whats your favorite barcade
>>735533067>barcadeNone of them. They're all fucking shit. None of them properly maintain the cabinets and there's always something wrong with them. Whether it's sticky buttons, a fuzzy/burned/washed out screen, or a sticky beer soaked control panel, I have never been to a barcade and had a good experience.Just go to Round 1 instead.
>>735533141This. They’re all shit. At least the pinball machines work. Round 1 is okay. I’m pretty sure you’re allowed to drink at the bowling alley as long as you get drinks from their venue/bar so that’s cool. Shits overpriced but it is what it is
>>735533067>barcadeMore of a sports bar guy myself.
The Nintendo Switch 2
>>735531669>he actually bought Chillin by the Fire
>>735529024>no splatoon raiders>no splatoon 4>no xenoblade 2 DE as a switch 2 exclusive / $10 upgrade>no xenoblade 4
>>735529690If you want an honest answer, Pokopia and Kirby Air Riders. Bananaza is mediocre and MKW is typical mk boring shit. Air Riders is genuinely a good game and so is Pokopia. Rest that I didn't mention aren't even worth mentioning. Hopefully Dusk Bloods is #3 since Miyazaki is directing it and apparently it's the highest budget out of any fromsoft games. A sequel to Odyssey/new 3d Mario would be an easy #4, also a kid Icarus game and pikmin 5, If Nintendo really wanted to do something crazy probably a new F-Zero.
>>735529024NOOOOOO DELET THIS NOOOOW
Gay ass console. At least ps5 has astro bot.
>soon every physical media will be replaced by empty cartridges with online key codesCan we ever go back?
IDK man, digital games are just gonna become the standard going forward. I actually love physical media in theory, but I find having to switch discs/carts to be kinda annoying sometimes. I usually only buy phyiscal games if it's a series I really care about. I think the nostalgia of going to EB games is fun.The EB Games I grew up with straight up closed during covid. The closest brick and mortor store that isn't a best buy or walmart is super far. I'm sure I'm not the only person with that issue. If you're rural, or even "rural suburban" there isn't really many options tto buy psychical games anyway.
>>735521097No, but the keycards are a terrible idea either way.Its the inconvenient swapping of physical, with the non-ownership of digital.Ultimately, though, outside of keeping the roms yourself and emulating consoles are basically time-bombs anyway. My PS2 slim is dead, as are my PS3, 360, and probably a number of others I haven't tried booting in forever.My PSP's battery started swelling a few years ago, so it doesn't have one anymore. And the UMDs were practically designed to break with their stupid setup.Of course, on the other end, PC materials are in a big squeeze for who knows how long. And I really needed to upgrade mine years ago but never had the loose funds for it.
>>735521097Nintendo will never go all digital because they know children, their target audience, don't always have consistent, freely available internet.
>>735529319One of many cases of people just looking for an excuse to get mad.
Yes, we can go back. It’s easy. Buy retro consoles and retro games.
Are there repercussions for leaving an self-conscious AI in an abandoned amusement park?
>>735534226hes a very /v/ coded character, to be fair
>>735534226I guess shortstack fuckers happen to like the same characters such as Jevil, Jack Frost and Rambley himself
>>735459929what do backsack and docking mean?
>>735534660putting balls in butt and touching peepees
>>735461540Have you never seen a Banbanlike before?
Why did the stealth genre die?
>>735505794Tenchu committed seppuku by not sticking with the playstation.
>>735505794Tenchu pioneered the stealth genre along with MGS and Thief so the rest could walk. It didn't have any staying power as its structural design was derivative.Shadow Tactics is less of a stealth game and more of a strategy game in the vein of the desperados series.The Hitman games are too egregiously overplayed with how they handle their multiplicities in assassinating targets. They're now more seen as speedrunning chokeholds than actual games. Dishonored and its immersive-sim ilk are too barred by their shoddy level design. Go on a killing spree in each level? Congratulations. You get the high chaos ending that's cinematic as all hell. Actually play it as a stealth game, though? The main villain chickens out and leaves the keys on the table for you to pick up. It's extremely contradictory and anticlimactic with how the developers set the game up in mind and in expectation of how players actually play.MGS as a whole is too Hollywood-esque and suffered from corporatism the most out of any franchise barring Nintendo's bureaucratic lily-padding that reflects how much the games as a whole have like milk in retrospect. Yeah, no, sure, they're only *groundbreaking* because there was nothing else for normies at the time of their launch. MGS2 was proof of that divide between game design and ownership.Splinter Cell and Thief are the pinnacle of the stealth genre and, thus, prove how already perfected they made it to be by actually emphasizing the shadows on how stealth games are meant to be played.
