/v/ - Video Games

I'm still so butthurt over how xbawks is the only one from that gen still not possible to emulate

Things just change. I mean the 8th gen still feels like it barely started at all, and somehow PS4 and Xbone manage to be both underpowered and hardly ever using their potential at the same time (all the great games from the past were made on much weaker hardware, imagine what you could do if you just expanded them but with modern consoles).

>>15465040

>RDR

That's like one of my final great games from that gen until it all went to shit. RDR2 does look good on previews but I have a hunch they'll fuck it up just like with GTA V. Speaking of, GTA IV embodied the early 7th gen optimism for me, it sure lacked content but the level of detail and sophistication of the physics beats current games.

>>15465040

Eternal sonata is on pc and I thought red dead was on pc too.

>>15465059

PS3 is by far my favorite console ever. I don't know how anything can hope to compare.

>>15465050

Skyrim

>>15465143

sorry, partial emulation is the wrong phrase. It's got the hardware but it's not a perfect experience like real hardware would be.

>PS3

Talladega NiGHTS into Dreams

>360

Muchi Muchi Pork

>Wii

Sin & Punishment: Star Successor

>>15465143

I own a 60gb PS3 and a PS2 and I have yet to find a game that doesn't run better on the PS3 than it does on PS2.

If it didn't YLOD on me, it would still be my choice for PS2 games considering its superiority.

>>15465065

Even with all it's issues, GTAIV is still a really good game. There is a lack of stuff to do but I sucked it up and did a bunch of friend hangouts anyway just to listen to their stories. I also never knew that you could just "Call" Roman and have a conversation with him about the story progression without hanging out.

I used to graphicsfag hard on the PC version and had it all jacked up with hundreds of mods and scripts and just dealt with it chugging at 24fps but now I've learned to appreciate vanilla, even turned the Definition mode off and learned to enjoy that slight blur across the skyline and all the extra visual effects. There's a Reborn patch with some performance and render fixes and it's packed with a rifle animation fix that removes the input lag/delay when you fire.

The writing was also way better than V in my opinion, it's like as soon as 2010 went by everyone that could write good satire got replaced by one-note snark factories.

>>15465170

V basically disappointed me on every level. The map is boring and it has neither the detail of IV nor the scope of SA, shooting physics are just unsatisfying, driving is boring and dumbed down, there's ultimately very little content, biggest personal disappointment that gen to me next to Saints Row 3. I just wanted them to reuse the basic gameplay of IV with some tweaks and more content and I got nothing.

The satire is also shit indeed with wannabe South Park bullshit. Also, because I care too much about cars in vidya I hated the car selection, more vehicles than ever but the variety sucks. There's more sports and luxury cars than ever, most of which are ugly and clearly designed by somebody else than in IV (IV had some of the most beautiful fictional cars ever), half of them are only available by purchasing them through website in vanilla game, hardly any "normal" cars (IV nailed that, V has ghetto hood rats driving mint condition 1960s muscle cars and 1950s Bel Airs in 2013).

>>15465173

If only ODST wasn't so rushed we could have gotten a proper game. It always bugged me that the Rookie played the same way as Chief, just with fixed health and Stamina instead of shields.

Oh, and the SMG. How depressing. It's the perfect weapon for an ODST to sneak and peek around the city at night but it does less damage than the Vanilla one and taking out a few Brutes with it will burn up a full load of ammo.

>>15465201

I won't deny its got its flaws, but those flaws seem minuscule in the accomplishments of the rest of the game. Focusing entirely on them will no doubt color your experience and likely result in you ignoring any good and only seeing the bad. The atmosphere, that sharp sense of loneliness and the little stories told throughout New Mombasa, as well as the ODST squad that fought through the streets as the last ditch effort, there's a heart of gold in there, but if you're only interested in the flaky outside, you're only gonna take that away.

>>15465240

100%, it's a console friendly board now. You're no longer welcome here, you can leave.

>>15465263

>he doesn't like killzone mercenary

>he doesn't like halo 3

shit taste, filtered.

>>15465231

I still had a lot of fun with the game, I didn't get mad every time the Rookie lost his "Stamina", but it always felt meloncholy when you opened a supply cache and saw all those useless SMGs stacked there.

Now the suppressed Magnum, that was a weapon.

