/v/ - Video Games

Did radial menus become a thing in games again now? I stopped paying attention to new releases a long time ago.

>>14539937

The last game to do radial menus right was Battlefield 2142.

F

You can get a free trial of the Xbox Game Pass and play it for free for 2 weeks.

>>14539914

What are you talking about? Rare Replay is the best game on Xbox One!

>>14539937

Devs better at least pause the game when the radial menu is up. Not some retarded slow down, actually pause the game. How devs can keep getting it wrong so many years Going Commando or whatever game first did this shit is astounding.

>>14539993

Sid Meier's Pirates still holds up.

So, Nintendo is going to buy Rareware, re-hire all the talent that left, and then give us games like Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie, and more, right? This looks like the biggest fuckup for Rareware, MS had a lot riding on this.

>>14540000

Rareware is nothing but a brand. You can't just round up the old people who worked there. They'll be too scattered, you'd never get them all, and they'd all be very different people from who they were more than a decade ago, working in a very different industry. It's gone, let go of the brand and forget about them. They're not coming back.

>>14539993

AC4 was actually a pretty fun, if shallow, pirate game. The only problem is fighting with the game constantly to not play shitty assassin's creed. However sailing on the ocean while your crew sings shanties is fucking great. It had me go through a phase of listening folk music.

>>14539999

I think I'll put the PSP version on my PSP right now actually. I've never finished a game though and wondering how much replayability it has when factoring in different starting classes, scenarios, and difficulty levels.

I keep seeing things about how bad this is, but what actually makes it bad? Just mediocre highly generic pirates?

>>14540038

Pirates with nothing to do, all the loot is just cosmetic differences. Not even a shallow RPG grind.

>>14540044

More like 0.5 since it's set in the past.

>>14540006

Rareware also holds valuable IP like Perfect Dark. Even if Nintendo got a small fraction of the original talent back, people would flip over a new Perfect Dark that didn't suck ass, a new Banjo, etc. Here's what we could get if Nintendo bought Rareware back

>Conker

>Diddy Kong Racing

>Perfect Dark

>Banjo

>Killer Instinct

Really, all Rareware needs back are the Stamper brothers, who already left. I'm pretty sure after seeing what Rareware did with Nintendo, and what MS did to it, a lot of Rareware people would come crawling back.

>>14540038

I didn't save any of the pictures from the other thread, but I'm sure someone will post them.

>you can lock people in the brig and there is literally nothing they can do

>>the devs implemented the ultimate griefing feature to prevent griefing

>there are two enemy types: lazy skeleton and lazy skeleton with tonnes of health

>you can fight the kraken, which does nothing except stand there and occasionally tractor beam pull people into the water, whereupon they take minor damage

>"we needed to think about the streamer audience in addition to the players"

>>14540042

>>14540044

>>14540046

>>14540054

That sounds incredibly boring. Especially annoying that they would also focus on making it work better for streaming instead of being playable.

Bought it 2 weeks ago. Played it for 3 hours and uninstalled it. Game is boring, repetitive, easy, no progression, and pvp is just ganky bullshit.

>>14539891

LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES

>>14540072

I was becoming annoyed by being constantly attacked by jackasses, even when I had nothing of value to steal, and was relieved when it stopped when I got on a 4-person crew. I thought "finally, I have some peace to get into the meat of the game and actually earn some gold." We took some missions and set off. The mission types are:

Merchants- acquire something and deliver it to a buyer. Chickens, Snakes, Pigs, maybe a crate of tea or something IDK. I assume there's a note or some shit you have to bring back to cash in and prove you made the delivery.

Gold- find a treasure chest with a map that has an X on it, dig up the chest, bring it back for the guy to open.

Spirits- Kill reanimated skeletons until their high-value leader shows up, kill him, bring back his glowing skull.

It says "voyage completed" when you complete the objective out at sea, but you don't get any rewards like money or reputation until you come back to a person of that faction and turn in the object in question. So, the dock where all these quest NPCs hang out is where griefers lie, who will steal your items to earn themselves some gold instead, even if they hadn't activated that quest yet and presumably earn no reputation from the act.

Unfortunately, this meat of the game is trash. We took on a lengthy Spirit voyage with 5 skeleton targets to kill, that took us to 5 different islands where we fought hundreds of enemies. The combat is absolute shit. You can swing a sword 3 times, brief pause, and swing it 3 more times OR do a stabbing lunge forward that leaves you out of breath and vulnerable for too long afterwards. Your single-shot pistol only has 5 bullets before you have to run to an ammo crate in a different physical location and refill your… pockets? I guess? And the pistol doesn't kill skeletons (or other players) in one shot, and isn't accurate for sniping, so it's practically useless. What little there is to the combat isn't even enjoyable because of the super high ping you're dealing with from the not-MMO netcode (think Destiny with boats). When you kill a skeleton you aren't even sure he's died until a full second later when he explodes, and you're not sure if you finished him off or one of your friends did. There are different guns and swords you can buy in shops, but I learned from my one friend who's been playing longer that THEY HAVE NO FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENCE from the beginner pistol. There's a sniper and a blunderbuss and they perform exactly the fucking same. Which brings me to the next complaint.

>>14540068

Why do MMOfags keep falling for this lie?

