/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

>>200053
Is the new Doom any good?

>>200056
//youtube.com/watch?v=uHlvQcozDAA

The single player seems pretty good, though those animations need to be shorter and seriously where is the goddamn E1M1 remix, that needs to either be front and center or play over the final level.

The MP seems boring as fuck but in fairness who cares about the multiplayer of fucking DOOM.

>>200057
The MP will be super handy for the modding community, that's about it.

>>200056
It's fucking incredible.

So this is something I found really amazing, the protagonist is Doomguy from 1 & 2 + the novels and RIP AND TEAR, AKA Flynn Mctagart though like Doom 1 & 2 he goes unnamed, straight up it continues right off the Novels 100 years after he locks himself in hell to police the demons for eternity.

//youtube.com/watch?v=5Vx0dncDJzQ

5:20, spoilers

Lawful evil Optimus Prime is the best villain.

>>200057
>seriously where is the goddamn E1M1 remix
Right here.

//youtube.com/watch?v=ua-f0ypVbPA

>>200064
Characteristics
>Easy
>Ravage Opponents at incredible speed

Nice

>>200060

According to Doom wiki stuff Doom Marine in 1 and 2 is a Blazkowicz, least before New Order and time went a little shit.

>>200064

Well I mean, from an art standpoint Battleborn is just flat out uglier than Overwatch. Its designs don't really mesh very well together, and while Overwatch leans into established tropes and does some subtle remixes, Battleborn's designs feel like they are an abstraction. Also not helping matters is the "lol so random!" humor in commercials that often falls flat (which is a shame because the story of a Vampire going around and extinguishing every sun in the galaxy is rad as hell).

Overall Battleborn feels like one of those creative artistic french cartoons like Arthur and the Invisibles. The designs have this uncanny unappealing factor to them.

So reading that that Doom Campaign is about 16 hours long. How does that feel. Long enough?

>>200069
Feels about just the right length. New Shadow Warrior was about that length and shouldn't have been any minute longer.

>>200070
Yea good solid length for a story but doesn't drag it out. But also doesn't speed through it.

>>200070

New Shadow Warrior should have been about 25% shorter, and I say that as someone who absolutely adored the game.

>>200079
Twins bit could have been nixed.

Any word on the sequel?

//youtube.com/watch?v=logBCB1YJk8

Sequel needs that same wit. Douche Macho Nerd Wang was great.

It's been about three months since I last switched on my PS4. Not that I regret getting it, since there's still a ton of games coming for it that I want, but those are still ways off and right now it feels kinda shitty to only have it collect dust as my Bloodborne/Diablo machine.

>Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
>Lap races

This must be the worst rubber-band AI I've ever seen in a racing mini-game, aside from Canary Mary. I can deal with the ridiculous street traffic of Victorian London, but when I pass a rival carriage, I don't expect it to come roaring back up like it has rockets attached.

>>200099
If I may: you have no right to complain about anything when you pay money for an Assassin's Creed game.

>>200100
Carriage races aside, this one's not bad. Nothing spectacular, but decent for an annual release. I can't compare it to Unity because I skipped Unity.

>>200100
Weird how this mentality comes along.

>You can't complain about a thing if you don't pay for it! You have no stake in it!
>If you pay for it, you can't complain! You get what you pay for, that's your problem!

>>200102
It's more like a thing specifically where if you are one of those people still supporting Assassin's Fucking Creed you have only yourself to blame.

So youtube likes to dredge up old videos I've seen and spit them back at me from time to time and today I was reminded just how fucking incredibly terrible Randy Pitchford and Gearbox are with the whole Aliens: Colonial Marines debacle. Not just for making a shitty game and lying to everyone about it, taking preorders and DLC and presenting fake mock-ups for reviewers, but then not even feeling a slight shred of responsibility afterwards, practically dancing around and mocking people who were upset by the status of the game. And Randy acted the victim all the while, moaning about how evil "entitled gamers" were and that sales in the marketplace were the only legitimate judge of quality.

Like, this is cartoonishly off-the-charts evil behavior and I am so glad Battleborn bombed. I feel like after all the complete bullshit Konami pulled last year people forgot completely about what Gearbox did, but they absolutely shouldn't and this company should be held accountable for their actions.

