/v/ - Video Games

>>14366821

Playing red alert through OpenRA.

It's going well.

>>14366845

>Get gift from friend

>not really interested in the game

>don't want to hurt their feelings if I don't play it

>load it up

>leave it running while I go out for errands

>rack up play time

Hey anon, how you like that game?

"It's pretty good, thanks man!"

>>14366872

i could never do that,i have a fault of being brutally honest.

beat Alan Wake, American Nightmare, both Transformer Cybertron games, DaS III, and working on DaS II. It isn't going too bad but I really need to beat a few of these more current games before I jump back into the retro stuff which is what I'm really looking forward to.

I still need to get to

>Dread Out

>Sleeping Dogs

>SH3-4

>World in Conflict

>Might and Magic Clash of Heroes

>Deus Ex(though I adored the first half so much I'm afraid to pick it back up after hearing about the lackluster second half)

>CoD4

>Grim Dawn

>MGR

>Hollow Knight

and that's it for the other stuff currently installed on my computer I gotta knockout. Ever since I stopped paying attention to new vidya I have to many things to play.

>have a big backlog that you need to get done

>feel terrible i spent all this money on vidya yet didnt touch em which is why i will rarely buu anymore, mostly pirate

>finally decide to start playin

>boot up a game

>play a few hours or less

>get bored

>play the same games i usually play

>repeat

True suffering

>>14366821

Trying to finish Nioh Abyss Mode, goddamn floor bosses and upgrading gear is costly and time consuming, then it's off to several RPGs that was just released, well fuck gonna be another busy year.

>>14366821

Protip: They're all shit. Nostalgia glasses will fall apart for old games, you will not get through more than a couple hours at most for most of them and you will come back here to shit on games. They are all shit without exceptions.

>>14367154

I see you didn't have any luck in the sea today, sailor.

>>14367154

I know this is bait but genuinely most old games will fall apart on second visit,very few retain an amazing quality,a fair share if you settle for "okay"

I was playing Cook, Serve, Delicious 2 (my guilty pleasure) and Deathtrap Dungeon before Kingdom Cum released, now I pretty much only play it every night but I plan on going back to those after I'm done with KC.

I'm surprised that Deathtrap Dungeon is actually a pretty long game for the genre, also if it was a bit more known I suppose all the journos would have memed it to be "PC Dark Souls excksdee". My biggest complaints are the typical tank controls and shitty camera symptomatic of early 3D games. Also, it runs at 17 (SEVENTEEN) frames per second.

Yesterday I started Nier Automata, and It's pretty good. Other games in my backlog:

>the witcher 3

>the last guardian

>metro redux ( I beat last ligth when it came out, but never played 2033)

>fallout 4 goy ed.

>RE7

>yakuza kiwami

>underfaggle

>DBFZ

Which should I play next?

I'm going through those essential PC classics that I somehow missed back then: Deus Ex, Thief, Ultima Underworld, System Shock, VtM Bloodlines, and so on. I'm loving how they throw you in a place and, "Don't know where to go? Fuck you, figure it out." Unlike most modern games.

>>14367214

low quality bait, friendo.

>>14367219

Rigth now I'm at my workplace, but I promise you a timestamped pic of my backlog

Oh metro 2033 is fantastic too,but i've only played the original and not the remake,so i can't comment on if it's shitty or not,assuming they didn't muck it up,add that to the list.

>>14367154

>>14367167

Funny you say that. I am currently going through Secret of Mana on the SNES and after playing the "remake" the SNES version is an even bigger masterpiece than I remembered. And /v/ told me that shitty remasters are useless, heh.

>>14367227

Holy fuck that remake,i only heard a snippet of the music but it was so bad,and they have the balls to charge 40 dollars for it?

>>14367214

Fuck these cynical bastards, imma take you for face value anon. After Nier i'd go with some thing different to cleanse your palette. Go for DBZF or Yukuza so you can play minigames.

>>14366877

lackluster second half of the original deus ex?

>>14366821

playing trails in the sky first chapter finally and working through various indie titles I amassed on steam years ago via early humble bundles.

It's pretty amazing that I'd buy the earliest ones for one or two games and I end up with probably 60 some games I haven't touched.

>>14367249

Nigger how was i being cynical

>>14366821

>How's your back logs coming along, gents?

It's completely fucked up and I don't know from what even begin.

I pirated way too much games at once.

>>14367227

I played the original a week before I pirated the remake. The original is flawed, but fun and charming.

The remake is a buggier abortion of the original, and anyone defending it and screeching about "nostalgia critics" is a shill.

