Video Games Thread

sepheronx wrote:Well, it was extremely successful and all the whining and crying of lack of diversity from the typical journalists didn't do harm to it.  Probably helped big time in the marketing of it.

Elden Ring was a good game.  I did enjoy it.  But I never did finish Demon Souls or any of the Dark souls because I just didn't have the time to, as you said, memorize every little area and boss battle.  I didn't "get gud"

My main complaint with the soulshit genre is the limited moveset. The games are not difficult because it is difficult - its because the controls are gonk shit. What happens is you only really get a few ways to play and that gets boring real quick. Instead of an action game you get what is basically the equivalent of a 3d bullet hell. Garbage.

You want a real action game - Try DMC5. Now that shit is art.

Like look at this dope shit:

sepheronx wrote:all the whining and crying of lack of diversity

Interesting. Black myth wukong have humans, monkeys, monsters, bodhisattva, fairy, demons, gods,... and they still call it "lack of diversity" ?

lyle6 wrote:My main complaint with the soulshit genre is the limited moveset. The games are not difficult because it is difficult - its because the controls are gonk shit. What happens is you only really get a few ways to play and that gets boring real quick.

You want a real action game - Try DMC5. Now that shit is art.

Fighting RPG has never been my expertise, I just heard DMC series was notorious for being very challenging in skills of the player... but I have not yet experienced it myself. Do you have any recommendation ?

For Wukong, what I heard from people is that they love it due to the interesting storyline and lore, and also the Journey to the West has been the childhood of many people in East Asia that get them attract to the game.

for the war-sim lovers out here.
The long wait for sea power is coming to an end.

In november the game releases in early access.

you can control from a single ship up to an entire fleet with aircraft.

They got moving ground assets working as well, but i do not know yet what they plan on how to use those.
they already had fixed units like AD sites and coastal guns working.

check it out, it's absolute war-porn

The problem of course is... will it be using western performance estimates... which is going to make the western navies very powerful, or is it going to be realistic and rather one sided...

higurashihougi wrote:
Fighting RPG has never been my expertise, I just heard DMC series was notorious for being very challenging in skills of the player... but I have not yet experienced it myself. Do you have any recommendation ?

For Wukong, what I heard from people is that they love it due to the interesting storyline and lore, and also the Journey to the West has been the childhood of many people in East Asia that get them attract to the game.

Its really not. If you are experienced with fighting games - ie have actual twitch control of your fingers to do combos beyond button mashing, shits easy.

journey to the west is very big amongst east asians in general. like three kingdoms. if you think the obsession with remakes is just something creatively bankrupt western studios do wait till you see these niggas do with these IPs for more than a millenia.

GarryB wrote:The problem of course is... will it be using western performance estimates... which is going to make the western navies very powerful, or is it going to be realistic and rather one sided...

You see the intro already, with 1155 sinking

Airbornewolf wrote:for the war-sim lovers out here.
The long wait for sea power is coming to an end.

In november the game releases in early access.

you can control from a single ship up to an entire fleet with aircraft.

They got moving ground assets working as well, but i do not know yet what they plan on how to use those.
they already had fixed units like AD sites and coastal guns working.

check it out, it's absolute war-porn

>graphics like a high rez red dragon
>asks for 2020 AAA specs

>Modded Anomaly looks exactly like Stalker 2, just with worse textures.

I can't wait to pirate this game though. So going to have fun mowing down the AFU in this one.

The space future of Russia, 2062. The age of space exploration is overshadowed by an unexpected threat that brings death to all mankind. A scientist from Russia will have to understand the mystery of what is happening. Figure out the detective story: look for answers on Earth and Saturn's moons
Saturn is a tactical RPG set on Earth and on Saturn's moons.


A mysterious signal from outer space causes artificial intelligence machines to rebel against their creators across the Solar system. Defend yourself from the threat on Earth and connect to robots on Saturn's moons to stop the end of the world. Only 3 days are given to save the world.

Explore the world of the future
The year 2062 is a new era in space exploration. Companies ARKA from Russia, Huang di from China and BUF from Britain are creating research stations throughout the Solar System.

The discovery of a new type of communication — the threads of the ether — makes it possible to explore space more efficiently with the help of robots and drones. From the Ground, they are directed by the operators of the Reflection program, a technology for remote control of machines in real time. Thanks to their work on the large satellites of Saturn, research stations have been built, where international expeditions have been working for twenty years.



