/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

>>197763
Worth reiterating that it actually has a playable demo.

>>197759
>I had a lot of fun with it, though things are too hectic to really pay attention to the artwork.
I could see the art fine, but was in too much of a rush making sure I was attacking as fast as possible (before an enemy turn suddenly starts) to figure out any fancy combos. Hopefully, being introduced to characters more gradually will make it easier.

Still, I chipped in almost immediately after finishing the demo.

I really like how super meter works: you build it during the fight, then what's left at the end turns into health. That way you don't feel like conserving for big enemies or throwing it out at the match's end just because it's "use it or lose it". And since how much you build is limited by the damage enemy's can take, there's no motive to leave the last enemy up as you just have everyone heal.

>>197763
I really enjoyed the demo up until the boss where it decided to wig the fuck out on me and stop reading every other input. But it's a pre-alpha prototype, so things like that are to be expected. Looks great otherwise.

I'm not the only one who thinks the tiger mage is a lot like Eska from Avatar am I? For that matter I guess the setting gives me vibes of Avatar but moved south from East Asia into Indochina.

//youtube.com/watch?v=HJaUGVfqGDc
The phantom pain is cut content

//youtube.com/watch?v=NWlOtBV5zO0
Far Cry Primal looks awesome. I hope they don't go 'lol aliens' or 'lol time travelers' to get guns into the game, but if they do it properly that might be ok. The killer fauna and the lower tech looks like Primal will be a bit harder on the survival aspects.

>>197773
Fuck Konami.

>>197777

>Far Cry: Primal
>not making it an entirely new franchise so it can be given the name "First Person"

IT WAS RIGHT THERE. IT WAS RIGHT THERE AND THEY MISSED IT.

>>197777
Dude I want Turok so bad it's not even funny, just as a DLC even ala Blood Dragon.

>>197780
Hey, you only need to grind for like 800 hours in ARK and you can hunt dinosaurs with guns in that.

I have been filled with determination and emptied again.

HopesAndDreams.mp3

>>197785
You can imagine whatever you like with regards to that character, you only really have his speculation to go on.

The Brazilian Bombshell, Officially Revealed! — Here’s the trailer for SFV’s new addition, Laura Matsuda:

//youtube.com/watch?v=eTTNFgweOB8

If that’s her in-game theme, it’s boss as fuck.

(Also: rumblings from the show where she was officially revealed say a New York stage is in the game, and Alex may be visible in the background…)

>>197792
>Brazil
>Electrical Attacks

So is this going to be something that all Brazilians natively have, or does it mean something more?

is she going into this looking for her long lost brother or something?

>>197793
Not sure that Sean is terribly lost or something.

>>197795
Somethin' wrong there, champ?

>>197796
Brazilianese peeps?

>>197797
Yep! Its pretty common. There was lots of japanese immigration to Brazil post WWII. The country's a big cultural melding pot so there's been so much race mixing huge segments of the population have at least SOME japanese ancestry in them. There's a few cases of famous brazilians being more notably part japanese. One of which is Neymar!

But no, its not out there at all.

>>197796
>>197797
I think the point is they're both Japanese Brazilians.

Why do people like Angry Joe again?

>>197802
Same reason people like Pewdypie and Markiplyer. He screams like a retard.

>>197803
Yes but Joe acts like a borderline autistic version of the AVGN, without the irony of playing a character.

>>197804
What? You upset that he reviewed a game different than your own impression?
Just let him do his dumb shtick and move on to something else.

http://www.pcgamer.com/hl3-txt-dota-2-update/
Gaben why do you play with my heart.

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2015/10/09/supermassive-games-until-dawn-2-being-discussed-sales-surpassed-expectations/#/slide/1

Super Massive should make this a horror anthology series. Different cast and setting, but same/improved mechanics.

Shadow Warrior is a pretty good game. Now I'm kinda excited that a second one has been announced.

>>197816
Yea it was a good and tight experience. Interested to see more about the Co-op in the new one, and learn what the overall story is.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/613356213/friday-the-13th-the-game

>already have the game in development
>Sean Cunningham, Kane Hodder, Tom Savini, and Harry Manfredini are on board
>devs respect the franchise too much to risk going through a publisher that might ask them to tone it down

Boss as fuck.

>>197837
This just makes me wonder why no one has tried to do a Nightmare on Elm Street game in the "modern" gaming age.

>>197838

That likely comes down to the lack of a good core gameplay idea. How do you make an Elm Street game that isn't just a more action-oriented Silent Hill?

…huh. Scott Cawthon updated his site with two MP3s - music supposedly from the upcoming FNAF World.

I still say FNAF World is some sort of trolling endeavour—but if it is, at least he's not half-assing it.

>>197839
Have the player be Freddy and set it up to where you have to stalk, trap, and elaborately kill the kids

>>197840
Man doesn't approach this half way.

