Vidya Games Thread

[Smelliest007]

Agreed. Just look at the boss fight for Judgement in the trailer lmao. 3 years to shit out bitch basic UE4 graphics for the metal armor. It looks so bad.

Slap assets, slap assets, slap assets.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

Seeing as I keep seeing it everywhere, fine, I'll try Marvel Rivals.

I tried playing some old singleplayer FPS game that I got in the mood for recently, and you unironically have to take time to regress back into using a controller when you go from a mouse and keyboard for FPS.

Console aiming requires a lot of development by the developers to get right. There always has to be aim assist, but you have to find the sweet spot so it's not too much. Halo still holds up in that department.

"Yes, this game is cannon. And you're going to need a lot of them."
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The video is straight up one of the best Annoucements/Ads for a game in ages.

Doesn't matter how much they delay it when they really should have made this game ten years ago and without trying to tell people that the black baggage handler was actually a samurai.

They were so dumb for not going to Japan after Unity. I think they kept Japan in the back pocket for whenever the series ran out of steam. The problem is Sucker Punch got there first. Now they're honorary guests in Tsushima and Ubisoft reached the level of International Incident by insulting the Japanese.

I wonder if they dropped the Samurai game 10 years ago with Yasuke being a major side character ala Leonardo it wouldnt have been as mocked as now

Yasuke has cropped up in a good chunk of Media in the last several decades. And it's not like there weren't stylized ideas of the concept. Afro Samurai, as a Manga, ran from 1998 to 2002. He'd have been a side quest character that probably caused led you to Mitsuhide and set off the Honno-ji Incident. Which actually could have made sense in, well, the weird way games work.

Ten years ago, there were signs of woke ideology about (although it took different names like affirmative action and representation and the like) but people weren't so worried about it in video games because games in general were still pretty good. Yasuke being a major character (not the player character) would have been a bit weird since historically he was a nobody but it would have been a very minor discussion point and overall I think most people would have been pretty happy to play as a male or female Japanese samurai in an AC game.

Weirdly, Yasuke being there wouldn't have been too odd for an AC game, considering he came with the Jesuits. It's pretty easy to rope that into the primary storyline. Though it would have set a chunk of the game in Nagasaki. Though odds are they'd have had to tracking down one of the lost Imperial Regalia in the water off the coast in that area.

 

[Saturnus]

I personally wish we could get more villains/Anti-heroes on the roster. Give me the Brotherhood. Give me the Sinister Six. Fuck, give me Baron Zemo and the Red Skull you fucking cowards.

Honestly I agree if only because it feels wrong to have to Fantastic 4 and no Doom.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

And Jeff The Land Shark and Luna Snow aren't? I mean maybe they aren't but i sure didn't know about either until i played this game.

Jeff is huge and is stupid popular but has no reach outside of the one comic focused on. Because Gwenpool is in limbo and so is Kate Bishop the two characters who deal with jeff most often.

Luna is still the breakout of the pretty dead Agents Of Atlas team (rivals ironfist is her teammate actually who used to be called Swordmaster) which for some impossible reason marvel keeps trying to revive despite no one caring about a team of Chinese Asian Korean etc heroes ultimately lead by an American even idiots can smell the bait.

Which is a shame because otherwise the team is solid though i think whitefox is the most interesting of the bunch Punisher but for demon yokai spirits.

On the topic of no villians. I suspect they want to drip feed them since they are usually huge draws compared to heroes.

We all want Doom I suspect Osborn/Goblin will be huge Doc Oc (give me that NOW) ... Honestly all of Spiderman's Villain's so yes please give us the sinister six
Shocker Vulture Sandman Rhino Octavius Gobby and Kraven. then make jokes about how none of them can count. Clea Strange would be great CARNAGE (fuck null) hell maybe Lasher Agony Phage and Riot. I would suggest Arnim Zola over Zemo or Redskull but all 3 could work MODOK odiously Taskmaster.

 

[Helkar]

Isn't Doom the mastermind behind the whole "plot" of the game? Would be kinda weird for him to run around as one of the characters when literally everyone talks about wanting to kick his ass.

On the topic of no villians. I suspect they want to drip feed them since they are usually huge draws compared to heroes.