Stop the end of the world
Scanners show that a malicious signal is coming through the strands of ether from somewhere in Saturn's orbit. Only with the help of "Reflection" from Earth is it possible to detect the source of the threat, uncover the mystery of the disaster that befell people and save the world.

There is very little time. There is no escape from the crazed robots either on Earth or in space. A civilization dependent on robots and new technologies is waiting for disasters with significant human casualties, if the catastrophe is not prevented.


On Earth and on Saturn
You are the scientist Akim Kovalev, one of the best operators of the Reflection program. Your life's work was considered outdated and closed 2 years ago. Stop the catastrophe and prove that the "Reflection", like you, still has a place in this world.  

Save colleagues and friends on Earth while you search for information about what is happening. Connect and control robots on Saturn's moons through "Reflection" to find out about the mysterious signal that drives machines crazy.



Experiment and think tactically
Time in battle flows only for you. Use it to carefully plan your tactics and strategy. There are many types of weapons at your disposal: from close combat to powerful laser and electromagnetic guns. Fight by yourself on Earth and with the help of robots on Saturn.


Death is not the end. Failures along the way will bring you back to the beginning of the cycle. Use this to try out other weapons and approaches to combat. As many times as it takes…



Make important decisions
Solve problems in different ways. Both life on Earth and the fate of the whole world depend on your choice. Negotiate or resolve issues aggressively — the outcome of the game depends on your actions.

Restart the cycle, make other decisions and get different outcomes. Experiment and find your own way to stop the disaster!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2742840/Saturn/

Denuvo + RE engine only good for linear titles + shit optimization. All for a blurry mess of a shit running game.

It seems they are using frame gen and upscaling as a crutch for shit devs. But they can't even manage that shit right. Even the DLSS implementation is shit.

North America is moving fast into an idiocracy.



TAA is a crutch for hacks who obviously do not understand how to implement it. AA is overrated as well. If you are running at 1080p pixelation is small and
you need to have some hangup to get triggered by it. But hack TAA actually degrades image guality to address a non-issue. It is smooth fetish nonsense.

Its incompetent devs, always has been. As an example there is a FSR 3.1 mod that is far superior to the FSR 3 implementation on the latest Cyberpunk 2077 update. It has decoupled upscaling so you can use Xess 1.3 or DLSS 3.7 instead of the shit FSR 2.2. It even has anti-lag 2 to give you back responsiveness of the native fps - its very nice.

I can play a very intensive title like Cyberpunk 2077 on an RDNA 2 gaming laptop with optimized visuals (1200p, with Xess 1.3 upscaling between ultra and quality - and mainly because the TAA is garbage) with the input lag of 60fps, at near constant 120Hz refresh rate except for some parts of dog-shit optimization town that slows even my main war rig down...

A modder did that. With a box of scraps. In a cave.

These are the current game developers. Until this vermin is replaced no game will be worth playing. Unless you are a maso that likes to eat their shit.

I bought a cheap mini computer I was going to use as a media centre but I found it runs Farcry2 just fine.

Although every 5 to 10 minutes it crashes to desktop there is no blue screen of death so I assume it is the software rather than a heat problem.

Anyway I am rather enjoying the game and while it has lots of different weapon types I gravitate to the SVD for sniping at long range, the PKM instead of an assault rifle for close in fire power and a 40mm grenade launcher or an IED. When you have to assassinate someone the IED is perfect... go into the town they are in and drop an IED nearby and walk away... you can set the bomb off once you are well clear. Normally if you shoot or stab the target everyone starts firing at you and you have to fight your way out against dozens or more bad guys. Sometimes I use the MAC10 instead of the grenade launcher but the grenade launcher is just ideal for blowing up cars and boats trying to attack you. I get killed most often because I stop and am firing at an enemy position and an enemy vehicle comes up behind me and runs me over. The sound isn't working in game so I am playing as a deaf guy. All in all lots of fun and good game mechanics. Played it through first time as a Chinese merc, and this time through I am Algerian.

Even Japan is starting to have delusions of grandeur... Getting a bit above their station if they think they can own the US of A, considering they are still an occupied territory of America to this day.

Its a game by Chinese devs.

Setting is interesting. Though I hope they can flesh out the combat system even more.

Yes, got the ME Legendary edition and for me that is the end of the ME as far as i am concerned.
the end of ME3 was garbage but nothing some Mods cant fix.
Nobody wants that woke crap garbage from those running bioware now.

