/games/ - Video Games

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.

been playing this game, witchfire. rutracker has the most updated version of it but id advise to not use the exe you see in the root folder but dig into the binaries folder and use that one, just in case aha.
Its pretty fun, I like how they blended in the rouguelike/soulslike elements hat they chose to put into their shooty game. Id call it doom but with souls mechanics. Most of my time is spent running through the same 2 levels shooting he same guys trying to git gud and to unlock what secrets I can, and grinding for souls before getting filtered by the next level. I enjoy how its tuned, the loop has hooked me. Its something nice to play after the wage.
>>63072
this looks interesting, I need to get to emulating pikmin one day but this is deffo going on the list when that pikmin urge comes along. where do you get you romhacks btw? I heard that romhacks.net is closing down now :/

>>63446
>layed new Assassins Creed and realized all video games are shit
Ubisoft video games are shit*

>>63447
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>>60983
just emulate old nintoddler games from before 2015 and you'll be set for years

>>63490
Nintendo games are crap

I just play l4d, yume nikki, etc. older games or newer games that recreate that feel like cruelty squad. Battlefield is from around then but I never enjoyed it. Things sucked then too, just filter them out. Modern games are different, just like modern internet is different. There are good ones still, but they'll be indie most likely. I let a game release then wait about 5 years to play it if it still looks interesting. Yandere Simulator is good, just gotta find a good version that'll actually run.

Big Game prioritizes sterility and micro transactions.

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.

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

beat this

>>63453
Best shmups for new players:
>Crimzon Clover - Novice Difficulty
>Mushihimesama - Novice Difficulty
>DoDonPachi Resurrection (DaiFukkatsu) - Novice Difficulty

https://youtu.be/956XrCwP3RU?si=Q4ynI_NtlQ9Swl05

They are pretty wizfriendly, and there's the sense of growth too when you start getting better and your scores go up and up. Or you start 1ccing harder games.

>>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.

ive always played the original steins;gate VN but i never bothered to finish it, never getting past chapter 4. as for me i would love to play the original phantom of inferno, but i don't know how to and there's not much incentive to since they released the updated PRFTP, shame its only in nippon and not english though.

>>63359
>I should have used the time to learn skills and stuff, I could have learnt Japanese by now :P

Can't do that when cliques keep gatekeeping all the basic info on that and spamming demoralization propaganda to shit up the search engines.

Its all rigged anyway. If some chickenshit janitor just doesn't like you, there goes all your translation work with a ban as "thanks" for all your effort. So I dont understand where this doomfaggotry is coming from.

>>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.

I'll never understand people who get mad when an investment fails. You should find something where you can enjoy your investment whilst it gains value (ideally). If it loses value or all value, atleast you enjoyed it while it lasts? I spent about 5k into rares on my obscure MMO, made some amazing trades and profits, up to around 15k, and lost a lot more too. kind of evened out and maybe got most of my money back. Had the time of my life playing too

Shitty gameplay most of the time, way too many cutscenes, basically pay2win. There's no reason to play most of them.

>>63236
baesd

>>63164
This.

I love the objectification of succubi so much.

Just downloaded Arknights (the original 2019 one, not endfield). Entire day flew by playing it. I forgot how easily addicted I can get to video games. Good gameplay. Unique worldbuilding. Good visual direction and atmosphere. Characters are very pretty without any sexualization. How did it get overshadowed by other gacha games? This hits all the right spot for me.

>>63401
>2019 Arknights

>>63234
Try Honkai Impact 3rd then… the game got an overhaul for the first levels into this very *drive*.