Depends on the size and scale of the villain in question - and, unfortunately, their presence in the MCU and their status there.
Thanos, for example, would very obviously be hyped to oblivion, but MODOK, after the last Ant Man movie? Uhhh.
(i just imagined them trying to make a skin out of that monstrousity and changed my mind, please add MODOK into the game)


First impressions of Reed: pretty fun, definitely low DPS overall, but a pretty strong bruiser, excellent chaser, two to-target dash charges with low cd make it extremely hard for a solo target to shake him off. Ulti's kinda weak, but it's in a place where buffing it would very, very easily make it overbearing.

 

[ScarletCorrupt]

For the non PoE players, Elon Musk has been multi-accounting with some guy on HC, and the character fucking died

I really hope it was actually Elon that got the character killed, just fucking imagine...
>Grind in HC for hundreds of hours
>Elon Musk asks to log on to your account
>Let him
>He fucking kills your rank 7 Monk

Spoiler

Here's a video about it, mostly making fun of Elon's lack of knowledge.

 

[Helkar]

Yeah Elon's PoE2 "journey" is hilarious to observe.
Imagine trying to blatantly and shamelessly lie to a community of spreadsheet-obsessed turbo-autists.

 

[Kazuma]

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[God's Strongest Dragoon]

They were so dumb for not going to Japan after Unity. I think they kept Japan in the back pocket for whenever the series ran out of steam. The problem is Sucker Punch got there first. Now they're honorary guests in Tsushima and Ubisoft reached the level of International Incident by insulting the Japanese.

I think it was around AC2 or Brotherhood that the topic of Japan came up and they stated "oh, that's too easy/obvious". They obviously kept it in their back pocket as a "break glass in case of emergency". However after Sucker Punch took all the hype of a Feudal Japan game and now that fire extinguisher is empty. Then their DEI retards made it all worse by adding Yasuke and like a dozen other embarrassing fuckups with the game, so their DEI retards have effectively refilled that empty fire extinguisher with gasoline.

 

[UberSoldat]

And they don't stop coming

Piranha Games will lay off employees after Mechwarrior 5: Clans 'performed below projections'

Parent company Enad Global 7 has also announced that EvilVEvil developer Toadman will be closed.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[Bug Eater]

Sue hasn't been anything special while Luna and Mantis are more of a bitch to deal with.

Her ult is annoying, but not gamebreaking, and i'm sure people will figure out how to use her push/pulls in a good way soon enough, but for now, yeah.

I've been having fun with her regardless - she seems strong with brawl/rush comps, as long as your team is mostly playing together you can put out decent healing numbers and the rest of her abilities have a lot of synergy with that playstyle (eg. pulling enemies off high ground or into melee range, or using her vortex to hold them in place and soften them up). Her ult is a pretty decent fight starter but only if you're sure that the enemy cant counter ult you. Her biggest weakness is definitely her primary fire range, she's not very good at supporting dive characters unless you're ballsy enough to also be playing on the enemy backline. You basically have to be pointing that shit directly up their assholes to get the full benefits. She'd be better if she could cast her shield on herself, or if the cooldown for her jump ability was lower.

As a sidenote the 50/s healing that her shield does is almost more useful left behind cover or near a health pack or something (though I haven't confirmed yet whether her shield persists after she dies).

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

I've been having fun with her regardless - she seems strong with brawl/rush comps, as long as your team is mostly playing together you can put out decent healing numbers and the rest of her abilities have a lot of synergy with that playstyle (eg. pulling enemies off high ground or into melee range, or using her vortex to hold them in place and soften them up). Her ult is a pretty decent fight starter but only if you're sure that the enemy cant counter ult you. Her biggest weakness is definitely her primary fire range, she's not very good at supporting dive characters unless you're ballsy enough to also be playing on the enemy backline. You basically have to be pointing that shit directly up their assholes to get the full benefits. She'd be better if she could cast her shield on herself, or if the cooldown for her jump ability was lower.

As a sidenote the 50/s healing that her shield does is almost more useful left behind cover or near a health pack or something (though I haven't confirmed yet whether her shield persists after she dies).

