/v/ - Video Games

Minigames that are fun enough to play by themselves, where you'll boot the game up just to play them. Looking at you TT, remembering better times.

There are many things to mention but this really cracks my nut, pulls me in and the atmospheric sounds of the game gently lull me into an autistic fugue state.

>>15812951

Good stuff, too bad it links to the Steam store though. Can't have everything go to plan I suppose.

tfw a perfectionist in a fallen insane inverted world

PDA sounds in STALKER

He wiped out the whole squad :( from FEAR

Really any pleasant soundbite from games raises their score by 1 out 10 for me.

That one prostitute in Metro who you pay for a good time and but can't last even long enough to see her tits since a guy hits you and they rob you blind.

>>15810801

One of my favorite games. Comfy as fuck except when you're hunting for a bomb.

>>15809967

>The little things that make games memorable:

Samurai Warriors 4, has some pretty cheesy dialogue to all the different heroes, and any combination of them. Really funny, but kinda intended also. The game has super fun extra modes, but some of the story dialogue is horrible. You get the good with the bad.

SW4 is full of little things that make it good.

Play the game.

>>15809967

There's a few little things in games that have stood out to me. They may not be quintessential gems of gaming, but they have a pretty solid place in my heart.

The way Mafia II started out, it began with your usual narrative opening, and then the WW2 segment. It wasn't until the game starts out in Empire Bay in the middle of 1940s winter that it really struck a chord with me. I also happened to torrent the game right in the midst of my winter vacation one year, and it was just the comfiest thing ever. I really enjoyed taking my time with that game, being in that world. For so many things that people hated about that game, I feel like there are so many things that they did right, and its atmosphere was one of them. At least, for that half of the game. The rest of the game was alright, but it's that one particular point of the game that it is comfy to me in all of the right ways.

Pathologic is another that stands out to me. I don't really think too much about horror games, but the way the atmosphere and world were built in that game, I don't think a game has ever given me the true feeling of dread like that game has. Everything from its presentation, to its odd Russian jank, to that feeling of strangling helplessness as time sets in, I've not really had that kind of feeling recreated since, and it's stuck with me for a pretty good while since.

Hotline Miami is another one. The game was fun, but its actual atmosphere stands out to me more than the fucked up gameplay does, largely in part because the whole thing seemed to be delivered through this distorted lens of fringe mentality. Something about that game really set my imagination into overdrive, and I really appreciated the abstraction.

Hotline Miami 1 spoilers

I like how that abused girl becomes your sweetheart in Hotline Miami. The way she gradually falls in love with the man who saved her and starts making his apartment a nicer place to live in. I really liked how the whole romance played out with almost no dialogue. Just visual clues in the small changes she makes to improve your pad after each mission. That was a real nice touch.

Too bad she gets murdered. She deserved far better.

>>15814589

I doubt you're spoiling anyone.And if they are, too bad to be them.

>>15814589

It's not like she wasn't better off being murdered honestly considering the ending of the second game

>>15815736

>Can you even shoot flying creatures in Metro like in the King Kong game to attract predators?

No, Metro is Russian Call of Duty with some S.T.A.L.K.E.R influence.

It has some half decent ideas like the bullet economy system but it never goes deep enough, forcing NPCs that handhold the fuck out of you and ruin the atmosphere just completely kills the games for me, when you're alone it's an actually half decent experience, otherwise it's piss poor and obviously a modern console shooter trough and trough praised by hipsters.

You're not even going to see that in Metro Exodus, that shit has Ubisoft Open World all over it.

To this day I still can't believe how detailed King Kong was, along with F.E.A.R and Max Payne it's probably one of the better examples on how to do "cinematic" games right.

>>15810038

Chronicle of the Sword is fantastic and could easily be a full fledged spin off. I'm not sure if it's a Minigame, but it's certainly a side mode. Shame the side mode in SC6 is the "Lets suck off Groh hour"

TXR lives off the little details (as there's only 1 game with good driving physics in the series, and it was mostly butchered for the English release). All the rivals (which can reach up to 600) have their own little back stories. It's a collection of obscure Japanese machines (and some euro cars too). On purely gameplay perspective they're average at best, but they're so charming they're easily 8/10.

Shame I'm almost certain ITC was rushed as shit and we're never getting another one. Especially after Genki did a Temple Run clone TXR game that was japan only and filled with microtransactions for cars then it flopped.

>>15810134

Every Kojim game has those and I love it

It used to be nearly standard for PC games to read your system clock and show an easter egg based on holidays. Now nobody gives a fuck.

>>15815975

>bring two joints, one for each of you

>nobody can bogart

Problem solved.

>>15809967

I wasn't the biggest fan of XCOM 2 (older games were better imo), but I enjoyed the poster poser bit in it. Also liked how they called it propaganda, and that you could find your posters on the city walls and shit. It was a small bit that was admittedly kind of dumb, but I enjoyed it. Another small thing I love is realistic weather effects. Bonus points if it effects gameplay in some way.

TURN UP

THE RADIO

>>15814514

I played the original when it had come out, and I loved the shit out of that game. It's a shame that 3 was such a fucking turd.