Games @4-ch

>>258
Oh yeah, the sequel, Dreamsettler, is coming soon btw

I've been playing around on a friend's Minecraft server. It's the first time I've played the game in years, and there has been some serious feature creep in that time. That being said... I've been surprised at how much I like the new features, once I've given them a chance. Beekeeping and archaeology are ridiculous things to add on the face of it, but they are actually quite fun and satisfying, and some effort has been made to integrate them into the rest of the game. The biomes in the nether and underground add some much needed variety and reason to explore (although it's true it is at the cost of a certain austere beauty these places used to have as well). I also have to say, as someone who primarily plays the game to build stuff, I'm a big fan of a lot of the new block types. Copper makes excellent roofing, the new tree/wood types are beautiful, and there's a lot more interesting unique decorative blocks for accenting. I don't really care about the new mobs or combat stuff, but that's fine, not everything has to be for everyone, and you aren't forced to engage with them. It's heartwarming to see that the game is still good, even without the blinders of nostalgia.

The Warriors PS2 just strikes me as a game that will dull my mind until I forget there was ever an objective. I can't fault it for that, but it makes this even more shameful for me.

Played a bunch of Astro Bot, and holy shit, it's really good. No wonder it got game of the year. Honestly, Sony needs to get more games like that on the PS5, movie games are too expensive to rely on alone.

>>262
Yahtzee was right when he said that game is a tribute to what Sony was 20 years ago, not what it is now.

Dolls Nest is pretty fun. Crazy that this is a VN studio's first action game. It feels like Nechronica by way of Dark Souls but instead of shit-ass dead dude you're playing as a mecha musume Armored Core unit. It takes a little time to get used to aiming melee weapons so that you don't just slash under the enemy's hitbox, though.

>>251

not yet been busy with irl shit.
gonna go trough all of them during the summer

>>262
Played more of it, just unlocked the final galaxy or whatever. A lot of the shape void stages are pretty stressful, but overall pretty nice.

Can someone please spoonfeed me what exactly Elden Ring Nightreign is about? I'm slow so even after watching the overview video I still don't get it. In the game do you just pick a prebuilt character and then have to go through a stage with online players until you reach the boss and beat it? Is that what the game is about?

>>267
Watched a bit of the network test.
It's mechanically kinda like a battle royale, except three player PVE instead of all shooting each other.
You all get dropped into a spot in a Limgrave-ish sized map, and go around fighting minibosses for random loot and leveling up.
Then a wall of hurt funnels you into where a big boss spawns, and you fight that.
Make it through a few rounds of all that, and you get a bigger boss. Beat that too and you win the run.

So basically, if you liked co-oping boss fights, this is more of that with less of the exploration in between.

>>6
Just got news that the price didn't get hiked up, but the accessory prices got hiked up

Captcha: cungude

>>2
Looks like Nintendo confirmed April 24th in the US

>>5 I never really liked Mario Kart games, but I thought that was a cool idea. Not a new idea of course, it worked well in Burnout and NFS etc. I just don't buy consoles and games anymore apart from cheap second-hand games. Money-grabbing bastards aren't getting my money! Every day I wake up feeling like I'm winning at life!

>>9
It works well for some games, but it strikes me as kinda weird in a Mario Kart.
I think it's something about the fact that you're still driving all around the world in go-karts, even though there are actual cars around.
But I haven't actually played a Mario Kart in a pretty long time. Might be a neat spin gameplay-wise, I dunno.

>>9 Nintendo doesn't have the guts to make it actual downtown street racing with current popular music like in Midnight Club though, so sad ...

I should get my 360 fixed and replay that someday, fond memories

Pre ordered my console, but regrettably couldn't get the bundle due to Walmart being absolutely flooded with requests... oh well, I guess I'm dealing with 80bux for Mario kart. Thankfully it has a pretty good track (heh) record, so probably worth the extra autism bux.

I got my Switch 2 and Pro Controller preorders locked in. That was a stressful morning. Thank God I'm unemployed.

>>13
Got the same, with carrying case and screen protector as well. Eventually going to find how to waste the month's wait.

>>14
You'll waste it checking this thread for more replies

>>12,13 Suckers!

>>31

>takes a blatantly obvious troll post a little too seriously

>quotes non-existent post

>Steam on Linux

It's cool it exists and I don't care if it's closed-source, proprietary, whatever. I'd rather have Linux ports than not.