>>14540075

There is a ton of shit to buy at first glance, but no reason to have any of it. Every single thing you can purchase in the game is cosmetic. I understand they didn't want to make the PVP unbalanced, but that could have easily been solved with level-based matchmaking, or just having designated safe areas around ports, and PVP areas the further you got into the open ocean. This is the lowest effort I've ever seen put into an MMO-like game. You thought fucking Destiny was bad? It doesn't hold a shit-candle to this. There's tons of clothing, ship decorations, guns, different cosmetic modifications of your various tools that you'd rather not see because it means your ship is broken, accordions, shovels, etc. Tons of shit to buy. Expensive shit that will take a lot of gold farming to buy. And none of it means a damn thing. No weapon will make you dispatch skeletons or other players any faster. Nobody will give a shit about your ship's paintjob when they're killing you and stealing your loot. Your character's looks can't be improved with clothing because you're all ugly cunts. WHY would I want to increase my reputation or earn more gold to buy these things? I wouldn't. It reminds me of Monster Hunter, where the whole of the game is killing bigger monsters to get better equipment to kill bigger monsters to get better equipment to kill bigger monsters. Except in Monster Hunter, the combat is its own reward, killing monsters is fun. In Sea of Thieves, killing skeletons or chasing chickens around is not fun. Killing other players is not fun because everyone rubberbands around with high ping.

SAILING YOUR SHIP ISN'T EVEN THAT FUN. It was much better in AC Black Flag. I give them kudos on being able to independently control every sail and cannon and requiring teamwork to be successful, and the way you have to angle your sails to catch the wind the best, or raise them to slow down, and the way anchor drops work, but it's not FUN. It's difficult to maneuver your Galleon in any meaningful way when you're in combat with another, and it's easiest to simply run away, they'll never catch you. Ramming another ship does more damage to your own than to theirs, and you can't increase your hull strength. They have that goofy shit where you can fire yourself out of a cannon to board others, but it's literally the only goofy inventive thing in the entire game. And I'd much prefer the ability to swing on ropes like a real fucking pirate would, and like you could in Black Flag. You can climb to a crows nest and stand on beams, but you can't rope swing down or stick a knife in the sail and slide, or anything cool. You can jump down onto the deck and take fall damage, jump into the water, or attempt to get back on the ladder.

>>14539891

Is this a new crowbcat or something?

>>14540077

I realized after playing for a couple quests, that the reason everyone was PVP griefing me when I started, is that it's the only way to have even the smallest amount of fun playing this game. It's the only thing to do. NPC-given quests are boring and meaningless. Skeletons aren't fun to kill, chickens and pigs aren't fun to catch, treasure isn't fun to dig up and doesn't even give you enough reward to buy a pair of pants until you grind 80 hours to get better-tier missions. The only thing that could be considered remotely fun is to harass other players, stealing their shit for an easy buck. Which is why everyone does it.

A minor complaint but hugely embarassing when compared with other pirate games- There are like six songs max that you can play on the accordion, what the fuck? Didn't Black Flag have like 50 fucking sea shanties in it, with words and everything?

This game is concentrated garbage, the combined non-efforts of an entire studio of slackjawed idiots trying to piss away millions of Microsoft's dollars and get away with it while doing 15 minutes of work a day, and isn't even worth $5. It offers less to do and less fun than some gacha mobileshit.

Ask me anything I haven't yet answered.

>>14540081

yes

>>14540083

Oh and I almost forgot, the enemy variety may as well not exist. The different types I've seen are

Standard skelly- easy

Blue Bandana skelly- has a sword or a pistol, shoots you

Wild Boys (apparently)- covered in seaweed, jumps out of bushes at you like a vietcong

Boss- has a blunderbuss or something, usually a cool coat or hat, a lot of health

THAT'S IT. All can be easily dealt with if you don't allow yourself to be surrounded and just dance around them swinging your sword.

>>14540072

>>14540075

>>14540077

>>14540083

Bless you for taking the time and actually explaining what you dislike.

Also there's no tutorial ingame.

If you decide to play solo, good luck fucking doing anything.

>>14540095

I figured at least this way my money spent on this pile could go to some meager use.

>>14540099

It's okay I got a new job and I would have just spent it on junk food anyway.

>>14539993

You can thankfully increase the FOV to 90.

Always kill the hype.

Never pay for western games.

>>14540006

This.

Let go of attachments to their former good games.

Even the former talents are shit now.

>>14540122

>lways kill the hype.

>Never pay for western games.

So do you not know any other words or do you just choose to use the same sentence in every thread?

>>14539914

>director, producer and writer of the game is Gregg Mayles

>He is one of the longest-serving members of the company, having worked there since 1989.

>composer is Robin Beanland, who worked in Rare since 1994, his first project being Donkey Kong Country

I mean, I'm not going to defend the unfinished multiplayer-only piece of shit, but at least check the facts.

>>14539993

>gambling

Illegal except for loot boxes. That's why it's voltorb flip and not slots in Pokemon anymore.

>drinking

Raises the ESRB rating.

>womanizing

Sexist slime.

>barfighting

Toxic masculinity.

>kidnapping

Glorifying slavery.

>fucking marooning and making people walk the plank

Torture, which is cruelty.

>the moral and legal grey area of privateering

Truth is relative, therefore morality is relative, therefore nothing is bad, therefore nothing is good, therefore there's no grey area.

>messages in bottles

You could put antisemitic statements in those bottles.

>interesting melee combat

Combat is a buzzword.

>actual, you know, piracy such as stealing things from heavily defended trade routes and other pirates

Griefing.

And that's why games aren't fun anymore.

>>14539993

There are messages in a bottle, they are shit.

the game is severely limited in what you can do, it's not worth $60, hell it's not worth half as much, in my countries dollars too.

>>14539891

>crowbcat shill squad is back

At least you had the decency to post a webm, so good job for that.

>>14540065

>buying BareWare games in [CURRENT YEAR] +3

>>14540054

>>"we needed to think about the streamer audience in addition to the players"

What did they do for this?

>>14539891

Does someone know who the guy that starts talking at 2:32 is?

