/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

>>418498
God I love that template.

>>418500
Interestingly enough, if not for Donkey's insistence, Farquaad would fuck over Shrek eventually. He was an asshole, and assholes do not stay true to their words.

>>418496
It won't be, but please be Twinsanity

>>418509
It is already known it is a brand new sequel to Warped, which most likely will replace the old canon.

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time | PS4
Crash 4 trailer without any coverage or commentary.

>>418514
I haven't played the series much, but it looks to me like every other Crash game just with better graphics and one or two more gameplay gimmicks.

>>418515
Well, yeah. That's exactly the idea. It's for those of us who like that type of gameplay.

>>418519
Defund the critics.

So is Deadly Premonitions 2 good or just a try-hard attempt at recapturing the janky cult classic feel that got people to play the original?

People are making a big deal about PSPs and their batteries.

Should I bother searching through my storage stuff for my PSP before it explodes and burns the house down?

>>418551
As far as I know, rechargeable batteries don't just explode on their own - if they are broken, they just swell up, potentially cracking the case they are in.
If they are prone to exploding, they would do so when being recharged.

Sony was infamous for having several scandals in the 00s, that irreparably tarnished their name. One of those scandals involved exploding batteries in laptops.

I think the worst case scenario is that your old PSP is just dead by now, possibly have a cracked case.

>>418601
It's supposed to be, but it's PS4 only so I can't really play it until they make a PC port.

Zangief is best street fighter

Zangief fights a sword.

>>418608
>Zangief is best street fighter

I've always known that.
They should change his block stance so instead of covering his head, he is just flexing his muscles.

Finally got around to re-playing Halo 2 on the Master Chief collection... it's been 14 years since I last played it, back when it came out on PC. I remember it looking better than this. But then, I may remember it wrong, the graphics do seem to be similar to what the standard was for those days. Simply polygonal shadows, one directional lightning, pretty much no shader effects. The only thing making it look better is the normal mapping (a very big thing in that era), ragdoll effects, and some parts of the terrain being destructible.

Incredible how far we came from there.

More Ratchet & Clank PS5 gameplay will be shown tomorrow, Thursday.

The shitfight between Epic Games and Apple has been funny

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/28/21406013/apple-epic-games-fortnite-developer-account-terminated-no-longer-available

>>418631
The last good things Apple still have to their name are the iPon and iTunes. iTunes because it actually separates music from audiobooks from podcasts, and keeps EACH podcast paused for later. iPod stores the same info, and that is gr8.

>>418631
It's going to be especially funny because there's a good chance it will have further industry-wide repercussions.

In other news Lab Zero is going under, and Mike Z is such a gigantic cunt it beggars belief.

So that Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 is out now.

Do you feel like a Superman yet?

>>418631
Apple countersues Epic.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/08/tech/apple-countersues-epic/index.html

And honestly, while I have no love for Apple its fair to say Epic had it coming.

>>418646
Too busy playing C&C remaster and nuking the white house with a low orbit ion cannon.

It's odd though. Every game I've played in the past few years was either a remake of an old game, or a sequel to it. Maybe I'm just too old to try out new games now.

>>418647
I don't think Epic has enough pull to get through a legal battle with Apple.

>>418651
They thought their army of children would rally around them and horde Apple through the power of social media.

#FreeFortnite Fortnite Apple Ban Video “198Fortnite” (EPIC GAMES sueing Apple)

They had it all planned out and ready to go before they launched their lawsuit, the problem was most of their player base (a) don't care that much and (b) weren't alive when the ad they are parodying was out.

>>418616
Coc2 is actually a fun adventure game even outside of the hardcore fetish action.

>>418686
We are at a point where an actual sword would probably cost less than a high-end Geforce card.

So there's a big new Harry Potter game in the works, where you play as your OC learning at Hogwarts but in the 1800's?

HARRY POTTER HOGWARTS LEGACY Official Trailer (2021) Harry Potter Game HD

Everyone seems to be going on about JK Rowling having gone from trying to be superwoke on social media to her having turned into a total nutter.
Meh, doesn't really matter, the books were always lame.

>>418700
Read it again, but with every instance of the word "wand" replaced with "wang".

