>>1654 >>1656 2025. Both of these were released a few months ago.

>>1657 >2nd webm I'm going to fucking kill that bitch

>>1627 >Why does your car have such special gas needs? EVERY car in existence has special gas needs!!! Unless your running on diesel, every vehicle requires pure gasoline. With different cars requiring that gas to have different octane ratings (You can see what's required for your vehicle in it's manual). However, that's now what I'm talking about. What I am refering to in regards to buying gas that will destroy my car is in reference to ETHANOL. For the past 50 years, gasoline companies have been incentivized by the government to pursue "green fuels", the most lobbied of which by the environmentalists being ethanol. And the result that we have today is that anywhere from 10%-15% of the gasoline we buy from the average pump is ethanol. Why is that a problem? Well, here's the short list. First, ethanol is an insane pollutant. Despite all the claims about it being a "green" fuel due to it being made from corn, actually burning it as a fuel (Like in a car) causes far more toxic pollutants to enter the air. Even leaded gasoline cames nowhere close in terms of being so poisonous. Second, ethanol burns quicker. Meaning that instead of getting, say, 400 miles on a single tank of pure gasoline, the ethanol mix is instead leaving you with 350 miles for a single tank. Third, cars are not designed to burn ethanol. The big advantage that diesel engines have of gasoline engines is that diesel engines are basically designed to burn practically anything and everything you put in the tank, from vegetable oil to liquor. That's not the case with your average gasoline engine as it's specifically designed to consome petroluem-based fuels (Remember what I said earlier about octane ratings?). So if you begin to put the "wrong fuel" in your car, what do you think's going to happen? This is in addition to, again, how filthy it is to burn, and how your car is the one required to filter all that shit out. So the short story is that, unless you buy ethanol-free gasoline, you're filling your car up with fuel it isn't designed to burn, that will require your vehicle to receive maintenance much more often from using the incorrect fuel, and is much more harmful for the air quality that you and everyone else are breathing. And if you want to know why it's so much less expensive than the pure gas, it's because of the government subsidies designed to keep the corn industry alive, the same subsidies that caused corn-syrup to be a fucking problem in the first place. >But my life is getting better? Slowly but surely, I have a career and I'm moving foward. Then why are you adovcating that everyone else throw that all away for a pointless revolution that may not even improve anything, and has a far more likely chance of making things worse? >You think the world needs to change too though? I WOULD like for some things to change, but I also know there's a fat chance of it happening. >They learned how the system works and are taking advantage of it for their own benefit without apology. Not really considering how just about every government is fucking broke, and they're scrambling around trying to find the next magic formula that will save their asses. In the 90's, it was the internet. In the Aughts, that was the Forever Wars in the Middle East. In the 2010's, it was mass migration. For this decade that is the 2020's, it's AI. And for the next decade, it will be something else.

>>1632 >Second, ethanol burns quicker. Meaning that instead of getting, say, 400 miles on a single tank of pure gasoline, the ethanol mix is instead leaving you with 350 miles for a single tank. Sorry, I should have read more closely. Getting better mileage makes it effectively cheaper gas, even if the pricetag is higher. >And if you want to know why it's so much less expensive than the pure gas, it's because of the government subsidies designed to keep the corn industry alive, the same subsidies that caused corn-syrup to be a fucking problem in the first place. I can agree with you that subsidies are pretty much never good. For instance, farmers keep recieving subsidies to keep the industry from collapsing. But they only need those subsidies because of the price gouging by the equipment manufacturers. So really, it's just the taxpayer's footing the bill whenever the farm equipment manufactures are trying to squeeze more money out of farmers than there is to be had. >Then why are you adovcating that everyone else throw that all away for a pointless revolution that may not even improve anything, and has a far more likely chance of making things worse? Why everyone else? A regime change would effect me as well. And the government changing doesn't necessarily mean everyone loses everything. >and has a far more likely chance of making things worse? Strong opinion rooted in your battered wife syndrome. As things get worse, and they inevitably will as the corrupt and powerful rarely relinquish the structures they've molded without force, the chances of it somehow being worse will shink and shrink. >I WOULD like for some things to change, but I also know there's a fat chance of it happening. So you prefer to let the noose slowly tighten in exchange for stability, even though it's bad in the long run. Kind of reminds me of people who shop almost exclusively at Walmart. >Not really considering how just about every government is fucking broke, and they're scrambling around trying to find the next magic formula that will save their asses. LOL. LMAO, even. Government/national debt is there by design. Anyone campaigning on reducing it, let alone eliminating it, in most countries, is lying. The national debt crisis is an illusion. It's been an impending problem for decades as you outlined yourself, but never comes to a head, much like global cooling global warming the climate crisis. And it's a system centuries in the making, not easily uprooted.