But the fact Steam is the "okay" launcher/DRM/bloatware on PCs to begin with has always rubbed me the wrong way. People complain about all the others ... but Steam is fine? I remember buying games on discs and the Gamespy stuff was effectively opt-in adware in the installer. Imagine you needed it just to play.

Get rid of DRM, even if Steam exists as a marketplace, allow people to just install the games and run .exes for the games they've purchased without running the client. It's absurd to me PC gaming ended up this way.

>>36
Steam was just a place to buy a game that would've been pirated if it wasn't available online.

>>36
It was the service solution to "People tend to pirate games, why?", and for many reasons, it was the service issue of "Good luck finding any PC game in the store that wasn't shovelware, sims or Blizzard shit", it was to PC games what iTunes was to music, a more convenient way of getting shit that was more honest and actually legitimate.

Honestly, I'd rather have steam exist instead of have a dark age of the PC being first class hardware but third class service and game support (entire games, sometimes franchises and genres being absent from PC, even when they were on there previously, see Midtown Madness series going from PC exclusive to ending up Xbox exclusive for no reason).

>>37
>>38
I agree to an extent, similar to how Netflix and Spotify were just more convenient than piracy.

But since people are always going to pirate/circumvent measures anyway, the best model would be if it was optional and you could just download then run a game without some online account-based chat app (complete with trading cards, stickers, avatars, whatever else).

You're buying something. They already have every incentive to make that as easy and open as possible. I just don't get why PC gamers (the ones who like their own customization and modding and whatnot) became fine with Steam, then complain about Rockstar, Epic Games, whatever else.

I, at least, was not scared to bolt Microsoft Store (or the Xbox app) games into Steam's input layer when I was still using DirectInput controllers (i.e. Dualshock)

But I do not miss that time. Proper enjoyment of gamepad + non-Steam games is contingent on owning an Xbox Controller or something very close to one.

Also as a cheap bastard, I do like to save the little bits of money that Steam sales tend to undercut Epic, GOG, and Xbox sales. Gamepass is neat though, if you get it for free as a promotion.

>>39
Steam basically wins because it's the biggest, and offers good service, as well as sales often. That and I'm sure Valve/Gabe's cult following helps it.

>>39
Right. I want to pay for my "content" but sometimes it's just not worth it. A dollar or two per track off of Bandcamp/Beatport is a good deal for me. The artist gets some change, I get a high quality music file that I can play offline. Cool. If the artist/publisher makes the process much more complicated than that, I'll just pirate it instead.

Though they push a DRM (which has historically been trivial to circumvent), Valve is also actively improving Wine. I'm generally happy to swipe my credit card in Gabe's asscrack.

>>22
Yes! Multiple times, and I've 100%ed it too. It's a very special game to me, even if I can't in good conscience recommend it to others given how godawful the combat and gameplay is.

>>23
Good luck with that! Physical copies are extremely hard to get your hands on, but my ex managed to pull it off so you might too.

https://filesfound.net/articles/forceofsex

This might be the most obscure videogame possible (up until this article was written and the guy uploaded a ROM, anyway)

space station 13

Here are some weird obscure games for a obscure British PC called the Acorn Archimedes;

Big Bang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ6Ygd7q1KI
Revolver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTMW9HF2Ybs
Hamsters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlXJIECTJYE

They are all pretty fucking weird in their own rights.

I watched a playthrough of Iru! for the PS1 and it's kinda neat.
Lovecraft inspired walking sim with Twilight Syndrome vibes.
The reverence it has for Lovecraft's works makes it almost "canonical" in the sense that it's not 'loosely inspired' by the works like so many modern media, but takes efforts to be extremely accurate to the source material to a level I've not often seen, despite being set in a totally atypical location (Japanese school).

A while back I found a pretty obscure early 00's era Chinese game called Tien, which is a third-person 3D hacky-slashy type game I would loosely summarize as "a bit like Rune but Wuxia instead of Nordic". Seems to be built on the Lithtech engine. There's a version (no idea if official or a fan thing) where interface text is English at least. A real hidden gem.

https://kubusforever.com/

>>28
I'm glad you realize "lovecraft inspired" is as meaningless as "earthbound inspired" in terms of video games

>>31
for sure, basically what I mean is "lovecraft inspired, no for real this time, like every character is fucking quoting paragraphs of Lovecraft's shit given any possible opportunity"

I recently beat KreisReise's true final boss. As much frustrating as the game is, it's not really all that hard once you learn what to do and how to deal with the bosses. I wished I knew what the fuck the story is about since the god awful machine translation doesn't explain shit. Overall, it's a fun game. I give it a 4/5.

