Not even in a strictly sexual sense, just the fact that flowering youth is objectively, aesthetically beautiful, and young girls are cute and appealing as companions or mascots. Like, there's this recent game I'm playing that's growing in popularity, and you can pick a little girl as a starting companion alongside a dog, kitten, or bear. And whenever a western streamer or youtuber reaches that point in the game, they always do an about take, you can see sweat drops forming on their head as they think of the socially appropriate westerner answer, and invariably pick the dog or bear because they 'aren't weird'. What causes this unnatural behavior in western gamers?

After years of avoiding indie games like the plague because of how cancerous the community surrounding them is, I've finally decided to give them a try. I really love the 16 and 32 bit eras of games but I've played virtually all of the ones from that period that I would be interested in to death and the only people who seem to still be making games like that are indies. But there are so many out there and I'm certain 99% of them are bad so I need your help. What are the best indie games reminiscent of old 16 and 32 bit games? I'm up for pretty much any genre, 2D or 3D, except horror and roguelikes. They don't have to look exactly like games from back then but I'd prefer something that doesn't push gay/tranny/furry/feminist pozz; at least, not explicitly. I've already tried Undertale and I didn't like it. Also, general indie games thread.

CORRECT YEAR EDITION! IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN! You are cordially invited to the UT Christmas Stream at https://cytu.be/r/uncommontime There will be some new Tactics and ReTuned content if Tactics and ReTuned devs remember to post a new link and I will DEFINITELY beat Arietta with only Teagan (probably not), but I will give it my all in the attempt. I don't know what else to say besides thank you for all the laughs, and I hope to see you there. [addendum] TEAGAN DID NOTHING WRONG! START TIME: DECEMBER 7TH AT 3pm CDT/1pm PST/9pm for Britbongs/10pm for the rest of Europe [Tentative Schedule subject to change if 8tv go's tits up] Dec 7th: Start Vanilla UT plus Nuclear if there's time for it. Dec 8th - 10th: Finish Vanilla UT content Dec 11th: CODA and Duet, Start Tactics Dec 12th - 13th: Finish Predecessors(Tactics) and move on to Retuned IF a new version is available Dec 14 - 15th: Finished ReTuned and may God have mercy upon my soul I'll stream Sullen Boku Girls Alliance if there's time. [As stated above this schedule is subject to change depending on several factors including] >8tv shits the bed, again. >My internet dies, again. >OBS is being a bitch, again. >I'm taken away by the jews for internet crimes! >How quickly I'm able to complete the content.

Previous Thread: >>476242 SITES TO FIND SHIT, CHECK HERE BEFORE ASKING Gitgud archive and Volafile are as good as dead and as such have been pruned entirely, don't rely on them for anything. https://vimm.net - Accessible archive of retro console games. https://gog-games.to - Downloads of GOG's titles. Owner throws tantrums a lot so the site occasionally goes down. https://archive.org - Internet Archive, you would be very surprised how much is here if you go looking. https://www.myabandonware.com - Mostly retro PC games, often obscure and "abandoned" titles. The following are cracking/repacking sites. If there's a major release, it'll probably show up on one of these. https://dodi-repacks.site https://kaoskrew.org https://fitgirl-repacks.site Privacy and OPSEC tools Try not to get yourself v&, OK? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_p2p#List_of_anonymous_P2P_networks_and_clients

