Vidya Games Thread

[Punished Anime Discusser]

I've played about 30 hours of MH World a few years ago, and that's it, so I have barely any experience with the series. I also have Rise because I got it on sale for cheap. All this talk about Wilds makes me want to go back and play some of these, as well as maybe emulate some of the older titles because I'm certainly not paying $70 for a game, especially one that runs like shit.

Emulating MH4U or Generations Ultimate is probably the best call for oldschool MH. GU is a little retarded, and very bloated with shit monsters but it's still fun. 4U is the series peaking, so might not want to play it first. World starts off pretty bad and unironically gets worse the further in you get. Rise, from what I've played, is generally great, and actually hits a nice balance of new and old MH. Haven't played the DLC for Rise yet though.

Other games worth trying are Portable 3rd, PSP game, emulates great, has a HD patch and fan translation, but is a game without G rank. And 3U which is iffy on emulation but is a great game, as long as you don't let brainlet niggas convince you that swimming was a bad.

 

[Lurker McSpic]

Emulation scene basically evolving from "let's reverse engineer the consoles so their legally-grey ROM/ISO dumps can run on a PC!" to "Why don't we just... reverse engineer and recompile the games to run on a PC natively, guys?" is kinda funny.

I don't know the story of how those tools got made but I think the reason they never really tried to do that is because recompiling might be illegal and people never shut the fuck up long enough to just drop the thing and fuck off into the sunset.
So many projects have been lost due to people not shutting the fuck up.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

I don't know the story of how those tools got made but I think the reason they never really tried to do that is because recompiling might be illegal and people never shut the fuck up long enough to just drop the thing and fuck off into the sunset.
So many projects have been lost due to people not shutting the fuck up.

it will never not be relevant

 

[Zizara]

Well I've finished MH Wilds High Rank and been hitting the endgame. Currently HR75 and I'm pretty sure this is it for available content. Skipped over the tempered early trash and just went right into farming the big mons. I've now got the endgame armor of my choice & with a little bit more farming I'll have finished the endgame weapon collection for my main (Gunlance). Went by quicker than I expected. There's the Artian gacha system I guess I could start playing with to push the limits of available power, but I'm not really feeling it. There's optional quests to do and maybe exploring other weapons until TU1 drops in early April.

I'm going to give the difficulty complaints some backing; while it does eventually become challenging enough to demand your attention and punish sloppiness, it's not ever "hard". Especially if you've played MH before. I've still yet to cart more than once in a hunt and the only times I've failed have been SOS'ing for players who needed the help and kept carting themselves. I wouldn't mind this level of difficulty if it weren't for how many subsystems are available that I just haven't bothered engaging with yet. I've only ever ate basic meals for the bonus health for example, there's been no fight that I've felt warranted eating for Moxie, made worse by how rare and limited food ingredients seem to be. They're too valuable to waste on a hunt I already know I can get through without them or on a hunt that I didn't know yet and was just going in to learn.

I didn't bother tailoring my item loadouts - just bringing basic stacks of potions and mega potions, plus whatever the mission resources gave you (typically hot/cold drinks) which were enough. Which is pretty insane compared to the neurotic loadouts I would run in World, every slot filled with bombs and mega potions and life potions and extra resources to craft more mid-fight. Even worse when I started playing gunner. The farm is all spread out too across a bunch of gathering and trading NPCs, which eventually gets condensed into just Nata after you beat HR, but really doesn't help with the resource shortage feeling. Mantles are back but they're pretty weak from what I've seen so far, you get to have one in addition to the ghillie mantle.There's one that gives you additional small damage procs on your hits in exchange for a DOT that'll probably become the go-to.

What else...there's a "living world" mechanic akin to a stripped down Guiding Lands that's how you get investigations, which I didn't much bother with either when I could just join missions with what I need. Maybe I'll look into how it all works eventually but it says something that I could hit this point of advancement while mentally filtering out so much of what didn't hit me as immediately necessary.

Edit: Speaking of unused subsystems, I have just accidentally discovered that "Sneak Attacks" involve getting behind a monster out of combat and pressing B for a special animation, not just yeeting myself off the Seikret from a cliff for a flying kamikaze bombing. Who knew...

