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Unionization in video games. Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 22:30:15 Id: c8387e No. 1384151 [Reply] [Last] >>1392699

There was recently some discussion on the unionification in the video games industry in the Marathon thread, and while I believe the approach to how video games are published and translated need to be changed, I also think that the powers at be are making an attempt at a power grab. I actually made an article on the subject here [https://medium.com/@markmann447_91903/unionization-isnt-the-answer-a-call-for-free-markets-in-gaming-489abf30abe7], although I had to delete the discussion in the Marathon thread since it wasn't related to neither Marathon nor Bungie, I do find the subject to be rather interesting as someone who DOES want change, but also believes that Unionization is a communist tactic to destroy competitive American industry, but also has legitimate benefits depending on the type of industry where there really isn't an incentive for growth like trades and such. I also find that those pushing for unions in the video games industry are the worst types of industry shills like Jason Schreier, in addition to Harvey Weinstein defenders SAG. They've also made unironic propaganda as a way to push the idea of unionization onto the gaming industry as seen in my embedded images. Either way, I'm quite concerned who would be running said unions since Hollywood has become a cesspit during its run with unions and how there isn't a lot of talent in Hollywood because of unions and how they block freelancers. Still, I wanted to move discussion here since I feel there IS a discussion to be had.

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Anonymous 05/23/2025 (Fri) 08:05:12 Id: 183b2b No. 1392609 >>1392811

>>1391245 The studio actually had a reputation for decent adventure games. Their audience generally liked Dustborn, but the game was a commercial flop with no crossover appeal.

Anonymous 05/23/2025 (Fri) 09:06:36 Id: b32fb1 No. 1392699

>>1384151 (OP) >(((Unions)))

Anonymous 05/23/2025 (Fri) 10:23:19 Id: a8038f No. 1392811

>>1388453 >the_Donal newfag thinks the whole social contract is anything but extortion Lol >>1392609 Before Dustborn, Red Thread Games published only Dreamfall Chapters and Draugen, mediocre games that still got literally hundreds of times more players than Dustborn. Yes, the studio founder worked on more noteworthy projects before, but we all know how little that means, as far as I can tell Red Thread Games only subsists off public funding and doesn't have an actual paying audience backing it up.

Games smaller than 1 GB Anonymous 04/28/2025 (Mon) 16:25:26 Id: c63aa9 No. 1280266 [Reply] [Last]

What are some good games with total file size not bigger than 1 GB ? Small ram usage is also preferred, less than 2 GB of ram should be reasonable to ask, but it's not strictly requested Discuss and suggest them here Quality over quantity Emulated games is cheating, only small non-emulated PC games here, for the emulated games go in: >Emulation Megathread >>1028520 (Cross-thread)

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Anonymous 05/21/2025 (Wed) 23:46:00 Id: e5233d No. 1388311

Star Wars: Episode I RACER Commandos 1 ABUSE

Anonymous 05/22/2025 (Thu) 16:14:07 Id: 8e5f44 No. 1390438

>>1387592 >5 above 1 >right MB before left MB This shit is demonic.

Anonymous 05/23/2025 (Fri) 07:41:44 Id: caa9c4 No. 1392570

>>1328603 pretty good heh

PlayStation 2 Thread - 25th Anniversary Edition Anonymous 03/03/2025 (Mon) 00:32:20 Id: 50ba19 No. 1076012 [Reply] [Last] >>1392004 >>1392195

Accounting for time zones, the PS2 turns 25 tomorrow. Lets have a thread about the PS2 and its games >favorite game >favorite game that's not on everyone's favorite PS2 games list (hidden germs) >favorite genre that was on PS2 that's not made anymore >favorite characters

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Anonymous 05/23/2025 (Fri) 03:00:20 Id: a2b969 No. 1391977

