>>1623777 Have you tried nyaa.si

Btw, they're having a collab with Azur Lane right now.

>>1623782 Yeah, I have

>enemies can warp at mach 5 and kill you in a second Alright >you can only save in safe rooms Sounds reasonable >you'll start empty handed and must find weapons deep in hostile territory Neat, makes it extra spoopy and vulnerable >enemies use the same guns you do but will never drop any ammo You can fuck right off

>>1614865 >>1605717 they broke their ai pathing in this area. i remember the entire area was enemy territory and they would shoot you if they see enter it or if you being in there, now half of them don't even recognize you as a threat entering that area on that small part

>>1618535 The ones with Mosins actually do drop ammo.

>>1606497 The 24 hour limit is really limiting for video games due to games complex enough to have a "real" story also being large enough to warrant longer stories. Come to think of it though, a lot of the early "excuse" stories do qualify., especially if one takes "single physical location" to include bigger locations like "city" >a giant ape has kidnapped a woman and climbed to high parts of a construction site with her >a mad scientist has turned helper robots into villains and now they're rampaging across the city For a straight, relatively modern, example what about Portal? >the tragedy is the AI went crazy or (counting Portal 2) that Cave Johnson stuck his secretary into a computer to become a crazy AI >no indication is given that either game takes place in anything more or less than real time >everything takes place at the Enrichment Center or (in the ending) its campus

>>1606817 Aristotle focuses mostly on tragedy, but some of his points, like the three unities, can be applied to other genres. The main reason he prefers tragedy to epic poems (which usually were usually either quest narratives, war narratives, or both) is because they tend to have a greater unity of action, whereas epics often have diversions that distract too much from the main plot.

>>1583639 From the same devs of Pharaoh there's <<Zeus: Master of Olympus>> with expansion packs. The mechanics are very similar afaik, but the art, music, missions, and mythology are really good. Along with Stronghold2 it's my top pick. Dwarf Fortress might also count, they did a UI overhaul recently to make it more accessible.

>>1583395 >no mention of Seven Kingdoms Come on now. Sure, it's lacking detail (it's more of Civilization in real time, so it's about settlements and forts), but damn it's comfy to just build and do politics or observe AI fights each other. Btw. the first game is totally free to download and still has a small community that makes updates/fixes to it. https://7kfans.com/

>>1620564 Unless you specifically wanted TOWN builders, then excuse my retardation.

>>1611918 At the risk of sounding like a retard. Is it ok for a newfag to Ace of Spades to join?

>>1620321 Yes, please, absolutely do. We need moar players, and feel free to bring friends

Speaking of AoS I removed the Penthouse map cuz it causes players to die perpetually when spawning due to a kill barrier established outside a certain perimeter. I think it was intended for some mode other than CTF.

>>1620272 Considering the 50s retro futuristic aesthetic, it would. Kind of a puppet theater thing.

>>1620368 Both their appreciation stems from how the Legion made their territories safe from bandits and raiders. But I wouldn't say either supports them outright, you can still slaughter The Fort and Caesar without them so much as making a complaint. I don't know if Ulysses would have worked as a Legion follower. It's his dialogue the issue, how many players would have had the patience to sit through line after line of apologetics? Guess it all depends on how much the other writers would have reigned in Avellone. Still as a former tribal and high-ranking member of the Legion, his point-of-view would have been unique. Coincidentally, him and Boone would have both been the most socially elevated companions you could have gotten. Not as elevated as a potential Victor though :^) The one thing I don't get about them is the bull. Shouldn't it have two heads like Brahmin do? Are there un-radiated, normal Bos Taurus in southeast America. Maybe some billionaire Texan built a vault just for his longhorn herd. >>1620272 Considering Fallout 4's synths sure, emphasise their marionette-like movements and they'd fit even better. But considering a retrofuturistic aesthetic I think they'd be too out-of-place. Too human for the Fallout Universe. I think your idea might work if you made their heads less human.

>>1620390 Ulysses in Lonesome Road and Ulysses in the initial draft were almost completely different characters. That's why I included "original". >the bull It's iconography from Caesar. If there were two heads on the bull, it would mean the Legion isn't unified. Also, I doubt there are two-headed bulls in the wasteland. Two-headed cows have some usefulness, but two-headed bulls would try to rip themselves in half. Just think about how their horns would work.

