/v/ - Video Games

>>15823049

> I'm especially mad because the music is fantastic, yet I feel is essentially wasted on a game that's just another glorified WoW-style themepark MMO.

Laguerra del mundo in particular struck me as some thing that would be better off being overworld map theme for some kind of airship rpg or something.

>>15823049

Well, there's Dawn of War 3, not the base game but the customization of your army with elites and shit, if Relic didn't go for a MOBA Starcraft abomination, they could have gone insane with making a brutal Warhammer 40K RTS with a proper Army Customization. And too bad OP, think the devs are too busy with Tree of Savior to make a non-shit sequel. And that game is old.

Bioshock and valdis story, underwater cities can be comfy/scary as fuck but in these games it didnt have the proper execution.

>>15823062

>>15823057

Tons of music in this game was overall fantastic. Reminds me of 1992's Dracula.

>>15823049

>fantasy victorian era,

mediterranean too, which is also very interesting

>>15823049

all they need to do is fix the UI. But the original developers moved on long ago so I don't expect anything.

>>15823274

I remember being really hyped for this game. I only got to play the demo and found it decent. Should I give it a try?

>>15823375

If you can find it somewhere then sure give it a try but be warned that it is pretty rough. Combat is decent when you get used to it but once you get into the second level with the dark elves it gets pretty annoying how often you will die and have to go through the unskippable valkyrie animation. After that it gets decent again though and the aesthetics are still pretty on point.

Best ways i've found to play are Champion for actually playing the game easily by exploiting air combos, Bio engineer for tankyness/sustainability and Berserker for shredding through trash mobs at a disgusting rate before disintergrating the moment something hits you. The commando is all about range and the robo spider, I was planning to try him on my next playthrough but would advice avoiding him for your first try. The defender is pretty shit tbh, you have low damage and your defense doesn't really make up for it since you will usually lose wars of attrition, the Bio engineer is a better version of him imo.

The only real build choice you make outside of the skill trees is to go with either cybernetic enhancments or stay more human after the first level. Humans get a class specific "ruiner" which is a large AOE attack while Cyborgs get their ruiner from their weapons. Other than that I believe human was more combo based while cyborgs get access to the cannon, it's up to you which you like best.

>>15823454

Don't blame Capcom for just publishing Life is Hella's Dontnod's shit design and pretentious storytelling game.

>>15823454

I pirated and played it but it ran like shit also the cunt you play as was lame

>>15823454

Could've been a good game if they ditched the bland combat sequences and made it all about the find-the-hidden-object-and-mess-with-time segments.

>>15823049

Squaresoft's Live a Live is a good example of this. Brilliant concept but the game is incredibly unbalanced. There is a tiny optimal level window that you need to be at - 1 or 2 levels lower and you get wiped out in one shot. 1 or 2 levels higher and battles are comically easy. The level design is ordinary too.

>>15823274

>launch a lawsuit against game engine company you use

deserved everything they got tbh

Elder Scrolls.

Amazing lore, big variety in the races and even more for weaponry, armour, architecture and environments. Massive potential and its all squandered by Bethesda.

Metroid Prime: Federation Force.

The fan idea of a Metroid FPS spin off game where you play as Galactic Federation Troopers has been around since the MP2/GCN era first showed off their existence.

What we got was:

>a 3DS spin off title

<released 6 years after the previous Metroid game Other M basically killed the series (or 9 years for the last good Metroid game, Prime 3), unlike Metrod Prime Pinball spin off release which was during height of Metroid GCN/GBA/NDS releases in the mid 2000's.

>has chibi like graphic style which producer Tanabe stated was for visual clarity on a handheld

<despite Hunters existing on the NDS (a decade earlier) just fine

>play as chibi troopers piloting large mecha suits against equally sized up Space Pirates

<to compensate for this plot hole, lore can be found saying that the pirates found "Amplification beam" tech from the ancient Bion race to make up for this bizarre player/enemy size inconstancy

>can be played 4P online co-op experience that can scale down difficulty if a player drop/leaves the group (unlike EAD's TLoZ Triforce Heroes)

<no voice chat for communication, just 4 simple preselected phrases at a time (probably better than Triforce Heroes emoji's)

>story has the interesting point that the player is the one that stole Metroid eggs from Space Pirates to get them into Galactic Federation hands setting up Fusion and possibly Prime 4 with Sylux cameo at the end of FF

<no one cared since everyone brings up the final boss battle being the Federation Force fighting a giant Samus in Morph Ball mode and defeating her while leaving her under a pile of rubble,

>has the 3 on 3 VS mulitplayer soccer mode Blast Ball, can even be played with AI players that are pretty competent and the game can handle online players dropping and replacing them with the AI bots

<this mode only exists instead of a standard deathmatch mode so players focus on shooting a single target (the ball) instead of shooting each other (which you can still do), even then it feels like a beta and has only one arena

>released on the 30th anniversary of Metroid

<final boss battle is basically shooting Samus in Morph Ball form while playing Blast Ball hybrid, happy 30th anniversary Samus your fucking dead! Because at Nintendo we only care about popular series anniversaries like Mario and Zelda! Metroid's anniversary is in the same year as Zelda, well bugger off then!

>>15823049

Hats off to the developers for naming their game something that could literally be interpreted as a farming tool. Really on the nose there.

>>15826465

While I'm here any chance someone could suggest any good naval games, preferably games with either open-ended campaigns or straight up sandboxes? Anything besides Silent Hunter. Planes would be cool too.

>>15826465

Clunky as shit and barebones describes like 98% of the wargaming genre. Check out Rule the Waves I guess, it's ugly but it handles okay.

>>15826415

Got angry and thought about some more points

>Tanabe stated it has "Metroid Prime" in the title because it's in first person perspective

<fans pointed out that "Prime" in the title should mean it has gameplay of it, such as visor switching, scan storytelling or playing as Samus instead, not just first person comes to mind. If you wanted a spin off why not give a completely new title to make it separate?

>The remaining members who made MP Hunters at Nintendo Software Technology/NST had wanted to make another Hunters sequel for years since they had the experience

<Next Level Games only got the job instead simply because they had nothing to do after making Luigi Mansion 2

>Game had negative ratings and comments disabled for every YouTube video

<Didn't even try to listen to fan complaints

>Fans are worried that FF is the (Samus free) future of Metroid (despite Nintendo not saying so)

<Nintendo does zero reassurance that this is the end of Metroid or that there are even future Metroid games in the works (remember Samus Returns was halfway through development by the time FF released) yet it was never hinted, mentioned or even leaked by anyone.

>>15834957

I was subscribed to Nintendo Power so i could look at games i couldnt afford. This looked cool.

>>15835403

>The concept was everything my 14 year old self would've loved.

<It turned out to be pretty shit.

I'm thankful that I was in my early 20's when it was announced. The disappointment I felt from the final product might have been too much for me otherwise.

>>15826468

Pirates!

>>15835366

My eternal nigger.