/v/ - Video Games

>>15907608

Arx Fatalis. Baking bread is awesome in that game.

Dragon's Crown?

Odin Sphere, BOTW are what pop into mind.

>>15907626

Botw felt like if the game was harder in some way it would make it worth it. There are a few things like 'cook a honeycomb on its own for instant stamina refill pills' and when you get those down that whole 'take notes and learn the best cominations' shit goes out the window.

>>15907608

>there will never be a Steve game where you review MREs

>you will never have to train your botulism resistence stat

>you will never get the high score on the nice hiss leaderboards

>you will never get the quickest time to get things out onto a tray

>you will never play the spoon stirring and clanking minigame

>you will never refuse to eat rotten ham before picking it up and proceeding to eat it out of curiousity to unlock the secret level

Why even live?

>>15907655

Surely theres a New Vegas mod by now. "Nice Vegas".

>>15907655

>Why even live?

To see if he will reach the next stage in the evolution of humanity.

Oh joy it's time for another "e-celeb but he's kosher so it's fine" thread.

On topic I liked how certain party members made better or special variants of certain food in the Cold Steel games.

Does anyone have the recipe list from Odin Sphere?

>>15907666

Fuck that game.

>have all these cute waifus

>no harem route

Falcom is staffed with faggots.

>>15907631

BOTW had so much potential in that domain and it's such a huge fucking letdown, honestly.

The existence of the hearty and enduring attributes makes any other stamina or hp recovering effect completely obsolete. I'm also very disappointed that the "special meals" don't seem to have any actual special attributes, just a different look. So much waste potential

>>15907694

Some people hate thinking for themselves.

>>15907681

Things that could have improved it:

>A stomach meter so you can be full and not pause and refill all your health by slamming multiple large meals down your fat gullet at once

>Larger meals you can only sit down and eat at a camp you make for huge bonuses and small snacks and roadfoods you can eat on the go

>Food Poisoning for retards that fuck it up

>Secret stuff like maybe certain food and monster parts turns you into a monster for an ingame day and stores close and people run and hide from you

>>15907694

A cooking minigame implies hunting or gathering as well as alchemy mechanics in a game - if done properly. Sure it's a tedious thing in most games, but that's because they never flesh it out properly. You might start out banging sticks together, but if you can become an iron chef by the end of it I think it could be pretty fun.

>>15907655

>>you will never get the quickest time to get things out onto a tray

You can settle for World of Guns: Guns disassembly which has tournaments for fieldstrips and full disassembly

>>you will never refuse to eat rotten ham before picking it up and proceeding to eat it out of curiousity

You can do that in Metal Gear Survive there's even one more level of spoiled food called "kitchen waste".

>>15907694

Cooking is only following instructions if you're an amateur. Real cooks get to experiment and that's where the fun of cooking comes from. When you get good at making something and start playing around with it and before you know it, you know 100 ways to prepare eggs for breakfast.

>>15907806

Well, redpill me one some nice chicken dishes then.

>>15907984

I use this chicken parm recipe off google but it's pretty basic:

>Ingredients for chicken:

>2 large eggs

>1 tablespoon minced garlic

>2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley

>Salt and pepper to season

>3 large chicken breasts halved horizontally to make 6 fillets

>1 cup Panko breadcrumbs

>1/2 cup breadcrumbs (Italian or golden)

>1/2 cup fresh grated parmesan cheese

>1 teaspoon garlic or onion powder

>1/2 cup olive oil for frying

>Ingredients for sauce

>1 tablespoon olive oil

>1 large onion chopped

>2 teaspoons minced garlic

>14 ounces (400 g) tomato puree (Passata)

>Salt and pepper to taste

>1 teaspoon dried Italian herbs

>1 teaspoon sugar (optional)

>Ingredients for topping

>8 ounces (250 g) mozzarella cheese sliced or shredded

>1/3 cup fresh shredded parmesan cheese

>2 tablespoons fresh chopped basil or parsley (I prefer parsley)

>Chicken

Preheat oven 430°F | 220°C. Lightly grease an oven tray (or baking dish) with non stick cooking oil spray; set aside.

