/v/ - Video Games

Subject. This is a thread for asking a question that does not need it's own thread like

>What are some games that X?

>Asking for opinions on a game

>What are some games where I can Y?

>A hind?

And so on.

I'll start, what are some games that are set in religious fantasy settings, where you're playing some divinely powered creature sent to go fuck up demons, such as Valdis Story, the Darksiders game or Dood Eternal(since I know someone will mention it if I don't)?

>I'm completely new, where do I start?

Learn the Kana. Start with Hiragana and then move on to Katakana. Yes, you need both, and yes stroke order is important. Use Realkana or Kana Invaders for spaced repetition. Alternatively, you can use the Anki deck, but I'd recommend the first two. Tae Kim has a Kana diagram on his website, and you can use KanjiVG for pretty much any character.

>Alright, I know the Kana. Now what?

You have to learn vocabulary and grammar in order to speak and understand the language. Studying both simultaneously will get you understanding things faster. Vocabulary can be learned through just studying words, although some people like studying kanji on their own too. There are grammar guides such as Tae Kim that can get you started quickly, but they won't have everything you need so consult multiple sources as you go.

>Well this is great and everything, but I still need more help

Ask in this thread.

Threadly reminder:

YOU CAN LEARN JAPANESE

Don't come to tell us about Duolingo, we know that it exists and it is generally frowned upon for using a contrascientific new-aged hippie didactic philosophy, and is designed feel as effortless as possible, even at the expense of actually learning anything.

>[Resources]

>DJT site, this is a great place to start:

https://itazuraneko.neocities.org/index.html

>[Anki and Decks]

Anki: https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Core 2k/6k: https://mega.nz/#!QIQywAAZ!g6wRM6KvDVmLxq7X5xLrvaw7HZGyYULUkT_YDtQdgfU

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>Monster Hunter on the PSP? I don't have one of those!

Fortunately, PSP emulation is fantastic, being able to run easily even on smartphones. With a little know-how, you should also be able to get multiplayer working.

>My computer is pretty shitty. I don't know if I can ru-

You can run PPSSPP.

>So what do I need then?

All you need is a computer, PPSSPP, the linked ISO, a gamepad preferably, and access to your router. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR ROUTER THEN IT'S VERY LIKELY YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO PLAY.

>Why Portable 3rd?

Portable 3rd is good for beginners as its a little less clunky, far prettier, and has some quality of life changes to make organization and management easier. If you do start with this and can't read Japanese, though, you will be wanting to check the wiki for and asking for help in this thread to explain certain things. It only has a partial English translation.

SETUP

A more detailed explanation is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FAeZ83cX7HCiyNvRYGvlzYmOMVEXDxRMkQp5HM5YlG4/pub, just ignore the stuff about coldbird. Here's a more compressed explanation:

The default settings in the most recent release of PPSSPP should be enough, but just make sure that you have networking enabled, the ad hoc server is myneighborsushicat.com, port offset is zero, and that the virtual MAC address has been randomized, which you can do by clicking on it a few times. PPSSPP should also have a firewall exemption.

The more challenging aspect is that you will most likely have to configure your router for the online component to work, but it's still fairly easy to get working. You'll have to log into your router, which can be done by putting 192.168.1.1 into your browser. You'll want to either enable DMZ if you have it or forward UDP Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

2020 seems to be a big year for JRPGs so lets have a thread on them. The obvious big names coming up are:

>FF7 Remake

>Trials of Mana

Then you have the games that SUPPOSEDLY have a release window for 2020, but we've had very little information on them

>Genshin Impact

>Tales of Arise

>Granblue Fantasy Re:Link

Don't forget you're stuck playing JRPGs forever.

New thread because Bannerlord is coming and the old thread forgot to include the game name in the title. Two days remain till harvesting season!

What build are you going to use your first playthrough? Who you going to join? What crops are you going to harvest?

What are your thoughts?

Is anything missing that you would like to see added or anything you would like to see changed? Modes, Fighters, Stages, Music, Assists, Bosses, Mechanics, Content, etc?

How was Ultimate's Fighter's Pass 1 for you? What would you want Ultimate's Fighter's Pass 2 to look like?

