/v/ - Video Games

My peaner weaner lol

>>15047850

>small

yes

>loved

lol

posters and stuff in video games that are for fake silly moves and games

>>15047842

When flashlights actually mean something, and darkness actually conceals. It bothers me when you can stealth when you can clearly see just fine.

Flashlights that trade your concealment for visibility, or use a hand that could hold another tool.

>>15047960

Doom 3 was perfect for this. That game had the best flash light ever.

>>15048112

>Having NPC dialog gradually change until I'm either incredibly famous or infamous by the end of the game is a great feeling.

>At the beginning of the game enemies' chatter to one another is calm and professional

>As the game goes on they start to get audibly nervous

>Eventually descends to "Oh shit, it's him!" when they see you

>>15047948

TECHNOLOGY

>>15047960

>It bothers me when you can stealth when you can clearly see just fine.

Why would you want a game where you can't see shit in your safe areas and have to light a target on your ass to know where you're going?

Unrealistic game design is usually there for a reason, you know.

>>15047842

games with a system that you can either use normally or exploit the fuck out of to completely break shit, so long as it doesn't completely ruin the game

i.e. alchemy in Morrowind

you could make some absolutely ridiculous potions and spells, but instead of ruining things they actually make the game more fun

>>15048367

I'm sorry to hear that, anon. What game?

>>15048546

Lord of the Rings Online

>>15047887

>>15048930

I wish there was an open world Interstate 76, or something like a MW2: Mercenaries that lets you pick procedurally generated missions inbetween story ones. Why is the game you posted the only halfway decent vehicular combat game that came out in the past few years?

>>15049014

>Why is the game you posted the only halfway decent vehicular combat game that came out in the past few years?

Hell if I know. But at least it's the one thing the devs got right, even though it was basically the one thing they had to get right in order to be at least somewhat of an authentic Mad Max experience. Too bad the rest of it is pure fluff. I think the last game before it that was alright for vehicular combat was Twisted Metal but that was as far back as like 2012? 2013? And had fuck all content when it came to anything other than the multiplayer.

>game has secret area completely dedicated to cut content, levels, mechanics, etc

>Includes dev commentary and actual playable/interactable prototypes of said incomplete/cut content

>>15051534

Speaking of GTA, I find it amazing that San Andreas STILL gets cut features found in it to this day, such as earthquakes. This game was so much more ambitious than it already was but limited by PS2 hardware, I can only imagine how things would've gone if PS2 wasn't the leading platform during 6th gen.

>>15047842

Mad Max deserved more credit than it got. Sure it was a collectathon, but it was a really really good collectathon.

Being rewarded by devs for creatively doing things the "wrong way"

>>15052894

to add onto that even more bonus points if there are clothing options and you can change your type and color of panties.

>>15047948

Yeah, that was cool in 1996.

What the fuck happened to games.

Nezha's penis owo

>game starts you off with absolutely no gear

>wear literally anything that you can get your hands on in an attempt to not die

Bonus points if the start of the game is actually dangerous.

>>15053402

The best thing about Mechwarrior 3 was that you had to scavenge all your gear.

>>15048513

>Not knowing Mad Max

How fucking new are you to video games?

>>15047842

In Trackmania you can drive off track for a very long time. I'm not sure if the world has an edge, but the textures get worse the farther out you go.

>>15053035

Laziness sold just as well, so corporations and shitty devs (Pete Hines, etc.) decided to just not bother.

>>15048367

>game has 'get everything to max character and then some' area 9 hours of solid travel time northwest of numerous uncompleted regions and test areas

I never knew something like the Eyes And Guard Tavern was on the live server. When was this, Anon?

I never mapbroke more than running around some obscure parts of the Trollshaws to get into the Lost Temple.

I sort of like the new revamped areas but the invisible walls are shitty.

>>15047842

Уёбывай на двачь, сука. Мало того что говноед так ещё и лезешь со своей хуйнёй на нормальную борду.

when the game is good

>>15064068

what game nigga?

>>15066043

Saints Row 2.

>>15048539

It's hard to tell in the webm but I dream of one day seeing something like that in a AAA game but also accounting for differences in air pressure with how fast the liquid spews out.

>game has a level editor

>it's amazingly powerful

>you can use all assets that are in the base game

>the devs left in some assets they themselves didn't use, but wanted players to experiment and see if they could come up with something cool

>>15053036

ICame.jpg

>>15051534

That's the main character of Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption on the bottom. In fact, I'd swear that whole image is just Jeanette imported into a VtM: Redemption scenario.

>>15055157

Why would you hate Undyne?

>>15055157

I know that some of you faggots went into this game straight for the genocide ending because of memes

High risk, high reward weapons. There is a sort of rush knowing that if you don't kill your enemy when you see him he will definitely kill you.

>r6 siege

>vigil has a double barrel shotgun that fires slugs

>they do a great deal of damage and have great range but has decent kick and obviously only two shots

>tfw you double tap an attacker when he potentially had the jump on you

>>15074282

You forgot the flip side of that

>point blank someone with both slugs from behind

>turns out both somehow missed

or

>turns out both hit but only did 40 damage

>on ash

or the alternative bonus round

>shoot someone with a shotgun 4 times

>do 12 damage because ubisoft cannot into shotguns

or even better

>shoot someone from across what basically amounts to the entire map once with a shotgun

>miraculously all the pellets hit

>dies instantly

>>15074419

>shoot someone with a shotgun 4 times

>do 12 damage because ubisoft cannot into shotguns

Holy fuck how is the fbi shotgun so bad. I can go ads and still barely damage anyone that's not even 6 feet away. It's awful. GIGN and GS9 shotguns are consistently good, but somehow they fucked up on fbi.

>>15074672

Because ubi is retarded and thinks that shotguns shouldn't do locational bonus damage but should do reduced locational damage.

Also the GIGN and GSG9 shotguns have more pellets while the FBI and the KGB shotgun shoot way fewer. Generally auto shotguns just fire fewer pellets which means massively less damage per shot.

Multiple idle animations, dependent on current equipment and weapons as well as location within the game world. When the character actually stops when running into a wall rather than it turning into a treadmill. And other cute and superfluous little animations that add to a character's personality.