>>200104
Pretty sure one of the biggest reasons for Battleborn flopping is people being really fucking wary of Gearbox and their shitty business practices. The Gearbox name has become fucking poison.

>>200105
Did Gearbox actually make the game? They've been caught at that before, multiple times in fact.

>>200105
Getting relested on the edge on Overwatch's beta did not help...

There was never just one.

//youtube.com/watch?v=Uw4-bZkxyKQ

>>200115
Reading how to mod the other aspects it does look like it should be in one of the text files.

//youtube.com/watch?v=pEXmZUtzacU

Arkham Remastered, its bad.

>>200124
I'm sorry but I refuse to believe 4:50 isn't swapped.

>>200129

>that comparison

Holy shit. That’s really the “remaster”? Holy shit, dude.

>>200129
This really puts into perspective how good the original releases still look.

Sale of GOG that includes games in the Creatures series. If you like intricate, neurology-focused biology simulations vaguely disguised as virtual pet games, then this is probably your bag.
https://www.gog.com/promo/20160520_weekend_promo_rising_star_games_et_al

>>200134
Th-THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH OUTSOURCING!
>Worked in an outsourcing game studio.

>>200136
No, there isn't. Unless you're outsourcing to China.

Stories: The Path of Destinies is on sale(here in sweden anyway) if anyone cares.

HAW Paraxox removed the neo-nazi mod from Stellaris' workshop page

>>200146
Bethesda will be talk of the Fallout 4 DLC, Dishonoured 2, Doom 2. Maybe some new Elder Scrolls.

EA Sports, Maybe Star Wars games, some things about the Last games Bioware will be making (really hoping Dragon Age Inquisition 2 just to finsh the series) Clarify the rumors of Mass Effect Andromeda, maybe it'll be a return to form of one.

Rest don't care about their presentations since none of that will likely attain to PC gaming.

//youtube.com/watch?v=YngbHOz--oc

lol

>>200150

It’s actually coming out?

Wow.

>>200150
Can't wait to hear everyone nitpick and selectively justify to themselves why they think its the worst scam ever.

>>200152
Never give Megaman fans anything.

>>200152
Sorry you bet on a bad horse dude but don't get mad at me for it.

I mean it's still technically POSSIBLE that it'll be good, if fucking DOOM can anything can, but the probable outcome it still quite poor.

That demo man. Woof.

>>200153
>Sorry you bet on a bad horse dude but don't get mad at me for it.

I'm sorry, I haven't been hanging around the INTERNET HATE MACHINE enough lately--what is it that makes you think this is a bad horse exactly?

>>200156

The PS2-era graphics, the shit marketing, and the endless delays, for starters.

>>200157
So the usual "Gamers are whiny entitled bitches" thing then. Gotcha.

>>200158
I've yet to see otherwise.

The demo they put out for it really was quite bad. I doubt it was totally indicative of the final product but neither it nor anything else they've shown has given much reason to looking forward to it. Instead of irrationally placing all your hopes on MN9, go buy Shovel Knight, that next dlc can't be far off.

>>200160
>Instead of irrationally placing all your hopes on MN9

So its one or the other? Irrationally believing MN9 is the second coming of Shigeru or thinking its horseshit?

>>200161
I mean as I said, I just think it's kind of bad looking. You however seem to have dived right into "gamers are entitled etc etc."

>>200162
Man, I know there's only like 4 people on this website but c'mon, that wasn't even me.

>>200168

There is no chill on the Sonic Twitter.

WITCHER 3:BLOOD AND WINE'S OUT ON THE 30TH AND SHIT LOOKS DOPE

ALMOST DONE WITH MY REPLAY OF VANILLA AND HEART OF STONE ON PC

PEACE

>>200170
Is it the last of the DLC? Because I've been waiting to get the complete enhanced edition.

>>200172
Yes it is.

There was a Witcher sale earlier this month that had the game + pass for 50 on GoG.

They're not likely to have the full package as a regular product for quite some time. Mind you, I like Witcher 3 so much that I rebought the full thing, and the game is super long, so even at 85 I think it's an incredible value.

It's the best RPG of all time.

No, really.

>>200173
Oh for sure. I know its likely got another year or so because now they've got it all out the team is going to go back and take it all apart and then put it back to better all shiny and chrome.