Whisk together eggs, garlic, parsley, salt and pepper in a shallow dish. Add chicken into the egg, rotating to evenly coat each fillet in the mixture. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to marinate for at least 15 minutes (or overnight night if time allows for a deeper flavour).

When chicken is ready for cooking, mix bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese and garlic powder together in a separate shallow bowl. Dip chicken into the breadcrumb mixture to evenly coat.

Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat until hot and shimmering. Fry chicken until golden and crispy, (about 4-5 minutes each side).

Place chicken on prepared baking tray / dish and top each breast with about 1/3 cup of sauce (sauce recipe below). Top each chicken breast with 2-3 slices of mozzarella cheese and about 2 tablespoons parmesan cheese. Sprinkle with basil or parsley.

Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until cheese is bubbling and melted, and the chicken is completely cooked through.

>Sauce

Heat oil in a medium-sized pot. Fry onion until transparent (about 3 minutes), then add the garlic until fragrant (about 30 seconds).

Add the tomato puree, salt and pepper to taste, Italian herbs and sugar (If using). Cover with lid to simmer for about 8 minutes, or until sauce has thickened slightly. Taste test and adjust salt and pepper, if needed.

>>15907631

This is why the early game in BotW was the best part for me. I really enjoyed hunting animals and figuring out good recipes through trial and error, even had a little notebook for them.

Then I figured out that a single Hearty Durian (which grow on trees in bunches of three in the Faron woods and can be easily farmed) cooked on its own creates a meal that max fills your healthbar plus three hearts of overheal.

This single recipe and its ease of creation makes 95% of the recipes obsolete. Why is the strongest recipe in the game one of the easiest to make? What a letdown!

Other than that, BotW had a pretty fun hunting/cooking system with plenty of variety.

>>15907701

>Spicy Lynel Stew

>transform into a giant centaur, now you can wield giant clubs and swords one-handed

>your sprint is now a fast gallop as if you're riding a horse

>can't climb though, so it's good for the open road but shit for mountainous areas

10/10 would eat.

>>15907694

t. urbanite that has eaten nothing but TV dinners and overpriced restaurant food their entire life.

>>15908211

>t. urbanite that has eaten nothing but TV dinners and overpriced restaurant food their entire life.

Not at all. I've done the basics a million times: Chicken with asian sauces, rice/french fries, tacos, various meat, fish and sausage dishes. Not enough complex stuff, though.

Wurm has the best cooking mechanic I've ever seen in a videogames. Not only you have to prepare all the ingredients appropriately before cooking (chopping, dicing, slicing, etc) but you also have to use the correct containers (pots, pans, pie tins and such) and combining the items manually (like combining bacon with mushrooms to make a filled mushroom) AND you can also use optional ingredients to season the dishes and improve their nutritional value

>>15907608

It was mostly not worth doing (there were only one or two complex recipes that were better than just frying an entire shark), and the end result was just healing yourself for more, but Runescape had some fun cooking. Fishing for ingredients while your crops grew was comfy as fuck. There was also this minigame in a gnome tree fort where you made the most complex foods in the game - mixed beverages - with various tools to prepare your ingredients in different ways (slicing, dicing, juicing, etc.). I remember playing that for hours, though I don't think you actually got anything worthwhile out of it. It was fun enough without a reward.

>>15907666

seething satan ate a bad can of tuna

>>15907678

Haremfags need to be gassed

>>15908401

Faggots like you first.

Why do we even have the no e-celeb rule anymore? No one ever enforces it.

>>15908403

Fuck off you disgusting sandnigger

>>15908403

There truly is nothing worse than having my arakanese porn games ruined by finding out they're the "gotta catch 'em all" type and totally lack individual routes.

Fuck you.

>>15907694

What a fucking faggot.

>>15908436

>fictional characters are real people

Autism is truly a curse.

>>15908447

what the fuck does that have to do with anything you fag?

>>15908448

Please stop trying to defend your boyfriend. He's gay enough for the both of you.

>>15908441

You do realize that the existence of one route does not preclude the existence of the other ones, right? Oh, wait, I forget, you're a cretin.

