This really needs its own thread because of how right STUPID this shit is. This is like banning RPGs on the Sega Saturn levels of stupid, all because of retarded twitter/reddit/discord politics. These people can't see outside their little Californian bubble, and it pisses me the fuck off. The console game market is run by people who hate games, that's the only excuse I can think of when explaining this malicious ignorance. It's been proven time and time again that these games sell as long as there's a good gameplay structure. Even with an above average gameplay structure, Stellar Blade selling over a million copies in the past year alone PROVES that now is the best time to release Senran Kagura IN SPITE of gaming journalists and the reddit/twitter/discord grooming audience. Not only that, but the entire mobile market with games like Blue Archive and NIKKE is making millions of dollars in capital. You could make the market that "Oh it's just whales", but I would argue that's not a legitimate excuse when Stellar Blade sells over a million copies and other games like fucking Capes don't even sell close to that. That's not to mention Flintlock that has its numbers inflated by Gamepass only sold half the amount of Stellar Blade with a much bigger marketing campaign. There's no excuse for this level of stupidity, but what can we do about it? Maybe we can contact shareholders and have them communicate our issues through them? There's no excuse for this level of incompetence, although I'd personally argue that it's maliciousness considering everything I've talked about. sauce: https://noisypixel.net/xseed-games-ken-berry-interview/ https://archive.ph/N2zJb

>New report claims gamers spend more time watching videos about gaming than playing games https://archive.fo/mo7lF https://archive.fo/XOAD7 <Gamers are spending more time watching videos about gaming on YouTube and Twitch than playing games themselves. So here is my question: If no one is playing video games, why are we wasting time buying the damn things? Even if you're only pirating games, why waste the time downloading the fucking things?

ONGOING DISCUSSIONS <The Holidays are upon us >Alyssa Mercante, Other Staff, No Longer Working At Kotaku https://archive.ph/nekgy >HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ZOEPOST THAT STARTED IT ALL!: You did it Gaymergays! https://archive.is/5h44h >Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will not award “Erotica” points for taking cleavage and crotch photos like original https://archive.ph/4sTGR >Game Informer is DEAD https://archive.ph/jWMly >Sweet Baby Inc designer attempts to censor Steam Curator List highlighting which games the company were hired for- has now surpassed 400,000 subscribers https://archive.is/6BHuP https://archive.is/OSsi2 >IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more https://archive.ph/HNnJS >Nintendo Of America Appears To Turn ‘Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’s Character Into Transgender https://archive.ph/4oNPC https://archive.ph/7ASdr

Damn I really miss these things. They need to make a come back as fully functional 1 bit graphic handhelds. Monochrome LCDs and basic bitch chips are really cheap now.

I was hoping to make it to the shareholders meeting before the old thread got bumped off but it looks like we'll miss it by a couple of weeks. >Latest News -Falcom's 2024 title is all but confirmed to be Kuro No Kiseki 3. We don't have a title or any details yet, though, and likely won't until the shareholder's meeting in December. -Ys X released on Playstation systems and Switch. As of now, no PC announcement has been made. CLE likely will make one going by their track record, but who's to say when. Durante and his team will eventually make one too, as the norm is now for them to release the Japanese PC version and patch in the localization later. Either way, we likely won't see fan translation efforts until a PC version materializes. Thankfully, the Switch version will at least mean easy access to the Japanese script, which was a major problem when trying to translate Kuro 2. Speaking of... -Kuro no Kiseki 2 has had it's main and sub scenarios translated. That is to say, main quest, side quests, events noted on the map and connect events. Most NPCs are still machine translated. This is following Kuro no Kiseki 1 which was completely translated down to the last NPC. This was all done before NISA even officially announced their Kuro localization. As long as they remain three years behind, this should stay the norm. >Fan-translations Kuro no Kiseki 1 Translation: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nN-39bcBkES4Wg-3-rGlRqTARuQhGybB?usp=sharing Kuro no Kiseki 2 Translation: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/120XMXZinIOWUvzyFZj4bZRYBSoZGMChO?usp=drive_link Hajimari no Kiseki Translation (NPCs incomplete. You might also have to use the CLE PC version and not Durante's. Not sure.): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WpcNwWXIAdrEitf7z0nIM6sZF7t3pQmw Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana English patch: https://files.catbox.moe/f9gv0g.zip >Undubs Mega of every undub: https://mega.nz/#F!k5ZjwTCD!A4Uyb67OpQQ_qCoB-zvx0g Merge the JP voices and Dummy files into one folder and dump that folder into the voice folder.

