/games/ - Video Games

>>63374
I played this for the 1st time in 2024 where it took a lot of effort to beat if on "Easy" without save states, and on "Normal" even with save states… now I went back to it and I'm happy to update that I got a 1CC on "Hard" without save states or any form of cheating, I beat it legit, and it's fun how when you're good at it the whole thing takes like 10min to complete actually.

It's grown on me a lot, perfect Batman title for short bursts.

Replaying Wrath of the Righteous. Did Angel, Trickster, Demon, Aeon paths throughout the years. Want to try Azata path but it is so cringey it will be hard to do. It's strong gameplay wise though.

So I am currently (and once again) playing modded Skyrim. I find the TES games are very comfortable for me to return to, so every so often if I'm not sure what I want to play I'll just pick one of those and sink another hundred or so hours into more adventures in the land of Tamriel. Aside from that I bought the new Sonic Racing game a couple months ago (on sale) and I really enjoy it. It's a lot like Mario Kart 8 but with some new and unique features, as well as a mostly-Sonic cast, of course.

Also I have a few new games in my backlog, but as is often the case, I may or may not get around to actually playing them.

Играю в FH, сэймы есть?

>>60906
I'm playing Jackie Chan: Stuntmaster on PS1 and it rocks. It's a simple 3D beat 'em up with a few platform elements, a product of its time for sure, but I don't see any issue in that, beating people up is satisfying and that's all a beat 'em up needs to do right, it needs to feel good when you hit things and it does. I'm in the 3rd area of 5 and it's been a real blast.

I might get into more Jackie Chan video games ater this, maybe Kung Fu on NES.

>>58061
I've beat Barbie: Explorer on PS1 recently. Why did I even play this? Well, I love the PS1 era, and Crash Bandicoot, so I'm all about the many Crash Bandicoot clones from the era as I love the hallway/corridor 3D platformer style. This is one of the few I hadn't played yet, it's Crash Bandicoot levels with Tomb Raider controls for some reason, and it feels off at first, though I got used to how it works, especially when I figured out that walking with R1 made it so you didn't fall off of ledges, meaning I could always make the farthest jump possible from platforms by walking to the very edge before jumping. It's surprisingly difficult for the IP, you'd expect it to be braindead, but the controls make this harder to 100% than Crash 1 for me, which is why I didn't even bother.

It's solid if you like the IP and gameplay style, but nothing special even though I'll admit enjoying it.

>>62967
Reminds me of when I was a kid and so starved for new games I would take pride in dominating my sister's games after getting bored of my own.
Then when she complained I would offer for her to play my games to make it fair but the vast majority of the time she couldn't even figure out how to get them to run or learn the controls.
I think at around 9 or so I just decided games were games and cartoons were cartoons so target demographic doesn't matter as long as I am having fun.
That said the games industry did succubi dirty, at leastin the 90s and early 00s. A lot of the games targeted at succubi were pretty bad and just low effort cash grabs. Even the good ones were mid compared to other stuff in the same genre of gameplay.

>>62969
Indeed, often it seems succubi didn't even enjoy the titles targeted at them all that much, preferring more "neutral" titles. My mom and sister loved to play Sonic in our Mega Drive more than any of the more "girly" titles.

Bought this game during the recent Steam sale. Remember playing it when I was younger on the Xbox, so I figured I would relive some memories and pick up the PC port since it was dirt cheap.
Unfortunately, I didn't live up to my memories of it, and I have to conclude it's quite a mediocre game.
The conceit of the game is that it's basically a first person shooter, but instead of a normal gun, you have a crossbow that shoots a variety of critters (which are the different ammo types).
Spiders that tangle enemies in a web, wasps that are like a rapid fire machine gun, bats that explode, the furballs that have sharp teeth and function like proximity mines, etc.
It's a nice idea but it doesn't really work, because the game doesn't seem to be designed nor balanced around it, which is unfortunate considering that's the central gimmick of the game. I think what happened is that the developers had an interesting idea on paper, but then weren't able to flesh out it into a successful execution of said idea.
One of the ammo types, for example, is a talking chipmunk which acts as bait for enemies (there's a very rudimentary stealth system in this game). The tutorial introduces the idea of luring your enemies into a trap using these noisemakers. Except, throughout the rest of the game there's absolutely no reason whatsoever to actually do this. Sure you can lure an enemy to you and then shoot them, but there's basically no added benefit; you might as well just shoot them, straight up.
There's also some balancing issues in that there's a default infinite ammo type which is this electric bug, which if you let it charge up, stuns most enemies. The most efficient strategy then is to stun enemies with this infinite ammo type, while walloping them with the ammo type that does the most damage.
There's also bosses in the game which you can either kill or capture (there's a sort fantastical Wild West theme throughout the game, and you're a bounty hunter). Here again, the most efficient way to capture bosses is to just spam the stun and damage ammo types in quick succession. It would be much more interesting if each boss required a different approach e.g. this one needs to be stung with the wasp ammo before you can tie him up with the spiders, another might need to be bled out using the furball traps with sharp teeth before you can stun him, etc. Unfortunately, that's no the case.

