/games/ - Video Games

I've been playing Darkest Dungeon. I didn't care for it when it first came out but now I'm enjoying it enough. I like the fact I can play it with one hand and since it's turn based I can take my time to read items descriptions, comparing characters, analyze trinckets, effects, etc. I like games that let me take my time. The only thing I don't care for is the art style.

Been playing Max Payne 1, and I think I'm gonna have to drop it. I played this game way back in the day on PS2 and then on PC at some point (like 10 years ago). I remember liking it okay enough back then, but it's not holding up for me.
First of all, it is not whatsoever compatible with modern hardware. The amount of dlls and patches I had to download to get this game to run properly is ridiculous. Then there was some bullshit with the framerate needing to be capped and the game crashes often. Sorry, but I'm over it.

Technical issues aside, I don't really like the gameplay either. To be frank, I think it's a poorly designed game. Bullet time is the entire gimmick, but with the way the levels and enemy placement are laid out, it seems like the game discourages running and gunning and slow-motion diving. It's much more efficient to just pop in and out of cover and take things slow, which matters because this game is annoyingly difficult with enemies that are very lethal (shotgun guys that one tap you, or dual wield uzi guys that shred your health within a second).
You're also always taking a lot of damage, and running out of bullet time which just further encourages taking it slow. Bullet time only regenerates when you kill enemies, which means that if you go into an encounter with a drained bullet time bar from a previous fight you can't even make use of the central gimmick of the game. Bullet time regen should have been passive, or they should have given you double the pool.
Enemy variety sucks as well. There's basically one enemy type, with the only difference being the gun they have. The bosses are just regular enemies with tons of health. Guns suck as well. Certain guns are borderline useless, and others obviously superior to the point your always going to stick to the same ones, and there's not to many of them in the first place.

I also really hate all narrative interruptions. I know that this game is known for its noir style narration and dialogue, in the form of those comic book cutscenes, but I really don't care for it. If I wanted to read a comic book, I'd go do that instead. Don't interrupt the main draw of the game (running around shooting dudes) with stupid cutscenes every 2 minutes. I find this particularly annoying, because there's stuff in the environment that you can interact with to trigger these cutscenes, apart from just the normal story cutscenes in between missions. I guess you don't have to interact withPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>63541
They're going to remake it, along with the sequel. I think the games have a lot of soul, but yeah, they haven't aged well.

>>63541
This game only got popular thanks to The Matrix. That movie franchises was really popular in the early 2000s and hooked people on the bullet time thing. Max Payne was the closes thing to a good Matrix game. The actual Matrix games were far worse.

I've been playin Fatal Frame. I'm still on the third night, but I've loved the game so far. The puzzles are simple yet enjoyable. The atmosphere is great, and the ghost designs are really unsettling. I was going to say the game is easy, but the end of the second night and the introduction of the Wandering Monk on the third night have given me a headache.

>>63549
The creator of planetscape torment got constant emails and praise for his super deep story, and the creator was bewildered and responded with "bro read a book". He couldn't believe people took the writing seriously.

>>63551
With the current state of gaming, all a studio would need to do to earn praise from real gamers would be release a game with a female character who isn't a fat negro succuboss, or a male main character who isn't a goofy try-hard who gets spoken down to by said succubosses.

>>63216
>>63299
>I loved Mirror's edge, Catalyst is a Unfinished game.
I liked Mirror's edge aesthetic.
Frutiger Aero or Y2K, pure art and time capsule game.
I like the philosophy of faith aesthethic of making she beatiful and in some way cute but with a logical way with a working image for her world sense. Not sexualized but focused in play and charisma and colors of her image.

>>63546
>>63548
Am agreeing with all this a lot even though I've had fun replaying HL1 several times lately. But I really mean everything from We've Got Hostiles onward (I happen to not hate Xen), and even so it's gotta be nostalgia goggles since this was one of my favorite things ever as a kid.

Pretty slow to start and really goofy sometimes, partly because of how badly it's been memed but also quite a few setpieces meant to be scary or cool are actually pretty retarded if you think about them at all, or just witnessing them. Freeman's Mind was particularly good at skewering HL1, watch it if you're interested in that!

