Vidya Games Thread

[reinigen]

Surprised no one posted, but we have a doubleheader tomorrow. Morning Nintendo Direct, and afternoon Playstation State of Play.


Rumors swirling for a new Donkey Kong game and F-Zero. Potentially even a Switch port of the HD versions of Twilight Princess and Wind Waker from the WiiU. Despite the Switch 2 supposedly shown behind closed doors at Gamescom, don't expect a Switch 2 announcement just yet though as I doubt they'll want to impact Holiday sales.



Big rumor for the State of Play is Capcom announcing the next Monster Hunter as a PS5 exclusive.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

What'cha doin there, Unity?

Spoiler: Non-twitter link

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[El Rrata]

Starfield's pronoun-removal mod has been banned by NexusMods

NexusMods has banned a Starfield mod that permitted players to removed pronoun options from the game.

www.eurogamer.net

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Double posting because this is an entirely different topic but supposedly Respawn has finally gotten off their asses and fixed the Titanfall 2 servers on PC. There's also a new game mode titled "???" with the gamemode caption "Your rockets will blot out the sun". Apparently it's modified EPGs, 75 score limit, and low gravity.

Spoiler: Local Copy

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Reminder though, you might have to apply a fix if you're using a newer Intel CPU

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A new document leaked from the FTC vs Microsoft trial, showing an old schedule for Bethesda (the publisher). Much of it is kind of outdated like Starfield was set to release two years ago, which was likely delayed because of Covid and other shit.

So who knows if that Dishonored 3 game will ever be released with the state of Arkane Studios with all their senior/important team members leaving before Redfall. Also a remaster of Oblivion and Fallout 3 is basically free money. If we judge the schedule by the delays they experienced with Starfield and that ESO expansion, just add 2-3 years to the whole thing. I'd be surprised if they release TES6 within 3 years though, as they've mentioned before it's still a long ways out. Not to mention the recent shitshow with Starfield must have some effect on Xbox Game Studios leadership rethinking TES6's development decisions.
EDIT 3: Found more info from the leaks.

• Apparently it includes details about the Switch 2, which pretty much confirms its "power" will be basically "last gen" (PS4) levels.
• An email from 2020 also showed Phil Spencer talking about plans for acquiring Warner Brothers Interactive (their gaming division) and Nintendo in addition to Zenimax.
• Xbox controller with haptic feedback like the PS5 controller on the way
• Red Dead Redemption 2 Remaster
• Xbox Series X Refresh - basically an improved Series X like the Playstation 4 Pro was, priced at $499

 

[reinigen]

Tokyo Game Show is starting in the next few hours. Expect some major announcements from some major Japanese studios. In particular, people are expecting a major Monster Hunter announcements at Capcom's presentation in a half days time. And if so, if it will launch multi-platform, or be a PS5 exclusive.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Cyberpunk 2077's version 2.0 update launched today. Going to start up a new save and try to play through it to give a review.There's a bunch of stuff being changed like a massive update to graphics as this is supposedly the first game to have DLSS 3.5, I believe a SSD is required in general now. A general review of what's new in this update:

Spoiler: Vehicle Changes

• Vehicle combat with pistols and SMGs (katanas if you're riding a motorcycle) and some vehicles have mounted weapons. You can slash/shoot out vehicle tires now, there's also new perks that add things like activatable slow-mo while driving or jumping out of cars mid-air.
• Vehicles have been completely overhauled in the physics department. They've retuned and rebalanced nearly all vehicles for braking, acceleration, and top speed. All vehicles now have torque curves.

Spoiler: Gear Revamp

• Clothing no longer has stats like, only a few select items like actual body armor has some stats. Armor and all other stats are now tied to your Cyberware and can be directly upgraded. Clothing will no longer have mods either, it's purely a cosmetic function now so you're not looking like a clown while being a murder machine.
• You have a capacity limit to your Cyberware, which increases with your stats and some perks (there's even one that let's you exceed your limit but lowers your health as a trade-off)
• Prices for Cyberware has been rebalanced (generally reduced for lower tier Cyberware) so you don't have to dump a retarded amount of money for basic shit
• Certain Cyberware slots are tied to specific stat attributes
• Upgrading your Cyberware has a short cutscene play with you getting out of the chair whenever you're done upgrading instead of you just purely buying at a menu and fucking off

Spoiler: Perk Revamp

• All sub-classes of perks (like Assault, Annihilation, and Street Brawler in the Body tree) have been merged into a single perk tree for that specific stat. This includes their skill bonuses from gaining experience using those items, as those have been merged into a single attribute experience bar.
• Perks have been streamlined with more activate-ability perks
  Build Planner can be found here to see what the perks are and what they do:
  
  

