/v/ - Video Games

Ark has some temple ruins on the Center and Ragnarok maps, although they aren't very big

>>14360316

Haha, this is so cute.

Medieval: Total War

The first game, not the sequel. The reason why the first game, is because it has a much better atmosphere that really nails the middle ages. It also has better music. It also has nice historical battles featuring huge armies. You can remove or defend Kebab, remove or defend the Mongolians, or reenact history in the 100 Years War. There's this one level that's brutally hard. You play as the French, in a castle, lead by Joan of Arc. The English are besieging you from all sides and you have to take out their trebuchets before they collapse your walls.

If you're used to the 3D R:TW engine, it'll take some time getting used to the more primitive sprite/voxel-based Shogun engine, but once you get past that hurdle the game is a lot of fun and easy to immerse into.

Thief Gold might also interest you. Plenty of (fantasy) medieval levels, sneaking your way past guards in corridors and hallways, into palaces, king's chambers, dungeons, castles and all sorts of spooky claustropbic shit.

>>14360335

>cuckdom cum

>ruined castles

>forgotten temples

>any dungeon at all

Shill your Cinematic™ mountain blade clone somewhere else danny boy. Like, reddit and such.

>>14360316

You know. Aside from all sjw and jew crap that happened past 2006, gaming industry never changed.

Try Darklands OP.

>>14361223

eat cum faggot

>>14361237

This game was like dark souls, only even more boring and badly optimized.

>>14359173

Don't listen to butthurt trolls.

Kingdom Come is exactly the kind of game you're looking for if you want to have a comfy time exploring plains and woods to find occasional loot, npcs, bandit camps or just pick up some herbs.

Not many expansive ruins, but it's fun to try to follow crudely drawn treasure maps or just look for hidden caves and camps. The game reminds me the most of the Gothic series in how alive the world feels and how you just go and live the life you want.

We need better castle builders.

>>14361269

>op wants ruins and abandoned castles

>Not many expansive ruins

>shills game anyway

too obvious Daniel

>>14361277

You should prepare yourself for KCD shilling to become a normal occurrence just like stalker or new vegas fanatism.

>>14361288

eurojank fanaticism has been the norm for years, just call it out and watch them squirm. based slavs, poles, and croats can do no wrong.

>>14361277

OP also wants medieval. No game does medieval better than KCD, and I doubt any game ever will. That game is a fucking masterpiece and a legitimate work of art, and I'm saying that fully aware of how much of a buggy mess it is.

>>14361296

>No game does medieval better than KCD

Maybe OP just wants a game with medieval themed game like Oblivion and such, not some realistic shitflinging dark ages shit.

>That game is a fucking masterpiece and a legitimate work of art

This is getting way too obvious.

>>14361305

>why do you think differently from me, that's not allowed!

silly lad, I like these games, but even I can tell when fanaticism is at play. These games are more than just "generally accepted." They're worshiped. They can do no wrong, and pointing out their flaws is heresy. I don't even know what r/4chan is, but if having someone around like me is enough to bother your booty I must stay.

>>14361310

shame the ps2 version doesn't emulate well, IIRC it does some really cool high res down sampling and produces some really nice visuals as a result.

>>14361296

I genuinely don't know if this is a false flag, which could very well be possible considering the bizzare amount of butthurt and sperg triggering this game seems to gather, or if you really think it's a masterpiece. It's very good game with some flaws but it's far from being a masterpiece.

>>14361305

Except both 4chan and reddit absolutely fellate this game.

>>14361333

Anon, don't tell lies and then get trips. We all know neither cuckchan nor plebit have any taste. Proofs, faggot.

>>14361333

>this game

We are discussing multiple games here you illiterate. I didn't even mention KCD at all.

>>14361338

KCD is a new boogeyman of a group concerned about /v/'s tastes. We all know /v/ has shit taste anyway.

>>14361337

Look it up yourself.

https://boards.fireden.net/v/search/text/kingdom%20come/type/op/

>>14361333

I'm gonna google "reset era kingdom come deliverance" and see how much they love it

Back:

>https://www.resetera.com/threads/kingdom-come-deliverance-ot-bohemian-rhapsody.22692/

They love it so much its general has over 3000 posts. Safe to say this is also a resetera game and only neofag rapefugees and resetera shills like it.

