bfc989 No.13779631
What the fuck happened this year? We've had some pretty high-profile flops on the triple-A side of things like Mass Effect Andromeda and Function vs Function, but then we've got smaller games like Sonic Mania, Cuphead and even Battlefront 2's revival that managed to completely blow away the competition. I'm not saying this has been an especially good year for gaming, but it sure has been a fucking strange one. Are we finally starting to see the industry's bubble pop? Was No Man's Sky the straw that broke the camel's back?
7b96c2 No.13779650
>>13779631
Nah, Destiny 2 was.
The big companies aren't delivering, and they've finally gone stale. It's up to small or medium-time devs to make something interesting with some real substance behind it, until the big companies start to learn from their mistakes. It's basically the year where something fresh takes the stage over something hyped.
Also, if numbers, I predict that the Citizen Kane of Gaming will be released in the next two years. The thing that would've changed Roger Ebert's mind about video games not being art.
bc3ead No.13779654
Did the newest ME flop this year or last?
Half this fucking year has been memory holed for me
bfc989 No.13779660
>>13779654
It was this year. Time flies, doesn't it? I actually had it pegged for Blunder of the Year until MvCI happened.
fa9874 No.13779663
>>13779631
No, the whales and micro transactions will keep them on life support for a long while. Vidya has already been transformed into Hollywood 2.0. Mostly mediocre crap with some neat stuff once in a while, with Japan off in the corner masturbating and making something good sometimes.
3d70b2 No.13779667
>>13779631
Triple-A is flopping and do you know what the remedy is for that? putting more fucking microtransactions.
bfc989 No.13779680
>>13779663
>Vidya has already been transformed into Hollywood 2.0
And look how 1.0 is doing right now.
af9d39 No.13779735
0eaef5 No.13779785
>>13779735
What games would be AA?
da6af2 No.13779852
>>13779663
>Vidya has already been transformed into Hollywood 2.0.
>>13779680
hopefully this means that a bunch of SJW devs and journos will get outed as sexual predators
8bf85b No.13780599
>>13779852
They already are, just look at NeoGaf and that was from an allegation. Imagine if someone had evidence on them.
9c7507 No.13780814
This year has been a year of sequels, and if there's anything which displays the soullessness of the industry, it's sequels, primarily sequels to games which weren't that good to begin with. There hasn't been a good original AAA IP for some time now, so you're only left with reboots and sequels to those reboots. Most of the better shit released this year came from the indie side of things, and even AA games are seeing somewhat of a comeback.
31ecc3 No.13780821
>>13779785
More pozz made to appeal retards from /leftypol/
8b823a No.13780851
My main worry is that publishers will keep stuffing games with microtransactions because they no longer want the single-purchase AAA title but rather microtransactions that are much less costly on an individual basis but provide a comparatively reliable stream of revenue.
You can't even blame them for it from a purely economical standpoint - why risk following a cycle where periods of big income (game release) and invariably followed by periods of financial loss (game development), with the risk that the next game release will bomb and you suddenly find yourself without the funds for another development phase?
With microtransactions, you have a far more regular and steady source of income (because there always will be gullible idiots who keep buying that shit), and even if your new game fails, you still will get far more dosh from the previous title than you could even remotely hope for with pure game sales alone.
c86af6 No.13780876
>>13779631
Can't wait for 2018
aefe28 No.13780881
The only game that came out this year that I even played was Subnautica. It was pretty good, 10/10 immersion but 0/10 replay value. Glad I didn't spend more than $20 on it.
e79697 No.13780920
>have normalfag roommates
>one plays sports games exclusively
>but the other also plays other shit
>bought ass effect
>hated it
>bought no man's sky
>hated it
>bought new CoD
>already hates it
Of course any hope I have for him realizing that (((modern gaming))) is awful is crushed because he immediately starts spewing at how he can sell his brand new collectors edition games back to gamestop for $15 off the next piece of shit he's about to buy– Jew Wars Battlefront comes out on Tuesday after all.
a58625 No.13780934
>>13780920
>out of your parents' basement
>not a normalfag
Choose one and only one.
9e4779 No.13780951
>>13780814
>Steam Edition
>Wonder Boy: Cuck Edition
>Lots of unknowns or never-heard-ofs
Are you trying to be more hipster garbage than anyone has ever been?
9c7507 No.13780972
>>13780951
>>Steam Edition
>>Wonder Boy: Cuck Edition
Wat?
>Are you trying to be more hipster garbage than anyone has ever been?
It's not my fault /v/ prefers to talk about the latest AAA tripe or some long-hyped up indie game more than good lesser-known games released this year.
407ccf No.13780985
>saw an advertisement in the wild about xbox
>unlimited possibilities or some shit was their slogan
>they showed clips of minecraft and cuphead
Is cuphead even ON xbox?
a1de52 No.13780989
>>13779785
Serious Sam (and I suppose The Talos Principle) would be my go-to example of solid AA development. Actually pretty much anything that comes out of Eastern Europe and actually gets recognition in the West is AA, they don't have AAA games and anything smaller is rarely translated. STALKER is highly polished by slav standards, faggots don't realise htis.
565688 No.13780994
>>13780599
Could someone take one for the team and go get raped by some major gamedev, so some bigname studio implodes?
596dd5 No.13781000
it's been a great year for games and anime. Why are you fags so afraid to praise something when it deserves it? We should want every year to be as good as this. 2018 is looking good too.
dfddaa No.13781006
>>13779631
The SJWs decided to go all out with their propaganda and its even turning normalfags away.
e73a1d No.13781044
>>13780985
You can buy a physical copy of it. Even though it has no CD, just a code to download the game. Cuphead is also on PC.
933a4d No.13781082
It was a good year if you like weebshit. Like every year
809631 No.13781095
>>13781082
This.
But every year it's like that:
First month is full of western games and at the end of the year it's full of Japanese game
d1b456 No.13781108
American game devs are going down the toilet while europe remains the same and japan retakes its place on top. Only goon disinfo will tell you otherwise. Western gaming is about to die.
c0692f No.13781114
c0692f No.13781125
>>13780881
>10/10 immersion
>immersion
i c what u did thr
c01525 No.13781144
The answer is simple, cheap high quality engines.
AAA is just going to keep getting shitter but with cheap engines smaller devs can make games more complex than ever before.
0bf36a No.13781200
>>13780920
My normalfag pains are worse. This is only a small portion of my long sufferings but I've grown too dejected reflecting upon the topic and could only produce this short, ill-formatted summary.
>buys every new AAA release
>expounds regularly on their supposed virtues as if you accidentally failed to purchase the new overpriced $60 reskin
>doesn't enjoy replaying the classics
>has actually never even attempted classics
>says shit like, "But, isn't turn-based?"
>says shit like, "But don't you have to play as a girl…"
>thinks playing as a female means you want to be a girl and are a faggot at the same time
>visibly wilts if game doesn't feature blood and gore
>Complains about minute details interfering with his self-insert exercises such as the lack of ammo for a (powerful) gun resembling his own irl firearm in a survival horror game
>doesn't into PC gamin because, "I don't want to have to think"
>doesn't into flight sim
>doesn't into RTS
>doesn't into 4x
>doesn't into JRPG
>doesn't into CRPG with traditional gameplay
>doesn't into games without multiplayer
>doesn't complete singleplayer campaigns in games with multiplayer
Gaming is literally just a means to live out self insert fantasies. No care or notice is given to systems or nuance of gameplay. Games must feature human characters engaged in combat featuring guns or medieval weaponry. Customization eagerly sought, 1:1 self-reproduction is the only avatar authorized, will project this standard onto you when coop. Will tactlessly compliment your in-game appearance and performance hoping to elicit the same in return, "wow your dude looks dope" … "wow you [R1]'ed the shit out of that motherfucker."
