>>1191 >Doesn't seem to have any DRM free options. Tried pirating it and running it in a bottle, but I get a fatal error crash on startup every time even after installing all dependencies. That's a shame, hopefully a solution is found someday. >the game just appears average There have been anons who have said the same, and I really think it depends on how far you get in the story/how far you watched someone else go in the story. Because before certain events happen and certain facts are revealed, the story can seem pretty average. Even taking that into consideration, the overall themes have certainly been done before: family, protecting your home city, securing the future, defeating a big bad enemy, a mission with a low survival rate, etc. But the fact that the writers don't try to reinvent the wheel while delivering their clear messages makes the story enjoyable. There are certainly instances of symbolism and foreshadowing, but the writers don't put the player on some metaphysical, psychedelic trip that requires a 30 minute lore explanation video to wrap your head around. >probably just hyped up because standards have fallen so much I'm not involved enough with social media to know exactly why the game has garnered a lot of hype in those places. 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.

>>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.

>>1157 Just make a new thread for the general stuff. The switch one can be merged in if need be I guess.

>>1195 That just means no one has reported it as console wars yet.

Here are two that I think go under the radar a bit: >Bad Piggies I know, but it's a surprisingly fun game. Worth trying out if you haven't already. >Mindustry Factorio-lite. Collect resources, build you base, defend your base against waves of enemies and destroy enemy bases. And just to rule out others that I would consider well-known (feel free to discuss them if you want though): >OpenRCT2 >Rimworld >Dwarf Fortress >Minetest/Luanti >Starbound >Simcity, The Sims >Vintage Story

>>1188 There should be a legend of zelda harem simulator

I love osaker

Head, your first test, since word is getting around.

>>1166 That sounds scary. I'm pretty bad at tests.

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.

>>962 F

>Removing obfuscation in Java Edition https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation-in-java-edition https://archive.is/JzkXh <Do you like to mod Java, tinker with builds, or take deep dives into Minecraft’s code? Then this article is for you! <For a long time, Java Edition has used obfuscation (hiding parts of the code) – a common practice in the gaming industry. Now we’re changing how we ship Minecraft: Java Edition to remove obfuscation completely. We hope that, with this change, we can pave a future for Minecraft: Java Edition where it’s easier to create, update, and debug mods. <Minecraft: Java Edition has been obfuscated since its release. This obfuscation meant that people couldn’t see our source code. Instead, everything was scrambled – and those who wanted to mod Java Edition had to try and piece together what every class and function in the code did. <But we encourage people to get creative both in Minecraft and with Minecraft – so in 2019 we tried to make this tedious process a little easier by releasing “obfuscation mappings”. These mappings were essentially a long list that allowed people to match the obfuscated terms to un-obfuscated terms. This alleviated the issue a little, as modders didn’t need to puzzle out what everything did, or what it should be called anymore. But why stop there? <To make things even easier – and remove these intermediary steps – we’re removing obfuscation altogether! Starting with the first snapshot following the complete Mounts of Mayhem launch, we will no longer obfuscate Minecraft: Java Edition. This means that this build (and all future builds) will have all of our original names* – now with variable names and other names – included by default to make modding even easier. <Just a quick reminder: these changes don’t affect our Minecraft End User License Agreement and Minecraft Usage Guidelines. Both still apply to Minecraft: Java Edition and any mods, so please keep them in mind. For extra transparency, you’ll now find a LICENSE file inside the jar that links directly to the EULA. >bedrock still can't compete with Java I haven't touched Minecraft since like 1.6-1.8. What's up with bedrock right now? Doesn't it have modding support yet?

>>768 >Guy couldn't get permission from Alias Conrad Coldwood to use his music again Wait, he gave rights to remake the game but not the music?