Rehash the textures to look even better. Tweak some skins they didn't think turned out quite right.

It's what I like about the team after they've built the game they'll tear it apart and rebuild it again because they know it can be better.

I'll likely buy the pack if it goes on sale sometime again once my schedule clears up.

How's the Potions system in the game anyway. Thing I liked about One was being able to stack potion effects into one going by ingredients.

>>200174
I think after Blood and Wine they're going to start winding down on W3 actually. There will be patches but maybe not a full EE (many EEesque updates have already occurred anyway). Need to start focusing on Cyberpunk.

Potions are something I find cool in the books but hate in the games, as I hate crafting in general. 3 makes the potions the least annoying: once you make something, you've made it forever, and it will automatically refill by using liquor in your inventory when you meditate.
But unless forced to I still refuse to make anything but Swallow and Cat unless a quest demands it.

I have my gripes with the gameplay and character building but it's fine, certainly a world apart from the nightmare that was W1. The game stands above on its storytelling.

RPGs I consider TW3 better than: Morrowind, Planescape Torment, Arcanum, Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines, Deus Ex, Dragon Quest 8, FF7, FF9, Soul Nomad and the World Eaters, Fallouts 1, 2, and NV, the Soulsborne franchise


Witcher 3 Truther over here

So the xbox 360 super sale has some good games fin it. I snagged Dark Souls 2 for eight dollars.

>>200177
>last gen DS2
ishygddt

>>200150
http://mjoshua.com/blog/2016/05/26/6-trailer-tips-dont-offend-your-audience-like-mighty-no-9/

>>200183
>Implying devs get any say on what the advertisers do.
top kek 10/10 would kek again

>>200185
The article is aimed at Deep Silver, who are the publisher of Mighty No. 9 and are very much responsible for its marketing.

Why is videogame marketing always so much worse than every other media?

>>200192
It's relatively younger, that's not that unusual.

>>200192
Go rewatch that first Ghostbusters trailer

>watching a DOOM letsplay (TheRadBrad’s, for those that care)
>he gets to the BFG9000
>that fucking “you have a new gun” animation when he finally grabs it

I…I think I saw Heaven in that moment. Holy shit.

Hearts of Stone is fucking incredible. Goddamn.

>>200201
Was all well? Have you thanked one another for a journey shared?

>>200203
Haven't finished it yet. Just acquired the rose. But it's already been one hell of a ride.

>>200204
You're very close.

Blood and Wine is almost done downloading oh boy oh boy

>>200210
Started the download before going to work. Now I'm all ready to go.

What an amazing start to this DLC. There's some subtle stuff that would be utterly incredible if truly intended.
Also, jeez, so much Gwent to play...

(Blood and Wine Main Quest)

"I believe this curse was cast on me by a certain vagrant I dismissed at a party once. Sadly, all I can remember of him is that he sold mirrors."
MOTHERFUCKER

I'm kinda disappointed with how early on they show the Beast. Would've liked for the mystery to go on for just a little bit longer.

>>200214
I think protracting it would have been worse. We already pretty much knew what the score was, best to just get a move on.

So do you need to play the previous Witcher games before playing Witcher 3? I own all three on Steam, but I petered out about halfway through the third act of Witcher 1 and never came back to it.

>>200218
Having played both 1 and 2. I'd say no...ish. There is some personal plots that carry over but nothing really huge that isn't explained.

I went into 3 having only read the first two books and played W1 and would say no, not really. Returning characters from the games in 3 are all pretty well established in 3 itself, and a lot of the more important characters are actually making their first non-book showings, most notably Yen and Cir, but also Djikstra and (Blood and Wine) Regis.

W1 is just not a very good game, it doesn't adapt the book characters well and besides the Grandmaster himself adds nothing terribly interesting of its own. W2 is notably better but still can't hold a candle to 3 and still leans on a lot of the Look How Mature And Dark We Are Because Video Games things that 1 did. Play 3, and if you're really curious go back and look at the other stuff.

MAAAAAAYBE read The Last Wish and Blood of Elves beforehand but I don't know that you even need to do that.

The game's amazing and all, but maaaan does Roach control like fucking garbage.

