/games/ - Video Games

>>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.

Metro 2033 Redux is 100% off until april 16th on steam.

>>62271
A real quick check your c drive if your playing on PC because it says it's 70gb but it's actually closer to 120 I think. So if you have limited space watch out it grows slowly over time.

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.

>>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.

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

>>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

Played some fighting games on the PS2.

Fight Night Round 3: the Fight Night series is probably the biggest boxing game series that exists and save for a couple of other stragglers they're pretty much the only boxing games around. It's a shame though because the game doesn't offer much depth and does a poor job at mimicking actual boxing. No footwork, no in-and-out type of distance management -just planted feet and haymakers. Basically rock 'em sock 'em robots with fancy graphics. Damage is also poorly modeled and is just an unrealistic video game style health bar system which is absolutely dreadful in a boxing game. Forget about knocking your opponent out with a well timed hook, instead just whittle down his health bar until you score a TKO. Game technically doesn't have an ending, but during career mode your stats deteriorate to the point the game becomes unplayable and you have to retire, so I consider it finished.

Victorious Boxers: based on the Hajime no Ippo manga. Both movement around the ring and head-movement are tied to the left stick. Big movements move your characters, small movements more your head -at least in theory, in reality it's way too finicky and not having ultimate control in a fighting game is a no-go for me so I quickly dropped it. Good thing I only bought it for $1.99. Didn't finish it, but might as well include it in this post.

Kengo: a samurai sword fighting game. Nice atmosphere, really feels like you're a samurai dedicating his life to learning swordsmanship. The game has these little mini-games like meditation and slicing bamboo to improve your stats. Kind of fun in terms of immersion, but get repetitive after a while though. Combat is pretty simplistic with only a single attack button which goes through various combos you can assemble yourself in a menu. You learn new moves by fighting other guys at various dojo's. Most moves are kind of useless though and there's a couple moves you unlock pretty much at the beginning of the game that are basically the best combo in the game, so there's no incentive to use anything else which is a shame.
You also have a parry which is mostly useless high-risk low-reward and block button which blocks everything and requires no timing. Game was fun at first, but the simplistic combat became frustrating after a while. There's no way to get an attack in through angles or switch-ups and the enemy AI has a tendency to just block everything which makes it feel like lucPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>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.

>>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.

>>63410
1080 with 96gb of ram is such a waste

I just realised I feel comfy enough to launch GTA:SA and drive some burgundy Tacoma sedan through the highways of Red Country or just roll around Grove Street

Watched Real Housewives of New Jersey and realized TV is shit
Read 50 Shades of Grey and realized books are shit
Listened to Cardi B and realized music is shit
Played new Assassins Creed and realized all video games are shit

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

>>63447
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>>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.