Sounds of clicking.

>>15053035

The average gamer became a mouthbreathing retard that is easily impressed by glorified Skinner boxes, so devs put in a minimal amount of effort.

>Game has completley different music depending on the version of the game you play

>Both version's music are good

>>15048638

>guard in the sorrow fight with a vulture tearing at him shouting "YOU ATE ME. YOU ATE ME. YOU ATE ME" at snake

>turn down announcer voice in options

>Announcer talks to you and begs you not to

Sonic AllStar Racing I think it was

ACfA, when you're fighting No Count and Big Barrel, if you wreck Big Barrel first, No Count will then panic and beg for mercy. If you refrain from shooting him for about 10 seconds he straight up fucking bails and leaves the combat zone while your operator roasts him for being a little bitch.

>>15048045

>shoot a barrel and liquid explores

>>15055354

>Pete Hines

God I hate that cunt. He's like some lowly thug who becomes a commisar in a communist dictatorship just as an opportunity to knock people around or a small-time unsuccessful conman but given the position of managing a once beloved vidya franchise.

>>15088210

So he's a jew?

>>15088219

Jews are subtler than this. They need their ground troops.

He's cut from the same mold as lowest Russian scum rallied by Lenin to wreck old manors filled with art as they piss into vases in conviction that they'll become as well off as the bourgeoisie doing it.

>>15088245

>They need their ground troops.

Not ever jew is a higher jew. Most are lesser jew who only have low level goyim to push around.

t. been around a lot of god's chosen

> do a quest chain out of order

> i.e. you collect a quest item before being told to fetch it

> your character or the quest giver acknowledge this

> "oh you mean this? i found it over there"

YES

>>15088262

>>15088320

>pay for game and expansion

>don't pay for second expansion

>game goes f2p

>lol fuck you pay full price for all characters for the last few you don't have unlocked

>>15048483

In The Last Remnant, raiding the enemy bases and suddenly this bomb-ass track coming in was fucking awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh0NWDqYVFY

>>15067252

What game nigger ?

>>15048638

It probably doesn't track specific guards dying, just how many you killed in a particular way (eg headshot death, choking death, etc). I wonder what would happen if you eg use a hex editor to set the numbers to impossibly high, like in the thousands, and bump into the sorrow, if the fight would be incredibly long

>>15088615

I did a play through once killing every guard on the way just to see how long that scene gets. It will actually go on for hours depending on how many people you killed.

>>15088615

Also it does track specific guards dying if you kill the not GRU Russians at the start of the game they show up in the scene too as well as the scientists from the lab.

>>15088262

That's still a lot more than some games released from the same time period.

>>15088613

Ronin. It released on GoG a couple years ago so you can find a torrent easily enough. Honestly, it's not a great game in hindsight; I would describe it as a high-budget Flash game. Despite the objective lack of quality, it's fun and varied enough that jumping around levels and sneaking into the perfect ambush spot felt engaging and meaningful.

The "studio" is literally two guys in Poland, so you get what you pay for. The art was done by the Skyrim Lockpick Animation guy, which I thought was a pretty funny coincidence.

There's also a short comic that came with the special edition, which I have lying around somewhere. I'll see if I can post it.

>>15048367

This happened in TERA and Wildstar aswell

>Game tracks time and date of when you unlock things

>Can also look back at those unlock messages in another menu

>Stat tracking of long your been playing, or other stuff in game tracking of character used most/least used or how many times you have played a particular mode.

>Side character in game tracks strange things like how many times you whacked you head on wooden signs or slipped on bananas and rewards you with joke weapons.

>Game knows you birthday and acknowledges it (or other dates/holidays). Or hardware based acknowledgment like the NDS start up jingle would change on your birthday.

>>15048536

>spoiler

Yep, that correct, it's the Chicago level to be exact. Shooting the barrels so they drain properly is a requirement on the highest difficulty (all secondary objectives (optional) in missions on normal difficulty are upgraded to primary objective status (required) on hard difficulty).

>JRPG

>battle system is card-based, with cards representing everything from weapons to armour to spells to healing items

>combining cards in battle can result in hilarious effects, like fire armour + ice armour cancelling each other out

>you need to rely upon these effects in order to nullify enemy attacks and maximize your combo damage

>the cards also represent items in your inventory

>a banana, which functions as a healing item, will turn into rotten bananas if you carry it around too long

>ice can be used to make fruit smoothies, but it melts into spring water if you hold it

>one character uses trombones and french horns to cast light magic and dark magic

>>15097089

>tfw no homicidal ronin gf to on a murderous rampage with

>tfw no hope of a sequel with co-op or managing multiple characters

It's a shame. I would have liked to see the dev improve upon Ronin rather than release his not!Soulslike Experience™.

https://www.deviantart.com/vanripper/art/mosquito-season-702168122

>>15047887

Wew.

>>15047842

fairies

>everything has a tooltip

>tooltips give detailed breakdowns for stats

>nested tooltips that let you see the tooltip for terms or stats that the parent tooltip contains

>configurable delay until tooltips appear

>>15066043

San Andreas does that, too.

Anyways

>Visible weapon upgrades

>Recieving stat bonuses simply by playing the game in a certain way

>Player model changes as the game progresses

>>15048539

>>15048536

That is the kind of autistic detail I love.

>>15114484

>literally upvote - the ending

Any game that lets me play a sniper with a bow. I'll forgive a lot if I can play a game where I need to adjust for the arc and shoot dudes from far away, while hiding.

In Dragon's Dogma, if a pawn tries to mine an ore deposit at the same time as the Arisen or another pawn, there will be an animation of the pawn's hands getting hurt with a barely audible "ow!" accompanying it. Absolutely no reason to spend development time doing that, but it's one of those little things that add flavour to the game.

Play PS2 Black

>Ai will use actual tactics to flank and get you even pressuring you by tossing nades

>Actual destruction damage on walls such as concrete and wood which means you're not safe turtling nor is the enemy.

>Actual bullet casing animation as well as them remaining on the floor with their proper reload animation.

>The head-inging effect if you stand too close to a grenade or explosive going off as well with the distorted double-vision.