>>14361343

It would be better if the /v/ "gatekeepers" and other sperg assortments typed out a post explaining what they think is wrong with the games they want to keep from being discussed instead of shitposting everything to death thus lowering the quality of the board. It would also be nice if the people "defending" said games didn't take every criticism levied against those games personally.

>>14361362

>/v/ "gatekeepers"

Fuck, i only heard this word today about DW9 on gamefaqs. What is this reddit-tier term? /v/ is not one person.

>>14361362

They do, is just happens in an off-board chat room like disagreement or IRC.

>>14361333

Of course. Why wouldn't they? It's going to appeal to every European regardless of how they think things should be because it's instinctual. Heritage and what not.

Also, although they would rather pull their teeth out than admit it, they're all extremely happy to not see niggers, faggots, trannies, dykes, etc. etc.

>>14360316

>it WAS Todd all along

Holy moly.

>>14361384

I like the most out of this picture how Redguard is not even an rpg.

>>14361390

Damn, you're right. Todd got me again.

>>14361362

What I dislike about KCD? The emphasis on graphics over performance despite being made by a bunch of poor slavs. The lack of roleplaying, eg playing as a different class with different strengths and weaknesses. The lack of dungeon crawling, making it feel as boring as M&B. Lack of magic, making the customization feel limited and not satisfying. Too much focus on story, taking away the freedom of expressing yourself. Overall, I think it just doesn't really work as a video game. Grinding in the open world felt repetitive due to the lack of things that make other RPG games fun. Even Worthabuy fellates it and hypes it as the only good RPG to ever came in the last 15 years. It's pretty baffling for me.

>>14361407

>Too much focus on story, taking away the freedom of expressing yourself.

Your only legit complain that i agree with you on, but so did gothic, stalker, elex and witcher.

>>14361415

Stalker sucked without the sandbox mods like CoC.

And to put it simply, trying to "immerse" you into a predefined story is the most lowbrow thing a video game could do. Player's motivation of doing something should be purely based on gameplay reasons, such as destroying Oblivion gates to retrieve powerful enchantments, not because you have to. The reason is, because you're playing a video game, not reading a book. I don't like games that take their story far too rigidly, such as KCD.

>>14361438

As I see it the story in Kingdom Cum or at least how the story is launched is mostly a pretext to introduce character progression, which seems to be the main attraction of the game. Henry says he wants to do something of his life, he's show inept at swordfighting, he gets wrecked by random bandits and then the game leaves you free to go as you please to get better at all the skills and activies the game has. During all this there's the story in the background about getting revenge which also shows the character progressing and getting more responsibilities. I think it's two ways of presenting the story in a vidya and depending on how it's done I find that both ways can be enjoyable.

>>14361451

Enjoyability is a subjective matter. What I'm discussing here is the inherent purpose of video game. Gameplay must be the highlight of everything, and story must pertain to the role playing gameplay itself.

>>14361473

The inherent purpose of a videogame is that subjective enjoyability. It doesn't matter how that enjoyability is achieved as long as it's there.

>>14361508

But so are blockbuster movies. Video games exist as a game in a video format, not as a movie in a game format. Video games are fully interactive moving pictures first and foremost, not books or movies.

>I'm feeling really goddamn nostalgic for something medieval.

I didn't know you were that old OP.

>>14361548

I miss going to the crusades with my childhood friends.

>>14361508

These highly abstracted discussions are pretty meaningless.

>>14361473

>>14361544

I don't get this outlook or why it's so prevalent on /v/.

Games are both an evolution of, you know, actual games, as well as of storytelling mediums. Wanting a video game to protiize gameplay and not worry about extra bullshit is completely valid, but so is wanting a video game that builds on movies as a strorytelling medium that also just adds interactive elements.

