/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

Yeah what the hell was wrong with you guys?

It was pretty clearly titled, what was with the confusion? Why did people think Sony had any place there?

HELL YES DUDE, All hail the Fishmen is up there with Les Baxter's Necronomicon in terms of like, songs that are part of my soul.

//youtube.com/watch?v=DICXzT-PKEE

>>193018
OP said "Last thread hit autosage" which usually only the Generals do. Also it linked to a general Nintendo Direct instead of something specifically Zelda related. Also the thumbnails for both the last General and Zelda thread look similar to where you might mistake it for the other just glancing at it.

Been playing Bioshock Infinite's Clash in the Clouds DLC for a bit recently. Everything was going smoothly until I got to the last map, and Wave 5 has TWO Handymen. Death by a million leaps, fuck.

I think I'll go back to earlier ones and focus on getting the Blue Ribbons I haven't gotten yet, then using the money to buy all the remaining weapon upgrades (I focused entirely on the gallery pieces first... and didn't know you had to buy the remaining four Vigors; I thought you got them at some other point, so I went through the first two maps without them.)

Pretty amusing that a Christian game websites does better reviews than most mainstream ones, and all it takes is separating scores based on their beliefs from scores based on the actual game. https://www.christcenteredgamer.com/index.php/reviews

//youtube.com/watch?v=FyjJ_txsx8A

So broken IT'S ART

>>193026
I was kinda wondering what a cheap cash in platformer would look like on current gen hardware.

Also, no music? You think they'd at least spring for the show's stock music.

>>193033
Nintendo likes to spray paint shit gold and sell it for 5x the price. That's a shitty reward.

Amiibos are terrible in general

>>193035
Honestly, it's better than most of the stuff we get.

>>193036
Amiibos are as close as we'll get to Pokemon in real life.

Mark my words, Pokemon Holylight/Hellfire will have heavy Amiibo integration. Certain Pokemon can only be had through activating an Amiibo, some can only be evolved through items obtained from an Amiibo, you can "upload" your Pokemon's stats to its respective Amiibo to use in other things (like a Pokemon arcade game, or just at a friend's house), people will literally be walking around with Pokeballs attached to their belts. They might even make the game itself F2P and cash in entirely on the Amiibos.

>>193039
>Amiibos are as close as we'll get to Pokemon in real life.

I don't believe you're right about that. As the robotics and AI fields advance, do you honestly not think that we are going to, at some point, see full blown customized virtual pets? Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if, ten or twenty years from now, the Pokemon games themselves have at least a spinoff line where the Pokemon themselves are fully simulated virtual lifeforms.

>>193040
Granted, I'll amend my statement: "Amiibos are as close as we'll get to Pokemon in real life in the near future."

>>193039
Can't wait for the day when Nintendo does that shit and people who presently call out other companies for doing that jump in to mindlessly defend it like the good fan-droids they are.

>>193044
It must feel good to be so much better than all the mindless masses and really see what all the "sheeple" don't. Incidentally could you tell me a good place to buy cheap flannel and thick hipster glasses?

>>193045
Companies other than Nintendo pump out soulless rehashes? Money-grubbing non-artists! Nintendo does the same? 11/10 GOTY

Companies other than Nintendo wield copyright like a club? Anti-consumer garbage! Nintendo does the same? The people who got hit deserved it!

Comapnies other than Nintendo shit all over beloved icons from the early days of gaming? Ruining our legacy they are! Nintendo does the same? Shut up, you're just a CoD-loving racist!

Companies other than Nintendo use region-locking? They deserve piracy, lol! Nintendo does the same? You're just a cheapskate, stop being entitled!

Companies other than Nintendo try to milk consumers with shitty microtransaction schemes? The cancer killing videogames! Nintendo does the same? GEE I WONDER WHAT THE ANSWER WILL BE

Never underestimate brand loyalty and nostalgia. Now take your bullshit contrarianism back to /v/.

>>193047
You're just upset that everyone is legally required to have terrible d-pads because Nintendo holds the patent on good d-pads.

>>193049
Just like how all 2D games not made by Nintendo are worthless, right?

>>193050
Only because Nintendo holds the patent on Sanity Meters.
That'll come in handy for when Eternal Darkness 2 comes out.

>>193047
>soulless rehashes
The only series I can honestly say that does this is the NSMB series. And that's kind of the point as it was meant to be a return to the old form with modern alterations.
And maybe Pokemon. But fuck Pokemon.

>shit all over beloved icons from the early days of gaming
What do you mean by this?

>>193051
>when Eternal Darkness 2 comes out.

Oh anon.

>>193059
MENUS ARE IMPORTANT AND I'M SO HAPPY THEY ARE FINALLY GETTING WHAT THEY DESERVE!