What it comes down to, is that the game doesn't live up toPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>58061
I finished Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul on PS4 with my older sister. I hadn't come visit my parents in a while and she still lives with them, it was nice playing some video games with her again and finally beating this save of ours that was just waiting for us to sit down and kick Hades' ass. It's not the best title, the cutscenes and presentation are laughable, but it plays alright, even if we both thought Saint Seiya: Sanctuary Battle on PS3 captured the IP better, I'm still glad we play through it really.

Now if only we'd get another Saint Seiya title that isn't mobile slop, something based on Lost Canvas for PS5 would rock.

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

it all happens to the best of us. usually its your brain trying to take you back to a happier life than the one you're experiencing now. Especially after a traumatic/life-changing experience. I should know because its exactly what I experienced. Something really bad happened to me and I couldn't tell my parents back then because I did fucked up stuff and I went back to playing old flash games, revisited my 10 year old minecraft worlds on my 360, rewatching old movies I saw as a kid like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. all of that so I could feel some comfort be taken back to a merrier time.

>>63333
>the og multiplayer stick empires
>og plasma burst 2 with multiplayer and custom map making in the official site
>armorgames new games every week
>stickpage.com with banker animations
>still remember the kongregate ants logo
>notdoppler hosting all of the above

we were truly spoiled back then.

>>63329
also played these all.

also honorable mention to Alice is Dead i love that game its soundtrack is phenomenal.

"man I can't wait for the future. Imagine all the cool new games, in amazing graphs"
>all games will be digital downloads that can be revoked at anytime.
>all consoles are dead or sold by scalpers.
>RAM prices are making even PC's unobtainable.
>gameplay is pushed to be multiplayer and based on microtranscations and loot boxes.
>so much industry shilling you have no idea who is real any more.
>gameplay absurdly dumbed down you might as well play a rail shooter.
>politics and race injected into every franchise, particularly where it doesn't even make sense.
>franchises would rather remake their old games than make a sequel.
take me back

>>63472
Fuck… this perfectly sums up my issues with the industry now. I think the last title I looked forward to was PS4 Spider-Man and both it and its sequel were bloated and agenda filled slop with ugly succubi everywhere. It played fine, but I still preferred the webslinging in Spider-Man 2 (2004) anyway. I think I'd rather play those old retro titles even.

>>63478
Play OSRS, the newer versions are complete shit. You can definitely get into it as a complete beginner even now, most of the content that actually relies on other players comes much later on in your leveling experience so for a long time it's almost like a single player game. In terms of what you should do first, part of the beauty of osrs is that it's non linear. See which skills are interesting to you, start training them. Through doing this you will begin to form goals and gradually expand your knowledge of the map.

>>63479
I should also add that there is a lot of free to play content that you can work through, so you have a while to decide if you want to pay for a subscription or not (the main downside of the game)

>>63479
Thanks for the info. Gonna start playing one of these days

I highly advise against getting in to Runescape. I started playing as a kid in 2004 and amassed over 52 days of total playtime before 2007… With school and a bedtime. Did I enjoy exploring the low poly world? Yes. Did I like talking to randos for hours at the fishing sites? Verily. Did I spend 11+ hours grinding on skeletons for a single attack level increase? You bet. But what made it fun then has not only been washed away by updates and a culture shift (even on OSRS), but is also just incompatible with my elevated state of existence (I'm an adult like you). I've revisited it multiple times over the past 15 years and every time it becomes an objectively worse game.

