So it seems that the launch of this game was piss poor due to the bad performance issues and normalfags waking up to the DRM/Microtransactions shit. Still there's a good game to be found, and I hope everyone is enjoying the game as much as I am. Just recently capcom released a new patch where they added a New Game function in addition to a FPS Lock for console fags. In addition to being able to get your own house earlier in the game, and changing Art of Metamorphosis to 99 instead of 2 in the Pawn Guild, thus eliminating the need for microtransactions altogether. Sadly it seems the performance issues won't be release until later this year since it seems capcom needs some more time to cook the game and have it working with DLSS3 and other techniques to make the game actually run at a bearable framerate. Still with all of the complaints they got, hopefully they can have some options to fix the performance issues by using the GPU a bit more in towns. Still, have you been enjoying the game /v/?

now that we are on the second half of the year. What games released this year had /v/ played? bonus points if you write what you think about them i only played 3 >Balatro Basically poker but rogue-like it's breddy good, was very fun at the begining but after wining a couple of runs i got bored quickly, but i still once in a while return to it to do a couple of runs. >Crow Country it was a nice surprise, a new survival horror with interesting enemy designs, i haven't played the hard mode added after release so i can't say much about that, but for what i've played, i felt it leaned too much on the easy side. >Nine Sols Hollow knigh meets Sekiro's gameplay. without a doubt my GOTY for this year. is a game that did everything well especially the gameplay, when it click it fucking CLICK, and it has the best bosses in a while.

https://archive.ph/3i5k2 What happened over the years with video game optimization? The latest CoD slop to come out will be 306 gigabytes in size on launch. What the fuck is causing such an inflation of space? Back in the early 00's, the PS3 had 160 gigabytes for most models, and that could still fit many games, I recall my fat boy PS3 having about 15 games installed of various sizes, and I could swear I had room for more. Is this a problem with design philosophy? Competency crisis? Something more sinister?

Community project for Sonic 1.

Finally here. Keanu's voice seems surprisingly tame here

https://archive.ph/3DX4t >The US State Department and Embassy in The Hague ran a "competition" for a $275,000 grant through it's Global Engagement Center (GEC). The project revolved around "counter-disinformation" - creating a video game that influences teens against common conservative arguments surrounding politics, DEI, climate change, economics and even covid. The initial iteration of the game is called "Cat Park", likely a beta test for future propaganda games. >As the funding notice states: <“Successful proposals will incorporate active inoculation theory and address current disinformation and propaganda tactics. The delivered product should be modular, scalable, and expandable so that later iterations could address additional problem sets, such as violent extremism and health misinformation. The game will be piloted simultaneously with players in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and lessons learned from these pilots will inform the final version of the game intended ultimately for global audiences...” >The GEC partners with numerous globalist institutions including the Global Disinformation Index, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab, and Moonshot CVE. They claim to be focused on foreign adversaries, but they are aggressively opposed to "populism" and view conservative ideals as a "threat to Democracy." In other words, they see you as the enemy as much as they see China or Russia as the enemy. >In 2021 members of Congress wrote a complaint to the GEC in which they argued that the institution was straying from its original mission. They included the video game project, noting that it was designed to: <"Produce a ‘counter-disinformation video game’ that programmed audiences to associate citizen critiques of government waste, fraud, and abuse with a social media disinformation campaign.”

If you haven't heard by now, Banjo-Kazooie recently got decompiled. You can find the source code for it here: https://github.com/n64decomp/banjo-kazooie https://gitlab.com/banjo.decomp/banjo-kazooie Here's a video of Kaze discussing the decomp and what it means for Banjo modding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH1ErhJa3Qo

Well /v/ Bungie's spiral into death is finally happening and you might say, it was being bought by Soyny or being full of sjw leftoid commies. But I think the problems there even before all that cancer and it was after they left M$, Marty brought up an interesting quote "They were right to get Bungie out of Microsoft, but they needed to get the Microsoft out of Bungie." Bungie inherited much of the irrational decision making M$ has and it shows, with how much of the old guard from Halo they fired or made quit during 2010-2013. The new devs they got during Reach along with the inter years between it and Destiny 1, simply did not have the skillsets their predecessors had and the shit leadership failed to wrangle them. The problems were top to bottom, and the hard sjwification that hit the studio like many in the early 2010s only further ruined Bungie. Destiny is a walking corpse that is only animated from sheer monument, and Marathon's skinwalker is DOA as no one wants an extraction FPS in a sea of them. https://archive.is/aQATz

Haven't seen a proper discussion here since I Wani Hug That Gator released and the old thread's dead, so I thought I'd make a new one >What's Snoot Game? It's a visual novel made by a bunch of people from 4chan originally intended as a parody of Goodbye Volcano High. Over time it became its own thing and it stands on its own as one of the few actually good, sincere western VNs. It's got surprisingly good writing and story telling. >What's Wani? It's the second game and the first official commercial game by the same team (Cavemanon). The cast is completely original, unlike Snoot Game's. Has a much higher production value, with most of it visible in the original music and the animations. Most people say that the story is more or less on par with Snoot Game's. >Snoot Game: https://snootgame.xyz/ (Download Included) >Wani: https://hugthegator.xyz Download (Full Version): https://www.mediafire.com/file/vxelirqzk636db0/I_Wani_Hug_that_Gator%2521_-_Copy.rar/file

/v/ with the recent Concord/Dustborn and other AAA flops this year. I thought a dedicated thread talking about gAAAy spending GDPs of small countries, would be necessary. I'm interested in investigating just how much of this is money laundering, or sheer incompetence.

Nintendo Direct Date: August 27th LIVE NOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7o96_yIWw I got nothing fancy to say this time other than here are some live streams to watch with us when the time comes. Handygames and THQNordic should be in the same channel, but I can't say it with 100% certainty so I'll just list them both here. As always I stole the schedule from Gematsu and tried using ChatGPT to add in the events for me, although it probably fucked up some of the times. Either way I'll sticky this thread when the events start. I look forward to watching these events with you. - Mark Panic Games Show Date: August 27th Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT twitch.tv/panic

So, anything new on this genre. Closest i have seen is that new gachashit game Sword of Convallaria Looks neat, but sadly is both gachashit and Chinese made, so probably has spyware somewhere

TF2 Servers Official Maps 66.172.250.71:27015 Custom Maps (Plus all the new maps) 66.172.250.71:27045 TF2C Servers Official Maps (TF2C) 66.172.250.71:27025 Custom Maps (TF2C) 66.172.250.71:27035 14 NEW MAPS NEW GAME MODE no new weapons but honestly most of the "recent" weapons weren't very good https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=206148 Plus a bunch of new cosmetics, taunts, usual effects, and myriad of bugfixes. The bugfixes are rarely fully detailed in the patch notes and it'll probably take a few day for the community to figure out what exactly they did.

I not talking about games where you're a misunderstood "villain" who turns out to be the "good guy" only because of plot reasons. I mean games where you're an unapologetic evil person and the game doesn't try to shy away or ridicule the player for it. The reason I bring this up is beause I've been recently thinking about the games released during the late seventh gen, like Spec Ops: The Line and Bioshock Infinite, where the games outright ridicule the player for having played the game all the way to the end with a message that the player needs to "kill himself" in order to "atone" for the "sin" of having played a violent video game where you kill NPCs, and just how disgusting the entire concept of. Why make a game where you "trick" the player into playing the game the way you wanted them to play it, and then ridicule the player for having played the game exactly the way you wanted them to play it? So how about listing off some games where you are the villain, the game doesn't feel guilty over that fact, and the developers have fun with the player taking on the role of being a bad person doing bad things?