>>15908479

Do you need another homo to fight your battles for you?

I mean, I get you're all riled up because I somehow offended fictional women and you need to m'lady extra hard, but really.

>>15908403

Harems typically suck in fiction except for porn because the author is typically chickshit fucker and doesn't depict or at the very least imply the fucking happens. The author will typically make the MC indecisive when one of the girls advances on him, which just makes the MC look like a spineless wimp if it happens too much.

>>15908533

I wholly agree that the execution is (vastly) more often than not done extremely poorly. This, however, does not automatically invalidate the general idea.

>the author will typically make the MC indecisive when one of the girls advances on him

Isn't that true for most romances in fiction? Expressing your feelings to another person is the easiest thing imaginable, making the relationship work is the hard part. Funny how most fictional romances call it a happily ever after when the people involved manage to stop being children and finally admit their feelings.

>>15908536

>uses waifu in a plural sense

Didn't we already go through this? Fictional characters are not real people. I'm sorry, but just like when your parents told you Santa isn't real, you'll get over it.

>likes harems, which were invented by sandniggers

That's not even remotely true. If anything, monogamy was an "evolutionary" adaptation for social stability. By and large humans are polygnyous. You can even see it in supposedly staunchly monogamous Western societies where rich men engage in concubinage, where they often have a wife and one or more mistresses.

That being said, what has IRL polygamy to do with fiction? I don't bring up divorce rates when discussing stereotypical fictional love stories because they have no bearing on fiction.

>calling anyone a cretin

But you are a cretin.

>you be blown the fuck out again

All you and your faggot buddies did was call me names because I happen to like something you don't. It's sad you never grew up past the emotional level of kindergartners.

>>15908568

>I don't bring up divorce rates when discussing stereotypical fictional love stories because they have no bearing on fiction.

This is quite possibly the dumbest thing anybody has ever said to me. You should be ashamed of yourself.

>>15908568

>I wholly agree that the execution is (vastly) more often than not done extremely poorly. This, however, does not automatically invalidate the general idea.

You mean just like communism? :^) Anyway that's why I said it's okay in porn, mainly because the reason why people like harems is actually shown.

>Isn't that true for most romances in fiction?

And that's why I don't like romantic subplots or romantic fiction in general. Harems just dial that shit up to a 11 so it gets really grating fast. The only romantic story I remember liking was Ore Monogatari. That's mostly because they get past stage within like the 2nd or 3rd episode. Then it's just lovely dovely shenanigans.

>>15908664

>reddit spacing

>soy speak like "that is not healthy"

How's christmas break, champ?

>>15908664

>>15908718

>normalfag can't stop reddit-spacing

>being this much of a soynigger

Kikes like you should die tbqh.

>>15908772

Ironic weeb trash is more like K-ON and Sailor Moon, at least from my experience.

>>15907799

this

>>15908820

>it's not okay to like certain anime and manga if normalfags also like it

>>>/a/

>>15908821

Goons need to die.

>>>/out/

>>15908831

Never said such a thing.

>>15908841

You implied it by telling someone they were an ironic weeb solely based on a single picture, and then adding in your next post that they don't actually like anime.

>thread about cooking gets destroyed by waifufags

This is why you animals get treated as cancer

>>15908845

I said none of that. I said that shit that falls under "ironic weeb" wouldnt scare away a normalfag.

>>15907766

>As you gain experience, recipes become more suggestion than prescription

That's really the truth, when you first start out and you don't know what you're doing you follow recipes to the letter. Then as you try more recipes and learn what does what in food it really becomes more of a general guideline

I don't know any that do cooking and eating right. Dragon's Crown probably comes the closest.

For cooking, Cooking Mama does it right. For eating - Echidna Wars DX.

>>15908839

My man

MINECRAFT

>>15908937

But thats one less slot for dirt you could carry.

>>15908957

Yeah, but the food stack takes up a slot that you need for any extended exploring. Or are you trying to imply that one extra inventory slot of like 50 is a significant difference

>>15908979

>r are you trying to imply that one extra inventory slot of like 50 is a significant difference

If you even played the game you would know 64 blocks is still a bother to get. Its like at least 2 more minutes of digging.

