New Tron game announced. Some kind of story-driven action game? It's by Bithell, who did another Tron game last year. Looks kind of Disco Elysium inspired. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3025590/TRON_Catalyst/ It's "Disney™ TRON" so don't expect too much.

Sidenote, but imo the worst thing about modern Tron aesthetically is how everything looks like it's made of real materials. It all has texture and semi-realistic lightning, it's so skeuomorphic. I prefer the abstract, intentionally artificial look of Tron pre-2010.

>>1027494 Same fake study as the one claiming that piracy increase sales.

>>1027625 >No word yet on whether they'll bring back the classic MegaTen writers, but here's hoping. Update: Kazunari Suzuki just tweeted that he's involved again. https://archive.ph/JTFg6 Also, Tsukasa Masuko retweeted the dev post, but didn't comment. I hope he's coming back to compose again. No word from Nishitani or Ito yet, but I'll keep an eye out.

Dino Crisis 1 for PS1 is now available on PS5 But you have to be a subscriber to PS Plus Premium to get it. It's not available for purchase for plebian users (yet). I've also heard rumours that the GOG people are trying to get the first two Dino Crisis games too, after the success of their re-release of the original Resident Evil trilogy. I'm still annoyed we only got the original version of RE and not the DC with extra content.

>>1027934 Forgot my pic of Regina.

Just saw that Starship Troopers Extermination is 1.0 and out of early access. Downside is it still is in a rough/poor state and not worth the asking price. A shame they couldn't get their shit together.

>>1027958 >Available for free literally everywhere, through piracy. a good pc port could allow for some nice mods.

Spiderman 2 PC port NogamesStation5 https://blog.playstation.com/2024/10/18/marvels-spider-man-2-arrives-on-pc-january-2025/

>>1029379 This soon? Fuck me.

>>1029379 I can't wait for the inevitable salt flood when someone fixes MJ's face.

>>1029394 And makes the missions without Peter skippable. Or using AI to make the deaf girl speak (which won't require any hooks because there's already an "accessibility" option to get a real deaf girl read the subtitles so you can just replace those files).

Actually! I just realized why they announced this only a year after it launched - the Insomniac leaks. There was a build of the PC version that's since been fixed up and made fully playable. It's still kind of obscure and I imagine they wanted to get ahead of that while it still was.

>>1029406 That and Concord flopping

>>1027934 >Dino Crisis 1 for PS1 is now available on PS5 It's been available on my PC for 25 years now.

>>1029394 >someone fixes MJ's face Why bother? MJ's face is the least of that game's problems, and you can't mod out cancer that deeply rooted.

>>1029456 What were that game's problems and didn't builds leak already?

>>1029455 It's been available on PS1 even slightly longer than that.

Some you might get a kick out of this. The industry lobbying group Entertainment Software Association is seething to the US Trade about FitGirl and DODI. https://archive.is/cmlDm

>>1030291 >The ESA, which represents video game companies including Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft, A company that hasn't been monopoly busted yet given how many companies they have killed and eaten, Chinkshit Games, Microkike, Patent Trolling Kike company, Soyny Live Service Scams, and Ubikike government tax scams, yeah.

>>1030310 But it's not a monopoly, Anon. The ESA is simply a trade organization, comprising of about 20 of the biggest companies involved in computers, entertainment, and video games. Granted, half of the companies listed as members are also listed as members of the Japanese equivalent organization (CESA, CERO is a branch of said organization), but there's nothign wrong with that. Certainly no racketeering. After all, these organizations were established only because those pesky misogynistic man-children wanted to have sex and violence on video games. If it wasn't for those incels, then these organizations wouldn't need to exist in the first place. Don't just want to be able to play video games, Anon?

>>1030310 Just so no one forgets who the enemies are

>Metal Slug Tactics release date set for November 2024 https://nichegamer.com/metal-slug-tactics-release-date-nov-2024/ https://archive.is/ni9Bo >Former PlayStation CEO shares bleak perspective of Japanese gaming https://nichegamer.com/former-playstation-ceo-shares-bleak-perspective-of-japanese-gaming/ https://archive.is/kE4AF

>>1030830 >Layden goes on to criticize Japanese studios for trying to reach global audiences saying that they “have not been successful for a long time”, and even applauds Square Enix for “abandoning its ambition” to expand development overseas. It took this long for a corporate suit to be rational for once. But then: >Historically, Layden has shared what appear to be pessimistic opinions about the Japanese gaming industry and gaming as a whole, especially since he joined Chinese company Tencent. The guy is basically a dog for the chinks now, so he will say that everything is bad, except chink products. Which is ironic/hypocritical of him when he said that imitators were bad for the industry: https://archive.is/T4v8l

>>1030291 Oh no don't force me to change my DNSerino! >>1030849 >Squeenix abandoning "modern" audiences Whst is this nigga smoking, DQ III HD has that DEI crap all over it

>>1030859 >Whst is this nigga smoking, DQ III HD has that DEI crap all over it How?

>>1030906 Body type nonsense and the removal of gendered language. One can only imagine what they'll do to the puff-puff scene.

>>1030906 Remember they're censoring Toriyama's sexy character designs? (And also scrubbing Horii and Torishima's interview from the internet where they complain about the west's content policies cause this gay censorship)

>>1027494 I had a look through the study. They look at the reviews for Denuvo games vs non-Denuvo/cracked games, chart it out, and show there's a clear 20% median reduction in sales in the first 12 weeks. The values and methodology is all in the study. My only issues with the study >their sample size is quite small, only 86 >they don't have access to actual sales data, so they use Steam user reviews as a proxy Both of these could potentially compromise the validity of the study; sample size is self-explanatory but user reviews aren't a very good approximation for sales. They can vary wildly, games can have reviewer ratios of as high as 1 in 25 to less than 1 in 150. It changes with genre, language, pricing, popularity, etc. I'd like to see this study done by a different group on a different set of games to see if the results hold. What they've gotten is a strong result, but it could be a fluke.

>>1031216 >their sample size is quite small, only 86, could potentially compromise the validity of the study; What's the p value? That's the chance the study's validity is compromised.

>>>/v/1010655 It's out. You probably shouldn't make a thread about it though. Maybe the lounge thread could be fine.

>>1031216 >>their sample size is quite small, only 86 What is with these small ass sample sizes back in college you at least needed a hundred. Now we have 60+ studies being pushed out as science

>No More Room in Hell got a sequel and is now out in early access >the original devs apparently got bought out by Torn Banner Studios >Torn Banner allegedly pushed the devs to abandon the more polished/worked on UE4 version of the game in favor of UE5 >end result is a buggy/broken trashfire start to early access >also missing/changing/downgrading a ton of what made the first game interesting for example they already pussied out on zombie kids Disappointing.

>>1031388 I tried this & it fucking sucks. Your character gets exhausted within two swings of your weapon and never fully recovers. Zombies take multiple bullets (I'm cool with melee taking multiple hits but what the fuck is with headshots not being OHKO?). So many spots I just thought to myself "wow this game sucks, why limit me so hard?" uninstalled & never touched it again. Most of the mechanics slow down the gameplay for no good reason, weapons feel very underpowered, combat is garbage.

>>1031396 >I tried this & it fucking sucks Yup. Fags keep saying "but they nailed the atmosphere!" like that matters when the rest of it is fucked. It needs a lot of work that I am not sure it will get.

>>1031388 >>1031396 >>1031419 Just quickly popped into the steam forums and the corporate cocksuckers are out and go after the slightest bit of criticism.

>>1031437 Not shocking. Even if the game is early access, it doesn't magically excuse putting out a fugged game for $30. People are rightly pissed off, and I'm glad those niggers can't silence everyone like they clearly want to.

>>1031388 Since the 90s corporate suits/retards still don't understand that changing engines is not like changing a tool to fix a car. If a game is built on one engine, it HAS to be finished on that same engine, or else it will just ruin the whole thing in the end. Changing engines mid development is THE stupidest thing that anyone could do, and yet, retards/corporate suits STILL insist on doing so, even with all the failures that can be used as examples to not do it.

>>1031388 >>1031437 Everything about this game smelled rotten, the way it was advertised was pathetic. You got a sequel to a game all about atmosphere and cooperation and you get some of the shittiest "action packed" generic trailers I have ever seen in my life with garbage indie folk and such. All of it smells of corpo rat

Minetest renamed to Luanti https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/

>>1031612 Good, honestly. It's been getting way more popular lately and I always felt "Minetest" was a stupid name for an engine. Mineclone 2 also renamed itself not too long ago to VoxeLibre, which is now averaging something like 50,000 downloads a month and rapidly increasing. I feel like Minetest is on a sigmoid curve and will really explode in popularity, so it's good they changed the name now before it goes from hundreds of thousands of players to millions.

>>1031612 But why? FVR WHAT PVRPOSE?

>>1031640 No longer having test in the name which often led to being perceived as alpha software.

>>1031640 Minetest is a very unprofessional sounding name for what has ostensibly become a game engine. Imagine if Source was called Quaketest. It's also not accurate for what the project has since become.

Killer7 got an update. Quite a bunch of improvements, including fixes to sensitivity and skippable Kess Bloodysunday, but they decided to use AI upscaling on fonts and pre-rendered movies. Results aren't very good.

>>1031612 Good call. I digged Minetest as a game. Wonder if they fixed that horrendous bug where you randomly get teleported to wherever you were 10 minutes ago. Triggered by leaving a boat sometimes, I think.

>>1032129 Considering I never had it it's probably fixed.

Monster Hunter open beta sign up https://www.monsterhunter.com/wilds/en-us/obt/ There's a survey so you can say it ran like shit and claim the translation is shit because it says "body type"

>>1032633 The open beta is going already if you're a PSPlus subscriber.

>>1032812 It's a shame that it's the censored version.

>>1032813 I don't think people care, much like people didn't care that the Switch versions of TMSFE and Fatal Frame 5 are of the censored releases as well.

>>1032813 Probably, but I'm interest in whatever the fuck they have planned for Lao because he felt like a non-entity with his arc ending in a weird way even if you did his side-quests.

>blackpill shitting up another thread This faggot has been so active lately, it's genuinely annoying. Can Mark not hire another mod who's more active during the day?

>>1032830 >Active global reports, zero He's banned personally by Acid as a GR4. You want him gone? Report him. I'm not cleaning up marks entire fucking board

>>1032831 Sorry I offended you personally, Mister Hotpocket. But I'm talking about Mark getting more vols for /v/ specifically, not globals monitoring the board.

I don't understand why Xenoblade of all things gets Willy so upset. He doesn't sperg out nearly as hard with other games. >>1032813 Well dang. Hope the JP fanbase gets up in arms over changes like they did for TMSxFE and this motivates the modders to make an uncensored version again. Especially since the Switch modding scene is far more active than the Wii U's.

>>1032833 You can either join the army, or watch your country burn. You want more vols? Volunteer then. You want niggerpill gone? Report him. These are your options. But if you do neither than my sympathy is limited.

>>1032831 GR4 is about not attacking the website, isn't it? I'm guessing he falls under that for screenshotting his posts and false flagging that 8moe is a bunch of doomposters. >>1032835 Does Mark actually accept applications? We used to have threads for that but I haven't seen one in years.

>>1032836 It covers spam and bots, Acids position is explained in the corner case rulings on >>>/site/ As far as I recall the issue with niggerpill is he always says the same shit, so spam. >Does Mark accept applications? My God yes, of course. As far as the threads falling off well you'd have to ask him.

>>1032836 I mean Acid banned me for GR4 because I said /v/ obviously has less activity than it has in the past when he was raving about the sites activity because of spic boards. He clearly does not have a rigid definition of what "attacking the website" means.

>>1032836 Yes, feel free to send me an email and I'll check it in the next few days. markmann@tuta.com

There's a typo. It's markmann@futa.com

>>1032866 Lmao

>>1032812 What's new in Xenoblade X for the Switch?

>>1032883 Seems like the ending scene that leaves on a cliffhanger is getting extended, revealing who the mystery man getting Lao is, and there might even be a new story like there was in XB1DE. Details are still vague.