For it being a multiplayer game, it falls as short as it can. It's effectively a singleplayer game in which you can also see other players carrying out their singleplayer tasks. Nobody is talking or hanging out anymore. Most of the people you meet either have chat disabled or won't speak English, even in your most local server. There's no way to troll people and banter is pretty much censored out entirely. Trading in person was replaced by the GE. There's no party system or co-op quests. Even the few minigames that are team based are empty with the few players being metabuilders with the absolute best stuff so you stand no chance to either contribute alongside them or beat them. Nobody PKs because there's nothing a guy can drop that can't be bought from the GE after a day of using the current get rich quick strategy. Money and the current best gear for a level is in such an abundance and easy to materialize that you can't even roleplay as a good guy going around and uplifting people with your charity. There are no noobs you can see doing the little starter quests and you'll never walk upon a dead player whose loot you can steal because that's been taken out of the game. Look at the screenshot in the OP. That's half the game's server, idly staring at menus in the GE to make their yellow coin number increase. Nobody talking, no PVP, no arguments. Might as well just be you and the same menu those players are staring at. You can even count a few bot or smurf accounts there.

There's no story or narrative depth. No funny, cute, or cool quests, characters, or events. If you like anime, Lord Of The Rings, medieval history, and European culture as a whole then too bad this game has nothing like any of that. The very need for NPC interactions has long since been phased out - uPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The free demo for Half Sword is available on steam. I downloaded it today and it's actually pretty fun. It's a medieval tourney simulator more or less, with a lot of weapons, armor, and different match variants. The demo has both a 'gauntlet mode' where you progress through the ranks, or a free play mode where you pick what rank of armor/weapons you want to play with and just enter matches freely. There are no horses or ranged weapons (unless you want to throw your weapon) and there's no online in the demo in case you were curious about that. As far as the gameplay goes it's a bit chaotic and whacky at times, but I that's part of the fun for me personally. Controlling your weapon can be tricky, so I would recommend turning down the mouse sensitivity, pretty much at minimum. Also, depending on your hardware you may need to run 'Low' graphics but it's still decently optimized for what it is I guess. Certainly worth a try if your into medieval combat.

House Flipper 1 is free to keep if you claim it on Steam before the 6th

https://autobioarchitech.itch.io/headsrest

Played only a bit, but it was good.

It's a surreal rug maker game sorta, like Gingivia.

Also, it is obscure as hell. Practically no one knows about it.

>>63474
Dude thank you!

>>63476
no problem

>>62022
where to find the indie japanese games anyway? I want to see what kind of game they do make

>>62024
I haven't looked too much into the Japanese indie scene but for example here's a Japanese website for "free games" https://www.freem.ne.jp/
Admittedly most of it seems to be more like RPG Maker kind of stuff though.

>>62025
indeed. thnk you

>>59447
>western games, which I found dull and ugly
Japanese studios are often allowed more creative freedom than their western counterparts. Western devs for whatever reason care about public perception and what groups like PEGI thinks.
>we can't have attractive npcs in our games, the PEGI will raise the age rating!
>we can't make a game about the battle of Fallujah, war vets feel offended by it!
They gave a childish game like Skyrim an age rating of 18+. war vets don't give a flying fuck if they offend you, so you shouldn't give a flying fuck if you offend them.
Freedom of expression is a thing, what are they going to do? Sue you for making attractive 3d-models and basing a game on a recent war?

My favorite real game, SMT IV (I don't like Apocalypse) is indeed Japanese.
Katawa Shoujo is also my favorite game , if you count VN's as real games, but it is unclear where it is from if development was even concentrated in one country.
I feel like Japan is unmatched in gaming compared to every other country, so many genres, innovations and cultural aspects.

>>63439
>dark souls classes aren’t unbalanced you can one shot bosses with every single one of them
Yes if you play as an mage.

>>63441
no, even with a strength build, power within, boosts, infusions and the right rings you can melt anything in one hit

>>63440
running for a couple minutes isn’t so bad, although there are run backs that are truly miserable but those are the minority and mostly a DS2 problem. The game allows you to summon NPCs and people or get severely overleveled before a boss fight so the run backs just balance things a little bit

Why is this game treated like a hidden gem? Skylar and Plux is just discount Jak and Daxter. The game is very janky, you can get stuck on a plane that is just elevated 5cm from the one you currently standing on. You have to jump up on it.
This is the equivalent of seeing a person not being able of walking up a doorstep, and have to jump up on it to reach the door. You can clip trough a lot of objects that you shouldn't. They couldn't bother animating pots breaking when you punch them instead they just become dust. level design is just okayish. The story is so cringe. Many people complain that the game was just 2-4 hours, I wouldn't mind it if it was the most amazing 2-4 hours platforming ever. But it's not, it's just something you play if you want something similar to jak and daxter but you already played all of them. Worst part is that this could had been a good game if they had polished it more. Yes there were only 4 devs working on it, it's impressive but the game by itself isn't a gem. Do PC-gamers have very low standards when it comes to platformers?

