/games/ - Video Games

been replaying the classic games on the 360, recently finished the campaign of MW2 and now im playing Assassin's Creed.

>>63361
I just finished this and the Game Gear port too, moving onto the Lost Levels next. I really enjoy it overall, it's decent, good even, but nothing amazing, I wouldn't replay it often, but I'm glad I played it, the themes and aesthetics alone are worth it.

>>60906
I'm replaying Batman: Return of the Joker on Game Boy. It's a fantastic title that feels way more like a sequel to Sunsoft's NES Batman than the NES version of Batman: Return of the Joker, also it's almost like Sunsoft knew they'd lose the license over to the folks at Konami and made their own sequel to Tim Burton's canon, I don't mind though since it's a fun time really.

I'd say my main issue is the difficulty, a few specific parts are just BS, only ever beat it on "Easy".

>>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.

my dick is big is what i will answer

>>63190
>We're wizards. We would only be tolerated without full acceptance in a church or other physical third spaces for normalfags.

>without

WITH, maybe?

I'd play them if they didn't have such bland storylines, I tried playing Genshin and ZZZ for a few minutes but I got annoyed by the slow pacing and snoozer storytelling, the only thing I want to do is to look at the beautiful succubi and nothing else since it's the only thing these games excel at. I just look at fanarts people make of the games online since it's all about aesthetics anyway, it's still a pity that some of the best artists and animators out there are getting hired by the gacha companies since that's where the good money is at, imagine all that talent being used in quality games the likes of Nier Automata.

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.

>>63321
Not that person you responded to. But Zelda often get praise as one of the best game franchise ever. You often see them on the top 10-100 games ever charts by both gaming journalist/reviewers and called GOTY.
I can see why some people might have an issue with that.
For the Zelda games I have played, I wouldn't call them bad games, but they are not masterpieces either. Story and gameplay isn't anything deep or mind blowing, sometimes they are innovative. Visual and music on the other hand are very memorable. For a game to be considered one of the best games ever, they need to nail everything right, not just pretty visuals and good soundtrack.

got Borderlands 2 GOTY edition when i was a kid. the humor was fine but it bored me to death.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
If other wiz tried this, i hope you were able to enjoy it.
I did not. It caused a rage response before I even got to the "gameplay" so I dropped it and looked up the story and spoilers.
Very glad i didn't force myself to keep going based on what i read. And everything else surrounding this "videogame" is slimy and weird.

>>63216
The Borderlands series is definitely over-rated. I could not get into it.

I hated every Bethesda game I've played. I hated Fallout 3, 4 and 76
Can we talk about over-rated movies too? If so, I really thought the story of Interstellar was a little convoluted.

NFS Underground 1 and 2 are abandonware because of the licensed music.

>>63266
You call that music?

>>63267
All the music of that game fit it perfectly and is a product of it's time.

>>63267
>You call that music?
i call it bangers but i can settle for "music"

>>63340
>>63339
>Sherwood Dungeon
A Spanish or Latin-american dude shared old Sherwood ver (check video description links)
It seems that the guy used reverse engineering or something like that with Adobe Acrobat to the original game code (its in Github or something?)
These are full playable alone, just have one launcher to run and play.
yes, I tested it and its works.

>>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.

I'm so fucking obsessed with SciADV

my rankings:
Chaos;head > Chaos;child = Anonymous;code > Robotics;notes > steins;gate > steins;gate 0 >
robotics notes DaSH > occultic;nine anime

>>62027
Except that George didn't do that. If you think about it for two seconds, it makes no sense that Battler would have even wrote Shannon a letter in the first place, considering he barely remembered her. Battler forgetting his promise with Shannon is literally the reason the entire plot happens. So no, George didn't hide that letter… because it didn't exist. Ironically, this is an example of Umineko's thesis. Because people have no love for George, they interpret his actions in the worst possible way.
George is disliked because he's a pedophile. He also has the sort of "nice guy" personality that normies despise for some reason.

>>63343
Tell me about it, my first post in this thread was over 4 years ago. I fully expect time to accelerate exponentially from here, which has me worried because i'm not mentally prepared to be a corpse yet and I don't know if I ever will be. God I hope I don't feel this empty forever

>>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.

What's the best 3DS emulator,bros?

