Vidya Games Thread

[Superduper Samurai]

is new vegas popular with the troons? i get twittards but troons specifically? Can't think of anything specific that would draw them in most of Nv is hostile to the wimmin and arcade is too far in for the disabled to reach.

Its mostly because of the autism to troon pipeline and people making up autistic headcanons about how Yes Man is an anarchist's paradise. Getting to murder hecking evil slaver chuds gets alot of people hard too

 

[Planetary Bombardment]

Although I do agree that Morrowind would've been a better candidate

Morrowind would need an actual remake

Good thing I have my physical discs and all my favorite mods backed up so if they ever decide to ruin Morrowind I can play it in the woods while I hide from the law after [fedpost redacted].

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Offtopic.

This is your semi Frequent sperg post about pokemon fangames.

Reminder Pokecommunity and EeveeExpo (Formerly Relic Castle) are good sites to get this stuff.

Pokemon Pathways: Despite it's age HUGE letdown very much feels like a game that was in dev for like half a year despite a lot of content none of it is "finished" or more accurately none of it feels finished still decently fun to play good variety of Pokémon fair enough access to teambuilding tools

To be clear this game is a massive undertaking so it makes sense that it feels like it does but i can't give points for stuff that does not exist yet.

Pokemon Myth: I honestly want to call this game trash so many unfriendly features ontop of stuff that has to be intentional trolling on the devs part. one trainer has a aqua ring rain dish toxic stall team in perpetual weather and a pokemon has a death cry that lasts like 5 whole seconds where you just have to stare at nothing while you wait for it to finish like the hp bars of old also have fun using HM slaves except not because literally no pokemon (including 2 electric types) i had could learn flash whihc leads me to believe they intentionally removed hm's from a lot of learn lists

However is has good fakemon Mega pokemon and Infusions is a good mechanic (it's basically tera typing) regional variants are nice too.

Pokemon Awakening: this is a translation from Spanish and i dunno what yall are on over there but please PLEASE PLEASEEEEEEE stop adding fucking genshin gatcha to every game.

Other then that Decent enough game with no fakemon at all (well a powered up Eevee but who cares) terrible maps and a decent enough swing at being persona lite social links with pokemon gameplay ill probably end up finishing it or at least going as far as the (broken) Translation goes.

i do think it's the easiest of the games i mean there's fairly early access to a Cloyster for Skill Link shenanigans and the class system is very abusable especially because the AI is dumb as bricks and uses it too leading to exploits.

 

[John Vtuber👁️]

About 9 hours until Switch 2 pre-orders begin, get ready for the bloodbath and salt against scalpers in the morning.

To mitigate bots from doing the scalpers' work for them, I'm not posting any links, but the above information should be more than enough for anyone with two braincells to look up themselves! Best of luck to those on the frontlines, and to the overnight retailer camping for in-store orders!

 

[TKN_Lurker]

If anyone's interested about the Marathon reboot gameplay, Doki just streamed her experience playing the Early Access Alpha Build. My opinion remains...unimpressed with what I've seen.

 

[UberSoldat]

Good thing I have my physical discs and all my favorite mods backed up so if they ever decide to ruin Morrowind I can play it in the woods while I hide from the law after [fedpost redacted].

GOG sells it too

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

If anyone's interested about the Marathon reboot gameplay, Doki just streamed her experience playing the Early Access Alpha Build. My opinion remains...unimpressed with what I've seen.

Anthem had a 7 "year" development cycle, but it was in such chaos that once the upper EA execs had to get involved and force Bioware to complete a game it became really an 18 month cycle. Actually a solid game for 18 months of production, frankly. I mention that because "Marathon" looks like about the same amount of actual work, where they ported over Destiny 2 and put a thin veneer of bright paint on what is functionally an extraction game mode for Destiny 2. It looks like a game that was completely rebooted 4 years ago without the staff to have vision for how to both establish within a niche and radically broaden the appeal of it.

It'll sell well enough to be Not-Concord 2.0, but it'll then die in 3 months.

 

[ogey_rrat]

I see Todd's finally moved on from Skyrim, he's now going to ask you to buy a new edition of the Oblivion remaster every year instead.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

I see Todd's finally moved on from Skyrim, he's now going to ask you to buy a new edition of the Oblivion remaster every year instead.

don't worry any minute now someone will find the hidden playable skyrim any minute now.

would explain the game size.