>>15465274

Man, I really wish Bungie didn't fall for the colossal project meme. As if the signs weren't on the wall late last generation that the industry can't keep on trucking with projects with 100M+ budgets that may end up being flops and result in massive losses.

Would rather see a new game from teams twice or three times the size of ODST's every 2 years, small games that experiment with game play a little more, games that attempt to evoke a unique emotion here and there. Oh well, at least we got what we did.

I think I'm due to replay it, it's been plenty of years for me that I just have a vague grasp on it.

>>15465318

It doesn't sound like you fancy discussing video games at all. What you ever came for to begin with is a mystery.

>>15465007

>we saw a lot of extremes and experimentation taken with these systems.

No. Besides motion control fuckery and online play, there really wasn't.

I know /v/ likes to claim how yesterday's garbage is better whenever a new cancer appears, like how everyone on /v/ used to hate Halo until Halo 3 turned 10 years old, or how HL and Valve magically went from overrated to good here. And trust me, there are some cases where this pattern is true. But 7th gen really was just beta 8th gen for me.

>paid online

>DLC

>interesting small games and AAs get crushed by shovelware and blockbusters

>appshit on consoles

>absence of japanese games outside ATLUS, Nintendo and some 6/10 moeshit

>Cheevos

>graphics over experimentation and gameplay

>rise of dudebro shooters and cinematic soy

>4chan /v/ gets flooded with console war shit

The only things i legitimately liked about that gen were the PSP and the DS, if you count them as 7th gen. But consoles truly lost their identity in that generation.

Can we please settle on the 6th gen being the last good gen?

>>15465371

No shit it brought the cancer, but the beginning of it was still optimistic - early 7th gen games were good because they still followed 6th gen philosophy, but with better hardware. Sadly the good stuff ended abruptly.

>>15465387

You know these are merely exceptions to the rule, and whatever other examples probably sold like shit and no one remembers them anyways.

You can't deny 7th gen was the flood that killed anything that wasn't an AAA Ultrabudget or Shitty shovelware.

>>15465475

I don't even particularly like the PS3 library, but as a console, there's just nothing out there that compares. It's backwards-compatible, has several media features, and used to be able to run other operating systems.

>>15465497

> If you don't like good games

You've yet to list one OP

>>15465507

I don't know enough about the PS3's library personally, and the thing is I used to default that it's shit, they're all shit, but the more I look at it, the more good games I find, and I become a lot happier knowing there's plenty out there to enjoy. So I stopped thinking that because it kept being proven wrong, and I'm still discovering awesome games. I think that's the most important thing, good games, and there's a lot of em out there.

>>15465506

What are good games to you? Name like 3.

>>15465497

>How was Noby Noby Boy?

It was strange. it wasn't even a game really and it was free if I remember correctly.

It was a sandbox type thing where you control a Japanese worm freak that could grow really long or shorten his length. Also he could eat anything that would fit in his mouth and he could shit them out of his backside unharmed.

The more people played, the game gathered stretching info of all the players and added the length to his girlfriend "Girl" who would stretch with the goal of making it to the moon. I think she wound up making it around the whole solar system.

>>15465507

>has several media features

One of the stupidest things Sony did with the PS4 was remove media features that were in the PS3 and even the fucking Vita. For example, streaming video from my PC can be done on a PS3 or Vita with a tiny bit of setup, but a PS4 can't. Also, PS4s don't seem to read home made discs, so my archived anime is unwatchable. The PS3 does that just fine. Hell, the PS4 couldn't even play shit from an external device for some time after its launch, if I remember right. About the only thing the PS4 does better than the PS3 or Vita in terms of media features is that it's nowhere near as picky about what files it plays, and it plays more file types, mkv being the most notable that works on PS4 but not PS3.

>>15465540

That actually sounds pretty awesome. I get the feeling that it's not something that can be experienced any more, right?

>>15465007

They said from the very beginning that both PS3 and Xbox 360 would have nearly ten-year long lifespans. It wasn't going to be the 4-5 year hump-n-dump like every other generation had been.

The only exception was the Wii, which wasn't designed to be an all-in-one set-top box like the PS3 and 360 were.

>>15465560

Those are all console games from that same generation. Only one of them is any good. The rest are cinematic garbage. Man, get out of here.