//youtube.com/watch?v=vvIZOrSNVGg

Also love that Dark Souls continuing to seep into every game series.

>>193057
>And that's kind of the point as it was meant to be a return to the old form with modern alterations.

That's a shitty point then because SMB3 and SMW are superior to SMB1.
They're also superior to every single 2D Mario game after them because fuck effort, kids don't know what a SNES is and the only old fans who haven't jumped ship are going to buy anything.
SMW romhackers put more effort into 2D Mario games than Nintendo is ever willing to do again.

>What do you mean by this?

Have you forgotten Other M?

>>193066
>That's a shitty point then because SMB3 and SMW are superior to SMB1
That's not the point being made at all.
The point is the game is the most accurately named 'soulless rehash' of their series because the central point of the series is banking on nostalgia for the old Mario style.

As for other M, that was just a bad game. Very very few liked it, Nintendo fan or not. I don't think many people said "Shut up, you're just a CoD-loving racist!" in response to lambasting it.

>>193070
>the central point of the series is banking on nostalgia for the old Mario style

And that's exactly the problem because the NSMB games are consistently worse than their over-a-decade-old predecessors due to failing to offer either challenge or innovation.
Also, trying to copy SMB1 was doomed to failure from the beginning because combining its limited level design with improved platforming physics could only result in something thoroughly boring.

>As for other M, that was just a bad game. Very very few liked it, Nintendo fan or not. I don't think many people said "Shut up, you're just a CoD-loving racist!" in response to lambasting it.

That's not the impression I got back then.

>>193072
>That's not the impression I got back then.
Not that anon, but what he said was the impression I got. People were (rightly, I think) angry that Team Ninja made Samus into a submissive soldier who could take no action on her own. Plus the gameplay was mediocre.

>>193072
>That's not the impression I got back then.
I'm interested to hear who you were talking to then, because I hang out almost exclusively with Nintendo fans and I don't recall anyone ever saying a kind word about Other M.

>>193078
>I'm interested to hear who you were talking to then, because I hang out almost exclusively with Nintendo fans and I don't recall anyone ever saying a kind word about Other M.
I don't think lambasting the game and saying someone is a Cod-loving racist are the same thing, anon.

>>193082
>I don't think lambasting the game and saying someone is a Cod-loving racist are the same thing, anon.
Please re-read the comment. Calling someone a "cod loving racist was the apparent response to the game meeting criticism. As mentioned by:
>>193047

Also, keep in mind the quality of the NSMB series wasn't the point of discussion. It was which series could justifiably be labeled a rehash.

>>193078
>>193082
Moviebob's opinion was the most extreme, but he was hardly alone with his position. The game triggered a lot of "Behead those who insult Nintendo"-style reactions when people shat on it.

>>193086
You're full of it.

>>193086
>The game triggered a lot of "Behead those who insult Nintendo"-style reactions when people shat on it.
Consensus is its a bad game, dude. Metroid or otherwise.

>>193086
You must run in some very weird circles.

>>193089
He runs on /v/. So stupid, crazy weird circles.

>>193090
But they hate Other M. Often to the point of pretending it doesn't exist.

//youtube.com/watch?v=XdeDtiobyNc

You guys should watch Gaming Historian. Some fascinating stuff.

>>193091
Yes, but they have a line of trolls who like to pretend otherwise and act as if everybody and their mother loves Other M.

So... how about that new Xenoblade X direct? Speaking of which do we have a Nintendo general up yet? If not I'll start it.

>>193129
The old one is autosaging >>189791
Go ahead and make a new one.

http://www.mcvuk.com/special-features/read/the-big-game-dead-or-alive-5-last-round/0165
>"We have to deal with mod issues from an IP holder perspective," Last Round Director Yohei Shimbori says. "We would like to ask PC users to play our game in good moral and manner. Otherwise, we won't be able to release a title for PC again."
>“Their abilities are very balanced and we want to present all of them as dynamic, strong, sexy and confident.”
lololol "We're putting out a game with scantily clad women, don't mod it to remove their clothes entirely."

>>193137
Haven't they done that since the PS2 Era, the modding bit.

>>193138
But in the PS2 era they didn't try to sell you skimpier outfits for a premium.

>>193160
Its funny that he's set the bar so high for unfulfilled promises that I don't think anyone could ever beat him in that market.

>193160
>193162
See, now personally, Molyneaux's ability to dream bigger than he can deliver is one of my favorite things about him. I really respect his ability to keep trying even if what we get is never as much as what he wants to give us. I like that there are still people in the industry out there at least TRYING to accomplish great things with the medium when so many other people are just phoning it in. In a lot of ways I see him as the forerunner to the Indie Developer with Big Dreams, before the indie dev community really took off the way it has in the last few years.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-10-eurogamer-has-dropped-review-scores

Who'll be next?