>>14367272

take a couple of the more promising ones and slap them on to your desktop and hide others away

Playing through Frozen Synapse and Sonic 3 & Knuckles in Sonic Jam.

Got a lot of backlogged games but nowadays I just completely remove AAA trash rather than forcing myself through it.

>>14366821

make a list, acquire RNG, set it 1-however long your list is, roll.

>>14366872

If it has achievements they can easily tell you haven't played it.

>>14367541

Having been there that isn't the case at all.

The real reason is usually social contact starvation or just not being in the mood of playing the game. The solution to that is to pace yourself and play multiple games instead of going all in on a single one. The only recent games that have been able to keep my attention completely were Witcher 3 and Dragon Quest Builders

Playing Neptunia Action Unleashed. Less than 7 hours in and I already unlocked the final boss after doing all the side quests before it. It is a relief it is so short though.

I'm hesitant to start on games in my backlog that are a part of a series of >2 games though. It sucks but it's such a big commitment.

>>14367819

ah you're one of those retards that just buys literally everything in a console's library even if it's a total piece of shit.

how tasteless. i wouldnt take advice on what to play from you ever since you obviously have no idea what youre doing and no actual interest in the hobby.

>>14367837

I left Yakuza kiwami to a friend and already preordered Y6.

Also, sorry for ID hopping, it's what happens when you abuse wifi

>>14367819

>Terrible taste in PS3 and PS4 games

>Nice selection of PSX games

What happened to you anon, you used to be cool.

>>14367884

probably became a normalfag. whenever someone starts dating or making friends, their hobbies suffer tremendously. i know a guy who used to be cool as fuck and played castlevania obsessively and as soon as he started dating now all he does is play IGN's top 10. it's vomit inducing. you shouldnt have to make yourself braindead and eat shit just to hang out with someone. i'd never adjust my interests for anyone.

>>14367884

there's plenty of great ps3 and ps4 games there, hipster-chan.

>>14367936

Not bad for PAL shit

>>14367914

>Vengeance of the Blood Angels on PSX

Nice, I've not played that version or original 3DO version but from what I gather there's no major platform differences.

>>14367936

Is that Densha De Go 3? You need a special controller for that.

>>14367969

You CAN use the giant train controller, but it can be played normal. If I recall correctly, up and down for speed, sqare and circle to brake and, I think triangle for the horn (there are sometimes working crews in the tracks, and you gain points if you warn them)

>>14367979

Oh yeah, I'm also finishing a Dark Crusade campaign as Tau.

I've left Total WaWa right at the beginning of a Dwarf campaign.

Will pick it up again at some point.

>>14367979

>Playing Wargame to get my strategy

Strictly speaking it's a purely tactical-level game, for all that the distinction matters.

>>14367995

Have you played original DoW and Winter Assault? They have actual storylined campaigns compared to Dark Crusade and Soulstorm with their campaign maps.

>>14367962

>>14367914

Looks like the PSX version might actually have been the worst of the three.

>>14368098

>>14367962

I can tell from experience that the PSX version looks like ass compared to PC (as if)

>>14367819

>€

That explains quite a bit.

>>14368030

I know, I'm simply stating "strategy" purely as a mean to define it in a genre.

Clausewitz pls go

>Have you played DoW and Winter Assault campaigns

I finished the campaign of the OG DoW in 2006, never finished Winter Assault, mostly because I don't really enjoy playing the IG faction and the map art design looks too samey due to it's snow theme.

They're good tutorials for an RTS newfag but not much else, I feel like the non storyline campaigns in DC and SS were much better handled, especially the personality they brought onto the Capital/Fortress battles for each faction.

The turn based aspect just needed more depth and variety and those campaigns would be nearly perfect.

The cutscenes in the storyline driven campaign also got pretty tiring.

HELP ME DECIDE

I've got a stupidly long backlog and I wanna decide on a vidya NOW

Persona 1

Trails in the Sky

Neptunia Re;Birth 2

SMT (probably strange journey or nocturne)

FF6

Some other shit

Strongly leaning towards trails, or one of the first 3

Also possibly Fire Emblem 4

>>14369055

Jesus anon, it's like ypu don't know what flea markets/cheap ebay is

>>14369083

rolling

1-8 for each individual game

9 reroll

0 you play nothing ever again, faggot

>>14369083

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together find the IPS English patch and apply it…you fuck

>>14369112

Bro, look again at the PS4 games, all except tumblrtale are european.

But I do have a modded PS2, to play wapanese imports.

>>14367266

some anons were saying once you hit London or Paris(can't remember where) the game kinda starts becoming mediocre.