>>1051858 Part of reason why I quit early after losing Suomi coinflip. It just sucks after giving you so much hopium that you would get her on pity. And don't forget the weapon trash gacha and skill locked behind dupe (I'm not sure how much this affects the gameplay tho)

>>1048221 Bump only to fuck with (you)

>>1618708 Bro bumped because of an 8 month old post that's not very skibidi

>>1615760 Even if you're tired of "rollslop" the Souls has some amazing designs Elite Knight set is the greatest piece of male fashion ever made

While I'm here, some things from the Skyrim and the Fallout 3 artbooks These are all on exhentai and e-hentai so really I'm going through my bookmarks, but I do suggest looking up artbooks and concept art for videogames, they might give you a new appreciation for games you like or even games you don't like

>>1617135 Last picture is a duplicate, oops

Got around to pirating this finally, and more power to whatever psychotics out there that have the patience to play this game. I think around day 30 of getting fucked in the ass repeatedly by RNG I modded infinite resources and even with that trying to put together rooms to make progress was tedious, and all I did was get the straightforward, unsatisfying non-ending. The idea of a roguelite puzzle game isn't complete anathema to me, I just don't think that they needed to go as far as they did to null progress and waste time in between the time and effort needed to solve some of these esoteric puzzles. It just isn't worth the effort, at least not to me. The puzzles themselves can be fun and I liked what was being built up of the story/setting/characters but I definitely wasn't hooked enough to put up with this.

>>1445731 RNG definitely sucks, but for the record that wasn't the ending.

Finally got around to playing this. An excellent game and it's definitely fun, but I threw the towel at around the moment I started reading The Clue and got 4 Sigils. There's definitely a lot to enjoy in the game, even if you struggle against the RNG on principle (which is frankly a lot easier to deal with than some people here imply), but somehow they went crazier and farther than even Noita puzzles and that's just... not healthy unless you're in the turbo autismo territory. Just lightly gazing at The Clue fills me with an indescribable laziness, just imagining all the obtuse hard work it takes for just the slightest hints at the most obscure of things. Also not having some sort of database where you can look up all text you've read before is super annoying for no good reason. I ended up combining screenshots, book recordings and notes manually but jesus fucking christ what a hassle. And then it some fucking how gets even worse than that. I defended the RNG earlier, but some requirements are clearly very annoying to reach for some endings. Not even Noita was this bad, holy fuck. 8/10 Outer Wilds is still better.

>>1609560 What the hell does "crusty" mean in regards to video games? Is this what the outsiders speak like now? We came here to get away from them.

I don't think anyone actually enjoys video games. People only play video games to cope with their miserable sad lives and to escape reality. I don't know anyone who is happy that plays video games.

>>1609691 Hello fellow ADD bro. Just commit, much like everything else in life, the biggest step is to start something.

>>1600463 >Remove their games without warning or reason >Shadowban them >Refuse payments Well itch.io is dead, no dev would trust those snakes any time soon.

>>1614829 While it would be a good model when incorporating crypto, it will still interfere with some states like Texas' anti-loli /"objectionable content" laws.

>>1607992 >He doesn't know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV

>>1603013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wazNaAumy4Q the concept of magical glowies alone is interesting

https://prefortress.com/updates/0.7.4/ Pre-Fortress 2 Update

>>1604199 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3561320/view/515216422280888823 Open Fortress blog post tl;dr: >Almost ready for Steam release, port to new TF2 SDK complete >some arbitrary new stuff needed to be considered 1.0 before release >ugly redesign of rocket launcher

>>1595360 Kek, pokefags will play the alternatives on the same platform you're just a degenerate falling into astroturfing marketing.

>>1595360 >it's similar to Scarlet and Violet but with many new features and had zero bugs that would ruin the experience 99% chance this is ragebait but first off, it isn't even the same genre as pokemon as others have said, and as you will find out if you play it for 5 minutes, it is a 1:1 ARK clone that replaces the taming mechanic with pokeballs and adds some mechanics from BotW the game was born as a pokemon skinpack for ARK it has fuck all to do with Scarlet and Violet, other than the designs it clearly plagiarized, and the BotW style pokeball second, idk about today, but on launch when everyone was raving about it was absolutely blasted up the ass with bugs and glitches, did you even play it? I don't even know if it ran any better than SV on a machine comparable to a switch the reason it was so infamous is because it's a soulless hodgepodge of all the highest selling games at the time Fortnite-like movement and bitches, gadgets from BotW, pokemon catching mechanics and creatures, factorio gameplay, all over ARK's basic structure it is a symptom of a dead industry addicted to remix culture

>>1495109 I'd say that a successful indie game also has to allow for infinite replayability in the form of customizing their difficulty or allowing for player expression (i.e. movement options, player choices affecting the game more than just on the base story etc.) I think Balatro is a great example of that because the basic rules are very simple but you can just add to them indefinitely until it's an unrecognizable mess from the original game. Also it has to have huge coomer bait like >>1594758 >>1546765 Have you looked at this semen demon, anon?