>>1032866 Haah waaw

>>1032866 Is the futa circumsized though?

Finally, some gameplay footage of the Let It Die sequel! About damn time. (Sadly, it's just a 20-second teaser, and still no release date in sight.)

>>1033891 Are there any cracked versions of Let It Die? I want to play it without all the free-to-play BS.

>>1033893 Not as far as I know. But then again, I haven't been looking.

Gameplay trailer for Showa American Story Fucking chinks delivering some quality shit

>>1034012 Chinks are better than jews.

>>1034041 Piss is better than shit

>>1033891 Same guy here; I went and clipped the 1080p source, because I've got too much free time on my hands. Also, here's a bit of a breakdown: >The player character's backpack has a "Bubble Beast" figurine attached to it (that's the "Shiny Soap" mascot from Deathverse) >The player can dash and roll in quick succession, a core Deathverse mechanic >The enemies drop floating blue orbs, most likely SPLithium >There are signs on a wall that say "アルミ" (meaning "aluminum") and "ごったまぜ" (meaning "jumble")

>>1034054 I'd sooner drink piss than eat shit.

>>1031687 They added another update to disable the AI videos, but not the AI textures yet, maybe next update.

>>1034041 Chinks have been delivering some quality games recently, if the game's quality I don't care what country makes it.

>>1037544 >running CCP malware Retard

>>1027983 >friend bought this anyway >told me he just played matches with Casper Van Dien (Rico from the movie) who proceeded to play for 2 hours and answer questions and such and even letting people invite their friends Pretty cool. I'm still not buying it, but I like it when actors and shit care enough to interact with their communities. >>1034041 They are both toxic.

Seems like a Stellar Blade PC port is officially in the works and will release some time in 2025. Shift Up seems to see promise in the expanding PC market, especially on Steam, and see Black Myth: Wukong as an example of this. They believe that they will sell more copies on PC than on consoles. https://archive.is/mQjyC (Translation below is a machine translation) >Q. '스텔라 블레이드'의 PC 플랫폼 확장 시기와 기대성과는? >= 출시 시기는 ’25년 내 출시를 목표로 하고 있습니다. 최근 AAA 게임시장에 대한 스팀의 점유율 확대와 '검은신화: 오공'의 글로벌 흥행 등의 트렌드를 고려 시, PC에서의 성과는 콘솔 이상을 기대하고 있습니다. >Q. What is the timing and expectation for the PC platform expansion of 'Stellar Blade'? >= A: We are aiming to launch within 2025. Considering recent trends such as Steam's expanding share of the AAA game market and the global success of “Black Mythology: Wukong,” we expect the performance on PC to exceed that of consoles.

>>1037904 Casper Van Dien shows up as a voice in the game as General Rico.

>>1038928 EVE SEXO

>>1038928 >more on PC than on consoles I mean, that goes without saying. The PS5 is a joke.

>>1038931 Of course, but here we have Shift Up saying so themselves. Despite closely working with Sony, they are openly showing their belief in the higher success of PCs.

>>1038930 >see what post you're replying to >it's not EVE from the hit 2008 Pixar Animation Studios animated film Wall·E

>>1038940 Wew, that's a good point. I'd say that would be a massive insult to Soyny, but then again, Soyny themselves have basically already given up and are porting their shit to consoles too.

>>1038948 Porting to PC*

>>1038965 You said this in the gg thread already.

>>1038928 Nice.

>>1038942 Wtf is a pixar is that an anime studio in ohio 💀💀

>>1039208 nigger

>>1038929 Ah, that explains it. Probably trying to help the devs promote it or whatever.

>>1038930 The powerful woman/cowardly man role reversal with EVE and WALL-E felt wrong even in 2008.

>>1038931 >>1038928 I'm unsure about, Final Fantasy 16 didn't do so well on Steam. Mainly because it released right next to a whole bunch of games, but even so.

>>1039303 And FF16 was a super mediocre game that fell off after a week even on PS5.

>>1039495 FF16 is the game that stuck me with the realization of "Wow, Final Fantasy isn't important anymore". This had been true for years of course, but you could excuse FF13 as being a missed step or FF15 for its troubled history, and hey FF14 was decently popular the second time they launched it! I didn't actively think about the cultural decay of Final Fantasy until the release of a mainline title was met with no fanfare and poor sales, there were no excuses for FF16. For awhile FF was one of the most relevant franchises in gaming, it was a game even non-gamers knew. FF7 was arguably the first ever AAA game. FF turning into a legacy franchise is one of Squeenix's biggest failures.

>>1039303 Being released along with other games that got more attention probably did have an effect. But more damaging to FF16's Steam sales was the fact that not many people seemed to care. Stellar Blade has gotten decent reviews and has gotten a lot of attention in the media. Even before release, people were eagerly anticipating a PC port.

>>1039508 I haven't thought of it like that, but yes. Come to think of it, with 12 being as divisive as it was, and 11 being another MMO I don't think there's been a true mainline FF people actually liked since X came out 23 years ago.

>>1039508 >>1039515 You can trace it all back to FF 7, post success. Around 90% of people who care about FF started with 7. And FF 8 was, at the time, expected to be a direct sequel to 7. Forget about anything. Those 90% all wanted "Cloud and friends' game part 2" when FF 8 was announced. It wasn't well received. Partly because it is one of the worst games ever made. But also because it wasn't FF 7 Part 2. To this day, people waited for more of FF 7, but wanting it to be good of course. But Square never delivered that. FF 9 went under the radar as literally nobody cared about it once it was announced alongside FF 10, which would be the first FF for the PS2. FF 10 was successful, but as much as things like Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, a lot of people got buyer's remorse after it, due to it being the start of the "corridor fantasy" decay. FF 11 was met with poor sales at start, as most people didn't like or care about a online FF title at the time. It got better over time, partially due to other games' successes, like world of Warcraft. FF 11 filled a niche and it got better sales, but it was still something that most fans avoided. FF 12 was basically ignored, as it was the last FF on PS2, and with the FF 10's craze dying down, people weren't interested anymore. Especially after FF 10-2, which made a lot of people abandon the series completely, due to how retarded it had decayed by that point, with it's idol retardation. FF 12 was ignored mainly because, after 10-2, people wouldn't even look at a FF trailer anymore. Remember those news about "FF 12 was labelled in Japan for containing male nudity"? That was another fiasco for the series. FF 13 was the mess that everyone knows. A literal tech demo that the company lied about being a game, then rushed to try to actually make a game out of it, and failed miserably. Then canibalized 2 of their most iconic IPs to make sequels to that failure (a new Valkyrie Profile was changed into FF 13-2, and a new Chrono Trigger game was changed into FF 13-3), and with that, practically everyone from that initial 90% who wanted FF 7-2 also abandoned the series, as it was clear that Square would make anything BUT a good new FF 7. Then came the audacity of FF 14, which people rejected once more, in the beginning. Then FF 15, another mess, from a tech demo rushed into a side quest game derived from FF 13, to a unfinished stand alone game full of false advertisement and with the lamest normalfag-friendly game mechanics. It failed so hard that even announced DLC were cancelled after the initial game and DLC sold poorly. Then that pure cancer that was FF 7 Remake was announced and released, to the disappointment of every normalfag from that initial 90% who always wanted only a new good FF 7. This was the end point for Square, really. After this fiasco, nobody cared about anything FF again. Not even FF 7 anymore. FF 16 was produced and released within that total turmoil. A game announced after many fiascos, failed games, flops, lost of credibility, and mosta importantly, after people lost confidence even in FF 7 itself. It became clear that, no matter what, Square can't make a good FF game ever again. And it all started back at that time when people wanted FF 8 would be "Cloud vs Sephiroth Part 2", and the retards at Square didn't deliver that.

>>1039588 >It failed so hard that even announced DLC were cancelled after the initial game and DLC sold poorly. If I recall correctly the last planned FF15 DLCs were shitcanned because FF15 up until that point had sold "only" 8,8 million units, 1,2 million short of the 10 million sales target the game needed to hit in order to recoup its development cost.

>>1039303 How did FF16 sell?

>>1039614 Wonder what kind of employee does something like that

>>1039588 >And it all started back at that time when people wanted FF 8 would be "Cloud vs Sephiroth Part 2", and the retards at Square didn't deliver that. To be fair, how is that Squaresoft's fault? Each Final Fantasy was it's own standalone game up to that point, and understood as such by it's fans. The only one that received anything of a sequel was the OVA made for FFV, which has yet to leave Japan at that point, and the GB FF Legend series (Which went on to become SaGa). Everything after FF8 is their fault, however, because Square was chasing the normalfags who enetered with FF7, which immediately led to the company's bankruptcy and absorbtion into Enix.

>>1039614 Isnt that illegal? Great way to shoot yourself in the foot sony.

>>1039627 Apparently the guy was such a Trophy addict that they thought he was hacking the console to do it.

New Xbox ad campaign This is real

>>1039653 But do they have games with these Xboxes?

>>1039614 This guy looks like he had to take part in every Napoleonian battle without any sleep whatsoever.

>>1039653 They are 100% pulling out of the console market within the decade aren't they?

>>1039653 This is an xbox with 0ms input latency, this is an xbox with 800ms input latency.

They're going whole hog on this campaign. This is going to confuse the shit out of casuals

If i get a steam deck on christmas i'll fully become a nigger

>>1039664 Leta hope, Microsoft Xbox was a blight on the hobby

>>1039682 >This is going to confuse the shit out of casuals I am confused, and I thought Sony was the king of confusing adds with the PSP dustball add. What even is this add trying to say? That if a device has internet+GamePass then the device then it's an Xbox? If PS5 had GamePass on it would it also be an Xbox? Is this a less subtle version of Expand, Extend, Extinguish?

>>1039664 Yup.

>>1039623 >GB FF Legend series (Which went on to become SaGa). SaGa was always SaGa in Japan, they renamed them elsewhere for brand recognition. Don't know how the expensive flop that was The Spirits Within escaped the conversation but should always be mentioned.

>>1039682 I can only imagine how overpaid the genius behind that campaign was.

>>1039653 This feels more like a child's tantrum rather than an ad campaign

>>1039623 >Cloud vs Sephiroth Part 2 I don't get that because going by the final fight and ending cutscene of FF7 it looks like it's pretty clear that Sephiroth is dead and then basically there's a cataclysm, with Holy + the Life Stream only being able to mitigate and not completely deflect Meteor. Looks like a pretty solid THE END to me. Everything after has been retcon.

>>1039686 This is the company that named their third Xbox system the "Xbox One" and publicly announced how they're going to record everything you do on "your" PC. They are pretty good at making Xboneheaded moves when cloud services (from what I recall) literally pays for everything else they do. >>1039664 Very likely. I honestly think it's more likely Microsoft does a UMPC with some "Xbox" branding than them making a "proper" Xbone Three.

>>1039602 Yes. and even then, not accounting for the massive refunds that happened shortly after, which Square-Enix promptly tried to hide. >>1039605 Anons posted the official numbers not long ago. FF 16 and FF 7 Rebirth (the second chapter of the remake) are now the all time lowest sales in the series. Even flops like Dirge of Cerberus sold better, according to the newest chart posted a few months ago. >>1039623 >how is that Squaresoft's fault? Each Final Fantasy was it's own standalone game And that is the lamest excuse ever. So what if they were all stand alone? FF 7 was a massive success. Read the audience and deliver what the audience wants. After FF 7, nobody cared about stand alone FF games anymore. Everyone, old and new fans, wanted FF 7 Part 2, and for the series to be now sequels to 7 forever. >Everything after FF8 is their fault, however, because Square was chasing the normalfags who enetered with FF7 Not really. Square was chasing their own inflated ego. Nomura started to force musicals in all games he worked on. Sagakuchi thought he would be a pedowood director. Nobuo Uematsu thought that he would be a rockstar. They weren't making the games for the normalfags fans of FF 7. If they did, they would be successful. Instead, everyone in the company was making the new games for themselves and for their own ego, completely ignoring what the customers wanted.

