/games/ - Video Games

>>56859
I like all kinds of games and I've been playing them for 20+ years, but I never played the Doom games until the pandememe. It was very fun, because while it's incredibly simplistic at a glance, the level design, the enemies and the weapons give it a lot of depth, in the later levels you need to basically plan out a route, memorize health and ammo pickups, learn which weapons work best against each enemies, if you fuck up you will feel overwhelmed and will need to think how to make it alive out of a sticky situation, it's like a survival horror in a way. About the graphics, I can see where you come from but for me personally it's enough to be immersed.

>>57020
>>57021
>ubisoft, elder scrolls, witcher
nice competition there wow…
>maps and compass are bad
yea if you only played the simpleton rpg genre, try those old school dungeon crawlers or japanese survival horror
>combat compared to the witcher
why dont you compare it to nioh, ninja gaiden and monster hunter or better yet an actual fighting game and beat em ups

>>57106
I don't know if this actually makes sense to anyone else, but Souls games have always felt like just mediocre games from an alternate universe where the shift in game design that started in the 6th/7th generation never happened and modern AAA games aren't terrible. They're better than almost anything else coming out, but I just can't understand the passion people have for them.

>>57109
I know what you're saying, best part was when he compared the combat to the witcher 3..

>>56210
If we go by todays standards sure but the controls was decent for the time being a "actual child"

Ive never played a fucking Mega Man game before (really) what's the best game to play?

>>57073
Are you into a more classic platformer or something more advanced? It's important to know what series I should recommend

>>57073
Can't go wrong with MM 2 or MMX

>>57075
I'm going to have to jump in here, I'd recommend megaman 6 or megaman x2, mm2 is really rough and there are crappy bosses, mmx is unrefined and doesnt have any interesting bosses

Playing INFERNAX
Trying to get the different endings and secrets

>>52217
Gross misuse of average.

>>56751
then what does it mean?

>>56752
No I mean it is an average. But it paints the idea that most people playing that game spend around $600, when it is far more likely that the majority spend nothing, while a minority spend thousands and bring up the average.

I spend too much on controllers

>>57094
post your drawings

>>56967
I think I have the wizard server that you're talking about. The usual sites I use can't host a file this large (3.5 GiB), so I'm not exactly sure where to upload it. I found a site that will retain it for 30 days, but it looks like it throttles you to 1 MB/s download so it will take about an hour.
>https://ufile.io/siqtb76o
Let me know if there's a better site

I don't know if the world for the lizard server was ever uploaded. It was anarchy and wasn't up for very long, so no one's base developed very far.

>>57063
An old image of spawn, and one from the save I uploaded. It's from pretty close to when the server went down, though some progress I had on my mob system is gone.

>>57063
This one took forever to upload, but I think download will be faster: https://box.patchouli.moe/pMZQwNB.zip

>>56974
Literally proven wrong by a normie, what a shameful display, wiz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SDNH3ZpT48

>>56982
these linux tech channels are always going on and on about how linux is totally going to win against windows soon™ and it just never happens, almost no games are being shipped with official support for linux and the way that linux is built as a bunch of cobbled together modules from a bunch of different devs makes it impossible for a game to run correctly without a layer of latency needed to convert everything to work the same. So you could have some guy with arch linux, systemd, alsa audio, wayland desktop running the newest cawadooty at 10000fps while another guy is on ubuntu with some kde desktop open source nvidia driver that gets 60fps with microstutter

I just cant justify paying the money for a console, it's too expensive to buy games.

My whole life is on the internet, so having a good PC is even more important for non-gaming to me. I already need a good PC. Therefore the question comes down to buying a gaming GPU or getting a whole different device with its own CPU etc, with which it is much more difficult to pirate games.