//youtube.com/watch?v=8RsVPm4Hby0
But will you be able to order a toy version of your created character.

https://youtu.be/rszPXD8PSdY

>>200229
Yeah I think it's pretty great too.

>>200228
wouldn't mind seeing the HD images without the muss of it being blared over several machines.

//youtube.com/watch?v=kfBOHGWsJWQ

>>200264
Looks great. Was fearing that it's gonna be a coop shooter from the trailer, but apparently it's not.

>>200265
Still not a big fan of Laylee's nose but her speech mumbles are adorable. The game looks more fast paced than Banjo Kazooie does. Hopefully it controls well.

>>200265
>that pic
>that artist
My nigga.

>>200267
We live in an age when twin stick controls have been perfected by many developers already. I don't think bad controls in a 3D platformer are possible, unless the development team is crap.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/yooka-laylee-delayed-to-2017-playtonic-internally-handling-wii-u-and-pc-versions/0167997

>Technical art director Mark Stevenson added: “We wanted to make sure that Wii U gets the right attention. There is a lot of nostalgia around Banjo, Banjo heralds from Rare’s Nintendo’s days, and we are all massive Nintendo fans as well.”

>>200269
I wonder if they're going to make a port for the NX.

>>200270
if they could get a developer kit they probably would.

Tomb Raider probably gonna be part of that. And the impending cringe that is FF7 Episode 1.

>>200273
This is a very exciting time to be a weeb.

>>200275

Considering there are rumors of Kingdom Hearts news floating around Squenix’s E3 presser, I imagine the weebs are waiting with baited breath.

>>200276

Survey says. New 4k Remastered Edition.

//youtube.com/watch?v=hX0WA6yIZ7I

Injustice 2 trailer. GET ARMORED. GET HYPE.

>>200279
But Injustice is retarded and the gameplay is mediocre.

What kinda demo will Ubisoft have this year?

//youtube.com/watch?v=xNter0oEYxc

>>200294
I think GOG downloads as an installer. From what I've been reading about people trying to transfer game files downloaded from GOG.

What's peoples deal with Steam anyway? Last I heard their end statement was "if service ever goes offline then everyone will get storage media with their games on it."

>>200295
I have no problem with Steam, I'm using it.

It's just that if I ever want to extract music, I would rather have a completely DRM-free copy.

>>200296
Well that's understood. I did read that GOG is trying some kinda Pairing thing with Steam. If you have a Steam copy they'll give a copy through their service DRM free.

Course the list of games that works for right now is quite small

>>200297
They have Tomb Raider 1-5, right? If that is so, all is well.

>the Glory Kill of the final boss in DOOM

I don’t know how in the blood-soaked hell they’re gonna top that. I’m not even sure I want them to try.

PC related news. Nvidia is nixing SLI support for three and four card arrays.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-drops-3-and-4-way-sli-mode-starting-with-geforce-1000-series.html

I can understand why as that is a lot more processing line that has to be handled and SLI has never really been 100% across the board effective. Small handful of games will work fantastic and the rest is a mixed bag with the more cards being used causing bugger effects and over-processing errors.

Also they may be discontinuing their M Class Laptop line and just using the same chips as their desktops.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/rumor-nvidia-to-use-gtx-1070-and-1080-in-laptops.html

What do people think of the development of "Yandare Simulator"?

Stealth games aren't especially my cup of tea but seeing the work put into its development and some of the amusing side material/fanwork is rather interesting.

>>200302
>What do people think of the development of "Yandare Simulator"?
Worthless in a world where the new Hitman is also the best Hitman, and creepy even in worlds where that isn't the case.

>>200302
My little sister is talking about that game all the time, and played it (allegedly, I don't buy it). She thinks talking about the game would make her feel older.

I hate the game by association.

>>200304
You are a bad onii-chan who is ignoring the feelings of his dear imouto. You must fix this mistake.

>>200303
Honestly it only seems to be on the level of Postal 2, and hell if you are going to play a game based around being a yandere then you should be an actual crazy stalker with the consequences that entails.
Speaking of the likes of Postal 2 or Hitman it is interesting in that the design of the game gives the player many options on how to complete their objective including methods that avoid murder all the way up to a true pacifist route where you match the other girls up with other guys to get them out of the way.