>>193167
Jeff from Giant Bomb has stated several times that they will never get rid of scores.

>>193168
Those sort of promises mean nothing to me.

Glad Eurogamer has made the decision. Hope they just don't bite it like Joystiq did right after they dropped scores.

>>193166
But all it does is bring to surface how average at best and disappointing his games are. Goddus sucks, the fable series has built so little on what they initially wanted that they've all but abandoned what made the series interesting in the first place, and curiosity was hardly "life-changingly amazing by any definition", even the oh-so prestigious reward of getting to be an inexperienced developer for goddus.

>>193172
He really seems to be missing a step. Course that could be said for most overblown developers them getting a pass while not innovating past their original development. John Romero the only one I know actually getting shunned by the industry for his failure.

>>193173
Who else has hyped average games to the degree he has?

>>193160
>>193172
Really, nothing about Godus ever looked like it was going to offer something Black and White didn't, and in fact it seemed like a transparently bare-bones strategy game with no real pretense of simulation involved. SO if it's not even meeting those goals, that's pretty bad. What annoys me more than his promises, though, is how Molyneux seems to manage people, and specifically how it's like he doesn't trust anyone but himself to have an imagination.

For instance, he doesn't have a real grasp of humor or character design himself, despite most games he's worked on being praised for humorous elements provided by other team members. But with games like Project Milo and Godus, he prefers to just avoid the issue with land characters in a serious setting rather than let someone else write.

And while at Microsoft, he had direct authority over Rareware, and there's no way he wasn't involved in quashing their plans for everything but Kinect Sports. I'm pretty sure he doesn't like the idea of someone else getting more of their ideas actually working in-game than him, and if he's to continue making games it should be from a position lacking authority.

>>193177
Only David Cage

>You will become a digital god, Molyneux proclaims in the video, of 22Cans' next game, Godus. And, you will receive a cut of the money made by Godus from the start of your reign to its end.

>"That, by any definition of the word, is life-changing," Molyneux says.

>18 months later, as Bryan approaches his 21st birthday, he has yet to become God of Gods, he has yet to receive the "riches" Molyneux promised him, and it's looking increasingly likely he never will.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-11-the-god-who-peter-molyneux-forgot

Man, Circle of the Moon is really fucking hard. It's kinda frustrating.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/3/5678044/the-lost-vikings-free-blizzard-deal
Old but nice news.
And the link in it work better then the new one from the HotS news.

>>193194
Yet it's so good...

>>193198
Eh. So far it's my least favorite Castlevania. It's not very fun. Most enemies are deliberately placed to fuck you over from off-screen. That's not very good design.

>>193199
I have never played CotM but that sounds like every Castlevania.

>>193201
That's not necessarily true. In the original games, enemies did nothing until you saw them. They literally wouldn't be a threat until they were on-screen.

>>193199
It still beats Harmony of Dissonance, which was just sinfully boring.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/02/13/peter-molyneux-interview-godus-reputation-kickstarter/

>RPS: Do you think that you’re a pathological liar?

>Peter Molyneux: That’s a very…

No punches pulled.

To say that Valkyria Chronicles has a slow start would be an understatement. Jeez.

Playing Resident Evil Revelations on the PS3 and every item code I try and use for the RE.net account sync doesn't work.
Half an hour cutting through the bullshit to find there's nothing for me.

//youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w

Pretentious crap, or is he right? Kinda reminds me of everything surrounding IrateGamer.

>>193284
He makes interesting and valid points, opinions on Phillip Trout notwithstanding.

>>193284
I feel like we've seen this several times before.

>>193284
Average Joe who got too big for his britches or not, it doesn't excuse his horrible attitude and behavior.
The same really goes for any person in any position. Don't act like an asshole and people will be less likely to treat you as one.

I wonder just how much development time of Just Cause 3 is being spent making the explosions real nice. I hope it's significant.

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/wads-mods/71767-instadoom-screw-nofilter-rc1/

Huh, the environment of Rise of The Tomb Raider just killed my interest in getting it, same thing as me and Far Cry 4.

//youtube.com/watch?v=JCbd6cHe2Sw

>>193377
While I hate that this will probably have microtransactions, I do like the apparent gameplay. Sonic games should be about GOTTA GO FAST, and this seems to have it (as far as I can tell, it's about tapping to jump, but otherwise you auto-run).

Why the fuck does Gamestop throw out the cases for their used (3)DS games? I could understand GBA games where they were cardboard boxes easily trashed, but now we have nice cases.

Yes, I know I can get it cheaper and with the case off eBay, but I like the option of buying them in store (especially if I'm window shopping and see something I want.)