Is Puzzle Pirates still active? I feel that game has more content than this,

>>14540198

You also need to consider Nintendo vs Microsoft influence, Microsoft are undoubtedly a negative influence of every developer, and because Rare didn't enter the company with a hit they had to play to Microsofts beat unlike Bungie who did what they wanted because they made money off the bat.

I'm personally interested in seeing the confirmed trainwreck that Fable 4, or more than likely the Fable reboot will be.

Sea of Thieves defintely has it's merits but it's poorly designed in so many places, especially polish/worldbuilding and core gameplay that isn't sailing a ship.

>>14540075

>>14540072

>>14540077

>>14540083

>>14540092

I haven't played the game, but I've seen plenty of it's gameplay, so I thought I'd correct a few minor factual details of this. Rifles and blunderbusses do function differently from the pistol. The rifle has a scope and, I believe, either does more damage or can get headshots. The blunderbuss is basically a shotgun with a huge spread. I'm pretty sure the galleon is faster than a sloop at full sail, but it's less nimble. Merchant quests pay you once you deliver the item in question; there's no need to go back to the original quest giver. Gold quests (which are hilariously handed out by the most obvious jews Rare could have made) can occasionally make you solve riddles to find buried treasure, instead of having to find a marked spot on a map. On that note, I think I should explain the island system a bit, from what I know of it. Most islands are mostly empty, aside from some wildlife, scattered minor loot, and maybe a few skeletons. These islands are where you go to find quest objectives. I should mention quests are sorta randomly generated. Then there are outposts. These are meant to be the civilized, "safe" areas of the game. Each outpost has every kind of quest giver and shop, so there's functionally no difference between them. Once you acquire a quest objective, you can go to any outpost to deliver it. Finally, there's fortresses. They have lots of skeletons in them. If there's a spooky skull cloud hovering above one, that means you can go there to fight off waves of skeletons, until the boss shows up. The boss drops a key to a vault that holds a massive amount of loot. I heard these fortresses were designed for multiple crews to cooperate in raiding, which is incredibly stupid, if true.

There is some variety to skeleton enemies, actually. I've seen metal skeletons, which have fuck ton of hp, but get all rusty and slow if you throw water on them. There's shadowy skeletons, which can only be hurt if you shine your lantern on them, first. Those are the only interesting skeleton types I've seen, though.

As far as water life is concerned, I've only seen sharks. Supposedly, there's a kraken, but, from what I understand, it basically randomly attacks ships, based on how much loot is currently being hauled in that ship. I haven't seen it in action.

The only good part of the game is the sailing mechanics. It actually takes decent crew coordination to sail well. Shit like storms will slowly flood your ship, and lightning can strike your ship. Holes in your hull only spew water when they're below the water line. The helmsman needs someone navigating to give him directions, and he needs someone on lookout to warn him of incoming obstacles. Dropping the anchor needs to be well timed, because it takes time to hit the ocean floor (though, mysteriously, there never is a fucking physical anchor attached to the ship. Your ship just magically stops.) The anchor has to be pulled up, which goes faster with more people helping. With a larger crew, sailing would be really fun. It's just awful that it's stuck in such a shitty game.

>>14540213

I'll give you all that and admit I haven't messed with any obviously difficult shit like the skull cloud, but what good is more enemy variety if the combat is still fucking ass? And yeah the idea of crews cooperating to raid a fortress is a fucking joke. In an entire day of playing, trying to figure out if there's any way to enjoy this game, I encountered ONE other crew who didn't immediately fire upon us. One of them stayed on his sloop and the other helped me kill skeletons. Then when we killed the boss, obviously only one of us could get the glowing skull as a reward, so I murdered him, took the skull, and hauled ass back to my crew's ship before he respawned. Little did I know one of my crew members was occupied at the same moment stealing their sloop when the second guy disembarked, which gave us a laugh at their expense when we realized we had unintentionally coordinated to fuck them over. But yeah even if you find the nicest people you'll still be forced to fuck them over somehow before they do the same to you.

>>14540009

It was fun for the first few hours before it became a repetitive tactic of shoot broadsides a few times -> slowly hook in -> kill rest of sailors. The only challenge were from the few legendary ships but only because they were sponges. Absolutely stale and boring. Any game can have sea shanties.

Then again pirate ship battles are inherently boring. The only good part is if it's first-person boarding with at least a good 10-15 people swinging over to an enemy ship.

>>14540235

I thought Black Flag made ship combat as interesting as possible with the front cannons and rear explosives in addition to broadsides. It was also easier to control your ship than this mess, so you could successfully strategize and have encounters where you received zero damage by keeping your ship in their blind spots. They also had that chain cannonball thing to collapse masts. It was as interesting as 1800s ship combat can be.

>>14540138

>>14540238

It looks better than Sea of Cunts, but it's still early access. Only reason I gave this a chance was it was technically not early access anymore, and even then it was a mistake.

>>14540254

I'm just saying it's probably the best pirate game on the market right now.

>>14540258

They can wait for my dollar. Early Access is a shit practice up there with blindly pre-ordering. They should be paying people to test their game, not the other way around.

>>14540271

>So there's no PVE pirates

Nope.

>you're just pirating shit from ruins guarded by some skeletons?

That, your you're pirating shit from other players that they pirated from skeleton ruins.

>And do you always have to use the same small ship?

There's two ships, a small one for crews of 1-2 players, and a big one for crews of 3-4 players.

>Can you at least modify it and put armor or new cannons on it?

Nope. You can only change how it looks, because the only reward in the game is purely cosmetic items.

>>14540271

The only modifications of anything in the entire game are cosmetic. I think you can change the ship's paint, sail color, and flag? No new guns, no additional guns, no increased damage or defense. No PVE enemies except skellingtons and snakes. No better hand-weapons for fighting them.

I don't know how they thought this would increase the streamer audience, because if it's not fun then nobody's gonna suffer to stream it.