Borderlands is extremely horrifically overrated. That game sucked ass

I always see Call of Juarez on sale on Steam, and I remember this game from back in the day, so I figured I'd play it.
Honestly a so-so experience. It's essentially a first person shooter, with some curveballs thrown into the mix.
You play as two characters, Reverend Ray (a priest obviously) and Billy Candle (a young man on the run). Every chapter you alternate between these two characters. Ray is tanky gunslinger priest (who even wears a steel breastplate) while Billy is a more agile stealth based character. All the Ray chapters are hectic shoot outs, while the Billy chapters try to switch it up with stealth and platforming sections.
The stealth is the classic tedious trial and error kind, but the sections are mercifully short and this game has quicksaves so it's just about bearable. The platforming sections are okay. I didn't mind them, but reading reviews for this game other people hated these chapters and I can totally see that.
This game was an early 7th gen title and it shows. A lot of the levels are open yet linear; like a straight tunnel that's just extremely wide (metaphorically, the actual environment mostly consists of open plains and mountains, etc.) There's a level in particular were an Indian (feather not dot) tells you to collect 3 rabbits, and you just end up riding around in this huge open space for a while. Story wise, that chapter follows are really hectic action set piece so I understand they wanted to put in a quieter beat, but this also feels like it was put in to show everyone "look, we can do large, seamless open environments with no loading screens and long draw distance, next-gen baby!". You're even tasked with climbing a mountain in this level. A real sort of proto Skyrim "see that mountain, you can climb it" type of moment. Incidentally, it was also my favorite level. Climbing a mountain just felt much more unique to me than the rest of the game which is a pretty mediocre shooter.
In line with the early 7th gen feel, this game tries to do a little bit of everything, while doing it all poorly. There's objects you can pick up, but there's never any use. There's a couple sections where you can fill up buckets and put out fires. You can use a whip to swing from trees during the platforming sections, but it's clunky -basically "look at our physics engine" type of stuff, that's all pretty poorly implemented.
Gun variety is mediocre. Couple of six-shooters as you would expect from a cowboy game, which havePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>58061
I just finished Michael Jackson's Moonwalker on Arcade and on SEGA Mega Drive, still looking forward to getting a 1CC on the former and finishing the latter on Normal and Hard, as I could only do them with infinite credits and on Easy respectively, also want to give the SEGA Master System port a try as I absolutely love that console.

Decided to give Hitman Blood Money a go for old times sake. Doesn't hold up as well as I thought.
My main gripe with it, is that I just don't think the missions are well-designed. For example, on the mission where you're in a suburb the guy you're tasked with killing is inside a house protected by FBI agents. Now to get inside that house the game provides you with ample choice.
You can knock out a clown and steal his disguise, or a catering guy, or a garbage man, or you can sneak around back by sedating the dog in the backyard. Even here there's choice because you can find something to sedate the dog in a nearby house or shoot it from a treehouse a house over. Sounds great right? Tons of agency, player choice, what more do you want. Well, the problem is that you can also acquire a FBI disguise right at the beginning of the mission, very easily in fact, which allows you to go anywhere you want, so there's absolutely no use for any of the other options.
In the second mission, you have to kill two dudes in an opera house. Right at the beginning of the mission one target goes on stage for rehearsal and the other target sits in a balcony and watches. What I found out, is that you can just shoot the opera singer target in the head with a silenced pistol, and throw a remote controlled mine up at the balcony and take out the other target. This way it took me literally under two minutes to finish the mission.
Now I suppose the intent is that you replay the missions, explore the environment, try different methods, get a higher ranking, etc. but to frank that's not something I care for at this stage in my gaming career. So you're just left with pretty dull and straightforward mission in what should be a very choice-laden game.
The game also doesn't really allow you to figure things out in a natural way. During the Mardi Grass level you start off in a hotel; in one of the rooms there's a guy in a crow costume which is something you need. In that room there's two succubi dancing. So what do you do? You can't distract them, so you just kind of awkwardly shoot them all and hope nobody hears, or go find some other avenue of approach.
I did exactly that, found one of my targets just wandering around a back alley, and killer her. Then I heard a guy on a walkie talkie say, that he was in "position" (the mission revolves around you preventing a political assassination). So, I went to where he said he was and easily killed him as well. Then I got tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I played through Prey (2017). To be honest, this isn't my first attempt; I gave up on it a few years ago—I just got lost among all the options and the game's many systems, and deleted it after three hours. A lot depends on how you approach the game and what you expect from it. I thought—because I was misled—that this would be a Bioshock-style game set in space. While there are similarities, this game is first and foremost a completely unique immersive sim; if it can be compared to anything, it’s naturally the System Shock games.So my first attempt at the game was a failure; I ended up soft-locking myself. Now, years later, when I jumped back into it for the second time—more experienced and with a clearer head—it was a completely different experience from the very first moment. I approached it smartly, methodically, and tactically. And it was a completely different experience. I can say that the game completely hooked me within 15 hours.The game is beautiful; the developers have poured incredible energy into the environment, the storytelling, and the various connections between elements. Every day feels meaningful—even the story of the last NPC to die is woven into the narrative somewhere. It’s rare to come across a game into which the developers have poured so much energy and love.