>>1599456 One could also cease being a faggot misanthrope and look for an active community wherever it is

>>1599323 It's not just fromsoftware's fault, blaming them alone for the netdecking issue is dumb. Yeah these games can be cryptic but that's half the fun, figuring it out for yourself and experimenting. Most people nowadays don't have interest in doing that though, and that's a problem across a lot of games, not just souls. I think it has something to do with normalfaggots not wanting to fuck around as much and something related to crowd appeal but I can't be sure. Oddly enough I think you have a point with the soul memory thing, the only games that netdecking/lack of variety wasn't an issue in that I've played lately were Lords of the Fallen (2023) and Salt and Sacrifice. Both had basically nonexistent level matchmaking and scaled invaders up or down instead. They still had their "metas" mind you but just like the Demon Souls, DS1, and DS2 days you barely saw them and instead found a fair bit of variety. Salt and Sacrifice was greatly helped by its covenant system though, with several different types of invaders and co-op summons with varying goals, another comparison you can make to earlier vs later Dark Souls games with covenants being lamer in 3 and then gone in ER. Of course Remnant 2 serves as a counterexample to the matchmaking thing regarding netdecking, however, since there is literally no matchmaking there, just world scaling with host's numerical power level (derived from weapon upgrades and archetype level). Remant 2 is a strange fucking anomaly in that regard as a whole though, it's pure PVE so you think people would be willing to experiment more, but you barely see any experimentation and you see EVEN LESS of such at lower difficulties, where you think you'd see people using wackier and less optimal builds and use off-meta weapons more. The netdecking thing with Elden Ring is also strange. As a guy who does a ton more jolly co-op than invasions/duels you see tons of variety in the PvE builds people run, minus the 110-150 range where most PVP builds are, but invaders have notably less than hosts. I think people running specific anti-gank setups could be a reason but I doubt it's the whole story. Duelists are even fucking worse and it gets to a point you feel like you're fighting the same ten or so people over and over due to the lack of variety. PVE builds still have their meta, I'd be a filthy rich if I got paid for every quad-buffing Varre-bullgoat/Varre-raptorcloack bleed build or every "haha comet azur go brr" build I saw after all, but you don't see clearly "I looked this build up on the internet" shit nearly as often.

>>1598241 >>1599456 can't tell if you guys are fucking with me, but to spell it out, obviously the entire point of random invasions is that neither player knows what they're going to get the whole fun of it is seeing what kinda builds and playstyles other people are cooking up, and maybe you see something you like and try to pivot into that, or make a mental note to try it on a different character if you're just playing with a small group of friends it'll stagnate very quickly This is such an effective tool to lengthen playtime, World of Warcraft for example keeps buffing and nerfing classes/specs on a carousel every 3 months so people get oneshot by an ele shaman and go "man I wanna play that" and make an alt, which is another 30h+ of gameplay to get ready, 1 of those being for leveling you really think none of these MMOs can figure out a fucking DPS sim that 90% of the playerbase uses and balance accordingly? kinda went off topic, but you get what I'm saying, running into randoms is more fun and more effective at stimulating organic replayability

>>1206326 There have been better written versions of this explanation, but this is it and has always been it. Arena shooters were only truly popular for two or three years, quickly became an niche, and died out. They were never some staple or mainstay of gaming. The first true arena shooter is probably 1999's Unreal Tournament and the last big one was 2007's Unreal Tournament 3, an usual outlier released years into the genre's decline. There is only 8 years between "first of its kind" and "belated swansong". Overwatch has been around longer than arena FPS. Let it go, 35+ anons.

>>1610848 Other part was, when these games came out, PC gaming and multiplayer were a novel concept. You had a steady stream of new players getting their first PC and a 56k modem and wanted to try playing against more than one person (It was common to connect to someone local because the phone charges back then would have killed you for long distance). The lack of competition from other games also helped.

>>1610915 As said, this has been much better explained. And as you mention, the reason arena shooters even took off was the novelty and lack of competition. I'd argue there were already better MP FPS like Team Fortress and CS, but for the masses arena shooters were a good entry point. Very simple, easy to learn, high skill ceiling. Another reason they died is because the wider genre evolved while arena FPS didn't, it was hard to compare UT3 to TF2 - both 2007 - and decide "UT3 is the game I want to main". That goes for a lot of other MP FPS of the era. Arena shooters were a fad early in the history of online shooters, and not even a long lived one.

>>1400250 I like those games because a guy on 4v said they were good, and that got me to play them. And I like them enough to get the Switch Port. And that's things honestly, a botch job from what I played. I only done all of 1 and that had some really stupid graphical errors. Hopefully, 2 is better both as a game and as a port. 1 had some stupid puzzles.

>>1400250 It was really weird to find out that Nameko was more popular than Touch Detective, years after I played Touch Detective on the DS. I still love that game, I should really go and play 3. >>1402416 >Any official lewd of a character from an E-rated DS game You might be retarded.

>>1402284 This is interesting