>>418700
Just that, Rowling is a bad writer and both the plot and the worldbuilding was poor.

>>418704
Selling well is not an indication of quality writing, look at twilight.

>>418702
>its normal for a faggot like you to be obsessed with wangs, anon-kun

The point is that the writer hid their own wang obsession in the book.

>>418719
Looks like an okay game, but I wish it was topdown and not isometric. That shit plays havoc on my sense of depth and positioning.

Microsoft just bought up Bethesda (makers of Elder Scrolls, Doom, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Dishonored).

No, not making it up.

>>418723
Bethesda has been garbage for a long time, guess they finally had to seek someone to take them in.

>>418724
So then this was a good thing?

>>418725
Eh, will have to wait and see what the results of this are.

>>418640
Speaking of Lab Zero...

A bunch of staff formerly from it have come together and started their own studio

https://www.futureclub.dev/

>>418727
aaaahahahahah fucking lol.
I guess that's the end of that company. Shame because Skullgirls was really something that was in demand at the time (there were barely any quality 2d fighters when it came out, and it was the next best thing after Capcom took a shit on Darkstalkers). But now they basically run themselves into the ground.

>>418728
Its mainly down to Mike Z, he was a fucking psycho.

Apparently all this time he was a skeevy git, perving on chicks and generally being an autistic weirdo, and when people talked to him about his behavior he'd throw tantrums where he dramatically threaten to quit the company.

During the closing days of Lab Zero his behavior got worse and in the end he specifically fired EVERYONE who hadn't already left the company.
Keep in mind this was everyone who still stuck with him by this point and were giving their all to try and keep the studio alive.

>>418733
>There's some sort of development of a cereal-mascot based fighting game.

That's amusing because I have copypastas from that dating back to 2007.

Sega announced they'll be *doing something* with Virtua Fighter... the announcement mentioned "Virtua Fighet x esports" which sounds ominous, but at least they are finally doing something with what is the best fighting game series ever made.

>>418740
reminder that a WH40k Space Marine could literally kill both of them with a slap.

>>418753
That's not true
The Doomslayer does things more impressive than any regular space marine.

Hell, any Grey Knights short of Kaldor Draigo wish they could purge demons as well as Doomguy.

wasn't Shantae supposed to be in that game? Or did she already make it?

>>418734
We live in a world where memes can become more than dreams.

>>418782
the hell even happened to the company? all i heard was people leaving to start a different company on their own just to get away from one dude?

still, it really sucks none of this was implemented

>>418833
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/372885/Lab_Zero_founder_Mike_Zaimont_suspended_from_work_on_Guilty_Gear_update.php

Watchdog Legion is getting my attention with the whole being able able to recruit all sorts of random weirdos with various abilities and have them staff your movement.

Even though I don't give a shit about Watchdogs and would likely be actively turned off whenever it forced me to watch a cutscene with actual plot characters.

I just love being able to recruit and maintain an army of random unique dudes who have an effect on the group and can be played as.

>>418935
>laptop
No, it can't.

Play Streets of Rage 4 instead. If you just want a game where you beat up niggas, it has you covered.

>>418956
These cannot be real, are they?

>>418959
"gaming" laptops don't have any power whatsoever to estimate.

>>418960
Depends on which ones you get.

>>418631
>>418647
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/technology/apple-app-store-fee.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

Haha, its like they found another way to fuck Epic while making things better for the smaller developers

>>419103
Yeah, I heard of that recently. She indeed looks great, especially for a woman of that age - physical work can keep your body in better shape, and make-up can help on the face. Of course if you look close you can still see the cracks, but even a real life Mortal Kombat combatant cannot fight old age.

Also those old MK3 VS screen portraits were fucking baller.

A man who has a crush on her brought it up too.

https://twitter.com/GameSpot/status/1336068030393159681?s=19

>Medal of Honor: Above And Beyond
>340GB
Jesus Tittyfucking Christ

>>419109
What the fuck is even taking so much space in a FPS game? Does it have, like 8 hours of HD video footage cutscenes?

>>419112
If you have problems in epilepsy then perhaps you should consider not playing action games to begin with.