>>1039701 Indeed. It was a ego project by Sakaguchi and the other inflated egos ate the company. It was THE sole reason for the company's unreported bankruptcy and them begging Enix to pay for the company's debts. >>1039765 Anon, people loved the game. That is the only reason anyone needs. Pretty much the world ended by the end of the game. Everyone dies. So what? The game was successful. Bring everyone back with some excuse (lame or not) anhd keep making games set in that world, as it was the most financially successful of them all. Much like Advent Children, which is shit, but most fans loved it at the time, even if most realized it was shit later on, THAT was what everyone wanted. Sephiroth is dead? Bring him back. He is a strong selling point. The lore of FF 7's world is complete and there is no way it can continue? Continue it nonetheless, as it is a strong selling point. The fact that the company didn't realize that and went on with just another standalone game shows how incompetent they already were at management. Read the audience. Create what sells. It is that simple. But of course, do a good job. Or else you end up with FF 10-2 or Advent Children. But stopping because "there is no way to continue the plot"? That is idiotic.

>>1039614 >Ever playing anything online >Ever giving your data to any company whatsoever His fault, to begin with. >>1039653 And none of those matter, as there are no good games for it. I will stick with playing Super Nintendo games on a emulator. >>1039733 I guarantee you it was made by either a woman or a faggot, to be this childish. >>1039682 >The exaggerated bus painting add that screams "I am a insecure marketeer!" They still think that they are in 2002.

>>1039858 >So what if they were all stand alone? FF 7 was a massive success. Read the audience and deliver what the audience wants. A company should suddenly stop doing what was making them money because what they were doing that was making them had suddenly resulted in a major hit, so they should suddenly stop doing what was making them money? Also, Square did do several sequels to FF7 long before the remake. There was the Advent Children movie (2005) taking place two years later, the Dirge of Cerberus game (2006) that takes place a year after that, and the prequel game Crisis Core (2007).

>>1039887 Final Fantasy as a brand didn't make money. Final Fantasy 7, alone, did. What you posted were very late products, made after the company was already going to shit, from losing it's talents and after the FF 10-2 fiasco. Square should have focused solely on FF 7 from 1998 onward, and never look back. That would ensure success, as they still had talented people around. And those were still kept on a leash, without their later inflated ego. They should have gone full on "we are now the Final Fantasy 7 Company" since the initial success of FF 7, instead of making anything else. And don't forget: after FF 10-2, the brand was completely destroyed and literally everything that wasn't FF 7 that came after it (after FF 10-2) was mostly ignored and sold poorly. Even FF 14 was only successful after a second launch AND the fall of Blizzard, prompting people to seek the next big MMORPG. Had Square stuck with FF 7 since 1998, day one, they would be successful.

>>1039918 How many years do you think they would have really been able to continue that. The good thing about FF was that every entry was a completely new thing that just reused names and concepts.

>>1039930 More than what they did with the FF 8 and FF 10-2 fiascos. >The good thing about FF was that every entry was a completely new thing that just reused names and concepts Until 7. After 7, most people wanted that story to get sequels. The overwhelming majority of people didn't want new worlds with new characters anymore. After FF 7, they wanted FF 7 parts 2, 3, 4, and on and on. I assure you this, at that time (and not today, with how shitty Square is), with those teams at Square, from that specific period, would make more success than anything they produced from that point on. At least for a long time, before it would eventually turn to shit. But it would at least take longer than what happened, with FF 8 and FF 10-2 starting to kill the franchise so early on.

>>1039918 Funny considering i like FFX-2, Shuyin was a better antagonistic than most in the series

>>1039934 Always wanted sequels/spin-off for FF6 and its cast. Never gave 2 shits about FF7,hated all the attention it got for yeeeeaaaaars

>>1039918 Anon I think you're talking shite

>>1039918 >That would ensure success, as they still had talented people around. All the "talented" people left because of Square doing exactly what you wanted. Everyone got tired of Squares bullshit and left during the Aughts just before the Enix merger. Takahashi left to form Monolith in '99, Sakaguchi left just before X-2, and Dream Factory and Masato Kato were always freelance. Everyone else I can find who was at the company during that period still works there.

>>1039986 He's absolutely right, most normalfags don't even know any Final Fantasy before 7 exists. Square and Sony poured millions into advertising it, it was the Halo of it's time.

>>1039988 >most normalfags don't even know any Final Fantasy before 7 exists Again, how is that Square's fault? They were doing what they were always doing and making money, and it's only when they began shifting their priorities to doing exactly what the other Anon is outlining that they began failing. Never mind that anything Square attached the "Final Fantasy" label to basically printed money (Both before and after FF7, or that one time Cloud and his friends appeared in a fighting game literally the year after FF7 was a massive hit that no one remembers a single thing about.

>>1039934 Anon I think you're forgetting just how popular FF8 was with normalfags. It rivaled FF7. I think FF7 just built up a mystique because of it's not quite modern graphics, and for years after people wanted a remake that looked exactly like the concept art.

>>1039998 >FF8 rivaled FF7 in popularity Wew, in what universe?

>>1040020 Despite the widely different cultural cache between them today, they had similar sales figures at launch. FF8 sold phenomenally well, ending its year out with over 6 million copies sold. A lot of the talk you're saying is retroactive history based on what people think today.

>>1040020 The sales charts. FF7 sold 15 million and FF8 sold 11 million.

<<1040031 *talk you're seeing, apologies for the typo.

Welcome back to the rice fields mother fuckers https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=yBmca65E_jo Well, more like the robot workshop, because we got a Kokorowa spin off, as well as a second season of the anime.

Grove Street Games, the studio behind the botched GTA trilogy remasters, are furious their name has been removed amidst Rockstar's effort to fix it up. https://archive.is/IEVPA I'd like to note these guys accidentality left their dev comments in the code, and they were openly insulting Rockstar's QA team in it. Some of the worst manchildren I've seen in the industry.

>>1040100 >Home. At least it was before we fucked everything up.

>>1039944 It doesn't excuse the idol garbage though. >>1039983 You hated it. The rest of the world loved it. Your personal taste won't change the fact that FF 7 is immensely successful and surpassed all other games in the series. >>1039986 Point out what you consider wrong. I presented facts. Not personal bullshit/taste about what is better or not. 7 was a success, and Square would be successful if it stuck with making infinite sequels to it. >>1039988 Exactly. And normalfags are the majority. Pandering to them ensures profit. >>1039987 False. They left because the company was going bankrupt from the Final Fantasy Spirits Within movie flop. If you want a name to blame, then everyone left because of Hironobu Sakaguchi. He was the idiot who let his inflated ego ruin the company. The Enix merger happened precisely so Enix could pay the debts from all the expenses Square had with that movie, which was Sakaguchi's ego project. He didn't left on his own. He was fired. The president of enix at the time has a well known interview were he states clearly that the merger was a loss to Enix. and all that happened exactly a few months after Spirits Within flopped. Square would be successful if the company stuck with making FF 7 sequels over and over, for many years.

>>1039991 Ehrgeiz wasn't a new Final Fantasy 7. Plain and simple. People wanted a new Final Fantasy 7. >how is that Square's fault? It is their fault for not giving what the customers wanted: a new Final Fantasy 7, direct sequel, turn based RPG, plot heavy, with the same cast of characters and the return of Sephiroth. It was retarded that the company didn't realize that, and instead resorted to cameos. >They were doing what they were always doing and making money No. FF 7 made money. Anything else sold way less. >it's only when they began shifting their priorities to doing exactly what the other Anon is outlining that they began failing Years AFTER people wanted it, with the talents gone, the hack Nomura in charge, and the FF 10-2 fiasco causing almost every fan to abandon the franchise. Your point? FF 7 sequels done from 1998 onward would be successful. The mindset of customers at that time was simply "we want more FF 7". The company just had to deliver that. Instead, they took almost a decade to deliver garbage like Dirge of Cerberus, when the hack Nomura was already in charge and ruining every game he worked on.

>>1039998 >>1040031 Look at the sales numbers of both games and you will see how wrong you are.FF 7 keeps selling well to this day when re-released, while 8 is barely touched.

>>1040100 >openly insulting Rockstar's QA team in it That is incredibly stupid and unprofessional. Hope they get fucked with more in the future.

>>1040075 >robot workshop So it's gonna have a crafting gameplay loop like an atelier game instead of the rice field simulator like the first game?

In November's investor Q&A, Nintendo executives expressed disapproval of bloated budgets. Executive Fellow and Representative Director Shigeru Miyamoto: >Our belief is that what we create is more important than the amount spent on development >It is possible to create appealing products based on intriguing ideas, without incurring significant costs >With the current technology it is possible to create fun games with a small number of developers in a short period of time >We continue refining our products until we are confident that we have created something that our consumers will be satisfied with. With that in mind, what is important is to find ideas that are worth honing… We believe that it is important to nurture developers who take this unique concept to heart, allocate funds to development if necessary, and release games only after we are confident in the product Senior Managing Executive Officer and Corporate Director Shinya Takahashi: >I believe unique titles that are small in scale, but worth polishing can be created by expanding on the ideas of a small number of developers, rather than spending large sums of money on every game Senior Executive Officer and Corporate Director Ko Shiota: >I believe that the most important thing for Nintendo is how we create new ideas. Bigger budgets do not necessarily equate to better ideas, so we hope to continue to focus on a process where teams of hardware and software developers share ideas to create interesting things

>>1040173 Sources for these quotes?

>>1040175 https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/241106_2e.pdf PDF warning

>>1040175 Posted the wrong fucking PDF somehow

>>1040173 >In November's investor Q&A, Nintendo executives expressed disapproval of bloated budgets. Your quotes give me hope some people in the industry realize 300 million Triple gAAAy shit's fucking cancer. Too bad the rest won't get the fucking message.

>>1040182 >Your quotes give me hope some people in the industry realize 300 million Triple gAAAy shit's fucking cancer. Shawn Layden has been very outspoken about this for years.

https://support.sega.com/hc/en-us/articles/29776767664145-SEGA-Classics-FAQ#h_01JBWBC4E7NJ9WH4TKAZXJK27N https://archive.ph/ErDDv Looks like Sega are delisting the Genesis and Dreamcast Collections.

this is an xbox *points down at crotch*

>>1040216 >THIS IS A SEX BOX

>>1040216 >>1040250

>>1040184 And yet he approved some of the most bloated releases like TLoU2

>>1040255 He is the kind of scum who wants to force competition out by stating that they should not do what he is doing, so he stays the only one doing it. in this case, amassing all the (((investor))) money.

This went compeltely under my radar, but did anyone know that Inafundme tried to sell NFTs of Megaman rejects? https://web.archive.org/web/20241116110655/https://nintendowire.com/news/2022/05/19/keiji-inafune-is-launching-an-nft-project-because-of-course-he-is/ Conman till the end. I'm laughing at the retards who fell for his promises.

>>1040170 I'm assuming it will have tinkering and fidgeting with robots.

>>1040173 >>1040180 >Miyamoto: <However, one thing we are sure about is that it should be something which has not existed in the past. The more you polish something that has never existed before, the more value it brings. And THAT'S the reason why we won't get games that we actually want, like a proper F-Zero or a follow-up to Star Fox: Assault, and instead keep receiving trash like F-Zero 99 and SF0.

SubVerse hit 1.0. 37 gig total with + 30gig if you want the 4k video pack.

>>1040410 >SubVerse If I wanted to play a cuckolding simulator I'd download Borderlands 2

>>1039653 >>1039682 Just found out, that as part of this add campaign, they also made a test. https://www.xbox.com/en-US/what-is-xbox Post your score, and let's see if /v/irgins know what an xbox even is.

>>1040910 Get on my level fellow gaymers!!!

>>1040910 can't get past the first question

>>1040917 Do a coin flip. >>1040913 Seriously now, how is it possible to answer all questions correctly and not get full points?

>>1040919 Because it's timed

>>1040919 tor won't let me view your what is xbox, access denied error, "You don't have permission to access http://www.xbox.com/en-US/what-is-xbox on this server."

>>1040933 I guess this is proof that Tor is not an Xbox.

Can't beat me nigguh.

>>1041399 Yes I can >>1039653 >>1039682 >>1040910 This is retarded as an ad campaign can get without being >video games? tier

>>1041414 That's an edit, isn't it?