Man. This really has been a great year for videogames. Triple A and Indie.

>>197854
There's been so much stuff coming out, I actually thought some of the stuff has been around for way longer than this year because there's been so many great games since then. Did you know Mortal Kombat X and Cities: Skylines were released this year?

Finally! It came out for real.

//youtube.com/watch?v=_loRDrWCv10

>>197858

>FUCKING TUMBLRNOSE

http://www.pcgamer.com/ea-wants-to-make-gigantic-action-games-like-ubisoft-and-take-two/

Yea this isn't going to go well. I mean other than ignoring the pile of franchises they've left forgotten their wake along with the production houses they destroyed.

What could go wrong trying to jump quickly on top of games that have been doing it for a couple of decades now.

>>197860
Especially at a time where people are actually starting to get tired of them.

>>197859
>>197861
I really don't get why it bothers you.

>>197862
I didn't say it's bothering me. I just think it's a stupid idea is all.

//youtube.com/watch?v=7Bfu2247nK4

>>197865
Nice to see this starting to get out. FYI they still have to sell this crap to their various legislatures and the one that would strong arm this in the US house doesn't look like he'll get the speaker job to do so. Both Sanders and Trump are solidly against it and its been getting rallies against it in Japan for months.

>>197882
Really wish there was a model of the New 3DS that had the same texture as that and the original SNES and Game Boy.

>>197883
Tragically, the world's Nintendium reserves ran out in the late 1980s and they can't make them like that anymore.

>>197886
Damn shame, nothing felt as good hand held wise as a Game Boy. Prefer that rough feel to the smooth ones out now

>>197886
I pretty sure there was enough leftover Nintendium for the Gamecube at least.

>>197890
>Prefer that rough feel to the smooth ones out now
At the very least, it made them feel less like one would slip out of your hand.

>>197910
Yes, because they were drilling into your hands.

>>197914
Goddamn. Why would you ever pick another Blanka?

Destiny's troubled development from its vanilla release to the critically acclaimed 2015 release of The Taken King.

http://kotaku.com/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny-1737556731

>>197917
>kotaku
Nope

>>197920
90% of it is tabloid level garbage and Jason Schreier is a big moron but that doesn't mean it's incapable of putting out articles of acceptable quality.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/388090/announcements/detail/108443629625755403

>FNAF4 update (canon) and FNAF4: Halloween Edition (non-canon) will both drop on Halloween

Neat.

>>197921
And why would I want to give them clicks and thus money if 90% is trash? I let my dollars and time speak for me and that entire "news" network and its affiliates need to be torpedoed.

Now that I've got the Platinum in Diablo 3 on PS4 I kinda want a new podcast game.

Anyone else recently complete Tales from the Borderlands?

//youtube.com/watch?v=O0TiqIjF-uk

>>197938
Telltale+Borderlands is pure nightmare fuel so no

>>197939
TFTB is alot better than the crap like Walking Dead or Game of Thrones

>>197946

Not seen borderlands and some of the things in Life as Strange kinda burned me out on it. Until Dawn though was oddly compelling.

>>197943
Yeah, I can recall that being a part of his LPs, I believe one of the latter nights in 2 where you have to wind the music box near constantly (Puppet being the "baby").

Fuck me, Bloody Mary in Terranigma is so fucking ridiculously hard. I mean, I remembered that when I started playing it again, but fuck me, this bitch is so fucking absurdly hard.

Finally caved in and started FF XIII, just so I can say I've played every mainline FF. And boy howdy, people weren't kidding about the beginning. That shit fucking draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaags ooooooooooooooooon. It's like a minute of walking in straight line until the next cutscene and then a minute of walking again, for like several hours. At least the battle system seems kinda neat. Overly visually busy, but I like the more frantic pace.

//youtube.com/watch?v=LL2gW7hmXu4

The Sadness Saga continues.

>>197987

So Magic Homeless Androids Incoming.

>>197987
At least Ellen Page knows better now god bless the poor soul.

>>197989
Wait, when did she shit all over David Cage that I missed?

>>197992
You are not familiar with David Cage I see

>>197989
You know I think she'd be a fair Raven if DC ever cared to do such a project.


>>197990
Well the creepy scrapbook and the Full Body Nude Models they did of her probably soured a few things.

>>197992
It'll have QTE and Highly cinematic scenes tied to those events. Nothing Free Roaming, and if it follows Two Souls near impossible to achieve a fail state, and you won't be able to tell what are choices and just filler.

As much as I would love to see this be Nomad Soul type Design and Exploration. The way Quantic Dream has turned their games into being more like Films than Games over the years I doubt it.

>>197994
I could forgive the filmness if the games weren't written like utter shit. Until Dawn was able to do it pretty well, why can't Cage?

