Vidya Games Thread

[Kalion]

20 year old site ROMhacking.net just announced it is shutting down, effective immediately, after the Admin claims has been doxxed and harassed. The admin has uploaded the site's database to the Internet Archive in order to preserve the 20 years worth of hacks, translations, and patches submitted to the site.
Archive of the homepage and news

Edit: "Community Manager" of rival site romhacks.org is for some reason running damage control super hard.

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[Bronze]

Game Informer is being closed

 

[Superduper Samurai]

I kinda wanted to post this because it was kinda funny
But Thor aka Piratesoftware, twitch streamer who has been riding a huge popularity boom thanks to him taking advantage of YT shorts among other things, had a bit of a strange over-reaction to Ross Scott's "stop killing games" pettition, https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ an initiative that seeks to petition the EU govt to draft legislation in order to help provide methods in order to keep games alive and not unplayable, Louis Rossman, a popular tech youtuber and proponent of similar issues like Right to Repair, has put out a video directly calling out Thor, since he refused to have a dialouge with Ross, allegedly actively deleted a VoD comment from Ross, and outright called him "Disgusting" because of his attempt to use EU law to force devs to make games playable offline



Currently there are waves of PirateSoftware fanboys slapfighting and other people expressing disappointment that a creator that allegedly fights for consumer rights and talks about them, would outright insult a proposal that would in theory, be pro consumer if done well, he has a couple of legitimate criticisms but they are peppered with a bizzare form of manchild aggression towards the movement as a whole

Spoiler: His response to the rossman video

 

[UberSoldat]

So the multiplayer for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Remastered is coming out on August 16th. However it's not coming out on the Modern Warfare 2 Remastered Edition because that only had the campaign. What is happening is that there's a mod called H2M for Modern Warfare 1 Remastered (which did have multiplayer) that lets you play as if it was MW2.
Here's what the mod will include:

• Create-a-Class system from MW2 with all those weapons, attachments, perks, equipment, and some fan favorites from CoD 4
• MW2 Killstreak system
• MW1 Maps
• MW2 Maps
• All DLC maps
• New Maps inspired by MW2's campaign (such as the White House and the Gulag)
• Same progression system (level up to rank 70 to prestige) but after Prestige 10, you can keep leveling up to level 1000. There's also the golden/mastery camos from CoD4 and some special animated camos

As of right now, CoD MWR is on a 50% sale that ends in ~30 hours

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Kek

 

[Fucking YTs]

Well, it looks like my dream of a UT99 chubba is dead:

Epic Games are killing off a bunch of classics like Unreal Tournament

Epic Games announced today they're killing off a bunch of classic games removing them from stores and turning off their online services for retro delights like Unreal Tournament.

www.gamingonlinux.com

It's delisted from Steam and only available on GOG for now. I fucking hate Epic Games.

 

[UncreativeVtuberEnjoyer]

Valve casually dropping 3 videos on a new game, Counter Strike 2.

Spoiler: COUNTER STRIKE... 2?

God please let this game replace valorant streams.

Not a new game but a upgrade of CS:GO to Source 2

Introducing Counter-Strike 2 | Limited Test

Counter-Strike 2 is the largest technical leap forward in Counter-Strike’s history, ensuring new features and updates for years to come.

counter-strike.net

 

[John Vtuber👁️]

An official account for boomer/weeb dungeon crawler series Wizardry has opened, please look forward to how they plan on bringing the brand to relevancy for the "modern day", I know I am

 

[reinigen]

Honestly we should have seen some bad news coming. Blizzard announced a bunch of Trans Pride merchandise early yesterday.


This is like the 3rd or 4th time in recent time they've put out some LGBTQ thing hours before some major bad news. I think last time they announced their first 'nonbinery' Overwatch hero?

Also, people have pointed out the pink letters spell out 'liar'.

Edit:

 

[chihirogumi]

Honestly we should have seen some bad news coming. Blizzard announced a bunch of Trans Pride merchandise early yesterday.


This is like the 3rd or 4th time in recent time they've put out some LGBTQ thing hours before some major bad news. I think last time they announced their first 'nonbinery' Overwatch hero?

Also, people have pointed out the pink letters spell out 'liar'.