Both are completely valid as long as the end result is entertaining and isn't overpriced. Asura's Wrath is, IMO, a good example of the latter: It's basically just an interactive anime, but it also wouldn't work just as an anime since it uses QTE's and some gameplay stuff to do ideas that wouldn't work purely in normal anime.

>>14361626

>storytelling mediums

There is nothing that indicates that a game should be a storytelling medium. The video in video games measly works as a visual response device, if it was a storytelling medium it would be more deservedly called cinematic game or interactive novel. And with the video being used as a visual response, a story in a video game is ideally fully emergent or customizeable, and therefore adheres fully to it's purpose as a part of the video presentation. Cinematic video games, or those with a rigid storytelling, strictly going by the technical definition of video game itself, are not good video games.

>>14361664

>if it was a storytelling medium it would be more deservedly called cinematic game or interactive novel.

Except if somebody wanted to make a cinematic game or interactiive novel or interactive movie, their options for how to make it would, be, get this, video game engines.

>Cinematic video games, or those with a rigid storytelling, strictly going by the technical definition of video game itself, are not good video games.

Because you have an arbitrarily limited definition of what a video game is just because you are getting autistically caught up on the name "video game"

>>14361548

I think the proper word there would be "melancholic".

>>14361473

Gameplay isn't really everything, not everything has to be built around it. Sometimes the story, the atmosphere, the feeling is enough to keep you playing.

>>14361997

>their options for how to make it would, be, get this, video game engines

How is this relevant? Game maker used to be a animation studio software and adobe flash can be used to develop video games.

>Because you have an arbitrarily limited definition of what a video game is just because you are getting autistically caught up on the name "video game"

Cinematic games are also video games, but a good video game would have an emphasis on the game aspect, because the definition of the name itself is game in video format. How many times should I explain this? Like, for example, food. Food can be useful in more than one way, from being recycled to be used as fertilizer to being thrown as a weapon. But is it arbitrary if I tell you that the main purpose of food is to be eaten?

For SNES too.

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=eBWGP2do5sM

Souls games.

King's Fields.

Gothic.

Tes 3: morrowind.

Kingdom comem

>>14359173

>I want something medieval

>I want to explore the ancient ruins of a medieval periods

You want a paradoxical game?

>>14360332

Medieval Total War really is unstable on modern systems though. At least it was for me, things like crashing at the end of a turn/battle. It's really annoying because it was my favorite Total War Game. But again, I haven't played shogun 1

>>14363173

He wants a get set in medieval times where he explores ruins from antiquity.

>>14361333

>liking video games

>>14361305

>Why do you come to this board if you dislike the generally accepted games so much?

>Retarded fanboys think a general consensus of a game can be formed in less than a week

Kingdom Cucks have the self-awareness of fucking goldfish

It's a generic WRPG nigger get off your high-horse

>>14360332

Medieval: Total War 2 isnt that bad though and if you play it with the "Stainless Steel" mod it's goat and best Total War gaem ever.

>>14361277

Shitstorm aside, that's pretty much exactly what OP is asking for.

>>14364319

don't say that too loud, the cumcucks will start outing themselves and defending vavra

>>14360316

Those posts are almost exactly as old as I am.

>>14364516

>that's pretty much exactly what OP is asking for

nah shill

How about The Talos Principle? World V is a medieval setting

>>14366041

>cozy Medieval game to get lost in

That's exactly what Kingdom Come is, and exactly what he's asking about. He could play a poacher, hunting illegal game all day in the woods, or be an herbalist gathering pretty flowers and making potions and medicines which actually takes some doing, the alchemy is by hand in game.

Quit being a fag.

>>14361357

>Other people like this, we're not allowed to

>We're not allowed to like a high quality game if people I don't like it as well

Go jump off a cliff

>>14361407

Your complaint is that it's an RPG that isn't made by Bethesda.

Why hate Kingdom Come?

There is also Darklands.

>>14366542

it's popular and we're contrarian

>>14366592

>Its unplayable mess that only top tier PCs

It's not awfully optomizxed, it's just buggy as shit. I have it running, 27 tabs of firefox, and a fucking Early Access game that IS badly optomized all running at the same time on a computer multiple years old with hardware that people have specifically warned about not running the game well. Fuck off with this stupid "everything is a advertising conspiracy meme."