>>1040262 That's no worse than the current state of Capcom, anon. https://archive.ph/J7zFE

>>1041422 I don't think they went through with that though.

>>1041415 No, it's real

Valve leaker is claiming both the Steam Controller 2 and the Deckard are being tooled for mass production. I screen capped the important bits with an archive of his profile being worked on. https://archive.ph/wip/L21HZ

>>1041441 Forgot one. https://archive.ph/wip/scG1I

>>1041441 >>1041445 I'm surprised how unknown Bradley is for how long he's been talking about rather technical information. Something not mentioned in these tweets, noting his "anyone with common sense" remarks, is how the Steam Deck actually started off as a second iteration of the Steam Controller. No surprises the next one will be taking a lot of lessons learned from the Deck.

Not actually vidya related but strange enough I wanted to show it here. Disney are making a live-action How to Train Your Dragon. It's not a new adaption of the book, it's basically just a shot-for-shot remake of the already existing film.

>>1041550 I suppose they have to get the rest of them outta the pipeline before they change tactics.

>>1041550 >Disney <clearly fucking says Dreamworks above the movie title

>>1041573 I literally looked it up beforehand and still wrote out the wrong company. My suicide is imminent. The trigger mechanism whines. Out of curiosity I looked up who owns them and it's Amblin, the TV production company. Not who I would have expected.

>>1041574 Not them but their parent Storyteller Distribution, who confusingly also call themselves Amblin. The production company and holding company are two different entities. >TV They started out making films, pretty famous ones too! Gremlins, Jurassic Park and Back to the Future were all by them. They haven't been too active in film for about 20 years now, most of their non-TV work are those Jurassic Park sequels.

>>1041573 >How dares he confusing colon cancer with testicle cancer, what a noob retard At this rate Creamworks became the B grade Yidsney, having their shit funded by Netflix was a heads up.

YIIK IV update is coming out December 2nd.

>>1043050 <fucking Yick is getting an update this year >Lies of P still hasn't gotten an update

>>1043077 Please understand, the gooks are too busy dying from heat

>>1043077 Why does p lie tho?

>>1043151 Because only real boys can lie. Perfect clockwork boys can only do and say what their fathers program them to do. Regardless of whether those things are good or bad.

https://archive.is/BuLh7 In a surprising development, journos are now 'admitting' the Unreal Engine kind of sucks.

>>1043348 They'll say gamers have been asking for stylized games and blame gamers when calarts tranny walking sim difficulty games don't sell.

>>1043348 Welp, it's time for me to DL the vids the ass journos are copying and referencing and make a thread. to play devil's advocate it is NOT Unreal's fault, what is actually happening is that modern devs are shit and do not do basic steps old devs used to improve performance out of a belief that "RTX 4090+upscaling+framegen will fix it" because the engine is "supposed to handle everything for them" when it still requires heavy manual intervention for good results. Also, deferred rendering rather than forward rendering since UE is built around deferred.

>>1043348 You can only play so many blurry, stuttering, crash-prone messes before the corpo white knighting becomes too hard to justify even to yourself. I think others feel the same way, a Valve artist shared this on Xitter and multiple other industry people replied sharing the sentiment that UE5 is an inefficient engine with difficult to use tools.

>>1043234 Wait a minute, that's a Korean twink PINOCCHIO? What the fuck?

>>1043383 Ya, ain't he a g o o d b o y?

>Director of Penny Blood, Shadow Hearts’s spiritual successor, files lawsuit over unpaid funding from Kickstarter campaign https://automaton-media.com/en/news/director-of-penny-blood-shadow-heartss-spiritual-successor-files-lawsuit-over-unpaid-funding-from-kickstarter-campaign/ Archive's not working for some reason. >Matsuzo Machida has announced that he filed a lawsuit in the Osaka District court against game publisher Dangen Entertainment and its former CEO Ben Judd over unpaid production costs for Penny Blood. According to the announcement made by Machida’s Studio Wildrose on November 22, the lawsuit was filed back in May this year. No details are given about what led to the lawsuit, but it appears to be related to the Double Kickstarter campaign held for the development of the two RPGs Penny Blood and Armed Fantasia. >For context, Studio Wildrose and Yukikaze, the developers of Penny Blood, ran a crowdfunding campaign together with Wild Bunch Production, the developers of Armed Fantasia, through a project called Double Kickstarter. The campaign garnered significant support from fans, raising about 380 million yen in funding. Since then, there have been regular progress reports about the development of both games. However, in his latest announcement, Machida has named Ben Judd as the producer of the Double Kickstarter campaign and Dangen Entertainment as part of the campaign team, filing a lawsuit against them for unpaid production funds. Based on these circumstances, it seems that the parties running the campaign withheld funds meant for Penny Blood’s development. >Speaking of Ben Judd, he is the former CEO of Dangen Entertainment. In 2019, he was accused of sexual harassment and misconduct, while Dangen itself was embroiled in disputes over overdue payments to developers. The company initially refuted the allegations, but Judd eventually partially admitted to them and stepped down from his position at Dangen. In the aftermath, the publisher outlined a plan to revise its management policy (GamesIndustry.biz), and Judd hinted that he would not only resign, but distance himself from his endeavors in the game industry (PCGamesInsider). However, based on Machida’s lawsuit announcement, it seems Judd is still active in the industry, and that he was involved in running the Kickstarter campaign for Penny Blood together with Dangen, despite supposedly stepping away from the company. >Two days prior to making the announcement public, Penny Blood’s director revealed that Wildrose was struggling in a post on his personal X account: <“We’re so grateful for the support you’ve shown us for the production of Penny Blood. Studio Wildrose will keep at it without giving up. We are in a very difficult situation right now where we cannot tell the truth, but I believe that the truth will eventually come out, and I feel that it is not far in the future. We hope you will continue to watch over us.” Damn, I was really looking forward to this game. Shame all this drama's happening.

>>1043385 aw hell nah they gayified the disney movie

>>1043387 Nothing gay here unless you have your fujo-goggles on.

>>1043383 Anon please try to pay attention. Maybe also give the game a try too, it's pretty fun.

>>1043390 t. P Your lies won't get me, twink!

>>1043387 It's either them or Disney and they did it first

>>1043387 >>1043468 He's a twink but not a gay one. All the bitches want to get on his dick.

>>1043477 Not true, the only one after him is the blue lady here >>1043388

hehe lies of pee

>>1043151 >>1043565 Return to your quarantine, >>>/vb/.

>Casey Hudson's company is dead https://archive.is/2Cir1 Good, eat shit you hack.

>>1043668 I was about to make a post on this. Yet another AAA studio from a industry vet dies without releasing a single product. Hudson was honestly delusional with this company, but that doesn't sound out of character for him.

>>1043668 >Casey Hudson Who? <Bioware That's all I needed to know.

Microsoft is shutting down the Xbox Avatar Editor app, reports PureXbox. The Xbox Avatar FAQ says that “due to low engagement and our shift in focus towards delivering other player experiences,” it’s discontinuing the editor as of January 9th, 2025. After that time, players won’t be able to access their Avatars or the items they’ve bought for them. The company will automatically refund users for any of those items they’ve bought since November 1st, 2023. Xbox Avatars, which Microsoft first rolled out in 2018, offered more diverse, detailed avatar creation than what had been available on the Xbox 360. Players can still edit and use those older avatars (aka Xbox Original Avatars) after the newer ones are deprecated, as Microsoft writes: >You can continue to update your gamerpic using the Xbox Avatar Editor app until January 9, 2025. After this date, any further changes to Xbox Avatar-themed gamerpics will need to be made through the Xbox Original Avatars app. To do this, launch the Xbox Original Avatars app, press the Menu button and select Take a photo. From there, you can adjust your avatar’s Animation and Background. Once you have the gamerpic you like, press the View button and then select Save as gamerpic. Honestly, they should've done this years ago. https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/account-profile/profile/xbox-avatar-editor-app-faq

>>1043877 (checked) >due to low engagement Yeah I haven't heard about the avatar shit since the 360 days. >Honestly, they should've done this years ago I figured they already did this, but I guess not. >>1043668 I honestly forgot his company even existed.

>>1043877 <For reference, it's the version of the avatar that you see on the right side of the image that they're retiring. Not the concept of Xbox Avatars themselves.

>>1043901 The OP says they are retiring the new ones, on the left, not the old ones, on the right.

>>1043901 Those were retired a long time ago Like 10 years if not more

>>1043668 >>1043725 >Casey Hudson is a Canadian video game developer, known for his work on several of BioWare's video games, and mainly the Mass Effect trilogy as game director. Was there some deeper lore behind Bioware's failure and him? Did he shout gamers are dead?

>>1041441 Following on this, a a second iteration of the Steam controller leaked. It looks like a screenshot of a CAD file so not much to see, but the design is really different to the original. It looks like a traditional controller with two touchpads stuck on.

>>1043943 Looks horrid, just give me a switch lite at that point.

>>1043943 What's the obsessions with touchpads? Why not just used a trackball in place of the right thumbstick? It would offer the precision of a mouse without having to resdesign how a controller functions.

>>1043946 >He wants to touch balls all day GAY

>>1043950 ..........and?

>>1043967 Mentally ill that deserves to be killed for existing.

>>1043077 Lies of P devs are known to not follow through with updates to their games. Go see how they left blade assault the moment lies of P got a modicum of fame and left the game without half of it's content. they just slapped a 1.0 version on it and left it for dead.

>>1043946 huh, that looks surprisingly close to what was posted here a few years ago what a steam controller 2 would look like. >>1043946 Trackballs aren't good for gaming alone, they had tried it in the first controller protoypes and failed.

>>1043943 It looks like a flat slab with shit ergonomics, that's stupid without Deck's screen in the center.

>>1043968 What if I occasionally thirst for cock like an ice cold seltzer in summer? A moonlight gay. A weekend rear ender. Plap, slap, and there's that. Tumble and bum rumble. Slam dunk in the trunk. Nut for the gut. Slop and plop. Slurp n' chirp. Or a DM and free them; kind of gay?

cd romance is half dead now. https://cdromance.org/news/moving-on/ I hope spike doesn't end up encircled by jannies like the romhacking.net guy did but its probably only a matter of time considering the mods he's got on his new site.

>>1045685 I saw this and made an account with a disposable email. I actually hope he doesn't get jannied to oblivion. It's a shame, cause it is my preferred site for getting any ROM. Vimm's is very spotty in terms of what they have and what they don't.

>>1045688 It already looks bleak.

>>1039686 >That if a device has internet+GamePass then the device then it's an Xbox? That's the message of it, yes. The quiz ends by saying your browser, any browser, is also an X-BOX. >>1039918 >focused solely on FF 7 from 1998 onward, and never look back No company should reasonably expect the longevity of something like Pokemon. FF7 ended fairly definitively. Square had a ton of other RPG franchises to give the FF7 treatment, to remind people that these other franchises also existed, but they didn't do it, mostly because FF8 also did great at launch. Maybe if they had used the same setting and iterated on things like the Mother or Dragon Quest franchises, your hypothesis would make sense, but what you're proposing would be something that tanks the company in the long term because they put everything in one basket. >>1041550 How to Train Your Dragon as a series is extremely popular with white women. >>1043386 I hope Penny Blood works out.

>>1045690 Oh for FUCK's sake. How do these type of people always end up in mod roles?

>>1045701 Mental illness means lots of time at home

>>1045701 Because people who aren't massive faggots do not want to be mods.

>>1045703 Being a neet commie means gaining mental illnesses.

>>1045690 >These are so beautiful: >1, The Machine, 2, The Melting Apartment >3, Basketbrawl, 4, Decline <5, He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me >6, Carnal Hell, 7, Traumatarium >8, Cookie's Bakery, 9, The Case of the Missing Swan >10, Opossum Country, 11, Hunt The Gwumbus >12, Grimlore, 13, Adulting!, 14 What Remains <These are so beautiful <He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me <These are so beautiful <Brazil

>>1045685 Blocked, someone paste the message?

>>1045685 >>1045762 Does it matter much? There are a ton of other ROM sites now. Internet Archive has several entire romsets.