>>14540256

A broken cock etc etc

>>14540244

>playing assassin's creed past trying the first thanks to the fucking media circus and hoping it would be like a new age of prince of persia when it's not and is one of the most derivative fucking games you've ever played somehow

Anon I am disappoint

>>14540286

Fuck you that shouldn't be funny.

>>14540000 (nice quads)

When Nintendo refused to outright buy Rare, everyone in the industry was confused. MS saw a golden child they could easily purchase to make their gaming division not-shit. How wrong everyone was.

Without Nintendo holding Rare to deadlines and forcing them to deliver, they became incompetent fools. It's something that gets mentioned a lot with developers who work with Nintendo, most recently Mercury Steam who admit Nintendo rejected their builds and demanding better quality, which, in Mercury Steam's own words they admit made them better developers.

Not to mention, much of the talent that made those N64 games had already left by the time Starfox Adventures released. Microsoft got a brand-name, some left-over talent, and a back catalogue of also-ran "Nintendo" characters that never got a game better than fucking first-gen 3D consoles.

Microsoft is the complete opposite. Instead of demanding quality like Nintendo did, they demand conformity to middle-management checklist bullshit. Remember that Killer Instinct only got greenlit because some MS exec promised it would be the Xbox's Smash Bros and that all internal Xbox games are pitched as the rival game to another company's product in the same genre. No fucking originality at all.

>>14540288

It's common knowledge that the pirate parts of Black Flag are fantastic and should be its own game, and was going to be its own game before they slapped the Ass Creed logo on it. I hadn't played since the first but I got IV for free with my video card and found it to be actually good, until you have to slog through assassin missions to get to more piracy.

>>14540296

Didn't Ubisoft spin it off into it's own game. Skull and Bones or something.

Nice excuse for your faggotry faggot.

>>14540305

Nah Skull and Bones isn't out yet, and it's a pirate themed ASSFAGGOTS game.

>>14540305

>got a game for free

>played it

>nice excuse for your faggotry

So do you purposefully hit your head to kill as many brain cells as possible or what?

>>14539891

>We could have had this instead

>>14540276

And from what i've seen there's only like 24 boat decorations as opposed to like 3 pages of weapons/clothing.

>>14540280

>I don't know how they thought this would increase the streamer audience, because if it's not fun then nobody's gonna suffer to stream it.

And this, is why you don't fuck with the 'game' part in Video Game.

>>14540351

His hair looks like Kazooie.

>>14540360

I actually like the idea of a brig in a pirate game. That scuttle ship thing is probably the most retarded 'feature' I have ever heard of though.

>>14540358

There are slices of fun to be had. But you see them all and experience most of them within the first 20 hours of play. Its a fully workable game. But it is missing REASON and PURPOSE for the actions you take. With no goals or unlocks and no drawbacks for failure that mean something it has no soul.

Dark souls is an example of a game where you cant really lose, but in pvp you can LOSE your souls and that can set you back a few hours if you mess up.

This game needed some consequences to the actions.

>>14540410

No, because as >>14540360 shows, griefing is toxic and we can't have that.

>>14540087

DSP was always a voice of reason.

>>14540410

>I've only watched this twitch bait on my favorite eceleb stream

Kill yourself nigger, this turd was made for retards like you.

>>14540337

No, that's as good as an excuse for your unabashed faggotry as exists.

>>14540324

>pirate themed assfaggots

I'm glad I'm not an Ubisoft fan.

>>14540410

It's really limited, you have a crew size of 4 men; I'd imagine it's hard to stealthily board another crews ship when your ship stands out against the horizon so blatantly.

>>14540410

Griefing is literally the only way to have fun in this game, and they didn't even design it that way intentionally. They designed Destiny with Boats And Less Enemies, and then allowed PVP..

>>14540372

>>14540360

The Brig has no reason to exist because

1. you can only use it on members of your crew, you can't knock out an enemy and stick him in there

2. members of your crew can't really do fucking anything to grief you since there's no friendly fire, and if they try to steal a reward for themselves you all still get the cash when he turns it in.

The worst thing a crewmate could do to fuck with you is take the helm and steer your ship into rocks. Or use up all your cannon balls firing at nothing.

>>14540447

>The worst thing a crewmate could do to fuck with you

He can put you in brig, duh.

>>14540494

Yeah. But

>pay 180$ to imprison some random dude for 5 minutes

>>14540560

That webms hurt me on a personal level.

>>14540063

shit man who is the girl in leotard? I like the style.

>>14540812

I think microsoft is intentional trying to tank the xbox brand and games division, even nintendo at least tried to salvage wii u with some new original games while M$ gives zero fucks.

>>14540816

>he has never played Battletoads

>>14540896

Thought you were replying to >>14540812

My bad.

>>14540847

Are they trying to intentionally drive Windows into the ground too?

>>14540560

Wow, is that game the new dark souls or what.

I like the retro graphics but it is a bit dark.

I mean if it were sandboxy enough it could be fun. As in you could shape the game-world yourself with your crew.

But you don't seem to have any effect whatsoever on the gaming-world besides being in there.

>>14541029

Reminder that WoW's main gameplay designer plays with a tablet.

If the world was more active and there was a trading company/navy faction for PvP, the game would be instantly better. Sadly, they released a full price game with early access content. Maximum Jewry on MS part.

>>14541065

Microsoft knew that they had no games this year, so they needed to shit something out. I might be wrong, but it wouldn't surprise me if this was rushed out the door unfinished, EA-style.

>>14540560

>four and half minutes in

>Starts to realize you pick stuff up by walking over it.

It can be taught!

>dies twice going down the fucking elevator seconds later.

Wait sorry spoke too soon.

