Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

[mickilennial]

I can't wait to start burning down copy/paste villages in For Honor: Shadow of War

I also can't wait for Hyperscape, it combines the super original setting of a virtual MMO world in corporate dystopia along with the super original first person shooter battle royale genre. What will they think of next?

Seriously though if Ghost of Tsushima doesn't scratch my Tenchu itch then I'm going to have to force myself to get excited for paper mario or some shit.

@Dolerman

Could always dust off the old Tenchu PS2 games.

[Dolerman]

Could always dust off the old Tenchu PS2 games.

@Inkarnate

The PS2 Tenchu titles are dusty for a reason.

[Fabricant451]

By the sounds of reviews Ghost of Tsushima is one of those 'boy it looks pretty but boy its design is archaic' games woop woop.

Open world game design could use an overhaul going into the next gen.

[Dolerman]

By the sounds of reviews Ghost of Tsushima is one of those 'boy it looks pretty but boy its design is archaic' games woop woop.

@Fabricant451

And who says Assassin's Creed isn't influential?

The last of us 2 is still relevant? I found this video interesting. It's 30 minutes long but is both a good watch and doesn't treat TLOU2 as a masterpiece nor does it claim the whole thing is shit.

Also, spoilers.

Hider

@BrokenPromise

Until Cyberpunk 2077, Tlou2 is going to be the last 'big game' out, (that crappy avengers game don't count) so yeah it kinda is.

Anyone who thought Tlou2 OR 1 was a 'masterpiece' probably only consumes video games and reddit-approved b-movies as a story telling medium. What Tlou2 was an interesting highly polished stealth murder game with very good voice acting, noting more, nothing less.

[Fabricant451]

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And who says Assassin's Creed isn't influential?

@Dolerman

Even fans of Assassin's Creed will tell you that Assassin's Creed is more derivative than not. This is more like Sucker Punch doing a Second Son all over again.

[Dolerman]

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Even fans of Assassin's Creed will tell you that Assassin's Creed is more derivative than not. This is more like Sucker Punch doing a Second Son all over again.

@Fabricant451

Second Son had interesting ideas but was just sort of unpolished, which makes it the direct opposite of 90% of AC games.

I only expect Ghost to be better than something like Oddessy, which should make it just bearable enough to tide me over until Wasteland 3

[Fabricant451]

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Second Son had interesting ideas but was just sort of unpolished, which makes it the direct opposite of 90% of AC games.

I only expect Ghost to be better than something like Oddessy, which should make it just bearable enough to tide me over until Wasteland 3

@Dolerman

I doubt it'll be better than Odyssey you can't even get a boat with Davy Jones, Charon, Herakles, and Richard the Lionheart so it can't even compete.

Also nothing in Second Son was as interesting as alien cyber deities and Adam and Eve being human slaves in a technologically advanced precursor city and said cyber deities would go on to influence religion and humanity's advancement while also guiding the conflict of ideologies up to and including one of them getting mad and hanging out in Ubisoft's mainframe fucking around while you slave away testing a game made by out of touch directors and staffers with the only sign of your inevitable crunch being little figure statues of other characters on your desk shelf in a rare bit of accidental meta commentary on the banal and thankless job making a video game most people will stop talking about in two months is. You can see the exact moment when the game is screaming for help from the player but nothing can be done because deadlines have to be met and the bonus won't happen this year because it's just not in the budget now hurry up and figure out a way to add a cash shop to a single player game because everyone loves those get back to your desk and work you nameless, faceless cog in the AAA machine that is being occupied by a vengeful super being whose plotline will get resolved in a comic book because we decided to go in a different direction that will split the fanbase between those who actually liked the rote mechanics of following someone and not letting a meter fill up and those who actually prefer the series be an RPG because it's more fun to murder and fuck as a Greek woman than it is to play literally any other character we've made.

[Dolerman]

That's one meaty paragraph.

[Fabricant451]

Yeah it's a key ingredient in a Shitpost Stew

[Dolerman]

It was short, but it hurt to read. Not 1/100th as much as an Earnest Cline poem (which hurts mind, body and soul), but you get the idea.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here

Nerd Porn Auteur

I've noticed that there don't seem to be any porno movies

that are made for guys like me.

All the porn I've come across

was targeted at beer-swilling sports bar dwelling alpha-males

Men who like their women stupid and submissive

Men who can only get it up for monosyllabic cock-hungry nymphos

with gargantuan breasts and a three-word vocabulary

Adult films are populated with these collagen-injected

liposuctioned women

Many of whom have resorted to surgery and self-mutilation

in an attempt to look the way they have been told to look.

These aren't real women. They're objects.

And these movies aren't erotic. They're pathetic.

These vacuum-headed fuck bunnies don't turn me on.

They disgust me.

And it's not that I'm against pornography.

I mean, I'm a guy. And guys need porn.

Fact.

"Like a preacher needs pain, like a needle needs a vein,"

Guys need porn.

But I don't wanna watch this misogynist he-man woman-hater porn.

I want porno movies that are made with guys like me in mind:

Guys who know that the sexiest thing in the world

is a woman who is smarter than you are.

