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Fire Emblem Anonymous 04/22/2025 (Tue) 17:33:58 Id: e4801b No. 1213371 [Reply] [Last]
Visit the new >>>/fireemblem/ board too Thread dedicated to the discussion of games from the Fire Emblem franchise. The often asked question: "I'm new to the series. Where should I start?" for modern FE experience is Three Houses (Switch - 2019) or Engage (Switch - 2023), and for semi old school FE experience is Awakening (3DS - 2012) or Fates (3DS - 2015) or Echoes (3DS - 2017). Emulation guide Always ensure your GPU drivers are up-to-date and read https://rentry.org/7368i/ and use https://www.base64decode.org/ to decode base64. Games >Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light >Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) - 1990, Nintendo Switch - 2020-2021 Set on the fictional continent of Archanea. The story follows the tale of Marth, prince of the kingdom of Altea, who is sent on a quest to reclaim his throne after being forced into exile by the evil sorcerer Gharnef and his dark master Medeus, the titular Shadow Dragon. https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Fire_Emblem:_Shadow_Dragon_and_the_Blade_of_Light https://fireemblemwiki.org/wiki/Fire_Emblem:_Shadow_Dragon_%26_the_Blade_of_Light >Fire Emblem Gaiden >Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) - 1992

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>>1548924 >the first FE ever released I was comparing the third game (Mystery of the Emblem, super famicom) to modern games. The first game (Shadow Dragon, famicom) is much more archaic. Getting the weapons you want on the right units is a major chore. You can only give items to other units, not trade, so the receiving unit must have room in his inventory. And you have very limited storage space in your convoy. You need to watch the full battle animation scenes, whereas FE3 lets you view shorter map animations instead. You can't click on other units to see how far they can move so you need to count tiles. Also you need to check the physical game manual to see each weapon's stats. It's still playable but I recommend Mystery of the Emblem instead; the first half of the game is a remake of the first game. And the first DS game (Shadow Dragon) is also a remake of the first game. >thracia It's a good game and my personal favorite. I've replayed it multiple times doing various challenge runs. It has some surprises on a first playthrough and some unusual battle mechanics but if you've played other games in the genre you should be fine. The level design is excellent and the alignment of gameplay objectives with the game's story makes the narrative more engaging. But the story builds on the previous game (Genealogy of the Holy War) so you might want to play that one first. >hipster Nowadays Thracia is too popular for hipster cred. The smug elitists have moved to the Vestaria Sagas. These are similar games made in SRPG maker by the original creator of the Fire Emblem franchise, Shouzou Kaga, who left Intelligent Systems after Thracia.
>>1548835 >>1548979 FE threads are the only thing I browse over there too. >occasional nuggets of kino I honestly mostly stay for people like aceman who occasionally post really old art that I haven't seen before. The relays were fun when people took them semi-seriously, and occasional good discussion, cute waifuposting, and even fun shitposting made it worth it for a while, but I feel like those moments are getting fewer and farther between. A slow thread like this is honestly perfect for FE, even if people are posting playthrough progress and stuff like that. I kinda wish whatever good posters were left would finally abandon that place and come here.
>>1548835 >I'm so fucking done with 4chan. i only go there to shitpost and laugh at fehtards

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ARK Survival Evolved Anonymous 05/19/2025 (Mon) 00:45:13 Id: 3c32f2 No. 1376926 [Reply]
A thread for discussion of ARK survival evolved ark survival ascended, and other similar survival games.
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Speed is such a useful trait in ARK.
>>1377844 >Ark was a game that always left me wanted more Sorry i don't take ESL opinions seriously.
Bought it 2 years ago and it ran like shit on my rtx 3060 so I dropped it

/40k/ Thread Anonymous 03/14/2025 (Fri) 03:39:02 Id: f08494 No. 1079324 [Reply] [Last]
Discuss Warhammer 40k games and lore. Previous thread >>1047230 (Cross-thread)
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>>1395332 I'll reserve judgement. Could end up being a well done character.