>>735508983>>why are froggerlikes outdated?ftfy
>>735531296I'm pretty sure stealth is dead because a significant portion of gen Z and perhaps the very late portion of millennials (to not have grown up with Thief or Splinter Cell) had not played any of these games. We're stuck with ADHD gamers so there's no demand too.It's dead from the development perspective of that no one is talented enough to program them as well. It's practically kryptonite for the majority of talentless indie developers too. It can only really ever be attempted from the AA side of development and even then there are no guarantees of success either. There's still high risks involved and everyone wants to avoid the risks. It's not easy for someone who has no veteran experience to even construct the games let alone write competent AI scripting. Having them figuring out dynamic lighting or advanced sound propagation techniques is out of the question and is basically filtering out 99% of them and that's a fact. Let alone younger generations don't think these are ground rule necessities because they've played too much Assassins Creed to know any better. For some reason the only real depth you'll ever get out of an independent project will always be The Dark Mod. So they'll just make some casual crap instead.
>>735533230I was a little puzzled over how someone could perceive Zelda to be a stealth game. Are we talking about the stealth sections of Windwaker or something? because I'm very confused over what conceptually we are talking about. I don't think something that amounts to what Beyond Good and Evil did at times is a stealth game. Not seeing it with BOTW or TOTK either. It might not be bait because there are some people that genuinely believe that the optional stealth route replaced this design. Just a very misinformed opinion. There are some Neil Druckmann fans that call all of Naughty Dogs shit stealth games too so we always have morons claiming things that don't make much sense most of the time.
Why is he so cool? Is it possible to be as cool as him IRL?
>>735534961You will never be a mid 2000s gamecube exclusive jaranese action game main character
IMAGINE
>>735459019PICTURE IT!
>>735532402Are they going to bring back the swimsuits?I wasn't playing during last summer and missed them all...
>>735534553I'm sure they will. Along with the 2026 Swimsuit Special. No reason not to bring the 2025 ones back for a few weeks, those that missed them will cough up the dough.
Squirrel Girl is still the most beautiful Rivals girl and I would do unthinkable things to her anus.
>>735534913
Alright it's been dissected and distilled to hell and back. Everything about it is known, all the systems, the numbers, the combinations. Why can't we replicate it?
>>735532649Dying is a punishment within levels. Later games have too many bonfires, I agree. But there's no reason for transit to be overly inconvenient between levels. I'm going to stick with the scenario I laid out before but slightly modified. Lets say I just beat the Gaping Dragon and got a bunch of souls to spend. In this hypothetical I'm a Pyromancer with probably only a few spells to my name. So my first move is to run all the way back to Firelink and buy out as much of Laurentius's stock as I can afford and dump whatever else I got into upgrading my pyromancy flame. And then I have to turn around and run all the way back to where I started from to continue the game. This just consists of me going through several minutes of walking back and forth across the aqueduct and up and down through the Depths (hopefully I was smart enough to get the shortcut) and then finally I can continue from where I left off through an area I already cleared. That is my issue with the system. Within levels, I don't mind being punished for failure. But when navigating between levels is tedious, the player isn't really doing anything wrong so the annoyance isn't justified in the same way.
>>735533136Andre matters more because of his placement, presenting a friendly face and place in a hostile world, especially as that place connects to a few areas, meaning that the area will call to you naturally. "Ah man I should get back to Andre" and then you begin making plans in your head for a trip back, with potentially other people you want to sight see or avoid.
>>735533004People read one line in an interview with Miyazaki that "difficulty wasn't the point of these games", and then forever think that these games weren't intentionally all made to be difficult. Like yeah, Fromsoft could make a way harder game than even Elden Ring's DLC if they wanted. Just make it so random spots on the ground are pitfalls that kill you instantly or have a bunch of enemies that delevel you to level 1 if they grab you. It'd be trivial. But all the same, from Demon's Souls on, the intent was for the game series to be challenging and for you to die a bunch. Fromsoft had a lot of experience making hard games and Miyazaki himself likes stuff like Berserk that was all about suffering and difficulty in its narrative.
>>735533398The Andre Pilgrimage is a big part of the game, yeah. But Fromsoft basically admitted that it was going to be too much by letting you upgrade your weapon (but not ascend) from the bonfire. IME, you don't even need ascensions until you head up to Sen's Fortress anyhow. And then you're given access to both Andre and the Anor Londo Giant at the same time.
>>735533725Rickert, too, actually. He's right at the other end of Firelink, so not a hard guy to get to by the time you need him.
post em
I like this game. Yes you have to unlock stuff but you have to do that in Smash Brothers too and nobody complained.
>>735533828The MyRise looks uninspired so I passed.
>>735533972It is. I do wish they'd write a really good story for it one of these days.
>>735533828>and nobody complained.You don't need to lie to say you like something
Is this the greatest multiplayer map of all time?
>>735530516cross map oddjob hat kills were goated
this is the best video game map ever made
>>735530516That would be 2fort thobeit
>>735530516This is.
Enjoying her game?
>>735533663His new life as a big shot fat cat after he personally saved everyone with his courage and his smarts, balancing that with maintaining relationships with the rangers who remain uncultured bums
is Wilds worth coming back to, if I have no interest in final fantasy?
>>735534398its got some stuff, if your pc can survive the janky performance.