>>197996

Because the Until Dawn guys were filmmakers who wanted to make a fun experience. David Cage, on the other hand, is so far up his own ass that he has forgotten the very idea of sunlight.

I think Microsoft actually kicked Steam's ass for once with the Elite Controller, people were looking for quality and customization over cheap and singular. And Steam didn't even get the Cheap part right.

>>198001
The Elite Controller looks sweet, but I am in no need of a $150 controller. Already spent money on one of those Halo 5 controller (Master Chief version) and I'm happy with that.

>>197998
I was surprised by the positive reception Until Dawn received. I expected the worse, but everyone seems to love it. Might pick it up soon. Not sure what to make of the FPS VR DLC, though.

>>198005

Until Dawn is genuinely great. Try to go in as unspoiled as possible.

>>198006
This exactly.

Mmm, I would say that comes with the caveat of only getting Until Dawn if you're the sort of person who finds teen horror funny.

>>198008
I wouldn't, sure that helps but the game stands well enough that unless you CAN'T STAND horror tropes you should get it.

Well…uh…something went down in regards to FNAF World today. Scott split the FNAFW promotion off from his main site to its own domain, and earlier today, that site was “hacked” with a message saying they would release the actual FNAFW game later in the day. They made good on their word about twenty minutes ago—and the game is an FNAF reskin of one of Scott’s old games, FighterMageBard. Everyone kind of figured Scott was trolling people, anyway, but he’s left people on the FNAF subreddit wondering if this “game” might have some secrets of its own.

I've watched a few plays of SOMA from differnt LPr most recent being Spoonys attempt since he quit Six hours in.

Points I've found is that the game kinda falls apart on the moral choice thing. Mainly since the first one they set you with isn't very clear and there is not setup for that meaning anything. Still not seen any completion yet so that may do something. Same with the poking of alien AI rectum.

>>198009
Not really, the characters are all stock teen horror characters. That's the idea draw and I certainly am not knocking the game for it, but it's definitely a barrier for entry.

>>198012
We're essentially agreeing on the game itself, just disagreeing on the level of barrier horror tropes cause so I'm good with that.

How about that Miitomo.

http://kotaku.com/nintendo-introduces-a-new-account-system-1739331768

IT’S ABOUT MOTHERFUCKING TIME, NINTENDO.

(In before >Kotaku)

Triforce heroes somehow manages to be both dull and exhausting.

So Titanfall deluxe is on sale for $4.99, should I get it? Never touched the game so I don't know much about it.

>>198027
From what I understand, the game's pretty much dead. But a 5$ sale would probably bring some people in. I say give it a shot.

//youtube.com/watch?v=TsaXgePC2No

Well, I’ll be damned. It’s (probably) gonna be a real game.

>>198033
Is it gonna end up being "hey look its all cutesy" until the endgame where they ask you to explore some haunted laboratory and the final boss ends up being an eldritch thing?

>>198037

All we’ve seen of the (actual) game is that trailer; although Scott hasn’t said as much, the troll version of FNAFW seems to hint at boss battles against at least an Eldritchian version of The Purple Guy.

In non-FNAF news, Tekken × Street Fighter—or whatever that game may become—is still in the works:

http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2015/oct/30/tekken-x-street-fighter-needs-some-sort-surprise-fans-arent-expecting-according-harada-character-lineup-decided-long-time-ago/

http://steamcommunity.com/games/208650/announcements/detail/128710596369779495

Akrham Knight PC port still sucks.

>>198040
Yea they quit working on the main game back in September

http://www.krosmaster.com/
Beta ends Nov 5th so if you want the free Arty it time to try it!
Or wait intill later because I did not like that figure when I tried him...

Fun game anyway.

Man Fallout 4 looks fucking terrible, it actually looks like a FO3 mod, it's ridiculous.

>>198065
https://vid.me/Qqh2
Look at this shit seriously

>>198065
I think you're forgetting how bad FO3 looked.
4 looks pretty standard for an open world game of its type. Nothing to write home about, but not straight up painful either.
Just serviceable. Besides, people aren't into those games for he looks.

>>198067
No, no it does not look as good as it's competitors. Look at the fucking Witcher. Or what they've shown of Just Cause 3. Or hell, any recent entry in The Ubisoft Game series.

>>198067
>I think you're forgetting how bad FO3 looked.
I've played several hundred hours of New Vegas, with a bunch of visual improvement mods, and have to agree that this looks significantly better, but still not very good.

>>198070

So a question. Is is console limitations or just the age of the Gamebryo engine that is causing this problem for them.

I mean I know Fallout has a certain style they want to maintain. Guess we'll have to wait and see when the release hits if its still working. Steam Refund system will surly be telling.

>>198073
Its literally gonna be the genocide run in Undertale.