>>193377
Cool. Sonic Dash and Sonic Jump Fever are actually pretty cool phone games, so hopefully this will be just as pretty cool.

http://teambeyond.net/halo-the-master-chief-collection-100-days-later/

What a clusterfuck.

From what I understanding, the single-player campaign from each game works fine, but it's the multiplayer that's fucked up. Makes it incredibly hard to recommend.

It's games like this that's making gaming websites rethink their review scores.

>>193378
>Sonic games should be about GOTTA GO FAST

Spoken like someone who never actually played the Genesis ones. Going fast should be the result of you playing well, not the baseline. Compare the maps of, say, Sonic Advance 2 to those of the Genesis games and tell me again it should be all about speed.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/steam-chat-is-censoring-links-to-a-torrent-site/0145321

What the everloving shit are you doing, Valve? I haven't been able to link anything on plus4chan because of this shit.

Sonic games shouldn't be about anything because they shouldn't make them.

>>193393
>shit game
>lasts 100 hours
10/10 GOTY A Y

>>193393
>>193395
To each their own, I guess. Some people measure a game by how long it took them to play through it while others will measure it by how much they enjoyed it as they played through it.

Length can show more potential, but at the end of the day it's an easy-to-measure metric that means very little, like workplaces that judge productivity by how often you're in the office or how many lines of code you produce. If The Order (which is what I assume led to >>193393) was a fantastic game, its short length wouldn't matter much. Consider the original Portal, which clocked about six hours, but got rave reviews. In the absence of a fun game, though, a short length becomes another negative to pile on top.

Artificially padding a game with fetch quests to make it longer is only going to decrease enjoyment, so even 40-hour games will be rated poorly.

I'm more of the mind that length is one of those tangible details that people use to berate/praise a game. Someone saying "Portal sucked because it was too short!" doesn't strike me as someone who has a legitimate gripe with length, but with some other aspect of the game that they can't put into words—which is why they point to the tangible detail of length.

For me, the only time game length becomes a legitimate aspect of criticism is when a game artificially pads its gameplay to extend playing time—and not in a way that you can skip or avoid. But making a game ‘too long’ in that fashion makes me think it’s more a matter of design than an objective measurement of ‘length’, so I’d still be on the fence.

Wow, the order is really getting it, I expected maybe 7 or 7.5 but it's land pretty squarely in the 5-6 range and a lot the 6s seem to be generous.

You pack of idiots.

Length matters. It is a factor for consideration in determining your opinion on a game. If a game is long or has a lot of replayability, or a short and tightly-crafted experience, it matters. That is the point of the Total Biscuit review. That's why posts like >193395 are moronic and miss the point entirely.

>>193403
http://www.anyclip.com/movies/cape-fear/cadys-compensation-speech/#!quotes/

This reminds me of the compensation scene from Cape Fear.

Yeah I'm pretty sure the point of the video is that game length is an important factor at all, and should be considered when evaluating games, not that it's passing a judgement on it.

>>193403
>That is the point of the Total Biscuit review.
That was a shit review.
How long did it last?

//youtube.com/watch?v=XBN8N2NXfi4

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=153305912

>>193427
"Was projected it wouldn't meet projections"

Like those batshit insane Multi Million Projections for Tomb and Hitman series?

>>193427
>Batman combat
No thanks.

>>193429
>Square Enix in charge of expectations

>>193432
Always a bad decision

Surely it's Eidos, not Square directly.

Learning how to use Famitracker. That's a thing.

I'm just going throw this out as a wild shot in the dark, Natalia Korda will be the final boss of Resident Evil: Revelations 2.

Man, Co-OP is the death of a Resident Evil game, like ALL the worst one have it, one person is not two people and nothing is as immersion and horror disrupting as a clumsy AI stumbling in front of you throwing off your aim and immediately killing themselves on a monster.

I know this is suppose to be "Ashley 2.0" with a gameplay hook but they fucked up the two most important details about Ashley, you stick her in dumpsters before fights start because her AI isn't good (amazingly it's significantly better than RE:R2 AI) and most of the game is played without her.

Like it's really sad that this is a fucking awesome game because of the part of it that has NOTHING to do with Resident Evil.

Bad game, Amazing RPG shooter.

AND GO FUCK YOURSELF WITH THIS FLASHLIGHT/POINTING GIMMICK

I SHOULD NOT NEED TO SHINE A LIGHT ON AN OBJECT THAT I, THE PLAYER, CAN SEE BEFORE MY CHARACTER CAN PICK IT UP, FURTHER MORE IF A CHARACTER WHO CAN'T USE GUNS PICKS UP AMMO I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO GO INTO MY MENU AND CLEAN HER OUT, ESPECIALLY SINCE BY GIVING HER THE FLASHLIGHT YOU MADE HER THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN FIND AMMO. Fucksake, you took every wrong possible lesson you could from everything.