UK brings out a bill to ban under-18 VPN usage. See page 19. They also want spyware installed in all phones to detect CSAM.

Total War: Warhammar 40k Star Wars is dead and you fags seem to like 40k, right? So we're jumping on that. Ace Combat 8: Wings Of theve Actually something good? Star Wars: Galactic Racer Made by washed up racing devs Out of Words Co-op platformer with stop-motion animation Phantom Blade 0 A Chinese souls-like game Best Game Direction Clair Obscure: Expedition 33

>>1686 >Try as they might to trample all over her legacy of tomb raiding by twisting the concept, or putting the real, original Lara in a bad light in other ways Don't forget they make sure to edit wikis so the newest faggiest version of anything is always the one front and center.

Mega Man Dual Override Coming in 2027, because it takes us two years to make a 2.5D platformer Nioh 3 This is the reason why NG4 was outsourced Highguard Another hero shooter BUT WITH VEHICLES Game Of The Year Clair Obscure: Expedition 33

>>1679 He wasn't wrong, though, i am against hard fist moderation faggots like /a/ and their site-destroying auto bot. The very essence of futaba imageboards is you can just come in and post some stupid fucking bullshit on the internet, and part of that includes but isn't limited to the option of typing like a complete fucktard. You wanna worry about your public internet image, you can go and pay ten bux to join something awful, i'm sure they'll welcome you in with open arms, at least before banning you for defending loli.

>>1683 Then I rescind the end of my statement. I didn't think you necessarily implied that.

>>1689 keeping it short and unpunctuated is part of the message, itd lose flavor if i fleshed out all my talking points

I got one of the new endings, ending E-II. Was a pretty comfy ending, though it does go against the spirit of the game a bit. If you destroy all the hearts you can leave the dungeon safely without any "you're actually still in the dungeon" bullshit. Depending on your interactions with others, you get some flavor text describing a peaceful epilogue. I gave Cahara the crown and he swings by now and then with expensive wine. I bonded with Moonless and she is now my trusty hound. I played as D'arce and continued being a knight, though nothing was said of the fact that I was in the Midnight Sun which the Rondon government despised, so maybe I just went back to a Midnight Sun territory and continued to defend those lands in relative peace? I bonded with the girl and so raised her as my squire into a knight so thatn we made a wonderful duo in the battlefield. I made love to the Girl when she was willing and so I have a secret sapphic relationship with her. There's probably a few dozen different possible things you can have happen depending on who you played as and what you did, and hundreds of potential permutations for non-conflicting actions.

Got endings A and B. I think the C and D endings require you to reach a certain point the game in under 30 minutes. Not sure if I can do it without cheating. Once a game becomes about rolling the same small set of RNG events over and over again against a moderate time investment, it quickly ceases to be fun. And it's going to take some decent RNG to bum-rush my way to near the halfway point of the game. I'd really like to see how things play out with D'arce on thoes routes, but Cahara is the only reasonable choice for speedy progression like that due to being able to start with lockpicking.

Managed to get Le'garde alive and to a save point after several dud runs with Cahara. Now that I know roughly what endgame is like, I feel less shame about the book savescumming I'm about to do as soon as I beat Trotur. I'm bringing the Girl along too. Not sure if she does anything else during runs on the C and D routes besides minor stuff during a certain cutscene.

>>1629 Her dad told her that sucking dick is gay

>>1115 >>1123 >>1131 Just finished making the vid and currently uploading it to my respective channels. However since it doesn't seem "right" to shill my stuff, I uploaded a copy to a file hosting site so you guys can watch it without directly benefitting me: https://pomf2.lain.la/f/0p63pf3i.mp4 <Spoilered pic is a joke Spent the past week trying to get this out the door because I wanted it finished before the TGAs, and to also see if I could just make something like this. If anyone is at all curious, the program I used is VSDC Video Editor.