>>1036 >Source? My ass. Really just random shit I see on my phone when killing time at work, so essentially hearsay. >Windows 10 no longer supported for security updates unless you get LTSC >Eurofags and their consumer protection laws get an extra year of security updates because Microcock was legally forced to, but everyone else can suck it >Most PCs don't meet the minimum requirements to run 10 and can't upgrade. Wangblows 10 will still pesters these PCs to upgrade >The system requirements are bullshit and people tinkering have made Wangblows 11 run on much lighter hardware without issue. Microshit just wants people to buy more computer >Windows has always been spyware, but it's increasingly transparent even to normalfags, and increasingly unsecure >Copilot wants to constantly take pictues of everything you're doing to train it's AI to help you. Allegedly it won't take pictures of sensitive information. This actually just amounted a command to not take a screenshot if AI text recognition software didn't see a keyword like "password" on screen, which of course failed miserably. >Microsoft of course lies about Copilot not reporting home and thus violating your privacy >After much backlash, they roll back Copilot being on by default >Then they added Vision on by default, which fucking records what you do instead of taking screenshots, but allegedly only for videogames >Tellingly, it doesn't record certain cutscenes developers don't want people posting online, which again shows this shit is expected to not stay on your computer >Also, they broke the fucking installer for Windows 11 and it fails to install properly on a computer that is updating from Windows 10 instead of doing a fresh install >They fucking broke the ability to update from their last flagship OS to the next one they're trying to force you to update to!

>>1037 Oh, and they broke the recovery enviroment used to restore your computer when it shits itself trying to update to 11. And now apparently, you cannot close taskmanager, and taskmanager keeps opening more copies of itself when you try closing it.

Stop buying physical games, goy! >Manufacture and shipping of physical games is "100 times more carbon-intensive" than digital, new study finds https://archive.ph/QGk3z <A new study has found that buying physical copies of games is "100 times more carbon-intensive" than buying the digital version. <The report, 'The Carbon Footprint of Gaming', has been produced by French carbon accounting firm Greenly and examines the environmental impact of PC, consoles, mobile, and handhelds, as well as the production of games in different formats. <Greenly found that the manufacture and transportation of physical games has a significant impact on the environment, with the firm's Théo Nicolau-Guillaumet estimating that the manufacture and packaging of one million discs can emit 312 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e). <In comparison, downloading the same number of digital copies of a game (worth 70GB) emits 3 tCO2e. <... <The report highlighted that the extraction of rare earth metals and plastic during the production of physical discs "requires high energy usage and can deplete already-finite water resources." FYI, data discs (Like CDs and DVDs) are made from plastic, aluminum, and lacquer. Japanese developers are leaving Steam >LoveR Kiss Endless Memories releasing on GOG, DLsite after Steam delisting https://archive.ph/jrEu0 <LoveR Kiss Endless Memories, a visual novel where you can freely take photographs of characters and scenes, will now be coming to GOG and DLsite after being removed from Steam ahead of launch. <Publisher Dragami Games mentions that the removal from Steam happened due to “various circumstances”, though this is likely just a way of saying it was denied due to a combination of younger characters and ecchi content.

>>970 Jesus fucking Christ, fuck Glumstone the Giant. Too much shit going on at once, and fuck that fucking last phase. You can easily end up with all three of the middle platforms gone at once.

>>970 I should get back to this someday I finally have a computer that doesn't choke on running cuphead

Almost beaten Saltbaker. His first two phases are hard, as they both layer 2-3 attack patterns at a time continuously, but the last two phases both seem super easy. I haven't done the secret fight yet, but there must be something else to it, because even though I think there's only two bosses left, the DLC says 58% complete.

One more thing to consider. You can probably partially subsitute for being well read by carefully listening to recordings of people that you consider to be good orators and have styles you consider to be good. That's what I did For me personally, all the people that I consider to be good video orators, I picked up before 2018 or so. After that, the quality of English narration by most new content creators seems to drop off fast, and just become bland and indistinguishable. Sure, every now and then you'd have an arts major trying to flex, but that just immediately comes off as obnoxious.