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

RE: New Vegas
Caesar had the most fun route to play

FIGHT ME MODERN AU

I see Todd's finally moved on from Skyrim, he's now going to ask you to buy a new edition of the Oblivion remaster every year instead.

Hell yeah

(I still remember RE4 being the yearly game, Oblivion bros rise up)

 

[Smelliest007]

RE: New Vegas
Caesar had the most fun route to play

Lanius > Caesar. Yes, I do want New Vegas to be the slave capital of the world. And Caesar's a coward with a tumor.

 

[Hotdogs Aplenty]

I see Todd's finally moved on from Skyrim, he's now going to ask you to buy a new edition of the Oblivion remaster every year instead.

He was running out of superchat funds.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

is new vegas popular with the troons? i get twittards but troons specifically? Can't think of anything specific that would draw them in most of Nv is hostile to the wimmin and arcade is too far in for the disabled to reach.

While there's a lesbian companion and a gay companion, it's not really the reason why it became a holy site for troons. It's as @Superduper Samurai put it, the autism to troon pipeline and FNV is catnip for autists. Same reason why there's so many troons among the Paradox games communities. The troons will cope about loving FNV because of bullshit like "anti-capitalism and you get to kill slavers!" but the truth is just that they're autistic.

Please remaster New Vegas so all the mod troons can finally stop getting as much clout for still circlejerking around working on the engine of a 14 year old game
Although Fallout 3 would be neat because it slowly gets more and more unplayable whenever windows updates, at the only real way to mod it to remaster it is TTW, which introduces alot of retarded balance changes

Just remake New Vegas with the gameplay of Fallout 4 (sprinting, dedicated grenade button, HUD overlay changes in 1st Person if you're wearing a helmet). Just maintain the dialogue screen like how there's mods for Fallout 4 where it shows exactly what you're going to say.

The optimist in me tells me this remaster is a testing ground of sorts. Success here possibly means Bethesda looks into those games as well as Fallouts from New Vegas and before. Although I do agree that Morrowind would've been a better candidate, but perhaps they couldn't have wrapped UE5 around those older games as well? I dunno tbh

I'm just hoping working on Oblivion reminded them of what made their games good. Starfield was such a colossal miss because it upended the entire foundation the Bethesda formula was built off of. Hopefully they refocused on that foundation for TES6 (I'm still worried its going to suck).

 

[Smelliest007]

Just remake New Vegas with the gameplay of Fallout 4 (sprinting, dedicated grenade button, HUD overlay changes in 1st Person if you're wearing a helmet). Just maintain the dialogue screen like how there's mods for Fallout 4 where it shows exactly what you're going to say.

But make sure all the perks, damage threshold, and shit stays, holy shit, fuck Fallout 4's shitty to navigate and utterly boring perk tree

 

[Security]

While there's a lesbian companion and a gay companion, it's not really the reason why it became a holy site for troons. It's as @Superduper Samurai put it, the autism to troon pipeline and FNV is catnip for autists. Same reason why there's so many troons among the Paradox games communities.

I wonder why there even is an "autism to troon" pipeline, as I would've thought the opposite would happen. Rather, the opposite does happen, but it seems to be polarized to the extreme.

One extreme is, as stated, troondom. The other extreme is the one I expected would happen: total rejection of troondom and all associated. I expected that to be the case since the main component of autism is a hyper-logical brain. They would see something like Queer Theory and all sorts of questions would immediately pop in their heads, with the application of the scientific method bringing serious doubt to any claims from that pseudo-philosophical "theory."

So why, then, is there another segment of autists that are seemingly the most susceptible to all this? It is highly illogical, so it should just be rejected. Perhaps these people aren't autistic, and are being grouped into this category, or maybe there's a category of autism that I'm unaware of.

I dunno, just seems really bizarre to me. Regardless, TTD.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

But make sure all the perks, damage threshold, and shit stays, holy shit, fuck Fallout 4's shitty to navigate and utterly boring perk tree

Yeah, the perk system for Fallout 4 is trash. The perk system in New Vegas/FO3 are fine but the presentation is trash, it's just a list and it needs a better UI.