>>198075
It's not even the engine, Bethesda's just bad. Catherine was made on Gamebryo (not even Creation, but old Gamebryo) and it looks better than this. Multiple other open world games that look better have come out on these consoles that look better. Even regular ass New Vegas looked better because Obsidian bothered to create a setting with color contrast.

Bethesda is a bad developer that hasn't made an above average game since Morrowind and it looks like FO4 isn't fixing any of 3's issues, fuck that game. If you must get it, get the Game of the Year Edition on sale a year from now and load it with mods, but don't be a part of this bad behavior by buying it at release.

>>198079
They really should stop trying to do this on their own. As they really aren't that good at it. They should have put MachineGames or some guys from Arkane Studios on the team.

>>198085
>They really should stop trying to do this on their own.
Why in the hell would they? Skyrim sold bajillions.

I can't believe what a fucking trainwreck of a movie Silent Hill Revelation was.

>>198087
Got a couple nice songs out of the soundtrack, at least.

>>198079
Just curious, what didn't you like about FO3? I enjoyed it.

>>198091
Awful writing and samey art design is the short version.

Can people on my steam friends list see what steam groups I join?

Because there's an active group for an anime I watch that I'd like to join, but I have friends on steam that I'd rather have not knowing I watch moeshit.

>>198162
It will show up in the "minor events" list, the one you see at the bottom of each day that includes people who have become friends, achievements someone has unlocked, etc. Unless your friends have few friends themselves, or are specifically seeking out your name, it will get lost in the noise.

Though if you post a thread to the group, I think it shows up in the feed proper.

I'm Steam Controllering It up, I'm way into it.

>>198179
How does it feel?

>>198180
A lot more solid than Pat from TBFP described it though about as loud, but I think a lot of his animosity towards it comes from the differences in what we're using it for.

He got it for videogames specifically which it's okay at and takes a lot of getting used to, but I can beat Super Meat Boy with it. It's definitely not a mouse and Keyboard replacement, but I'd say it can handily compete with if not beat a standard Xbox controller once you get over the hump.

What I got it for was a convenience, as long as I don't have to type anything I can browse movies and videos and games while lying down, further more I hooked it up to my lap top and made a system for my parents to watch movies without having to rely on my computer. I'm already going to get another one, to me it's like the new age equivalent of the invention of the TV remote. less a cutting age 1 to 1 perfect gaming tool and more of a REALLY nice comfort device.

Man, fuck playing Darksiders 2 HD on the hardest difficulty. What a fucking clusterfuck. That camera might be the worst I've ever seen in a videogame.

For some reason, Undertale keeps thinking my controller has the analog stick perpetually pointed at up. Is there a launch option that can disable analog? The ingame "POV only" option has no effect.

>>198188
I've heard the virtual keyboard works pretty well for typing.

>>198192
I didn't even know there was such a thing.

Also playing Rise of The Tomb Raider (I feel dumb even typing that stupid, stupid name) and it's exactly like the first one with WAAAAAAAAAAAY more RPG and Metroidvania.

I'm loving it, but if you hated the first one this will be even more poisonous to you.

The games fatal flaw is the lack of Sam and Sam X Lara was literally the best thing about the first one.

Lab Zero got a twenty-day extension on the Indivisible campaign. At the rate it’s going now, they may just crack that 1.5mil mark by the end of the month.

I'm uncertain about Indisivible's chances but I really hope they make it.

>>198203

Well, the campaign’s just shy of a million after the end of its initial stretch of time. The funding’s gonna have to crank up hard over the next twenty days to make that last 500k.

Sometimes replaying a game you enjoyed on normal on the hardest difficulty really shines a light on its weaknesses, like janky hitboxes and imprecise controls.

//youtube.com/watch?v=w-UgOXP82UI
Well then. About time.

>>198252
Well since they are having them put a log of eggs in the basket with Youtube Red, they'd better make some kinda deal.

Vermintide look super fun. Makes me wish I had friends.

My Steam wishlist has basically become my "might buy if it ever leaves early access and turns out alright" list. Not sure how I feel about that.

Yea the "Beta/Early Access" thing has become way too common as of late.

>>198308
Why hire testers when people will do it for free?

>>198309
For free? I think you mean "will pay YOU to test your game for you"

>>198308
>>198309
>>198310
You say this as though you're blaming the companies, but 95% of the blame lies on gamers themselves for being willing to pay for it in the first place. If gamers' play habits matched their rhetoric, almost none of the "problems" in the industry (DLC, early access, zero day patches, DRM, etc.) would actually be problems.

>>198311
True.

>>198314
Yea especially with the rise of the professional gamer. Those that follow them will play while they shill about the game they are playing for a living.