1e7441 No.13781241
>>13781144
This game was enjoyable to play but the ending was pretty shit and I felt like I didn't really finish the game since it was a little short and the ending felt like just another level.
bacb11 No.13781313
>Are we finally starting to see the industry's bubble pop?
All new AAA games have lootboxes and microtransactions and other bullshit. They are treating their customers like shit. The bubble is only expanding.
18a2fc No.13781359
>>13780934
>lazy
>dirty
>unproductive
Isn't a NEET just a nigger? If you are actually white, being one is just unnatural.
9ed64f No.13781377
>>13780814
No matter what most faggots say I love your lists anon, it has a great variety of genres and tastes.
You do wonderful work, never stop
0b6a78 No.13781417
>>13780814
Wow.. I played nothing on this list except the Hollow Knight demo.
18a2fc No.13781434
>>13780814
That list is shit and useless, you might as well post a screenshot from Steam's homepage.
084bee No.13781531
>>13781450
>two early assfuck games in one screen
267cd7 No.13781550
High profile failures of the year:
>Agents of Mayhem
>Battleborn
>Lawbreakers
>Wolfenstein 2 The New Golem
>Destiny 2
>Assassin's Creed: Wewuz
>NuPrey
>The Evil Within 2
>Marvel vs Capcom Infinite
>Yooka Laylee
>Mass Effect Andromeda
766753 No.13781602
>>13781550
You forgot the most recent one
a04f9e No.13782136
>>13780989
>, they don't have AAA games
See that's where you're wrong, Metro sure as hell is a triple A franchise
2c05d2 No.13782150
>>13781531
Ark was released already, anon.
0a8ba6 No.13782157
>>13779650
>I predict that the Citizen Kane of Gaming will be released in the next two years
It already was. It was called Super Mario Bros. 3.
2c05d2 No.13782175
>>13781602
Nah, it was alright. So much autistic fucking content made. If only they didn't fucked up level design it would had been perfect.
933a4d No.13782181
>>13782175
>absolute dog shit is now alright
The standards of Sonicfags are dropping so hard.
665948 No.13782182
>>13779650
I hope the "Citizen Kane of Gaming" comes along and is fucking terrible in every way so that faggots can stop screaming about vidya becoming "art"
Games are entertainment, in it's most interactive form, nothing more, nothing less. "Entertainment = Art" is the most cancerous development of post-modernism
0a8ba6 No.13782191
>>13782182
I like the way you think, anon.
2c05d2 No.13782195
>>13782181
Respect the OC making machine.
972729 No.13782237
>>13780985
That was the platform Takahashit played on.
6b9e1b No.13782306
>>13782181
The game is Okay, not amazing.
Forces has problems and it shows that current Sonic Team is incompetent, since they had 4 years yet the game feels like it was rushed out in only 1 year.
But making OC's, and the core gameplay of rushing though levels trying to get a good time is still fun, even if the level design is lackluster most of the time.
It's worse then Generations in allot of ways, but I still like far more then Lost World.
05e86d No.13782588
>>13782306
>that flat, boring, excessively linear level design
>segment where you dash back and forth on between jumps on fucking generic platforms not once but twice in the same level
>shadow's special chain homing mechanic is just a lame light dash for enemies that has no fucking purpose
>shadow leaves a fucking blue trail when he homing attacks
a1de52 No.13782606
>>13782136
Metro 2033 was a AA game, everything after that was corrupted into AAA (and was the worse for it).
043104 No.13782624
>>13780814
Road Redemption really that good?
Also your list seems fine outside of a few vr titles and shit I didn't like.
be9d72 No.13782749
Well, this is exactly what you expect to see in a contracting market.
People have been living paycheck to paycheck for way to long, with savings whittled away to nothing for most people in video games primary market. With credit and loans piling up, the market can no longer bear the current AAA scene.
Simply put, people don't have enough money for games. So rather than being willing to drop sixty bucks on something that they're mildly interested in, they need something that they know they're going to like and get a lot of return on their investment because they can only buy the two or three games a year total.
The whole AAA scene is rife with gossip magazine life. It's living on the same margins as Honey Booboo and the Kardashians make money. They are 'popular' and get millions if not straight up billions in free shit in the form of advertising. Their companies are horribly mismanaged messes comprised of a small core team that does the actual fucking work on a game, and about 90% of the rest of the company just tries to make things difficult in order to justify their existence. That's why games like The Order 1886 can be remade into Wolfenstein the New Colossus. A marketing 'professional' talking about how his charts say kids want less gameplay and more flashy graphics to talk about on the playground. And it doesn't matter how many times that idiot is wrong on a subject, he'll point to a successful game that shares what he said in common with it and say that its proof that he's right and keep getting a paycheck.
The industry is 'thriving' right now by slurping up a bunch of inattentive upper class parents letting their children pour as much money as they can into these micro-transactions. They're basically abusing gambling addicts and hopefully the practice will be outlawed.
565688 No.13782806
>>13782195
>tfw no more autistic MSpaint sanics
>they will all make it in Sonic Forces from now on
We have witnessed end of an era
3eab72 No.13782887
>What the fuck happened this year?
Most of the Californian/International unions that run the industry collectively lost their shit and doubled down because everyone collectively blasted ass in their face.
9aa8bc No.13782916
>>13781200
I'm morbidly curious. Tell me more stories of your normalfag friends.
285aa3 No.13782918
>>13780814
>a bunch of rehashes you could play anytime
>denuvo games
>indie trash
>Killer Instinct
>VR shit
9aa8bc No.13782933
>>13780814
This isn't the best list I've ever seen, but most of these games are at least decent and probably engaging if you like the genre. Good work, anon.
f2c6b8 No.13783007
The most traumatizing thing for me this year was the fact that not only are companies facing huge public backlash and numerous high profile flops, but they're also suffering constant stuido merges, burning IPs out, and crashing franchises before the next console generation can come out.
…And they're still turning a profit, because not only are fucking normalfags preordering games in cattle-like droves, but the big names of vidya are making more revenue off of microtransactions than they are sales now; console gaming has been reduced to worse than mobile gaming, and it's leeching everywhere else through platforms like Steam.
These things aren't just a matter of public opinion and voting with your wallet anymore, there's a captive audience of braindead normalfags that will continue paying tribute to these paragons of cancer and jewery forever, and there's nothing we can do about it unless you follow FBI-kun's advice and start bombing studios.
b1a539 No.13783031
Why did this year go by so fast?
9c7507 No.13783036
>>13782918
>>a bunch of rehashes you could play anytime
A what?
>>denuvo games
Just pirate it.
>>indie trash
You play only AAA games?
>>Killer Instinct
The people in the fightan thread told me it was good.
>>VR shit
VR is the future, whether you like it or not. Buy the Goyculus Rift today.
adac4a No.13783041
>>13779631
>What the fuck happened this year?
the outcome of corporations big agenda. facebook's & friends endgame, the diversity train. What did you thought how this would end? Best PR stunt since marx? Oh boy, something got twisted on your end. All the lost money went into the wrong oven. Next time play the gamergate game correct for that extra shekel.