>>56979
you can get really good 1080p monitors under $100. 24" for under $50 on ebay sometimes. if you're a poorfag you should have low standards so there's no reason to get higher resolutions than 1080p and higher framerates than 60 hertz. over 2/3 of people on steam still use 1080p for single monitor gaming because it's perfectly fine

there is no such thing as a 2070ti first of all. for 1080p gaming it is also overkill. you can still VERY comfortably game on the 10-series gtx nvidia cards which. gtx 1080 on 1080p 60hz performs the exact same as 2080 on 1440p 144hz. gtx 1080 is the most cost effective graphics card you can pick up. even now with this insane market because of gpu mining they are only $300 on ebay

if i had to build a cheap pc from scratch that could game it would be like this. keep in mind the majority of these parts can be reused as you upgrade. and also when you upgrade you can sell your old parts and use that to buy the replacement so things will always be cheaper than it seems. as long as proof of work mining allows 8GB gpus the 1080 will retain value despite being old

$300 used gtx 1080 on ebay
$30 cheap ssd for windows on ebay
$20 1tb hdd for games on ebay
$100 for i5-10400 on ebay is a good starting point for a cpu. anything more you pay more. anything less you lose performance. if you had a pc and cpu to begin with you could use that as a comparison, and decide whether the imrpovements in upgrading become worth it, but you dont so just realize it's pretty good. the 10th gen (this cpu) and 11th gen both share same socket so if prices drop and you ever need to upgrade to 11th gen your mobo will support it. but motherboards arent that expensive anyway it's just nice to know
$70 for LGA1200 socket motherboard on ebay
$60 16gb ram on ebay
$80 24" 1080p monitor on ebay
$30 550W atx power supply on ebay
$50 used atx pc case on ebay (just a structural component to attach things to, it doesnt matter if it's used, just make sure the form factor fits you motherboard)
$50 for gaming keyboard and mouse should be enough to source decent stuff from anywhere. if you dont want to use mouse keyboard for gaming, you can get whatever is cheapest, and then just reuse your console controllers for gaming

this is around $800 for literally everything including monitor and mouse and keyboard. yPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>56986
also this might actually be cheaper than console in the SHORT TERM if you consider the costs of your tv and console and any immediate game purchases you made for your ps5. so yes i don't think gaming is quite as expensive as you think. this shit would be so much cheaper also if you had a pc to reuse parts

Kind of a tangent with regards to ff8: I find the main source of criticism towards the game is people looking up guides and min-maxing and finding that the game is no longer fun due to said min-maxing. It's like saying the intended way to play Skyrim is just to speedrun to the end of the game at level 1.

>>53005
I agree that FFVIII gets a lot of undeserved shit, but the junction system is very easy to break, even without guides. I did it when I was a dumbass teenager and even then I thought it was easy as shit (for reference, I used to think the final boss in Chrono Trigger was hard). So yeah fuck those idiots who use guides, but the game is still piss easy.

>>49605
Android:Netrunner is the best TCG/LCG game. Can be played online at: https://www.jinteki.net/
Elements the game is an old Hearthstone-like game: http://www.elementsthegame.com/?=

Wizard 101 lmao

Check out Duelists of the Roses if you like Yugioh. The field's now a giant board with terrains, for example Mountain or Forest, that give your monsters different boosts. Cards can be fused into stronger monsters like Forbidden Memories and there's a new spellbinding mechanic that can stun monsters. IIRC the only way you can get cards is through a slot machine once you defeat your opponent.

>>55293
You do realize that storing inventory cost money and space is limited.
If they aren't selling it then every day they hold it they are losing money because it is clogging up the inventory of stuff they could be using to make money.
Also with how fast PC hardware changes and updates the market can change fast enough that they would be left holding the tech equivalent of spoiled goods, when they would have profited the most from selling them while the demand was highest.

To put it even more simply, in the real physical world doing something like that would cost too much in the short term, and lead to less money in the long run then just selling them as they get them in.

>>56350
They can make more than enough money just keeping the prices at 5-10x forever because storing small boxes sitting on a pallet isn't hard or expensive. Crypto niggers and scalpers will keep buying all available cards at any price anyway. Meanwhile I see regular people fighting over trash, paying premium for second hand mid tier hardware that's two or three generations old, that was abused to hell by miners and is likely to fail shortly, no refunds. I don't see a way out of this when a shitty new 1650 costs more than a 980ti did back when I bought it at launch.
It's not even about money at this point. Nothing is about money anymore. Filthy proles like me who make close to minimum wage are supposed to be kept not only poor but completely miserable too. Unworthy plebeians will never again be allowed to have access to easily entered hobbies where any of us could save up for top quality gear and be content with his setup for years. Distractions from the horror of modern commoner's life are forbidden and that's the way it's supposed to stay. The virus panic is never going away, the elites and middle class want to keep us locked up, terrorized and miserable.

