/v/ - Video Games

>>13569768

Fucking promotional material for the (then) new beetle, and it's one of my favourite racing games. That soundtrack too.

>>13572489

was it just me or is this game actually pretty tough?

>>13572505

It's pretty unforgiving and the controls are surprisingly complex.

>>13572568

saved ty lad

>>13569768

>mobile shit

OP is yet again a faggot.

>>13572489

How long until this shit starts showing up in a MetalJesusRocks Hidden Gems episode and his scalper buddies ratchet the price through the roof?

Sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't start shilling shit games in these threads only to get him to shill for trash.

>>13572597

That queer browses this place?

>>13572633

Every youtube e-celeb does or browses the places that take suggestions from here.

>>13572582

There was potential in the combat system since there's actual combos n shit but everything else basically shit the bed.

>>13572449

Dude that and The Urbz on GBA and DS were fucking amazing.

>>13573193

I have it for PC, haven't touched it after trying to set up the mic commands

It's obvious the port is shit in other areas too.

I think the accual reason i gave up, was the fact i couldn't make progress because my movement keys didn't respond.

>>13572895

>Garfielf

>but no Fist Of The B0rf Star.

>>13572465

GRAND DAD SHREK FILTHY FRANK DANK MIMIS???? XDDDD

>>13581559

Played it a few years ago, It hasn't aged well at all.

>>13581308

Base as it may be, Filthy Frank is one of the only YouTube channels that still has actual jokes.

OP here. Speedrunner just shows the high skill it takes to speedrun the game.

>>13573193

Isn't this that game that's RAAAACIIIIIISSST?

>>13582120

Until you start getting to the rushed content.

>>13582120

IM STUFFED

>>13582120

I'm convinced the only people who actually like Backtracking: The Game are furries, and Miyamoto

>>13569768

No joke though, it's a very well done Mario Kart clone.

>>13570328

>>13572895

Not the first time Garfield's been this offensive

Also is the Sonic Twitter guy working two jobs?

>>13582480

Games were Miyamoto had full creative control are shit though, minus probably Donkey Kong and the first SMB.

>>13572505

Just got to the 4rth dungeon. On my last life. I can only hope this game isn't hardcore in its game overs.

>>13572509

The controls are pretty easy to learn compared to games back then. Play Jet Force Gemini if you want tough controls.

>>13573225

the voice commands flat out do not work. forget about them and the game gets about a thousand times better. it's a legit 8/10 game that doesn't take itself too seriously and doesn't let anything get in the way of the fun of just shooting a bunch of goddamn robots

>>13572449

I played that game and it was legitimately shit, the only nice thing about it was being able to live in non standard sims housing, but then the best house is a standard sims house. gay as fuck.

>>13582109

Everything is racist in the (((Current year)))

>>13583646

All it needed was more SEGA characters, port the rest of the SASASR tracks and maybe make three more original tracks to fill out Outrun Bay's category. Unfortunately normalfags still think it's inferior to randomkart.

>>13581260

anyone knows how i could replay that game, i have the CD but has some damage on it, last time i played the audio was bugged. so what to do?

>>13583672

>no altered beast character that shapeshifts into different animals depending on the vehicle

>>13583501

Source please?

>>13583851

Disregard that, i suck cocks, found it.

>>13583906

Post it then, google tells me nothing

>>13583906

Post the source, friendo.

>>13585367

yoooooo robot arena was my jam back in the day, holy shit. i thought i was the only one who played that.

>>13585419

The dread and suspense in the Marine campaign is really well done. Nails the movie Aliens.

>>13585445

The marine campaign is so damn good. And the multiplayer of the 2nd game was great too, not sure if anyone plays it though anymore since the servers got shoa'd.

>>13585419

is it just me or walking feels too fast in the first game? other than that, no complains

>>13586273

>Not bendy and the ink machine

>>13581838

<snowfats

what a meme speedrunner

>>13586167

>Rick and Morty

That's obviously Doc and Mharti are you blind?

I bet there's a lot of really good independent games that have been buried in the piles of indieshit.

>>13586484

No, Dan Harmon says otherwise.

>>13569768

>>13569771

>>13570328

>>13572895

>>13572950

>>13583792

>>13588964

The tenth circle of hell is for people who don't post sources

>>13572458

No joke, besides the shit product placement that sunk its chance of being a lasting franchise, this is an ideal arcade racer. The style was sort of grounded and realistic. But the tracks were populated with lots of cool details, there were really inventive shortcuts, and your car can zoom off jumps in ridiculous ways. Really good sense of light and weather. Felt like driving around a model train set.

One of my other favorites from N64, Pilotwings, also had the restrained, imaginative without being outlandish vibe.

>>13597338

God I fucking love N64 graphics. They had like less jaggies and blurrier textures than PS1 games.

>>13597338

My brother and I have played hundreds of hours of Beetle Adventure Racing. Other than Smash Bros, it's probably both of our most-played N64 game.

>>13569771

This guy is a literal horsefucker.

