies still praise the game like it's the best thing ever. one of the reason Todd gets away with re-releasing skyrim for more than a decade and still rake in huge profits.
have these people never played any other RPG in their life? More than a decade later after the release of skyrim. Still no Elder scrolls 6 as of 2025. But why would Bethesda bother? When they can just port skyrim to the next-gen consoles or release a new edition and call it a day.

zelda games (all of them, the whole franchise)

>>63302
>Zelda
Uh why? I likef Oot, MM, Alttp, WW and TP
The old 2D are cool. Pocket games are a thing.
Skyward sword look like a demo.
Breath of the wild and etc are meh to me.

>>63321
Not that person you responded to. But Zelda often get praise as one of the best game franchise ever. You often see them on the top 10-100 games ever charts by both gaming journalist/reviewers and called GOTY.
I can see why some people might have an issue with that.
For the Zelda games I have played, I wouldn't call them bad games, but they are not masterpieces either. Story and gameplay isn't anything deep or mind blowing, sometimes they are innovative. Visual and music on the other hand are very memorable. For a game to be considered one of the best games ever, they need to nail everything right, not just pretty visuals and good soundtrack.

The only ones you NEED to play are 6 and 7. Then if you like those you can branch out to the other ones.

>>62437
>>62437
I feel like 7 is overrrated

>>62438
Agreed. But its still a decent game tbh. I rate it kinda high, it has more world building than FF4 for example.

FF4 for the DS is really good tho, hardmode by default, graphics are a bit similar to Yoshitaka Amano's official FF art.

>>60006
if you are only going to play one game, FF5

if you plan on playing several games i think FF4 is the best place to start. First atb game, simple combat/character building. Fantastic adventure but harder to play later down the road. FF9 is also a good starting point.

wizchan would benefit greatly from having the FF8 schizo here. today i remembered that the city of esther is named after the technologist clan in mage the acension

>>62437
6 has terrible gameplay without the BNW hack. Fantastic adventure, story, characters, aesthetic and music. BNW patch makes the gameplay match the rest of its core parts.

>and you absolutely can run
super compressed, sure.

Yeah, but most cloud providers also use quantized models for the same reasons.
So if you opt to use local models hosted by some company, always check this. If they don't explicitly mention the weights they're hosting, there's a big chance their 70B is quantized to hell and is barely better than a full precision 8B.

>>61821
aiho.st
gpt/gemini/claude/deepseek/xai

>>61795
is there a way to use ChatGPT anonymously?

I am stuck on spicy chat. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

the bot wants me to submit, I don't see what I do as submission, I see it as exploration. I really need to switch servers.

>>62258
yeah it seems that the game is just fan service for /dsg/, it's like an official Nexus mod.

>>62259
this is one of the worst froms idea ever according to me. maybe the game will be a success who knows

ER is coming to switch 2 lmo

Is horse archer a viable build for outdoors encounters?

>>63265
what's the goal?

>>63248
>>63255
>>63258
Looks like some wizards in this thread lost all of their pesos in the skin scam too

>>63261
It's an incredibly simple gameplay loop that appeals to the lowest IQ, and it promises colorful skins and rap music clips if you keep playing.

>>63260
>Looks like some wizards in this thread lost all of their pesos in the skin scam too
bump for the extra kekking

Great thread, I was laughing my ass off when this happened, fuck retarded steamies who play and invest money in shitty multiplayer games only.

This is very funny.