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Fuck it.

Pokemon.

The good ones. Gen 3 Gen 5 Legends The Ok ones Gen 1 Gen 2 Gen 4 Scarlet Violet.
Gen 1: the foundation
Gen 2: Improving the foundation
Gen 3: is when they first started to play with what they had made
Gen 4: Ambition and probally the first legendary encounter that felt legendary (Distortion World)
Gen 5: Black/White A lower stakes story that is set up for B/W2 Megalomaniac get's his wish and starts literally destroying the world this is where pokemon peaked imo they were clearly trying to use everything they came before to make a suitably epic but still "kid safe" story and i think it worked.
Gen 6:the whole game was turned into a handholding tutorial which kills any of the good points it has (Mega Evolution Looker )
Gen7 continued hand holding tutorial including telling you about stuff you probably already figured out but other then that still a pretty meh game at least the pokemon are good this time.
Gen:8 Fuck sword and shield
Gen 9 : trying to improve and failing at least area zero was cool.

 

[thhrang]

 

[Thomas Talus]

Double Gargoyles is probably the worst because you get to them too soon to really power through their bullshit.

Valiant Gargoyles just discriminates against certain build types really hard, especially dex builds. Strength can use strike damage as long as you're not trying to use fist weapons (great hammers will do really well). Int can spam blue beams that they don't have as much resistance against as other elemental damage types. Pest threads utterly devastates them, for Fth and Arc builds. But if you're trying to use slash, thrust, fire, lightning, holy damage or status effects, you're going to have a bad time.

But it's absolutely possible to burn down the first gargoyle before the second shows up, IFF you're using one of the key damage types and have enough juice in your weapons.

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

Literally the only thing I want out of 360 emulation is the goddamn original dash and no Russian autists were alive then to understand this pain

 

[agility_]

I'm not touching pokemon, but the uploaded tunes on youtube for scarlet/violet are a trip

 

[Smelliest007]

Literally the only thing I want out of 360 emulation is

Ace Combat 6
Armored Core 4/4A
Lost Odyssey

 

[CalciumAnimal]

I not touching pokemon, but the uploaded tunes on youtube for scarlet/violet are a trip

I could sperg for hours on how pokemons music was amazing FROM THE BEGINING and just never quit.

But i don't think anyone will debate me there. The Elite 4 / Champion music sticks with everyone who has ever played Gen 1.
Gen 2 Vs Red
Gen 3 Probally one of the best victory road themes (not that you will ever hear the full thing fking zubats)
Gen 4: Cynthia (with the build up you cowards)
Gen 5: Crit HP music is too much overlooked.
Gen 6 Xerneas and Yvetal Legendary Music
Gen 7 Lusamine's Madness
Gen 8 god where do i even begin sword and shield might be a turd but the music ALMOST makes up for that even if your not a fan of dumb soccer hooligan chanting Bede Piers Msutard.
Gen 9: again so much good music but ill have to stick with Legendary Quartet Battle/Turak Turak Tun.

and that's not including town themes and random bits of music flourishes or the spinoff games which have their own amazing tracks .

 

[Smelliest007]

I could sperg for hours on how pokemons music was amazing FROM THE BEGINING and just never quit.

But i don't think anyone will debate me there. The Elite 4 / Champion music sticks with everyone who has ever played Gen 1.
Gen 2 Vs Red
Gen 3 Probally one of the best victory road themes (not that you will ever hear the full thing fking zubats)
Gen 4: Cynthia (with the build up you cowards)
Gen 5: Crit HP music is too much overlooked.
Gen 6 Xerneas and Yvetal Legendary Music
Gen 7 Lusamine's Madness
Gen 8 god where do i even begin sword and shield might be a turd but the music ALMOST makes up for that even if your not a fan of dumb soccer hooligan chanting Bede Piers Msutard.
Gen 9: again so much good music but ill have to stick with Legendary Quartet Battle/Turak Turak Tun.

and that's not including town themes and random bits of music flourishes or the spinoff games which have their own amazing tracks .