>>15465059

>launch version

>full library of great games.

You must have been still learning the alphabet at that time, because the launch library of the PS3 was garbage that didn't resolve itself into well the following year. I know, because I was one of the schmucks who dropped $599 for the damn machine.

>controller was solid.

The controller was gimped at launch due the legal wranglings over Dual Shock technology. The PS3 was the only console that didn't have force feedback standard on launch, which was about the most regressive thing to ever have happened to a video game console.

>>15465522

>beats the Dreamcast PS1 and PS2 like they were nothing

Well yeah sort of, since all models have PS1 BC and the aforementioned fats with PS2 hardware BC, I'd say it does.

Pssst....a lot of Dreamcast games are on PSN too. But I'll be the first to say that Jet Set Radio controls way better on the DC and the Dualshock 3 triggers suck ass when you have to hold them down.

>>15465575

>the launch version of the physical console means he's talking about the launch library!

And this is how we learn to ignore all further posts by you.

>>15465570

>>15465569

Grandpa, you already posted this in the other thread.

>>15465475

How to make /v/ like any game/console/gen:

>ensure it's at least 7 years old for nostalgia

>make a thread on /v/ along the lines of "who remembers this masterpiece" or ">game was released 10 years ago whoa"

>people start jerking off to your game

>when people start shitting on your game, use void arguments and nuh-uhs to deride any criticism

>cry about hipsters and contrarianism with your fellow fanboys and hide behind smug to show you totally fit in

>Congrats, now /v/ likes your game and anyone who doesn't like it is a hipster, now you can invite your leddit friends to shit up this board.

8/v/ will love Skyrim by 2021, screencap this shit.

>>15465605

/v/ already tolerates Oblivion and Bad Company 2, nice observation mate.

>>15465552

>I get the feeling that it's not something that can be experienced any more, right?

I wouldn't know. My PS3 shit the bed years ago.

>>15465635

>/v/ is one person

>The opinions of a few dumbasses represent "most" of the board

>>15465635

>they

>most

Fuck off.

>>15465635

>GTA IV

>a reddit game

>Skyward Sword, Oblivion

>universally agreed to be good

Even Halo praising has been there for a few years already.

>>15465371

Valve didn't become good here. Half-Life did but not Valve. What are you talking about?

>>15465747

>god awful open world

I preferred SA's world for the scope but there's no denying IV's LC is detailed as fuck (V on the other hand had neither the scope nor the detail).

>especially in 2008

2008 pissed me off with titles such as Fallout 3, GTA IV one of the few I remember fondly (I liked SR2 better but you can like both).

And show me where I'm praising Oblivion or Skyward Sword, I'm only saying /v/ is not one person. I don't think reddit particularly loves these games, they just consider shit like that card from Bioshock Infinite to be intellectual puzzles.

>>15465783

Liberty City was detailed as fuck, I agree. The starting area in not-Brooklyn is so well done. that everything else feels like kind of a let down, especially most of Manhattan. New Joyzee didn't need to be included either, the downtown area is very well done with lots of unique old buildings and winding, confusing streets but other than that the rest of it is just boring. No unique activities and no friends living there mean that there's no reason to visit outside of missions.

>>15465845

I still like Alderney for its atmosphere but it feels too condensed and just cuts abruptly into the sea, and feels like an afterthought sometimes (it's a different state but uses LCPD cop cars for instance).

Overall I think IV was still good and showed that old passion from the devs you don't find anymore, my main problem besides the lack of content was that it had already sewn the seeds that would plague gaming later on, including the flaws of GTA V.

>>15465140

It was a rhetorical question, but thank you for confirming there were none.

>>15465775

So get thee hence. Dunno what to tell you.

>>15465865

Part of Alderney's problem was that it also contained some of the worst missions in the game, either doing mob work for a joke of a Family because Peg can totally give a better deal than ULPC, or doing bitch work for Packie's brother, something something the old days in Ireland, the cause, the struggle, etc etc.

I got my PS3 slim back in 2014. It's the only gaming system i own other than my DSI XL i got back in 2011. I was playing Minecraft on it earlier yesterday until about 3 in the morning.

I love that gen.

>>15465983

Very nice, got it running CFW?