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Speaking of ActiBlizz fucking up Overwatch, gaming "journalist" Jason Schreier is once again running interference for ActiBlizz by comparing the outcry against PvE being cancelled to toddler behavior. He's also saying "please think of the devs!!1" when nobody is actually hating on the worker bee devs that are fucked over by incompetent corporate executives.
This is the same guy that knew about the Blizzard sexual harassment controversy and decided not to report on it to protect his press access to Blizzard. I really despise this condescending weasel.

Spoiler: Schreier Tweets

 

[Ｍｕｒｒａｙしないで]

Apparently Bungie is slapping the Marathon name on whatever this is. I'm seeing red. If they called this Marathon: Versus or even Marathon 4 or something, it'd be somewhat more tolerable, but this, which is apparently going to be some multiplayer-only BR thing with (I'm sure) lots of live services nonsense, is apparently going to get the full rebadging, and people searching the name is going to see this instead of the classic innovative game series of the '90s.

I know companies often lose a lot of their original soul after being bought and sold. Well, Bungie has been sold twice, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Edit:



Well.

This person probably wasn't even born yet when the last of the original trilogy came out.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Random gaming news
>Cyberpunk's DLC expansion (Phantom Liberty) will be at Summer Game Fest
>Rumor is that the Playstation Showcase was suppose to be a State of Play, hence why it was basically just Spider-Man and then a bunch of 3rd party titles. Supposedly we should be getting an actual Playstation Showcase with more in-depth stuff in September
>Bloomberg article by turbojew Schreier (archive) that Naughty Dog's Factions MP (The Last of Us Multiplayer) is having serious issues in development. They didn't include it in TLOU2 or TLOU Part 1 because they wanted to dedicate more resources to it being its own thing. Supposedly Sony brought Bungie in to evaluate it and Bungie did not speak highly of it.
>Aside from the Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake, Konami will also be porting MGS1, MGS2, and MGS3 into "Master Collection Vol. 1" which should come out later this year

 

[Punished Anime Discusser]

Summer Game Fest hosted by Kojima's favorite gaijin in 25.

>new prince of persia game
>horribly ugly sidescroller with nu-age low poly models that look like they're from Call Of Dragons
>prince is no longer a suave middle-eastern man, he's some nappy haired chimp
OF COURSE OPEN WITH THAT WHY DON'T YOU

Ed Boon spending 4 years and millions of dollars to make the worst animations you've ever seen in a fighting game, Episode 3.
>finally bring back Stryker after 12 years
>assist-only character
Throw Ed Boon down a flight of stairs.

Nic Cage on the stage.

 

[That Chuuba Enjoyer]

also not to double post but Atlus instagram posted trailers for Person 3 remake and a fire emblem persona tactics game.



I honestly feel we'll see a Person 6 teaser fall of next year. With the ramp up Persona projects in recent years.

 

[reinigen]

For anyone else as excited for Final Fantasy 16 as I am, the big pre-launch event is happening later today. Yoshi-P has a habit of doing these things for his major releases where he talks about the game he's releasing in a pretty good manner. Schedule below.

Lots of good stuff to watch here, the big thing I think will be the music panel with Soken, the lead composer of the game. For anyone who doesn't know the man, he could very well be one of the most talented new composers in video games right now. It's great to see him get more exposure out of Final Fantasy 14. His musical styles will rip you goddamn dick off. Some examples below.

^This one is apparently the theme of the main character for 16.





The final song is of him in the FF14 House band called "The Primals" that's all employees who work on the game. Think what Elite Tauren Chieftan used to be, but they didn't squander it like Blizzard did. They perform a lot of music within the game, and even perform concerts for all the FF14 fanfests. The non-asian guy in the band is also their lead translator/localizer who is working on FF16 too, Michael-Christopher Koji Fox.

 

[Punished Anime Discusser]

Am I alone in never buying another Bethesda game until they get a new fucking engine? Their engines have been complete ass ever since Gamebryo. Creation isn't much better IMO.

Creation is literally Gamebryo with additional shit bolted on top, so no surprise nothing changed.

Also PC Gaming Show right now.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

The Xbox Games Showcase Extended should be starting in ~1 hour.
From the stream description:

Like last year, we’re bringing you our follow-up stream, Xbox Games Showcase Extended airing June 13 at 10am PT, with in-depth interviews focused on the news from our Xbox Games Showcase as well as game updates from our partners.