Team Plasma theme in BW1 is a bopper.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

I'm not touching pokemon, but the uploaded tunes on youtube for scarlet/violet are a trip

I can not stand the fucking tera raid music because it starts at every tera raid and there's ZERO fucking variations, so you keep hearing that same fucking opening constantly

Team Plasma theme in BW1 is a bopper.

Gen 5 was full of bangers

Gen 5 is also really funny in hindsight because they couldn't have Piers sing in SwSh but they did that twice in BW2

 

[John Vtuber👁️]

I'm not touching pokemon, but the uploaded tunes on youtube for scarlet/violet are a trip

fun fact, Toby Fox composed both of those tracks for The Pokémon Company (with Gō Ichinose assisting with Area Zero), and it's highly likely that they'll continue to hire him for further games!

Anyways, are you ready for another Kickstarter MMO, gamers? From the designer of Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, and pandering to those who still daydream about WildStar, get ready for Yet Another Sandbox Promising Everything (but with really impressive tech):



Do I fully believe in the project? Absolutely not, but it's going to provide at least half a decade's worth of content, much like its Kickstarter predecessors before it! I got one of the access tiers, as well as the early-start key, so I am ready to be disappointed by the MMO dream once more (while making content along the way)

 

[Punished Anime Discusser]

Yet Another Sandbox Promising Everything

YWNBEO
or You Will Never Be EVE Online, because EVE Online isn't even EVE Online anymore.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

YWNBEO
or You Will Never Be EVE Online, because EVE Online isn't even EVE Online anymore.

They don't want to be EVE Online. They want some of the money that EVE Online made.

 

[Security]

Anyways, are you ready for another Kickstarter MMO, gamers? From the designer of Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, and pandering to those who still daydream about WildStar, get ready for Yet Another Sandbox Promising Everything (but with really impressive tech):



Do I fully believe in the project? Absolutely not, but it's going to provide at least half a decade's worth of content, much like its Kickstarter predecessors before it! I got one of the access tiers, as well as the early-start key, so I am ready to be disappointed by the MMO dream once more (while making content along the way)

Visually, that looks like an (extra) gayified Fortnite. This is what Raph Koster has come back to do? Sad.

 

[reinigen]

We need to go back.



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[God's Strongest Dragoon]

I'm compelled to migo but I must respond to emphasize how horrrifying that tweet is. God damn, the Indian menace will only get worse.

 

[tragic amphibian]

Anyways, are you ready for another Kickstarter MMO, gamers? From the designer of Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, and pandering to those who still daydream about WildStar, get ready for Yet Another Sandbox Promising Everything (but with really impressive tech):



Do I fully believe in the project? Absolutely not, but it's going to provide at least half a decade's worth of content, much like its Kickstarter predecessors before it! I got one of the access tiers, as well as the early-start key, so I am ready to be disappointed by the MMO dream once more (while making content along the way)

Get fucked, Raph. I played some UO in 2001 (boring) along with SWG from day 1 (awesome because Star Wars until the novelty fell off and it was just a less clunky UO) and these games have mind-poisoned people for decades. The people getting excited for Stars Reach because they want the UO/SWG feels are the video game equivalent of those guys who are always talking about the one that got away. If only X, Y, and Z were different, it would have all worked out and been amazing! Yes, but she never loved you, you never had a chance, and UO/SWG were awful and borderline nonsensical outside of the social connections that you had in the game.

To give you an idea of how stupid the game design in SWG was, you had three bars called Stamina Pool, Mind Pool, and Agility Pool. You can think of them like HP, MP, and TP except you don't just spend them to execute abilities but if ANY of them hit 0, you're KOed. Enemy attacks can target specific pools so, say you spent half of your mind pool on abilities, an enemy can attack your mind pool since it's basically at half HP, even if your stamina pool is full. If you're KOed, you take wounds which reduce your maximum pool amount and this stacks with each KO. You need to sit and watch dancers or listen to musicians to clear your wounds so you can reach max pool values.

I say again, get fucked, Raph.