>>15908993

Depends on the block, getting 64 dirt with a good shovel takes like 20 seconds. Getting 64 obsidian on the other hand might take up to 20 minutes. Why are you even arguing from this direction, you'd have to constantly run back to the base to eat the food, and you can't overstamina yourself with unique food (at least since I've last played) or prevent hunger with a potion, so you'd be wasting time anyway.

>>15907655

This is not nice

>>15909043

No, retard, my point is stamina is made near frivolous by having a stack of 16 meat in your inventory.

>>15909053

And then I reply with >>15908957

>>15909057

You brought this upon yourself.

>>15907694

>Not improvcooking

You are a faggot who didn't got near a kitchen in his life if it wasn't to fill his ham beast face with doditos.

I wish I los the fear to fire and knives earlier in my life so I could cook. I'm even thinking about learning to be a butcher but I'm too old and scared of those massive knives.

>tfw have an irrational fear of handling raw animal products even though I've cooked myself a steak before

What do /v/?

>>15907984

Alright then, let's go full cooking.

Chicken spanish croquetes

Ingredients are:

>Flour

>Salt

>Butter, oil, margarine or the juices of the roasted chicken

>Leftovers of a roasted chicken

>Milk

>Grinded bread

>Two to Three eggs

Take the flour and put a few spoons or handfulls on a big pan.

Apply some butter, oil or margarine then mix. My personal preference is using the juices of the roasted chicken instead of any basic fat ingredient to make an extra chicken flavour bechamel.

Steer until the flour and the fat mix together in a dry paste.

Apply some milk, preferably a fatty milk but skimmed milk works. You can previously heat it and have it prepared in a recipient or you can add it from a brick slowly.

Steer the milk with the paste until it absorbs the milk entirely, then add more milk.

Repeat the process until the paste is disolved in the milk, then keep steering in weak fire until the liquids start to dry up.

While you make the bechamel you have to prepare the chicken meat.

Take the cooked bits and any other left overs you want to include and cut them in very fine pieces or use a meat grinder with low energy not to make a paste but grind everything into very small pieces.

Add the grinded roasted chicken in the bechamel and steer once again until everything is mixed.

Put the croquete mixture in a recipient and in the fridge for at least 4 hours, but I recomend a full day.

Take the recipient out, two to three eggs, depending of how much mixture you have, and the grinded bread.

Break the eggs and batter them.

Take small balls from the mixture and dip them into the battered eggs, then coat them in bread.

When you have your croquetes ready, prepare a frier and heat the oil, then fry the croquetes in weak fire.

Enjoy strongly flavoured croquetes and feel free to experiment.

>>15909148

Fuck, I forgot to talk about the pepper. It's too late and I'm not good explaining recipes.

You know what? just look at a recipe on youtube, get the basic stuff and do with it whatever you want.

>>15909097

>too old to be a butcher

Anon, I don't think butchery is exactly a young man's game. I'm sure you could learn at any point in time really. You just need to not be afraid of knives

>>15909187

Is just that I might be too old to learn some real skill to butcher the meat fast enouth.

>/v/: cooking and e-celebs

>>15909192

That's an excuse to not even try, you'd get faster by repetition, once you learn the cuts and basically what to do and if you did it every day working in a butcher shop you'd pick it up and learn to do it faster. That too old to learn something only applies to shit like languages, for practical stuff like butchering meat which isn't that complicated you'd learn the basics and get the muscle memory down if you were to actually do it.

You're just too lazy

>>15908816

LOLIS ARE NOT FOR HURT

>>15909288

Exactly Hitler, the only time too old applies is for women who expire after 25.

>>15909127

Yeah, this. Every since I learned about toxoplasmosis, brainparasites, that can be in meat I'm scared to death of those fuckers. I wash my hands and handles around the kitchen several times when I make food. The infection is extremely common, 60 percent infection rate in the third world, 30 or below in the West, and there's no cure. Once you have them in your brain, it's going to be there until old age. And then when your immune system weakens, it's going to come out of its cysts and rampage around. It changes your personality too; makes you more willing to take risks, so that you're more likely to die and be able to spread it further. It usually lives in rats and cats and spread through feces, so be careful if you have a cat.