  Home of the Cyberpunk 2077 universe — games, anime & more

  Enter the world of Cyberpunk 2077 — a storydriven, open world RPG of the dark future from CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series of games.

  www.cyberpunk.net

Spoiler: General Gameplay

• Police are actually competent now and will give chase like GTA (MaxTac at level 5 wanted). Police are now out and about in the world more often, actually doing shit like patrolling or working crime scenes. You can now also quickhack Police.
• Enemies and loot will scale to your level while weapons scale to their rarity
• Loot has been streamlined and decluttered, so you don't have to look at like 4 pieces of garbage aesthetic loot when you're looting a body
• Health items and Grenades are tied to a limited number of charges that recharge over time, so you can't just throw 20 billion grenades or keep spamming Health items like Skyrim
• Stamina no longer drained outside of combat for movement (sprinting, sliding, jumping) but is now drained when firing guns and not just melee weapons. You can keep firing your gun when you're out of stamina, it just makes your accuracy worse and increases weapon sway.
• Finishers added into the game (some are perks) that give bonuses for killing enemies
• Outside of Cyberware, only iconic weapons can be upgraded so you don't end up running around with "Generic Shotgun+48 levels" that discourages you from using the iconic weapons. All iconic weapons will have a slot on the weapon wall in V's apartment stash, so you have a reason to get all that shit.
• Apartments will now give small buffs (no clue on what this means, maybe sleeping at a specific apartment will do something?)
• Enemy AI supposedly improved for things like reacting to grenades, will use their own Sandevistan to counter yours if they have it, and other things
• Netrunner rebalanced with changes to RAM costs, damage, upload time, effects of some quickhacks, and perks to allow you to queue up multiple quickhacks on an enemy or "Overclock", allowing you to sacrifice health to makeup for insufficient RAM.
• 3 new radio stations: 107.5 Dark Star (Electronic Music), Impulse 99.9 (songs remixed by Idris Elba), and 89.7 Growl FM (songs created by the community with DJ Ash, who is voiced by Sasha Grey)

EDIT: Just opened up the game and loaded up my lvl 47 (max level is 50) and fucked around for like 10mins. Holy fucking shit, the Cyberware stats is a lot to take in at once and I completely agree with reviewers recommending starting a new save to ease yourself into this shit. For reference, this "titanium bones" Cyberware was just increased carrying capacity before the patch.

Spoiler: Numbers

 

[La+ de Central Norte]

First Post Here but this is just so funny

 

[reinigen]

Looks like Sony might have been hacked -

Ransomed.vc group claims hack on ‘all of Sony systems’

Relative ransomware newcomers have claimed to have succeeded in what could be a devastating ransomware attack on global entertainment giant Sony.

www.cybersecurityconnect.com.au

 

[El Rrata]

Renewed Concern for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake as Trailers and Tweets Are Culled - IGN

There is renewed concern for the status of the troubled Star Wars: The Old Republic remake after fans spotted trailers and other promotional material was pulled from the internet.

www.ign.com

Let's be honest, this was probably for the best.

 

[Punished Anime Discusser]

GAME DEVS AND QA TESTERS UNIONIZE, THEY CAN'T FIRE US ALL!

 

[Zapan1984]

Well that was faster then i thought:

and the Statement from Unity:

Unity Announces Leadership Transition

James M. Whitehurst Appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer and President Company Reaffirms Third Quarter 2023 Guidance Company to Release Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results on November 9, 2023 Unity (NYSE: U) (the “Company”), the world’s leading platform for creating and growing real-time...

investors.unity.com

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

not pronouncing it kilo meter. Good job A+.

Why are we trusting some random journo who is actively focusing on stupid shit instead of the actual game. is the swinging good? can i beat up people? does that feel good?


only the terminally ill care about some side kid who may or may not be gay but chances are the idiot is reading too far into things because they want the gay sex.

Haven't paid too much attention to the recent Spider-Man 2 news but there's objectively some stupid shit going on.

Spoiler: Model Fuckups

The Peter Parker in the PS4 Spider-Man game looked great and then they did the Remaster and retconned his fucking face to look more like Tom Holland.

The original (left) fit the character because this is a Peter Parker that was working with Doctor Octavius, a college graduate, and had his shit together. This is a veteran Spider-Man that has already built up most of his Rogues Gallery by this point and it makes sense for him being a mentor to the younger Miles. The remastered (right) doesn't fit at all and he looks much younger. When they showed clips of him next to Miles in the Remastered PS4 game, it looks REALLY off because it's hard to believe he's much older than Miles and sometimes he looks younger.

Meanwhile the opposite happened with Mary Jane as she looks significantly older. In the first game, she looked like there was no way she was past her early 30s.