>>419113
There's a difference between "Game may potentially cause epileptic reaction" and "Game has a sequence inserted that is a 1-for-1 copy from a light sequence guaranteed to cause seizures in people"

>>419114
How is that different from an army shooter fps game 1-on-1 replicating war scenes that caused people to end up with real life PTSD? They are both DESIGNED with that goal in mind, because they are designed to accurately represent something the rest of us will never experience. I feel sorry about those who can't enjoy the games because of this but please do not drag down the rest of us because you suffer an illness.

Anon

How much are CD Projekt paying you to defend their fuckups online

>>419140
they already have a bunch of other comic properties as cameos in the game, maybe someone put them in touch

remember epic as a company tried to use a parody of an old ad from before their fanbase was born to rally them as part of their legal defense against apple

Anyone got suggestions for comfy sandbox games you can while away the hours in? Need something to relax in.

>>419191
uuuuuh Sim City?

GOG.com is bending the knee to China in refusing to put up a Taiwanese horror game (Devotion) after the country exerted pressure on them.

It also happened on Steam when it was review bombed by salty Chinese shills.

The country and its hordes of nationalist zombies can't just be ignored.

>>419199
Hard to ignore several billion people.

>>419210
China has become too powerful, the world is fucked.

Turns out Cyberpunk isn't much of an rpg, origin choice doesn't matter, most of what you do in the game doesn't matter, it then pulls a Mass Effect 3 in terms of ending and has it basically based on one choice.

>>419242
I'm dying from laughter

>>419260
Most of what I've seen online makes it feel more like Borderlands, ie. you have a bunch of missions to advance the plot, and a bunch of side missions, but stuff is otherwise linear. I could be wrong, but that was my impression... and even the UI reminds me of that game.

The hits just keep coming in the face of CD Projekt

https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2020/12/24/22199252/cyberpunk-2077-cd-projekt-class-action-lawsuit-filed

Watched the intro to Wasteland 3 a little while ago, it brought into stark focus something I'd thought while playing Wasteland 2.

The Desert Rangers are FUCKING INCOMPETENT outside of the Player Character squad of whichever game you happen to be playing.
They can't manage a damn thing on their own, even when your squad is a bunch of newly recruited rookies they have to carry the weight of the whole group.

This is a historical moment
Part 1: Excavating Tomb Raider: Core Design's 10th Anniversary Edition Peru - Reaction Video

>>419316
In what sense?

>>419316
I hate reaction videos, the very concept is obnoxious.

>>419318
He is playing this shit, it's not reaction. The build is available.

>>419317
The remake of the original 1996 Tomb Raider by original creators, announced and quickly cancelled in 2006, is finally available, despite being unfinished. But I guess this isn't Undertale or Fortnite, so yeah, totally insignificant.

>>419319
>>419320
I agree that it is significant, but I had no clue that all of this happened, I only saw a billionth stupid "let's play" video commentary. Not all of us follow how many tomb raider games exist.

Yuri Prime WWE2k17

>>419321
Won't blame you, Let's Plays overstayed their welcome.

>>419322
Its sad that modern wrestling games are so shit.

The old smackdown ones used to be amazing.

Since there are lodestones in Minecraft now, I'm thinking a neat thing would be a mine cart with compass that allows a rail sensor to tell what direction the cart's compass points relative to the map, so you can have trains of carts led by a cart with compass that auto-navigate towards a station near a given lodestone.

Then carts with furnaces would also be slightly more useful because of how they keep themselves loaded even when out of range. And if it's a cart update in general, maybe have a half slab and rail for making less steep inclines.

Came across some interesting Dark Souls modding.
Wasn't sure where else to put it but the general thread.
Dark Souls Except It's Halo

Skullgirls is getting new characters

Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Annie Teaser Trailer

>>419531
I thought she was already in it in the last DLC? 2nd encore plus or whatever, that added survival mode. Or was it the mobile version that had her?

>>419533
She was just in the mobile version.
Now she's in the 'main' version and it also teases at more characters being added after her.

>>419534
Well it seems like with that faggot gone and Indivisible completely tanking, they went back to focusing on Skullgirls. I guess they should make a sequel but at this point you can't do that anymore without raising hell of a capital and and re-working everything for 2-3 years, so instead they just do more DLC characters.