>>15909336

Frankly speaking, /pol/ makes a bigger deal about that than is necessary to worry about. There are tons of things all around you that are fucking you up right now this moment and odds are you don't even realize it. The best thing you can do is go about your life as normal and don't let fear control you.

>>15909345

>go about your life as normal and don't let fear control you.

I'm talking about washing my hands a few times. With a few precautions like being careful with what you ingest, you're fairly safe against the thing. People should wash their hands more often, desu.

>>15909348

This thing won't kill you directly unless you're old and infirm. It'll make you take foolish risks like running across the road if you're a cat. It's definitely in plenty of livestock and even in mammals in coastal waters. I remember a news articles about beached whales, I think it was. Vets found the parasites in their brains. Likely killed them.

>>15909348

you got a source to back that up?

>>15909365

But those cases are very far between. And killing yourself is a stupid thing for a parasite to make you do, you know, since it feed off you. You are being extremely vague and that the problem. You are afraid of something but you dont really know what.

>>15909373

You actually got a source on it being dangerous?

>And killing yourself is a stupid thing for a parasite to make you do, you know, since it feed off you.

There are lots of examples in nature of parasites killing their hosts.

>You are being extremely vague and that the problem. You are afraid of something but you dont really know what.

I'm not being vague. I've told you the gist of it, the most important stuff. I've even given you the name, so if you don't believe me, look it up yourself.

>>15909377

you maid the claim it isn't dangerous first, but since you're brain damaged from raw meat

https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/consequences-eating-rare-meat-10828.html

>>15909377

The behavior T. gondii does is actually exactly as intended - its plan is to kill the (transient) host so that another host (the target) will eat said transient host.

This is why mice try to get deliberately eaten by cats - because that way, the parasite will reach the cat.

And there are indeed other parasites that do this, as >>15909381 said. Evolution has worked for millions of yeas by now, if a parasite is trying to get a host killed, it's something that was developed through

said evolution.

>>15909377

>person dies, parasite continues to feed off dying tissues

>various other organisms eat and ingest parasite, parasite lurks within intermediate host presenting no symptons

>parasite eventually finds it's way through intermediate hosts to commonly eaten raw food

>you ingest parasite from uncooked food because generations of humans that have eaten cooked food have adapted their immune systems for other purposes and can't defend against said parasite

You're not very bright, are you?

>>15909389

>>15909377

why don't you want the increased sexual dimorphism behaviors from toxoplasmosis anons?

>>15909390

this is how stupid you sound, consider this:

>article that stds can spread through sex

<you only have a chance of catching an std when sleeping with someone that has one, it's not 100%!

<we need to examine the conditions of sex too!

<therefore it isn't bad to have sex with someone that has an std :)

>

>>15909389

Mice specifically get sexually attracted to cat piss. And its not risk taking, its more of whatever you call the being a liberal disease. Its not that you seek danger, its that you dont care for it. THis perfectly fit to the idea that the main transmitter of toxoplasmosis in humans are faggots. If fact the reproduction of toxoplasmosis in human shows itself in homos and exist in a prominent form in homosexual groups. Unless you start getting interest in eating shit and fucking guys and deepkissing your cat you shouldnt have an issue with it.

>>15909403

>you can get stds from sex thats why you should never ever have sex

>>15909407

<you only have a probability of catching HIV from this girl, you should have sex with her

>>15909407

>>15909413

How did this become about STDs from raw meat, the difference between sex is that you need to have unprotected sex to conceive unless you want to use a syringe to inject your semen or some ridiculous shit, versus being able to cook meat and not eat it raw like a literal retard.

>>15909417

unprotected sex with strangers is to eating raw meat what unprotected sex with your spouse is to eating cooked meat

>>15907655

>forgetting steve has an abstract music playing pre- and post- eating

if he made an album i would un-ironically buy it and listen to it

>>15909413

Except raw meat doesnt just magically have a % chance to infect you like in a video game.