>Also difficulty and resources changes about especially on Black Ops mode in which enemies will fuck your shit up making the silliest mistake. That and also having to actually control your breathing when using a sniper rifle.

>>15088262

shit I havent played that in ages.

I loved playing as the french chameleon and backstabbing everyone. I could see the fear in the enemies manifesting through their movements

>>15055175

>fps

>you can shoot your feet

>>15115037

Everytime I hear a song from that game I feel a little bit.

Both the music and its implementation were perfect.

>Capable/Smart AI buddies. Love it when they can save themselves without cheating

>Different AI for characters/enemies so they have unique gameplay personalities

>Good Rain effects including proper water splash/impact sounds when near different types of objects

When RPGs let me build my own place. Made even better if I can gather resources for them.

>>15088485

Grim Dawn did it flawlessly

>Starts ARPG

>Get quest

>"Fuck you, I'll go wherever I want and kill whomever I want"

>Beat Act 1, 2, 3 and 4 bosses because I can, just by getting there and shooting them in the face.

>Get to plot barrier so I have to go back to the Crossroads Prison to start the game propper. Simply keep turning quests over and over while main characters have unique dialogues everytime you complete quests before they give them to you.

>>15118183

silent storm was a good game unfortunately this could destroy a ladder or stairs you needed to complete a level.

i wish we could get a remake with better graphics and attention to detail

>>15047842

> Fully destructable props and vehicles

> Multiple routes that don't close, so you can explore each one

> Rocket launcher or grenades allow for explosive jumps

> Bleeding after an injury is inflicted, slowly stopping and leaving blood on the floor

> Corpse gibbing

> The ability to play a game entirely with punches

> Semi-auto weapon fires continuously while trigger is held, fires faster if mashed

> Lock-on projectiles that can fire in an arc

> Wall-running

> Non-lethal takedowns

>>15048261

AHHHHHH THIS FUCKING THIS

>>15097135

I remembered to power up my DS on my birthday this year just for that. It also sends a special message to Pictochat rooms if you join one on your birthday.

>>15119167

>>15118183

God I love Silent Storm. The destruction always made for some interesting strategies.

>sniper misses a shot and accidentally blows up a small watchpost behind the enemy by hitting an explosive barrel inside

>have machine gunner chew a hole in the back wall of a building with enemies holed up in it so I can shoot them through the hole

>just have everyone carrying around anti-tank grenades for taking down entire walls

>accidentally shoot out the floor under an enemy and toss a grenade into the basement after him

>boobytrap the door to a house I'm pretty sure has enemies in it and end up accidentally blowing up the old lady who lives there several turns later when she tries to come outside

>>15051901

>barely any videos on this

guess it wasn't meant to be

When a game has very satisfying footstep foley sound effects.

>Cheats that lets me play the game how i want to.

Your female toon has a phallus.

>>15051901

any videos on this? can't find anything on youtube

>>15053402

Space Beast Terror Fright does this well.

>Playing black ops 3 with my normalfag room mate.

>Pick a shotgun.

>Spread is different depending on whether or not you aim down sight.

Today is not opposite day in my country.

>>15055386

It wasn't like E&G, it was E&G. I will greentext the story.

>Mirkwood/Enedwaith era, around F2P launch

>I'm exploring shit and find a jump off of Goblin Town area of Misties

>Complete edge of explorable Eriador, north and east a green expanse of default zonespace

>Huge cliff down to sea level from peaks of misties

>Jump off cliff because

>Land on invisible platform that's like 75% height of Misty Mountains

>Die on impact and can't explore what it is

>self revive on defeat just patched into the game then

>lightbulb.jpg

>Mix self reviving with invisible height ceiling path around the sky

>Can now explore

>End up going west toward Forochel and stuff, passing backside of Angmar

>Want to check out the island on the old map of Eriador to the NW of it

>Turns out it's fucking THERE in landscaping exactly where the map places it

>Can't go down from invisible platform to see up close, by this point I had already been walking for hours to get here

>invisible platform seems to just be above everything

>Walking northwest further of island I pass Thievery and Mischief, the skirmish, on a raised plateau that's visibly snowy and has Bree buildings

>instances as I found out are all about off-world, sometimes alone and sometimes in rows

>Iunno how works, found like 15 of a book quest in Forochel's layout where the Eriador map put Gondor once

>Pass skirm, see Arnorian ruins on ground as LoD models in distance

>I find a spot near ruins where I fall off the platform to landscape height accidentally

>Upon dying and self-reviving I am stuck on one side of a fully walled off ruin, the side in front of me having 2 intersecting wall pieces placed inside one another

>No way in it seemed, but walking into where those pieces met made collision fucky and I ended up being able to squeeze through

>test NPCs outside with Turbine names, several of that boar that rolls around in the beta server E&G

>One guy gives you a stack of First Age barters with a daily reset, intended for Bullroarer testing

>NPC that has quests to cap your virtues at +40 was there

>Tons of this shit inside as well

>E&G itself is a physical building in that ruin, entry door in only.

>7 fucking hours of walking in the sky and coincidence upon coincidence at the perfect patch

My main from then is in a doorless jail cell holding area thing under the Bree Jail interior by the way, having been permabanned not once but 14 times.

>First ban, back on alt account playing on alternate server from my original

>Suspension for shitposting too hard, fucking Turbine

>Find exploit in their website's account page while fucking around with a weird useless seeming feature

>nickname your subscription(s), for a one-account-one-game-one-sub game

>nickname my subscription something dumb

>my 3 day suspension is no longer listed on my account page as ongoing

>Try to log in, works

>UH

>UHHH

>try it on my old account effectively permabanned, banned until 2033 and this was years ago

>It actually fucking works

>Get on my original main, stuck in a jail cell

>Upon logging in greeted with shitstorm because everyone knew how I got banned and for how long

>Hold shitpost court in GLFF

>Eventually attract interest of GMs with my most subtle ploy: Put in a 'I'm stuck, could I get a port? ;)' to GMs via ticket

>obviously unlikely to work, but my everything but chat was essentially disabled

>Get banned on my discovery, told I will not be getting teleported out

>Clear ban again, repeat over a dozen times in all

>Manage to remember fact about my unobtainables I still had from E&G being in my housing chests

>accessible by unjailed characters

>deviousness

>smuggle them all to alt account

>Turbine eventually takes the CD key off my original account entirely

>Later have my unobtainable shit in mules on a f2p, to avoid tragedy

>tragedy that actually strikes when I foolishly told someone on the new server this story only to be discovered by Turbine to be ban evading on my new main which I had actually been good on

>First level 65 Cappy on Riddermark, not really jumping anymore

>Get banned forever out of the blue, get email which pinned the reason as "intent to compromise the game"

>Turbine read my mind and banned me

>still have the email where my mere presence sketches them out

And then I came back a third time, and still play under an assumed identity. >Tl;dr - hit space bar, got banned 15 times

I think it's really cool when you're fighting a boss, and the killing blow makes the game go super slo-mo for a few seconds.