That's not bad.

>>419534
>>419535
Imagine if they turned around and added the piece of shit main character from Indivisible to Skullgirls.

>>419605
After all the recent leaks, it makes me feel like one day we'll finally get Conker Twelve Tales released.

>>419605
Its a shame Dinosaur Planet was hamfistedly forced into becoming a Star Fox game.
Not least of which is because Crystal became a thot cancer on the franchise.

>>419629
With enough weaponized autism the game will be ported to PC, patched, and finished.

So it turns out Squeenix is running FF7 into the ground even harder now, milking it with even more Compilation shit and phone games.

Just fuck you people who were defending the so-called "Remake" for so long.

>>419653
>So it turns out Squeenix is running FF7 into the ground even harder now
spotted the newfag. Square has been doing this with every FF game since ages, it's just that the current FF game is the FF7 remake.

It just feels worse because FF7 also gets its own periodical whoring out, but that's normal because it was babbys first RPG.

>>419654
All the games/animated content in the "Final Fantasy 7 compilation" has been pretty much garbage though, like Dirge of Cerberus which is now getting featured directly in FF7 Remake.

So uh, this is a thing now
Shovel Knight x Arby's Announcement Trailer

They seriously need to stop making FNAF games.

>>419697
If you can convince 10 people to stop buying them, and 8 of them convinces another 10, maybe you can stop it.

>>419700
If I had that power I'd probably want to use it to get people to support games I like that think need more cash to grow further.

>>419594
>>419607
They're just getting crossover deals everywhere, its madness
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid - Street Fighter Crossover Trailer

Is this weirder than Akuma showing up as a plot character in a mainline Tekken game?
How many games has Ryu crossed over and been playable in by this point?

>>419941
Power Rangers Legacy Wars: Street Fighter Showdown Short Film | Power Rangers Official

>>420014
I hope this means that EA won't be the only company allowed to make Fifa games anymore.

Friday Night Funkin being the hot new thing that everyone talks about, but this mod actually caught me by surprise.
Not exactly something was expecting to see again.
Mr. DoucheBag comes to FNF [Mod Showcase]

Ratchet PS5 trailer FINALLY came out. An actual trailer this time:
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – Gameplay Trailer I PS5

>>420045
So... Ratchet banging his female alternate-universe counterpart when?

This seems alot like the thing that Crash Bandicoot game did in introducing the chick with the mohawk.

>>420046
The chick with the mohawk is a Fortnite skin of an established character.

>>419941
>>419947
>>420056
Still not as strange as DreamMix Fighters TV on the PS2. That one has Optimus Prime, Bomberman, Solid Snake, Twinbee, Simon Belmont, Master Higgins (from Adventure Island) and the Moai from Gradius, among others.

>>420057
Wonder why that never took off like Smash Bros.

>>420058
I'm gonna guess it's the licensing hell. Nintendo can get away with it because they are filthy rich, and it's a Nintendo game with some cameos. DreamMix had a very eclectic cast, half of which are unknown even to western gamers (Tengai Makyou, Momotarou, etc), the ones I mentioned are simply the most well known.

>>420060
The Epic vs Apple trial is still ongoing, and Epic has continued to do nothing but fuck themselves over in the proceedings.

Tim Sweeney should never have had a Twitter account.

>>420097
If nothing else, we at least get some interesting details about Apple they did not release before.

>>419941
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid - Official Chun-Li Gameplay Trailer

>>420124
https://www.theonion.com/daring-legal-strategy-tim-sweeney-is-threatening-to-ho-1846942912

>>420135
<--

>Speaking of video game companies undergoing lawsuits

"I'm not under oath, so can I lie?" - Guillaume de Fondaumière

On May 27 and 28, 2021, a trial was held in the Paris court between Quantic Dream and the newspapers Le Monde and Mediapart. The video game studio is suing the two newspapers for defamation for articles that reveal

- the existence and distribution within Quantic Dream of racist, homophobic, transphobic and Nazi photomontages.
- a practice of social fraud set up as a system
- and more generally a toxic corporate culture

During these two days of trial, the leaders of Quantic Dream competed with arrogance and amateurism. They came to attack the newspapers, but the trial seems to have turned against them as they struggle to defend their decency and dignity.