>>1351998 Late PS2 but early 7th Gen was fine too

Anonymous 05/23/2025 (Fri) 03:12:30 Id: 70fa6e No. 1392004

>>1076012 (OP) What a perfect timing for a thread, I have been on a large PS2 stint lately. >Favorite game A tough one but I gotta say Ace Combat Zero >Hidden Gem Sky Odyssey, a game about flying a plane through crazy fucking islands >Favorite Genre that was on PS2 that's not made anymore Dungeon Crawlers in the vein of Dark Cloud/Rogue Legacy, alternatively Monster Rancher like games. >Favorite Characters Albedo from Xenosaga, and Raziel from Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

Anonymous 05/23/2025 (Fri) 04:19:22 Id: 4e19ae No. 1392195

>>1076012 (OP) >favorite game Shadow of the Colossus. Yes, unoriginal choice. But its real time giant boss battles have aged better than, say, QTE shit in God of War games. The feeling of every colossi being a fully playable gameplay experience and not a lazy QTE is a technical marvel. >favorite hidden gem Ape Escape 2 is underrated. I still prefer 3, but people shouldn't sleep on 2. >favorite PS2-exclusive genre Furry mascot platformers. Made by Sony. Ratchet, Sly, maybe Jak if you count Daxter. Then sony "grew up" and stopped making much of them in favor of Uncharted, Infamous, TLoU. >favorite characters Who comes to mind... Ammy from Okami Yumi from Ape Escape 3 Snake from MGS3 Yorda from Ico

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Mechanics that turn you off games Anonymous 03/10/2025 (Mon) 01:32:49 Id: f77b31 No. 1078466 [Reply] [Last]

>Was going to buy Rise of the Ronin >Turns out it has color coded gear just like Nioh, the reason I dropped that game and never played the sequel I absolutely hate this garbage and I fucking hate Blizzard for making this lazy awful shit popular. What I love the most about this color coded RNG bullshit is the fact that not only are you getting the same weapon with different stats, which just waters down the weapon, instead of adding actual variety like a different weapon model with the same moveset, is the fact that you constantly get lower tier colored weapons that have higher DPS than top tier colored ones. Not even a skin to differentiate these weapons as well, absolutely immersion breaking and lazy to the very core.

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Anonymous 05/22/2025 (Thu) 07:06:47 Id: 0275fe No. 1389402

>>1387784 I will never like Luck as a stat in game when its tied to the rarity of items. Because nobody is going to pick it, even if they have a chance to get a shinier item. Treasure isn't going to outweigh your chances of negating or dishing out damage. What games should do is just add the odds of finding loot tied to classic stats and go from there.

Anonymous 05/22/2025 (Thu) 22:54:44 Id: 7dd22c No. 1391536

Shit in the foreground layer that blocks you from seeing what you're doing in 2d games. Sometimes it's a fog/darkness layer that only affects your vision beyond a certain radius, and that's fine, but FUCK these pillars in particular.

Anonymous 05/22/2025 (Thu) 23:43:57 Id: d81dc9 No. 1391649

>>1388124 Most of early Pokémon pissed me off, yeah.

UNBEATABLE demo Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 07:00:29 Id: 3d1a34 No. 1127762 [Reply]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2240620/UNBEATABLE/ https://youtu.be/XwKFOZeJukA

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We're really eating good this year, rhythm bros. I enjoyed UNBEATABLE white label a while back, even if it was not really well optimized. I hope devs took the feedback and made things better for this demo. Haven't had the opportunity to play it yet, but I figured I could make a thread about it before I get home and try it later today. Between this game, Yunyun Syndrome Rhythm Psychosis, Rift Of The Necrodancer, Pastel Parade, Bits&Bops and of course Rhythm Heaven, 2025-2026 are shaping up to be really good years for groovers like me. YOU LOVE RHYTHM GAMES RIGHT?