//youtube.com/watch?v=gFvVOg0Y6eA

>>198316

Under any other circumstances, people would give no fucks about DOA Xtreme 3, but because Koei Tecmo raised the idea of SJWs getting the American release cancelled, everyone wants to cry about feminists and censorship and how a game that would’ve only ever sold a few thousand copies if it came out here will never be seen on American shelves. The SJW boogeyman argument crumbles when you take into account how Koei Tecmo faced a small amount of visible “SJW-esque” criticism over Dead or Alive 5, yet still released the game—skimpy costumes and all—in the United States; the same goes for Ar Nosurge Plus, Deception IV, and Yoru no Nai Kuni (to be released in the States next year as Nights of Azure), all of which contain sexualized portrayals of female characters. Aside from generalized complaints about the sexualization and objectification of women in videogames, was there any sort of major furor over DOA Xtreme 3 or the other games I mentioned above?

Koei Tecmo most likely figured the game would sell poorly here in the States. Maybe the company wanted a convenient excuse to avoid releasing the game in the States…or maybe it raised the spectre of SJW censorship as a marketing scheme designed to get the game some attention. The content of every other game released by the company this year—as well as the non-existent cultural backlash to those games—dispels that entire “fear of criticism” illusion.

>>198317
>Aside from generalized complaints about the sexualization and objectification of women in videogames

This shit doesn't apply to DoA. DoA has no bullshit about what it wants its target audience to be: horny teenagers and straight men. And there is nothing wrong with that. It's just porn. DoA doesn't have to appeal to women. This isn't like Metroid or something, where the actual game is what's supposed to drive sales, and oversexualization becomes morally wrong when you consider there may be a fuckton of women who enjoy playing Metroid. With DoA, nobody gives two shits about the actual game. It's porn. There is nothing wrong with making a niche game for a niche audience. The idea that such games (along with porn in general) condition sexism is totally unfounded.

I know this has nothing to do with your argument, but I had to get it off my chest.

>>198319

And all that stuff you just said is largely why there hasn’t been an actual backlash against DOA Xtreme 3 (or DOA 5, for that matter): the people who’d normally protest against such things give no fucks because those games lack the cultural reach of, say, Street Fighter—which means they’re worthless in terms of getting pissed off about how they portray women.

(BTW: I once owned the original Xtreme Beach Volleyball. The actual volleyball portion of the game was surprisingly fun.)

http://slimedrippings.tumblr.com/gamefaqssort

>>198320
I'm not sure what's more impressive, Play-Asia's shamelessly cynical chutzpah or the gullibility of the people falling for it:

Play-Asia: "HEY DID YOU HEAR THOSE DAMNED DASTARDLY FEMINAZIS DON'T WANT YOU TO GIVE US ALL OF YOUR MONEY?"
Cretin: "THEY DON'T? WELL HERE, HAVE ALL OF MY MONEY. THAT'LL SHOW 'EM."

Fucking idiots.

>>198325

And all for a game that a good chunk of the people falling for the bullshit would’ve never bought otherwise.

//youtube.com/watch?v=_qpd8YvUGhs

Oh hey some thanksgiving Johntron.

>>198325
>>198326
Actually it's more like

Play-Asia: "Hey they won't sell the game in America, but we will."
Adults who want to legally purchase a game: "Thanks a lot, bro."

Said Feminazis they are speaking out against are actually literally threatening their business for selling the game.
http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2015/11/former-ign-and-gamespot-journalists-threaten-play-asia-for-supporting-dead-or-alive-xtreme-3/

But ok, ignore all the evidence and say some bullshit about how I hate women or something for believing Play-Asia isn't doing anything wrong.

>>198333
>say some bullshit about how I hate women
Happily.

>>198333

I don’t give a shit about them selling the game—and I doubt the “feminazis” care all that much, either. The real reason people are pissed at Play-Asia is because it chose to market their “we’ll sell the game” decision by playing into the hands of Gamergate’s worst fears, especially when all the other evidence about why Koei Tecmo avoided localizing DOAX3 says it was a decision based on pure economics.

>>198335
Is that any reason to threaten their business, and people's jobs as well? How is this any different from any other company marketing tactics?

>>19833
It is as much a reason to not support, and discourage others not to support, them as if they were paying it forward to Neonazis.

>>198336

>Is that any reason to threaten their business, and people's jobs as well?

Play-Asia's partner companies have every right to reconsider doing business with PA based on things that company does. If PA wants to die on the hill of "we’re gonna sell you the game feminazis don’t want you buying”, none of those partner companies have to die alongside PA.

>How is this any different from any other company marketing tactics?