I wonder why there even is an "autism to troon" pipeline, as I would've thought the opposite would happen. Rather, the opposite does happen, but it seems to be polarized to the extreme.

One extreme is, as stated, troondom. The other extreme is the one I expected would happen: total rejection of troondom and all associated. I expected that to be the case since the main component of autism is a hyper-logical brain. They would see something like Queer Theory and all sorts of questions would immediately pop in their heads, with the application of the scientific method bringing serious doubt to any claims from that pseudo-philosophical "theory."

So why, then, is there another segment of autists that are seemingly the most susceptible to all this? It is highly illogical, so it should just be rejected. Perhaps these people aren't autistic, and are being grouped into this category, or maybe there's a category of autism that I'm unaware of.

I dunno, just seems really bizarre to me. Regardless, TTD.

Not all autists are smart. This is why there's things like the Hearts of Iron community being Nazi chuds and Commie troons.

 

[Security]

Not all autists are smart. This is why there's things like the Hearts of Iron community being Nazi chuds and Commie troons.

It's not a matter of being smart, it's a matter of being logical. Ignorance of what actually goes into Nazism is why its propaganda is still working so well to this day. With more information of that ideology, I'd expect many autists to reject it.

The queer theory shit, however, doesn't really have such a benefit, as it's a new-ish thing colliding head on with well established norms. The younger generation being split, I guess I could see that, as the public school system pumped indoctrination to levels I never thought possible, but I'm at a loss as why those over thirty would fall victim - for as bad as we had it, "boys have penises and girls have vaginas" was still basic curriculum.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

It's not a matter of being smart, it's a matter of being logical. Ignorance of what actually goes into Nazism is why its propaganda is still working so well to this day. With more information of that ideology, I'd expect many autists to reject it.

The queer theory shit, however, doesn't really have such a benefit, as it's a new-ish thing colliding head on with well established norms. The younger generation being split, I guess I could see that, as the public school system pumped indoctrination to levels I never thought possible, but I'm at a loss as why those over thirty would fall victim - for as bad as we had it, "boys have penises and girls have vaginas" was still basic curriculum.

You are severely underestimating the effectiveness of gaslighting and groupthink does to a motherfucker. Millennials have been slow boiled like frogs into this shit.

 

[Superduper Samurai]

I wonder why there even is an "autism to troon" pipeline, as I would've thought the opposite would happen. Rather, the opposite does happen, but it seems to be polarized to the extreme.

One extreme is, as stated, troondom. The other extreme is the one I expected would happen: total rejection of troondom and all associated. I expected that to be the case since the main component of autism is a hyper-logical brain. They would see something like Queer Theory and all sorts of questions would immediately pop in their heads, with the application of the scientific method bringing serious doubt to any claims from that pseudo-philosophical "theory."

So why, then, is there another segment of autists that are seemingly the most susceptible to all this? It is highly illogical, so it should just be rejected. Perhaps these people aren't autistic, and are being grouped into this category, or maybe there's a category of autism that I'm unaware of.

I dunno, just seems really bizarre to me. Regardless, TTD.

There is an easy avenue of social acceptance if you troon out within certain circles, and its pretty much crack for lonely autists to somehow be praised for being so stunning and brave

 

[Security]

You are severely underestimating the effectiveness of gaslighting and groupthink does to a motherfucker. Millennials have been slow boiled like frogs into this shit.

I recognize that, and yeah we were slow boiled, but I still expected the more logical mind to react with the very least befuddlement once such things got accelerated like they did around 2010.

Brings to me my personal question of, why did my mind not succumb? What I had observed in nerd spaces prior was a resistance to groupthink and gaslighting, with a high priority of being logical and correct on a given topic over social acceptance, even within a nerd community. Saw this over and over again across the 90s and 00s. Yet, with the 2010s, it was Invasion of the Body Snatchers with how people turned into totally different people.

The hyper-obsessed people placed priority on their obsessions - and especially on the purity of those obsessions - above all else. This abrupt change in these spheres still puzzles me greatly. A less satisfying answer is that these autists merely went crazy - but that's a whole lot of people resistant to going crazy going crazy at the same time. Other possible answers are ones I hope are wrong as they're too terrifying to be real.

God damnit, I just wanted to play video games.