When a fantasy/medieval or whatever game with melee combat has satisfying and more realistic hit sounds instead of the annoying and overused mettalic SHIIING. Bonus for different sounds depending on the surface/type of armor you hit and the weapon you use.

>>15073978

I went into it and have never done Genocide, nor would I.

>>15114484

What game?

>Multiple ways to get a single unlock even through just single or multiplayer gameplay, including crazy stuff you wouldn't think of like reflecting 5 projectiles.

>Something unlocks early because you have save data from another particular game, the game also thanks you for playing that particular game on the unlock screen.

>The credits are their own minigame or interactive and not just some boring standard fade to black "movie" credits. Alternatively if it's a more serious story based game, some sort of story plays in the background while the credits roll.

>>15052894

>incel misogynist doesn't care about gameplay, only textures and skinning

Imagine my surprise. See you in the next thread where you cry about other people ruining video games

Ammo belts on LMG's actually getting shorter as the belt is almost dry

Battlefield 4 does it perfectly

>>/v/15142098

weak b8

>>15048414

>environment shredded in firefights

>quite moment

>appropriate motion blur

>good lighting

I think you're just talking about F.E.A.R. here.

-cool Smoke/Gas effect from guns.

-smoke effects that last for a good while

-dust and debris from shooting scenery

-dust and debris that last

-rendered shell casings

-different sounds for where shell casings land

-different sounds for gunfire depending on environment

-semi-destructibility

-area looks like a smoky haze of bullet holes, spent shell casings and dead bodies after firefight

I can name, off the top of my head, one or two games that basically fit a few of these at once. F.E.A.R. has everything except lasting gun smoke/gas effects and I can barely remember another game that had great gas/smoke effects but almost none of the other stuff. Fallout 4, ironically, has a bit of this especially with mods.

I want a game - ideally something Western for optional black-powder weapons - where you have a firefight and the place looks like there's been a firefight there for at least the next 10 minutes. Most games you have a firefight and by the time you run around the building the only indication is the one body that didn't despawn.

It shows up in movies from time to time, but almost no games do it.

>>15055043

I liked how SWAT 4 gave you four full magazine and you could switch between them.

So if you had 10 rounds left in your first magazine, then after 4 or so magazine changes you went back to you first one with only 10 rounds in it.

There is also Mafia 1 where you will completely discard all rounds left in the magazine if you change it too early.

>>15053402

Neo Scavenger my dude. Especially with mods

>>15097171

What game my nibba ?

>>15148751

Iji is probably the best indie game I've ever played.

>>15119859

Thanks for posting this. I've never played LotR online, but that was a genuinely interesting story. Cut content or walled off areas are always really intriguing to me.

>>15149168

I liked Armageddon. Too bad the fatalities sucked a lot.

>>15047842

>Being able to go outside of the boundary of the perceived map and not only is it not empty, not only is it detailed, there's things to find, too. I fucking love it when it happens.

If you ever swim from Vvardenfell to Solstheim in Morrowind, or just fly, you see some weird shit. When I did my fly-over I found a circle of Dreugh just fucking chilling together in the middle of the ocean, all facing each other in this little ring. There's no way they didn't put that shit there on purpose, but I've never seen anyone else comment on it before. They were doing some weird ass ritual, let me tell you.

>>15048483

I HAVE SO FAR TO GO

>>15114484

>unplayable on PC

>forever

Who cares.

>>15128389

>being so bad at video games that he can’t win without someone else’s help

>>15149013

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean. It's a great game, if you don't mind a very slow pace to the story.

>>15149626

Danke

>>15149618

Unplayale?

Just install F.A.R, the controls aren't ideal but you get used to them, is it the ideal way to play? no, but it's definitely playable and enjoyable

>>15152943

That shit infuriated me when I played it like, over a decade ago, but I don't remember much about it.

>>15154867

>Reddit spaced replies

What are you doing?

>>15148174

>Using - as a list item instead of > on an imageboard

What the FUCK are you doing?

>as character gets stronger, it reflects appropriately in the ragdolling of enemies.

>>15114989

Shit was pretty great. I played him too and once you got good, you could predict how the other guys playing him would act. To the point where you'd be 1v1ing the other chameleon and he'd cloak to try to get away and you'd still kill him while he was invisible.

One of the best moments I've had in any game was when I was playing with friends and we're all standing near one of the turrets and over voice chat I tell them "You know, he's standing right in front of us cloaked, right?" I use the tongue ability to pull him in, and the guys I'm with react right away. Dude rage quits right then.

>>15149168

It was a bit more fun to use an action replay and play as Molock in MK:DA (his moveset is different), and to play as onaga in MK: D (he doesn't have his bitching 20 foot throw-you-onto-your-fucking-skull)

>tfw fucking love fixing places up

>tfw just running around scrapping everything possible trying to make the various settlements in FO4 clean Or buying shit out in AC:brotherhood and watching it get rebuilt to its former glory

Just something nice about that. Bonus points for it giving you a steady income stream

Letting me decorate and change my player home however I see fit. Think Overlord 2 but 100x better.