>>14541077

I really have to wonder how they managed to reach such levels of incompetence they have nothing to offer to entice people to buy their flagship product.

>>14541099

>It can be taught!

Well, we know that Nip faggot eventually managed to jump over the pillar. They can learn, just as downies can be taught, it just takes a lot of time.

>>14541113

The 360 ran games better in most cases than the PS3 did, and was easier to develop for, so even if nips didn't like Microsoft, they made games for them anyway. They threw all that away with the reveal of the Xbox One, and haven't recovered since. No nip games, western games running worse than on PS4, and no exclusives.

>>14540358

Considering how much focus they put on streamers, I think they were fully expecting the online multiplayer element to be "the fun" for this game. As in, the wacky interactions and unexpected outcomes would be some kind of "emergent storytelling" which would be gimmicky enough to hook players and make them love the game in spite of its lacking content. Game Devs and major studios have been trying to milk this shit for years now, desperately trying to make a game that is just barely playable, but has enough wacky shit in it that people buy it up so they can create their own wacky moment of zany gameplay to post up on youtube or stream on twitch.

>>14540072

> so you can go into arguments informed and armed.

Win10 and Xbone exclusivity was all the information you needed.

>>14540560

>this and polygon

How can people be this bad at playing FPSes? If you can't make the gamepad work, why don't you try kb&m? Whaaa?

>>14541831

somehow I doubt they would be much better with a Kb+M. Then again I am 10x worse off with a gamepad so maybe they will get better.

>>14541831

>why don't you try kb&m

You might just as well ask why they can't chew gum and walk at the same time. People who play FPS games on pad are retarded.

>>14539998

What's wrong with slowdown while choosing items?

>>14541950

>Windows 10

>Steam

>disagreement

Video games are patient zero for software ebola.

>>14541950

>>14541973

I'd like to play gears of war games on my pc but i will never install w10.

>>14542059

>I'd like to play gears of war games

lol

>>14542080

I only ever played the first one and would like to see the complete story.

>>14541938

>commie bullshit image for no reason

>>14541973

>dis.cord killed a ton of IRCs because IT'S CONVENIENT AND EMOJIS LOL

Fuck this gay earth.

>>14542059

Honestly I think having an Xbone is less cancerous than using Windows 10/Steam. Yeah, it's still a botnet software platform, but at least it's not botnetting your general purpose personal computer. Xbone can only botnet itself.

>>14542087

The story is secondary, if you're really that interested watch a cutscene movie on youtube.

>>14542099

True, but at the same time, why own a botnet if it has no games worth playing?

>>14542111

Why fucking pay for a botnet if has no games worth playing?

>>14541891

but they don't even know how to use a gamepad, why stunt yourself with a worse control device if you can't even use it properly?

>>14539983

REALLY? Well nice to know fellow image board anonymous! Please come back to tell me how to preorder the next xbox "exclusive" from rare!

Jk, there is not going to be a new rare game lmao.

>>14542098

Discord is fucking cancer, don't even get me started. I use Mumble, no one using Discord is worth talking to.

>>14542121

If the last E3 showing was any indication that was a gift.

>>14542121

Scalebound was already ruined when they turned the loli protagonist into blonde Donte.

>>14542121

Pretty sure that was cancelled for two Bayonetta games.

>>14542127

I used it for a bit because I knew a few cool groups moved on to it, but the switch seemed to expose them as the faggots that they are. Makes me wonder why I ever bothered.

>tfw roblox galleons is still the most crew-based nautical fun i've ever had

>>14540560

>goes up the elevator, which clearly shows you enter South and exit East

>goes down the elevator, turns to North and gets shot in the back

>goes down the elvator again, doesn't turn at all, looks the wrong way once he reaches the bottom

>>14542125

>worse control device

That's problematic talk, mister. Are you implying that a console experience may not be 100% equivalent to a PC? The industry has been telling people a gamepad is a fine way to play FPSs for at least a decade; most of the nu-males who cover video games sincerely don't know why people would choose KB+M over it. It is no exaggeration to say they are infants who not only play nothing but AAA slop, but don't understand and don't WANT to understand why anyone would play anything else.

>>14542188

Entire pirate setting is criminally underrated.

>>14540360

Also before you even start playing, you have to accept a code of conduct (you can't be "toxic" in a pirate game, pirates are all friendly and equals and all that shit).

Even the real pirates weren't that gay.

>>14540072

>>14540075

>>14540077

>>14540083

This guy has definitely played the game. I am playing through the game pass trial and my experience has been exactly the same. This game is going to be the Xbone's No Man's Sky once people get over the hype. There is fucking NOTHING in this game. 1987 Pirates! has more depth.

>>14540137

>sailing in UO

My nigga

>>14540195

Oh this game is 100% shit and you should absolutely feel vindicated.

>>14540210

It does.

>>14542188

What about Sid Meier's Pirates? Corsairs series? Crimson Skies?

>>14542264

Its like this game was made by 56% meme spammer.

>>14542274

The Asian up front is kinda cute but I bet she's like 55 years old because Asians just age that way.

>>14542264

These are ps2 tier models.

>>14542274

That dog is not happy to be seen with those people.

>>14542274

90% of them are HR, PR and box art.

>>14542247

How long was the game in development? From what I see it has outrageously little content.

>>14542315

3 years bare minimum. Probably closer to 5.

>>14542264

They look purposefully bad. The black one looks like it used to be a samoan guy, before Rare decided to be more progressive. The third one looks like it was a skeleton, before someone decided that it had to be female. The first one looks like it may have been a guy as well and that dyke haircut is beyond awful.

>>14542326

>>14542328

wew

I wish I could catch (((Rare)))'s codemonkeys and torture them to know what the fuck they've been doing this whole time. This game looks like a tech demo when it ought to have tamable sea serpents, floating city on a giant turtle to board and plunder and whatnot after 4 years.