>>13596800

I think it can be lumped with the sins of betrayal which is the ninth circle.

t. Dante Alighieri

>>13569771

I don't know why but I was hungover as hell all day Saturday and watched the majority of this guy's videos. I'm not sure I liked them too much overall and he seems shit at games, especially in A2MR. But it suited the mood of not being able to do anything but lie there listening and glancing at the games played. Then I saw he has buckteeth and it was a bit funny. Also he's in his own videos' comment sections sperging out at anyone not liking him.

>>13597647

it's his other channels that people really like

his sperg outs are half the fun

>>13572582

Quite possibly the most boring game that i've ever played.

>>13582109

Huh? Black companion dude is the best part of the game fam

>>13597780

>You can feel how much development was rushed well switched halfway through for various reasons at some points though.

It's like that because they redid the ENTIRE FUCKING GAME after faggots like spoony memed it into a mess.

Seriously, look at the E3 reveal level, practically everything's been changed.

Here's the 2010 reveal. Also apparently the developers didn't know what they were doing all throughout, some faggot from polygon, for once in their lives, actually typed up a decent article going through the game's development, but fuck if i'm going to track that down and post it here

and the actual gameplay for good measure. I'll stop now.

>>13597884

>>13597897

>>13597905

That's pretty much what I meant by 'switched halfway through', the original game they had planned would probably have been great but obviously the backlash fucked it. As it turned out The Bureau is still halfway decent but in addition to being a bit more generic there are instances of outright unfinished content, like being told to go and do a side-quest that simply doesn't exist or having a choice to shoot a faggot or not that has zero effect.

>>13597956

Try playing the game, it's a lot better than is memed. Frankly it's more fun than either of the two consolised X-Com games.

>>13583851

matsuba_(idiotlantern)

>>13597999

If they'd announced The Bureau after XCom to indicate it was actually a spin-off things would have gone much better for them. I'll admit to being one of the anons who shat all over it after the original announcement for the genre-shift because I've seen that shit happen before and as a result I didn't actually bother playing it until last year (I wouldn't have bothered even then if some faggot I know didn't push me to give it a shot).

Because of the original negative reaction they made it more tactical (as you'll note in the second video that anon linked they were actively trying to respond to early criticism) and that isn't strictly speaking a bad thing but they also turned the aliens into more generic X-Com humanoids rather than weird organic technology and that did hurt it. The other major issue was adding the tactical and resource-management elements in half-way through development left them feeling a little half-baked, it should ideally have played more like Brothers in Arms with RPG elements and less like a tactical bastardised Ass Effect thing.

For example it has this weird halfway house shit where they clearly wanted to emulate cover as it works in the turn-based games but they implement it with damage bonuses. Having your agents shoot directly at the enemy does massively reduced damage (~20% or something like that) but having them attack from the flank etc does ~200% extra damage: it also does a horrible job of explaining this to you this also applies back the way so if your agents get flanked they drop fast. This applies also to you in your attempts to shoot the enemy so if you adopt a traditional shooter 'I'm behind my wall, you're behind yours' style you end up with them feeling horrifically bullet-spongy. Throw in the AI actually reacting when you try to flank them and the first three hours or so being an extended super-easy tutorial that doesn't punish you for not learning this system and most people are going to smash their keep smashing their head against the wall by playing it like a generic third person shooter then complain that it isn't a very good generic third person shooter. This why I say it should have gone more for a BiA-style system. As it stands gameplay-wise it's a few smallish changes away from greatness. Also having your squadmates automatically change to follow mode if you walk to far away was one of the worst design decisions I've experienced: the faggots will decide to randomly abandon cover if you end up too far away even if it's the middle of fucking combat (this 'feature' is also not explained anywhere).

>>13598043

>Its literally Gears/Specs Ops The Line with better squad commands

Not even close, just because they're both third person shooters with a semblance of a cover system does not mean they're 'literally' the same game. Hell the Gears of War games and Spec Ops: The Line, while both being pretty fucking terrible, aren't even that close in terms of actual gameplay outside of sharing the same broad sub-genre.

>its still a generic piece of shit and that E3 shitpiece was nothing but 2K trying to cater to the Biocuck crowd

The E3 trailer had interesting ideas in terms of weapons and how the aliens were portrayed as non-humanoid, the gameplay was indeed hewing a bit too close to Bioshock's formula. Sadly they interpreted the (somewhat justifiable) anger at the genre-shift to also be anger at the shift towards non-humanoid aliens and retro-futuristic laser guns and threw the baby out with the bath water. Luckily they kept the 60s setting muh M14 though they added the rather silly idea that The Bureau is a prequel to Enemy Unknown and so claim during the ending that the government somehow successfully covered up towns physically disappearing from the map with their entire fucking populations.

>>13572633

Hey…MJR is cool.

>>13599113

He inflates the prices of games and makes them impossible to get.

>>13581630

Playing this when i get off work.

Underrated around here (though maybe thats changed) but not the mainstream obviously

>>13599141

I picked that game up for 1 dollar and beat it in 2 hours. Was pretty neat.

>>13585367

I remember robot arena. The game was stupid as hell, but you could do some crazy shit with it.