I'm a decent ways into Obduction and have a few candidates for what I'll play next. It's mostly titles I didn't get around to last year: Darkwood, Sonic Mania, Ruiner, and Okami HD.

>>14369272

Probably Hong Kong? From Paris onwards it's a very linear sequence of missions with some obvious cut content.

>>14369302

Are they still fun?

>>14369312

Yeah, I think that’s it. I’m sure it’ll still be good but I’ve just loved how open the game feels so it’ll suck to lose that. It’s amazing how no other game has managed to capture that feeling again.

>Want to get some retro stuff off your backlog

>Have fun for the first few levels/worlds and then get to THAT part that makes you drop the game like a brick

God, I'm such a fucking casual. I dropped Donkey Kong Country at the last world because I got so sick of offscreen bullshit and gimmick levels, I thought the world before it would finally get me to K.Rool. I just don't have the patience to trial and error through this anymore.

>>14369325

You mean the industrial world? Its really not that hard, just be patient.

>>14369344

No, the mine. I thought "Fuck you Poison Pond (Took me over a half hour to beat when you include grinding lives), fuck you Minecart Madness, fuck you Trick Track Trek, I win"….then it gave me another world and it was a fucking conveyer level where you had to collect fuel tanks. Nah, not doing that nonsense, especially after having to claw and bite my way through everything past World 3 (Don't even get me started on the ice world).

>>14366821

Actually, good. I'm pretty near the end of Alan Wake, recently finished up GTA:V and Captain Toad. all of my games are backlog at this point, I don't own a PS4, Xbone, or Switch

>>14366845

I know that feel, anon.

>>14366877

>beat Alan Wake, American Nightmare

Mein niggah.pcp

>Sleeping Dogs

>Deus Ex

Super double muh backlog niggah.

>>14367154

LOL

>>14367167

If you played it as a kid, nostalgia can carry a lot of old games a good way. If you can enjoy a game within the context it was released, that can be another decent "apology" method to tolerate otherwise intolerable mechanics. But honestly kusoge and shovel-ware are nothing new to the video game industry and just because it is old doesn't mean it was good.

>>14367214

Make sure to play Fallout 4 on the hardest difficulty with all the "realism" turned on. Much better game that way, imho.

>>14367227

I wanted to like the remake, I really did. I'm overdue to go back to the SNES version again.

>>14369083

FF6.

>>14369412

It's weird, I really enjoyed Super Mario World but it was way too easy (The only levels that were challenging for me were the last few and the final castle, but that's to be expected), so I try DKC and it's way too hard at the midpoint/end.

>>14369377

DKC1 had a bunch of unforgiving levels. Poison Pond never gave me much issue but there's a snow level with a cannon section on the first page that always fucked me as a kid. There's only two or three levels after the fuel platform level you're almost there

DKC2 is much more forgiving with Dixies hair and might I even say, fun to explore the levels. There's only one or two nasty levels too.

>>14369426

Go try and beat world 9 and the Letter world in Lost Levels/Mario 2 Japan. You will then realize how masochistic old Japanese developers really were.

>>14369450

Oh believe me, I know SMB2. At least that game advertised that it was made to fuck you over though.

I'm now doing Rayman Legends on my Nintendo Switch. Thankfully the majority of my backlog is emulated games I got uninterested in, or that randomized open world garbage. Still need to finish:

>Witcher 3

>Shadow Warrior 2013 (Got for free)

>Brutal Legend (Got for free)

>Super Mario 3D World (Emulated)

>Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze (Emulated)

>Bayonetta 1 & 2 (Yep. Still emulated)

>>14369325

Lol, I beat that game when I was 7 or 8 without breaking a sweat. You should be ashamed. That being said, the last world was a huge letdown in terms of atmosphere and level design. The conveyor levels are also not hard at all, they are just boring as fuck and require you to be patient and aware at the same time. Nothing happens for much of it but you have to be ready all the time. It's so uneventful yet demanding. You should give DKC2 a chance, it's not as difficult despite the darker and more omnipresent atmosphere.

>>14369558

not that anon but I feel like in some ways I've gotten worse at video games since I was a kid, like in terms of puzzle-solving

I also feel like my appreciation for the small details in vidya has gone down unfortunately

technically or skill-wise I think I'm better, though that might just be my adult mind being more prepared to handle more complicated shit, like managing bases and hotkeys in an RTS and whatnot.

Still though, I wish there was a way for me to be able to compare how my twitch mechanics were as a kid compared to now, it'd be interesting to see

>>14369558

There's a lot of games that I beat as a kid that I don't know how I did it, I just remember doing it. Guess I've gotten too used to modern stuff. I have no idea how I hit World 8 in SMB3 (I don't remember beating it tho).