It's likely going to be more dev interviews and potentially more gameplay shown. Supposedly there might be games that weren't featured in the main showcase. I'm likely just going to have it on in the background as opposed to actively watching it.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

So far on the extended showcase, might update if there's more stuff
Cyberpunk 2077

Spoiler: details

>Ingame tour of the Black Market in Dogtown
>there'll be unique cyberware you won't find anywhere else (showed an arm that shoots flames out of its elbow)
>showed the supposed guy in charge of Dogtown
>Keanu interview with him talking about Johnny and some of the character relationships

High On Life: High On Knife, just a cinematic, not much info given
The Lamplighters League (Oct 3rd), brief gameplay shown looking similar to Xcom style
Avowed

Spoiler: details

>Dev interview, no other gameplay shown
>Takes place in Pillars of Eternity world, Eora, but won't need to play Pillar to understand the game
>showed companions
>You're not a watcher like in Pillars
>Supposedly a soulplague is in the game but they won't go into detail about it
>Compared to Outer Worlds/KOTOR 2 in how the world is set up

The First Descendant

Spoiler: Details

>Interview with Producer
>3rd person looter shooter
>clips of gameplay shown
>solo or co-op
>talk about changes they made based on player feedback during the Beta
>August 22-28th Open Beta

Towerborne

Spoiler: details

>Founders talk
>action RPG, online or couch co-op
>clips of gameplay and the environment
>emphasized the couch co-op and players linking together combo chains, one guy does combo that ends with knockup and then other does air combo

Fallout 76: Once in a Blue Moon

Spoiler: details

>June 20th, free update
>New cryptids like a giant werewolf and giant turtle looking thing
>Hollywood Cinema themed rewards from scoreboard (battlepass?)
>Short clip of Atlantic City expansion coming later

Hi-Fi Rush: Arcade Challenge Update

Spoiler: details

>arcade challenge modes
>lots of clips shown
>July 5th
>2 game modes, BPM rush and Power Up/Tower Up
>5 new songs and 2 new enemies
>BPM is fast pace that goes up to 200 BPM, multiple difficulties
>Power Up/Tower Up
>gradually pick upgrades that give buffs/debuffs
>New cosmetics and photo mode filters
>extra stuff they don't want to reveal as it is a secret

ESO: Necrom Expansion

Spoiler: details

>devs talk about the game
>More clips of the environment
>brief talk about Hermaeus Mora, showed some spells the PC casts that are drawn from him
>showed some of the new monsters
>June 20th

Phasmophobia: Console Early Access in August (more general update details but they briefly text sprawled through it all so I didn't catch it)
Exoprimal

Spoiler: details

>Savage Gauntlet, mode with special PVE Modes for fastest time
>more gameplay shown
>showed more dinosaur types
>Exosuit variants (different weapons and playstyles)
>Marksman, shotgun, fortress shield, energy chakram, charge shotgun, duality beam, thunderclap, frost glaive, double barrel

Flight Simulator

Spoiler: details

>More details on Dune ornithopter
>Arrakis map
>Nov 3rd

Lies of P

Spoiler: details

>showed more clips of gameplay while dev is talking over it
>showed a bunch of the mech arm's different variations
>showed more enemies other than puppets, looking a lot more bloodborne
>can summon spectre for boss fights if skill issue
>this was all pretty brief, probably 1 minute at most
>September 19th

Hellblade 2, general talk about motion/performance capture and nothing about the game itself
Lightyear Frontier

Spoiler: details

>dev talk with gameplay shown
>one of those "devs pretend to be players and act surprised" but fail at being convincing
>driving walker mechs
>material collecting for building and farming

33 Immortals

Spoiler: details

>33 players co-op
>game story is about 33 immortals rebelling against the wrath of god
>the name is in reference to Dante's Inferno, as there's suppose to be 33 chapters there
>more gameplay shown
>33 members of the dev team playing with Phil Spencer partaking, says he's never played before and confused
>it progressively becomes more of a clusterfuck

Suddenly ends the showcase after that, wtf lol

 

[reinigen]

I await news on Pikmin 4 and more bing bing wahoo.

Stream here:

 

[thhrang]

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Okay, if they're so low-effort that they can't even be bothered to implement proper keyboard and mouse controls, I don't know how optimistic I am for Volume 2 having an MGS4 port.

Spoiler: lmao

 

[Punished Anime Discusser]

Oh hey, Skullgirls got an update today.

That censored half the game, and CENSORED THE FUCKING DIGITAL ARTBOOK PEOPLE PAID MONEY AND KICKSTARTERED THE GAME FOR.