I kept hearing about how much of a grand masterpiece this game was just to find it out it was a just a small indie puzzle box with a SUPER OBNOXIOUS central mechanic to pad out the playtime. The gimmick, puzzles having a time limit, is, by itself, a good one. It forces you to challenge the puzzles asymmetrically. But, in order to make the gimmick work, the game needs a mechanic to back-track and that’s what the looping is for — and it’s gets old FAST. The game is not large, it’s quite small in fact, so being forced to reset and do the same puzzles over and over and over again to progress drags the game way down.

I've been struggling to make a thread like this because of how to express such a niche topic that gets zero attention. But here goes: Over the past few years, a certain game Genshit Impact blew up and changed the mobile market completely. A key factor to its success was not only that it was chinkshit BOTW but it was playable outside of muh wife's boyfriend's Switch for "free." Suddenly, the field went from disposable side games played by turd worlders to being taken seriously overnight. And with it came the copycats, and with that came the need to grow and grab more dollars free of Grapple and Gulag's clutches. Thus the PC clients and controller support rolled out. The advent of Unity and Unreal to Eastern devs, combined with chinks and gooks growing up with always online games and expanding in soft power, while the Nipponese gravitate increasingly towards portability, has resulted in a glut of titles that are available on both PC and phones (sometimes web). As more and more of them come out, some of them, in the spirit of Ross Freeman, convert themselves into packaged games you can purchase on retail. Some mobile devs capitalize off their success on phones to develop real hardcore games. Meanwhile, hardcore games have slowly adopted the same live service trappings of mobile titles, and handheld game ports are making more money than ever. <battle passes <microtransaction shops, lootboxes, and gachas <deckbuilding <wikis and metas <"gameplay loops" <limited time collabs and crossovers All the talk about normalfag gamers suddenly discovering indie games is BS as Palworld and Helldivers 2 were both live service games that happened to have the aesthetic of hardcore games. This development is what flash games and handheld titles were leading up to. My thesis is that games will eventually be designed for both mobile and PC from the ground up, due to the rise of the East in influence, and the future of gaming relies on the direction this development takes, for the better or worse. Ideally all games will start out free, replacing traditional demos, but there will be an option to buy the game outright or play it with microtransactions. Alternatively, hardcore games will be ported to ARM as we are starting to see over the years, with Crapple and Microshit making a huge push with ISA translation. Pros >devs essentially have more creative freedom >low budget and barrier of entry, means a return to the PS2 era of development >shift to developing for multiple resolutions which helps with preservation as upscaling and temporal aliasing become more popular; something I've seen that is interesting is that some mobile games are designed at a 1:1 ratio so they can adapt to any screen >smaller gaymen devices are kewl

Which game do you think has the best one and how often do you spend on it?

Greentext at least one problem and find solutions to the problem. 1) Bland "brown and bloom" colors and graphics, uncreative, uninviting, and visually unstimulating, that reduce atmosphere, emotional impact, and uniqueness 2) Crunch culture where employees work long hours under intense pressure to meet deadlines and deliver products, causing burnout and decreased product quaality 3) Degradation of the hobby as gaming became international and developers adapted design to cater to broader demographics 4) Digital rights management that requires online server authentication, or negatively impacts game performance, or limits how you can use the game 5) Diversity, equity, and inclusion biasing hiring processes at the expense of skills which reduces studio performance, competence, and morale 6) Excessive DLC that fragments the gaming experience, locking content behind additional purchases instead of including it in the initial release 7) Exploiting, cheating, and hacking online like aimbots and wallhacks, offline players usually know each other which discouraged local cheating due to social consequences 8) Game-as-a-service models, subscription and cloud services for gaming where you (((own nothing and be happy))) 9) Hyper-realism instead of artistic and aesthetic style, making games look generic as they strive for similar fidelity and lose unique artistic identity 10) Input lag making games feel more unresponsive, particularly in genres like fighting games, first-person shooters, or platformers needing precise movements or combos 11) Kernel-level anticheat that violate privacy and increases the risk malicious actors exploit security vulnerabiltiies to infect gamers with malware 12) Limited physical releases where many modern games are digital-only, and companies assume digital distribution, the PS5 Pro even lacks a disc drive 13) Loading screen saturation that frequently interrupts gameplay, wastes time, and breaks immersion 14) Monetization, microtransactions, loot boxes, and gambling mechanics and how developers design games around compulsive spending of players instead of delivering quality content 15) Movie games requiring significant "Triple A" budgets and minimizing player agency by sidelining gameplay and how they interact with the game world 16) Pay-to-win mechanics that let players gain advantages by purchasing powerful items or upgrades, undermining fair competition

Not necesarily good, and not necesarily vidya but significant to /v/ originally made for a /vb/ thread, im moving the thread here with a improved op, hopefully, because apparently /vb/ is for porn Initially meant to reignite genuine conversation in 4/v/ anf with its refugees, now i just want to get my newfaggotry roasted for a possible v2. NOT PICTURED My Little Pony Lobotomy Corporation Control Alt Delete B^U Tenchu Dragonball Battletoads Bayonetta

https://archive.ph/wip/eaId0 It's not April 1st for almost 2 and a third days

Post overused villains in video games. I'll start with Dr Nefarious from Ratchet and Clank

previous thread: https://arch.b4k.dev/vm/thread/1699423/ >Officials: Website: https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/bombergirl/bg/p/index.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/bombergirl573 (news on the PC version will have 【コナステ】) Current/upcoming banners and maps (PC): https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eacbg/bg/index.html >Installation Guides: Image guide: https://imgur.com/a/G2fK1Z0 Registration: https://p.eagate.573.jp/gate/k/newcomer.html Download: https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eacbg/bg/download/installer.html >Technical errors: If you can't get past the bench test screen, change your computer's region to Japanese in the control panel If your NAT type is below C, try forwarding port 5291 on your router If matchmaking breaks more than once, restart the game

I don't know why but for some reason I'm really in the mood to play this tonight hope you are too. game link:https://www.boardgame-online.com/?page=joingame&g=s3XM&k=cl7kd

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

MOUNT AND BLADE MOUNT AND BLADE God this looks like shit

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.

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.

>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.

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

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/