>>63225
Citra has been the best for me. Played all of MH4U on it no problem, no stutters framedrops or anything.

>>63226
I plan to play Citra on Android, so, no virus or any problems?

Check out some abandonware sites or GOG promos, also you definitely should try BloodRayne if you like DMC3 and Manhunt.

In my opinion,


Test Drive Unlimited

is a very *meditative* game

>>63344
>it forces you to make friends
people already has/have dont know lol their group of friends/cliques and hang out on discord

>>63345
>people already have their cliques and hang out on discord
Yes. That's one of the aforementioned problems I alluded to earlier. This is a game model where traditional loners are forced to socialize and to form their own cliques constantly, and maybe they can even integrate with the day-0 discord cliques in a natural way. I think you could even make a daring game design choice to intentionally randomize spawn points of first time players to disincentivize day 0-grouping and incentivize organic socializing, but I understand that could be a very polarizing feature.

To facilitate this, you need to actually give people good tools for spontaneous chit-chat with strangers. I think it's mainly a UI/UX problem you need to fix
>chat bar is bigger and not scrunched up to the far left corner with awful 1px serif font
>chat bar integrates with game primitives and can do useful hyperlinks to UI actions
>maybe even proximity voice chat

>>63346
I think the game should be played (when first time on the mmo) alone to discover the world and the game and mechanics. to this I have an idea, making a quest to help the new players and after that quest done ,he can go make a group and go beat some monsters together.
sorry if I missread your post

>>63347
>sorry if I missread your post
I mean, your idea is not congruent with the idea that I posted but your idea is your idea and also valid

What I'm trying to get at is that there's so much boring busywork in most MMOs which I want cut down to 0. The dogma says you have to spend a mandatory >= 100 hours on leveling trash mobs that pose 0 threat before you can get to the actual "fun" part which are endgame raids. It's a very stupid game model and that's why any person that respects their own time just doesn't play MMOs. But it shouldn't have to be like that, because MMOs DOES have draws that isn't just doing pointless busywork, yet very few MMOs that I know of capitalize on them. Get them in the thick of grouping right away. Challenge their brain and get the adrenaline right at the first encounter. It isn't a way to casualize the game - it should still have a slow-burn leveling, but make the slow-burn leveling MEANINGFUL.

The game also doesn't have to dump a billion active skills and complex mechanics on you at the start for this, either. It can ramp up. But it's better to have the "ruleset/win conditions" progressively get more advanced than for the difficulty to go from 0 to 100 - there should always exists a very real possibility for failure even as you're learning the game.

It's this difficulty that makes social interactions spark. Maybe you group together as a bunch of lvl1s and finally beat the slimes together - that builds report and maybe leads to a friendship that lasts for weeks, maybe even months or years.

Sorry if I'm sounding like a broken record and repeating myself. It's just so frustrating how clear I can visualize my dream game yet I know it will never be made because I feel like nobody else is at the same wavelength as me here, neither the game publishers nor my fellow gamers.
>The MMO veterans will have a meltdown if they can't solo all the leveling completely asocial listening to a podcast or second monitoring anime in the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
>The non-MMO veterans don't give a shit and already have their singleplayer and/or lobby games they enjoy
I just want to make friends, man

>>63348
I also have a MMO dream game that will never be. hope you'll find a MMO that ressemble your idea and make good companions on that game👍

The only ones you NEED to play are 6 and 7. Then if you like those you can branch out to the other ones.

>>62437
>>62437
I feel like 7 is overrrated

>>62438
Agreed. But its still a decent game tbh. I rate it kinda high, it has more world building than FF4 for example.

FF4 for the DS is really good tho, hardmode by default, graphics are a bit similar to Yoshitaka Amano's official FF art.

>>60006
if you are only going to play one game, FF5

if you plan on playing several games i think FF4 is the best place to start. First atb game, simple combat/character building. Fantastic adventure but harder to play later down the road. FF9 is also a good starting point.

wizchan would benefit greatly from having the FF8 schizo here. today i remembered that the city of esther is named after the technologist clan in mage the acension

>>62437
6 has terrible gameplay without the BNW hack. Fantastic adventure, story, characters, aesthetic and music. BNW patch makes the gameplay match the rest of its core parts.