>>1651 >voice E;R is that you?

>>1633 Dragonheart is awesome, and it deserves a better game than this piece of shit. And no, the Game Boy game isn't any better (though the cover art maybe is).

>>1634 >Dragonheart is awesome I see that you're a man of culture.

>>1634 >One of his favourite movie/series/book only got adapted as a video game on the gameboy and the playstation for a quick cashgrab. Many, many such cases. I empathize and I'm sorry for you.

>>1624 In some cases there is a grain of truth to this. Some visual effects in older games were the result of specific hardware and software limitations and/or the hacky ways used to circumvent those limitations. Of those cases, some may require more effort than others to faithfully replicate. But generally when you hear the argument you're talking about, it's just fags trying to defend their faggy fagshit because they're fags.

>>1624 >...how were cutting edge devices from 20 years ago able to get away with it? They worked around strict hardware limits and turned that small canvas into creative features. Think of the fog from Silent Hill 2: It hid the PS2's weak draw distance and defined the game's atmosphere. Unreal Engine 1/2 existed, but they weren't the universal, go-to solution UE5 is today. Most studios wrote their own engines or heavily modified licensed ones like Renderware. Some even collaborated directly with military-tech firms for an edge. Lockheed Martin's spin-off, Real3D, for instance designed the graphics chips for the Sega Model 2 & 3 arcade systems. A lot of this could be boiled down to most of the "magic" being in undocumented, one-off code that left with the original devs who understood the weird and small canvases they worked with. The classic cycle: small studio makes a hit, gets bought, gets mismanaged, gets closed. What they really mean by "too taxing" is "the people who built it are gone, and digging up their notes isn't our budget." Thus, the technical problem now creates a business opportunity. There's also the socio-economic factor where the publishers would rather you keep renting their new and relevant interpretation of the beloved game depite it looking inferior and overengined, instead of letting you re-experience that same classic you enjoyed at your first playthrough.

>>1637 >Think of the fog from Silent Hill 2: It hid the PS2's weak draw distance That excuse only worked for the ps1. This is just an artistic design for the second game and onward. You did elaborate on the reasons for the graphical decline much more eloquently than I did. Impressive how that classic cycle is 95% due to EA and Microshart.

>>1593 Saying it's allowed on Google Play doesn't mean much. There's tons of scamware games on there just like on Steam. What matters is if it's reported, how it's reported, and what it's reported for. Has anyone attempted to test the limits of what's allowed on Gulag Playstore yet? Has anyone gone around reporting loli ecchi games? I bet it wouldn't be hard to get some stuff taken down just by sending pics or videos from the more risqué games to the right people.

>>1593 Why don't they just release it on DLSite or whatever?

>>1594 >Has anyone attempted to test the limits of what's allowed on Gulag Playstore yet? I imagine Brown Dust 2 is the one testing the limits. It's one of the most risque gacha games on the market, especially when not counting Japan-only gachas. It's rated 18+ in Euroland (for comparison Blue Archive is 12+). However, most of the fanservice is of the big titty/fat ass characters. Refithea is an exception, and even then they don't go very far with her. But evidently, just what they were willing to do with her was enough to piss off Steam. >>1597 This release was targeted at international customers. I imagine it's already available in Japan via DMM or whatever.

>>1212 u got that backwards anon >pic They added a big titty monster girl to Roblox?

>>1193 What, no Mount and Blade? Or gmod? Unless that's not sandbox enough. Kinda makes me wonder what can really be considered a sandbox. ...Is the dominions series a sandbox or purely city building/rts shit?

>>1503 >gmod Sure, you can talk about more well known titles. I just wanted to see more obscure stuff. A good chunk of games have sandbox elements in them nowadays, though. >Mount and Blade I looked at a few screenshots of the game but it looks like some sort of open world RPG. What sandbox elements does it have?