The Warcraft movie was pretty good. I'm eager to see its sequels.

>>200308
Short review: if you heard the news that they're making a Warcraft movie and thought "Cool! I'd like to see that!" you'll probably enjoy this movie fine. If you thought "I don't think that'll be very good." this movie won't do much to prove you wrong.

I went in with a passing familiarity with the series, having never really played any of the games myself, and left satisfied, but just barely. The acting ranged from pretty good (most of the orcs) to completely generic (most of the humans). The story jumps around way too much, with several scenes only lasting a minute or so. I feel the script could have really used a re-write to cut out the less important scenes and story arcs and give us more time with our main characters, who are barely introduced before being thrown into the plot.

Still, the film isn't without merit. It had some cool scenes, I liked some of the characters (mostly the orcs), and it ends in an interesting place that actually makes me curious as to what happens next. If they do make another one, I'll probably go see it.

Bloodstained is honestly looking kinda amazing. Not even a backer, but now totally looking forward to buying it.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/116888-Overwatch-vs-Battleborn-Review

>>200356
In my opinion it doesn't look that impressive yet but it's shaping up to be solid, and boy are the backgrounds full of detail.

>>200382
I don't think the trailer has anything to do with the game at all.

http://morganagod.tumblr.com/post/146003986762/

#WhatDidItDo

>>200449
I rike it.

//youtube.com/watch?v=xdCIrHWzXoE

So this is what you get for four million dollars.

Spoiler alert for Mighty No. 9, if anyone cares.

>>200464

>Now we know why Megaman was being neglected by Capcom. If this is all Inafune could crap out with full creative control, can you imagine the trash he was creating in-house?

Also, as brought up in the comments section of the video: it's kind of damning when games like Shovel Knight, the FNAF series, Undertale, and Stardew Valley—all independently developed by either one person or a handful of people, and all developed on small budgets—can outshine a game that cost more to make than any single one of them (and likely more than all of them combined).

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see this game show up in Hardcore Gaming 101’s kusoge articles come next year. Anime fans on prom night are laughing at how much MN9’s Kickstarter backers are crying.

>>200466
Just a question. Disregarding the complaints of how it looks. What is the games worst offender?

>>200467

I haven’t seen a full playthrough of MN9, but if I had to judge on that final boss fight alone, I’d say shallow gameplay.

>>200468
It looks very slow I'll say that.

>>200468
>I haven’t seen a full playthrough of MN9
Oh, wow, from teh way you were talking about how big a failure MN9 was, I assumed you had played it.

>>200472

Well it’s not exactly getting great reviews from the major gaming sites, so…yeah…

>>200473
It was never going to get that. The moment it started to diverge from Megaman mechanics the bitching has been incessant. Either from fans that can't get their heads out of their backsides about these kinda things or that special breed of idiot that wants to see the demise of Kickstarter games because they are a company loyalist that only thinks they can make games or that someone should magically make a game themselves without outside money.

>>200474
Anon
Did you back the game? Because it really sounds like you did.

I backed the fucking game and I think it looks dreadful.

https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/745311041987371008 — SONIC HAS NO CHILL. AT ALL.

>>200474

Oh. Oh, boy. Look, I love Mega Man games—played all the classics up to 8, tried out MM9, nearly beat the first two Game Boy games, whipped a couple of the MM Zero games, smacked down the MMX games up to X5, and even played fuckin’ Mega Man Soccer—and a high-quality modern-day Mega Man “clone” would’ve been just fine with me. The formula doesn’t need too much innovation; a game that surrounds the formula with responsive contols, makes use of all the weapons in fun ways, and offers some increasingly-hard-yet-still-conquerable platforming action would’ve been anywhere from acceptable to “hell yeah motherfucker”. That MN9 didn’t offer any of those things (from everything I’ve seen and read) is far more of a failure than it “diverging from the mechanics” of a typical Mega Man game. But I suppose that’s better than nothing.

>>200477
I fucking love SEGA's online marketing team. This and the Sonic Facebook page are fucking gold.

Now if only someone could do something about the games.

On another note, I recently picked up Katamari Forever. I don't know if the rest of the series is the same (this is my first game for it) but this is hard as fuck. This game keeps kicking my ass and then blatantly insulting me for it. I'm also playing Dark Souls for the first time, a game that's known for being difficult, and it's honestly way easier than Katamari Forever.