The character switching is the death of gameplay flow.

RE:R2 has failed in every capacity RE:R succeeded in except Raid Mode.

Like RE:R is the franchise that's supposed to save RE and you fucked it up REALLY REALLY bad after just one game, plus holy shit this game is ugly, like the first one is a 3DS game and looks way better....heads in this one are...weird, like no joke RE2 has better head tracking, like it feels like an N64 game with a high res texture.

Also, and to me this is most damning, these are possibly the lamest mosters since Silent Hill: Shattered Memories/Silent Hill:Downpour.

They are decrepit "Warblargle" stumbling straight towards you zombies like the first RE games, but with the controls of RE4 plus a dodge, thus making them laughable.

The game has a FUCKING APPLAUSE SIGN EXCEPT INSTEAD OF APPLAUSE IT SAYS "HORROR" Like the game literally tells you via stupid bracelets "You are supposed to be scared now, are you scared? I bet your scared."

It's a real mess and it's so sad that even the rebirth of RE has made the same stupid mistakes.

The very very few new things it has tried to do are really bad, replacing the easy to use and fun scanner with characters? FUCKING TERRIBLE....I'm trying to think of anything else new it did but I'm REALLY struggling, the "HORROR IS HAPPENING YOU SHOULD BE SCARED BRACELET" I guess.

The new inventory management as result of the two characters is as obtuse as the original RE1.

It feels like Vincent Price designed a RE game, when he was at the lowest point of his career.

Life Is Strange, fucking hell is that game so far up its own ass. I think it might run into David Cage up there.

>>193476
How so? I don't think the game deserves most of the hate it gets. Most of the criticism seems to boil down to people hating teenagers.

>>193477
Can you blame them? Teenagers are just so easy to hate.

Has the gaming division of Microsoft had ANY success lately? Like I think Scalebound might be their first chance at a controversy free success.

>>193477
Yeah, to be fair while a lot of the dialogue is pretty cringe-worthy and irritating it seems to be done intentionally to capture the setting rather than people just not knowing how to write.

>>193482
Yeah because when I think Platinum, I think hot cash profits. Come on Tiki, be reasonable. Even aside of that though, the Xbox division of Microsoft is infamous in that it has literally never been profitable, hence that weird free money thing with Bing awhile back. It's the exact opposite of Sony where Playstation does really well and bails out other divisions that are failing to sell, I dunno, tvs.

>>193491
Which is weird because Sony consistently makes better electronics all across the board.
And even when it's a product that's not up to par, they do make up for it with its school of beautiful industrial design.

I have a soft spot for their studio headphones. There's really no other brand that comes close.

>XCOM: Long War
>Covert extraction mission
>Spawn WITHIN SIGHT RANGE OF A HUGE ENEMY POD
>COVERT OPERATIVE SPAWNS TOO FAR AWAY FROM THE RELAY TO HIT IT FIRST TURN
>Furious save scumming ensues.

>Valve

http://www.gamemoir.com/buzz/the-video-game-references-in-house-of-cards-season-3/

//youtube.com/watch?v=D-rMd2eR04o

//youtube.com/watch?v=MHCqw23zU_o

Someone on the staff really love games.

>>193587
Probably the guy who handles product placement.

>>193588
On a show where characters handle both Windows phones and Mac computers?
I doubt there's actual product placement to begin with.

>>193590
Its Netflix, ad companies are barely starting to pay attention to the online sector. Probably just doing it for kicks.

JESUS THE CAMPAIGN IS SO TERRIBLE, if Capcom had a fucking brain they'd just make a Raid Mode game, I mean that's all Revelations is good for but if they just focused on Raid Mode and forgot the story completely it would be so much better.

What I don't get about RE2R is that there's a retail version with more content coming after all the episodes are released. It's like, why bother with the episodic structure in the first place?

>>193597
>>193608
>Capcom in charge of video games

http://www.japantoday.com/category/arts-culture/view/fans-mourn-segas-exit-from-the-console-video-game-market

Sega's business in the console market is officially done. But that's not about to stop Sonic Team from continuing to develop Sonic games for consoles.

http://www.destructoid.com/sonic-team-lead-plans-to-continue-making-sonic-for-consoles-288426.phtml

>>193620
Does that have any impact on Atlus? That's the biggest question here.

>>193620
>Sega stops making console games
>Sega will continue to make console games

Quite the contradiction there. Especially when Sega's original statement only said the company would focus more on PC and mobile.

>>193629
There's been an update to the game? Will have to go back and check it out again

>>193630
Or it for the xbox only.
Like Kratos and playstaion.

>>193629
>most kids won't know who those guys are.

>>193632
Here's a shocker: Most kids won't play Shovel Knight.