>>1124 >>1126 >>1127 Thank you for the suggestions, and will see where I can apply them.

There's a lot of passive language here and it annoys me to no end since it's something I do too. > The simple fact is that video games are becoming a very expensive hobby. This has confused a lot of people and brings us to the simple question of Why is this happening?” <Video games are becoming a very expensive hobby. This is confusing. Why is this happening?” >The general “Go-to” excuse a lot of these companies have made is(...) <The “Go-to” excuse these companies have made is(...) >There is, of course, the simple fact that $80 in 1990 is worth much more than $80 today in 2025, which does open up the argument that we’re paying “much less” for games today than back then. <Pick between "Of course" and "Simple fact" <Replace "which does open up the argument" These are your points, so try to own them rather than softening them.

>>1092 Short free games are still being made, they're just almost always being made for either roblox or itch because they nabbed all the amateur developers.

>>1068 >I actually don't remember that many horror-themed flash games. Do you know of any others? I've played a fuckton of Flash games for the past few years because I have a shit PC ;_;, so I can name a few: >Alice is Dead >Asylum 626 >Hotel 626 >Coil >Covetous >Crazy Pierrot >Decision >Deep Sleep >Divine Intervention >Escape from Elm Street >Exmortis >Free Ice Cream >Garfield's Scary Scavenger Hunt >Gretel & Hansel

>>1106 I like how the ones that actually want to scare you in this list are (almost) all point and click adventures.

>>622 >Vid Decided to look up people's reactions, and it seems like the only people even doing stupid shit like this are the literal and unironic oversized and above-age children trying to make themselves look cool on Titkok.

>but it changes significant aspects of the game's plot This is always going to happen, you can't fit a good plot into an hour and a half movie. That being said it was still about a tournament to protect earth from outworld, it was high energy and used relatively unknown actors for the roles (which video game movies should ALWAYS do). Mortal Kombat (the first one) will always be the best because the 'plot' of the game (and the characters) is so simplistic making it almost impossible to fuck up. You go in expecting cool fights and fun one liners and that's exactly what you get. Anything more complicated than 'earthlings fight warriors from other realms to keep earth from falling under their control' will ALWAYS get fucked up. Sure we might get the occasional fun movie like Resident Evil: Apocalypse that gave us Jill and S.T.A.R.S but generally if you like that movie (I do) it's because you didn't really care for RE games and don't care about the non-game add in stuff like Alice.

>>611 >What do people actually want Depends on what you mean by people. If people means the average movie-goer, who is probably not familiar with video games at all, they are looking for the usual. Easy to digest content with a simple but fun story, highs and lows, character growth, and a big bang of an ending where people live happy ever after. They see video game movies as adventure or comedy films because the average person associates video games with fun, whether the series is for teens or kids. So they don't expect endings that leave things unclear or endings with extreme horror elements. If by people you mean video game fans, they want something that contains the characters and elements that make a series enjoyable, but nothing that seeks to overwrite or contradict the personalities or rules of the world the game takes place in. It's easy to make movies based on books, because no reasonable fan expects the actors to look exactly like their mental vision, nor do they expect the castles and towns and buildings and whatnot to look exactly how they envisioned them while reading. But video game fans have already seen official visual depictions on how a town, a character, a creature is supposed to look or act. So if a director takes liberties and makes major changes to these things, it feels like a betrayal, the character becomes something new while wearing the nametag of a known icon. Since a lot of video game design choices are near impossible to do in real life, or look odd on real humans with human proportions, this makes live action movie adaptations very difficult to pull off. Taking this into consideration, people want movie adaptations of video games to honor the source material by sticking to the character and environmental designs and not overwriting existing stories with its plot. Which is why a number of people simply want a movie version of the plot of the first game in a series. But this just brings up the question: why make a movie in the first place with all these restrictions? Why not just make a remaster of the first game?

>>632 Someone with a twatter account should ask him, >If you believe Valve is justified in banning this material, then why are you translating and publishing it?