>>1475 >Ah, the wiki is wrong then. It says her first appearance is "Sonic Comic #12", but then the link says that was in 2016, and Sonic Boom started in 2014. The wiki must have a different page for Sticks (game canon) than for Sticks (Sonic Boom canon). Since they're different continuities, they'd technically be different characters. "Sonic Comic" is an obscure gag manga that the wiki treats as game canon, so it treats that chapter as game Sticks' first appearance, even though she's never actually appeared in a canon game, and has only been referenced in a single line in Frontiers. A similar instance exists for Amy and Charmy, who first appeared in non-canon manga from the early '90s, and were later adapted into the games. So if you go to Amy Rose's page, it will say she first appeared in Sonic CD, from 1993, but that's only for game Amy. Amy overall first appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog (Shogaku Ninensei) Chapter 1, from 1992, but that version of Amy has her own page, since she's technically a different character. Charmy didn't appear in a game until 1995, but he first appeared in that manga in 1992, but that's a different version of Charmy, with a different page. Vector and Mighty also first appeared in that manga, but only in art pages with no story, so I doubt the manga versions of those characters have their own wiki pages. And actually technically Vector first appeared in concept art for Sonic 1, but since that wasn't published until later, it doesn't count. Now if you wanna talk comic books, the Mega Man comic made by the same people who made the Sonic comic was pretty good. I liked that it was slowly adapting the games in order, but it went so slow that they barely got to Mega Man 4. They did original stories, and maybe a bit too much, but they were mostly okay. They made good use of the Mega Man various Robot Masters as supporting characters, with the guys from Mega Man 1 being good guys after, since they were built by Light, and the Mega Man 2 guys continuing to be Wily's supporters even after the events of that game. Then they started tying into things like Super Adventure Rockman and bringing in elements from Rockman World V, but didn't get anywhere close to adapting that game. And the Worlds Unite crossover heavily featured Mega Man X, with a prelude story arc which functioned as a prequel to X, which was pretty cool. Aside from having a bit too much original story and characters, I might also argue that Rock acted like a bit too much of a little bitch. But overall it was a pretty good adaptation. A lot better than the Ruby Spears cartoon. I suppose I gotta try reading the various Rockman manga, though. I know people say the Rockman X manga are good, but I have a soft spot for Rockman classic, and I like seeing that era's characters and story treated seriously. Rockman X is a bit melodramatic for me, and I don't think its story is really better than classic, even though people act like it is.

>>1466 >if Robotnik can have that many different lackeys in different adaptations, I suppose I can tolerate one more. I just wish they threw in a line at least referencing Snivley, since he's exactly the same damn character. Just have Robotnik use it as a nickname, or at least call him a "snivley little worm" or something like that. It really is a missed opportunity, because the two really are very similar. The writers for the movie probably thought something like: "If all the different games and shows give Robotnik/Eggman different sidekicks, and this is going to be a whole new movie series, we should give him a new assistant." Sadly, the likely reason Stone and Snivley are so similar is because you can really only go a few ways with Robotnik's lackeys, so that they enhance his character and not overshadow him. >Crazy. Yeah, it might seem a bit crazy, but I liked the self-contained story of the first movie. It had a clear point, and while it was very easy to follow, it got it across by the end. Family is important, you don't have to be the same as your friends to get along with them, etc. etc. The second movie had some cool moments with Tails and Knuckles. Of course, I should also mention that I don't think these two movies are super good, either. I just like them more than 3. >Yes, they did portray Gerald somewhat differently, but I'm okay with it. It is one of those situations where I can certainly understand why someone would enjoy the movie while I didn't. Overall, they deviated too much from the game's plot. The introduction of Shadow wasn't weak, but I feel like they could have done more with him between the beginning and end of the movie. He became like a violent Knuckles, trying to get the audience to laugh by having the answer to everything be destruction. It felt like they got the edgy Shadow from internet memes and used that as a base instead of canon Shadow from the source material. I understand that it is a kids movie, but I was physically cringing when the Robotniks started that whole dance number to get through the lasers. Yes, the two of them are supposed to be insane, and they aren't going to demonstrate this insanity by committing war crimes or anything. And I wouldn't be surprised if Jim Carrey wanted to do something interesting to get him through filming, as I heard rumors he didn't want to be in any movies beyond the second one. But it just felt too silly. The fight in the city between Sonic and Shadow was lackluster. The City Escape quote was shoehorned so badly into the script that I felt like Sonic was going to break the fourth wall and look at the audience to see if we were laughing. And, naturally, they had to shove an Akira Bike Slide Reference in there. All that promotion of Shadow and the motorbike for it to be used for 4 minutes. This could also be said for the other movies, but why is Sonic so useless? He has friends, support, he understands his powers better than ever. He should be literally running laps around anyone and anything. Of course he has to take some hits but the enemy should work for it by implementing anti-Sonic weaponry and strategy. The writers also forgot that Sonic is supposed to be cool and relaxed a vast majority of the time. Sure, something is bound to get him mad, and movies sometimes change character personalities a bit, but being cool is an essential part of Sonic's character. It has been awhile since I saw the movie, since I saw it when it came out. But I do believe I am remembering everything correctly. You also definitely know more about Sonic than I do.