Most companies market their products based on either the product itself (“Our toothpaste is proven to kill 99.9% of bacteria in your mouth"), reviews by consumers or experts (“Four out of five dentists recommend our toothpaste”), or its standing in the free market (“Our toothpaste is the country’s best-selling toothpaste”). All of those types of marketing try to convince people that the product is good. Play-Asia’s “buy the game that SJWs hate” gimmick is marketing that tries to lure people into feeling as if they’re fighting for a cause by buying a product (e.g., Pepsi vs Coca-Cola, Nintendo vs SEGA), regardless of whether the product itself is any good. Koei Tecmo's decision to avoid localizing DOAX3 was almost surely an economical one; there was no "SJW uproar" over DOAX3 before that Facebook post, and I hadn’t heard of any major campaigns to get the game released in the West before that Facebook post. But as soon as that Facebook post popped up and Play-Asia made its “battlecry” marketing tweet, a whole campaign propped up in support of DOAX3.

As it stands right now, Koei Tecmo needs no Western marketing for DOAX3 (regardless of whether it localizes the game), Play-Asia needs no marketing for its decision to sell the game, and people who buy into the “SJWs want to kill DOAX3” narrative need no other reason to buy a game they likely wouldn’t have bought in the absence of that narrative. KT, PA, and the Gamergate side of the gaming community crafted a narrative that didn’t exist until KT’s Facebook post, then used it as a marketing scheme to sell a game that would’ve sold far fewer copies otherwise. The game could be a shitpile and still sell more copies than normal because of a false narrative concocted in part by a company that wanted to avoid saying it did something for purely economical reasons.

But this shit also further entrenches the Gamergate side of the gaming community against the “SJWs” (and people they consider on the same side as the SJWs/feminazis/whatever). Anything that continues to push the false narratives of “feminazis want to make your games worse” and “SJWs want to kill gaming…FOR YOU” is disgusting on its own; when that shit becomes a goddamned marketing gimmick, I’m inclined to stand against it far more than I would otherwise.

And the cancer continues

Hey, if EA's "your mom hates this game" campaign worked...

>>198339
And you're doing so much to curb it by bitching about it while trying to seem apathetic.

>>198343

I abhor censorship, but I dislike bad infographics even more. Let’s see: no censorship, “successful” (unknown if any sort of actual campaign forced the change), no censorship, no censorship (yet), “successful” (unknown if any sort of actual campaign forced the change), “successful” (I know there’s been lots of criticism of the “Slave Leia” outfit, but I don’t know if there was an ongoing campaign to have it erased from merch), I’ve gone over that bullshit above, the full game hasn’t been released yet (so things can always change), succesful, semi-successful (I heard of no campaign about having the sliders removed and they aren’t exactly pertinent to the overall game).

So! Of the nine videogames listed on that infographic, three weren’t censored, two aren’t even out as full games yet, none of the four “successful” forms of censorship resulted in the removal of content pertinent to the actual gameplay, and only one of those aformentioned “successes” resulted in a game being pulled from “store shelves” due to content. Oh, and according to other sources, Yohjo Simulator wasn’t getting “overwhelmingly positive” reviews, so it’s highly probable that the game was pulled due to, y’know, sucking complete ass (if you can provide a credible source pointing towards a campaign to get the game removed for its content, feel free to do so). If you were trying to piss me off about censorship, you did a very poor job.

>>198343
I notice that not a single thing you've listed here involves the government preventing people from saying anything. Everything was business decisions about how to make the most money. You're just bitching that companies don't consider your boners to be as valuable as respect from the rest of the audience, and calling it "censorship" so you can pretend you have a case beyond wanting to masturbate to video game characters.

>>198344
Also, it's lying about the "real life gym shorts" thing because it's basing its information on fanservicey anime. In real life, bloomers were phased out a long time ago in favor of sweatpants or regular gym shorts for girls, more or less the same as the sorts of things girls wear as gym clothes in US schools. They still appear in anime because teenage boys masturbating can make anime (and video game companies) a lot of money, but US companies are becoming less willing to openly sexualize underage girls for money due to not liking the reputation it gives them.

Really, arguments like these are actually arguments *against* freedom of speech. It was the companies that release these games that decided to change the content, because they tailor what they release to the market they release in. Whiny teenage gamers (and manchildren who never grew out of their teenage idiocy) then bitch about it claiming that it's censorship when really they're the ones trying to prevent people from being able to say what they want to say--they want to force people to say what they want to hear, instead.

>>198345
Not him, but there's a case to be made for companies trying to appeal to a small minority, which in turn actually turns away an equally small minority, thereby wasting time and money on bitching and moaning about shit nobody cares about and also denying creative artists what they want to make.

>>198347
Also, if companies REALLY wanted to maximize profits, they wouldn't have changed a damn thing. Studies show controversy makes game sales skyrocket. If they cave in, that controversy goes away.