>>63555
>Hitman blood money
The fun thing is killing mission people like a ghost or by accidents (max points and sometimes hard), go full postal or rambo, killing by background or explosions or put venon in things and using the sniper rifle in some places (you can upgrade more and more this weapon as you get unlocks by perfect points in missions same with other weapons) and collecting the weapons or trying exploits.
Or killing every one in map if you can.
Getting the routine of npc or doing every thing perfect at time feels too good like 47 was like a killer god or a paranornal dude (he was a experiment after all)
The news paper at end of missions is very funny.
Here 47 feels like a professional killer and not like a super spy in a film with batman vision like late games.
But yes, each level is too much rigid in structure at times. The house with the fbi van was one used for demo and in short have a lot of ways to play it even without costumes. Its very fast to do.
Some maps are damn big and take more study of npc actions or even minutes to complete. Its very realistic at this and i like the details of maps bacause are in a lot of ways real life places or situations. Some ways to enter or exit or even kill are more slow or fast or even more hard or safe.
Mods and exploits make everything more fun.

I switched to linux specifically to play games, you have options now so you can ditch windows.
You have Bazzite if you're not technical
And there's CachyOS and Nobara Linux
I use Nobara because I found out about it before CachyOS

As of right now most games play great thanks to proton and bottles, whatever doesn't I just add as a non steam game and try again, it's how I got FF7 rebirth to work.

Currently playing:
KCD 2 no problems.
Stalker 2 did not run as I hoped so Ill wait a bit and try and figure out what combination of settings can help me run it better.
Even Res Evil 9 ran great.

>>63514
If you can only play 15+ year old games on Linux, then why not just use an old version of Windows to play those old games and not deal with all the hoops and compatibility workarounds? It seems that to pirate Windows 7 and install a pirated game from a mounted ISO has fewer steps to follow than just getting many games to run on an already installed Linux distro. The performance, accuracy, and stability is most definitely going to be more stable on that Windows machine too.

>>60916
I can play Diablo by using devilutionx. it's just issuing devilutionx command in my term

is linux gaming even a thing anymore? I can literally play everything without issue. The only stuff you can't play are the rootkit cheat prevention games that you shouldn't be playing anyway.

Recently I've been playing a bunch of the 2000s nihon falcom games like Xanadu Next. Really love it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1r3eiSJUY&list=PLzFTGYa_evXiya6nflwJApHSmbZRcL0hi&index=4
love the ost

The only workaround I've ever needed to do was like go on proton db and run whatever console command they have listed (on really weird/old games). It's shockingly painless even when I'm using an nvidia gpu now. Using cachy os, I literally did 0 manual setup for nvidia gpu and didn't install any drivers it just all automatically worked.

>>62484
I especially love how I can use the PSP/PS3's XMB as a hub for all of my ROMs, so cozy.

that's a cool button

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.

>>63487
Theres still good games made today pathfinder games,silksong,elden ring,baldurs gate 3.I thought gaming was dying for me turns out I still like older games I just went through the original baldurs gate trilogy and its still good.

>>63504
>like some days it can be 12 hours a day of just jerking off
>If you have unmedicated ADHD like me

Relatable and I get what you are saying. When you goon to some h-game you are focused and the sudden flow of dopamine allows you to feel at peace. Whenever I goon, for the duration of the gooning I feel optimistic and get an urge to do something productive, write something, draw. However, it is a fleeting moment. This 'hobby' takes more that it gives.
Once your libido dries up, you will be left with nothing. And it is not even a matter of being old. It can just suddenly disappear for weeks. What will you do then? When h-game seem like a chore and dick doesn't get hard, no rush, no dopamine 'high'? For me such experience was eye-opening

>>62042
I realize I was happier with simpler games than complex and serious ones. Abandon platformers/adventure games in my teenage years in favor of strategy, shooters, simulations and RPGs. When I went back and played Spyro, I actually felt genuinely relaxed because there wasn't any sense of competitiveness or serious tone. The later genres were fun, but since I took it serious, I could never fully relax.