Yeah, her lack of self-healing is pretty fucked. She has to go invisible and do nothing while she heals for a merely 20hp/sec. Compared to other healers:

• Luna heals for 30hp/sec for 3 seconds when she uses her snowball or ice arts
• Mantis receives 12.5hp/sec for 8 seconds whenever using her life orbs
• Dagger can throw her bubble at her feet and heal herself for 55hp/sec for 6 seconds
• Rocket's healing orbs heal him for 30hp/sec and he can shoot multiple near him
• Jeff can cast a healing bubble for 85hp and a 15% healing boost while his dive gives him 35hp/sec
• Loki can have one of his clones shoot at him and heal him for 40hp per shot (1.75 rounds per sec) and he can have 2 clones do that. He can also use his regeneration domain for 100hp/sec for 5 sec or go invisible for 20hp/sec

Whenever I see Sue, I just throw some damage at her and she has to either hope the other healer gets her up or she's out of the fight lest risk getting killed. She can benefit from the healing of her own shield for 50hp/sec but she has to cast it on an ally. The other healers don't have to wade near danger or in the case of her invisibility, they can actually do other stuff while it is happening. Or in the case of Loki, he heals himself to full so quickly with his clones that he is immediately back in action.

Her primary fire range is short but good at healing through multiple allies but she's released right as Storm become popular. Storm loves to throw her primary fire through groups of enemies because it pierces and it will hit Sue. She's still pretty strong but Sue has some clear weaknesses, which is the trade off for her control (push/pull and aoe slow).

 

[Banana Hammock]

Oh, nice! I was just checking the Atelier wiki, and Yumia has a release date: March 21, 2025. On top of that, Atelier Resleriana (the gacha game they made) is getting an actual game as a follow-up, and will also be released in 2025. Atelier fans are eating very good this year.


From another tweet:

Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian:
- is an original story based in the world of Atelier Resleriana
- can be enjoyed offline, without having played Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator
- does not include a gacha system.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

This start of this season is supremely gay for Marvel Rivals because they dropped everyone 7 divisions. Got dropped to Bronze 3 and right now I'm ping ponging all around silver 1-3 because I'll get some teammates that were bronze 1 last season and go 1-5 while the other team gets people that were low plat that actually know how to play Hela and wipe the lobby. Then after a few games of that, I'll get the stacked team where we're just spawn camping the enemy and get +14 points.

Now I'm getting early season League of Legends flashbacks where I would have to wait like a week after a new season or else I'd deal with the same garbage. It's also getting really old seeing Koreans and Nips in NA servers with 200+ ping. Even better is that in-game callouts don't translate to English. "Watch out for [KOREAN SYMBOLS]"

EDIT: Made the push to gold 3 after hard carrying. I hope no one figures out how absurd Rocket's healing throughput is and gets him nerfed.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

I think it was around AC2 or Brotherhood that the topic of Japan came up and they stated "oh, that's too easy/obvious". They obviously kept it in their back pocket as a "break glass in case of emergency". However after Sucker Punch took all the hype of a Feudal Japan game and now that fire extinguisher is empty. Then their DEI retards made it all worse by adding Yasuke and like a dozen other embarrassing fuckups with the game, so their DEI retards have effectively refilled that empty fire extinguisher with gasoline.

It did seem obvious, which is why they should have planned it for about game 6. With where the series went originally, I get not going to Japan for a while. But, yeah, filling the fire extinguisher with gasoline is a very apt description.

 

[MrProcessor]

I thought the reception to their terrible remake of HOTD1 would have discouraged them. The sheer audacity in doing the same shit again with just a different skin and 'ironic' bad voice acting. Who the hell is the audience for this slop?

I'm pretty unhappy with Sega lately, so this doesn't really surprise me. I still can't believe they delisted a bunch of Sega Genesis and Dreamcast games in various digital storefronts for no reason. (I had already bought them, but I still find it annoying.)

 

[reinigen]

Yeah, her lack of self-healing is pretty fucked. She has to go invisible and do nothing while she heals for a merely 20hp/sec. Compared to other healers:

• Luna heals for 30hp/sec for 3 seconds when she uses her snowball or ice arts
• Mantis receives 12.5hp/sec for 8 seconds whenever using her life orbs
• Dagger can throw her bubble at her feet and heal herself for 55hp/sec for 6 seconds
• Rocket's healing orbs heal him for 30hp/sec and he can shoot multiple near him
• Jeff can cast a healing bubble for 85hp and a 15% healing boost while his dive gives him 35hp/sec
• Loki can have one of his clones shoot at him and heal him for 40hp per shot (1.75 rounds per sec) and he can have 2 clones do that. He can also use his regeneration domain for 100hp/sec for 5 sec or go invisible for 20hp/sec

Whenever I see Sue, I just throw some damage at her and she has to either hope the other healer gets her up or she's out of the fight lest risk getting killed. She can benefit from the healing of her own shield for 50hp/sec but she has to cast it on an ally. The other healers don't have to wade near danger or in the case of her invisibility, they can actually do other stuff while it is happening. Or in the case of Loki, he heals himself to full so quickly with his clones that he is immediately back in action.