So, which moments should we remember from these two days of grotesque trial?

DAVID CAGE stammering, in tears, exclaiming "you interfere in my business! "before leaving the courtroom, fleeing from the defense lawyers' plea. It is obvious that it was difficult for him to talk about honor when mentioned a list of remarks he had made in public: "anyway, in my games, all women are whores", "in the open space, there is a lack of tits" or "at Quantic Dream, we don't make games for fags".

In the case of social fraud, Quantic Dream proudly displayed documents concerning the dismissal of an employee, supposedly showing the good faith of the company. The defense lawyers thank Quantic Dream, because after a quick examination, the documents reveal irregularities implying an illegal dismissal.

Another terrible moment is when we see a dozen or so identical letters of dismissal, all copy/paste, with only the name of the employee changing, and always with the same mention of "differences of opinion with the management", including in the case of GUILLAUME DE FONDAUMIERE's self dismissal. He obviously had difficulty following his own directives.

Questioned on this subject, the CEO of Quantic Dream, at the end of his arguments, asked the magistrates, eye to eye, "but I'm not under oath, so can I lie?" before making a series of dubious allegations, and evoking a company in serious jeopardy (without however being able to provide any proof of any harm).

The gesticulations of the beleaguered CEO might make one smile, if they did not underline the existence of a system of social fraud intended to evade social contributions.

The witnesses called by Quantic Dream, all current or former employees of the company, do not fare any better. Praising so much the virtues of the company, they pushed a judge to ask them to "stop with the elements of language".

The staff representatives, when asked about the actions taken following the publication of the articles, mentioned "informal talks" without being able to cite more concrete actions.

The person in charge of harassment matters at the CSE, for her part, believes that there is no harassment in the company since she has never received a message on the subject.

And everyone seems to be discovering parts of the case, from the toxic nature of the photomontages to the company's institutional fraud practices.

For Solidaires Informatique, beyond the ridiculousness of seeing two bosses stammering when they have to explain their dubious methods, this trial is important, because it dismantles part of the company's vast strategy of rewriting the facts, an agglomeration of intimidation, provocation, false communications and legal proceedings.

The verdict will be given on July 8.

While waiting for this date, we renew our call for solidarity with the former employees who denounced these practices, whom Edwy Plenel congratulated for their courage and described as "whistleblowers".

These people are also subject to judicial repression by the studio Quantic Dream. Some of them are in financial difficulties, without a job or facing important legal fees.

https://www.lepotcommun.fr/pot/2vg0oskx

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

>>420146
Is this spam?

>>420148
No, its an article I came across about David Cage and his video game development studio Quantic Dream who wishes they were making (shit) movies instead of (shit) games.

What if pokemon but people actually used guns?

Palworld - Official Gameplay Trailer

Holy shit
Metal Slug Tactics - Reveal trailer

This caught me by surprise, metal slug and tactical gameplay? But I'm honestly all for it.

>>420164
I'm not sure if Metal Slug mixes well with tactical gameplay, it looks a bit too boring to be honest. The animation in that trailer sure is nice though.
Seems it's developed by a French studio and released by Dotemu… might be worth a try.

>>420184
1, X, 3.
4/5 are much weaker entries but they have some charm, especially the music, and they still use quality pixel art.

6 changed some stuff and IMO wasn't as solid in the end as MS3 was. 7 is more of 6 but on the DS, and XX is a remaster of 7 iirc. I didn't like them, they aren't as creative, and they changed all the sound effects and voices to the worse.

>>420190
What's so weird about it
Perfect for storing gamer fuel

how about them FINAL FANTASIES

I'm here to kill Chaos.

>>420200
wait, who's the girl in the red jacket on the right? Fio is riding a metal slug and Nadia is behind the red jacket girl. There's also another "Fio clone" riding the ostrich.

Yeah I was thinking it was someone from the mobile games, those weren't that memorable.

Still can't find who the ostrich girl is.

>>420206
see
>>420205

https://metalslug.fandom.com/wiki/Alisa_Stewart

>>420207
oh, ok. The pic you posted didn't look like her.

>>420208
It was her better design/sprite of the ones she had.