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Smelliest007

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I watched a dev talk from them a year ago and it was pretty fascinating. They did all sorts of tricks to get this shit working and just outright said "nah, fuck lumen, fuck global illumination, fuck nanite, we want this shit to run at 60fps". Apparently it can run on the Steamdeck and they never actually planned for that, one of the playtesters just informed them it does.


>CK3 releases with many features missing and the DLC is immensely annoying trash that makes the game worse
>Viccy 3 supposedly is turbo fucked with many systems just being dogshit
>Cities Skylines 2 is somehow monetized even worse than all other games so far and still runs like shit after 1.5 years
>Stellaris DLCs have been batting like .125 in terms of good DLC

I have already mentally squared away that EU5 and Prison Architect 2 are going to be dogshit

Not even mentioning Imperator Rome.
What a crime to the sensesParadox inflicted.
 

CalciumAnimal

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At this point, I'm playing Paradox games for the modding communities, mostly complete overhauls (with the exception of Stellaris and its one million fractured mods). Here is a short-list from my own rotation, mostly fantasy overhauls and Todd Howard IP, which had to be cut down in recent years of Alt-History modders taking the stunning and brave stances against "literal Nazis, guys, believe me" in the "community". So if you're wondering "where is [X] mod/overhaul" on the list, just assume it's for said political brainrot getting to them!

Honorary mention to "The Fire Rises", which somehow has the terminally online going "this is literal fascist propaganda", despite...well, just look at it! Anyone who takes it as a serious political propaganda piece needs extensive mental help!

Crusader Kings III:
Elder Kings 2
Godherja: The Dying World

Victoria 3:
Manaflow: Ankaris Arrival
Realms of Exether

Europa Universalis 4:
MEIOU and Taxes v3.0
Anbennar: A Fantasy Total Conversion
My Little Anbennar: Friendship is Magic (April Fools joke made permanent, with help from the EaW team)

Hearts of Iron IV:
Old World Blues
The Fire Rises
Kaiserreich
Equestria at War (meme choice, but surprisingly well-designed, what the fuck!)
MLP fans are dedicated autists might as well share the two games I know are quality.

https://foe-remains.gitlab.io/main_en.html Fallout Equestria:Remains playable from browser and through a download. made by a single Russian.

https://gamejolt.com/games/Ponyvania/232954 Ponyvania i think this was a single guy who eventually got a team.

Both are excellent

Remains is a 2D Fallout with all the joys of loot gobbling make sure to be racist whenever you shoot a Zebra it's funny.

Ponyvania is Level based Castlevania much like order of Ecclesia and has a shit ton of replay ability because picking your race does actually determine your abilities with you having the ability to unlock more then the initial 3 options Earth Pony Pegasus and Unicorn.
 

Tamokii

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Joined:  Dec 25, 2024
So much talk of Expedition 33 yet no one mentions the greatest French game ever made, E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy.
 

Lurker McSpic

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Joined:  Mar 8, 2023

I have such negative hype for this is hilarious. I still remember reading an article from a hands on of gta4 and reading how alive the world was, I was looking forward to it because there was a leap in features. Now I see this and I know it's gonna be another red dead 2 in which everything will feel artificial and there isn't going to be much to see or do. The writers are turbo fags so I don't expect any remarkable character or story, having a latina main character is already a dead giveaway. The gunplay is copy pasted since max payne 3 and will have no depth since all enemies drop the moment they get shot. Whatever new systems they implement will be annoying following red dead 2 footsteps. If they offer the online separate for like 20 bucks I might get it only to have a time waster but I don't even have that much intention of even pirate it :Vesper-UNHINGED:
Rockstar nowadays is just ubisoft but since they release a game a decade people don't notice it and even forgive them because the rockstar brand is still profitable.
 

CalciumAnimal

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So much talk of Expedition 33 yet no one mentions the greatest French game ever made, E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy.
all of it's fans are trapped in their cycles of guilt let them be.
 

Punished Anime Discusser

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The gunplay is copy pasted since max payne 3 and will have no depth since all enemies drop the moment they get shot.
God I fucking wish, GTAV was such a comical downgrade over RDR1 and Max Payne 3's gunplay, and RDR2 was somewhere to halfway decent, but that game has so many other problems.
 

Tamokii

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RestlessRain

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I have such negative hype for this is hilarious. I still remember reading an article from a hands on of gta4 and reading how alive the world was, I was looking forward to it because there was a leap in features. Now I see this and I know it's gonna be another red dead 2 in which everything will feel artificial and there isn't going to be much to see or do. The writers are turbo fags so I don't expect any remarkable character or story, having a latina main character is already a dead giveaway. The gunplay is copy pasted since max payne 3 and will have no depth since all enemies drop the moment they get shot. Whatever new systems they implement will be annoying following red dead 2 footsteps. If they offer the online separate for like 20 bucks I might get it only to have a time waster but I don't even have that much intention of even pirate it :Vesper-UNHINGED:
Rockstar nowadays is just ubisoft but since they release a game a decade people don't notice it and even forgive them because the rockstar brand is still profitable.
GTA VI is going to be successful because of it's previous history, but there are so many red flags with its development you know it's going to be a woke politics piece of shit. It's unfortunate, but I can't say I particularly care - GTA was never a franchise I really loved. It always felt like each individual system was so half-assed - the game has shooting, because you have to have shooting in a GTA game, for example, but that shooting is worse than nearly every shooter in existence. Worse than that, though, it rarely felt fun to me, more that particular stuff and mechanics were in the game so that mechanic could be in the game.
 