407ccf No.13783051
>>13782195
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STORM, THE HEDGEGOD, HE'LL SNEAK UP AND HIT YOU LIKE A HURRICANE
JAM, THE HAWK, BECAUSE SHE'LL BE JAMMIN' TO LINKIN PARK WHILE GIVING YOU WOUNDS THAT WILL NOT HEAL
THE MYSTERIOUS WOLF, WHY DOESN'T HE HAVE A NAME? BECAUSE HE'S FUCKING MYSTERIOUS YOU DUMB SHIT
NORLIGHT, THE WAIFU THAT WILL KICK YOUR WAIFU'S ASS
and Doug. Doug is just a wolf.
f6d319 No.13783117
>>13780814
From the vidya on that list I've played
>Battle Brothers
A solid game with decent replayability, but unfortunately no mod support. Decent artstyle plus good weapon, enemy, and terrain variety.
>Speebot
/agdg/ anon's game. It's a pretty good platformer with quite a bit of content, and a stage editor too if I remember correctly.
>Endless Space 2
It's a step up from the previous, but it still seems unfinished. Has some neat races and mechanics for a space 4x. Mods might fix it, but it will take a while. DLC might fix it for a price, of course. Maybe get it when it's on sale for cheap.
>Divinity OS II
The best game on the list that I've played. If you haven't played the previous, give it a pirate to see if you like it first. The combat system is unique, but takes some getting used to. It encourages players to prepare and modify the battlefield before combat; make a barricade out of barrels and boxes to funnel enemies, cover the area with oil and set it alight during combat, etc.
>Expeditions Viking
This game is utter trash and shouldn't be on the list. The pacing is terrible. You'll have your combat skills maxed before you even leave on your longboat for the British Isles. There's little point going through the mediocre story and okay-ish combat when your characters won't grow at all once they sail from Scandinavia.
Also, consider saving that image as a jpeg. 9.81 MB for an image, smh.
cf7724 No.13783144
>>13783031
i dunno about you but i was drunk the whole time
0f324e No.13783158
>>13783144
If it's you alcoholic anon, go to the fucking doctor already.
362026 No.13783172
>>13780814
Top Tier
>Nioh
>GR2
>Nier
>Speebot
>Sonic Mania
>Hat in Time
>Cuphead
>Yakuza 0
>Yakuza Kiwami
Good Tier
>Vanquish
>Bayoneta
>Dork Souls 3
haven't played tier
>the rest
it wasn't a bad year tbh
267cd7 No.13783186
>>13783172
Hollow Knight, Snake Pass and Darkwood are also at the very least solid. Give them a shot if you can.
a21038 No.13783201
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
2018 will signal the removal of all niggers, faggots, gingers, cucks, and jews from vidya.
2018 will be the year the holocaust actually happens.
dcc24c No.13783216
>>13781200
I must hear more, anon. My curiosity is piqued.
9c7507 No.13783232
>>13783117
>This game is utter trash and shouldn't be on the list. The pacing is terrible. You'll have your combat skills maxed before you even leave on your longboat for the British Isles. There's little point going through the mediocre story and okay-ish combat when your characters won't grow at all once they sail from Scandinavia.
I somehow mixed up that one with Butterlord.
>Also, consider saving that image as a jpeg
Is there a difference between a .jpg and a .jpeg?
33e949 No.13783241
>>13780814
Need to add Opus Magnum to the new releases
362026 No.13783243
>>13783186
I plan on playing Hollow Knight. Maybe Snake Pass, Styx, Grimoire if I pirate them. Mario Odyssey looks good but I don't think I'll get a switch. Not sure about the others. Did not like Divinity Orginal Sin 1 despite baking the kikestarter. Non JRPG's in CY+++ is always a mistake. I've never found a "Horror" game (other then classic Resident Evil style Survival Horror) I liked so I'll likely pass on Darkwood.
9aa8bc No.13783267
>>13783036
>The people in the fightan thread told me it was good
The graphics are a mixed bag, but the mechanics are solid if you can stand them. I can't, but I'm sure people who enjoy it are happy.
ccb7c9 No.13783269
>>13779631
Diversity hires happened 5 years ago
f6d319 No.13783276
>>13783232
>Is there a difference between a .jpg and a .jpeg?
No. Sorry for confusing you, I just looked at the 10mb filesize and assumed it was a png. You can get it a lot smaller than that without sacrificing quality. Here's a 1mb and 2mb version for comparison.
9c7507 No.13783286
>>13783241
That one's still in Early Access.
>>13783276
I guess I better start respecting people's bandwidths then.
c1b926 No.13783345
>>13783286
There is nothing wrong with posting 9mb images in any format in my opinion, but I will admit 9mb for a jpeg is at least a little unusual. I would expect Photoshop set to export and highest quality would still stop out at around 3-4mb, what did you use to make it?
c1b926 No.13783349
9c7507 No.13783361
33e949 No.13783398
>>13783286
You want me to remind you when it gets out in like three weeks? His last three games only stayed in EA for about two months apiece, it's not like normal EA.
9aa8bc No.13783412
>>13783361
>.net
Fuck, you didn't even use Paint on your own computer? Christ, download GIMP or something.
9c7507 No.13783439
>>13783398
I'll be sure to look out for it on my own.
007954 No.13783457
>>13783276
They made another Box Boy game?
I drew porn of BB ages ago but I can't find it
492ad6 No.13783537
>>13783412
gimp is for gays
9ed64f No.13783662
>>13783232
>I mixed Expeditions Vikings with Bannerlord
How the fuck do you even do such a thing?
9ed64f No.13783665
>>13783172
What a shitty ranking
47e201 No.13783692
>2017
>still no zombie survival driving game based on spintires
>you will never get stuck in the mud as you hear the distant howling of zombies
>you will never desperately balance speed and safety to stay ahead of the horde, just barely
>you will never deliver scrap iron and food supplies between survivor cities as part of a caravan
285aa3 No.13783798
>>13783036
>A what?
Games aren't special just because they got rereleased. You could have played them before 2017.
>Just pirate it.
Doesn't erase the fact that DRM is still rampant and devs use it.
>You play only AAA games?
>U ONLY PLAY COD AAAA SHIT meme
Nice argument.
>The people in the fightan thread told me it was good.
Bullshit, plus the devs who've taken over it have made it even worse.
>VR is the future, whether you like it or not.
Just like 3D movies, and just VR was in the 90s
Kill yourself.
>>13783267
>but the mechanics are solid
They aren't. Western fighters are just trash.
cb3fbe No.13783865
>citizen kane of gaming
I miss Spongebob OC and threads
9c7507 No.13783879
>>13783798
>Games aren't special just because they got rereleased. You could have played them before 2017.
They're special enough to be worth a mention. Maybe this new rerelease adds new content and makes the game suck less.
>Doesn't erase the fact that DRM is still rampant and devs use it.
That sucks, but you can pirate the game and still have a good time.
>>U ONLY PLAY COD AAAA SHIT meme
>Nice argument.
When your only response was '>indie games' I wasn't sure what to make of it, or what kind of an argument it was supposed to be. I'm not entirely sure what it was supposed to say about indie games, that you just don't like them in general? Given that line of reasoning, the only games remaining you'd be bound to like would be AA and AAA games, but since good AA games are a dime a dozen nowadays it'd be more likely to conclude from your original statement that you only play AAA games. If I'm somehow also mistaken with this deduction, then I'd politely request that next time you'd articulate your arguments beyond two words so I'm not left grasping the air in trying to comprehend them.
>Bullshit, plus the devs who've taken over it have made it even worse.
In what way?
>Just like 3D movies, and just VR was in the 90s
There's a lot of quality VR content being made nowadays, things have been progressing since the platform launches. A curious development to note would be that more innovative first-person shooters being released nowadays are being developed on VR. Most regular FPS' nowadays tend to be more on the stale side if you ask me.
>They aren't. Western fighters are just trash.
What about them?
f14997 No.13783885
>>13781044
They are doing that shit for consoles now too? Wew, gotta sell those extra storages drives I guess.