>>1492 >Yeah, it might seem a bit crazy, but I liked the self-contained story of the first movie. That self-contained story had practically nothing to do with Sonic, though. It was just a generic half-CGI kids' movie, and I wouldn't say a particularly good one. Without the connection to Sonic, why would I care? The little connection it does have only makes me mad, since it's so different from the source material that it all feels like wasted opportunity to make an actual adaptation. >Overall, they deviated too much from the game's plot. But you just said you liked Sonic 1, which doesn't just deviate from plot (Sonic is an alien), but from the characters, which I think is the bigger crime (Sonic is a lonely child). Sonic 2 obviously takes enormous detours, what with the sassy fat black woman's wedding, but even with the bits they do adapt, they merge the Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald, Knuckles' people were genocided not by Chaos and their own hubris, but by Sonic's adopted mother, an owl, clearly because they only played the first game and saw vaguely owl-like figures in the background of Labyrinth Zone). Angel Island isn't a thing, and they couldn't even be bothered to have the underwater ruins be Lost World, Hydrocity, or Aquatic Ruin, as they're clearly Labyrinth Zone, again because they clearly only played the first game. >The City Escape quote was shoehorned badly Agreed. I do think it could have been delivered properly, but I don't think the actor even knew it was a quote. >The writers forgot that Sonic is supposed to be cool and relaxed a vast majority of the time This is my biggest problem with the whole series, but especially the first movie. Across all the other adaptations, Sonic generally acts like Sonic. This is the only one where he is a vastly different character. I do think it gets slightly better in each sequel, and by the third one, when he does lose his cool a bit, I think it's justified well enough, and ties in with Shadow's themes, so I'm okay with it. I think you're remembering everything correctly, I just think it's crazy to be mad about the movie with the fewest deviations from the source material, including the characters, and the fewest cringey modern kids' movie moments, but forgiving those transgressions in movies that had those problems in much higher quantities. Plus, I also don't give a single shit about the emotional arcs in Sonic 1 or 2, but at least Shadow's arc is actually retained in Sonic 3, and I do think that one is at least somewhat effective.

If you detest Mark for good reason, stay here or maybe go to zzzchan. If you don't have a reason to hate the slimy jew or miss the good ol' days of 4chan's /v/ where people made all kinda of random bullshit threads that were barely video games, go to /vb/. That being said, i assume we'd be as bad if we had the same runoff population from tubby talmud getting really pissy about what he wants on his pristine board.

>>1186 I detest Mark for sucking Jewtendo cock and deleting any discussion that dissents against Nintendo ruining all of their franchises.

>>1483 SHLORP SHLORP SHLORP DRINK THAT SLOP SHLORP SHLORP SHLORP SUCK THAT COCK All of that just to defend a company that's becoming sony akin to when the ps4 released with games that are becoming extremely formulaic and of lower quality every released. Hope the fat retard choke on his cake some day.

>>1216 >Are they purposely trying to make people hate them? Maybe. But it is more likely that they feel invincible. They feel like they can make bold statements without much fluff and still get the sales numbers they desire. Despite the decisions Nintendo has made so far, the Switch 2 is selling. Mario Kart, Donkey Kong, Pokemon, games from these big series are selling despite their obvious shortcomings. So currently, they feel like they can be more straightforward even with more negative statements, since they feel it won't cut into their profits too much.