>All arguments about KCD are:

>It's a fun game

But you'll ignore anyone who says that, won't you?

>>14366592

the fact that the grammar is bad in this post and the fact that this looks straight-up copy-pasted makes me laugh

back to /pol/ pajeet, you'll get more rupees there.

>>14366636

Animals exists so you can actually get your bow skill up, because it's impossible to hit anything at the beginning. If they ran when missed arrows went near them the bow would be functionally useless. Moreover, it's still fun regardless to stomp through the woods and hunt animals, despite you bitching about how it's not realistic, since simply getting through woods is fun in of itself because the atmosphere is great.

>>14366658

Now that's what i call damage control.

The game has a problem -> No its not actually problem

>bitching about how it's not realistic

In a game that was created by a sperg who was sperging out that everything should be realistic.

I am convinced you're dev or at least bought the game for real money.

>>14366686

The game eschews realism when it would make for shitty game play otherwise. There's a ton wrong with the game, but complaining that they added a minigame and claiming it's "artificial longevity" is absolutely fucking retarded. Yo uclearly didn't like the game because it was never going to appeal to you, otherwise you would have complained about then myriad of issues that are impossible to avoid if you play it for any length of time, like it taking up to ten seconds to load up any conversation with a random NPC, or convincing people not to attack you, only to have their hostile AI override everything and attack you again.

>>14366636

>>14366686

Yeah, yeah you IP hopping faggot so far all you've done is wait for the Anons actually playing the game to voice their opinions then you immediately exaggerate everything and ignore explaining how this came about. The two guys complaining the most about the animation was fucking grinding the herbalist skill and picking up as many fucking things as they can in as short a time as possible. That 4 second animation is going to get old fast when you do that, you call the alchemy artificial longevity but it's obviously just pure immersion autism but so far nobody has really complained about it besides the fact that it's just following recipes aka "it's not Morrowind spellcrafting complexity" and you can't adjust potency or accidentally kill yourself with poison ala basic chemistry.

>>14366720

>People try and make people think the game is terrible because leveling up Herbalism is a timesink and boring

>Herbalism is completely unnecessary for the game but can be fun to do if you're immersed in it

>Their complaint is literally "optionally picking flowers is boring"

>>14366580

I'm convinced that's it. The contrarian vidya hipsters don't like it because it did pretty well commercially, surprising literally everyone. Combine that with all the butthurt SJWs, in game journalism or elsewhere, pissed that the game is doing well and there we are. And the tried and true tactic of calling everyone who doesn't shit nonstop on everything a shill, like that tiny studio could afford shills. Or that they'd shill here instead of reddit where it's less time consuming and would reach a larger audience.

>>14366617

>it's just buggy as shit

So it'd be best to wait for now?

>>14366542

>have written an essay of what's so bad about kingdom come

>shills still ask "why u hate it"

>>14367809

its become very apparent the game has a dedicated marketing force behind it.

>>14367809

>So assblasted about a game you complain about it in every thread

Christ for a game you don't like you sure talk about it all the fucking time.

>>14367910

I complain about many games in many threads. I'm sorry if my criticism interrupts your circlejerking rite.

>>14360335

Weird that I can make people online mad just by having fun while playing a video game.

>>14366617

>>14368103

Again, this game is entirely CPU bottlenecked. You can play this game on like a 960. Why have you niggers not figured this out yet? "B-but muh graphics card is so cool!" Fucking use Jewgle at least.

>>14361241

There's no way to optimize away the horrendous pile of shit the Graphics Synthesizer was.

>>14368114

exactly,

and whos fault is it for fucks sake?

>>14368372

The devs, but I'm sick of people posting "I have a 1080 and this game runs poorly. What's the issue?!?!?!"

There are things you can do to mitigate it once you realize where the problem is. Hint, it's the goddamn object physics.

>>14367263

I would say so. I've had a great experience so far, but there's a number of people reporting accidentally locking their game progress by screwing up quests and stuff. The game in it's release state would be worth 40 dollars, but not the full 60.