>>15047842

>buttons in a historical game use art from era it's set in, esp. stained glass windows

>Star Trek games that make Star Trek computer noises/interface looks like interfaces in Star Trek computers, the typewriter button noises in War of the Worlds, shit like that

>movie/TV show games that have a soundtrack other than the movie/show soundtrack looped incongruously over and over no matter the context

>personality traits in RTS/TBS like TW

>more than three VAs per dozen chars/units, they say more than a dozen lines, and like they give half a dead moose's last shit and/or know wth they're talking about (so basically The Virgin Skyrim/The Chad CoH 1 n Warcraft 2)

>franchise shows that don't eff up the tech/setting/character personalities

>the wooden table the map's on in MTW2

>the interface in Krisis in the Kremlin and Hidden Agenda

>good, sensible, subtle Aesops that don't try to hard, also mechanics that support that

>interface uses proper title of address ('Sire', 'Mr. President', 'Dear Leader', etc.) for leader/you depending on gov't type, bonus for using proper feudal titles/differentiating between Kings, Knights, Dukes, Barons, etc.

>allows dropscumming at the start of the game

>quotes from old literature or histories in the loading screen

>soundtrack uses period-accurate instruments and music, bonus if they put a new/atmospheric spin on it like MTW2

>subtle references to cool stuff (Gaians in Alpha Centauri naming a city after a Judas Priest song)

>weather, animal noises, birbsong in outdoor areas, bonus if latter stops around enemies or when combat starts or something

>tech/upgrade/build trees make some kinda sense (as opposed to "we have a printing press let's print some clothing" "we have invented the concept of invention/knowledge inherinance/music" "we built these pyramids, now we can have a government we previously knew buttfuck nothing about", etc.)

>capturing/looting enemy ships/units/tech/gear I can't build myself otherwise/at all, especially powerful ones

>>15048045

>>15087300

>>15088485

this also

>>15048096

>airships

this, and not just in RPGs

fix site

>>15049075

Ratchet & Clank had this. Had an enemy who's AI was too complex, but this secret "museum" showed the model and animations with accompanying developer note explaining it.

RTS where you can terraform the landscape and the changes actually matter

>>15189615

The Wii version did become a sales success because of the Wii having the young audience (as their first console) to buy it and possibly being cheap to manufacture with the Wii Remote being used for button/tilt inputs and wireless transmission output.

The 360/PS3 version needed its own hardware/button inputs/wireless made for it (makes cost go up) and then had no (young) audience to buy it (why draw on a console when you could do it better on a PC).

>>15189615

Reminds me of my worthless shares every time.

>>15070420

Are you fucking serious? Why bother posting if your IQ is that low?

>>15190186

>and possibly being cheap to manufacture

Nintendo has always made gimmicky toys out of whatever was cheapest to produce at the time. LCD screens (or whatever it used) were dirt cheap to mass produce and overabundant when the Gameboy came out, for example.

>>15190199

Have you looked at the price of silver right now, anon?

>Now:

>Gold: $1,234.18

>Silver: $15.54

>NASDAQ: $7,820.20

>5 years ago:

>Gold: $1,129.06

>Silver: $10.79

>NASDAQ: $3,613.16

What this means is that the over the last 5 years, assuming the NASDAQ is accurate and hasn't been manipulated to appear more stable than it actually is, the purchasing power over the last 5 years has basically halved, since it more or less represents the value (in USD) of various commodities.

Throughout history, silver has historically traded at approximately 12 oz : 1 oz gold. Right now it's trading at 80 oz: 1 oz gold, so it is massively undervalued. Basically it's severely undervalued for what it normally is, and it should heavily increase to match the 12:1 ratio with gold (with gold possibly increase or decreasing slightly to match economic demand).

Gold is stable because it is used in jewelry and reclaimed, silver is constantly used all the time in many many consumer products and gets worked back into the environment, as well as having a limited supply, with experts estimating profitable silver mines to deplete by as early as 2030.

Basically, silver looks like such a good investment to me, that I'm going to dump $4,000 into it this week and wait 5, 10, 20 years for it to spike, and when it does, it wouldn't be unreasonable to get back 2x, 5x, even 10x my investment if I wait long enough.

Polite sage for offtopic.

>>15193190

>Meme spacing

I can't expand the reply window with javascript disabled.

>>15193242

I was trying to point out that it's a bullshit excuse

>>15052894

cringe

>>15193260

>that pic

People simply value gold less these days and it has limited industrial purposes compared to other precious metals.

>>15193260

>he pressed enter twice every time

>l-looks like a full paragraph goyim

>>15193264

You mean silver? Your statement makes no sense with that picture otherwise

>>15193354

I rebind to f5 and f6 most of the time

That game was terrible. It was just cause 2 reskinned as mad max without the action

>>15193443

Me too. I wonder what I played in my childhood that imprinted that on me.

>>15193443

Sounds dangerous.

>I'm pretty far, guess it's time to save

>hand slips onto f5

>FUCK

>>15193443

>>15193354

I wonder if I was the only one that ever did + and - for QuickSave/QuickLoad

>>15195360

>use the thermal scope

>ice beam is dark purple and gets pitch black when charged

>plasma beam is almost entirely bright yellow

>fire the power beam a lot

>samus arm cannon gets visibly hot

>>15047842

>drive 10 minutes into the BIG NOTHING

>still has the same amount of content as in the actual game

Wow, bravo Avalanche.

>>15195794

As somebody who never finished that, does Max actually go out into the nothing like a real man or choose to stay like a fag?

>>15196089

>does Max actually go out into the nothing like a real man

This. The game is pretty much a prequel to the most recent movie.

>>15152704

>Just install malware by a corporate shill

lolno

>>15196713

That one is entirely deserved tbh

>>15193190

>>15193270

>getting THIS autistic over spaces

His post was easier to read with the spaces than without them, faggot

>>15193088

While your not wrong about Nintendo's process of "lateral thinking using withered technology" it doesn't apply here. It's THQ that created the UDraw peripheral not Nintendo.