You can have the whole cheerleading squad,

I want the girl in the tweed skirt and the horn-rimmed glasses:

Betty Finnebowski, the valedictorian.

Oh yes.

First I want to copy her Trig homework,

and then I want to make mad, passionate love to her

for hours and hours

until she reluctantly asks if we can stop

because she doesn't want to miss Battlestar Galactica.

Summa cum laude, baby!

That is what I call erotic.

But do you ever see that kind of a woman in a contemporary adult film?

No.

Which is why I'm going to start writing and directing Geek Porno.

I shall be the quintessential Nerd Porn Auteur.

And the women in my porno movies will be the kind

that drive nerds like me mad with desire.

I'm talking about the girls that used to fuck up the grading curve.

The girls in the Latin Club and the National Honor Society.

Chicks with weird clothes, braces, four eyes, and 4.0 GPAs.

Brainy articulate bookworms, with MENSA cards in their purses

and chips on their shoulders.

My porn starlets will come in all shapes and sizes.

My porn starlets will be too busy working on their PhD to go to the gym.

In my kind of porno movies the girls wouldn't even have to get naked.

They'd just take the guys down to the rec room and

beat them repeatedly at chess

and then talk to them for hours about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

or the underlying social metaphors in the Aliens movies.

Buy stock in some hand cream companies

because there is about to be a major shortage.

And I'm not just talking about straight porn. Oh no.

There should be fuck films for my nerd brethren

of all sexual orientations.

Gay nerd porn flicks with titles like "Dungeons and Drag-queens."

This idea is a fucking gold mine.

I am gonna make millions,

because this country is full of database programmers

and electronics engineers

and they aren't getting the loving they so desperately need.

And you can help . . .

If you're an intelligent woman is interested in breaking into the adult film industry,

and if you can tell me the name of Luke Skywalker's home planet,

then you are hired.

It doesn't matter if you think you're overweight or unattractive.

It doesn't matter if you don't think you're beautiful.

You are beautiful. . .

And I will make you a star.

[Fabricant451]

All I'm hearing from that is that I'm better than Ernest Cline which is a low bar but I'll take the compliment.

[mickilennial]

By the sounds of reviews Ghost of Tsushima is one of those 'boy it looks pretty but boy its design is archaic' games woop woop.

Open world game design could use an overhaul going into the next gen.

@Fabricant451

Seriously, that critique is on my top ten of shit I'm bored of hearing in the field.

[Fabricant451]

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Seriously, that critique is on my top ten of shit I'm bored of hearing in the field.

@Inkarnate

There's this prevailing thought that I, a noted fan of Ubisoft's open world stab game, is somehow against games with outdated side quests when that is not the case if I like stabbing dudes in said world which I suspect I will in Tsushima

But also yes the constant need for reviewers to use lazy comparisons to other things is never not the worst

[Mao Mao]

Let's be honest. Who wants to spend hours walking across the world map? That shit was a pain in the ass for Assassin's Creed Odyssey. And I am afraid that Valhalla's gonna be bigger and more of a pain to deal with.

But, I am gonna play Tsushima in an hour so let's see if it's good. Tho, I heard the lip-sync for the Japanese dub is pretty bad.

[Fabricant451]

Let's be honest. Who wants to spend hours walking across the world map?

@Mao Mao

Well yeah that's why you run and fast travel and have a horse. Walking is for lame-os!

[Crimson Paladin]

I suppose this is old news at this point, but Laura Bailey got death threats for her role as VA for Abby in TLOU2. This is really disgusting. It doesn't matter how much one dislikes TLOU2 or Abby, nothing justifies harassing someone simply for being her voice actor.

Well yeah that's why you run and fast travel and have a horse. Walking is for lame-os!

@Fabricant451

Like they say in Morrowind, why walk when you can ride?

[Dolerman]

But, I am gonna play Tsushima in an hour so let's see if it's good. Tho, I heard the lip-sync for the Japanese dub is pretty bad.

@Mao Mao

I'm playing it with the english dub and in full colour, because I'm uncultured western swine who doesn't respect nippon steel.

[Dolerman]

I suppose this is old news at this point, but Laura Bailey got death threats for her role as VA for Abby in TLOU2. This is really disgusting. It doesn't matter how much one dislikes TLOU2 or Abby, nothing justifies harassing someone simply for being her voice actor.

@Crimson Paladin

Nothing really excuses 'hating' a collection of pixels IRL anyway. It's ignorant childish behaviour from people who spend too long on youtube, and not enough time playing the games they are critiquing.

But more importantly, you've given me yet another excuse to talk about Abby, so let's just appreciate her face model Jocelyn Mettler (who also received harassment but not death threats).

Felt cute, might brutally murder some seraphites later, idk

[Fabricant451]

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I'm playing it with the english dub and in full colour, because I'm uncultured western swine who doesn't respect nippon steel.

@Dolerman

It's better in color anyway

[Dolerman]

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It's better in color anyway

@Fabricant451

You clearly don't appreciate Kurosawa's genius and therefore you're not allowed to play the game, Gaijin.