>>193643
Yeah.
How DARE a game not have corporate backing in its development.

>>193643
God I want it so bad.

>>193649
I care for no game with a development budget that's mathematically possible to earn back.

Female senior ui dev attending GDC posted info on 8chan about what she saw.

This glorious machine was one of the those things.

//youtube.com/watch?v=xz06hm6Fnf0

THE FUTURE

>>193662
Pretty sure we've already seen that thing last E3.

>>193662
>>193663
Yep, that's the Omni. http://www.virtuix.com/ It had a kickstarter in June 2013.

>>193669
I feel exactly the same.

>>193669
I see her has having a firm body but not overly muscled. Like smaller Heavy. Good layers and such.

//youtube.com/watch?v=GK0vqTV9cgI

>>193685
I guess it would make sense to make it a boss rush game, what with the amount of work required to animate each enemy.

>>193685
SO PUMP

>>193689
What are you complaints about 8 again? I get so lost trying to remember all the problems people claim to have with operating systems.

>>193690
Its mainly that it was a tablet interface for a desktop, and nobody liked that.

>>193691
That hardly qualifies as a "disaster" to my mind. That sounds more like a "mild inconvenience."

>>193692
Overall yea but users by and large are creatures of habit. Change too much too quickly and they freak out.

>>193692

Well, it was really bad, but what was disastrous were the sales figures. Even Vista sold better.

So GAME is giving out Heroes of the Storm codes.
Anyone want to play?

>>193696
Is the game good?

The problem with 8 is the problem with Xbone is the problem with kinect and that is that MS' PR is atrocious, they sour things and then by the time they fix them people are soured.

Like the point of 8, which if heavily modded and updated is indeed kinda usable but in it's original form was a broken shit pile that was literally the end of Ballmer's career resulting in the entire company being reshuffled with MASSIVE layoffs to fix 8 specifically.

Which was moot and they realized that the brand had become so toxic they needed distance from 8, hence 10.

That's also why they are trying to hype up gutting the Xbone to replace the bones of 8 with 10.

After Xbone they've been getting better since that was LEGENDARILY EMBARRASSING but they keep doing stupid shit like belittling 7 in a world where 8, which is worse than both ME and Vista in sales terms, exists. Thus, as I originally said, is fucking embarrassing and points out they are still out of touch though they really need to get their shit in order for 10 because all wagons are hitched to it, especially the xbone.

>>193700
Sweet. Now even MORE stuff in that game I can masturbate to!

>>193700
>googirls
It's like Queen's Blade except not shit.

>>193701
>>193702

We got Lamias, Scorpiongirls, harpies, elves, googirls, demon girls and mermaids.

anything left?

>>193697
I'd say that it is.
Its Blizzard Dota(no shit) without all the fluff and bullshit like item builds, last hitting and denying.
Plus it has the classic Blizzard flare and more then one FUCKING map/mode!

But I guess it could get boring down the line and the pricing is kookoo for cocoa puffs.
20 euro for a fucking unicorn is nuts BUT for 40 you can get it in a bundle with TONS of other awesome stuff.
What are they even smoking!?

Anyway if you want to play it NOW and dont have a code I would say the founder's pack is a good deal.
Mostly because it has Raynor and he is my favorit to play.
He can take out a whole row of minons with his skillshot, buff both minons and teammates, selfheal and nuke.
What a hero!
And for the 2500 extra gold you can get LiLi how is like the easies healer ever.
Just press Q and she throw a healing potion to the most damaged hero next to her.
So fun and easy~

Also my Blizzard ID is Tentomon4#2853
See you in the storm or other blizzard game.
(plz add me, I dont have ANY friends in my list...)
>>193703
A Bug girl?

It's kinda funny. When you're asking someone who's played like 20 hours of a game what he thinks of it, they're probably gonna tell you all the things they like about it. And when you're asking someone who's played 1000+ hours of that game, they're gonna tell you how fucking terrible that game and everyone who plays it is and how you shouldn't even bother.

>>193709
In the business, I know it as QA fatigue.

http://www.polygon.com/2015/3/10/8182793/severeds-first-level-delivers-a-compelling-artful-creation

OOH, SEEING THEM MAKE GAME CHANGES LITERALLY BETWEEN DAYS AT PAX IS AWESOME, Creature seen Saturday had a different attack Sunday and THAT IS AWESOME.

Also holy shit this reporter is terrible at the game.

//youtube.com/watch?v=gbQh1uF-i1Y

I always appreciate companies who work to make sure the game is really great, they could just shift everyone to Hellraid but instead they chose to stick with it.

Like adding Vehicles is like patching in another game.

I tried, I really tried to sit through even 5 minutes of "Dontemaycry:We tried really hard to make it less of a shockingly embarrassing fuck up edition" and I have a vein bulging out of my head and a pounding migraine 6 hours later.