>>15051841

definitely my favorite open world/bamham game ever. great setting, lots of fun, fucking 10/10 optimization, and they put in tons of little touches that show they actually cared about the product

>when you upgrade/change your exhaust, the fire/exhaust/drips come out of where the new exhaust ends

>larger engines have a deeper sound

>the game's story isn't "save the world… AND YOURSELF" and is instead "get a V8 engine for your car because anything less than that is for pussies and faggots"

>the blackfinger's rambling is actually about camshafts and alternators and other actual car-related stuff

>>15199197

>stand in front of a ray of sunlight

>cartilage visible through the ear

>>15193134

One reason why silver has fallen in price is because it used to be used in chemically developing photographs but now everyone has a digital camera.

You may be right that its undervalued now or it could have been overvalued in the past.

>>15199208

Uncharted 4 was truly a master piece

>>15195771

What game?

>>15204910

very easy to appreciate with those thumbnails there

>>15205659

Way of the Samurai

>you can make custom party members

>can change the size of characters

>shorter characters have less reach in combat and can run between the legs of cyclopses

>if they have a lantern on their waist and wade through water it will get drenched and go out

>light characters get blown more by wind

>you can carry them over your shoulder over water/wind

>they can get grabbed by flying harpies and taken up into the air

>you can shoot the harpies and catch them after they fall

>if they fight harpies enough they will learn to do this

>they learn tactics when fighting enemies like weaknesses or killing the leader first

>you can hire other player's characters which will teach yours about these weaknesses

>if you pick up bad habits in combat like picking up items instead of fighting, they will learn to do this too

Looks like its time to reinstall Dragon's Dogma

>>15053402

This is called the "Hobo phase"

>>15194169

I do X and Z, + and - are way too far away from WASD for me.

>>15206210

>if you pick up bad habits in combat like picking up items instead of fighting, they will learn to do this too

lol

Shit I need to play this too.

>>15047842

>find waterfall

>there's a secret item or cave behind it

More so I just assume something is there and am disappointed when there isn't.

Intricate Item crafting

>>15196713

get em

>>15051901

>TFW we will never get to dwell in the Elves version of heaven

Why even live?

>>15055043

Insurgency does this, and Sandstorm allows you to save your partial mag on a reload or drop it, saving time on the reload. The only downside is that dropping the mag sometimes makes you do that faggy tacticool "magflip" that tryhards do because they think it's cool.

>>15141889

>>The final boss is truly OP and requires a plot relevant macguffin, ridiculous amount of skill, god-like stats or the power of friendship to be able to beat him. You are rewarded with a secret/true ending for not using the macguffin.

Oh you'd like the final boss for Mother Russia Bleeds. Hard as fuck and the "macguffin" is actually your healing item

>>15148751

Iji is one of the best games ever made and it has a great fucking soundtrack. And it's all free. I can't believe there are people who haven't played this yet.

>>15048483

>playing Gunz: The Duel with a friend

>our team is getting rolled by enemy team of max rank guys with god-tier k-style skills on display

>whole team dies again except friend

>suddenly he goes berserk and cuts through the whole team single-handedly

>"my favourite song came on"

>>15172096

you are my fucking nigger

>>15216776

If they'd added more polish and advertised this as a spy infiltration game it might've been a hit.

>>15048430

It creates tension maybe? You either stumble about in the darkness or light that torch and be seen by everyone

>>15204910

Any game that can handle weather somewhat accurately. Seasonal variations in temperature and precipitation as well as environmental hazards from such weather.

>>15222288

checked

>>15115037

god, when the choir came in I got some serious chills, even choked up a bit

it's like all the dead characters were coming back to life in one massive, final effort to fix everything once and for all

except it's actual people who were invested enough in the game to sacrifice their 100+ hour saves so some random stranger could see the true ending

for all the depressing bullshit it drags you through, the ending is genuinely, profoundly uplifiting

the way the pods thank you, the player, for your contribution made me feel something indescribable, the game was basically telling you that even though you're just one person, you still have a role to play in the grand scheme of things, and that no matter how shitty life seems you are having a real impact on the world, and you can change what that impact is if you just try hard enough

absolutely masterful game, 11/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWzVIKaYYx8

>>15088485

>your party can consist of several characters, and enlisting other characters who weren't around for a certain plot event will mention they only knew about it off-hand from the rest whereas dialogue changes if you took that character with you for that event

>the dialogue of EVERY NPC changes after every story event in the game

>almost every NPC is named and has their own little storyline which can persist over several regions in the game, some even between several games

>some major fucking emergency happens you need to help out with, and if you try to do some sidequests in the mean time there's actually specific dialogue of you reacting to almost making progress in your sidequest and other party members telling you there's more important things to deal with than going on a treasure hunt

>everyone actually knows and greets you in your hometown, asking how you've been in your travels

The stamina required to uphold this level of detail in the Kiseki games is nothing short of autistic

>>15223193

>almost every NPC is named and has their own little storyline

Some NPC dialogue can actually be a hint for a hidden quest they will give after a story event as well.

>>15088615

>>15088640

>>15088651

It also tracks soldiers you've "eaten", as in killing and eating vultures that were feasting on corpses.

>you can defeat enemies without attacking them by normal means

One of my favorite things to do in Dragon's Dogma is to bait an ogre near a cliff, then watch it accidentally drop kick off the ledge.

every single piece of map geometry being important in halo

When units in RTS games say one-liners that have lore/world-flavor.

e.g.: Spartan in Halo Wars, "For Samuel!" "Another 2525 graduate, huh?"

>>15224670

I don't know why, but it's even better in multiplayer games when you can bait someone into suiciding.

>playing For Honor

>fighting a guy near the edge of a cliff

>his back is to a cliff

>he tries to grab me

>tech the grab

>character automatically pushes him back

>he falls off the cliff

>"WOW NO HONOR!!!" in chat, when he was trying to grab me to throw me off

>>15216776

Takedown mechanics like that really need to be backed up with good gore. You get basically zero visual feedback, not even a little blood spray sprite. If we had soldier of fortune tier gore in games like this, I think people would be more willing to leave cover to try moves like this just for the thrill of it.

>>15204910

The thing I love most about Bloodbourne is it's actual somewhat accurate depiction of Cthulu mythos, but it's kind of hard to say I love it when games do that when it's the only fucking game to do it.