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Anonymous 04/23/2025 (Wed) 16:12:16 Id: ea6bdd No. 1227506 [Reply] [Last]
Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii says political correctness has made western games ‘terrible’. >Oshii: Political correctness started from the idea of giving legitimacy to the socially weak. There is nothing wrong with that. In a mature society, it is a natural responsibility. However, the problem is that it has taken that as its starting point and made the socially weak into the strong. >Oshii: They were given priority in getting into school, and priority in finding a job. What’s more, the companies that advised them charged them ridiculous amounts in consulting fees. Game companies ask for hundreds of millions of yen from them. >Oshii: Basically, it’s based on admiration! If you deny admiration, entertainment loses its reason for existence as entertainment. In the past, even if you said “beautiful” people would say it was discriminatory. Western games are really terrible
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>>1230413 That's debt-based economies for you. Infinite growth is paramount. Anyone who slows down dies.
>>1377736 >Westerners Americans, Europeans are fine with sex.
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>>1334987 紅い眼鏡 was the best of the trio (vids unrelated)

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War Sales Anonymous 05/23/2025 (Fri) 04:41:59 Id: 56471f No. 1392241 [Reply]
MOUNT AND BLADE MOUNT AND BLADE God this looks like shit
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>This in Junes >Shokuho soon as the devs are already sharing the mod with ecelebs Will play this throughout this year and the next and just ignore the internet during all that time, phase right through GTAs hype cancer.
>>1394654 I expect it to be pretty average. It won't be as amazing as people have been hoping the next big update to be, but it also won't be outright terrible either.
Are there any mods that make it so that new clans don't get names of the faction leader + {'s clan}? It bothers me a lot.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 14:45:37 Id: 9155dd No. 1147936 [Reply] [Last]
Can we have a Stalker thread? I've recently tried out what all the fuss around GAMMA is about and I must say it's quite a fun experience For people who don't know, it's a customizable modpack for Anomaly (a freeplay mod consiting all areas of the first 2 stalker games) and comes with its own updater and Mod organizer 2 config. You need the GAMMA launcher fiels wich can be downloaded from theri shitcord, but if you are a boomer like me who doesn't want to make an aacount you can just download this somewhat older build off mediafire and it will update itself upon lauch to the newest version. https://www.mediafire.com/folder/agyul0e6fbban/STALKER_GAMMA Then you need Anomaly itself which can be downlaoded here: https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/downloads Unpack both into their seperate folders and then point the MO2 from the gamma folder towards the Anomaly folder and from there it will be basically autopilot. I enjoyed the A-life in this and how the best parts of the original trilogy are expanded upon, specifically the hobo phase. Weapon and armor upgrades feel siginifcant but you can even start out with some decent gear since you get a few points to spend on a new game. I'd recommend tweaking the MCM settings to your liking though, stuff like dropped ammo amount and gear condition based on rank for example. I also didn't like the brown and colorless look of the default install, reinstalling the grass and weater mods gives several options like spring, summer, autumn, winter etc.
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>>1393483 >I meant sjws trying to make communism look good, not that communism is good... And my post accounted for either interpretation, lrn2read yourself ESLnigger
>>1393516 IDs, please use them
>>1392915 Good bait!

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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>>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.
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>>1384151 (OP) >(((Unions)))
>>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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Star Wars: Episode I RACER Commandos 1 ABUSE
>>1387592 >5 above 1 >right MB before left MB This shit is demonic.
>>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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>>1351998 Late PS2 but early 7th Gen was fine too
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>>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
>>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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>>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.
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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.
>>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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>>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.
>>1387636 >he raped me because I regretted fucking him after the fact, Why a Rhythm game has a story like this?
>>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/
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>>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
>>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.
>>1389633 Famicom Wars is better

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

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JRPG/RPG recommendation thread Anonymous 03/08/2024 (Fri) 13:47:38 Id: e5941b No. 943592 [Reply] [Last]
I'm still new (;^ω^)!
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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.
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.
>>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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>>1382725 Jak 1 was probably the best platformer on the platform, so it especially stings.
>>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.
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

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