>>14542406

I remember faggots here shilling this gameas a service here as a success because it had big twitch numbers during the beta.

Would you look at that, every single one of them stopped playing because they weren't being paid to do it anymore.

>>14540189

They padded the game out a fuck load with sailing time so they can read off donations, aside from the fact that you can play with a crew of 4 so they can invite 3 of their subs to play and be in the cool club. Not to mention making it braindead easy so you only need to halfway pay attention.

>>14542455

Microsoft's Rare

>>14542455

Checking your dubs to say I can appreciate that gif. Maybe it should have been named "mexican shekelrubber" though.

>>14542463

It's the "used boat salesman" from Secret of Monkey Island. He acts like a used car salesman stereotype, so you're not far off. He wears a sombrero because he's tacky as fuck, because those salesmen are all tacky as fuck.

>>14542455

>thought it would be "fun" to run up and down three decks of ship with a goddamned bucket hauling an entire ocean of water rushing

Pumps aside crews of ships often ended like that. Pumps may be broken or they alone have no capacity to deal with the leaks so buckets running were a thing too. Especially on military ships that had ridiculously large crews for their size and had free hands to spare .

>>14542455

Because this game wasn't intended to be anything other than a Looney Tunes gag stretched out over tens of hours.

>>14542089

It's clearly an anti-communism message.

>>14540360

I would have thought that walking the plank would have been an infinitely more useful way of dealing with griefers. You take the vote, and if you're on land - they are simply removed from your crew. If you're at sea - they get chucked overboard. Either through marooning or drowning - the "offending" player is immediately removed from the party where further interaction can cease. Marooned players could then be rescued by another crew via matchmaking (start a bonfire on the beach signaling lfg active matchmaking) or drown and respawned (washed up ashore) on the nearest port.

>>14539983

Even then, why would you waste your free trial for Sea of Thieves when State of Decay 2 is less than 2 months away? Even getting it for free is a rip-off since even free-to-play games have more content than Sea of Thieves.

Probably the only interesting strategies in this broken game I've seen on stream is that you can use those explosive barrels as underwater mines. Carry an explosive barrel underwater to an enemy ship attacking you. Release it under their ship and let it hit the ship or shoot it and let it make 5-6 holes on that ship. They'll be too busy patching up holes to prevent their ship from sinking to even attack you and you can finish them off. Also, that charge sword attack can apparently make you glide far on the edge of the water or when you jump off the ship into the water. I forget which one or if both are possible. Other than that, it is really an overprices fetch quest game for cosmetics you're barely going to even see and don't provide any strategic or upgrade value. The only streams I see that are overly active seems to be from foreign streamers. I think the game is dead in the water.

>>14542132

Blonte.

>>14542502

I know that which is why I said what I did

>>14542581

The galleons even have a plank but there's no mechanic to make someone walk it and you'll never be able to park the thing accurately enough for the plank to actually line up with a dock.

>>14542722

>only has the subtitle on the box art

what bullshit.

>>14542736

I don't think the first uncharted waters came out in the west, so I guess they didn't want to scare away potential customers who don't want to play a game's sequel without first playing the previous ones

>>14541973

yeah, that is why Games for windows live was a huge success.

The worst part about all this is that Rare's games all have untapped potential. A fully fleshed out pirate simulator could be great for all sorts of reasons as mentioned above, and also, the sports games in Kinect Sports Rivals look like they'd be pretty great games if you could play them with a normal fucking controller. I'd love a new waverace game that plays like vid related.

>>14540150

>Drinking

Not trying to play devil's advocate but there is drinking in the game.

>>14542274

would racemix with the chink

>>14542722

There are 3 Sea Dogs games on Steam. Sea Dogs, Carribean Tales and To Each His Own. Are they all good?

>>14540150

>Illegal except for loot boxes

I think he meant in game gambling, like in New Vegas.

>>14542089

Something for nothing clearly refers to redistribution of wealth aka welfare. I think the image is pretty obviously anti-commie.

>>14542763

Playing with a gamepad is the only explanation.

>>14542752

>Not trying to play devil's advocate but there is drinking in the game.

It's just as pointless as everything else, and the worst drunkenness mechanic I've ever seen. Your character actually moves around even if you're not pressing any buttons, so if you're drunk on a dock you can fall off it by not touching your controller. And you get drunk after one mug of grog. And being drunk serves absolutely no purpose, I thought maybe it would cure snake poison or something (another pointless mechanic) but it doesn't make poison go away any faster (it just goes away by itself after a bit). Nothing makes sense.

>>14542778

>There are 3 Sea Dogs games on Steam

cursed land luvers!

>>14542571

>>14542089

>>14542810

Could be interpreted that way, or as people talking about the rich siphoning off the wealth from the working class and poor class.

>>14542880

“Working class” is a marxist term implying that business owners don’t work. “Poor class” isn’t a term. Anyway, the game is utter shit.

>>14542935

>>>/zoo/

>>>/furry/

>>14542940

>“Working class” is a marxist term implying that business owners don’t work.

Okay I'm no communist but for fucking real? Business owners don't work. The occasional good person who owns a small business does. Most just collect the profits and determine how hard they want to fuck over their low-level employees this year.

>>14542975

>Okay I'm no communist

>Business owners don't work

yeah right

>>14542833

Will pirate all of them right now.

>>14541687

Stop playing kusoge, Yuuko-san.

>>14542987

You are completely ignorant of how large corporations function. The more you're paid, the less work you do, but the more crucial your decisions are, on a proportional scale. The highest person in a corporation makes a handful of decisions a year, but they make or break the company. Regardless of the importance of those decisions, I don't think putting in a few days of genuine mental labor out of 365 days counts as work. The most they have to do is be a face that talks to stockholders and reassures them they'll get their money, or be the final say in arguments they weren't involved in from the start.