>>1045808 Yes but which of them host prepatched roms of romhacks?

>>1045808 Actually you know what? He doesn't host THAT many hacks. A decent amount but nothing crazy. I might download them all and make a few torrents out of them.

>>1045690 >Brazil

>>1045716 I've actually played He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me, this is the first time I've ever seen the game discussed anywhere. It is by absolutely no means "beautiful". It is a brutal depiction of the author's life as a teenage prostitute and the lifelong psychological damage it caused. It's not even really a game nor a walking sim, actually. An interactive art piece is more what I'd call it.

>>1045899 It's just some stupid traumadump. It may as well be a forum post. And the reaction to it in the comments when it was posted is basically what sparked cdromance dying.

>>1045942 Wikipedia confirms. >He Fucked the Girl Out of Me explores the creator's experiences with >transgender identity >sex work <trauma >through Ann, convinced to sex work by her partner, Sally. He Fucked the Girl Out of Me also explores "transgender identity."

>>1045899 <"Booooh hooo! I had a problem in my life! Pay attention to meeeeee! Waaaah! Waaaaaaaah!" And then girls and women wonder why men ara abandoning them all to let them die alone.

>>1046104 >didn't read the part where the subject is a tranny

>>1046107 Really nigger?

>>1046111 >>1046108 The shitposting has really increased the last two-three months, did something happen "Over There"?

>>1046114 cuckchan rendered whoever wasn't already an eunuch over there an eunuch for real. <NFT ban (can't post "nigger," "faggot," or "tranny," hence why the trannyposter is conspicuously posting "tranny") <you have to kneel and give a Gulag mail address and pay the cuckchan pass toll so they can catalog you in the data they hawk to globohomo or else you have to wait 15 minutes to post which is twenty gorillion eons to the average Gen Zed permhead <essentially if you want to stick to the old and tested ways of posting to imageboards you plain can't, newfags using the Name and E-mail fields like retardditors is actually the "correct" way to use cuckchan now So rapefugees have finally started to come here despite admitting that at a technological level blacked.moe was already better than their cuckshed on said cuckshed for years. Naturally, much like a Johannesburg resident regards a elevator of civilization, they see a website with a high upload limit with multiple files permitted and proceed to defecate into it and mumble ebonics.

>>1046114 >The shitposting has really increased the last two-three months yeah, the recent wave of newfags realize that the mods here are too incompetent, which allow then to freely shitpost to their heart's content

<<1046107 I was going to say "take it to >>>/ /" before I realized I can't think of a board this would go in. The closest is /cb/ but they don't allow MtF. >>1046114 It's gotten really bad on /vb/, that board when from loose funposting and topics not allowed on /v/, to genuinely unusable. >>1046117 You can tell he's from cuckchan because of the unspoilered IRL transgender pornography, ever visit their porn boards? Anon holy shit, it's all blacked, "girlcock" and threads about wanting to suck dick. And tons of Kpop for some reason?? We have IR shitters too but at least they keep it to their own board. How does anybody use that site?

>>1046117 >newfags using the Name and E-mail fields like retardditors is actually the "correct" way to use cuckchan now That can't be real, they would instantly get shat on by all the other posters, even if they don't know why they shouldn't use the Name and Email only that they shouldn't.

The director of Visions of Mana, Ryosuke Yoshida, is joining Square Enix

>>1046161 >Visions of Mana >Mana Wasn't that already a Squaresoft IP though. Where was he before then.

>>1046189 It was done by a contracted outside studio, which was closed down by its Chinese owners within 48 hours of the game's release. (Trials was also done by a, different, outside studio that still exists)

YiiK IV just got released. Is anyone going to bite the bullet and stream it?

>>1045808 Could you share some sites that have actual complete romsets/come pre patched with mods and hacks and aren't the Internet Archive (because they keep getting buttfucked by book publishers and are thus not gonna be around forever)? Preferably encode your answer in base64 so the average scraper can't understand them. >>1045885 >I might download them all and make a few torrents out of them. Would be doing God's work here, anon.

Minimum specs for that Indiana Jones game came out and they're ridiculous. How does one fuck up id Tech of all engines?

>>1046608 SWEDEN YES

>>1046608 > How does one fuck up id Tech of all engines? By outsourcing to shitskins.

>>1046608 The 2060 SUPER is a 5 year old card at this point. Just upgrade your computer anon, get on with the times, it's all about raytracing and AI now, it's a normal thing to upgrade your computer every 5 years or so anyway :^)

>>1046608 That looks as bad as MH wilds, Current year AAA gaming is just buying hardware every 2 years just to be able play games at 60 fps 1080p.

>>1046608 Just play the original uncharted trilogy on RPCS3. >>1046632 Ok, stop saying this. You're making me to conscious of my old graphics card bro. Stop bullying.

>>1046632 I refuse to upgrade from my 1080 until GPUs are cheap enough again

>>1046608 >gpu raytracing hardware required What the fuck?

>>1046552 Isn't it really good now or is that just a meme.

>>1046635 I mean, for low end GPUs, Intel's releasing a new series that do plainly have a lot more value/buck in that region. Too bad its Intel. Maybe AMD unretards themselves and figures out what the fuck they want to do in the market already.

>>1046634 >Just play the original uncharted trilogy on RPCS3. Or better yet, a good, action-packed Indiana Jones game with a great hand-to-hand combat system. >>1046635 You can get a 3060 for less than 300 dollars, or a 3070 refurbished for a bit above 300 dollars, which is cheaper than a 1080. >>1046666 The only way it can ever be good is in an ironic way, kinda like Uncommon Time.

>>1046634 >Just play the original uncharted trilogy

>>1047348 It's Uncharted territory.

Croteam is abandoning Serious Engine for UE5

>>1048393 Looks like shit, fuck UE

>>1048449 Yeah, it's quite disappointing

>>1048393 >Getting rid of your OWN custom home made engine hopefully not >It worked fine >changed to UE5 a bloated piece of shit Cool I guess? SS4 sucked anyway, Talos Principle is one thing but the fact they figured anyone would give a shit about the other characters is fucking retarded. Since they all die in the end anyway & Sam is the only survivor of humanity in future past but let's let the writer write I guess?

>>1046666 YIIK was never good, Shaitan. >>1048393 So glad we're back to western 7th gen principles where every studio uses the cancer that is UE and makes every game with it. And nothing bad ever happened nor will happen.

>>1048393 Croteam aren't serious people.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which was a massive flop in terms of sales (it cost Warner Bros. a 41% decrease in the second quarter of 2024), is shutting down seasonal live service shit in January.

>>1048772 I'M GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE: KILLING MYSELF being a flop isn't a surprise, the surprising thing is how long they tried to keep it going. It had like four seasons of content.

>>1048775 I don't believe you are serious. You aren't.

>>1048776 https://www.suicidesquadgame.com/en-us/community/season-4-deep-dive Four seasons. A whole update page, new models, new weapons. They really tried to pump life into this game.

>>1048776 He's punning the game name, Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League

>>1048796 He should be more careful with his phrasing. And thankful that I didn't believe him.

>>1048772 Get woke, go broke.

>>1046552 >YiiK IV >Yiik 4 When did YiiK 2&3 come out?

>>1048839 yiik 2&3 never came out

>>1048839 The anon you were replying to My mistake, it wasn't YiiK IV, it was actually YiiK I.V as in YiiK version 1.4 or YiiK Intravenous.

>>1046552 >>1046666 >>1048707 >>1048839 >>1048912 >>1048914 I'm yiiking out.

>>1048808 "Get woke, go broke" is cope, many woke games profit.

>>1048919 You're responding to our longtime board shitter Woke is a poorly defined buzzword, a lot of what people call woke can boil down to "a character is ugly" or "a character is BLACK and not in the qt tanned anime way", and even then it's not a guarantee - Return to Monkey Island was called woke because of its art style, which granted, is absolutely hideous. Games that are genuinely far-left are rare, Disco Elyisum is the only one I can think off of the top of my head. Maybe Dustborn? People often equate neoliberal bullshit like Concord to far-left politics, and that's just not true. Sometimes games are barely political but still get called woke just because the protag is insanely fucking annoying, like Forspoken.

>>1048923 Ugly/black characters made ugly/black for politics or money are woke characters. Doesn't mean the game's woke, but the characters are.

>>1048923 >Woke is a poorly defined buzzword Not if you ask someone's definition and most definitions have common ground.

>>1048923 Woke is easy to define at the moment, generally speaking if somebody modifies their game to align with any globohomo "cultural initiatives" like DEI, ESG, BRIDGE, and GARM with monetary incentives attached then it's woke. This is why games from private companies are taking off like a rocket right now while games from publicly traded companies are floundering; while the public company sells out to fuel its nonstop borrowing the private company, owning itself, has no real need to bend the knee and can stay true to its own principles. Sometimes a private company can still go woke but generally that's because it's owner happens to buy into the ideology; at its core "woke" seeks to promote a Marxist neofeudalism by debasing proles and dividing them by class and race to diminish their political power for consolidation by the Inner Party. A great example is the contrast between Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein: The New Colossus. <wait, doesn't TNO suck off the (((Jews))) with schizotech Yeah, but one way it avoids being stereotypical "wokeshit" is that it dares to portray the Nazis with humanity with Klaus and random soldiers and doesn't condescend to them. This is why TNC comes across as wokeshit because the internal logic and continuity of the narrative is broken to instead service inorganic mouthpieces and "tear down [existing power structures]." <BJ Blazkowicz loses his introspection <characters are obviously rewritten from prior drafts to fit an agenda; for example, a preacher is somehow ALSO a Marxist-Leninist anticap antifa revolutionary <sometimes they are inserted; for example, TNC's main Nazi villain has a landwhale of a daughter she would have killed if the internal logic of the story wasn't broken <obvious pozz like miscegenation <removal of moral debates as the Nazis are perverted into shallow strawmen to laugh at while also somehow still taking over the world Overall wokeshit sticks out like sore thumbs because those titles are designed to follow checkbox criteria for external monetary or ideological incentives rather than be organically sculpted from personal visions.

>>1048987 the private company is not immune. private companies can still be subverted and infiltrated. Valve is an example. also if a private company ACTUALLY becomes a REAL threat to the progressive agenda, the cathedral can easily destroy said company through the press smearing, through shutting down bank accounts, through the payment processors refusing to collaborate, though gaming platforms refusing to host your game, and even the feds being directly involved and raiding your company. The only way to truly be free of this progressive virus is to build parallel societies and our own institutions.

Witcher 3 modders Moonknight, Ferroxius, Crygreg, and Glassfish have released the first volume of What Lies Unseen, a planned series chronicling the development history and evolution of The Witcher 3. RPG YouTuber xLetalis has put out a three-hour video going over the first volume, which covers a prototype version of The Witcher 3's story that would have been upwards of three times as long as the game we got. Some of the biggest changes and surprises in this version of The Witcher 3 include: >The game was subtitled "A Time of Sword and Axe" instead of "The Wild Hunt." >The Witcher 3 had a VATS-like focus system that let you target weak points on monsters. >There was a lot more travel back and forth between Velen, Skellige, and Novigrad, and plotlines and characters that were more contained in the final game would extend across multiple acts. >Your choice between Yennefer or Triss would mean that the other sorceress would be absent from the final third of the game. >The Witcher 2's Iorveth appeared and had a major role. >There was a multipart heist quest in Novigrad that required allies like the Kaer Morhen siege. >The Bloody Baron's story was very different, and continued late into the game. >The endings were much more ambiguous and melancholy. >Geralt and Avallac'h would teleport to Cyberpunk 2077's Night City in one quest. >The game didn't have Gwent, and instead saw the return of arm wrestling and dice poker from TW1 and 2.

Epic Gaymes recently allowed Unreal Tournament 99 to be freely hosted on the internet archive ( https://archive.org/details/ut-goty/ ) if you want to play online you should install the latest patch for it available at https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/releases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hn-pNxtByM

>>1048987 >Woke is easy to define at the moment, generally speaking if somebody modifies their game to align with any globohomo "cultural initiatives" like DEI, ESG, BRIDGE, and GARM with monetary incentives attached then it's woke. What about "Woke Right" games? >>1048995 >the cathedral I see you've been watching TFM.