>>56362
>They can make more than enough money just keeping the prices at 5-10x forever
You seem not to realize that retailers have to pay 5-10x more as well to obtain those cards.
The margense for electronics aren't anywhere near as good as you seem to think they are at the retail level.
> storing small boxes sitting on a pallet isn't hard or expensive
Yes it is. I can tell you know literally nothing about inventory of a even semi active location. There is no space to just indefinably store things to speculate on price at a retail location. A store isn't a warehouse, working around something not in rotation is actually quite difficult when the backroom fills up, and space is at a premium.

>Crypto niggers and scalpers will keep buying all available cards at any price anyway
This is also dead wrong.
Their intrest is directly proportionate to whatever the crypto market does. When it is down they are infamous for abandoning ship, to the point that it's part of the reason they keep getting kicked out of countries and counties.
They also don't demand just any and all cards avalable at any price. That is retarded and you are exaggerating.

Rest of your post is foolish doom and gloom with no relation to reality.

>>56362
> second hand mid tier hardware that's two or three generations old, that was abused to hell by miners and is likely to fail shortly, no refunds.
most miners underclock and undervolt and are obsessed with low temps and cooling
most gamers overclock and run their shit hot in horribly ventilated cases and there are tons of temp fluctuations

>>54258
fuck, good thing i don't live in the US

>>56756
>>56759
>unless you're able to code many things for yourself, and if you're someone who can do that then rpgmaker is probably not the engine you want to use.
So if i know C++ and use SDL2 i can do better than it, at the cost of boilerplate code? Anyway programming and even art, especially pixel art like in this case is rather easy compared to music synthesis.

I can waste an entire day and write 500-1000 sloc, i can do the most simplistic sprites by painting normally at a large scale then shrink to the desired size and patch it afterwards, but i can't get into music at all, i have no talent. How are you going to make the music?

>>56903
Same way I did the art. I'll sit in front of the computer and grind on until something I like comes out.

>>56905
Damn. I thought there was a special trick to it at least. I'm thinking of taking piano lessons, maybe those will help me a little.

>>56906
If you stop to properly learn everything you need to make a game you'll never make one wiz. I think it would be better to learn how to use flstudio or some other software you like and focus on doing content you'll use for your project. I really doubt you need to know music theory and piano in order to make some nice 1 or 2 mins long music loops for your personal project.

>>56908
From what i got from that short piano lesson was that the composition is indeed subjective and the most you can do is follow some rules about tones and their placement and try your best until you get something pleasing to the ear.

I'm now halfway through a introduction to synthesis from the 80s https://invidious.fdn.fr/playlist?list=PLQ04PwFvui1BCUAE9wxmOqHE51mrDv8Ui
and i must say that it explains very well since in like 10 minutes i managed to create a decent sample by modifying a sine wave with audacity. I will try to make more and then glue them with OpenMPT.

>>56826
It's a very fun game, but it's multiplayer. It can be legitimately scarier than most horror games.

Damn, I am actually getting somewhat close to getting most of the achievements in CS:GO.
Only have like 30 to go. Got most of them because I use the bot modes to learn maps and practice my fundamentals. But so I play the bots so often I slowly racket up a lot of the achievements. Including many of the rare ones.
Maybe my next day off I will grind the two rifle achievements I haven't got yet, then focus hard on getting grenade kills so I can get the super rare all weapons mastery achievement. Only like 2% of players have.

I think the grenades ones will be the hardest since even a direct hit only does 80 damage to someone with armor. No clue how I am going to get a 3way multi kill with one other then a total fluke.

>>56831
Just download a achivement map from steam workshop and get them with minimum effort.

>>56834
*any achivement

>>56834
Why the flying fuck would I ever do such a thing?
The whole point is to play the game more not less.
It's fun earning stuff that makes you work for it. Plus it it pushes you to play the game in ways you haven't before. Like I neglected the AK because I was never a fan of it's recoil pattern and how finicky it is about how movement effects first shot accuracy. But in going for the achievement I am pushed to master it.
What is even the point of a achievement you didn't earn?