I need to find more doujin games in that similar setting. I can't describe it, but I find the setting and vibes from games like SUGURI, LethalCrisis, Spiral Tempest, and KreisReise to be really appealing. Something about a futuristic world that we don't see much that sort of feels empty yet advance with all these beautiful girls flying around using energy swords and guns just really appeals to me.

I enjoyed Environmental Station Alpha and I hope ESA 2 comes out eventually.

>>5

>Outer Wilds

lol what

Blasphemous 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lExJihxMXw

Metroid. Not Super, not Fusion, not Zero Mission. Just OG Metroid.

the shantae series. it's so cute and I like the dialogue

>>9
something tells me you're a shallow person

>>10

You are correct.

Hollow Knight is great, if you only play one metroidvania it's the one you should go for.
Axiom Verge is an old favourite of mine, a little bit wonky in places and the difficulty is pretty steep, but a lot of fun. The sequel is prettier but doesn't live up to the first game in my opinion.
The Messenger is very underrated, I never seem to hear anyone talk about it. The writing in particular is excellent. Do be aware that it starts out very linear and only opens up around the mid-game.
Rabi-Ribi is really fun, and mixes up the usual metroidvania design with fighting game/bullet hell elements which is pretty cool. The combat system clearly has a lot of depth to it that I never really got too far into.
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight barely qualifies as a metroidvania, but it's one I love so much I can't not bring it up.

Without question, it's Rabi-Ribi. Crazy levels of exploration and sequence breaking possible when you master the hidden movement techniques, really simple and satisfying controls and mechanics, adorable characters. The movement techniques are really crucial to how the game can give you a glimpse of something that makes you wonder what's there and if you can get there since, if you master them, you absolutely can get there.

Cave Story, if it counts!

Hollow Knight bugged me: the whole 'going back to collect your past progress' thing that has taken over games. I already died, can't I just go back to my last save? I'm being punished/taxed for not playing well. I died! Now I'm hitting diminishing returns instead of just...losing progress?

I loved Aria of Sorrow, felt like a more polished Symphony of the Night with tighter controls etc. Collecting Souls could be grindy at times, but at least you were always making some kind of progress in an RPG/random-chance kind of way.

Played a little bit of Bloodstained but it just felt a bit off. Plus I got absolutely stuck on a difficult boss, lost a bunch of progress at one point (probably missed a save room), and ended up ragequitting. But it had the right idea.

Favorite is probably Axiom Verge 2, basically every time I unlocked something I felt like "wow this is awesome". Something your average Castlevania game won't do (not that I don't love SotN, OoE and AoS!).

I generally tend to just enjoy most games in the genre though, even the more unremarkable ones. That Love Live one from a year or two ago was cute and pretty fun for a weird anime spinoff. Strider 2014 which I doubt many people cared about is one I also will fondly remember.

Right now I am playing Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (that Monster World II remake from a few years ago) and I'm honestly shocked how serviceable it is, even though it sticks close to the original game.
Normally 8-bit stuff - especially from the Sega side - is obnoxious to me.

Easily one of my favorite parts of Papyrus is his tacit acceptance of whatever his brother has going on, without even attempting to understand it anymore.

>AH YES, MY BROTHER.
>TENDS TO TELEPORT AROUND WITHOUT WARNING,
>HAS MASTERED SLACKING OFF SO EXPERTLY THAT HE SLACKS OFF ON THE JOB BY GETTING ANOTHER JOB,
>AND HAS PLANNED ELABORATE JOKES THAT TRANSCEND THE FABRIC OF SPACE AND TIME BASED ON A PLAN HE REFUSES TO TELL ME ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING ABOUT.
>WHAT OF HIM?

Toby knows Papyrus is one of his best characters and that's why he's been putting so much mystery around him

you are filled with.. DETERMINATION

>>17
I don't know if it was an intentional reference or not but for some reason Trunks "I'm filled with determination!" as a transformation line in Sparking Zero.