>>1048923 Woke specifically refers to the "awakening" to the intersection of racial and power politics in society, although broadly it can be used to describe any application of intersectionalism within the framework of oppressor/oppressed dynamics. Lucy from Quake III is not woke, because she was never designed and implimented into the game in order to raise fat ugly bitch visibility. The protagonist of Fable III is "woke", because both the parent company and the designers of the game have policies in place to reduce the attractiveness of females in their games in order to uplift ugly M2F trans abominations, as well as to denigrate the straight heteronormative paradigm. In Quake III, you also had Crash, Minx, and Hunter to balance things out. In Fable 4, there are no conventionally (or even unconventionally) attractive females showcased that I'm aware of.

Supposedly two big announcements are coming out during the game awards. Even the people normally trying to temper expectations are saying so. It is probably only big for games media and I won't care but I guess it is something to speculate about.

>>1049078 >What about "Woke Right" games? They do not exist. Depending on your definition of "Woke Right" maybe some /pol/ game like ZOG's Nightmare could fit the bill?

>>1049093 Lucy looks like most female prison guards I've seen.

>>1049158 Spent a lotta time in prison staring at correctional officers did you?

>>1049159 Only the women. They look good after the first 3 months.

>>1049161 In what way? I am genuinely curios, since i never thought of looking up female inmates or guards.

>>1049163 Just more sexually attractive. They still look like a dog's dinner but desperation reaps it's toll. As for female prisoners there's a whole industry around men trying to court women in prison.

>>1049164 Fed time means you did at least a year. So whatd you do? I'd be shocked if any anons have even been to county jail, much less a federal penitentiary.

>>1049165 I'm not a yank.

>>1049166 Ah ESL, gotcha. Yeah the Queen's English can be hard for indians, keep at it bub.

>>1049167 Is this the new "whiter than you muhammed" that you lot are doing now?

>>1049168 Its 3 am limey, you can't expect me to be at my whittiest. Anyway whatd you do?

>>1049169 Tucked up for drunken battery.

>>1049170 Based! I'll drink to that buddy, cheers!

Following the monetization director at Ubisoft blaming gamers critiquing the company and its projects as "revolting" and "non-decent human[s]," Assassin's Creed Shadows adds a "canon mode" that makes your choices for you. >Choices come more into play when recruiting allies and romance some of the characters. Since the fan base is divided on branching dialogues, we have incorporated an option called CANON MODE which allows you to play the game with choices already made for you, to give you a choice free experience. Are you excited for a choice free experience /v/?

>>1049220 >Since the fan base is divided on branching dialogues Is Ubisoft still pretending Ass Creed is an RPG?

>>1049220 Branching Dialogue never made sense in an AssCreed game, since it's about relieving the memories of an ancestor, which means that all outcomes are pre-determined as they had already happened. The only "choices" would be in which way you do X mission and free-roaming outside of missions, but that is more from a gameplay perspective, otherwise it would just be one big QTE game, like one of those FMV games.

>>1049220 I am a decent human being. That is why I don't give money to jews.

>>1049263 Nigger they have homosexual relationships Whole fucking franchise has been nonsensical garbage since the first.

>>1049078 >"Woke Right" given how he knows that pinkoism descents in some manner from christianity, & that it basically its very well tuned to attack it & pray on to use it towards their goals, to me it just seems extraneously callous what james did with that christian publisher, he simply acted like a pinko(for pinkos DO that) & tooted his own horn

In a recent post on Hamaguchi's Twitter account, he states that he recommends the PC version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth because of the improved lighting. It's coming to PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store on January 23 and being optimized for the Steam Deck. Players will need to free up 155 GB of storage space.

>>1043946 >moving parts are more expensive >heavier >no absolute input mapping >>1046608 Is this an out-of-season April Fools joke? <Target FPS: 60 >>1049168 >you lot It's just some spic being autistic

>>1046608 Storage: 120GB >>1050550 Storage: 155GB What the fuck?

>>1050558 The funny thing about those sizes is that in just few years we might see them grow to 250-300gb without anyone batting an eye. Reason why is that once you get to three digits only half of terrabyte of data will be surprising, because people will get used to it, and only after half of terrabyte of data a terrabyte will be surprising. Soon your SSD will only be able to hold only 1 (one) modern video game.

>>1050550 >Players will need to free up 155 GB of storage space. For comparison, FF14 is 110GB currently. Their MMO is smaller than Rebirth. These file sizes are getting fucking ridiculous.

>>1050560 This whole industry is ridiculous, we're using fake frames now because retards pushed 4K so hard and modern games are so graphically intensive that the hardware gains we have (which are also dripfed on the consumer end) aren't enough to run them properly. Also due to those fake frames devs just aren't even bothering to optimize.

>>1050561 Remember when retards said DLSS and upscaling in general would only be used to breathe new life into older cards and how devs were not going to use it as a crutch to not optimize their games? I do.

>>1050559 >Reason why is that once you get to three digits only half of terrabyte of data will be surprising, because people will get used to it No, they're not. Especially when 8TB hard drives stilll cost $300.

>>1050559 I was going to say that a lot of pre-built PCs and laptops still come with only 500GB of SSD so they can't have too many games with 200GB, but doing a double check, it seems that finally they are releasing them with 1TB of SSD in the 1000-1500 dollar range, maybe even cheaper.

>>1050550 Why would anyone play that garbage made by Nomura?

Nintendo is following Sony cucks in banning ecchi. They just banned neptunia and death end.

This might have been brought up already, but since there doesn't seem to be a mention in this thread: The Frontline 59 DLC for Project Wingman was released on PC on December 1st after being a PS5 exclusive for about a year. I haven't played it yet so I can't say how good it is, but the steam reviews are sitting at 94% positive so it seems to be technically sound. a6ab90d4

>>1050559 >The funny thing about those sizes is that in just few years we might see them grow to 250-300gb without anyone batting an eye. Reason why is that once you get to three digits only half of terrabyte of data will be surprising, because people will get used to it, and only after half of terrabyte of data a terrabyte will be surprising. Soon your SSD will only be able to hold only 1 (one) modern video game. Perfect, as soon the industry will only have 1 (one) modern video game.

The Witcher 4 Developer CD Projekt Explains Why It Went With Ciri Over Continuing With Geralt as Protagonist "The super right choice" Executive producer Małgorzata Mitręga said Ciri was >the very organic, logical choice >The Witcher was always about her >She's an amazing, layered character >For all of us it's like she was meant to be >That was always her Game director Sebastian Kalemba added >There was an intention behind this choice. It was far from roulette. It wasn't random >She really deserves a stage >She has so much to prove >So much amazing energy >This is the super right choice

>>1050940 Super right!

>>1050917 >Nintendo did it Suddently all the anti censorship guys are nowhere to be seen!

>>1050917 >They just banned neptunia Nothing of value being lost of course

>>1050917 >Nintendo is following Sony cucks in banning ecchi. They just banned neptunia and death end. > thank god i never got a switch i was considering it but fuck that now.

>>1050952 >The opposite of what happened Dead horse nothingburger was beaten bloody in the GamerGate thread and spammed across threads by trolls getting infinite mileage out of nothing of value. Death end re;Quest only has 975 Steam reviews, Switch has 146,400,000 sales. Maybe 400 people read that news, it's nothing #4000 that impacts noone, just exaggerated by the biased against Nintendo (trolls like 1050955). Sony is blocking Neptunia Rebirth Trilogy on PS4/5 in the West but it's framed as a Nintendo thing, Nintendo censors 10 times less but you hear about it 10 times more. The pedo character probably did it in.

>>1050959 Are you new or is this a new persona from an existing troll? Because you've got such a distinctive way of posting to the point where I believe it's intentional. The unlinked post numbers in plain text is something I've never seen anybody do.

>>1050960 4chan tourist who browsed because of The Game Awards, but self-evidently not a troll. That you project I'm one for countering the opposite of what happened with unbiased information when someone here's pretending they skipped Switch over a nothingburger tells me you're the troll. Unlinking posts of trolls is normal. Don't waste your time psyopping, I won't stay to keep intruding on your "fuck Nintendo" echo chamber with unbiased facts, all the samefagging and bad faith already put me off way before this thread.

>>1050959 >>1050960 Most likely. We've been getting a shitload of cuckoldchan rats flooding in after the Game Awards, expecting to be rewarded by shitting their trousers as was customary in their previous home. Kind of funny how they do crap like defend shitjaks as having artistic merit and try to ragebait every other post because they're convinced online slapfights over nothing are "better" because of "higher PPH." >>1050684 Example here, where cuckchan poster blames Nomura for Rebirth despite him having no involvement, ostensibly to drive discussion, but just looking like a dumbass in the process. >>1050952 >>1050953 >>1050962 And here where "muh cucksole wars" are the most important thing in muh wurlz despite it being very obvious by now that the whole concept of consoles is going to be sunsetted as Xbox and PlayStation are outcompeted by PC and the Switch is being outcompeted by phones, handhelds, and ARM gaming. As much as I am ambivalent on Nep in general I knew that Nintendo was not invincible as it's still a publicly traded company and thus vulnerable to ESG/DEI/BRIDGE, not to mention it explicitly wants to globalize its IP. Two possibilities: >Nintendo in general wants to preserve its family-friendly image so it is no longer permitting Western releases of "niche titles" in accordance with this new initiative >Since the sudden lack of approval is coming from NOA and NOE it can be surmised that some rogue activist staff are pulling a Valve and discriminating against animu titles despite NOJ's actual guidelines permitting these releases There's a lot of evidence to support the latter theory, from the Neptunia titles' eShop pages having been online before the sudden removal to other JP eShop releases being discriminated against and blocked from Western release this year before Neptunia. I honestly don't care that much but it only takes two brain cells to rub together to figure out what may be going on, especially since the left have been going on megachimpout more against Japan's cultural exports trouncing their agitprop.

>>1050959 They censor less now, but used to censor more because of family branding. Roles reversed with Sony during PS4 gen.

>>1050940 >Ciri >organic, logical, amazing, layered, meant to be, intentional, deserved, amazing, super right Did these ESLs hire a thesaurus for PR agent?

>>1050979 It's giving "diversity is our strength" vibes. A leaker who claims to work as a contractor for "Mass Effect 5" said devs were asked to delay features, art, and content that may be deemed woke or political, and defer them to future patches, to trick buyers who won't buy woke games. This is only rumor, take it with a grain of salt.

>>1050971 >Nintendo in general wants to preserve its family-friendly image so it is no longer permitting Western releases of "niche titles" in accordance with this new initiative Funny thing is that it's only the Western side of the company wanted to project that image. That was what the big fight was over during the Wii U era, which eventually resulted in Iwata's death from all the pent up stress as Treehouse did not want games like Bayonetta, Fatal Frame, and Devil's Third to be part of the "Nintendo brand". And the only reason why they seceded for a while was due to all the negative press surrounding the censored localizations of the American releases of Xenoblade X, Fire Emblem, and TMSFE.

>>1050981 >A leaker who claims to work as a contractor for "Mass Effect 5" said devs were asked to delay features, art, and content that may be deemed woke or political, and defer them to future patches, to trick buyers who won't buy woke games. So Ass Effect characters will start as hot white babes until patched into man-made horrors beyond our comprehension?

Holy Undead Delisted from Steam A Week Before Its Release Visual Arts was planning to release Holy Undead on Steam on December 20. However, less than a single week before its intended release, the game is not available to wishlist and watch on Valve’s store page anymore. Going by the SteamDB history, all the details about the game were erased from the shop on December 14 just a little after midnight UTC. It all happened about a day after a “General Mature Content” descriptor was added to it.

>>1051004 >Holy Undead Delisted from Steam A Week Before Its Release can we just go back to disks and big boxes. please.

>>1051005 >can we just go back to disks and big boxes. please. <Holy Undead Recalled from Shops A Week Before It's Release

>>1051004 >Steam is following Sony cucks in banning lewd. They just banned Holy Undead thank god i never got a steam deck i was considering it but fuck that now.