>>63506
The problem with the hobby is of course that libido is a fickle and sometimes fleeting inspiration, and when you cum then you killed your source of fun. My take on it:
1. If you have some shit stressing you that you know needs to be done, e.g. some work deadline then I find it nearly impossible to find the libido required to fap. Gotta get it done first or else the demons will live rent free in your mind.
2. There are times where you just can't just get into it, for an unknown reason, like you somehow lost your mojo. My experience is that you kind of just have to tank those days and instead enjoy lesser inferior hobbies during that time until you're "recharged". I don't know how else to explain it.
3. Obviously, when you cum, that's it and you feel completely empty. That's also something you really just have to tank, it's an inevitability. Alternatively, you _can_ actually just let it be a dry denial and that's sometimes the correct play because it lets you combo it into more hgames the next day, or maybe just an ambient feeling of horniness for a few days which can be a fun intoxicating feeling every now and then.
4. Maybe you have discovered this from first principles yourself, but after some years of playing hgames I've noticed a pattern to the types of games I like to play and in what order. The first game of the session is always a very gameplay-focused game which is a game played across multiple sessions. It was a 2nd playthrough of RJ01273529 for me recently. This gets me a foot into the door with my brain by hooking it with good gameplay as I slowly get more horny from watching sexy stuff happening on the screen yet it not being the focus. That's the starter dish. Then I get into the main course which is commonly a classical RPGM, or sometimes a unity game if it's good enough, where the gameplay and H exists both, but gameplay is easier than before and H is in more focus than before. It's a slowburn. Then, by the end of the session, it's the dessert where I have no energy and I pull out some really degenerate shlobby nukige VN where the only gameplay is pressing left click until I see boobies and I ejaculate. It's where the H is the hottest, but if I only spend all my time on VNs then I would get a) desensitized and b) cum too fast.

Regarding this:
>Whenever I goon, for the duration of the goonPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>62042
I don't think, for me personally, that I could realistically narrow this phenomenon down to a single moment. It's more reoccurring conditions that I find myself in that remind me of the preferable alternative. For example:
>having a job reminds me that I prefer being a NEET
>being subjected to family/social obligations reminds me that I'm happier when I'm all alone in my room playing video games
When the world around us and 'normal life' sucks this bad, engaging with it reminds us how much better our abnormalities, escapism, and vices are in comparison.

>>63508
>1
For me it's the opposite. If I have something stressful, like interaction with people or a lot of responsibilities, I can't allow myself to goon because it saps my strength and makes me less capable.
>2
I can easily bear living with no gooning. That is not that hard. What I can't bear is those periods after intense gooning sessions after which everything is boring in comparison, nothing ticks, I have no desire to do anything, I just sleep. It's like being deprived of what makes life not so horrible. I hate that state, it's torture.
>3
And I hate coooming. I play h-games for the rush they give me. It's like being for 10-12 hours in a state of trance and away from your problems, drowning in goon material. Cooming just ends this rush, returning you to reality.
>4
Yeah, during goon seshions I hop from one game to another the same way. It keeps the novelty and the rushes. Also I discovered that after a long period of abstaining, returning to h-games is sometimes shocking and revolting. Not from moral perspective but because it feels alien.
The biggest issue for me is that I love having arousing rushes and yet it is easy to get used to them and when they are gone you will twice as miserable. I had them in March and then lost them in April. The transition is painful. I'd rather avoid those carousels alltogether.

OSRS is great! The game has way more mechanical depth than you would think once you get into it. It's about as anti-modern game design as you can get and it has its audience because of that.

If any wizzies wanna add me Scum Idiot can't promise to be social but who knows

>>63483 This guy is just flat out wrong and overly reductive on most all accounts. It can be the most single player multiplayer game. It did get its start by being accessible.

>>63499
>The game has way more mechanical depth than you would think once you get into it
Click the bad guy and wait
>If any wizzies wanna add me
Yuck.

>>63500
They recently added a bunch of entry level bosses to get newer players out of the click and wait mind set for combat. But there's more to game than the combat systems.

>>63501
>there's more to game than the combat systems.
Mining?
>click the rock, click the bank
Fishing?
>click one of the few bubbling spots, click the bank
Runecrafting?
>Click the ore, click the bank, click the altar, click the bank
Wow much diverse, such gameplay

There is NO gameplay that goes beyond being one of those "idle" games but with some extra clicking to move between what you want to click on. There is no cool story, cute succubi, scary stuff, funny things that can happen, crazy people to meet, ways to use your particular skills to help people, ways to grief people, events to take part in, or anything that makes Ruenscape a more enjoyable game than any other MMO.

I feel the pull of woodcutting and chatting with people like in the old days, but I'd have to start over again instead of my account on RS3. And it's unlikely I'd have that experience unless people on Wiz suddenly decided to start playing.