In Arkham Knight you get served by a waitress named Alice

When you visit the morgue later she’s there

Also the posters and statues changing to Joker things

>>15232903

>The game is set in a remote Japanese mountain village named Hanuda (羽生蛇村 Hanyūda Mura), which is described as being very traditional and particularly exclusive society. Following the interruption of a ritual in the forest near midnight and a subsequent earthquake, the village teeters between time and space, with an infinite sea of red water in place of the usual surrounding mountains. The crux of the story focuses on the efforts of Hisako Yao, the leader of a local religion, to resurrect or re-awaken a being known as Datatsushi through an occult ceremony.

Damn, this sounds cool.

>>15232237

>accurate depiction of eldritch horror

>you can kill them by attacking them until they die

pick one

I liked the game anyways but I don't think the gameplay fits the theme at all

>>15234241

I like it better this way honestly, but a Lovecraft themed game with Outlast/investigator like gameplay would be pretty cool too. I'm suprised no one has done that by now.

>>15234262

What game does this?

>>15231903

>Story flashbacks to earlier in the game have your party wearing the current equipment/armor they had at that moment.

>>15155572

Mortal Kombat X had that.

>>15234803

That makes my autism not be able to fight johnny/sonya/cassie as any of the menbers of the family, or jax with jackie.

>>15234822

It makes me want friendships back.

>>15234848

On the other hand, it gives way to great banter, specially those with johnny.

>>15234551

I thinks he's talking about more than one game.

>>15234794

>play sleeping dogs

>get to that one mission where they are about to kill you because they suspect you are a cop

>Wei vehemently denies it

>he does this as you rolled into the mission in a police suv and dressed him in the beat cop costume

>>15234551

>boss fights where you're essentially playing ping pong at an increasing pace

I know Ocarina of Time does this with Ganon, among other Zelda games.

>>15155579

Copying a list from Reddit verbatim, obviously.

>>15231804

watch the sky

>>15237569

kicking is the only way to lessen the tedious combat

>>15149168

I dig Armageddon, picked it up on a whim at goodwill feeling in a fighting game mood, never much of a fighting game guy before that, the shitty 3rd person beat em up campaign was actually pretty reasonably entertaining…

>gimping parts of games by being too skillful

I'm not saying being really good at the game as a whole. For example, annihilating every race in Sleeping Dogs because you can powerslide like a mother fucker.

>>15244257

The tricks are just part of the gud you needed to git.

>>15097089

Danganronpa V3 did this with their Death Road of Despair.

It's an "unwinnable" platformer (janky platforms, slippery controls, height fucking you over because you can't jump high enough…), but if you manage to time everything just right (and get lucky), you get a

>"Wait, what the fuck?"

>"Well, I did say this is the exit."

>"No killing game for you then. Bye!"

And the game ends.

You get an exclusive skin and 100 coins. The 100 coins is throwaway but the exclusive skin is what tortures many people for days to try.

>>15097171

What JRPG?

Not really a mechanic, but I love it when a game makes you feel like a genius.

>Dragons Dogma

>fighting ogre in the mines

>ogre is almost dead and fucking pissed

>playing as assassin so having no magic except for a useless sorcerer is a pain

>one of my abilities is powder blast

>for those who don't know powder blast sets an explosive charge on the ground but you leave a powder trail on the ground to ignite it so the more you walk without detonating the longer it takes to explode

>time it absolutely perfectly taking into estimation how much I have walked and such

>ogre falls then I downcrack him right in the skull

What an odd sense of smug that was.

>>15247235

>"Well, I did say this is the exit."

>"No killing game for you then. Bye!"

That's pretty funny, I like when games have an option where you can avoid something you aren't meant to avoid and it goes "okay smartass, here you go". Not the same thing, but reminds me of how in Divinity: Original Sin, there's a talking statue that says it can show you how your journey will end, and if you ask to see this vision it shows the ending credits.

>pick up sniper rifle

>line up my shot between two targets

>shoot, they're both DEAD on the ground with no one to hear it

hell yeah

On another XC slightly related note, I liked how the time of day or weather would be the occur in a cutscene. When I first saw the cutscene that plays when you visit Melia in her garden was grey skies and raining and somehow felt appropriate for the somber mood of that part of the story. After viewing other videos of that same scene, I seen one at night and another at night with "falling stars" weather effect in the background. The falling stars actually produce their own noise during that scene and even fall through the ground the characters are standing on during it.

>>15234809

Kek, I was wondering if something like this could happen.

>game has some overly complicated easter egg/secret to discover

>it gives you nothing at the end

Besides Star Wars: KOTOR and Fable 3 what are some other good examples?

>>15119859

Really cool story. Shame that Turbine gave you such a shitty time seeing as you clearly love the game. If it was up to me I would of just taken the gamebreaking stuff back and given your character a unique title or something. Hell make an npc based on your character that is a famous explorer with a simple quest tied to him. Would have put a much more positive spin on the story.

>>15251846

You love tht?

>>15251846

>likes getting fucked by devs

reddit is in the next building

>>15252111

>>15252439

I like it because it is funny to see people getting worked up over a joke. For example: the code panel hidden in Maniac Mansion or the triangular gate on Halo 2, there's something funny about people spending years if not decades speculating about a joke/cut content

>>15128399

You have to man. The game wouldn't nearly be as good if I didn't get all endings. It's supposed to have a deeper message to you as a player.

>>15249451

The skill ceiling for that game is so high. I've got hundreds of hours sunk into it.

>>15254504

he's probably saying that skirts don't work like that

>>15255859

Bouncing when you run? What does that have to do with sex?

>>15252910

>fucking real girls

Get outta here, you sex-haver

>when a boss uses a similiar moveset to yours.

>>15142098

>incel misogynist

Kek. >>>/reddit/ is this way cuck

>>15256309

You forgot >>15252910

>>15256685

Nah I remember somebody mentioning that 4chan was down in another thread, this is probably just how bad it's gotten there.

>>15262832

splinter cell?

>>15256685

I-it cannot be!? IS THIS THE LEGENDARY SUPER SOYIAN?