>>1051008 >They just banned Holy Undead Nothing of value being lost of course Valve has an odd stick up their ass about VNs, purportedly due to a single employee

>>1051011 Not even a Valve employee, but a Steam janny. Though it's only speculation, nobody knows for sure what's going on over there.

Stop shitposting and get along, guys. It's Christmas time. Merry news about the demise of IGN. IGN parent Ziff Davis saw "organic revenue" decline by 10% since 2021, now laying off staff They're being >faced with the difficult decision to reduce headcount and are paying IGN employees to leave. IGN News Director Kat Bailey announced her departure on X. >Well this it. Today is my last day at IGN. It's been an incredible ride and I'll miss everyone so much, esp the incredible newsies Alex, Wes, and Reb. I'll be focusing on my pod and personal projects but open for work too. IGN Senior News Editor Alex Stedman announced her departure on Instagram. >My last day at IGN is December 13; after that, barring a trip to Chicago for the holidays, I'm open to talk work opportunities (both within journalism and potentially outside of it) and will be SOOOOO much more available for lunches. Like, ridiculously available. Let's get lunch. Head of Games Industry Christopher Dring announced his departure on X. >A small piece of news. I'm leaving GamesIndustry.biz at the end of the month. It's been quite the 8-year journey. I love the industry, I love business media and I will be back in 2025, although what that will look like is to be worked out

>>1051017 Actual photo of developer behind "FURRY WHORES". >>1051018 >and are paying IGN employees to leave. That's called severance anon This is something you hear from a lot of people in games media; there's simply no money in the traditional webzine format. There's a hunger for real journalism, but both the EICs and the audience don't want to pay for it, leading outlets into downward spiral of tabloid journalism and social media scraping that turns even more of their audience away. Do you know IGN pays as little as $20 per article?

>>1051004 >>1051008 Most (it not all) visual novels that get here officially are censored. It becomes tiresome having to check out what did they change took out of the game to know if you should get it or pirate it. Just pirate everything nigger. This is 8chong.

>>1051018 >>1051019 Maybe these sites should reform their approach and appeal to the GaymerGays and people who actually care about games instead of antagonizing readers for disagreeing with commie talking points.

>>1051018 >IGN parent Ziff Davis So, IGNorants was composed of SA goons all along.

>>1051003 >A leaker That asshole better have some hard evidence archived to back up that assertion, because it would be awfully useful in the event of a class action lawsuit.

>>1049078 >Woke Right That's a term invented by crypto-neocons and civnats to equate anyone to the right of them to progressives, especially if said rightist is critical of capitalism or attacks anything typically agreed on by the mainstream dissident right from the right. There are no Woke Right games. Woke as a term has already degraded to the point of near meaninglessness. >>1049220 This wouldn't be a problem if the gameplay was good. Linear action games are a sorely missing niche nowadays. >>1049263 The current Assassin's Creed meta-plot is that the Assassin's Creed games are games in-universe made by Abstergo, who managed to capture the protagonist of the original games's DNA and are now hunting for pieces of the McGuffin. >>1050550 >155 GB Preasu undastand, Croud and co mustu havu a mirrion porygons to maku them ugry. >>1050917 >>150966 is right, Nintendo's historical track record shows that they tend not to stop games from being released on their consoles over matters like this. However, I have to disagree with his assertion that it doesn't matter because Neptunia and Death end have small audiences. The games are good, and it's a matter of principle and culture that we decry them not being released on a typically permissive platform, especially given how few people will be able to play them, limiting their exposure. >>1051017 Can't most Western eroge and visual novels get away with being released on Steam because they don't depict teenagers in violent or sexual situations? While most games which do make it through only do so for their adults only versions, the developers or their fans also link patches or provide DLC which restore these features, potentially giving Steam bad press.

Project Cyrodiil: Abecean Shores (AKA Anvil, the city its based around) releases December 22, 2024. This new free, fanmade, expansion for Morrowind adds a massive chunk of Cyrodil (over half the size of the base game), complete with quests. Unlike Tamriel Rebuilt and Home of the Nords, Abecean Shores has a main quest of sorts in the form of a questline for the Anvil government as a faction (future regions are planned to have their own, mutually exclusive, questlines for the local government) https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=STrVXHnIItA

>>1051125 Should post that to /vb/'s "Best game mods by fans" thread. >>>/vb/4953

>>1051113 >Can't most Western eroge and visual novels get away with being released on Steam because they don't depict teenagers in violent or sexual situations? No because even safe games like Steins;Gate are even blacklisted.

>>1051152 What's Stein's;Gate about, is it any good?

>>1051152 Blacklisted by WHO, really?

>>1051055 I'm not surprised.

>>1051152 >>1051157 >>1051170 Excuse, it was one of the sister games to Steins;Gate, Chaos;Head that was initially cancelled before people complained: https://archive.md/sV0qH

>>1051157 Steins;Gate is about a college student and his best friend inventing a method of time travel that involves sending text messages back in time. It's one of the best time travel stories out there. The anime is an excellent adaptation, which means you don't lose much out of watching it as opposed to most VN-to-anime adaptations being butchery of their source materials.

>>1050952 Anti-censorship said aplenty about Nintendo and their drones but like everything anti-censorship related, the general mass was too dense to listen. >>1050971 The whole thing started from UN agreeing with US puritans and banning loli as a whole. It gives their much needed casus belli to begin the purge on sales platform. This is why I said people who made light of UN speech are morons who don't know how the world works.

>>1051262 The only drones are fact-skewers calling people drones for noticing their skew. See >>1050959 >Dead horse nothingburger was beaten bloody in the GamerGate thread and spammed across threads by trolls getting infinite mileage out of nothing of value. Death end re;Quest only has 975 Steam reviews, Switch has 146,400,000 sales. Maybe 400 people read that news, it's nothing #4000 that impacts noone, just exaggerated by the biased against Nintendo. Sony is blocking Neptunia Rebirth Trilogy on PS4/5 in the West but it's framed as a Nintendo thing, Nintendo censors 10 times less but you hear about it 10 times more. The pedo character probably did it in.

>>1051055 >IGN parent Ziff Davis >So, IGNorants was composed of SA goons all along. I don't get it, does Ziff Davis own Something Awful? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziff_Davis It's not in the wiki list of current, sold, or discontinued properties.

>>1051134 >Should post that to /vb/'s "Best game mods by fans" thread. >>>/vb/4953 That /vb/ thread should've been on /v/. OP's not a shitpost, nor the suggestions. Why was it posted there?

Game Awards in 2024 vs 2004, comparison uploaded 2 days ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIBbNsTpmNg

>>1050917 Update that list, turns out that cuckchan's /v/ found out about more games that were banned. Funnily enough, they ARE available on the JP eshop, but they are banned in the US and EUR eshops. Affected games Anons have found so far: >Tokyo Clanpool publisher is only mentioning an Asian release for the Switch >Prison Princess Trapped Allure disappeared from the western eShop one day before release, no comment has been provided that I know of >Neptunia Rebirth Trilogy "guidelines compliance issues due to content" cited as the reason >Death end request Z "Guidelines compliance issues due to content" cited as the reason, censored Basedny version is getting a western release funnily enough >DAYMARE: 1994 Italian spooky game, literally zero reasons are known >Redneg Allstars Blocked by NoA and NoE due to "expression restrictions" >Amairo Chocolate No reason given, publisher simply apologized over it. >The Fox Awaits Me HANA Western release cancelled, no reason provided >Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs Western release cancelled, but released on playstation and steam (content status unknown) >Night to meet Chu! Western release nowhere to be found despite already being out on Steam >Sakura melody Previous games were all Switch exclusive, now not on Switch and instead on PS despite censorship. "it was a weird year and we don't know what happened" cited as the reason by the devs >Christmas Massacre Western made game, blocked from a Nintendo release entirely

>>1051278 2024/2004 Game Awards is literally soulless/soul.

>>1051469 Unavailable doesn't mean banned and rejected doesn't mean censored, games could be rejected for being shit. It already has enough shit games.

>>1051473 A list of games not just banned or rejected, but censored for their PS4 release, either internationally or for country releases: >10 Second Ninja X Nazi symbols were removed for the German release. >13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim The game was made more family friendly for the international release. >20 Ladies Sexuality and nudity were removed worldwide as women were changed to anthropomorphic furry bunnies, thus renaming to 20 Bunnies. >Agony Violence/gore was censored worldwide in order to avoid getting a adults only rating. >Alekhine's Gun Nazi symbols were removed for the German release. >American Hero Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Alekhine's Gun The game is banned in Germany due to the Nazi symbol being in the game. >Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue Sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Arc of Alchemist Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Arcade Archives: Baseball Stars 2 References to Taiwan and Taipei were removed worldwide. >Assassin's Creed Valhalla The game was made more family friendly and violence and sexuality was toned down in Japan. >Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea Sexuality was toned down and drug references were removed for the international release. >Atelier Sophie 2 Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Battlefield 2042 The game was made more politically correct. >Berserk and the Band of the Hawk Violence was toned down for the Japanese release and sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Beyond: Two Souls Violence was toned down in the Japanese and European releases. >Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition The game is banned in Australia. >Blue Reflection Sexuality is toned down internationally. >Borderlands Violence was toned down in the German release. >Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Nazi symbols were removed from maps worldwide. >Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019) The game was banned in Russia.