>>14369572

>>14369583

I think it has to do with how much you allow yourself to get absorbed by the game. It's much easier as a kid to just get sucked into a fictional world while as an adult you have stronger defenses and generally more shit on your mind that keeps you from relaxing and drifting off into fantasy worlds and actually caring about them.

For every game I play on my backlog I add 2-3 new games that I discovered while playing it. But I don't mind having a pages-long backlog because I have plenty of games to choose from depending on my mood (right now my dungeon crawler kick is fading and strategy is my new craving).

A long backlog is a good problem to have.

>>14369633

Or you just have OCD

>>14369676

I miss those really well drawn comics popping up from time to time. I hope the drawfag didn't die and just left imageboards behind or something.

>>14366821

FF7/12 (got them both on PC now)

FO:NV (not really into Fallout but everyone won't stop sperging about it)

Vagrant Story (really liked FFT)

Wild Arms 2nd Ignition (slow to start and didn't catch my interest at first)

Deus Ex Mankind Divided (I didn't hate Human Revolution as much as I expected to)

FTL (need to get back into)

>>14368175

Good to know.

>>14369030

>I know, I'm simply stating "strategy" purely as a mean to define it in a genre.

But it's RTT anon.

>I finished the campaign of the OG DoW in 2006, never finished Winter Assault, mostly because I don't really enjoy playing the IG faction and the map art design looks too samey due to it's snow theme.

Yeh the Guard campaign was a matter of throwing men into the meat grinder, lore accurate but not fun.

>>14367174

>I just finished setting up PCem

So how is it different from virtualbox/vmware? And did you follow a certain guide for setup?

>>14370035

I’d like to play it but it crashes every 10 minutes.

>>14370875

>station to station

good album

>>14370693

I don't have any crashes with it yet but I only played the beginning 40 minutes or so before deciding to save it for later, partially because I wanted to experience the original NIER before it

>>14370693

Uh, yeah. Did that. Crashes every 10 minutes. How’s a single player game online, anyway?

At least i've got streams to watch instead of actually playing my backlog

My backlog, help me with it:

- FighterZ

- Treasure of the Rudras (started, stopped due shit story and exploitable combat system)

- Terranigma

- Secrets of Evermore

- Secret of Mana / Seiken Densetsu 2

- Sword of Mana ( or Seiken Densetsu )

- 7th Saga, Mystik Arc (started, dropped due to heavy need of guides to forward story)

- Paper Mario Pro Mode

- kingdom hearts 2 FM Critical mode run/ level 1 run

- Super Mario Odyssey

- BOTW

- Skyward Sword (never finished cause game is back home and brother wants to see me play this and 3 heart run of MM)

- Shadowrun, the other campaign not the first one

- Shadowrun for SNES

- the Ys series

- Proejct 04 or whatever that game by Clover for the Gamecube

- Killer 7

- Sonic Mania

- Anti-birth

- Iconoclasts

- Darkest Dungeon (dropped it because my champions died on the first darkest dungeon and they wanted me to grind new ones all the way for the second one, fuck that. gonna just restart as radiance mode and avoid the needless grind. This game is shit in general. It's just busy work)

- Wonder Boy and the Dragon's trap

-Shantae series

- pilgrim's progress by scott thawson

Off the top of my head

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>>14370105

I guess I'll finish DaS 3.

>>14367025

beat Bloodborne and DaS III

ditch nuDeus Ex and Prey

don't bother with Witcher 3 DLC

>>14371677

Sonic and Wonder Boy sound the easiest/fastest to finish

>>14370965

played the multi on ps4, the online you can recover bodies from other players failures and still their points and quirks only useful to speed up your leveling up, but after level 20 everything is smooth, don't forget to buff your droid

>>14367541

>you know subconsciously those game ain't good so you rather waste time with us then waste time on a game you don't want to play

I slammed out about 10 hours in VRChat because it was mostly social. The biggest problem with the games I play is that they're single player and what I really want is social interaction.

>>14372018

I don't even know who you are.

>>14371999

Huh. I didn’t know that. Almost makes me want to pay for it, but the DRM is still a no. Guess I just won’t play it.

>>14366875

Hired!

>>14372279

For what,what are you hiring me for.

>>14372597

That's a very elaborate guide, thanks anon. Can't say I'm gonna need networking since most games I'm playing that would need an emulator to begin with are single player.

>>14372030

I'm fairly sure most of those aren't women.

>>14367854

>You visit /strek/ don't you.

I do, I'm glad you agree