>>63216
I liked Banished but like most GOG games there was a software bug that broke the game for me. I had a village that was almost dead and had to be brought back to life through incest. The city management was kind of confusing and I was never happy with it. Stronghold was a much better bang for my buck.
>>63325
Shadows of the Colossus permanently killed my enthusiasm for Zelda. It was almost a parody of a Zelda game. BotW had some nice survival and climbing mechanics but it was shit I wished Morrowind had.
>>63369
I would have tried this game if it wasn't for the relentless shill campaign. I am more likely to try Crimson Desert after my ears perked up hearing it compared to Dynasty Warriors.

>>63181
Also another cool mod to play around with for more random and less handcrafted dungeons is Doomlike Dungeons, which you can basically edit the parameters of and make dungeon templates for extremely easily. Some I have now are:

>Undergrowth, a dungeon found in mostly forests at relatively high Y levels that is populated with shamblers, shriekers, rust monsters, spiders, wisps, spriggans, and ents, and the block palette is mostly just grass, dirt, logs, and leaves.
>Elemental Nexus, a dungeon that is filled with elementals of almost every variety mainly from Ars Magica 2 and Lycanite's. Some of the Lycanite's elementals will kill each other and cause chaos. There are pools of frostfire, ethereum, water, and lava all over the dungeon which is mostly a palette of quartz.
>Warg den, a narrow dirt den full of rats, barghests, wargs, and hellhounds.
>Ogre cave, a sprawling labyrinth of stone full of rats, kobolds, trolls, ettins, and ogres.
>Tomb, a large dungeon of mossy stone brick full of ghouls, wraiths, zombies, skeletons, and occasionally necromancers.

Of course they are all randomly generated and nonsensical and are just rooms tied together with a rough theme but they're still fun to go through.

Has anyone else played the old 1.7.10 LOTR mod? It's one of my favorites, and I play it over any version of vanilla at this point.

>>63466
Oh man this brings me back. I would spend hours on this mod roleplaying with all the fictional scenarios I'd come up with whilst daydreaming about Tolkienist literature. I remember using the conquest feature and raising massive armies to conquer foreign lands and fortresses which was was arguably the most fun part about the mod. I haven't taken a look at it in years but from I remember the community was relatively active so I can only imagine that it's still receiving updates.

>>63467
Unfortunately I don't believe it's updated anymore and the developer seems to have gone AWOL. There appear to be a few attempts at resurrecting it or adding onto the original mod but it's just not the same. The conquest feature is really good, and there is a submod that adds onto it a bit that allows enemy factions to gain conquest as well which can make things a bit more interesting as well as adding a few other features/bugfixes, MiddleEarth Tweaks I believe it's called.

I also like playing it along with a few other mods like Astikoor's Carts for horse-drawn carts and plows and Cuchaz ships for actual boats. You were probably already aware but there is also an excellent submod that uses the original mod as a base and replaces the map/factions with First Age Beleirand.

>Unfortunately I don't believe it's updated anymore and the developer seems to have gone AWOL.
That's a bit disheartening to hear but thankfully the mod has so much content that even if it never updated again there is enough replay value to sustain it for years. And as you said I'm sure that there will be others willing to continue the project.
>there is a submod that adds onto it a bit that allows enemy factions to gain conquest as well which can make things a bit more interesting
It would be interesting if the conquest system could somehow alternate from merely having the player attack (and conquer) foreign lands to having the player defend some of their already established territory. I understand that minecraft's limitations don't really help with this but maybe the submod you mentioned could somewhat create that feeling.

>there is also an excellent submod that uses the original mod as a base and replaces the map/factions with First Age Beleirand.
I am aware of its existence but I haven't tried it. Do you think it's as good as the original? I feel as if Beleriand might be too restrictive due to its comparatively small size but that could potentially be remedied if the map scale was smaller. Using the Valar (or just Morgoth if you join one of the evil factions) as a sort of game mechanic might be a good way to create an original system to differentiate it from the original mod.

>>63424
holy shit they were so fucking better without aislop

beat this