>>15466006

Nah, i don't like fucking with it. I play it vanilla, i don't really care about all that extra stuff.

You still own a PS3? We could play games together.

too human on the 360 was pretty good, wasn't great, wasn't the best. but it was an interesting game and experience by a not very known company.

>>15466029

I can't play online, I'm running CFW so I'd be banned. Sorry but thank you.

>>15466057

wasn't that the one that Epic threw a fit over using their engine and tried to recall every copy of the game?

>>15466057

>Too Human

sounds like the punchline to some joke involving bestiality.

>>15466072

yeah epic threw a fit over it, was a cool game though

>>15466072

Just take off your CFW.

If you do, what games do you have for it?

Ones i play the most are battleshit 4 and minecraft

>>15466234

Yeah true, there was just a weird consensus back then then all AAA shooters had a "Gritty" look to them, including Halo albeit to a much lesser extent

Then when the 8th gen came around AAA devs flipped a fucking switch and did the opposite with "Fake HDR" which basically means they blew the colors out and oversaturated everything

Consoleniggers: What's your endgame?

>>15466322

Already there, I was a consolenigger until the 8th generation became a thing and realized all the consoles bar the WiiU were just PCs with custom cases and non-standard firmwares so I became a PCNigger instead and haven't looked back

>>15466322

Here's something wacky to think about - PC gamers might own a console or two. You see, despite popular belief, there's no law that states that people must choose a single platform and pledge allegiance to it as if it were their homeland amidst conflict.

>>15465511

Just because you don't like them (or more likely haven't played them) doesn't mean they aren't good games, stop acting like a nigger.

>>15466336

>Here's something wacky to think about

Spending money on two additional sets of hardware when one is more than enough sounds pretty wacky. I guess you have to be a consolenigger in the first place to consider that option.

>There's no law that states that people must choose a single platform and pledge allegiance to it as if it were their homeland amidst conflict.

What's your point? There's no law against drinking cyanide either and yet you haven't felt the urge to be an edgy contrarian.

>>15466336

Not to mention being a 7th gen idort is less than $150 away. About a year ago pawn shops near me were selling 360s and PS3s of every gen and model for $49.99 with a "if it's a brick take it back and grab a new one from the pile" warranty. I think Wiis were $40 or less depending on condition.

Now that I think about it, they were also selling XBones for $150 back then, I wonder how much they are now. Might put a Bone and MCC on my list soon. Or is it worth it to get the Xbone X?

It's a shame that I never got to play Demon's Souls nor Metal Gear Rising. I really feel that something great could be lost if the emulator shoa continues.

>>15465073

>smug anime poster

>>15466322

My endgame is to play good video games. I wish that they could all be on pc, but this simply isn't true. >>15466372

>spending money on something that you like is wacky

>>15465605

I like skyrim

>>15466374

>About a year ago pawn shops near me were selling 360s and PS3s of every gen and model for $49.99

I just bought a PS3 for 20 bucks, it had YLOD on so I baked it to reflow the solde, finally worked, then bricked it trying to install CFW, I couldn't use safemode because I didn't have the original controller, and I realized that I would most likely get a YLOD again unless I completely recased the thing and re-applied thermal paste to the heat sink. I ended up just throwing it out, it was only 20 bucks so easy come easy go, probably could've fixed it but at that point it would've cost more to do that then what I payed for it. Emulation is getting better anyways. Its just a real fucking shame Sony had the processors upside-down inside the case. Who fucking designed it that way and used cheap solder joints? What was Sony thinking? Were they mentally retarded?

>>15466435

I have an original model fatty and I'm hoping that it never YLODs on me. I keep it cool when running, cleaned the fan when I got it and have a USB fan blowing into the intake.

It's a shame how many consoles break just due to nigger-tier owners. Oh, I outs it on da carpet nd it start smoking n shit. Oh I spills mah 40 on it. Oh Drayquavious kick it when he lose madden. Keep an eye out when shopping for used consoles, most pawn shops won't sort by condition if they're flodded with units and if you're lucky they won't even price them by HDD size.

>>15466453

>well optimized pc port

What.

Shit, I don't even care that anime posters are accpeted here. This is a good day.