>>629 >Nekopara publisher sucks off Steam while they rape his game in approval As an update to this: https://archive.ph/rTYsS <The latest entry in the Nekopara series (an eroge series, with Steam releases being stripped of R18 scenes) has been stuck in approval limbo on Steam for over 40 days, because of course it has. Valve, known for arbitrarily choking out anime-style games, is once again proving it can’t handle a few catgirls in frilly outfits.

I'm going to bump this thread because this seems adjacent. https://nitter.poast.org/IntiCreatesEN/status/1983785693512978786 Inti Creates' Majogami is out but not on Steam >-Notice of delay of Majogami release on Steam- >Dear INTI fans, >We regrettably have encountered a delay in the platform review process on Steam for Majogami's release, intended for 12:00 AM Pacific on October 30th. Releases on other platforms are unaffected. >This is understandably frustrating for players looking forward to the game on Steam, in particular players who have pre-ordered Majogami. We are doing all that we can to release the game as soon as possible. >We will keep you updated on the situation and provide a new release time when possible. >Our sincere apology for this situation, and thanks for your understanding. I hope it's a Blue Archive situation where the release gets cleared past the landwhales, but it's notable given this game is toned down compared to Inti's previous output and it still got flagged. Switching over to other payment processors can't happen fast enough.

Personally, I don't think bringing out the pitchforks like this is going to do much. They'll just try to boil the frog in a longer time frame than now.

Also, the fact that the instruction set is undocumented makes it all the more impressive that the game can even be emulated in the first place.

I love this one. I want to get it again at some point just to play Galaga.

>>1025 That's playable on MAME too, but sounds can't be emulated yet. I actually found a detailed article on it: https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2020/06/10/emulating-the-emulators/ The console uses the GPL16250 SoC from Generalplus, which is a subsidiary of Sunplus. They still seem to be around making embedded device stuff.

>>912 >or are you just posting here for parity? Parity >he'll take offense to that as well. I really don't care. This shouldn't be an issue. The fact that it is says more about Mark than anything else.

>>910 >What this inidicates is that these changes are platform exclusive and made at the request of Nintendo. *NoA >>710 Didn't this turn out to be literal fearmongering from IGN due to purposely reporting the guideline update on the switch 2's release which basically did jack shit to stop either spam or porn?

Corpse Party is the next victim of Nintendo's content policies A bundle of the four Corpse Party games was announced for Switch back in August. Preorders were exclusively opened through Amazon. However, last month, the preorder page mysteriously disappeared, now showing a typical "this page doesn't exist" error: https://archive.ph/nKxLN Furthermore, there is still no page for the games on the eShops despite (according to Amazon) targeting a release at the end of October. Today, XSEED just released a statement and it pretty much confirmed that Nintendo banned the Western release: https://archive.ph/6svrZ For reference, the original Corpse Party and Blood Drive both saw Western releases on the 3DS and Switch. On top of that, it should be noted that all recent versions of the "original" Corpse Party, are based on the censored PSP remake. You see, there are two remakes of Corpse Party. The first remake is the 2008 PC release, referred to as "BloodCovered". It is a reboot made by the original developers and incorporates elements from the discontinued mobile game NewChapter. In 2010, Mages developed a second remake for the PSP called "Blood Covered: Repeated Fear". It's this second remake that all later versions are based upon. However, compared with the earlier PC versions, Mages actually censored the PSP version in order to make the game compliant with CERO ratings. And keep in mind that CERO is much more restrictive with content than the ESRB. Where BloodCovered was graphic with it's content (Although pixelated), Mages outright refused to depict the more graphic content in the CGs for Repeated Fear. And it's this "censored" version, that was ALSO the basis for the prior 3DS and Switch release, that would be included in the Tetralogy pack.

>>888 Hornet is one syllable away from Horny. She's had many partners, but none could match her lifespan (in bed).

>>942 Hornet? More lke wHorenet

>>946 Indeed.