I thought this was gonna be a fun ball rolling game but there's a lot of pressure. Ive never ears anything about this series being hard though.

>>200478

There are stages in the older Katamari games that are exceptionally hard, yes. I’d say the games as a whole are challenging, but in a “dammit I will beat it this time” sort of way, which is the right kind of challenging.

Jeez, Borderlands 2 is fucking trash. I have no idea how this series got as popular as it did.

>>200487
Diablo with guns tagline helped it a bit along with the co-op play.

//youtube.com/watch?v=9TPBx5Dq-Jk

So. Berserk Musou.

When does the boat simulator come out, tho’?

>>200513
It'll be five DLCs.

Oh, I just stopped the credits after my Mighty Number came up.
I didn't realize the credit roll for MN9 takes 4 hours to scroll through all the backer names.
"You get your name in the credits!" probably shouldn't be the bottom tier reward in your kickstarter.

>>200530

Lord of the Rings films take less time to watch than the MN9 credits, holy shit.

There's a function to jump to your number for that reason. Of the many things to knock the game for, that's not really one of them.

Funny though.

66 Net Yaroze Games
//youtube.com/watch?v=YQqlHc4G6yI
A little video about bunch of truly retro indie ps1 games.

Got Tales of Symphonia PC on the summer sale, because the initial issues have supposedly been fixed. And I didn't encounter any major ones so far, but there's no saving that texture quality. Yeeesh. I'm curious how it holds up otherwise, though. Been decades since I last played it and I remember it being the biggest, longest, most exhaustive game I ever played.

Bloodstained's promising, hope they nudge the turn speed up just a tad.

>>200560
They probably won't with how they close they are trying to emulate those handheld Castlevanias.

//youtube.com/watch?v=MvBo_rKleNw
This looks pretty interesting. Not much else to say, since it's just a teaser, but apparently this failed on Kickstarter and then somehow found an investor.

//youtube.com/watch?v=D1MLDWBRQ-Y

Ahh all this ambition and belief in VR being the future. It's like I'm really back in the 90s.

Kidding aside I do like how its at least progressed to feeling more immersive, but feedback still seems to be lacking.

The SFV story mode thing was entertaining. Nothing spectacular—several characters got shafted in terms of screen time/development, notably Laura—but it’s a fine little bridge between SFIV and SFIII as well as a good first effort from Capcom for this sort of thing.

I kinda hope they do another one when the second round of DLC characters is finished, given how the mid-credits stinger teased Gill.

//youtube.com/watch?v=MvBo_rKleNw

Scorn is an atmospheric first person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.

It is designed around an idea of "being thrown into the world". Isolated and lost inside this dream-like world you will explore different interconnected regions in a non-linear fashion. The unsettling environment is a character itself.

Every location contains its own theme (story), puzzles and characters that are integral in creating a cohesive lived in world. Throughout the game you will open up new areas, acquire different skill sets, weapons, various items and try to comprehend the sights presented to you.

GAMEPLAY FEATURES

-Cohesive “lived in” world - Scorn takes place in open-ended world with different interconnected regions. Each region is a maze like structure with various rooms and paths to discover .All the storytelling happens in-game, with no cut-scenes to distract you from the grisly reality of the living, breathing world you’re in. But keep your eyes open - the game won’t show you any sympathy if you miss something important on your uneasy travels. Everything has a reason and purpose - you just need to work out what it is.

-Full body awareness – player will experience better immersion being aware of the character’s body and movement. Interaction with the world is realistic - objects are picked up with your hands (instead of just floating in midair), machines and instruments are operated by grabbing the controls etc.

-Inventory and ammo management - is defined and limited. It plays a big role in keeping the player in an even greater state of awareness throughout the whole game. Players will have to think about when to fight and when to take cover and how their actions affect the world around them. Different play styles will be needed to advance.

- Scorn part 1 of 2? Is the game split into parts?

Yes, we are planning to release it in two parts, with the first part coming in 2017.
These two parts represent everything that will ever be done. There will be no DLC, expansions or sequels. Ever.

>>200574

It's about as dumb as Street Fighter plots always are, but more coherent than usual. I wouldn't call it amazing, but it was at least entertaining.