https://archive.is/fnNYh An article from Bloomberg goes into what's behind the ballooning cost of games, and it comes to the conclusion it's actually not "muh gwafix". The TL;DR is <incompetence <terrible workflow <bad production pipelines <no clear development plan Some quotes from the article. "le reddit spacing" to make it clear these are separate and out of context >I had coffee with a video-game developer who told me that work was slow and that they’d been spending half of their days watching Netflix. >There was the developer who couldn’t work because the game’s tools weren’t ready. There was the team that had to drop everything they were doing because the creative director had played Breath of the Wild over the weekend and came away with some Great Ideas. There were the artists who were blocked from working as they waited for a colleague to finish a design. >A small part of a game’s budget might go to miscellaneous costs like office rent and computer equipment, but the vast majority is earmarked for labor. Let’s do some quick napkin math. If you have 100 employees and you’re estimating $15,000 a month for each one, you’re spending $18 million a year. But these days, the top game studios are much bigger than that. So if you have 300 employees and you’re estimating $20,000 a month for each one (got to pay good wages to compete in 2025), you’re spending $72 million a year. Anon's note: If you think $20,000 a month is crazy, wages can be even higher than that. I think some of the positions at Riot start at $35,000 per month. >games are growing more expensive because of rampant mismanagement — because of companies chasing trends, making bad bets and lacking a clear creative vision. Inefficient workflows, technological shifts and insecure executives can all be the cause of wasted time, which equates to higher budgets. A common example these days is taking a team with years of experience making single-player games and pivoting them to a multiplayer game as a service.

No Christmas theme. Demons don't celebrate Christmas. Old thread: >>937850 Post anything relating to >DOOM >its wads >its sequels >its community >its copycats >all 90s FPS related accessories

Old thread: >>608298 News >The Rog Ally has released, and it's.. fine. The claimed 2-3x performance boost was closer to 5%-30% and the custom GUI isn't anywhere near the level of the Deck >The Edion in Osaka talked about last thread has set up a longer-term or possibly permanent Steam Deck display following a presumably successful 'trial market', Japan is now one of the few, if not only, countries to sell the Steam Deck at major retailers >Computer and hardware manufacturer Orange Pi has soft-announced their first handheld after a leak. It reportedly accommodates both Linux/Windows, the device will either use a 7800U or a RK3588S processor for the higher-end model and will launch in October with three models costing between an estimated 1500元 ($220) and 3500元 ($500), though prices are not final. There is no publicly known name for the device yet >Gaming analyst firm Omdia estimates Steam Deck has sold over 2,000,000 units so far, having sold 1,600,000 in 2021 alone, and will likely surpass 3,000,000 this year. This makes the SD not just the bestselling UMPC in history, but possibly majority of UMPC sales ever. The firm believes the device "will open the door to a new PC gaming product category" Thread questions >What do you own? >What are you playing on it? >Anybody gotten involved in the scary world of hardmodding yet, and how did it go? >Anything you're excited for? CES 2025 UPDATE Lenovo Legion Go S will be the first non-Steam device to use the OS.

Dead or Alive Dating Sim 2025 https://archive.is/BAAcD

A thread for Softmodding and Jailbreaking consoles. Guides https://www.cfwaifu.com/ Nintendo 3DS: https://3ds.hacks.guide/ Nintendo Wii U: https://wiiu.hacks.guide/ PlayStation 2: https://www.psx-place.com/threads/tutorial-the-great-ps2-aio-guide.30219/ PlayStation 3: https://www.psx-place.com/threads/exploiting-4-90-ofw-installing-cfw-running-ps3hen-flash-writer-ps3hen-now-supporting-4-90-fw.39772/ PlayStation Vita: https://vita.hacks.guide/ Homebrew http://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Applications (3DS only) https://apps.fortheusers.org/ (Wii U only) https://www.brewology.com/ https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Main_Page https://gbatemp.net/download/ https://www.psx-place.com/resources/ (Sony only)

I was recently reminded of some games which, in my opinion, were carried entirely by the soundtrack. Immediately the ones which come to mind are things like whatever Tim Follin produced music for, like Pictionary on the NES, but also more contemporary titles like Skyrim and Mechanicus. Then this got me thinking about the other games out there which got completely carried by some other non-gameplay related element, like the story or the art style. I'm not talking a mix of one thing or another, but something going so far and beyond the rest of the characteristics of the game that it is recognized/remembered as the sole thing the game had going for it. I suppose another example would be Little Witch Nobeta which has pretty forgettable combat and even worse aspects besides, but it remembered because it has one cute girl in it whom the devs are not afraid at all to lewd in their official merchandise and marketing. Post some other examples which spring to mind, be it for soundtrack, artstyle, or something else - as long as it doesn't pertain to the gameplay.