9aa8bc No.13783911
>>13783798
>You could have played them before 2017
And now you have more options to play them. You couldn't have played Bayonetta or Vanquish at high resolutions before their PC ports. Vanquish is particularly notable because you'd have had to play it with a controller prior to 2017. Wild Guns Reloaded introduced two new playable characters and new levels. King of Fighters XIV was PS4-only on release.
>DRM is rampant
You act like pirating a game with DRM is the same as buying it, and that piracy will encourage DRM. Did you forget about the Rime dev removing Denuvo after the mass piracy of her game?
>nice argument
I still don't know what you meant by >indie games. You telling other people they have shit arguments is rich.
>KI devs made it worse
The consensus I've heard is that the initial product was solid, and only after Iron Galaxy was handed the reins did it worsen. I can't speak to the project's history because I'm completely uninterested in KI but your oversimplification is dishonest.
>>13783879
>good AA games are a dime a dozen nowadays
I think you mean to say "few and far between." AA games have been dead for years, with few exceptions.
>quality VR content
What games, exactly? The only VR games I've seen are overly gimmicky and/or awful.
14d5b4 No.13783915
>>13779650
>Citizen Kane of Gaming
It came out 17 years ago.
9c7507 No.13783956
>>13783911
Robo Recall is a good enough game on its own with or without the VR, and Serious Sam VR does a good enough of a job of adapting SS gameplay to VR. It also just lets you move around like normal instead of having to teleport around. I'm also partly curious what they're going to do for nuDoom VR, because apparently they're ditching the whole Glory Kill shit in favor of just teleporting inside enemies instead of performing takedowns.
14d5b4 No.13783994
>>13781000
A lot of /v/irgins fall into the classic trap of being afraid to say that they like something for fear that they'll be accused of having shit taste.
Which is both funny and sad.
This year has been decent, I wouldn't call it "great."
5816d9 No.13783998
>>13781200
I used to think the whole "representation" thing was a manufactured issue. Why would you want to play as a character you relate to? Wouldn't you rather be a robot? Turns out normalfags are actually that fucking shallow.
2bde8d No.13784024
>>13779631
>Function vs Function
Someone please explain that meme to me, I don't get it.
3a19fd No.13784040
>every company keeps pushing the boundaries of how much they can milk and how necessary it is to pay extra
>in a few years time games will cost in the triple digits as a base for their correct edition, then a lot of mandatory loot boxes and microtransactions
>this is on top of yearly rehashing the game and stupidly expensive consoles
>because of this people are going to buy less games and only the indie scene or the biggest AAA IP's are going to survive in the West
>eventually the same game with the same money drain is going to get boring and even they'll crash, because the market they've created is too risky to encourage change
16-17 will be known as the beginning of the end. In a few years we'll have another gaming crash.
267cd7 No.13784041
>>13783994
It's certainly better than 2015 and 2016
It's been a decade since 2007, maybe this year marks the beginning of something good?
1ede50 No.13784142
>>13783276
>inb4 the marketing cucks show up
…and I'm too late.
4dd467 No.13784154
>>13784041
2018 also looks good.
9ed64f No.13784155
>>13784024
All characters are just functions, theres no need for Wolverine and Cyclops when all characters are just movesets with a skin
14d5b4 No.13784160
>>13784154
2018 will have Ace Combat 7, which is the only game I'm looking forward to.
I'm kind of looking forward MonHun World, but I've never played one, and /mhg/ are already mad about that game, so I don't know.
9ed64f No.13784175
>>13784160
>which is the only game I'm looking forward to.
You have shit taste
14d5b4 No.13784182
>>13784175
What else is coming out in 2018?
f14997 No.13784186
>>13784160
It will probably be sort of fine if its your first MH game but the casualization would probably leave a bitter taste in your mouth if you've played the others
267cd7 No.13784196
>>13784182
There's Butterlord and hopefully DMC5 or DD2 announcement
14d5b4 No.13784208
>>13784196
>DD2
I would be excited for that.
2bde8d No.13784214
>>13784196
>Butterlord
>2018
Nice joke lad
285aa3 No.13784219
>>13783911
>The consensus I've heard is that the initial product was solid, and only after Iron Galaxy was handed the reins did it worsen.
Thanks for proving my point dumbfuck. Yeah, it may have been playable (certainly not fucking good) when it came out four fucking years ago, but it's trash now in 20-fucking-17.
>>13783879
>They're special enough to be worth a mention
No they aren't, you're a casual who thinks re-releases warrant a mention as BEST GAYMES OF 2017
>Maybe this new rerelease adds new content and makes the game suck less.
See above
>I'm not entirely sure what it was supposed to say about indie games, that you just don't like them in general? Given that line of reasoning, the only games remaining you'd be bound to like would be AA and AAA games, but since good AA games are a dime a dozen nowadays it'd be more likely to conclude from your original statement that you only play AAA games.
Thanks for making it obvious you're a hipster faggot who thinks not liking indie shit made by hacks who can't program or design worth a shit means you're a COD playing dudebrah.
>If I'm somehow also mistaken with this deduction, then I'd politely request that next time you'd articulate your arguments beyond two words so I'm not left grasping the air in trying to comprehend them.
And if I'm mistaken, you should lurk the fuck more and understand why some of us hate indie trash. Also try not to be so verbose in expressing simple ideas you pretentious nigger.
>There's a lot of quality VR content being made nowadays
Nope. Come back when VR is more immediate and responsive than a button press.
>What about them?
That western fighting games are garbage and KI doesn't change that assertion.
9ed64f No.13784231
a638ea No.13784244
>>13781200
>thinks playing as a female means you want to be a girl and are a faggot at the same time
I dunno why this line is still making me laugh, I think I know the look they give you.
a638ea No.13784263
>>13782624
>Road Redemption really that good?
It's a throwaway title but it's kind of fun to build shit up while listening to podcasts or whatever.
7c939f No.13784280
>>13780814
>list of good games in current year
<it's all fucking garbage
Never make a recommendation list again, your taste is shit.
>>13780989
>serious sam
>good
Pick one.
>the same gameplay as nudoom but with more enemies a.k.a. walk through empty area for 20 seconds before the next arena with a million enemies appears
>good
Shit taste.
>>13781000
>anime
>good
Pick one.
>>13782306
>caring about sanic
>ever
>>13782606
Stop posting any time.
>>13783692
>zombiefag
KYS.
>>13783798
>western X is trash because I hate whites
KYS.
933a4d No.13784288
>>13784280
Ever think it is you who has the shit taste anon? Ever think that you're just a no fun piece of shit? Fellate a shotgun, my man.
564249 No.13784298
>>13784214
Their gameplay trailers make the game look pretty done if it isn't out by the end of next year there is something seriously wrong with them.
7c939f No.13784300
>>13784288
Fuck you, gaslighting nigger.
>>13784296
KYS yourself. Get BTFO'd the fuck out.
3a19fd No.13784305
>>13784300
>get blown the fuck out the fuck out
14a891 No.13784313
>>13784300
>>13784280
Oh no teh animaymays
54863c No.13784320
>>13784280
>>13784300
Go back to your place, refugee.
2bde8d No.13784324
>>13784298
>there is something seriously wrong with them
Well they are turkish.
>>13784305
>>13784320
>>13784313
>crashing the (You)conomy by handing undeserving users (You)s
Please don't.
a5ee73 No.13784331
>>13779650
Who gives a shit about Roger Ebert's opinion on a medium besides movies?
He's a great movie critic to be revered but in terms of video games? His opinion only means more than a gaming journalist, and that's it.
He never really plays video games and doesn't even like them, but at least he has understanding of what makes a work in another medium good.