>>198347

>there's a case to be made for companies trying to appeal to a small minority

The issue there is that most major gave devs/pubs won’t actually make games that do this unless the ROI rate is high enough to offset the risk. Koei Tecmo decided not to publish DOAX3 in the West specifically because the ROI would have been minimal (at best) even for a lazy localization; the decision may have been influenced in part by the ongoing discussions about female characters in gaming here in the States, but that wouldn’t have made much of a difference if KT thought the game would sell well enough to weather the storm of controversy. (Again: all of its output this year proves KT gives no fucks about selling “sexy” content in the West.) If we were talking smaller pubs and indie devs—who are more likely to take the risks you’re talking about in a bid for attention in a crowded marketplace—you’d have more of a point.

It's always great to see people take the bait.

>>198355

>people upset about Play-Asia’s dumbass tweet promise to stop buying from and supporting the company
>somehow this is wrong because Gaming Journalism

…fucking what

seen some gearing up another run at 4chan. Some kinda connection between Stormfront 4Chan, 8chan and Gamergate.

That's going to be fun

>>198358
Is it even possible to involve Stormfront and still consider yourselflegitimate movement

>>198359
Well yes, because #gg is exactly as racist as storefront.

>>198360
and here we go

So it looks like Konami finally acknowledged the secret nukes cutscenes as an actual thing. No wonder they were pulled from that one channel.

//youtube.com/watch?v=rcQUb-4yn74

HOLY FUCKING SHIT FAR CRY 4's SYRINGE CRAFTING IS THE FUCKING MOST UNINTUITIVE SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN

http://imgur.com/a/vIEmD

New FNAF World images, taken from the game’s indieDB page. Scott lives!

>>198365
I'm so very confused that this is a real thing that is being made, but hey if he can actually pull it off, good on him!

>>198366

The only thing I’m left wondering about in regards to FNAF World is just what the hell Scott’s going to do for a storyline.

>>198367
Something that starts benign and saccharine but gets more twisted and dark as you peek behind the curtain. Maybe a fake ending that leads to "breaking" the game and then the real adventure begins.

>>198368

I believe Scott said FNAF World would not be a horror game, though that could be a misdirect.

>>198369
Its likely going to be a "hacked" scenario. Maybe aggressive copy protection or just the game becoming more corrupt as you progress along that dark path.

"What are you doing?"

"Nice children don't play like this."

*FREDDY SCREAM*

"This will not end well."

I mean if its utterly a benign throwback to his old work I'd be surprised.

>>198371

Judging from the “preview” he put out a few weeks back (http://freddy-fazbears-pizza.wikia.com/wiki/FNaF_World:_Halloween_Edition), the game is likely to contain at least one nightmarish monstrosity (Purplegeist) as a boss.

I have a strong urge to kill in real life people who dominate me in video games.

I have a fantasy where I'm like the Terminator and my fists are literally made of steel, and I cave their smug face in with a single punch.

Why...are we not talking about this?

http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/30/9822566/platinum-games-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-game-activision

>>198409
They've been improving their handle on commerical game development. A Further refinement of the features they started with in Korra.

>>198409
Why the hell are Platinum being handed so many licensed stuff? I mean I'm not complaining, but I would think they're a little too famous/expensive for, for lack of a better word, shovelware.

>>198411
They're not that expensive compared to AAA developers and they have brand power when it comes to action games.

>>198411
>famous/expensive
Uh no, they're perpetually broke. But they're a great prestige get and good to work with so they get picked up a lot.

GUYS

GUYS

NO, REALLY, GUYS.

https://www.epicgames.com/shadowcomplex/

Epic just put the Shadow Complex PC remaster free to dowload. Go and get it, there is no reason not to, awesome game.

>>198422
>Got to sign up for an account with them
Eh...I'll pass.

//youtube.com/watch?v=r09Di2cEaSs

Mortal Kombat DLC pack 2 trailer is up. Take a look if you haven't seen it.
You know...if you really want too.

>>198429
And I can try the new UT too, thanks!

//youtube.com/watch?v=YS5iJVSqUgg

>>198431
You are passing on a terrific game for free, just because the ten seconds necessary to make an account? odd.

>>198434
I got too many games on my backlog anyway. I can't be bothered to deal with yet another account right now. Maaybe I'm just looking for an excuse to not play games right now.

Can someone sum up for me what the deal was with Kojima at the VGAs last night?

>>198438
Konami would not allow him to accept the award.
That's pretty much it.

I don't know who's in charge of that company but I feel as though they may be insane. Or at least completely alien tothe concept of good PR.

>>198439
Probably the former, because supposedly it was to dissociate his name from Metal Gear further, and even the biggest idiot would realize by now that would just result in the opposite.

>>198438

Konami literally had a lawyer at the show to prevent Kojima from entering the building, which meant he couldn't accept any awards for MGS5.

On the bright side, whoever was hosting the show apparently called Konami out on their bullshit.

>>198442
Though since Konami is leaving much of that world behind they are kinda being the biggest asshole they could be

>>198445

May as well flip the bird to the whole damn industry if they’re on the way out, I s’pose.