But, regarding upcoming sci-fi games....

There is an sci fi RPG in the making called Exodus by the company Archetype entertainment.
It's Dev Team is notable for having some members that made legendary games.
One of his writers is the man that written the story's of Mass Effect 1 and 2.

The company, Archetype is owned by Hasbro.
James Ohlen,who was a former creative director of Bioware was asked to lead Archetype.
But he did not wanted to have anything to do anymore with the game industry.
Hasbro promised him that they let him run the company as he saw fit.

They also managed in to draw in core Dev members from other AAA studios that worked on great received games when they where working on the projects.

It is good to be skeptical, especially with all the hyped crap that gets pumped out nowadays.
But i have been looking a little bit into the materials released and so far it really feels the Devs are out to create something new.

It looks and feels like an potential worthy follow up to what Mass Effect once was.
Their worldbuilding has been great so far, and the novel they released is also well written and put together according to reviews.

In their Q&A's they do not talk about "modern audience" bullshit,
If anything they mention they want to go back to the 90's and 20's where great games where made.
So that gives me hope.

Check out their main YT page for some lore vids to get an idea.
https://www.youtube.com/@ArchetypeEnt/videos

Some 40K shit right here:



Replacement Krogan anyone?
This is according to the artist an "Jotnar"
He stated the concept is from a few years ago and has undergone some refinement since then.



Enemy type "lobo"


Few snips of the very limited pre-alpha footage from a year ago.

I have been playing through ME1-3 in the legendary edition and BioWare started to push the woke crap in ME3 in 2012. They have now
transitioned ( ) into full bore woke-tard garbage.

I do not know why people have such a hate hard on for ME: Andromeda. It was actually good compared to ME1-3.

We'll see if Exodus turns out to be good. I hope that sanity will be restored, but I am not holding my breath.

You get to play as Matthew McConaughy? Nice.

lyle6 wrote:You get to play as Matthew McConaughy? Nice.

I read somewhere it is not sure if he is the protagonist. but he sure is an character in the universe.

On again another note, Sea power came out.
for the ones that are near their 40's now remember Jane's fleet command perhaps.

This is it's spiritual successor.
you command from one ship up to an entire fleet with aircraft (with ground forces in the works)
It is an naval millitary simulation of the cold war at the moment.

It is in early access so it is very bare-bones at the moment.
But it has a functional mission editor at the moment and a decent amount of assets.

I set up a basic scenario as Redfor.
And the game's files of weapons and units are very easy to modify.

Some screenshots of my playthroughs so far.

REDFOR carrier battlegroup at black sea engaging with CIWS Harpoons that where launched by B-52's with an F-15 escort from Turkey.


TU-22M Taking off from Crimea to engage fleet exiting bosporus strait:


Charlie-2 ambushing US fleet from bosporus with anti-ship missiles:


RF navy MIG-23 Redfor Carrier flyby:


MIG-23 landing at Orel Carrier:


The game is very mod-friendly, you can go into the individual asset files and edit almost all characteristics.
For fun, i uh. modded in my own MIG-23 payload of R-40 missiles that never where meanth for the MIG-23 platform.
that will level the playing field a bit when messing with AIM-54 equipped F-14's



I love the game, but it is in a early stage and has some bugs at the moment.
It has a dev team of 6 that work very hard to make something great.

It is in early access now for about 44.09 euro's.

Wolfpack345 made some great scenario's and playthroughs of this game.
I understand this kind of game is not for everyone.
But if you love millitary simulation then you really should give a look just to make sure you are not missing out.

kvs wrote:I have been playing through ME1-3 in the legendary edition and BioWare started to push the woke crap in ME3 in 2012.   They have now
transitioned ( ) into full bore woke-tard garbage.  

I do not know why people have such a hate hard on for ME: Andromeda.   It was actually good compared to ME1-3.

We'll see if Exodus turns out to be good.  I hope that sanity will be restored, but I am not holding my breath.

Mass Effect 1 is one of the best games ever created

Sequels were such a colossal nosedive in storytelling and quality that it's borderline tragic

But first one is perfect standalone masterpiece



I did play Andromeda after you suggested it, you were right it's pretty nice actually

It does have some sandbox related grind and main storyline and antagonists could have used more complexity but overall I quite enjoyed it

In retrospect definitely better than ME2 and 3, at least it's doing it's own thing instead of cratering what came before

Just wish they leaned more on twin subplot

I played a dude and had him hook up with blond chick