>>15466470

I've seen PS3s completely clean just YLOD. You have to understand that Sony chose a very cheap lead-free solder for the heat spreaders, this wouldn't be an issue except the chips are physically upside-down inside the case, so you get a heat spreader designed to get hot being applied with cheap solder and hanging upside-down, the solder will soften and the heat spreader will be pulled downwards off the chips from gravity. Its just really poor thermal design in general. Even the Xbox 360 had really bad thermal design with its red rings. Consoles of this generation were made in a really weird point in time when processors got more and more powerful and ran hotter than ever but good thermal design was still very poorly understood

>>15465314

They were a yuge step down from 64 and even Sunshine, though.

>>15466506

They were on par with 64 and Sunshine was never that good

>>15466487

>I don't even care that anime posters are accpeted here.

Where do you think we are?

>didn't even know about MGR on PC

Lurk for 10 years underage. Meanwhile >>>/reddit/

>>15466496

Ah yes, ye olde days of "this chip runs hot as fuck already, ship it with a fan it'll be fine". Yes I've heard of heat issues out of the box and I've also seen OG 360s run just fine in 2018. It's odd. How labor-intensive is replacing that thermal paste in a fat PS3? I'll probably have to do it eventually.

>>15466518

>How labor-intensive is replacing that thermal paste in a fat PS3? I'll probably have to do it eventually.

For the heat sink its a slight inconvenience since the console is kind of a puzzle to disassemble but not too bad and after that you just remove the heat sink, reapply thermal paste, and screw back on, just like a PC.

The internal heat spreaders are a lot harder though since you will need to de-lid the chips and then reapply actual leaded solder to them which is easier said than done but it has been done before. Still wouldn't be comfortable with the chips hanging upside down since heat rises (seriously what the fuck was Sony high on when they did it this way?) but not much to do about that other than recase it.

Shameful generation spawning arguably one or two all time classics. Lots of good games, very few great and Demons Souls.

>>15466517

>underage

How did you know that I was a twelve year old redditor all along?

>>15466556

I don't judge generations by how much shovel ware and generic AAA games that it had. I just ignore those titles and try to find the good ones. A system with 1 great game, 10 good games and 10,000 trash games is better than a system with 1 good game and 500 trash games.

>>15466574

>How did you know that I was a twelve year old redditor all along?

Your retardation gave it away. At least you're honest >>>/reddit/

>a system with 1 good game and 500 trash games.

Sums up the libraries of all 3 consoles at the time. I guess 7th gen was your first console generation so it's understandable you would think it's good.

>>15466169

It's crazy to think games like GoW and TES4 are now being defended when they were criticized for being everything wrong with video games when they came out.

>>15466603

it's just underaged b& and their (((nostalgia)))

Oblivion will never be good unlike Skyrim, pls buy

>>15466592

No, the PS2 and gamecube were my first consoles.

My family also had a N64 that we used long after its life cycle.

I think that 7 is good more for its online functionality more than anything else.

The shitty trends that exist today started in it and party games began to decline.

Even still playing a match of whatever dudeshooter to shittalk and goof around was much more fun than the competitive yet also hypersensitive shit that we have now.

>>15466619

You're a lot younger than me if those were your firsts, I started out on the PC and had plenty of experience with my brothers Genesis and Super Nintendo, and had pretty much every system in every following generation with the exception of the 7th, which I am still catching up on. In that sense I feel like I missed out on quite a lot, and there's plenty of great games to play from the time.

>>15465635

I liked Halo. I thought the multiplayer was good, casual fun.

>>15466619

>Hypersensetive and competitive

Truly one of the worst parts of the industry. Oy vey, buy the season pass and rank up and count your virtual XP shekels, but say "gg no re" ONCE and it's OUT for YOU, goy!

On another note, there's a really good part of crowbcat's Bungie vs. 343 video where he compares the attitude towards MP. The Bungie devs talked about how they had a playtesting/break room with multiple Xboxes running a beta build set up over System Link like a huge 20 player LAN party at all hours. Then he switched to a supercut of 343 talking about multiplayer.

>competitive

>competitive

>competitive experience

>the competitive community

>competitive

>competitive

>competitive gameplay

>competitive

>competitive modes

>>15465371

I find it funny most do not mention the whole COD problem where almost every single game was a FPS and besides Indie and Japanese games there really was not much innovation or originality the whole Generation.