It is SO FUCKING TERRIBLE it literally causes me physical pain.

//youtube.com/watch?v=o_RusbvXV-g

This looks run. Game Freak took the Rambi sections of Donkey Kong and made a game out of it.

//youtube.com/watch?v=Y-3aiI27OfE

These videos are pretty great.

ORI IS SO GOOD HOLY SHIT, It's just kinda sad to see all these Metroid games climb over the corpse that Other M left the franchise.

I feel dirty linking to Kotaku, but they posted a relatively level-headed (and super long) article about SFM porn, with a focus on StudioFOW. http://kotaku.com/the-people-who-make-brutal-video-game-porn-1690892332

>>193745
>This looks run.
Was that intentional or what.

>>193749
I really wanna play it, but I just don't have the spare 20 bucks right now. Bloodborne gets priority.

>>193750
Well it sure beats their "Tifa has hentai?!!!" article from way back.

>>193752
I just finished it and I was honestly touched by how bittersweet and beautiful the ending was, it's been a long time since a game made me feel this way.

>>193755
Ahahaha, I forgot about that.

>>193772
Oh right, I tried Oculus at Calcon last feb, cool but as a glasses user I had some problems with it, but I can see myself getting a VR headset instead of a new tv down the line so I can get the cinema experiences with having to sit next to people.
To bad they did not have internet at the con so no one got to try Elite.
But it had a sick mechwarriors game that I would play again.

>>193790
Samsung's attempt that is using a tablet is said to be nice. A rep was at a local store and was letting some people test it out.

>Friends bug me and finally convince me into buying a 3DS and MH4U
>Neither of them even give me their friend codes.

Sigh. I was meaning to do it anyway but I'd be lying if I didn't say I wasn't looking forward to playing co-op MH. And it feels awkward to just be asking randos to play with me.

>>193795
Honestly it's good to play a little solo before you get into multiplayer if it's your first time, just to get used to the game. The multiplayer doesn't throw you in the deep end, but it assumes you already know the basics.

I'm finally trying out shovel knight

dang what a tightly designed game!

//youtube.com/watch?v=6niDmSHFbbk

I haven't seen /v/ being so decent in years. The Cities: Skylines threads are actually helpful, funny, and not full of people being complete dicks.

I almost feel bad that DMC definite edition is gonna die in flames but I can't think of a game that so incredibly poisoned it's own well.

Not even actually fixing it can salvage it now, it is literally MADE of sales poison.

The FNAF general stopped bumping and I don’t wanna make a new thread just for this, so I’mma put this little bit of news here.

Scott Cawthon jumped into someone’s charity livestream a few days ago and donated $250,000 (well, a dollar shy of that, but you get the picture) to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Even if you don’t like the FNAF series, you gotta admit that Scott’s a damn awesome guy.

>>193827
I've also seem people post on Tumblr that he's a hardcore prolifer and that people shouldn't donate to him because he might spend it on prolife groups, though I don't know how true that is.

>>193828
Well, Scott is a Christian. But just because he might believe in prolife doesn't exactly mean he's going to dump the donations into a group for it. If he said he's donating it to a children's hospital, I should hope he's donating to the children's hospital. He doesn't seem to be the kind of person who would bait and switch like that.

>>193828
Those people were saying not to buy his game at all for that reason, and long before the charity donation occurred and people had any idea of how he'd even use his money.

>>193830
I'm sure they buy things from people they don't agree with all the time.

>>193829
Yeah, not every person who leans prolife is necessarily a psycho about it. If Scott was going to do something so publicly with his name on it I doubt a fakeout is involved. Tumblr needs to calm down.

>>193833
Yes they are because it's a psychotic position to begin with.

>>193834
I don't like it either but strawmanning isn't cool. None of the people I know with that sentiment actually think bombing Planned Parenthood is a good idea, and I don't think someone is worth boycotting or kicking out of their job over that belief.

//youtube.com/watch?v=bPpFdyEioGs
And preorded.

>>193837
Hopefully we get raptors ON the motorcycles.

>>193834
Don't be like that. Please.
We have enough labelers and hyperbolists out there as it is.

>>193828
It's generally best not to consider anything that tumblr says. If a thought or idea is potentially worthwhile/true it will appear somewhere other than tumblr in short time.

>>193828
Even if it is true Tumblr likes to blow statements out of context (e.g. claims about the handsome man from Saudi Arabia being gay, some guys painted as white supremacists when they actually saved a black man from a lynchmob). And that's when they aren't blatantly making shit up out of whole cloth.

>>193835
There's no moral argument supporting it, it is a position that exists to diminish women's control of their bodies.