Sony Group Corporation in talks to acquire Kadokawa Corporation https://archive.ph/5paYG >Sony Group Corporation is in talks to acquire Kadokawa Corporation, according to a Reuters report citing two sources familiar with the matter. >Talks between the two sides are reportedly ongoing, and a deal could be signed in the coming weeks if successful, the sources said. >Sony Group Corporation declined to comment when asked by Reuters. Kadokawa Corporation said it could not comment. I would like to inform people that this isn't Sony Interactive here in America. This is Sony HQ in Japan (Which makes things a hundred times worse): https://infogalactic.com/info/Sony And here is a list of all of Kadokawa's current assets: https://archive.ph/WbpFw#Group_companies In addition to video games, they also own book publications, film divisions, and NicoNico (Japanese JewTube). Everything about this deal is bad and no one is happy as the acquisition would result in Sony controling the overwhelming majority of Japanese entertainment.

Why is there no such thing as a plot-driven open world game? Why do all developers seem to have this brain parasite that only allows them to make great, compelling and memorable narratives *OR* huge, exciting and completely seamless world to explore, but *NEVER* the two things together? No, excuses such as "open world and plot-driven are inherently incompatible" are 100% bullshit because there is no conceivable reason why that should be the case. As a thought experiment, take Xenoblade Chronicles X, probably the best open-world ever made, but practically devoid of story; now imagine it having the story of Xenogears; or, better yet, imagine if Xenogears got remade with an open world in the same exact style as Xenoblade Chronicles X. Would that somehow magically make the world or exploration any less compelling? No, it wouldn't, in the slightest. Would the story somehow magically lose its power? Again, no. No reason why it should. So, why?

I'm the OP of the original thread and since the last thread got ruined by autism. I decided to make a new thread focusing on discussing the game and making OC. Since I'm one of the maybe three people on this whole board playing, I'll give my impressions and speculations. >This game was rushed in aspects >The game does have Romance but it's half assed in the weirdest ways >Localisation is ass >Bong VAs are tolerable but JP is always better >Game isn't sjw but pretty critical of all the character's respective ideologies >It's genuinely critical of the MC's idealism >He and the party accept that they've been naive at certain realties >The rival throne candidates's views are also pointed at being flawed having pros >Some more incorrect then others (The eat the rich beast girl is given a nasty wake up over her fantasy Marxism for one example) >Game is much more traditional JRPG meets SMT meets FF style job system meets modified Persona links >The tolerance virtue is a lot more nuanced then what twitter sjws or RW twitter grifters would tell you >Some of the Not social links are clearly romantic in nature but Atlus cut them >Speculate they wanted to test the waters by not fully adding it but not fully removing it either >Think they'll cave with a "Throne edition" that adds full on romance and other stuff that was cut >They cucked out on giving true changeable gear >You can change weapons and buy armour

Basically this is a thread for those minor news articles that are interesting but not necessary big enough to have their own thread. We will be taking the bigger stories from these threads and making them into their own threads, Anons are welcome to do the same. We will NOT be heavily enforcing these threads, so please keep that in mind. Basically things like game announcements, live stream events, new gaming hardware, etc. should have their own threads while shit like NEW GUILTY GEAR DLC 3 "SLAYER" or something like that should be posted in this thread. While we won't ban anyone for doing the former, we encourage anons to use their best judgement when posting news content.

Can someone please make a list of all jRPGs that match the description in pic related? Right now the only ones I know are Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Vesperia. Does anybody know other ones?

I seem to be getting the strange feeling more and more that the Anons who keep posting about the games they're "playing" never actually finish those games. As in they just drop the game after a certain point and lose interest in it for whatever reason (Even if it's a great game). So, to remedy that, let's have this thread, where Anons boast about crossing off another title on the backlog. And, to guilt all the other Anons into doing the same.

>What is this? This is exactly how it sounds: A game is chosen each month (which will be relatively or totally obscure on purpose) with hopes of bringing new avenues of playing potential to anons with narrow video game perspectives. The goal isn't necessarily to pick bad games, but obscure ones nobody, or as few people as possible, have played. You can play the game and then use that fact as bragging rights to others! You can use it to broaden your backlog horizons! or you can forget about it. It's up to you. THIS MONTH: Lobotomy Corporation (PC) >Where do I get this? aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56LyMhc1JOSFNJYUIhbGh1QVRaQWptbUFmQVNTWnZMaUdHeVBWNVZvWUJrZkx3dF9OeGd2UHljSQ== aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56LyMhaFZ0Z2pDQlEhN0xRS1ozN2kxdWZKdFlBUENST19lWE9GTE90NFdfdUFmdFUweU5QMnNqZw== >Next Month For January, the theme will be One Coin January! Poll: https://poal.me/4vqyi4 In honor of the long defunct /1cc/ board, next month's games will be all about Arcade titles. More specifically, the entries must pertain to one or more of the following categories: - The game is a pure Arcade game that can be emulated with MAME or similar emulators (i.e. Sunset Riders for Arcade cabinets); - The game is a remake of an Arcade cabinet (i.e. THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake); - The game is a port of an Arcade game (i.e. Virtua Striker 3 (Ver. 2002)); - The game is a collection of Arcade titles (i.e. Namco Museum Vol. 1).