>>14543067

t. poorfag

Its alright man, we all know you struggle with business concepts otherwise why else would you poor.

>>14543070

>posting the homosexual crossdressing cat

>>14543099

>robbed

More like made wealth itself meaningless by turning all money into meme paper backed by speculating pedophiles who only give out interest free loans to other pedophiles.

>>14543084

>implying men aren't better at everything including being women

>>14543111

He's cute yes but he'll also give you HIV.

>>14543084

>not posting trap cats

>>14543099

Majority of business owners are the middle class, you are a retarded faggot who struggles with the concepts of capitalism.

>>14543110

This nigger has a much better understanding, value is no longer on the actual its based on the speculative, leading to bubbles and things being inflated value.

Like twitter having its stock value cut in half because stock analysts THOUGHT it could produce more a profit.

>>14543119

Duke even has autoaim in by default so a mouse isn't even that necessary. I remember beating the game on a friend's 360 simply for the icon and it wasn't any harder than the PC original.

>>14543124

I wasn't disagreeing with you.

>>14543067

>I will instantly out myself as a marxist

>now people will believe me

And reported.

>>14543044

>strawman

>being THIS FUCKING ILLITERATE

Just shut the fuck up, you blithering idiot.

>>14542975

>oy vey i’m not a marxist

>i just say things that only marxists say

>and have absolutely no fucking clue what I’m talking about

>>14543022

>you make crucial decisions

>but you don’t work

>those decisions, therefore, by definition, aren’t crucial

>ha ha “work” is defined by physical labor

>it isn’t anything else at all

>horses should be paid more than any human being because they do more physical labor than any human ever could

This is how mentally defective communists actually are. This is what they actually believe.

>>14543154

So tell me all about the hard work those people at Microsoft did, that goes into a game like Sea of Thieves.

>>14539891

>Rare still exists in the current year

How? Why?

>>14543119

It's kinda true, yeah, they appear not to know how does a pad functions, moving OR aiming and the like. It makes me wonder why they're doing it, kikes have plenty of media to infest. Why does he do something he doesn't even enjoy? Or are there people who are so horrifically bad that they can't get good even at fucking aiming?

>>14543159

""""""""""""""""Rare""""""""""""""""

>>14543152

I have a hard time believing anyone important who worked on those games worked on that. For fucks sake they didn't even get the clothed animal part of the main characters right.

>main characters are pirates, I think

>looking for pages of a book?

Just all over the place and reeks of leftover ideas pushed into a mold like a sausage patty.

>>14540000

What talent is left?

Do even 20% of the old devs still work there anymore?

>>14543165

>For fucks sake they didn't even get the clothed animal part of the main characters right.

Reminder they stole the snake in pants design from Anton & Coolpecker and still managed to fuck that up.

does the game have sexy white waman?

>>14543205

It has La Creatura

>>14542940

If you have capital and you're working hard, you're doing it wrong.

>>14543212

no sexy waman, no buy!

I consider myself as a part of the 'I_Like_sexy_Waman' minority and from what appears to me, it seems there is no appealing to every minority including mine.

I ask, how can a game with the focus to appeal to more minoroties fail to appeal to mine minority? A game that wanted to be liked by many people, players and gamers couldn't deliver it promis. I am very sad to hear the failed delivery to every minority!

>>14542281

ANON I NEED TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING

>>14543263

So that's where he's from, I've seen random porn of him on Pixiv for awhile.

>>14543277

Goblin Slayer

He slays goblins

isnt this the same situation as that space game? where angryjoe sperged out

>>14543124

>inflation

Is this what you are really bitching about? You do understand that printing money is important for paper currency?

That currency is backed by oil reserves and our countries economic strength.

And yes most middle class are owners of franchise stores, gas station, car washes etc.

You are abysmally ignorant of even the most basic economic knowledge.

Wait, is this a piracy game where you can't rob things from towns, villages, and NPCs?

>>14543157

The problem is that they either didn't do their fucking job, or they consciously made piss poor decisions about what the devs should put in the game. I'll agree with you that CEOs and the like make way too much money for the work they put in, but to say that they hardly work is false. The world would be less of a shitty place if large corporations gave the people at the bottom a larger piece of the pie. Not to say that those in a leadership position don't deserve to be paid more, but it would be nice if the menial workers saw the success of their company reflected in their own paycheck.

>>14543212

>>14543197

Is it wrong to think she'd be mildly attractive if her (((nose))) wasn't so prominent?

Looking at her again she looks like a goblin with a wig on. What am I thinking?

>>14543286

No no no, anon. You can't have a game where people do things such as robbing, that might trigger someone. Instead in this game you look for buried treasure and fight skeletons. Because that's all pirates did! They were nice treasure hunters who engaged in a bit of friendly competition sometimes.

Honestly I don't even know why it's pirate themed. You don't engage in piracy most of the time anyway. Might as well have called it "Sea of Tomb Raiders" but that might make people think of a better game.

who am I kidding none of these people played the good Tomb Raiders

>>14540609

UNC UNC UNC UNC UNC UNC UNC UNC

>>14540560

I've never even played Duke 3D and I can tell he's bad at it.

That one part near the beginning where he keeps trying to kick that alien but misses and walks off hurts my soul.

>>14543290

They can't do that, in free market capitalism they would get out competed by those that treat the replaceable lowly scum worse. It's a race to the bottom if you are unfortunate to have to sell your labour instead of doing nothing and get capital gains for it.

>>14540560

Is he playing with fucking keyboard controls or what? This reminds me of when I tried to play Doom without mouselook, but I believe Duke 3D already had that to some degree, right?