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Anonymous 05/21/2025 (Wed) 20:12:44 Id: 65e598 No. 1387636 >>1390430

>>1387625 I enjoyed the demo's gameplay. I guarantee you the story is literally just "he raped me because I regretted fucking him after the fact," though. "I was young and naive and totally shouldn't have been left on my own despite the law saying I'm an adult in charge of myself and because I would destroy any society that doesn't give me what I want but I should have been protected since I was clearly too stupid not to be taken advantage of." Never pay for games, man. Also the demo was like six years ago, so they'll never actually finish it.

Anonymous 05/22/2025 (Thu) 16:12:10 Id: 19e0a5 No. 1390430 >>1390604

>>1387636 >he raped me because I regretted fucking him after the fact, Why a Rhythm game has a story like this?

Anonymous 05/22/2025 (Thu) 17:15:27 Id: 65e598 No. 1390604

>>1390430 I know, right? lol.

Advance Wars Anonymous 04/23/2025 (Wed) 00:54:15 Id: 84ccd2 No. 1219776 [Reply] [Last]

Move out! Anyway. Let's have fun discussing the Advance Wars series ITT and show the Fire Emblem fags who's the best actual strategy game. Also, I heavily suggest playing on AWBW (Advance Wars By Web) for multiplayer. The game gets really deep when you climb above 1200 Elo. I'd like to play some huge games with you sometimes. That's my piece folks. https://awbw.amarriner.com/

Edited last time by Mark on 04/23/2025 (Wed) 09:31:04.

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Anonymous 05/22/2025 (Thu) 09:40:31 Id: 4d18ad No. 1389623

>>1255460 idk how much trump really had to do with it but I know he's the reason I didn't want to give money to an american wargame made my americans in the year 2025

Anonymous 05/22/2025 (Thu) 09:50:21 Id: 4d18ad No. 1389633 >>1389993

>>1254727 The official games are too perfect in their execution and it's too hard to come up with new mechanics or ideas that wouldn't actively make the game worse. So many clones and fan projects have tried and fell short.

Anonymous 05/22/2025 (Thu) 13:16:40 Id: 6befe8 No. 1389993

>>1389633 Famicom Wars is better

Remember Me: The Thread Anonymous 02/01/2025 (Sat) 00:58:55 Id: f84708 No. 1066854 [Reply] [Last]

Post vidya barely anyone remembers

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Anonymous 05/11/2025 (Sun) 06:39:55 Id: 8bb368 No. 1343733

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Anonymous 05/22/2025 (Thu) 04:43:14 Id: 84d6dc No. 1389139

The Bitmap Brothers

Ratchet and Clank Anonymous 04/23/2025 (Wed) 23:41:28 Id: 9b73c3 No. 1233432 [Reply] [Last]

What do you think of the Ratchet and Clank series /v/? What is your favourite and least favourite game? My favourite is Up Your Arsenal and my least favourite is Full Frontal Assault.

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Anonymous 05/21/2025 (Wed) 10:15:18 Id: 71d295 No. 1385618 >>1386219

>>1233881 >More recently, Rift Apart is just as good as the PS2 quadrilogy. But is the writing? Because I feel the Ratchet series stopped being well written around Size Matters. Plenty of the games have still been fun mind you, ACIT is arguably the best in the series.

Anonymous 05/21/2025 (Wed) 13:06:00 Id: fb9330 No. 1386219 >>1386982

>>1385618 Ah yes, Size Matters writing. Though not as stupid as SAC, SM gets worse the more you think about it.

Anonymous 05/21/2025 (Wed) 17:05:21 Id: e5427a No. 1386982

>>1386219 I do love the fact that SM and SAC were made by a guy from the OG devteam that thought he could do R&C better than the others.

JRPG/RPG recommendation thread Anonymous 03/08/2024 (Fri) 13:47:38 Id: e5941b No. 943592 [Reply] [Last]

I'm still new (；^ω^）!

Edited last time by Mark on 03/08/2024 (Fri) 16:48:57.