CalciumAnimal

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What is there to be guilty about besides the fact it won't get a sequel
The "story" of Eve is one persons "cycle of guilt" it's presumably why certain npc's keep dying and coming back .

I was just making a reference to that.
 

Thomas Talus

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So much talk of Expedition 33 yet no one mentions the greatest French game ever made, E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy.
Their legs are not ok.
 

Tamokii

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Joined:  Dec 25, 2024
The "story" of Eve is one persons "cycle of guilt" it's presumably why certain npc's keep dying and coming back .

I was just making a reference to that.
I've only finished one play through but it felt like an acid trip so that explains it. Still a blast of a game.
 

Abomination

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Joined:  Apr 1, 2023
I don't really feel any hype for GTA VI either. I loved and played a lot of Vice City and San Andreas when I was younger. Great games, and I still have fond memories of them.

I played 4, but I could never get into it. The characters and story were okay, but I didn't really like the city and aesthetics. Never even finished it.

Five was great in many ways, and I do think it's a genuinely great game. It just never really captured what VC and SA did for me, though. I know it's more of a "me" issue than anything else, but I definitely spent way more time watching other people play it than I played it myself. Hell, I also had more fun watching vtubers play it than when I played it myself.

I also rarely immerse myself in trailers, info drops, leaks, etc about a game until it's fairly close to release or after it's released, so I rarely get very hyped over game releases anymore in general.
 

Lurker McSpic

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God I fucking wish, GTAV was such a comical downgrade over RDR1 and Max Payne 3's gunplay, and RDR2 was somewhere to halfway decent, but that game has so many other problems.
When I meant copy pasted I meant they use the core framework to different levels of complexity. If the people at rockstar were worth a damn we'd have games that improve on the system they had on max payne 3 but they've fired pretty much everyone who knows how to run their engine. At this point I'm sure they're just tweaking Red2's engine to run their gta6 attempt and you will see them implement the same garbage systems about food, stamina etc red2 had and retards will cum their pants.

If they followed the leaps in mechanics from the old games, gta6 would have 80% walkable interiors, they'd have improved their npcs to the point they can simulate crime and other events in an organic fashion without the need to handcraft random encounters and dump them into the player once in a while. Who really knows where gta6 would be if this fag cancer didn't kill the industry. In another timeline the main complaint people would have about gta6 is that the physics of running children over looked a bit iffy but instead we're stuck in the timeline where you can't joke about any flavor of fag, let alone shoot them. To drive the point home, look at this, courtesy of wyatt the schizo


GTA VI is going to be successful because of it's previous history, but there are so many red flags with its development you know it's going to be a woke politics piece of shit.
You're 100% but now that the main demographic of gta shifted from whites to blacks there's a chance it doesn't do that well. It will make a profit but not infinite money as the suits would expect. It also wouldn't surprise me if the story mode is just so barebones and they only focused in developing their online mode to print infinite money again. Either way I'm not excited at all.
 

VSoyBoy

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Yep, we really arrived in a timeline where people will look at GTA's societal satire as face value wokeism.
They will make fun of companies commercializing social justice politics and people will interpret it as them pushing those same social justice politics.
Today's internet would accuse South Park of being woke.
 