7c939f No.13784333
>>13784320
>whaaaaa he disagree with me so he cuckchan
Wrong.
3a19fd No.13784337
>>13784324
Thanks for the warning, please have one yourself
76db81 No.13784351
Better than the last 2 years.
9c7507 No.13784354
>>13784219
>Thanks for proving my point dumbfuck. Yeah, it may have been playable (certainly not fucking good) when it came out four fucking years ago, but it's trash now in 20-fucking-17.
How did it get worse?
>No they aren't, you're a casual who thinks re-releases warrant a mention as BEST GAYMES OF 2017
The list isn't a Best Of list, but a Worthwhile Stuff Released This Year list. It says so right there at the top. It's less about establishing 9/10s and more about establishing recommendations. I don't think anyone is going to treat most of those games as serious GOTY candidates.
>Thanks for making it obvious you're a hipster faggot who thinks not liking indie shit made by hacks who can't program or design worth a shit means you're a COD playing dudebrah.
I have never mentioned Call of Duty once. The idea that AAA gaming equates to Call of Duty and idiots is in this case implied by only you. AAA games could also imply Breath of the Wild, Nier: Automata, Nioh, or Super Mario Odyssey, just to name some.
>And if I'm mistaken, you should lurk the fuck more and understand why some of us hate indie trash.
That's kind of a very general thing to hate, which seems rather pointless to me given that most of the more interesting releases this year came from indie developers. I wouldn't know why you would not give a game a chance for not being indie. Would that mean you also hate Doom?
But really, if you hate all indie games on principle then that only leaves AAA games to play, but somehow that's the wrong answer? You don't need to make yourself as obtuse as possible and lash out at any inquiries inquiring into the vague. Just explain yourself, man.
>Also try not to be so verbose in expressing simple ideas you pretentious nigger.
I don't use more words than necessary.
>Nope. Come back when VR is more immediate and responsive than a button press.
But it is, haven't you tried it out for yourself? Not sure what you mean by being more responsive than a button press, it already was from the start.
>That western fighting games are garbage and KI doesn't change that assertion.
What makes western fighting games garbage? I'm not into fightan all that much.
72f933 No.13784362
>>13779631
The industry is starting to crash. Consoles are zombified at this point, relying on a small but fanatical market to prop it up. Triple AAA as a whole is dying hence why every game since 2012 has been getting consistently less and less and less sales. Only thing still kinda selling is kiketuber bait on Steam, even then most of those sales are from the faggiest of normalfags looking to get into a match with their favorite screaming twats then immediately dropping it afterwards. Vidya is a dead industry, many people have already abandoned it in favor of other hobbies or just playing old games they already own. Only thing I really see growing now is the modding community, which is of course due to many people playing old games they've already played a million times due to a lack of real new games. The (((investors))) and (((megacorporations))) however are trying to keep the industry alive….by of course accelerating the trend of rapidly declining quality and forced political pandering. Vidya is dead, it's a rotting corpse that a bunch of rabbis are trying to resuscitate by repeatedly injecting it with industrial grade lye
d86029 No.13784410
>>13779631
We need another one of these.
Also wasn't the big excuse that Andromeda was shit because they were working on the SUPER EXTREME KOMPLETE KOMBAT KOLETION GAME OF THE CENTURY called Anthem?
f14997 No.13784429
>>13784410
First time im hearing that one
14d5b4 No.13784433
>>13784410
I didn't hear that excuse. it wouldn't make sense anyway, since a different team in Montreal ws responsible for Andromeda.
I hope Anthem fails. Taking an RPG developer and forcing them to make a Destiny knockoff is awful, even by EA's standards.
5009ab No.13784647
People are disillusioned and things are turning around. anti-consumerism sentiment is really taking root with people and it's become popular to dislike large corps.
I think the future lies in the kind of "AA" games that aren't low-budget indieshit, but aren't multimillion dollar projects either. Things like cuphead, nioh, hollow knight, furi, automata, and so on. It's a good middle ground between the design-by-committee inherent with big budgets and the limited scope an indie project implies. People have the freedom to be creative without having to cut huge portions of the game for budgetary reasons.
91cb57 No.13784708
>>13780920
>bought bought bought
this is the issue with normalfags though, they already spend the money, the publishers don't care if you hate the product if you've already bought it. Buyers remorse, developer names, publisher names, locked content, reused assets, bad networks; none of these things exist in the mind of a normalfag so even if he hates the new COD, he's already forgotten about it and will just buy another heavily advertised AAA title next year from the same people who burned him already
1cea83 No.13784710
>>13784647
It's not an anti-consumerism sentiment though, it's a resurgence of classical consumerism, because those large corporations have been screwing over their customer base instead of giving them what they want
14d5b4 No.13784714
>>13784647
Automata was absolutely a multi-million dollar project. There's still a huge spectrum when you're talking about budgets in the millions, though. A good game can be made by a decently-sized, talented team, on a budget of a few million dollars.
But a lot of AAA games have development budgets of dozens of millions of dollars, and on top of that they have equally colossal marketing budgets–which is more and more pointless since cheap Internet marketing and word of mouth are more effective at actually getting a good reputation, since gamers tend to be more online and aware of the industry.
14b971 No.13784897
>>13784647
>budgets
Why only freeware could have ever been pure.
You can bet any game worried about budget is going to cut corners and censor itself.
There is no soul to this stuff, higher quality graphics and sound maybe, but no soul.
There just can't be true creative freedom where there is an incentive to profit.
At least with video games for some reason. This problem isn't so big with other things.
cc73c1 No.13785008
>>13779852
>Thinking Kanna is cute
>Posting character from a series that had a fart joke
5fd3d6 No.13785021
>>13779650
>I predict that the Citizen Kane of Gaming will be released in the next two years. The thing that would've changed Roger Ebert's mind about video games not being art.
You dumb niggers don't know citizen kane was a failure when it was first released and also hated by critics?
It took decades for that movie to get any respect
Afaik the citizen kane of vidya was released years ago but nobody gave a fuck and only future generations will.
Any bets? I say Shenmue
5fd3d6 No.13785043
>>13779663
I actually thought the industry would finally die but then normalfags go and eat shit like overwatch with a spoon
Fortunately nobody is playing the clones made by bigger cucks
>>13780814
Echo is shit
Ruiner was a let down
82b2ed No.13785049
>>13785008
BBBBBRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
9ed64f No.13785051
>>13785043
>Ruiner was a letdown
Not really for me personally, that extremely relative.
I expected a 20 dollar budget game with nice asthetics an solid gameplay and thats what I got.
It didn't really surprise me, but it was a solid experience with some charm.
5fd3d6 No.13785058
>>13785051
IDK, I expected more
Still not a bad game, just not great
cc73c1 No.13785076
>>13785049
>>13785008
>BBBBBRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
That meme a fart joke?
91cb57 No.13785141
>>13785008
anyone who likes dragon maid must be fucking inept.
7c939f No.13785202
>>13784360
>>>/suicide/
>>13784647
So, shitty games. Great, just what I wanted, my hobby to be dominated by shitty games, just lower budget shitty games.
db7f9a No.13785249
>>13785202
What's the last good game to be released, anon?
ccc21e No.13785285
>>13779631
>Was No Man's Sky the straw that broke the camel's back?
Don't look for a single event. It was a confluence of many events.
3daa75 No.13785322
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>>13779650
>until the big companies start to learn from their mistakes
This is the year that Activisions secret super-jew weapon was revealed, proof that if they are not yet fiddling with matchmaking to pressure you into buying lottery-boxes, they are planning it. Lots of other controversies about games being fucked over in order to sell lottoboxes too. Tons of consumer resentment is starting to build up. Devs are coming out to speak off the record about how these companies are lying to people, crying about how expensive games are to produce - meanwhile raking hundreds of millions in pure profit. Yet despite the backlash, the major publishers have pretty much unanimously and openly said "Fuck you, get used to it."