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Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 00:15:07 Id: eb7fbd No. 1380568

Finished Visions of Mana and I didn't like it. >gameplay I played on hard, and the combat system itself was decent. I found the AI terrible in the beginning but as I got better equips and more skills they became mediocre to decent. They still died a lot for me especially in the final boss. I was very disappointed that you couldn't mix and match class passives until the postgame. For abilities I didn't really feel a need to really change things unless I did those elemental trials. >story It's shit and one of the worse stories even for JRPGs. To add to the crap storytelling they throw an excessive amount of cutscenes to pad the game. There are two types of cutscenes: one where you can mash the button to skip to the next dialogue and one where you cannot mash the button to quickly read along. There is an option to skip them entirely but if you want to follow the story then sometimes you have to sit and watch. Not to mention you start a cutscene then they make you walk like 5 steps to initiate the next cutscene. Repeat for the entire game and it gets really tiresome. >visuals I liked the art direction and the maps' looks. The people models looked very dumb though. >music Forgettable.

Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 17:13:37 Id: 2c1f4e No. 1383023

RPGmaker is fine, right? 7th Stand User, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure RPG maker fangame made by a Japanese housewife in her free time. You take a personality test at the start of the game that gives you a cool OC stand with its own moves, stats and influences over the original events of Stardust Crusaders. The combat is pretty solid for RPGM2000, there's a lot of things you can do to either alter the course of events or get unique rewards and outcomes, making the game very replayable. The soundtrack is a very good selection of what I assume are royalty free songs from some website or another. Expect to grind a lot and maybe have a guide in hand. Probably one of the best fangames out there, and a must play if you like Jojo.

Anonymous 05/21/2025 (Wed) 02:51:37 Id: e2443a No. 1384893

>>1380396 >You mean being a dungeon-crawler rather than an open-world sandbox? You may jest, but you're kind of on the right track. I may not be the best to talk since my only real references of JRPGs are Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest V and Bravely Default, but for the little I've gathered, RPGs and JRPGs are a matter of style that can only be describe with the sum of it's parts, rather than one element or another. The passive turn-based combat, the emphasis in party customization, the complexity of stat modifiers, the random encounters, the middle ages worldbuilding, the maze-like dungeons, the orchestra symphonies, the pocket and stylized art direction, the linear story progression, the multiple playthrough hours and the emphasis on telling a tale rather than just being a game... when you put a handful of those things together, you got something that can be confidently called a JRPG, primarily because they feel much closer to the role playing game pioneers, the pen and paper ones, as well the computer ones.

Monsterous, Dark, & Evil Modes/Forms. Anonymous 05/03/2025 (Sat) 05:24:06 Id: ab66bf No. 1306617 [Reply]

Alternative form in Vidya Games that allow you to assume power with a sinister take and appearance to match. I've been thinking about games that allow you to turn into a monster since I enjoyed playing PSP2I's beast and loved using nanoblast to turn into a werewolf and the rare occasion I managed to use dark nanoblast to extend and become even more vicious. I'm looking for games that give you the feeling of turning into something more feral and vicious. Even better if it's something non human. I guess alternative versions of characters also count as well if the fifth image is anything to go by.

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Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 16:55:01 Id: 3db60b No. 1382926

>>1382725 Jak 1 was probably the best platformer on the platform, so it especially stings.

Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 20:47:04 Id: b7209e No. 1383774

>>1382725 Jak 1 is excellent but I'd argue it's much too easy. I wish it had difficulty comparable to Crash 3. Jak II and 3 are totally different things, and I think I agree that I wish that they did the original sequel they had planned before they caved to focus groups. However, I still like Jak II and 3. They tried to do a zillion different things, and I don't think they were the best at any of those things, but they were good enough at all those things to make the overall games still quite enjoyable. And while I might say Jak II gets a bit too difficult in some places, I think I overall like the difficulty better in the sequels than in the original, which you can basically sleepwalk through. But yes, they're clearly less polished, and there are things that bug me quite a bit about them. But I still think they're pretty good. Daxter does an alright job at being a middle ground between the first and second games. It's a bit more focused on platforming rather than all the other bullshit. Also too short and easy, but for one of the first 3D games released on a handheld, that was acceptable. It's fun while it lasts. Jak X is awesome and the true sequel to CTR.