At the current point in the story, Susie doesn't do much more than act as Kris' dog. They point, she reacts. Someone disrespects them, she attacks. She's a minor player in most of the scenes we see her in during the Hometown segment.
Alphys really thinks that some human dick/minge is all it took to pacify Susie and that's hilarious to me

This is either a hot take or a very cold one, but I don't care for Deltarune for the story, mostly because it doesn't exist?
In comparison to Undertale where there was an overarching plotline surrounding your journey and actions, Deltarune's feels shallow and inconsequential, and its mostly just a collection of gags and short-term "encounters" that you experience once and instantly stops being of relevance, yeah there are the more complex side stories (like Spamton), but those don't matter either on account of being too small to be relevant.
Yes I know about snowgrave, thats pretty much a reboot of the genocide route that mostly threw subtlety out the window because no one got the original's message (the atrocities committed by the protagonist, is ultimately the fault of the player) and blamed everything on chara.
Deltarune's plotline feels like a simple game of DnD that no one takes too seriously (rather than a fleshed out plotline), and considering thats the surrounding theme I wouldn't be surprised if the shitty twist™© is that Deltarune is literally Kris and his friends sitting down playing a tabletop game.
Anyway sorry for the rant, I can't wait for the wave of unironic edge that will come with chapter 3's evil route.

Damn, Kris, where the hell are we?

Kris: A textboard.

>>20
Yeah, I can see that interpretation, but I also think it's a tad too reductive. We've already had a decent amount of suspense set up in this first two chapters(Kris' struggle to regain autonomy, Ralsei's ulterior motives, Noelle's thematic association with the angel and Roaring) and we haven't even begun to explore the second in that list.
I unironically think Jockington is the key to finding out whatever Ralsei's deal is; his lack of self-worth is single-minded and(to our knowledge) sincere whereas Ralsei's is at the very least incomplete. Seeing someone, especially a Lightner who fully accepts the role a Darkner "should" be in would scare the shit out of him, and get him to drop that mask for a split second.
If Toby never approaches that THEN I'm willing to call him a hack but it's just too soon.

The retard snake is relevant now again, anyone got any ASCII art of him

I'm Pluey, but you already knew that. I'm everybody's favorite meme!

Ougon Musou Kyoku Cross

I've always loved Tekken but I suck at pretty much any other fighting game.

Growing up reading the Official PlayStation Magazine, they always used the term “Beat 'Em Up” for fighting games like Tekken, SF, MK etc. but more recently in other places I've seen that only used for games like Streets Of Rage where you fight lots of enemies. I wonder if that's a UK/US thing?

idk where im from tekken is called a fighter and streets of rage is balled beat em up

I play Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2(the Wii version) and I think that getting used to that game kind of makes you retarded at the next one due to how little but significant the differences in movement mechanics are. It sucks too, since it feels so clean but has far worse AI than its sequel.

Fighting EX Layer is the best, followed closely by Kinnikuman Muscle Grand Prix 2

Reina in Tekken 8 is a demoness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsCpewoF2E4

I have been playing sf6 with some friends recently, we roped a guy who just played for honor to try it and he's been raging about drive rush and grabs.

Personally I have been enjoying it more than sf4/5. I hope Dan/Oro/Sakura make it back it, but I wouldn't be sad if none of them make it back for this iteration. I have been liking this direction of adding characters from other fighting games though.

Is there any character anyone is hoping for Sf6, or any other fighting game?

I've started making an effort to get better at Smash if anything. Unforunately I'm a massive bellend with a brain the size of a squirrel's, so I can know I'm going to get punished for doing something and not be able to imagine any alternate path, resigning myself to my fate.

MUGEN

I kind of like them in theory, but whenever I try to get into them, I find myself struggling to master the direction-sequence controls and remembering all of my moves while other players just pummel me. Seems like there's a dearth of lower-skill players to practice against in most games and most of them have CPU AI that just plain doesn't play like a human player at all so it's not much use to practice against them, either. Still, I can occasionally convince a friend to play Nitroplus Blasterz or something and we'll both have fun with it.

>>95 I hope they are luring in the P5 fans and then they make Tartarus even longer and dumber than the original.

Tbh I really don't know if I'll pickup P3 remake. If they don't even have FemMC or The Answer then what's the point? FemMC had the better social links and The Answer was ungodly hard as shit but cool as hell.

New rumors about Persona 2 and 4 also getting remakes.

>>99
I wonder if they'll delete the gay bromance and the female protagonist from P2.

Kaneko has departed from Atlus: https://www.gematsu.com/2024/04/shin-megami-tensei-series-character-designer-kazuma-kaneko-leaves-atlus-after-35-years-joins-colopl

Devil Summoner coming back?
Possible announcement at the Tokyo Game Show.

Were the rumors false? Maybe the Devil Summoner (collection?) games will be announced at some other event.
Anyway, Metaphor will be released soon.

Persona 4 remake rumors? Say it ain't so.

My uncle who works at Atlus told me that the next Megaten game is going to be called Persona 666 and Lucifer will be a romance option

Raidou vs.the Soulless Army remaster confirmed.