>>15466696

It's just that most people don't want to talk about the shit of the generation. People say good things about the PS3 even though Sony had a massive inferiority complex regarding Halo and as such we got all those Halo-killer turds. I'd rather talk about Vanquish than HAZE, honestly

>>15466892

>Why focus on the bad when you can just have fun instead?

Because I dislike people eating shit for fun.

>>15466909

do sumfin bout it bich nigga

>>15466909

<STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE!

Fine, be a sour bitch and miss out on good vidya.

>>15465201

>implying

The SMG is better for whittling down brute shields than the plasma pistol, rookie was also way weaker than the chief, you could punch a brute four times in a row and it wouldn't do shit, he also couldn't jump as higher, his grenade throws had a weird arc to them and he couldn't bunnyhop properly.

>>15467012

>wah wah me no like u post

>me post from folder of """""modified"""" beastiality porn

And thus the NPC goes down his list of pre-programmed responses for when something makes his brain hurt.

>>15466928

>>15466892

Too bad those 3 games are not representative of what the 7th was, which was shit.

>>15466931

<STOP NOT LIKING SHIT I LIKE!

Fine, be a normalfag and be nostalgic for shit vidya.

>>15466911

Be a nigger on >>>/cuckchan/

>>15467030

>WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH IF I POST LIKE A NIGGER HE WONT NOTICE MY SHIT TASTE

And thus the normalfag uses terms like "NPC" to prove he isn't new.

>>15467051

Keep going boys, at this rate he'll suffer ego death and either go insane or gain sentience like an actual human.

>>15467056

>y-y-you're the same person!

Uh oh boys, >>>/cuckchan/ revealed itself.

>>15467075

>what is samefagging

Get mad. Get mad because I like videogames you don't like.

>>15467110

MGS 4 had some decent moments between the multiple movies

>>15465552

it truly was a hilarious game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuIkKdomA6o

>>15467131

But was it kino?

Because it sure as hell wasn't ludo

>>15467110

AC2 was the only good one in the series

>>15467131

Despite the complaints about it being a movie, it supposedly had a larger gameplay-to-movie ratio than most of the other games in the series.

>>15467132

>Jewtube

>Can't even embed

What a beautiful newfag

>>15467142

IIRC there were like 4 hours of gameplay and 5 of cutscenes. MGS3 was mostly gameplay, and I think MGS2 was but it's been so fucking long I can't remember.

I didn't have MGS when I had a PSX as a child, and I can't deal with the fucking shit controls as a manchild

>>15465371

HL was never overrated, HL2 yes but not HL

>>15467142

Asscreed 1 was the only good one with 4 being mediocre thanks in part due to it's casualized Age of Pirates section of gameplay which was merely a distraction from the actual garbage game.

>>15467148

>MGS

>Shit controls

This thread is nothing but casuals it seems.

I liked the seventh generation but it's a damn shame it introduced the concept of social media on a console, dlc, season pass, paid online (xbox) and eventually ps plus, motion controls and retarded experiments like the fucking kinect. If it didn't have the things I just mentioned it would have been an upgrade from generation 6.

wii sports was fucking comfy

>>15467145

Just your average consolenigger

>>15467213

>The more cuckchan floods in and vets dissapear the more and more the board becomes console friendly

>More and more 7th Gen threads

Really makes you think

>>15466374

>ight put a Bone and MCC on my list soon. Or is it worth it to get the Xbone X?

MCC literally does not work, from what halofags say it's absolutely a buggy piece of shit even years after release. patches made it worse and xbone can't skip patches, it is as bad as Windows 10 in that regard.

Just get the original games and run them on a 360 if you get the itch.

>>15465059

>cut down 7800 shoved in there instead of the romored toshiba gpu or just running off the "cell" itself

>online was knackered almost the entire time hacked took years to launch

>console launched 2 years late was meant to be 2005-2006 but ended up coming out in 2007

i

>>15465028

And it never will be.

>>15478238

wrong

http://archive.is/iScef

>>15465007

>What are some of your favorite games still only available for these platforms?

RDR1

>>15465028

nothing worth emulating

>>15465575

force feedback has been an unnecessary thing since its inception

>>15465028

Blame reddit for it.