CAPITALISM IS BACK GET FUCKED COMMIES EasyGameStation has announced Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale HD Edition, a remastered version of the December 31, 2007-released item shop simulation game / action RPG. It will launch in 2025 in Japan. Personally I hope they don't fuck up the localization considering how much of a mees that scene is. Although considering how influential this game was for PC, it's entirely possible some tranny within a company like XSEED or NISA will try and ruin it. Still we can worry about that when the time comes, right now I'm just happy this exist. https://x.com/Recettear_EGS/status/1873564667366506965?

I'm finding that i've gotten bored of my current library. what are some good games that you've guys have played? they don't have to be recent, or anything. for some pointers, here's some games i really enjoyed, and why i like them (and some reasons i don't) >Noita good: wand tinkering is really fun, falling sand simulation is interesting to play with bad: poor balance, underdeveloped mechanics. >KSP good: rocket go fwoosh. flying your own crafts is cool. successful missions are rewarding bad: performance, requires a physics degree to play optimally. >F:NV good: lots of dialogue options, colorful characters, and memorable locations. bad: start of the game (and whole main quest) is very linear, and DLCs are pretty mid. >skyrim

So it seems that the launch of this game was piss poor due to the bad performance issues and normalfags waking up to the DRM/Microtransactions shit. Still there's a good game to be found, and I hope everyone is enjoying the game as much as I am. Just recently capcom released a new patch where they added a New Game function in addition to a FPS Lock for console fags. In addition to being able to get your own house earlier in the game, and changing Art of Metamorphosis to 99 instead of 2 in the Pawn Guild, thus eliminating the need for microtransactions altogether. Sadly it seems the performance issues won't be release until later this year since it seems capcom needs some more time to cook the game and have it working with DLSS3 and other techniques to make the game actually run at a bearable framerate. Still with all of the complaints they got, hopefully they can have some options to fix the performance issues by using the GPU a bit more in towns. Still, have you been enjoying the game /v/?

I feel like playing another game of EratohoK, so I will probably start one up tomorrow and post screenshots and commentary as I play it. What to expect: > a war strategy game with Touhou characters > and porn > and lots of other characters we've added in earlier threads > Set kill rate to "high" and watch them all die It will probably take a week to finish. If you want to recommend yet another new character before I start, I can add them.

Fuck /v/, this is /jp/ territory now. Remember when roguelikes were fun and not just a cynical means of nodevs avoiding having to handmake content? Remember when Elona consumed your life? Remember eating children and rounding up a monster sex slave harem during a run? Lafrontier certainly remembers, and not even (((Unity))) or ///Early Access\\\ can dampen the fun. >Elin Download: https://mega.nz/file/jRd1jKyY#ZylETgXk_FKFKtsIqpcq_7pCMpcQUyZvj6MHW8e3hOk this is last week's version, whatever >Elin Wiki: https://ylvapedia.wiki >Elin Player Guide-Compilation: https://ylvapedia.wiki/wiki/Elin:Player_Guides >Elona+ Custom-GX continued branch: https://github.com/JianmengYu/ElonaPlusCustom-GX >Beginner guide, FAQ and links for Elona+: https://rentry.org/8vkaw >New child mechanics guide for Elona+: https://unknown.spam/xccbd5of >Extra sprites/PCCs: https://elonaup.x0.com/sozai/index.htm

Post /v/idya characters in beach attire and the like. We used to have artdump threads like these on an annual basis but this place caught the gay so let's change that. If you want to request season-appropriate art the drawthread is next door >>986513 yes OP pieces are from a preexisting thread