>>193843
No Tumblr, you're fucking wrong yet again. The majority of pro life supporters are women and the argument is they think babies are being killed, just like with stem cell research.
>psychotic
I'd love to see where you got your MD.

>>193843
Sure there are.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Morality_of_abortion
Plus the members of the autistic, Down syndrome, or LGBT community who fear that bigoted parents of babies with the "wrong" genetic markers will abort them. I don't agree with them, think all their fears are validated, or think that even if they were they would outweigh the benefits, but you're drastically oversimplifying things for the sake of your strawman. But why are we even talking about this? This doesn't have to do with video games?

>>193843
Let's not do this.
I don't have the energy for a political discussion in a videogame thread.
You don't want to support him because of that, I'm not going to stop you.

>>193843
>There's no moral argument supporting it
You don't have to agree with the subjective aspects, but this specific statement is objectively wrong.

>>193853
I think anon meant as Emmet. Which would be a cool cameo.

>>193858
What... WHAT
I kind of want it

>>193858
this


this is a parody right

>>193858
oh hey it's a live action version of that one "what if machine" short in hat old Futurama episode.

>>193858
Wow.
Adam Sandler is a really bad actor.

>>193862
Actually he was great and when he tries you can still see it, the most modern example being his Hotel Transylvania voice work which while the accent is bad you can still hear his passion.

The tragedy of Adam Sandler is the he is one of the most dead inside actors currently working. Jack and Jill was the death of his credibility and he knows it.

>>193863
He lost his credibility long before Jack and Jill, that was just the braying of his career's grave as its resident flailed in awakening.

>>193858
killallnerds.exe

>>193868
I believe some of those were stolen fan art, along with art from past KH games and Disney films.

>>193874
Looking kinda Femto there... whatever her name is.

>>193875
The fact that she's missing an arm and kinda scruffy looking would make her more like Guts wouldn't it?

>>193879
I thought it was branching, you can chop shop parts onto yourself for greater power or Monster Hunter style crafting those bits into safer less powerful armor and weapons.

>>193879
That synopsis sounds metal as fuck.

//youtube.com/watch?v=ag1sC68A2JA

>>193902
//youtube.com/watch?v=nYCJnTbmztk

Greatest Sonic Boom game, a Mean Bean Machine clone? I wouldn't know, I haven't played the other ones.
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/sonic-boom/link-n-smash/index.htm
It's fine tile matching, but Robotnik somehow didn't make it into the game at all.

So Kojima and his whole staff have been essentially laid off. Also Sakaguchi played himself in a Mega64 skit.

World's going to hell in a handbasket I tell you.

>>193905
Konami is kill, then.

>>193905
>So Kojima and his whole staff have been essentially laid off.
Looks like there's definitely some staff shifting going on, though most of the exact details are unknown at the moment. A statement from Konami explained the changes by saying that they're making things more "in-house":
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/19/kojima-reportedly-leaves-konami-konami-responds
>As we have already announced, we are shifting our production structure to a headquarters-controlled system, in order to establish a steadfast operating base capable of responding to the rapid market changes that surround our digital entertainment business. Konami Digital Entertainment (including Mr. Kojima), will continue to develop and support Metal Gear products. Please look forward to future announcements.
Sounds like they got some shiny new MBAs at the top of the chain who want to restructure, synergize, and monetize.

>>193906
Not at all. For Konami the game division is minor.

>>193909
What do they do then? My sister says they're all pachinko shit these days but it's still so popular that's probably all they need to survive anyway.

>>193911
Pachinko, health clubs, and mobile

I honestly feel its more like Kojima's been trying to get non-MGS projects greenlit for years and finally making due on his threats to leave Konami. That's why he's always been saying "its my last Metal Gear." I dunno if they're a public or private company, but its to spook the board into letting him have something.

Now its clear Silent Hills was just him getting more leverage to negotiate with?

Either way, I think this just means more games in the future.

>>193912
Don't forget YuGiOh.

>>193914
Speaking of YGO, I know I'm a little late to the party, but man, it's just unplayable at this point. Synchros were good. XYZs were fine. But this Pendulum shit is absolutely ridiculous. It's not JUST a few broken archetypes that are broken this time around: The entire mechanic fucks the whole game up.

I know how Konami's "release broken shit, fix broken shit" cycle works, but this time I firmly believe I'm in the majority when I say pendulums are an absolutely nonsensical bullshit mechanic that needs to be removed. To me it's on the same level as banding.

>>193915
Banding was discontinued because it caused rules confusion for little benefit, not because it was broken.

>>193915

Banding wasn't overpowered, it was gimmicky bullshit with rules "too complicated" for idiots/casuals. Same with Phasing.

>>193919
>>193918
I meant just on a general level of bullshittyness.

//youtube.com/watch?v=eHd-_HlcUO4
Good end.