>>14543412

It has mouselook but only fore horizontal by default. Not sure about the rereleases.

>>14543445

He uses his feet sometimes too.

>>14542274

I can't unsee Shigeru Miyamoto's goofy smile on the Asian broad even though she isn't even the same ethnicity.

>>14543891

I think it's the Gearbox "remaster", whatever retarded name they gave it.

>>14543918

That would explain how they got the voice talent for it. I like St. John's voice but his original takes sounded better.

>>14544051

Nothing to get angry about here, just having a swell time and enjoying the smug due to schadenfreude.

>>14544078

>Fun would be justified if there was anything to make fun of in this game.

This game has been hyped in every E3 since 2015. Microsoft put it on the front page for their Xbox site (or so I've heard). This game was hyped to hell and back, just as much as Skyrim or Oblivion and it's even more of a letdown than either of those games, which is saying something. The amusement comes from the fact that Microsoft seemed to think this would be their killer app for their worthless console which has surpassed launch PS3 as a nogaems meme and it has as much content as an alpha playtest.

>>14544078

>Fun would be justified if there was anything to make fun of in this game.

I don't know about you but seeing shitty games fail brings me a small measure of joy. It also lets me know that this industry isn't completely fucked yet.

>>14544078

Whatever nigger, I'm gonna enjoy this overhyped project flopping and laughing at yet another failure of Microsoft's. I consider it's failure a win, winning never gets old.

>>14544234

given up hope**

>>14540150

i was in the midst of writing this comment, then i noticed yours. well put.

>>14544314

i usually forget the names of vaporware-type software

>>14544330

lul

>>14542264

It looks like Tumblr made a pirate level for Timesplitters 2.

>>14544330

I still do not understand how they could possibly manage to fuck up a pirate game. It's not like they were reinventing the wheel here, they should have just copied AssCreed 4 and made it multiplayer.

thieves indeed

>>14544437

Look at the photo in this post >>14542274

Every developer working on this is the same kind of hipster who sees an episode of Mythbusters and thinks their a scientist. They live and breath vicariously through fads.

>>14543113

HIV doesn't exist in animeland, because niggers people don't exist in animeland.

And nigger traps don't exist period.

Thieves indeed, the devs just commited highway robbery of selling a barebones-game they were probably finished with 3 years ago for full price.

>>14544533

>And nigger traps don't exist period.

Yes they do, but tyrone and co. fall for it and put the poor thing out of its misery when they notice the penis.

>>14544533

>And nigger traps don't exist period.

You are very, very wrong. I would actually say they're more common than white traps. White traps just use the internet more, and are more in demand than the nig transvestite.

>>14543891

>What version is this? I have never seen this "rewind slider" before and Duke's pain voice cues sound even faggier compared to the original recording.

Looks like the Xbox 360 version to me.

>>14544644

If you look at the rewind menu during the numerous times he died one of the button prompts is the square button on a DualShock. Maybe the same version was released on multiple platforms.

>>14544644

The original 360 release didn't have that.

>>14544675

Well, build version yeah, not necessarily platform. Didn't notice the DS face button prompts because I wasn't paying that close of attention to it. I just remember that rewind shit from the 360 version.

>>14540053

Perfect Dark can't be duplicated. It exists only as a sequel to GE in the way it's an upgrade to every single concept GE did before it. GE only succeeded because it was built by a group who went into it wanting to reimagine an FPS game (none of the original GE devs had played a FPS, hence why everything is completely different to the PC games).

If Rare somehow got a team together that had ideas to redo FPS games from it's basics, MS wouldn't fund that because it's too risky.

How to get some value out of Rare.

1. Fire everyone

2. Sell licences for IPs to small dev groups for them to make small XBL Arcade games (Battletoads as a beat em up, Banjo as a 2D platformer (ie. "Who wants to try and improve on that new DKC N is doing"?). Charge 15 bucks each with the aim at building trust in the brand/IPs again.

3. Get the shattered remains of Free Radical and get them to do a small follow up to PD to get people interested.

4. Fund FR to make a crazy new FPS that looks just like Timesplitters but completely different because it has a different name. Keep them making crazy multiplayer/couch-coop shooters forever.

5. At the end of the console generation, make compilation disks of these games. Sell on both the current gen and have as a bundle-title for the new console gen (with a bit of HD remix-ing to get the early adopters going "Wow, isn't this cool!").

>>14542274

Fire all of these women, and hire a man who knows how to design a good quest narrative and item progression. Boom, game becomes 20 times more appealing. Equality (in general) is the death of all that is fun. Libshit yuppies know nothing of how to make co-op, exploration gameplay "fun".

>>14540560

Jesus Christ man. These people just don't have any respect, at all. They need to be driven out of the industry, zero fucking tolerance. Goes to show they really don't play nor care about video games.

>>14542722

Was there any other pirate game on the SNES other than Uncharted Waters 1 and 2? I have a very faint memory of playing a sort of pirate/sailing/swashbuckling game on a SNES emulator as a kid, but I'm not quite sure that UW is it.

>>14544626

It's pretty hard to tell. Most negresses look like men, so a trap is a little unfair a term.

>>14544626

That's because a computer is too complex to operate for the average nigger, even more so one with at least 4 different STDs and a brain fried from taking artificial hormones.

>>14547224

Pixar

>>14547224

Sculpted ugliness.

Clay Fighter ripoffs.

Plasticine chic.

>>14547224

That's a really good edit.

>>14542797

>dat 3rd image

Probably be a good idea to conquer her extra chromosome first, kek.

>>14542188

>Leaving off Pirates!

Fight ya m8, swear on me ancestors.

>>14542188

Also, giving the devil his due, AssCreed: Black Flag was pretty clutch.

What do you do with a drunken sailor…