Her primary fire range is short but good at healing through multiple allies but she's released right as Storm become popular. Storm loves to throw her primary fire through groups of enemies because it pierces and it will hit Sue. She's still pretty strong but Sue has some clear weaknesses, which is the trade off for her control (push/pull and aoe slow).

I think the biggest flaw in her kit isn't even her self heal rate, it's that she can't self-cast the shield. I think that's really all you need to improve her.

This start of this season is supremely gay for Marvel Rivals because they dropped everyone 7 divisions. Got dropped to Bronze 3 and right now I'm ping ponging all around silver 1-3 because I'll get some teammates that were bronze 1 last season and go 1-5 while the other team gets people that were low plat that actually know how to play Hela and wipe the lobby. Then after a few games of that, I'll get the stacked team where we're just spawn camping the enemy and get +14 points.

Now I'm getting early season League of Legends flashbacks where I would have to wait like a week after a new season or else I'd deal with the same garbage. It's also getting really old seeing Koreans and Nips in NA servers with 200+ ping. Even better is that in-game callouts don't translate to English. "Watch out for [KOREAN SYMBOLS]"

EDIT: Made the push to gold 3 after hard carrying. I hope no one figures out how absurd Rocket's healing throughput is and gets him nerfed.

I'm struggling right now too man. I've been in Silver 2 and nearly deranked to Silver 3 after last night. Between insta-locking Spider-Man, solo tanking Caps who go to flank and don't protect, 3 DPS complaining about needing an off tank and never switching, DPS never being able to shoot up to kill the Iron Man/Storm, or healers that hard focus the front line and DPSing and don't pay attention to me pinging for heals hiding behind pillars while still in their LoS and I die to minor incidental AoE I had a rough time last night. The worst game was that last one. I was absolutely ripping it up as Squirrel Girl, but I never got a single heal when I retreated to our back line and I was staring at the healers but never getting topped up. I believe that was also the round we had a Jeff on the new Midtown map with no pits, and he would ult and run away with them then bitch when we "didn't follow up with him" after he got killed on his own.

 

[ScarletCorrupt]

PoE 2 0.1.1 will be releasing later this week. Here's a TLDW.

• Maps will be more rewarding, and we can see biomes now
• 4 more tower variations, and the original one will be overhauled
• Map bosses will be more common (THANK YOU HELL YEAH), and they're adding a Boss Precursor Tablet
• Strongboxes will be faster and less boring
• Ground effect and monster skill visibility will be improved by decreasing map clutter and making the visuals more obvious
• Delirium will be buffed and the no monster bug has been fixed
• Ritual Omens will be more common
• Expedition vendor items will be improved
• The Arbiter of Ash fight will allow 6 attempts per fight, lowering your attempts the higher the difficulty
• MANY unique items will receive buffs
• Item mod weighting will be overhauled in the hopes that good rare items will appear more often, as well as making crafting a bit less shit
• Runes and Soul Cores socketed into items will be able to be overwritten
• Armor will be getting a buff
• A big meta shift will not happen until they are ready to make an early access league which will obviously come with an economy reset

Good stuff I'd say, glad to see a lot of this. Hopefully the full patch notes has more stuff not mentioned, but overall a nice first patch back after their break.

 

[Lurker McSpic]

Look witcher 3 but you play as a vampire

I have no faith in these "former devs of x" studios because they always tend to shit out garbage but if they at least don't have woke shite I might pirate their game in 2030 when it comes out.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Look witcher 3 but you play as a vampire

I have no faith in these "former devs of x" studios because they always tend to shit out garbage but if they at least don't have woke shite I might pirate their game in 2030 when it comes out.

I hardly played the Witcher 3 (I think I stopped after the Bloody Baron questline) but I never found the combat that interesting. They didn't show much combat at all near the end and we'll have to wait until Summer to see the reveal. I'm a sucker for vampire stuff but who knows if the writing will be as good. It's polish so there's definitely going to be some jank because slavs can't seem to make a game without jank. The question is how impeding will the jank be.