>>198442
Wow, that is a crock of shit. I remember when /v/ posted lots of pictures and sent letters to Goichi Suda when there was that picture of him reading to sign/sell No More Heroes in Japan and no one showed up, maybe they'll do something like that for Kojima.

Capcom revealed the final character of the initial Street Fighter V lineup at today's PlayStation press event: an original character named F.A.N.G. His reveal also showed off a brand new stage - a Shadaloo stage with statues of the Grandmasters in the background - which is apropos, since F.A.N.G. is a Shadaloo operative of some sort.

The first six DLC characters were also revealed: we’re getting Alex, Guile, Balrog, Ibuki, Juri, and Urien.

>>198457
>>198459
http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2015/dec/05/fng-revealed-street-fighter-5s-final-launch-character/#comments

His model looks like he's from a completely different game, he'll a different series. I don't know how, but he manages to stick out like a huge sore thumb.

>>198459
I'm not sure what your screenshot refers to (The new streetfighter game I assume?) but Sagat is not a bad guy and is not one of M.Bison's "Generals/Bodyguards" after a certain point in the storyline.

There's no reason for him to be there.

With Summer Lesson and VR support for DoAX3 announced I started to think. How difficult is it gonna be for socially awkward nerds to masturbate with the girl standing right in front of them so to speak?

>>198461

I wasn’t aware of that.

>>198464
Sagat has received a surprisingly decent amount of character development over the years. Hell, nowadays he has gone over his feud with Ryu, and even considers him a friendly rival.

>>198483

See, this is why Street Fighter has needed a story mode like the ones in the last two Mortal Kombat games.

>During this past weekend’s PlayStation Experience in San Francisco, SQUARE ENIX® debuted a new trailer for FINAL FANTASY® VII REMAKE, the full remake of the award-winning role-playing game, FINAL FANTASY VII. The new trailer features the first CG scenes as well as gameplay footage. FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE will be told across a multi-part series, with each entry providing its own unique experience.

Y’know, all things considered, handling it this way does make more sense than trying to pack the entirety of the remake into a single game. But this still hurts my soul all the same.

>>198501
To this day I have not played that game, and probably won't because I'm not a fan of RPGs. Is the story the kind of thing that can be broken up like that?

>>198502

Actually, yes; the original game was itself spaced apart to three discs. My hope is that Squeenix at least tries to cram as much story as possible into a single episode rather than selling us a hundred fucking episodes that amount to a single disc of the original game.

>>198501
I'm okay with it being broken into different parts.

Looks like the gameplay will be at least partly based on Kingdom Hearts, which is kinda cool. I wonder if they'll keep the original turn based stuff in as well.

Now that I know the gameplay is different I'll need to go back and play the original again sometime, I never did finish it.

I know it's to be expected, but I'm not big on the aesthetic of the remake. I liked that the original was kind of cartoony a lot of the time. I'm not big on the voiceactors either, but maybe the lines in the trailer aren't final.

I really hope the FF7 remake brings back Aerith's old sassy personality instead of the goody-goody Miss Perfect they've been parading her as with Advent Children and all the other spinoffs.

>>198506
>based on Kingdom Hearts

Actually it just looks like they took FF15's engine, and slapped FF7 onto it. Not necessarily a bad thing. I doubt they'll have a "turn-based" mode though.

>Completely Different Battle System
>Voice Acting
>Multiple episodes to pay for
Yeah I've absolutely no interest in the remake.

>>198510
If they only charge like 10 dollars per episode for six episodes it's not too bad.

>>198511
Let's wait to see how many episodes there are and how much each one will cost, then.

>>198512

Yeah, I like the stylistic changes and the look of the new gameplay (I liked FF12!), but the episodic thing is what worries me.

>>198510
>not wanting voices instead of reading through novels of dialogue
>actually preferring turn based battles

Personally I'm pleased with the direction they're taking. If you remake something, you need to actually REMAKE IT. Make it fresh and new.

>>198501
Multiple parts was likely the only way Squeenix could replicate the sheer content of the original game in modern bells-and-whistles 3D graphics within something resembling a reasonable budget. We do mock modern FFs for being "corridor simulators" but we've reached a crunch point in the industry where we have to ask ourselves if cinematic games of the type the original FFVII pioneered are financially feasible anymore.

>>198517
Are you trying to play to all the cliches? Can't handle reading books & bitches about turnbased battles because you don't have any patience.

Final Fantasy games have never actually been all that text heavy.

Keep in mind that Midgar was basically the size of a football field in the original game, since everything was stylized and way too small. They're trying to make it actual city size now.

>>198518
Maybe Squenix should just stop making games.

>>198510
I'm not sure why you wanted a remake in the first place. If all you wanted was improved graphics on the original you should've just downloaded the mod for the steam port.