Learned their lessons? Naw. These fucks know exactly what they're doing, they know where it ends. Just like the housing market collapse, and they are going to ride the bubble all the way till it bursts and then scatter like roaches while everyone is left standing in a pile of shit and rubble pointing blame at companies which no longer exist and CEOs who long since took a hefty bonus for themselves and retired early.
007954 No.13785487
e53547 No.13785564
>>13781200
>>13783998
If you really believe that anon, why didn't you buy mafia 3 where you got to play as a nigger?
cc73c1 No.13785691
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>>13785487
You do know sailor Venus being a tomboy that thinks farts are funny is canon right? FYI it canon that sailor moon herself farted while eating too much sweet potatoes.
a58625 No.13785739
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>>13785008
>kanna can breathe fire with her ass
Fucking her in the ass might be risky then.
beb635 No.13786150
>>13781602
You mean Mario Oddesy
017ca0 No.13786204
>>13782182
Not that I don't agree with the idea, and the thought of pretentious non-games made by SJWs and talentless fucks finally getting the boot makes me happy, but art is entertainment. And video games, simply because of the pure creative process that goes into (most of) them are art by definition.
d8717b No.13786882
>>13781006
assuming people say its all gone on far enough, and sanity returns for a moment. will they have retained their lessons learned for the inevitable next attempts at playing the populace for fools?
are they too busy to learn?
a511fb No.13786884
>>13785739
>anal
What are you, some kind of faggot?
ee930a No.13786908
>>13786884
>>13785739
Anal is a pretty shitty fetish to be honest.
c77ddd No.13786913
>>13785008
>When dragons have Cloaca's so you have no idea if that's a Queef or a Fart, or some new unfound combination of both
5e1acc No.13786914
>>13785008
>hating on a series with a lovingly crafted Souls parody
This is why I stopped buying into singular issues driving a wedge between people. If they're important, sure, but this? It's a molehill.
5816d9 No.13786951
>>13785564
Because I didn't play the first two Mafia games, and I have no interest. Call me when you can play as Swamp Thing.
a472c3 No.13787206
>>13783692
>no nuclear war or WW3 survival game based on spintires
000000 No.13787655
0bf36a No.13788400
>>13782916>>13783216
Games we play are determined by weapon selection. The prospective game must include his current weapon obsession. This is whatever gun, sword class or obscure African skull-crushing stick he has recently discovered, bought or plans to buy. Visually representing himself with the weapon in question via the game and enacting glorious justified violence serves as an extension of whatever imaginings are at play in his mind, and as validation of his outfitted self as something akin to the iconic characters we enjoy in popular culture. Think Ash in Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness. Though he's rarely seen or cares for Ash. John Wick is a favorite though.
This is an inconvenience for me since we can't play a lot of games because of it. Unreal Tournament, for example, which forces you pickup weapons as you play is not allowed. "Why didn't they make it so I can pick my weapon. I should be able to play with whatever weapon I want." This leads to some pretty disheartening opinions. Things like Wildlands and The Division are great but R6 Siege is poorly designed. And since pleasure and joy are derived from simply using a specific weapon, the blandest, most shallow gameplay is engaging and "tight" while unique and rewarding gameplay experiences are sneered at and considered unworthy.
Rarely a game will feature both customization/loadout selection and feature worthwhile gameplay but they are rare. Plus I couldn't play as a qt tacticool operator or battle maiden without his passive aggressive remarks and his actual palpable discomfort making me feel weird anyway. This also means no titty monsters in DOA or challenging yourself by learning advanced characters in Virtua Fighter like Aoi. Even games like Resident Evil: Revelations 2 where there's an actual gameplay related reason to play as a girl (Characters have energy and get tired, I only have Barry, Claire and Jill unlocked and Barry is tired) is met with the suggestion that we just switch games.
As bad as this may sound their is also, underneath and permeating every interaction, his unspoken belief or idea that nothing negative should be said between friends to their face. I think this safe space may be due to his own inability to calmly accept criticism and its ability to remind him that he is not God's perfect, greatest creation. Which I think is his assumption nearly 99% of the time. This creates a lot of elephants in the the room and eggshells to navigate.
Some anecdotes
>be playing Resident Evil 4
>taking turns with normalfag and normalfag cousin
>normalfag has claimed TMP
>normalfag cousin has claimed shotgun
>relegated to Bolt Action
>if use anything other than "my gun" a literal hush falls over the room
>be creating rasslers in rassling game
>cannot have one single identical move, action or taunt between us
>have to join separate guilds in Morrowind
>can't play as each other's mains in fighting games or games featuring heroes even for fun
>actually had to "trade" Jin for Kazuya once
The unspoken and maybe even unconsidered goal of all of this is to express his individuality. Each character, weapon or game is an accessory reflecting his uniqueness. As a tough, alpha male playstation gamer these things must also be equally tough. So no girls, cute or colorful games because those are for kids and girls/fags. Only serious "gritty" adult games are allowed. The type of shit EA/Ubisoft/Sony make killing on yearly and is muddying video games entirely is exactly the kind of game this serious adult playstation gamer approves of, and it's just a stand in for the actual act of being in the leading role of an action movie/battle scenario as the center of attention and free to amass a (justified) bodycount. No care, at all, is given to gameplay or design, just "my dude" and "my weapon". I like shooting and hacking too but I like fun and compelling game design.
tl;dr out of my fucking vidya normalfags
0bf36a No.13788415
2c7623 No.13788438
>>13788400 (checked)
>This is whatever gun, sword class or obscure African skull-crushing stick he has recently discovered, bought or plans to buy.
>his unspoken belief or idea that nothing negative should be said between friends to their face.
Are you sure this is a normalfag and not some autistic "mastering the brade" neckbeard?
0bf36a No.13788534
>>13788438
Maybe autistic. I don't know. Looks that way in a list, but its treated as just a cute obsession/fascination by literally everybody because Chads can do no wrong. Isn't a neckbeard though. Is fit and married with kids. Does MMA training which is gay and inferior to boxing IMO.
000000 No.13788653
>>13788400
>if use anything other than "my gun" a literal hush falls over the room
This is beyond autism. It might be some weird cultural norm that doesn't translate well to vidya. What country are you from, if you don't mind me asking?
74d57c No.13788665
>>13781200
>>13788400
I thought I had a good normalfag tolerance but holy shit. How have you not just told the dude to kill himself?
I couldnt deal with this amount of shit for even a single day.
2c7623 No.13788747
>>13788534
>Is fit and married with kids.
<these fucktards reproduce
359245 No.13788822
Was a pretty big year for schadenfreude. Neofag died, then resetera started up and neo/v/ went and started posting there under the guise of "infiltrating" so we lost a lot of idiots. All those triple A games bombing. MvCI being a shitshow. Also I finally started playing Everybody's Golf, the Yakuza series, and Elona. Great year.
9aa8bc No.13791588
>>13788400
>>13788534
This is fascinating. Your description makes him sound vaguely autistic, but then you say he's married with kids and apparently pretty good-looking. I thought I'd known some truly retarded people in my time (one of whom drank a 2L bottle of pop almost every day in high school and developed hypertension because of it), but this is beyond what I've seen.
The worst part is I know exactly the kind of NPC you're talking about. They act exactly like niggers, in that the game (and all their entertainment) is completely secondary behind its value to chest-pound and worship themselves. You have my severe commiserations if you deal with this guy regularly.