God's Strongest Dragoon

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Joined:  Mar 20, 2023
I haven't kept up with CK3, have the DLCs been that bad? I loved CK2, only thing towards the end I hated was Conclave because of how all nations would drift towards elective type successions with it.
I only played the first 3 DLC because I fucked off after that.
Sounds really cool to hold court and decorate it but holy fuck, it becomes immensely tedious and shitty really fucking fast. You have to regularly hold court (where you solve disputes between vassals and courtiers) or else they all get mad at you and you are punished for not interacting with this DLC constantly. There really isn't that many "disputes" and you'll see repeats very quickly, making it really annoying and losing all flavor of the event. The stuff like artifacts and treasures are a huge money drain for boring and minimal rewards like "here's +1 diplomacy". You can decorate your court room with your treasures/artifacts but it's really uninteresting item models and unless you want to sink a bunch of resources for something worthwhile, you're likely just going to have your pet dog's pelt hung on a wall.
Didn't play it from the Nordic view to see how it is but it's one of those "here's a $13 DLC that only matters if you play in this region, otherwise you're wasting money as it. It's a $13 flavor pack, so it sucks because it adds very little for too high of a price.
Another regional DLC but it makes playing in Iberia incredibly shit. There's this whole Struggle system with phases and is super convoluted. Certain phases are triggered by the overall actions of the people in that region and the phases enable shit like specific Casus Belli, schemes, and buffs/nerfs to stuff like "higher garrison size and faster faith conversion". You need the struggle to be in specific phases to get specific ways to end the struggle, so it's immensely annoying to end the struggle. They wanted the region to play differently so they put a focus on cultural/religious conflicts over territory conflicts. While this religious focus fits thematically for the region historically, the cultural issue doesn't fit as there were various cultures within Iberia like Andalusian, Castilian, Catalan, Galician, and Basque, there never was 1 specific culture there and the DLC wants you to unite it all under 1 culture. The core problem, for both the religious and cultural conflicts, is that it takes super long to convert cultures/religions in a county and you have to do it one at time. The game is immensely better without Fate of Iberia.
Apparently the later DLC "Tours and Tournaments" is alright but suffers from the same "here's a money sink and something to annoy you" that Royal Court has and its THIRTY FUCKING DOLLARS. Legacy of Persia is another flavor pack that tries to do the Struggle system shit they did in Iberia but do it for Persia. Apparently it's better than the Iberian system but it's still shit. I have to take the Sseth statement of "Just because somebody chose to take a smaller shit in my rice, doesn't change the fact that its still there".

From what I've read/seen, the Legends of the Dead is REALLY fucking awful as diseases and plagues just molest the fuck out of everything. The legends system is also the same bullshit from the Royal Court DLC with artifacts, where artifacts just spam your notifications and drain your resources for a boring and small reward. This thing has like a 30% score on Steam, if that gives you an idea of how awful it is. Roads to Power (Byzantine DLC) is suppose to be the "landless/adventurer" experience you get as you rise to power while also offering administrative governments with bureaucracy. However it's THIRTY FUCKING DOLLARS and its apparently very shallow, making repetition become a huge issue. The saving grace is the "Choose your new destiny" feature where you can choose who to play as one of three dynasty members, which makes the game far more interesting.
God I fucking wish, GTAV was such a comical downgrade over RDR1 and Max Payne 3's gunplay, and RDR2 was somewhere to halfway decent, but that game has so many other problems.
>"It's the O'Driscolls! Kill all 30 of them in a shooting gallery. Ignore the fact that we've probably killed 800 of them at this point"
>10min horseback ride after each mission start but you can't really skip it because they drop mountains of exposition with the dialogue during the ride out
>"Boys, it's them O'Driscolls again! Kill another 30 of them as they hide behind cover and occasionally send 1 guy out to run towards you."
>every task involves meticulously boring animations that makes you want to shoot yourself after the 5th time you've done this
>story quickly devolves to shit just for "CINEMA EXPERIENCE" after Shady Belle
>"God damn O'Driscolls! Holocaust them!"
>the game seems like it has depth because there's so much shit you can do but in truth its all "wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle"
 

Punished Anime Discusser

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>"It's the O'Driscolls! Kill all 30 of them in a shooting gallery. Ignore the fact that we've probably killed 800 of them at this point"
>10min horseback ride after each mission start but you can't really skip it because they drop mountains of exposition with the dialogue during the ride out
>"Boys, it's them O'Driscolls again! Kill another 30 of them as they hide behind cover and occasionally send 1 guy out to run towards you."
>every task involves meticulously boring animations that makes you want to shoot yourself after the 5th time you've done this
>story quickly devolves to shit just for "CINEMA EXPERIENCE" after Shady Belle
>"God damn O'Driscolls! Holocaust them!"
>the game seems like it has depth because there's so much shit you can do but in truth its all "wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle"
That's what I mean, the way the shooting works is great, I love being able to run people down, beat the fuck out of them then execute them or tie them up in one fluid motion, I love the wonky shootdodge, I love the way enemies react to being hit, and I love the way the guns feel. Genuinely fantastic shit. But between those good parts there's quest design that fails you if you take a step to the left instead of right, unskippable multi second animations for doing fucking anything, guns that get dirty after 5 seconds of use and need a solid ten seconds of raw jerking off to clean, you being able to tank any gunfight in the open as long as you keep chugging magic juice and other utterly retarded balance decisions, etc., etc..
 

God's Strongest Dragoon

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Yep, we really arrived in a timeline where people will look at GTA's societal satire as face value wokeism.
They will make fun of companies commercializing social justice politics and people will interpret it as them pushing those same social justice politics.
Today's internet would accuse South Park of being woke.
You'd have a point if Rockstar didn't go back and delete parts from GTA5 that were seen as transphobic or all of RDR2's woke shit.
 

RestlessRain

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You'd have a point if Rockstar didn't go back and delete parts from GTA5 that were seen as transphobic or all of RDR2's woke shit.
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