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>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 The Remaster isn't sold in Russia, and violence was toned down in Japan and Germany. >Call of Duty: Vanguard The game was made more poltically correct. >Call of Duty: WWII Gore was removed in the Japanese release, Nazi symbols were removed from the German release. And a scene was altered in Australia. >Capcom Fighting Collection Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Castlevania Anniversary Collection Nazi symbols were removed worldwide. >Catherine: Full Body The game was made more family friendly for the international release. >Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Commandos 2 HD Remaster Nazi symbols were removed worldwide. >Conan Exiles Nudity was removed from the North American release. >Conception Plus Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Crystar Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Cyberpunk 2077 Sexuality was toned down in the Japanese and middle east releases. >Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony The game is banned in South Korea. >Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Violence was toned down for the international release. >DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation Sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Days Gone Violence was toned down in the Japanese release. >DayZ The game was banned in Australia. A censored version would later release worldwide that removed a drug from the game. >Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Fortune Sexuality was toned down worldwide >Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Scarlet Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Dead or Alive 6 Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Dead Rising Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Death end re;Quest 2 Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Death Mark Violence was toned down after a patch was released outside of Japan. >Deathsmiles 1 & 2 The game was banned in Australia. >Destroy All Humans! (2020) Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Destiny 2 The game has been censored in order to make it more inclusive and less problematic. >Destroy All Humans! Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Devil May Cry 5 Sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Diablo II: Resurrected Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Disco Elysium The Final Cut The game was banned in Australia but it would later be appealed successfully. >Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Religious references were removed from all versions of the game that used English. >Digimon Story: Hacker's Memory Religious references were removed in the North American release. >Disgaea 4 Complete+ Sexuality was toned worldwide. >Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >DmC: Devil May Cry Definitive Edition Sexual scene removed in Japan and suggestive line removed from the remaster. >Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! Violence was toned worldwide. >Don't Starve The game was made more family friendly worldwide. >Doom II Two levels were removed from the German release. >Dragon Star Varnir Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Dying Light 2 Violence was toned down in Germany. >Fairy Tail (Video Game) Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water Sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Fate/Extella A costume was changed to look less like a Nazi uniform worldwide. >Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Suggestive outfits were removed. >Final Fantasy XV Some profanity was removed in a worldwide update and the game is heavily censored in China. >Final Fantasy VII Remake Language was toned down for the Japanese release. >Final Fantasy VIII Remastered Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Final Fantasy XIV Sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Final Fantasy XV Language was toned down and religious elements removed for worldwide. Violence and sexuality were toned down for the Chinese release. >Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise Gore was removed in Japan. >For Honor Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Fortnite Police cars were removed from the game in a worldwide patch. >Gal*Gun: Double Peace The game was banned in New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates. >Gal*Gun 2 The game was banned in the United Arab Emirates. >Game Tengoku CruisinMix Special Sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Genshin Impact Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >God Eater Resurrection Violence was toned and and drugs were removed for the international release. >God of War 3 Sexuality and violence were toned down for the Japanese release. >Grand Theft Auto V Violence and sexuality were toned down for the Japanese release. Sexuality was toned down for the Greece release. And the game was banned in Saudi Arabia, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates. >Guilty Gear -Strive- Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Haruoto Alice Gram: Snow Drop Sexuality was toned down in Japan. >Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone Sexuality was toned down and smoking was removed from the game in the international release. >Heavy Rain The game is banned in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia along with nudity being removed from the Japanese release. >Hentai vs. Evil Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Hitman 2: Silent Assassin Religious imagery was removed, and some slang was also removed worldwide. >Horizon Forbidden West Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Banned in Australia for a scene of sexual violence. >Injustice 2 Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven Nazi references were removed for the international release. >Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Violence and sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Kingdom Hearts 2 Violence and sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >LoveR Sexuality was toned down in Japan. >Lust For Darkness: Dawn Edition Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Mafia 2 Sexuality was toned down for the Japanese release. >Mafia 3 Sexuality was toned down for the Japanese release. >Martha Is Dead Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Marvel's Avengers Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Mary Skelter 2 Sexuality was toned down. >Mary Skelter Finale Sexuality was toned down worldwide and the game was banned in Australia. >Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >MechaNika Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >MediEvil Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Mega Man X Legacy Collection The Nazi salute was removed worldwide. >Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Gore was removed in the Japanese release. >Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Gore was removed in the Japanese release. >Metro Exodus Sexuality was toned down in Japan. >Mortal Kombat 11 Sexuality was toned down worldwide and the game was banned in Indonesia. >Multiversus The game was made more politically correct worldwide. >Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy Violence was toned down worldwide. >Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Violence was toned down worldwide. >Nekopara (video game) Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Sexuality was toned worldwide. >NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection Violence and sexuality were toned down worldwide. >Nioh Gore was removed in Japan. >Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart HD Sexuality was toned down in Japan. >Omega Labyrinth Life Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Omega Labyrinth Z Sony refused to allow the game to release outside of Japan. >One Piece: World Seeker Phantom Sexuality was toned down for the North American release. >Onimusha: Warlords Sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Outlast II A scene was cut after a worldwide patch. >Overwatch Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Paranautical Activity The game was banned in Australia. >Pinball FX3 Blood and cigars were removed from the game. >Persona 5 The game was censored in South Korea. >Pinball FX3 Smoking and blood was removed worldwide. >PUBG Sexuality was toned down worldwide; the game was banned in Nepal and the game was heavily censored in China. >Puyo Puyo Tetris A religious reference was removed from the international release. >Rage 2 Violence was toned down in Japan. >Raspberry Cube Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Red Dead Redemption 2 Nudity was removed in the Japanese release and the game is banned in Saudi Arabia. >Resident Evil 2 Re-Imagining Violence was toned down in Japan. >Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Gore was censored in the Japanese release. >Romancing Saga 3: Remaster Violence was toned down worldwide. >Sable's Grimoire Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Saints Row: The Third Nudity and violence were toned down worldwide and violence was censored even further in the Japanese release. >Saints Row IV: Re-elected Violence was toned down in Australia and the game was banned in Saudi Arabia. >Sakura Sakura Sexuality was toned down in Japan. >Saku Saku: Love Blooms With The Cherry Blossoms Sexuality was toned down in Japan. >Sable's Grimoire Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal Sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Shadow of the Tomb Raider Gore was censored in Japan and blood was reduced in a worldwide update. >Silverio Trinity Sexuality was toned down in Japan. >Sleeping Dogs Violence was toned down in Germany. >The Sims 4 Religious references were removed worldwide. >Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts Violence was toned down in Germany. >Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 Violence was toned down in Germany. >Super Perils of Baking The game was made more politically co

>>1051474 It was so long my post cut off! The rest of that list of games not just unavailable or rejected, but censored for their PS4 release, either internationally or for country releases. >Super Perils of Baking The game was made more politically correct. >Zombie Army Trilogy SS signs were removed worldwide. >Saints Row (2022) Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Song of Memories Sexuality was toned down for the international release and the game was banned in Australia. >Soulcalibur VI Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >South Park: The Stick of Truth Nazi symbols removed in Europe and the alien probe scenes were removed from releases in Europe and Australia. The uncensored version is banned in Australia. >Spyro Reignited Trilogy Violence was toned down and the game was made more politcallly correct worldwide. >Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Star Ocean: The Divine Force Sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace The game was made more family friendly for the international release. >Street Fighter V Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Super Neptunia RPG Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Superhot VR Violence was toned down worldwide. >Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Sexuality was toned down in Japan and in Europe. >Tactics Orge Reborn Violence was toned down worldwide. >Tales of Berseria Violence was toned down internationally. >Terminator: Resistance Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >The Bug Butcher The game was banned in Australia. >The Escapists Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >The Evil Within 2 Gore was removed in Japan. >The Last of Us Remastered Dismemberment removed in Europe and Japan. >The Last of Us Part II Violence and sexuality were toned down in Japan. >The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III Sexuality was toned down for the international release.

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>The Messenger Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >The Order: 1886 Nudity removed in Japan. >The Sims 4 Religious references were toned down worldwide. >The Walking Dead Season 1 Gore was removed in Japan. >The Walking Dead Season 2 Gore was removed in Japan. >The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Violence and sexuality were toned down in Japan and the Middle East and the game was banned in Saudi Arabia. >Trials of Mana Remake Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Until Dawn Gore was removed in Japan. >Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception Sexuality was toned down internationally. >Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Watch Dogs 2 Nudity was removed worldwide. >Watch Dogs: Legion The game was made more family friendly worldwide. >Warriors Orochi 4 Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Witcher 3 Nudity removed in Japan. >Wolfenstein: The New Order Nazi references and symbols were removed in the German release. >Wolfenstein: The Old Blood Nazi references and symbols were removed in the German release. >Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Hitler's appearance was changed and how people talk to him was changed worldwide. >Wolfenstein: Youngblood Violence was toned down in Japan. >Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist The cards are censored to make them more family friendly. Examples of what cards are censored can be found here >Yakuza 3 The game made more family friendly worldwide. >Yakuza 4 Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Youkai Douchuki Sexuality was toned down for the international release. >YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World Sexuality was toned down worldwide. >Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san Yukemuri Meikyuu // Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs Sexuality was toned down in the Japanese release. >Zanki Zero: Last Beginning Sexuality was toned down for the international release. >Zombie Army Trilogy Nazi symbols were removed worldwide.

>>1051474 >>1051476 TL;DR

>>1051473 >game gets announced with literally a release date >suddenly, it gets pulled out >it got released with no problems in japan And the page for the game is still up. https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Hyperdimension-Neptunia-Re-Birth2-SISTERS-GENERATION-2572423.html

>>1051487 "B-b-b-but...my based Nintendo has (fill in anime titty game)!" I told these people this day was coming YEARS ago. I said that the second Nintendo felt like they had picked up enough of the anime titty market that Sony pushed away, they would start banning shit. Here we are. Also, here's a little something for all the Nintendo shills that are trying to run defense by saying these games weren't banned, just unlisted, or other stupid shit like that. https://archive.is/rpa2r

>>1051487 The lister stuck games unreleased, unavailable, or rejected for any reason (not that one), with that one and 1-2 more maybe rejected for content compliance. As critical thinking to not jump the censorship gun without the facts, I said "unavailable doesn't mean banned and rejected doesn't mean censored." Games could be rejected for being shit or for non-content barriers to acceptance. Your link was minor news, but other shovelware not releasing happens all the time. I said it because misleading info is used by console warriors like 35da27 to fanboy against Nintendo and call anyone with critical thinking a shill. That's always the pattern: x posts misleading info about Nintendo, y shows it's misleading, x calls y a shill or drone. Weird the page is still up.

>>1051474 >>1051476 >>1051479 >TL;DR I read them, you should too to learn about actually confirmed censorship.

Alleged leak of the plot of Intergalactic This is only rumor from 4chan, take it with a grain of salt. https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/697464553/intergalactic-plot-leaked >Plot and gameplay details revealed below was sent to a handful of gaming Journalists, the most notable of whom includes Jason Schreier, but they are debating whether or not to share it. The leaker is supposedly a disgruntled ND staff member who hates the direction the company is going as Druckmann gets more powerful and influential (part of the reason why Schreier is hesitant to give the OK). My friend in an exclusive gaming journalist discord server sent me this summary of the leak: >The player character, Jordan, was a member of “The Five Aces,” a band of notorious criminals. >The leader, Luis (Tony Dalton) disappeared without a trace, causing the Five to drift apart. >The reason for Jordan’s shaved head, the absurd reaction to which ND fully expected, is to serve the hiding of her identity, as she is a wanted criminal. >Jordan works as a bounty hunter purely as a means to find her former partners, Particularly Luis, who she sees as a father figure. >Kumail Nanjiani plays Colin, the comic relief of the crew. >The tutorial and opening mission is on Sempiria’s moon, leading to Jordan chasing Colin into space. >An important note from the leak is that there will be no space combat, the aforementioned segment is a cutscene. >As they fly into Sempiria’s atmosphere, an EMP wave disables both ships, leading them to crash in different locations. >The bulk of the game is described as an “open world Uncharted mixed with Sci-Fi elements.” >The majority of enemy combatants are AI driven machines, but with a wide variety of types. Melee, ranged, and even vehicle combat are in the game. >The base of operations in the game is your crashed ship, which can be customized. >As you find each member of your old crew, they will join you on the ship (with seamless interactions depending on the day/night cycle, think RDR2) in your search for Luis. >The gist of the plot is that Luis sent a message to all members of the Five, excluding Jordan, to meet him on the planet. They were specifically instructed to come alone, and not to mention this to the other members. >Once 3 members of the crew (besides Luis) join you, the game takes a hard turn. An underground dwelling race of “aliens,” known as Sempirians, kidnap Jordan’s teammates. The ship, with all its decorations and customization, is destroyed. Inspired by ME2’s Collectors event. >The Sempirians resemble humans with some notable differences, including the ability to sprout large insect legs that allow them to scale walls, as well as night vision. >With more of a survival horror shift, you make your way through underground tunnels to try and save your crew. >Eventually you reach where they are held, where it is revealed Luis is preparing to execute them in front of a horde of angry Sempirians. >Jordan interrupts, begging to know why Luis is doing this. Luis explains the big twist of the game, that the Sempirians were once humans who were teleported to the planet thousands of years ago as a side effect of the quantam experimentation needed to develop distant space faring technology. >The quantum influence on their genetics rapidly advanced the stages of evolution to help them adapt to Sempiria’s harsh environment. >When Luis crashed on the planet, he found himself empathizing with their race, promising to help support their desire to return to Earth (Druckmann apparently had read Heart of Darkness which inspired this plot point). >The Sempirian religion, founded by “The Heretic Prophet,” stated generations upon generations would suffer until a Messiah arrived to lead Sempirians to their ancestral home, where they would reclaim the land and purge its inhabitants. >The AI software and battle machinery on the planet was constructed over thousands of years to assist in invading Earth. >However, the technology needed for a ship to pierce Sempiria’s atmosphere without being disabled by its unique qualities could not be figured out. >Jordan is forced to watch as each of her companions are shot in the head by Luis. She begs to know why he is doing this. >Luis informs her she was never meant to be here, it’s why he didn’t call her to come. He was using his former partners’ presence on the planet as means to end. >It’s revealed that Luis informed Galactipol that 4 of the 5 Aces would be on Sempiria, and a fleet of police ships outfitted with EMP-countering tech arrive at the planet. >Luis has an affection for Jordan, so he orders the Sempirisms to detain her while they fight Galactipol and take their ships. >Jordan escapes, and the the final act has the player tear through a war zone between the two sides, ultimately resulting in Jordan chasing Luis down and killing him as he operates a huge tank. >Luis’ dying words are to ask Jordan to continue his work, that the Sempirians deserve to see their home again. >The player has the choice to use the tank to destroy Sempirian robots, leaving them defenseless to be slaughtered by Galactipol… >Or destroy Galactipol ships. >After either choice is made, you find Luis’ old ship and fly into space, the ending depending on which choice you made.