>>13601113

If I wanted to watch some shitty CG anime I would do just that.

>>13601115

Except Asura's Wrath kicks the shit out of any actual CG anime

>>13601128

Yeah it's not like the standards are very high to begin with.

>>13581559

Man, I remember the card game, it had some excellent art

>>13604578

See >>13598185

>>13598185

bless you

>>13605105

nigga i searched his pages on 6 different sites and double checked

>>13605176

Check the hidden boorus.

>>13597884

>>13597916

It's been a long time, I don't remember the memes. What was wrong with the original prototypes? Watching the video in >>13597905 seems neat enough, I'd play it. The gunplay is a little basic but shooters got pretty stagnant after CoD4 and MW2.

I watched a Let's Play of it a while ago and remember thinking that the game was pretty neat, if basic.

>>13608955

>Watching the video in >>13597905 (You) seems neat enough, I'd play it. The gunplay is a little basic but shooters got pretty stagnant after CoD4 and MW2.

This thing was announced before enemy unknown, so when faggots like spoonyone saw it they actually screamed out "betrayal" in the E3 halls because it wasn't the real xcom.

>>13572582

Fun combat system wasted on the 3-4 enemy types the game has.

>>13582534

I remember watching the trailer, being very excited, then watching some gameplay of the first level and seeing the player become stuck in an unwinnable state due to bad puzzle design.

>>13608955

As >>13609836 says they came out before a traditional TBT X-Com was announced and they kept mentioning the Bioshock angle. Too many good series have been ruined by genre-shifting to FPS and getting dumbed down so the reaction was extremely negative. That video you linked it, in fact, from a little bit after the original shitstorm when they actively tried to make the game more tactical. Then they went too far and turned it third person and a bit more generic.

Think of it as three stages:

1. Initial announcement of a vague FPS X-Com thing with heavy implication of it being Bioshock or similar in 2010 >>13597897. While it has interesting concepts for guns and non-humanoid aliens it gets a large negative backlash.

2. Modification of the original game to be a tactical-FPS with an emphasis on managing things in the base. This is 2011 >>13597905 to appease fans angered by 2010. Also Enemy Unknown is announced (I forget if it was in dev before the original shitstorm but certainly they realised how easily marketed a traditional X-Com TBT game would be as a result of it and decided to push it hard, two birds/one stone and all that). This still has non-humaniod aliens and interesting guns but they're less prevalent as they don't fit so well with FPS gameplay (frankly the reduction in focus on non-humanoids probably would have happened even with the original concept since it's just easier to handle gameplay-wise, people have been making man-shooting games for fucking decades).

3. Full game comes out as a third-person shooter but retains the two-man squad. The base-management shit is somewhat watered down and there are visible instances of cut/rushed content (resources were taken away from it once Enemy Unknown was announced as well). It's mostly fighting humanoid aliens with fairly standard third person weapons. This is the final game (2013). Still worth playing, in my opinion, but not all it could have been. The writing is actually fairly solid, in my opinion, (nothing world-changing but above-average for a third person shooter) and has some ideas they obviously couldn't explore in more depth.

I personally think 2 with more polish would have been the ideal outcome, something like Brothers in Arms with long-term resource management.

>>13624321

>says they came out before a traditional TBT X-Com was announced and they kept mentioning the Bioshock angle.

They being the trailers, not the actual game itself.

I noticed some ps3 and 360 kids are already posting here

jesus christ

>>13569768

Why the hell would I play a shitty clone of Mario Kart, when I can easily get the real deal, which is a thousand times better?

>>13572853

I was thinking of this as I browsed the posts before yours. Good choice

>>13635895

>pedobear somehow ended up as one of the mascot for children's winter olympic games

This can't fucking be real.

>>13637981

>Air Hockey

>Video Games

>Indoor Playplace

What the hell kind of richfag gated community was this McDonald's in?

>>13637993

Literally every McDonalds play area where I grew up in Southern California and yes, even the ghetto parts

>>13637993

McDonald's PlayPlaces are fucking ghetto as all hell.

>>13637981

While I'll give it credit for the air hockey table, that is still a dismal playplace. The one that I used to go to as a kid had a fuckhuge place to climb around on that wrapped from one side of the kids dining area across the ceiling to the other side. The last time I went there a few years back, it looks about the same as it always did, barring adding edutainment games by the soda machines. Meanwhile, the Burger King a block down from it removed their play equipment entirely; they now have some sort of giant touchpad with a projector that you play "games" with.

>>13637993

Not him, but where I grew up (and still live) all fast food chains have to have indoor play areas. It is just too fucking hot out much of the year, and even with the schools having outdoor jungle gyms and such, there would be days where outdoor recess would get cancelled in the afternoons because the temperature would peak at over 113.

As for the local McDonalds being fuckhuge, that part of town was kind of new at the time, and had a lot of young families and at least two or three schools, to the point whoever owned that particular branch felt it warranted dropping that much money on the play area.

>>13597338

Do they even still make racing games like this? Something that isn't quite a kart racer but with more of a sense of fun than a sim racer. they're my favourite kinds of racing games beside sci-fi racers.