Necalli was fucking nothing, though. What a shitty character.

>>200593

>It's about as dumb as Street Fighter plots always are

In fairness, it took a franchise reboot for Mortal Kombat to have anything resembling a coherent storyline. Capcom isn’t about to do that (and I don’t even know if it could), so what we got was about the best that anyone could expect from this effort. And yeah, Necalli got shafted nearly as bad as Laura.

After seeing an LP of Guilty Gear Xrd, I don't understand why Street Fighter V looks as terrible as it does.

>>200595

Laura at least had an incredibly hype walk-on scene. Necalli was just there to pretend to be relevant and then waste people's time.

Like, I'm not commenting on him gameplay-wise, but as a character concept and in terms of visual design he's about as lame as is theoretically possible.

>>200597

I like his design. But yeah, he is a shit character in terms of concept.

//youtube.com/watch?v=6tPLibNqNeE
Just how many of these companies are there? This isn't near the first time people have raised issues about this practice.

>>200603
http://kotaku.com/fed-up-with-steam-devs-unite-to-score-extra-greenlight-1651642857

Practice has been around for a few years b different groups. Come on Valve fix this shit.

Greenlight was pretty much DOA and Valve has been saying for years they want to change or cut it, but have yet to do so.

>>200607
Would they the clear out the titles connected with that? Because damn that Garbage bloats the hell out of the Steam Store.

If—IF—they put it up, do your best to check out the Jak & Daxter 100% run from this year’s SGDQ. 2am East Coast Time + a Canadian speedrunner + a commentary couch willing to get him into trouble = the best fucking “speed”run of the event.

>>200614

OH SHIT THEY ACTUALLY PUT IT UP

//youtube.com/watch?v=RylQGkoZpSE

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/116901-Mighty-No-9-Review

SGDQ 2016 raised nearly 1.3 mil for Doctors Without Borders, beating last year’s mark by around 80k. They beat the mark during the final scheduled game (Super Mario RPG), which meant the show got to pull out a special encore run (a four-person 70-stars race in Super Mario 64).

Yay for speedrunners~

>>200632
Wow. Funny to see Yahtzee as the voice of reason against the scads of overly negative gamers. His take was actually pretty reasonable.

>>200639
that it's grey, flavorless paste?

>>200640
Sounds more accurate than it being the worst thing ever.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/07/warner-bros-settles-ftc-charges-it-failed-adequately-disclose-it

>Influencers Were Paid Thousands of Dollars to Promote ‘Shadow of Mordor’

Should have put that money to hiring a competent port team for Arkham Knight.

Baffling as SoM is actually a rather good game I like the Orc Hierarchy system starting fights and influencing the outcome of things from the shadows along with the Treasure Hunting and Exploration aspects that are way better than the Tomb Raider Reboot.

>>200654

Yeah, everyone was puzzled about WB choosing Shadow of Mordor for this, since it was generally seen as a good game by people who weren’t paid to suck WB’s dick.

(Well, that, and why WB’s film division didn’t spend some dosh to “influence” the discussion around BvS.)

>>200655

May have been the flagging response to the films trying to restart some hype or their previous LOTR games having a lackluster launch.

And on the opposite side of the Film Tie In Spectrum.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/12/12167508/ghostbusters-2016-video-game-review-xbox-one-ps4-pc

As we all knew it would be. New Ghostbusters game is crap.

Outside of the Original Cast game. How would one make a good Ghostbusters game. My idea would be Base it in a new City with you being the Stalwart young dupe that decided to buy a franchise. I'd play it out pretty much Mass Effect style. Having to go around and recruit a group into to battle some rising tide big dimensional intruder at the end.

Could work pretty well I think.

>>200656
Multiplayer co-op fps tower defense game. Ghosts took over the city and your GB base is the last refuge. As waves of ghosts come you and your friends run around zapping them and placing traps and stuff. Get points/money for beating ghosts and saving civilians, use it to upgrade gear and get new kinds of traps. See how far you can expand your sphere of safety as stronger ghosts start attacking.

Run far outside of the safe area you've made and there are super tough enemies but much higher prizes and more civilians to save than usual. Make a mad dash for them while your friends stay behind to protect the base with less manpower than usual. If you run out of hp outside of the safe area then you're stuck until someone comes to save you. Run out of hp inside the safe area and you're out until the start of the next wave.