>>13788822
>neo/v/ went and started posting there under the guise of "infiltrating" so we lost a lot of idiots
Shit, really? I didn't know they'd kept that up. Post quality did seem to increase since the cyclical thread fell off the catalogue.
468fe4 No.13791750
>>13781602
It's not really failure because its general consensus determines it's a mediocre game, where it was easy to tell it's not going to be good or great through the linear zone design, Classic Sonic in general, permanent old flaws and issues that Sonic Team haven't learned yet and the OC creator creating a really mixed reception. It also doesn't help that we're talking about a franchise where it's used to receive more bad games in one instance than good games since years.
Sonic 06 is a real example of a Sonic game being truthfully failure that you're looking for: hype from the announcement until the release with almost no people to even wonder if it's going to be bad, then tons of disappointment from everywhere, so much that the game itself become a meme at that time, and began the famous Sonic Cycle's dictation.
fe0338 No.13791823
>>13781144
I played this game recently and I'm just too damn politically minded to not think about some of the things in this game.
First, there's a hidden book making a joke along the lines of "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism"
Second, (and actual spoilers from here on out for those who care) The ghost/demon/satan guy from the forest asks you to go hit the big bad, and criticizes the big bad as being too authoritarian. I can't help but see this as intentionally analogous to "punch nazis".
Thirdly, the big bad is doing the exact damn thing that would happen if antifa would come into power. She's driven by a draconian sense of opportunistic justice, exactly like antifa is. Either this is cognitive dissonance, I'm reading to far into it, or the dev just plain has a drastically different worldview and hasn't payed that much attention to antifa. Out of the good of my heart, I'll bet on the third option, but the possibility of it still bothers me.
Sage for offtopic
9aa8bc No.13791841
>>13791823
> I can't help but see this as intentionally analogous to "punch nazis".
You're insane.
fe0338 No.13791866
>>13791841
probably yeah, but I've seen people talking about the whole "punch nazis" thing, and the way the demon guy talked about it was basically in the same format.
>I normally don't condone violence, but nazis are pretty bad
>I normally don't condone that kind of thing, but this whole this is pretty authoritarian.
Can't fault me for seeing a similarity between those two statements.
644a3f No.13791894
>>13791866
politics is everywhere, in everything now. i haven't played that game but no one's really at fault for seeing muh narrative everywhere now. shit fucking sucks. can't even make casual jokes just for the sake of jokes anymore without offending either "side" and potentially getting a speech.
e53c5e No.13791910
>>13791894
No politics in cuphead. That might be why I find it enjoyable even if it's a bit easy once you figure out the pattern of the bosses.
b40bf7 No.13791949
>>13779631
>and even Battlefront 2's revival
I have some bad news OP… EA fucked it up just a week before release. Other than that though yeah I agree, it's been a pretty good, if weird, year for games. Good shit like Cuphead, Sonic Mania, NieR Automata, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, and Wolfenstein 2: Punch a /pol/ack Edition among others. Some new ideas, some old ideas; some cool ideas, some weird ideas.
fe0338 No.13791952
>>13791894
It's a shame. Most of the game is actually really fun (mostly the mafia world and the forest world). It's an absolute joy to control. I wish my political awareness wouldn't hinder what little joy I have left.
>>13791910
I had to drop cuphead because for whatever reason it would only recognize three inputs at a time and no more. I would hold down the shoot button, move in a direction, press and hold the jump button for that high jump, and then I can't dash for shit. Or if I shoot diagonally, I couldn't jump, and I couldn't use the movement lock function at all. Fun game but something was just wrong.
644a3f No.13791956
>>13791910
It's just a standard platformer with old cartoon graphics. I'll pass.
>>13791952
It's not your political awareness most times, it's the tism. Not every waking second needs to be a culture war. Pick your battles
91cb57 No.13791959
>>13791949
>I have some bad news OP… EA fucked it up just a week before release.
EA currently is making waves for having "the most downvoted post in reddit history", my roommate who doesn't even play video game was asking me about this. You would think that if even plebbit is having a negative reaction to this it would lead to positive change, but i would also bank most of those people throwing le downboats at it already pre ordered the game
9aa8bc No.13791961
>>13791949
>EA fucked it up just a week before release
No, the real Battlefront 2.
>good shit
>horizon: social justice dawn
>Wolfenstein 2
You mean they were good because we laughed at them, right?
e53c5e No.13791970
>>13791949
>Horizon Zero Dawn, Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, and Wolfenstein 2: Punch a /pol/ack Edition
>good
>>13791952
That's a damn shame. It's one of the better games that came out this year.
>>13791952
>defending propaganda in video games
d4a1cd No.13791971
Normalfags play indie stream games now, not AAA trash
644a3f No.13791984
>>13791970
>defending propaganda in video games
if you can say you've never exchanged money due primarily, or as a catalyst, to anything based on your fee fees by all means
d4a1cd No.13791990
>>13779785
Divinity OS, all those stream gamed like Ark, Battlechasers, Dungeons 3
d4a1cd No.13792005
>>13780934
What do you do when your parents are homeless faggot?
b40bf7 No.13792012
>>13791959
sitting at -500,000 points and counting. Who knows how many of those are real and not paid bots but hey it's still hilarious. Apparently a lot of people are canceling pre-orders because of this, so we might actually see a proper response. Don't get your hopes up though.
>>13791961
>horizon: social justice dawn
>Wolfenstein 2
Did you actually play it or did you read/watch a bunch of sensationalized shit cherrypicking the fuck out of that game. Sure, not everyone enjoys open world games but as far as modern ones go it's pretty fun. Wolfenstein 2 also solidly lands in the fun category. It's no masterpiece, but I enjoyed it. Mowing down Nazis is fun and the Hitler scene had me in stitches.
>>13791970
>implying none of those games are good, let alone fun
b40bf7 No.13792021
>>13792012
>I forgot to censor one of my funs
Boy golly gee I hope nobody get's triggered by that.
e53c5e No.13792044
>>13792021
Fun is subjective but those are far from GOOD games. They are not shit but don't go trying to sell gold when you only have tin.
91cb57 No.13792050
>>13792012
>Don't get your hopes up though.
didn't have them up to start, I was unaware of this news until my roommate asked me about it. Last time i even played let alone purchased an EA game was dead space 2 and look what they did to that series.
d4a1cd No.13792079
>>13781550
I actually liked the new Prey. It is the closest we will ever get to a ss3.
b40bf7 No.13792110
>>13792044
Oh come on dude, you're just coming off as a jaded faggot. Like I understand having gripes about a game like Splatoon 2, which is essentially a Switch port of the 1st game with a single new game mode and enhanced character customization, but the others are legitimately good games.
>>13792050
Yeah same here. I'll never forgive EA for what they did to Dead Space. I suppose we should have seen it coming with the 2nd game's multiplayer but that co-op shit was the dumbest thing ever. Leave it to EA to abruptly ruin a series that had 2 consecutive great entries.
e53c5e No.13792116
>>13792110
>wolfenstien 2
>good
I can give a pass on the others but holy fuck, I thought I gave mediocre games a pass.
91cb57 No.13792120
>>13792110
Some information came out awhile ago that Dead Space was considered way too expensive to make for what EA considered good profit, conveniently ignoring how much they dumped into marketing especially on 2
b40bf7 No.13792215
>>13792116
As I said, it's no masterpiece, but it's definitely a good game. Multiple paths through most levels, fun alt-history scenario, getting to mow down Nazis and KKK fags by the hundreds, general fast pace, and a utterly fantastic depiction of Hitler all lead me to wonder how people don't like this game. Especially with the multiple paths and fast pace, you'd think FPS fags on here would be all over this.