When do you think Ultimate will get it's next DLC character?

Discussion on the series overall is allowed.

I think the Berserk musou wasn't bad. I liked the combat and especially the Berserker armor Guts is really fun to play as. Yeah it sucks how the playable character roster is small for a musou but I don't think that ruined the whole game. Don't know what the fuck they were thinking not letting us be able to play as Skull Knight or Grunbeld, or the other Neo Band of the Hawk members (at least we got Zodd).

Also we need a fucking Dynasty Warriors vs Sengoku Basara game. Lu Bu vs Oda Nobunaga alone would be worth playing it.

What games seem normal at first but actually have a very surreal feel and elements to them /v/? To explain more what I mean, Half-Life did this very well, and I don't mean just the opening sequence and the G-man.

The thing about Half-Life is that the more you get into the game and its expansion packs the more you realize how much of a fucking mess Black Mesa is and how weird is the actual story. I have always felt by playing through Half-Life that Black Mesa is a death trap, but only after playing through Blue Shift did I realize that it is completely intentional on the part of the developers. Everything in Black Mesa is a fucking mess, and it's probably one of the worst companies to work in, not only are the tensions high due to the equipment being pushed, but the fact that through the entirety of the faciltiy shit is getting fucked, with all of the scientists and staff acting either incompetently and in bizarre ways create an atmosphere of complete and utter bizareness that only gets amped up once the aliens actually attack. Everything tries to kill you, and with the miltiary just going in and starting to shoot you to cover up the entire mess, alongside with G-man doing his thing and even the soldiers questioning in some voice lines the idea of the operation, makes you realize that there might be some conspiracy going in the background, which puts you into an even weirder situation, realizing that The Resonance Cascade might have been planned all along, the fact that G-man turns out to be a god-like entity at the end of the game makes everything even weirder and makes you realize that Half-Life 2 literally stuck a story that completely didn't fit onto the first game, the Combine feel as if they were pulled out of their fucking ass, and considering HL1 as its own thing actually makes more sense than when combined with HL2 but that's besides the point

What other games start out as a seemingly generic plot and become more and more weird as time goes on?

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When will they ever learn?

Its been 7 years but they still cry about this shit reboot failing.

Seriously, this is just getting embarrassing.

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Do you think directly adapting, or at least as closely as you can, tabletop games into video games is a good practice? Or are they better left for the table?

Videogaems you enjoy a lot but know they could have been better if they changed some aspects of the game.

I liked NuDoom, But indeed is fucking repetitive and the OST is shit. But i know if they get a hard rock/ heavy metal soundtrack, make it less repetitive, and delete it the fucking glory kills it would be a great game. But we're talking about Bethesda and even though Eternal seems like an improvement in some ways it takes too many steps back.

Will emulation of old games ever be perfected?

>2020

>Still no fully functioning 360/ps3 emulator

Okay folks follow me on this one. I was playing a game trying to figure out why the rewards were so low, and that led me to think about some other things.

New Card Games(Not Hearthstone, more like Legends of Runeterra and Krosmaga) seem to have made a new system where they're pay to play, but you can play normally if you spend more time farming.

But I don't mean just normal playing the game time, real life time. And you have to play every day, too. How does this work? Well, its just that the reward for playing the game is PEANUTS, or literally nonexistent, unless you're doing a daily quest. Sometimes you will literally get nothing except for a rank up/experience which can be argued to be a bad thing.

I was also thinking about MMOs.

A lot of them seem to have systems which people here will dislike, in general. Even selling cosmetics is bad for some reason. Despite this, I haven't seen one MMO doing well unless it was selling at least some pay2win stuff, and there are even complaints about some games not doing well.

The problem is, both of those kind of games are dying. Its too early to tell anything about Legends of Runeterra, but those MMOs and the time gated Card Games do not seem to be generating a profit. can a game of those kinds ever be successful without pandering to P2W cash cows? Some anon was posting about a system where cosmetics were dropped in-game and sold off in a auction of sorts, but tl;dr it was somehow less profitable than "ethical" games we've had before.

>Inb4 Paypig apologist

What can I do?