It'd be more of a multiplayer arcade style game than a long term thing, with suspend play being available but once you lose that's it for that file.

Left 4 Dead might be a good comparison but base it around defensive combat rather than retreat and stealth. Though you could throw some of that in too.

I'm not really a big ghostbusters fan so I don't know if this is what fans would be into but I'd enjoy playing it.

>>200660
Anything were you actually get to be Ghostbusters I think would go over well. Maybe it Vive compatible and that would get scores of people.

That's the reason Ghostbusters itself works as a fandom. They don't have to pretend they can be Ghostbusters as some fan fiction addon. They legit can be a franchise and be one of the team. Again that is something Sony should have capitalized on rather than just be regulated to lore and comics.

>>200662
ohhh new controller connector. Preview to what the NX will use maybe?

>>200663

I think it’s the same style of connector that the Wii/Wii U Classic Controller Pro uses.

Was looking on the eshop for a paint program when I noticed SmileBASIC was pulled from it.
http://nintendoeverything.com/homebrew-exploit-prompts-smilebasics-removal-from-the-3ds-eshop/
Not really surprising that a coding system managed to have some kind of exploit that let people mess with things outside of it. Hopefully it'll get fixed, since while I still have access to my version, I think a lot of people would enjoy playing around with it.

Anyway, now I'm still wondering what art program would be best to get, and more importantly wether to get one for the 3DS or WiiU. I gues it'd make sense to stick with a version of Art Academy since I'm mostly interested in something that'll help me learn and practice better. I don't know of the other paint programs try to be educational as well. Anyone here with experience using one of them to give an opinion?

Anyone check out I Am Setsuna? Supposed to be a throwback to older Square RPGs but it doesn't look that impressive.

>>200683
It's not out yet, so I'm not sure how you expected someone here to have checked it out already. I did plan on buying it on release, since the Chrono Trigger pedigree definitely piqued my interest, it looks beautiful with its watercolor backgrounds and I wanna send a message to Squeenix that I love their new company direction, but I'm honestly kinda swamped right now. I've still got Tales of Symphonia, Grim Dawn and Binding of Isaac keeping me busy.

>>200668
I don't have a 3ds so I can't comment on that, but I don't like the Wii u screen or stylus for drawing. There's not enough friction so it just feels slippery, and I don't think there's any pressure sensitivity besides touching or not touching (could be wrong on this) which would make it especially terrible for drawing.

Drakengard sucks.

>>200696
2 & 3 yes, very much.

>>200698
No Tiki, Drakengard 1 is an awful, awful game. The game part is the shittiest action game past the PS1, and the story is all the worst parts of Berserk tonally, it's like if Black Swordsman was a whole title unto itself. Even Taro himself recognizes how bad it is, it's why he went in such a different direction for Nier and 3. I'm not so hot on 3 but even that's better than 1.

Oh my god it's Japanese Tomm Hulett telling me how Downpour will save Silent Hill, I mean Metroid.

Fuck Kensuke Tanabe

//youtube.com/watch?v=PCB6R_kjdj0

>look up ska remixes/covers of old vidya theme tunes
>there's only one for Sonic the Hedgehog

I went to that Sonic 25th Anniversary event and got to play a level of Sonic Mania. Physics actually felt very good and the animation on everything was gorgeous. Looking forward to the full game. Hopefully Generations 2 will be good as well.

The event itself was a lot better than I expected. Complimentary chillie dogs, onion rings and (up to 2) beers were an unexpected but welcome surprise.

>>200708
Chili dogs Rings n Beer. Sounds like a new level of Sonic understanding.

>>200708
//youtube.com/watch?v=6NL50_W_mgU
From what I saw of it, it looked like a joke.

>>200710

Everyone sure was buzzing about it, though.

>>200710
There was a lot going on besides what was on stage, and other than a few announcements and the Crush 40 performance the stage really wasn't the focus of the event. I'm surprised the stream didn't show the crowd during those parts where it's just Sonic dancing on stage, that was sort of the time when everyone just mingled and drank and stuff.

It looks like the stream was pretty terrible but being there in person was fun.