>>234 Leisel is a lesbian, not a tranny

>>1216 >>1218 Honestly, the market is so devoid of actual competition on the hardware side that they have a right to "feel invincible." Xbox is still a footnote at best, with its confusing naming schemes. And their software side is lol worthy. PS5 sold a good amount but it has like 3 exclusives and I'm pretty sure people just use it to play ps4 titles. Still, it's getting harder and harder to justify buying anything from nintendo. Their games have become more and more formulaic or they're pandering to the most base cretins out there. >>1447 >Lesbian <With a nigglet Really wanted to give their character the least amount of chances possible, huh. Don't hurt me I don't know if that's just fan shit or the actual relationship

>>1191 >which is a shame because I like timed hit systems Have you tried Resonance Of Fate or Time And Eternity? >>1194 >But maybe people have been thirsty for a game without a lot of the typical propaganda that is in games nowadays, whether they realize it or not. So they found E33 to be pretty refreshing. That is pretty much the reason and the justification. It's even why Bear Sex 3 won GOTY despite being rather mid, even compared to the previous BG games.

>>1198 >Have you tried Resonance Of Fate or Time And Eternity? No. Though I do like timed hit systems they seem pretty rare. Most of my experience with them is from the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi series, and some other JRPGs that I had blind faith as a child that I would do a little extra damage if I hit the X button right as an attack connected. I tried playing Shadow Hearts via emulation once, but I got all the way to the top of the tower and then there was a consistent freeze when loading the next cutscene, and I haven't had the motivation to try again years later since my saves are long gone.

As many of you have probably heard by now, Expedition 33 has been nominated for several categories at The Game Awards 2025. These include: <Best Game Direction <Best Narrative <Best Art Direction <Best Score and Music <Best Audio Design <Best Performance (Benn Starr, Jennifer English, and Charlie Cox) <Best Independent Game <Best Debut Indie Game <Best RPG And of course Game of the Year , going against Death Stranding 2, Donkey Kong Bananza, Hades II, Silksong, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II None of this comes as a surprise, given how popular the game has been on social media and among the normalfag gaming crowd. It is pretty impressive that 3 out of the 6 voice actors for Best Performance are from E33, though. Which categories will the game win? Is it a strong contender for GOTY? Will you be voting for the game in any of these categories (even though audience choices only count for 10% of the final decision)? The game is also one of the options for GOTY for the Steam Awards. Do you think it could win there? Or in any of that competitions categories?

>>1430 Huh, didn't know the Vita came in Thin PC form factor as well.

>>1430 Bit of an update. So I decided to go through VitaShell, and manually check every single folder to see what was taking up so much space. Apparently Content Manager is a dick when it comes to correctly displaying which content is used for what. Turns out that it actually is all my games (75 GB of Vita and PSM games), with the DLC (8 GB) and that patches (12 GB). The only other folder taking up a "lot" of space is the "bgdl" folder (Currently downloading a couple games) with 9 GB in use. So I guess that means I need to buy a bigger thumb drive, or delete some games. So in regards to upgrading the size of the thumb drive, would I just follow this guide for formatting the new drive: https://vita.hacks.guide/storage-format-(windows).html And then once that's done, would I just plug both the older and new drive into the computer and copy everything over? I don't want to go through FTP because that would take forever.

>>1436 Looks about right, I recall having to format the card and using the zzblank.img file. >And then once that's done, would I just plug both the older and new drive into the computer and copy everything over? Never upgraded the card, but I would think so. This is assuming you mount both them via VitaShell, or do one transfer at a time from the old to the new.

>>1402 >The game is rated E10. It's hard enough to work out online interactions while also keeping things kid friendly enough so the game can stay under a Teen rating. I feel like that's not an excuse for whatever reason. Even the beach episode for the original Pokemon anime under 4Kids made it to air (Three years later), with only James crossdressing being censored.

>>1406 Those bikinis are not micro. You could see all of those normally at the beach.

>>1406 With beach episodes and video games that take place at beaches (like beach volleyball, surfing, etc.), swimsuits are expected. While the characters will usually look good in their swimsuits, they are not necesarily being overtly sexualized. A skin for a vehicle in a Kirby racing game that has a microbikini is supposed to be taboo and lewd in a silly way. People think the skin is funny because it is pushing Nintendo's rules to the limit (and breaking them). It doesn't make sense for the setting or fit into the plot of Air Riders. The only reason it is there is to test Nintendo, like a kid trying to make his parents mad by saying a swearword at the dinner table over and over again.