Now she looks much older despite Peter getting aged down.

This looks REALLY bad when you have the two together.

Spoiler: Story Retardation

Miles Morales is being pushed REALLY hard from what I've heard to fully take over the mantle of Spider-Man. Miles Morales was created Bendis (read as: Dogshit Writer) in Marvel's Ultimate universe and a lot of people didn't really care about him because he was just "Spider-Man but black and OP". They eventually moved him to the mainline universe and pushed him really hard as the replacement to Peter (read as: Peter Parker is too beloved for them to do that but they didn't stop trying like all the retarded shit Marvel Comics has done in the past 20 years). His character would remain in irrelevant until Sony's Spiderverse movies managed to make a billion negros and latinx go "he just like me fr fr". I'm going to hold my reservations on the story though because I haven't seen it yet but I am very hesitant about Sony Games and their tendency to do the classic "bait and switch" where the first game's story is fine and then they shove all the gay shit in the second game.

Spoiler: How to Make All The Latinx on the Forum Rage"

Apparently this one clip is making a lot of the beaners lose their shit.

I know everyone's ready to hop on the bandwagon and claim "TLOU2" again but I'll wait and see. It's not like I was retarded and bought a PS5 anyways.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

So I still don't have a horse in this race regarding Spider-Man 2 (haven't watched Tenma's playthrough yet) but I found some funny news from Sony. Sony was eager to announce their new game was a hit and no one should complain about the weird stuff going on in it.

That is until someone noticed a problem.

Spoiler: Local Copy

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WIZARDCHADS WIN AGAIN, STAY MAD TROONS

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

the only warcraft lore i know is tides of darkness.

But I do question why that is an issue? it can't be worse then Legion or Warlords can it or is there something i am massively missing?

It's the complete failure to make the story interesting. Everything about warcraft is about being a wild and badass 90s franchise about war, sacrifice, and honor. Warcraft's story REALLY kicked up in Warcraft 3, which was the sequel to Tides of Darkness. I was going to write a huge thhrang-tier essay about the huge shift in tone in every way but just watch these cinematics to see how much shit it became.

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Watch these two cinematics and note the tone of them.

Spoiler: Warcraft 3 Cinematics

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Now note the tone of these Warlords and Legion cinematics

Spoiler: Warlords

Warlords's Nagrand Questline Ending

Warlords's Expansion Cinematic

Spoiler: Legion

Legion's Expansion Cinematic

Ending Cinematic of Legion's 2nd Raid Tier

Ending Cinematic of Legion's 3rd Raid Tier

Legion's Argus Questline Ending

Now compare those to Dragonflight:

Spoiler: Dragonflight

Dragonflight's Expansion Cinematic

Ending Cinematic of Dragonflight's 2nd Raid Tier

It's a huge departure from the aggressive and serious tone. The best description I've seen is that they "Pixar'd" the story and they're unable to let bad guys do undeniably bad things like brutally murder people or anything of that sort, which completely sterilizes the story. There is no war in warcraft anymore. There's a lot of problems with the writing but it can be best summed up in the next two pictures:

Now for the real cherry-topper, this is the narrative director of WoW:

Yes, you read that write. After Legion ended, a bunch of the Old Guard from the Warcraft 3 days saw it as their time to leave because Legion closed up the final loose end from Warcraft 3. So now this giga-retard was allowed to run wild and his first order of business was to retcon some Undead Champion into his self-insert so he could write fanfic between himself and one of the most beloved characters. Sylvanas was a character that everyone either loved or loved to hate. He completely butchered her character and made everyone hate the everliving fuck out of her because she became a Saturday Morning Cartoon character. This is the retard in charge of WoW's writing. The Old Guard fucked off and left him the keys to the kingdom. The fact that he hasn't been fired is one of the reasons why hardly anyone came back for Dragonflight.

 

[UberSoldat]

Just when things were going smoothly for them

 

[Faceless Waifu]

Remember guys, modding Capcom games = cheating, and it will definitely violate public order and morals!

 

[UberSoldat]

There goes another company's reputation down the drain

 

[Lee Crabb]

Seems like the Escapist is in its death throes.




To be fair, I stopped taking The Escapist seriously after they gave Dragon Age 2 a perfect score, and that was over a decade ago.

 

[Kyouko]

Who could've thought that hoarding games and making them exclusive would do any good against a launcher that has existed for 20 years that became practically a basic service for anyone that wants to play something

Either that or just Epic offers nothing that's worth checking out

The Epic Games Store Still Isn’t Profitable Nearly Five Years After Launch - IGN

Epic’s expensive war with Valve over PC gamers’ cash still hasn’t paid off, the company has admitted.

www.ign.com

 

[thhrang]