>>15261743

I CAN'T HABEEB 4CHAN IS SHUTTING DOWN! TWINKIE HOUSE! I CAN'T HABEEB 4CHAN IS SHUTTING DOWN! TWINKIE HOUSE! I CAN'T HABEEB 4CHAN IS SHUTTING DOWN! TWINKIE HOUSE! I CAN'T HABEEB 4CHAN IS SHUTTING DOWN! TWINKIE HOUSE! I CAN'T HABEEB 4CHAN IS SHUTTING DOWN! TWINKIE HOUSE! I CAN'T HABEEB 4CHAN IS SHUTTING DOWN! TWINKIE HOUSE! I CAN'T HABEEB 4CHAN IS SHUTTING DOWN! TWINKIE HOUSE! I CAN'T HABEEB 4CHAN IS SHUTTING DOWN! TWINKIE HOUSE! I CAN'T HABEEB 4CHAN IS SHUTTING DOWN! TWINKIE HOUSE! I CAN'T HABEEB 4CHAN IS SHUTTING DOWN! TWINKIE HOUSE!

>>15264698

yis

open / large world games with no in-game maps or fucking gaydar

>>15251867

Thanks anon, I love the thought of either. My third account is still going strong, and while I miss a few things about my original (particularly my lifetime sub) I'm still reasonably content with how it's turned out. It's going to definitely be a lesson to me to not let people find out what shit I get up to in my autistic climbing of that mountain, so some good came of it.

>>15149618

> this meme again

>>15114901

You can also mine those by swinging a Warrior weapon at them, but it makes the ore fly everywhere making it hard to collect.

>>15067252

is that a famas?

>>15149565

There's also a random bottle floating in the middle of nowhere North of Dagon Fel. It contains a poem.

>>15047948

>>15048045

>MGS series is known for TECHNOLOGY

>MGSV ignores barrel physics and just plays a pre-made decal of water coming out, no matter where or how many times you shoot the container

Do you feel it, too?

>>15279170

Can any gooks please translate

Reputation systems which make enemy grunts actively scared when you show up. I wish more games - especially shooters - would have that.

When you increase a stat and your animation slightly speeds up.

(Versus having to increase your stat to an arbitrary level to see any difference)

Ie: you can't weild the super duper power axe until you have 45 STRG. Doesn't matter if you have 10 STRG or 43 STRG.

Id prefer if it would slowly increase my swing speed as my STRG increased.

>>15048367

>game devs hate him! How to fucking destroy your favorite part of your favorite game with one simple trick.

hehe

>>15287363

I know some games have unique animations for when you don't have enough strength, in which your character barely gets the weapon off the ground each swing, but I haven't heard of animations gradually speeding up, what games do this?

>>15048483

Undertale was like a good shounen romp in vidya form.

>>15048483

>As we all know, a proper final boss is now 'too videogamey'

I hate when devs think this. As you play through the game you begin to master the main gameplay mechanics, so naturally the final boss should be a test of your mastery. Not some unrelated Simon Says bullshit.

>>15287247

don't do this too me, anon. Why must the good die young?

No more flight arena-shooters

>>15232012

With takedowns like those W_D ones, it should actually let you click to fire the gun. It'll hit wherever it's pointing at the time (too early, and you shoot them in the leg), and if you don't click to fire, they'll break free a fraction of a second after the animation is done, or counter and shoot you. Recoil should be take into effect, delaying the overall animation, and letting you perform the Djibouti Shooty on people if you time it well. Good gore would be absolutely critical, you need to make it visceral and satisfying.

High-level enemies will break the animation long before it ends and you absolutely need to shoot them immediately, even if it's just in the leg, to shock them long enough to pull off a lethal shot.

>>15296427

>spoiler

Wouldn't it be easier to just to do the mozambique drill then?

>>15047887

noice

>>15047948

One of my favourite moments is in MGS4. If you wear a headset and Otacon calls you for an "in game" codec conversation, his voice will play in your headset instead of the TV. It didn't happen that often though.

>>15047948

now when you shoot shit it just explodes into particles

Creative opening logos. They really make me feel like I'm about to experience something special.

>Console game is supposed to be exclusively compatible with particular hardware revisions / addons / upgrades

>Try to run the game on incompatible hardware anyway

>There's supposed to be a "Please use [this hardware] instead" warning, but the game's title screen appears

>It's a fakeout, and a deliberately shitty 'downgraded' version of the game starts up

>The 'fake game' has the actual warning message at the end

Alternatively:

>Put a console disc into a PC

>Apart from the actual game files, there's a folder with PC screensavers, wallpapers and other cool shit

>If you try to run the disc in a music player (through hardware or software), the game's voice actors call you out and then explain how to actually play the game

Good gore. I want to see enemies just falling over if I'm only using a small pistol and exploding into piles of gore if I'm using the rocket launcher.

>>15097171

>tfw Baten Kaitos is a dead series

The battle system and the card mechanics inside and outside of battle were so good though. Fuck, it was a really creative game in that aspect. Hopefully Tri-Ace will return to the series at some point.

>>15247717

Dragon's Dogma was great for that shit, especially if your pawns were competent.

>Fighting a griffon

>Manage to knock it over and decide to charge up a good ol' Arc of Deliverance

>Not enough time to charge the attack

>Griffon gets up and tries to fly away

>Lifts like 20ft off the ground and tries to take off

>My Amazonian ranger waifu fucks it up with a charge shot to the wing

>Fucker fall from the sky and lands right on my fully charged swing and is blown the fuck out

Too bad the Warrior class is gimped to hell; AoD is really satisfying to hit with,

>>15307577

Just found another thing along these lines in the "rare secrets" thread: >>15305248

>>15193354

F5 IS FOR SCREENSHOT!

F6 IS FOR QUICK-SAVE!

F7 IS FOR QUICK-LOAD!

>Playing the single player or another offline/single player/coop mode unlocks content for multiplayer

I love this

>you have saves from older games in the series

>the newer games reward you for it

Good shit.

>>15313652

>not having enough dex to never misclick

fucking ape

>>15121264

Sauce on white girl pic? She looks like she's remembering the most orgasmic experience she has ever had….

>>15314282

This board is whites only, pls go.

>>15314328

Aaaaaand I'm whiter than you, Moshe. I said "white" to distinguish from the ape on the right.

>>15314362

>trying this hard to fit in

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