>>735486997Sex with mommy Kora while everyone is sleeping!
>>735512975dat body
how do i cope
>>735532573Nigga stop buying shit you ain't immediately gonna playNow trade four hours of your ten hour daily shitposting budget for playing videogames, and you'll be done with all of those in three or so months
>>735534340Are you using a local download server? There's a Toronto one.
>>735532684Westoid-san... I...
>>735532573>backlog (18)you can go through that pretty quickly. my backlog is around 350 games on steam, much more on emulator, and about 600 wishlisted games. just stop putting 60 hour JRPGs on your backlog.
Whenever I get choice paralysis about what to play I just play FFV again.Hasn't steered me wrong yet.
What are your favorite games where reproduction is an important part of the game? What about games that aren't great, but they have a good implementation of this mechanic? And what are some types of games you wish would include this mechanic?
>art direction: 10>gameplay: 10>length/pace: 10>cool factor: 10>difficulty: piss easy for little babby shitters 0/10how could they fudge up so bad??
remake trades art direction for difficulty, that's why it's better except for browns who "play" games by watching them on youtube
bait.
he's not wrong chat
>>735532635If only all the enemies were bullet sponges, that would make the game so much better.
>>735532635>difficultyWasn't an issue back then. People played games because they were fun.
when are we getting a new one?
>>735533870>disney>canon
if they don't make loot boxes it could be good.
>>735533938Disney owns the rights and there's nothing you can do about. Even if I personally don't give a shit what's canon and what's not the disney cares and they will never give us SW game that feels like old SW.
>>735534147i dont give a shit what's canon according to troons and jews.are you one of those weirdos who play female Exile in SWKOTOR 2?
>>735533779Good thing mixed with a bit of sequels caca
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
>>735531885I played it once back in early 2000s, then did the same character, orc mage, 5-6 years ago then I did it again and actually finished the run including expansions. So uh, 1 playthrough technically. And wtf do you mean willpower, it's an incredibly easy video game and dealing with stunted magicka with the easy to use methods isn't exactly a challenge in any way at all.
>>735532019Well then you have a more consistent approach than most people I know
>>735517549ngl back in the day thats what I thought this mod was. People would post screenshots here of them exploring the preview and I just thought thats what the whole thing was like.
>>735510080>Stealth and crime are fundamentally brokenShame innit?
>>735526440>Breton>Atronach>Conjuration>Mace of Molag BalSimple as
https://x.com/Sonic_Rumble/status/2035748527146406059and i thought the smurfs were ridiculous...
>>735503927I don't think it's out of character, i just think is embarrassing because the Care Bears have been failing miserably into coming back into to the mainstream since 86, and Sega already has Angry Birds to push out as a washed out franchise on this gameIf Hello Kitty or even something like Garfield and Thomas the Tank Engine appeared in the game i would say "Ok! This still has some relevancy-cred, Sega could not afford to say no", but fucking care bears? If they included a character like Ronald McDonald, i would think that Sega are sell-outs, which i already know. If they included the Burguer King, i would think they are sell-out AND desperate. With Care Bears i think they are even lower than that
STOP REPLYING TO SONIC THREADSTHEY ARE RIGHT NOW ASTROSURFED AND SPAMMED BY ONE SINGLE GUYSee pic related for proof
>>735498853This post sure made some people arounshere ass blasted.
>>735534125>They are RIGHT NOW doing this>2021Even assuming this guy is telling the truth and not just doing a bit, this isn't exactly damning evidence.
>>735494661What am i supposed to be angry at?
In some respects I think Street Fighter V looks better than 6 (Ryu looks much better in V) but in some cases 6 looks leaps better than V (Alex's character model for example)
The only good thing in SF6 graphics is classic Cammy that got me horny everytime i play
>>735531732They tried to take it from you, anon.
>>735531930They can say stuff but they can't resist money
>>735498323So, whose dick do I need to suck in order to get the Season pass 3?
I think costumes 3 and 4 saved a lot of characters. Manon and Marisa especially. Many of the levels look phenomenal, especially Blanka's. I like 6 more now.
we are all pawns controlled by something greater... memes, the DNA of the soul
>>735533781The stun effect sucks cock. I think I just set the difficulty so high I would just die before I got stunned.
>>735533869That sounds even worse.
>>735533901I felt like I was actually damaging my controller and decided it wasn't worth it for one game. Beat it once and never touched it again. The few VR missions I tried were also infuriatingly difficult. Great story and presentation but probably my least favorite game from Platinum.
>>735533991I feel like the VR missions were trash as a joke on Raiden constantly talking about VR training in 2, it's the only thing that makes sense
>>735534481Platinum usually has good post game modes like that. Like Angel Slayer/Witch Trials in Bayonetta but MGR's VR missions highlighted how insanely hard the core combat could be. It wasn't even fun challenging difficulty, it was just infuriating getting ganged up on and constantly stun locked. So you rotate the stick so hard to break free only to immediately be stunned again.