Anonymous 05/21/2025 (Wed) 02:49:48 Id: ae6ce1 No. 1384888

metroid prime 3 maybe. you can enter super mode at will. shooting costs hp, though, and if you linger in it for more than 10 seconds you enter a corrupt version in which HP bar starts filling up. if you let it sit full for a few seconds, you die. of course, using super mode is basically cheating >>1309428 >Does BoF3 Kaiser dragon count, since you can't control it you can, dummy. sort of. lrn2influence. or input one of the two correct gene combinations and it will let you input orders you also forgot to include rei's weretiger form which is ai-controlled and starts attacking your party too after a few turns

Haste Shattered Worlds. Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 20:22:00 Id: 401019 No. 1118713 [Reply] >>1384390

Has anyone played this? I beat the first shard, did a bit of the endless victory lap, and started the second shard, but I'm not feeling it. To put it simply, I'm not sure the randomly generated levels and rougelite, Slay The Spire-esque structure were the play here.

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Anonymous 04/23/2025 (Wed) 07:39:55 Id: b8a081 No. 1223397 >>1380602

People's main critique seems to revolve about the random generation, but can you really handcraft many levels in a game that's this fast? Are you gonna spend much time thinking about where to place the 100th cactus when the typical player is zooming past it at a gorillion miles an hour? You could slow it down and make it more themed about deliberate platforming, but then you're basically making a different game. Games like sonic have always just stopped you dead in your tracks to do some precision platforming/stage gimmick and that's generally the only thing stopping levels from having minute clear times. Either way, I got my moneys worth out of it.

Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 00:28:50 Id: 401019 No. 1380602

>>1223397 I don't think it's as hard as that, since these levels are pretty simple as a baseline, as they are largely flat lines/curves with hills.

Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 23:37:45 Id: fb2f16 No. 1384390

>>1118713 (OP) I played the demo and felt like it was a great movement system that is completely wasted by the asinine decision to attach it to a procedurally generated roguelike good movement needs good level design to reach its full potential

E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 01:07:53 Id: b8f3fc No. 1123134 [Reply] [Last]

Why haven't you played E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy? It goes on sale for a dollar and there's nothing else quite like it.

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Anonymous 05/06/2025 (Tue) 17:35:11 Id: 4321ca No. 1323908

>>1323608 >the level where you have to escape the drills ? The level where reinforcements arrive by train and Shadow knocks you off a crane It has the same geometry as the courtyard in marsarena, with some added bits

Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 17:40:06 Id: caf9a5 No. 1383163 >>1383256

I guess I need some more tips because I'm getting totally wrecked in the secondary missions. The enemies are just spawning non-stop from every direction, including right behind me, to the point where I barely have enough time to reload, let alone heal or do any hacking objectives. Mostly I've been using the BOSCO because of all the snipers in New Eden. Should I switch to the KA?

Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 18:08:35 Id: af9738 No. 1383256

>>1383163 >The enemies are just spawning non-stop from every direction Yes, that's what they tend to do. >Mostly I've been using the BOSCO because of all the snipers in New Eden. Should I switch to the KA? The BOSCO is all you should need outside of heavily armored enemies and helicopters. Make sure to learn to use it unscoped.

vrgames thread Anonymous 04/25/2025 (Fri) 13:24:08 Id: 917d7f No. 1253852 [Reply] [Last]

VR games thread, I guess? ITR 2 new update with new map is out. Vertigo 2 DLC releases in 1 hour.

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Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 07:53:20 Id: 917d7f No. 1381695 >>1381721

>>1381687 > I'm not spending more money than my entire fucking computer cost on a VR headset If you think that's expensive, just get a Q3. Not even to disparage you or anything, poverty is not a sin. It's a perfectly fine headset and a massive upgrade over index. Spend everything else you have on upgrading your PC. In a year, you will have a lot more to chose from HMD wise.

Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 08:15:53 Id: b0d0b3 No. 1381721 >>1382752

>>1381695 It's not even a matter of poverty, but in value for the dollar. I'm not going to get the mileage out of those VR headsets to justify spending over a grand a half on a headset - especially when the VR game industry is relying on shovelware just to maintain life support. I'll mostly be using it for sims. At any rate, a Quest 3 would be a downgrade from the Reverb G2, so I don't want to go that route.

Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 16:05:04 Id: 917d7f No. 1382752

>>1381721 >a Quest 3 would be a downgrade from the Reverb G2 Not really. G2 is the worst headset. Even for simmers running quest 3 wired would a massive upgrade over g2. For everyone who actually uses the controllers, you don't even need to say anything. G2 just can't compete, objectively. It's just worse at everything.

Chaos Code - New Sign of Catastrophe Anonymous 04/24/2025 (Thu) 19:38:23 Id: e3f01d No. 1245218 [Reply]

They released some PV released a few days a go https://exa.ac/ja/games/chaos-code-next-ja/?v=0f177369a3b7

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Anonymous 05/19/2025 (Mon) 19:18:57 Id: d12367 No. 1379515

I thought the series died when the creator died of some disease.

Anonymous 05/19/2025 (Mon) 19:22:31 Id: 4f3ca8 No. 1379537 >>1381790

How is this different from the PS3 game?

Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 08:55:40 Id: 98aecb No. 1381790

>>1379537 New characters, stages, and balance changes. Looks like the sprites might've been touched up too.

3D Printing Anonymous 02/16/2023 (Thu) 06:18:41 Id: 0ef303 No. 784384 [Reply] [Last]

A thread for anything related to 3D printing and video games: figurines, controller stands, battery covers that keep getting lost, cool cases, mods and enhancements, etcetera. What cool enhancements, whether practical or just aesthetic, should I print for my old consoles? Say, for example, my Sega Genesis model 2?

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Anonymous 04/22/2025 (Tue) 01:29:49 Id: 62bf0a No. 1201567

>>1198331 Depends on ypur country and what services you'll use to sell. But at worse you'll get a C&D request.

Anonymous 04/23/2025 (Wed) 13:40:06 Id: b798cf No. 1226099

>>1198331 Bro honestly you can just go to a convention with free STL downloads of dice towers you found online and printed. Saw like 3 booths at my local convention selling Dice Towers I've seen online for "Beginner Prints" for $25 a pop, and they sold.

Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 02:13:48 Id: 5ddb77 No. 1380887

>>937217 At this point it would be cheaper to commission the printing and painting of a new figure than buying the original. (bump to save this thread)

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Anonymous 05/02/2025 (Fri) 16:35:16 Id: b89373 No. 1302691 [Reply] [Last]

Uhh, Todd? What did you mean by this? https://x.com/bethesda/status/1918015736011755762 https://archive.ph/qzb6w

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Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 01:33:24 Id: 2db070 No. 1380790

>>1344013 It depends how intelligent/how strong your 3rd eye is. Dreams are less defined than reality because you're a further step down in the hierarchy. Think of a process running entirely within another process, necessary for it to be less advanced than the supra process. So your random NPC will have lower res dreams (which is why lowest common denom culture perpetuates myths like being unable to read etc), Vivec, Tiber septum, all of the chim guys will have high res dreams but ultimately less than the Godhead's dream I.E. mundus.

Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 01:37:55 Id: 3eae1d No. 1380798 >>1380819

y'all fags still playing this junk?

Anonymous 05/20/2025 (Tue) 01:50:38 Id: 4324bb No. 1380819

>>1380798 On and off. Will probably delete it once I finish a full playthrough though - the filesize makes it very hard to justify it as one to keep installed