Aka be glad (((Tel Aviv))) only knows how to make Raid: Shadow Legends edition. Given how many anons here play these titles and request an area to discuss them beyond Blue Archive >>1034800, given how many JP devs have fled to mobile as some of their more senile contemporaries chase the dead ESG gold rush, given how the bishoujo market is concentrated in mobage, and given how many players have actually banded together and organized to repel and BTFO globohomo as of late, I think a mini >>>/vmg/ is warranted. As OP I however get to christen it a "ghetto" until somebody else takes over the succeeding OPs. Do note that all discussion related to the technological and industry dynamic shifts these live services (yes they are live services) propose as well as topics directly pertaining to their cross-platform nature (i.e talking about how Aether Gazer is available on both PC and mobile or the number of gacha games on Steam) should be directed to this thread instead >>986877 If you want to discuss, say, how Lies of P and Brown Dust 2 were both developed by Neowiz, or how neato Versus and Relink are as part of Cygames' Granblue Fantasy IP, do it over there. You can talk about Action Taimanin's 4th anniversary, you can't talk about how well it runs on PC here. Non-gacha MMOs should also be directed to the existing MMO thread >>897003 Post memes, post updates to your chosen main gacha, post liveblogs of your playthroughs, post artdumps, post collabs, post obscure JP and about-to-EOS gachas, post about how the fuck match-three RPGs are still on the market, post about Senran Kagura New Link and Dead or Alive: Penis Vacation, complain about drama and monetization and mixed toilet games and girls trying to push their otome bishie gachas, just make your contributions high effort and high quality and try to max out 8chan's 5-file 50MB upload limit. You are allowed to be horny about certain characters, but your posts about them must be substantive (no >>>/vb/ template posting, for example). <geez, are you smug's owner No, I care about digital hygiene and board nettiquette. NEWS AT A GLANCE Going to try to hash out a format since this is very new for 8/v/. >GFL2, the successor to many anons' favorite gacha circa 2017, is set to come to Global this fall with a closed beta test and prereg being held. (Read: they need that gweilo piggu money.) Luckily, they are cranking up that fanservice, of which I won't post yet because this OP needs to cover multiple titles. >Unluckily, the CN state censor department has randomly struck a bunch of gachas with notices to sharpie over their character designs, the most notable of which was Snowbreak, enrager of BPD harpies everywhere, and Path to Nowhere. For the time being, Snowbreak has elected to use the localization toggle as a way to technically comply with said censor wave while still giving its playerbase what it wants; its future is still uncertain though as the devs continue to give Winnie the Pooh the finger. It seems like more and more that CN devs need to move off West Taiwan's mainland if they are to realize their creative and financial ambitions. >In general, the global economic downturn has meant that the gacha market has slowly been contracting on mobile. PC, however, seems to be booming as devs find that players are willing to open their wallets without having to pay Apple and Gulag the provider tax. >Arknights and Nikke are holding their 5.5 and 2nd anniversaries respectively, with both of them making big stinks about how they have new anime projects in the pipeline, never mind how all people remember from Blue Archive airing is Iori's toes getting sucked. >Azur Promilia has started receiving age ratings in Taiwan. >Mihomo has rebranded its Harvest Moon knockoff project from Asteweave Heaven to Petit Planet. >Uma Musume is gearing up for a global release. When? Not clear. This is for umaanon though. >Infinity Nikki is making waves as a big open world gacha that Soyny is banking on to get some crumbs after chasing off every Asian third party in existence.

>News: <SEGA confirms Virtua Fighter 6 https://archive.ph/wFc6J <Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match Coming to Steam in 2025 https://archive.ph/ce14F https://store.steampowered.com/app/3229260/AQUAPAZZA_Aquaplus_Dream_Match/ <Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. coming to Steam sometime this month or next month >check the embedded trailer silly https://store.steampowered.com/app/3112260/Virtua_Fighter_5_REVO/ <Tekken 8 Confirms Appearance At The Game Awards >probably a guest character https://archive.ph/MzWcd <Ken, Chun Li, and Cristiano Ronaldo are confirmed DLC for Fatal Fury: City Of The Wolves https://archive.ph/SmVVi https://archive.ph/ZN2NM <Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games is getting an anime https://archive.ph/wip/0ffFL

So new AI has had some time to mature. Are there any games that make good use of it as tactical and strategic opponents in any genre aside from chess and such? Any smart RTS game? An adventure game where others in the world have their own agendas? An RPG with opponents that are smart with their weapons and the territory or a companion with unique lines and an ability to use tactics?

Post your favorite quotes, talk about your favorite or old games, shitpost, discuss upcoming stuff. Upcoming stuff: >Company of Heroes 3 >Homeworld 3 >Sins of a Solar Empire 2 >Ratten Reich >The Great War Western Front >WarNo >Broken Arrow >Xenonauts 2 >Touhou Empires >Men of War 2 >Tempest Rising >SeaPower A remaster of Tiberian Sun/Red Alert 2 much like the OG would be nice, though I doubt they wouldn't fuck up the spritework on them since that has way higher definition and small details than the original.