>>13792120
Maybe EA thought that the success of Dead Space 2 was purely because of how much they marketed it everywhere rather than the fact that it was a great game, so they figured that one-upping it was their only option which would become prohibitively expensive. This reasoning is such horseshit I can't help but believe it's exactly how it happened.
e53c5e No.13792239
>>13792215
>general fast pace, and a utterly fantastic depiction of Hitler all lead me to wonder how people don't like this game. Especially with the multiple paths and fast pace, you'd think FPS fags on here would be all over this.
Because Titanfall 2 exists for the normalfags to get their fast shooter fix. Wolfenstien is a liberal's wet dream and it's gameplay reflects that mindset. There is a difference between enjoying a mediocre game and enjoying garbage.
425cf0 No.13792256
>>13780814
Why the fuck is Ever Oasis in the bottom list? It's a new series, announced E3 last year but released this year.
c9bbd1 No.13792280
>>13782182
Yes. A video game is just a product that's used to elicit entertainment. It's not art, it's not a platform for social justice, it's just a product.
b40bf7 No.13792313
>>13792239
What, mowing down Nazis and the KKK is suddenly just a liberal wet dream? Christ is this seriously how polarized we've gotten? You don't have to be liberal to enjoy a game about mowing down a bunch of comically evil Nazis and racists. This is just as political as the original Wolfenstein. How does the gameplay reflect this? By throwing tons of enemies at you? By making stealth a preferable alternative when you're hugely outnumbered? I'm sorry man I don't get your point.
>>13792280
Not trying to defend the fags who keep trying to hold all of vidya to the same level as actual art, but it should be noted that video games not being art has been used as a justification for its censorship recently.
e53c5e No.13792332
>>13792313
My point is the game felt lazy and the gameplay reflected it. If you want to play a rooty tooty point and shooty then there are much better alternatives. Your taste in vidya is shit.
fe0338 No.13792345
>>13792313
There was also the #punch_nazis piece of advertisement that they used.
9aa8bc No.13792374
>>13792215
>Multiple paths through most levels
And you'll get to replay them quickly since the game has, what, four hours of gameplay?
>fun alt-history scenario, getting to mow down Nazis and KKK fags by the hundreds
Set dressing. You can dress up uninteresting enemies in nazi paint and KKK robes all you want, but they're still uninteresting enemies.
>general fast pace
No. Faster than most trash released nowadays, but still pretty slow and without movement mechanics. You get ONE upgrade partway through (why not all three?) and the charge ability is the most useful and least interesting.
>Especially with the multiple paths and fast pace, you'd think FPS fags on here would be all over this.
FPSfags have hundreds of high-quality DOOM wads and Quake maps to play. Why bother with overly politicized garbage? Why bother with a game that chooses to be vulgar and unfunny at every opportunity despite placing so much emphasis on its story and characters?
644a3f No.13792391
>>13792345
So? Nazis were as equally retarded and myopic as SJWs. Nazi defense is a psyop from the co-opted nu-/pol/ because they want to reclaim national socialism which is logistically impossible.
Bring on the asshurt nu-/pol/ mspaint strawman maymay that addresses #Op_Barbarossa.
b40bf7 No.13792392
>>13792345
And seeing people triggered by the simple phrase "Punch Nazis" was absolutely hilarious. Your point?
>>13792332
>>13792374
I'm sorry I can't help you guy's shit tastes
e53c5e No.13792401
>>13792392
>praises garbage games like wolfenstien
>criticizes other people's tastes
9aa8bc No.13792421
>>13792392
>shit tastes
If I want a story-driven FPS I can replay Half-Life. If I want a "fast-paced" FPS I can play Painkiller. If I want an FPS about shooting Nazis loosely based in history I can play the old CoD games. The New Colossus doesn't do anything better than games that have come before it.
644a3f No.13792423
I hate to say it, but when will CD Projekt Red fall? Fuck, they will won't they
fdfdce No.13792475
>>13792313
>Christ is this seriously how polarized we've gotten?
The normalfag conservatives are offended by the game because Antifa exists, and the memes associated with them. From the looks of it you team up with some kind of antifa-looking liberal crime squad to save America.
You're on 8chan though, so of course someone is going to say wanting to kill Nazis is exclusive to liberals. That should not come as a surprise. These are the comically evil Nazis and racists themselves complaining.
8f3a14 No.13792476
>>13779650
>The thing that would've changed Roger Ebert's mind about video games not being art.
Cosmology of Kyoto did that.
689f3a No.13792493
>>13780814
>all these garbage games
No really all these games are either inferior to prior titles or bogged down in cancer to make them enjoyable. Most of them though are just mediocre or forgettable. Worthwhile my ass. I'de say the only titles on that list worth checking out are Snake Pass and Speebot if you want to support a fellow Anon. The rest are either to obscure to make a comment on, remakes/ports or cancer.
689f3a No.13792551
>>13785021
>You dumb niggers don't know citizen kane was a failure when it was first released and also hated by critics?
How does that have any impact on what he stated? Also fuck off with the le spacing retard.
fe0338 No.13792678
>>13792391
>>13792392
I'm not /pol/ or /leftypol/, just really annoyed by antifa. Seeing as how antifa is more or less the manifestation of the "punch nazis" slogan, the ad was pretty much tying into the whole thing. I actually believe the vast majority of people really should just be put down, but the idiocy in the polarization of contemporary politics is especially annoying. Seems to me everybody's just missing the point. Retarded proponents of retarded ideologies beating the hell out of each other on the streets. I'm sick of it, and will continue to be.
Fuck nazis
Fuck commies
Fuck you
nothing personnel, kid
b40bf7 No.13792708
>>13792421
As I said, it's not amazing or anything, just good. It doesn't need to do anything "better" than anyone else to qualify as a good game.
>>13792475
Fair enough.
>>13792678
I don't necessarily agree with you, but I can respect that viewpoint.
8f3a14 No.13792751
>>13792708
I don't respect anything you say or your shit taste in Ace Combat countries.
b40bf7 No.13792775
>>13792751
The feeling is mutual
OSEAN PIG-DOG
b40bf7 No.13792779
>>13792773
Ah, a fellow man of culture I see
f44736 No.13792867
>>13786908
>tfw INS cuts off your access to the internet so people can make puns with employing Illegals.
b9a22d No.13792894
>>13786884
Well if he's trying to fuck a loli, there isn't a point in not being a degenerate
cc73c1 No.13793122
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>>13786914
>>13786913
>>13785739
>>kanna can breathe fire with her ass
>Fucking her in the ass might be risky then
Please don’t lewd the dragon Loli
31d3ee No.13793232
>>13780814
>rock of ages 2 happened
HOW DID I MISS THIS
57962b No.13793302
>>13782182
Entertainment does not equal art but there is an art to making games.
0a8ba6 No.13795527
>>13793302
Craftsmanship and design are not art. Music would be the closest, but it's still done in intent of entertainment rather than as a form of art.
14a891 No.13795606
>>13782182
>Citizen Kane of Gaming
This had me thinking. If somebody says something is the "Citizen Kane of Gaming" they refer to it being good like Citizen Kane but no good in the way Citizen Kane was good.
What made CK what it is is its relation to the medium of Cinema. Its a Cinematographic master piece, it plays off its strengths and what is unique to Cinema. If someone want to make a "Citizen Kane of Gaming" they would just a good movie. The real equivalent is of a game played off the strengths of video games, the core gameplay, the mechanics of the games and their relation to the other assets.
Next time a normalfag says something is the Citizen Kane of X, ask him what he really means by that.