>>15909417

You can have perfectly safe unprotected sex if you aren't stupid and have it with a right person you know is safe. People get STDs because they fuck randoms. Same goes for eating raw meat.

>>15909432

dago detected

>>15909432

Don't bully people for using recipes. It's a start. Bully people who never move on from recipes

Cooking and eating do not need to be anything more than a minor survival mechanic because you will never have a virtual nose and tongue to taste the foods you cook up.

>>15909446

if you mean pasta eating failure monkeys then yes

>>15909425

>People get STDs because they fuck randoms.

As long as you avoid shitskins, faggots, and racemixers the probability of the other person having a STD is near zero. Casual sex is still bad of course, but STDs are not nearly as easy to catch as you might think.

Golden Kamuy

>>15907619

Mechanically DC's cooking is one of the best. It's an amusing timed minigame with appealing visuals, it gives you bonuses for your next stage, and it gives you a satisfying "breaking bread with comrades" feeling because you can actually serve food for your party members.

>>15907626

BotW cooking was tedious as fuck, not to mention it clashes with the other elements of the game, namely the outfits.

>oh I'm cold let me instantly put on a shirt

>problem solved

>>15909548

It doesn't really excuse it but cooking a cold-resist food was still a little useful if you had, say, the barbarian outfit so you could do more damage while not having to give up the set effect for a cold resist clothing set.

>>15909551

That would be a valid point if the game's combat wasn't laughable. The only time I had a remote amount of trouble was the Lyonel, and I died two or three times there, versus something like, say, Martyr Logarius in Bloodborne, who I died somewhere between 15 and 20 times to.

There is nothing wrong with using recipes. They help document important changes that may have been made to a dish to ensure a repeatable experience can be had. Anyone who disagrees is a faggot that probably can cook decently but never has repeatable results

>>15909568

That's why I said it doesn't really excuse it, however that means it's more of a combat problem than a cooking system problem.

>>15909569

>Know enough to produce decent results

>Can never remember how I did something

>Usually have to look up six or seven different recipes, pick out the elements I know will work well together, and discard the rest

>Write it down on scrap paper and proceed with the cooking

>Always end up losing the paper because I'm a fucking idiot

There's only one thing I consistently make the same, and that's my chili, which ended up on that Cooking Comically site because I wrote down one iteration for half/ck/ and someone asked to use the recipe for a site he wanted to make.

>>15909595

I'm more the type that, if I'm working with food I don't work with often, just follows a recipe that seems decent online verbatim, then change it next time. that way I can just reference the website. Of course, the dumb part is I usually make stuff I haven't made before or frequently. My only "signature" recipe is macaroni and cheese made from scratch, which is pretty easy anyway.

What is the name of that Japanese game where cooking was a huge part of the stat system? I remember you actually had to grow and thresh the rice in order to cook with it. It was 2d and looked like a Vanillaware game.

>>15908172

>grandma makes tamales every year for Christmas

>woman owns measuring implements but I never see her use them

>she literally has spoons and whatnot that she has had for years

>need lard? There's a spoon for that

>salt? Theres a different spoon for that

>everything is done by eye and experience

Also,

>sister is learning how to make grandma's tamales

>grandma used to mix her own masa but it became too much trouble

>sister asks her why she can't just use a mixer

>NOOOOOOoooooo

>tells my sister how my aunt once used a mixer and ruined the masa by over mixing it

>tells my aunt why is she bothering teaching her if she wont follow instructions

Probably not a funny story since you don't know my grandma, but it happened on Saturday and still makes me smile.

>>15909432

This is very true. If you don't know how to put a few spices and cooked animal and vegetables in an edible configuration you are a lost cause. The only borderline difficult thing may be pastry but that just involves patience.

Skyrim with mods

>>15907694

>for half an hour

Making any halfway decent dish takes 4+ hours.

My diet only consists of sticking plain chicken breasts/fish fillets into the oven and even then cooking that takes half an hour

>>15909819

It's important if you use high-fat ground beef, which I assume is all anyone uses when they're making chili. It's cheaper, after all. Greasy chili might be good for a night of hard drinking to curb the hangover, but it's usually not the end goal.

>>15909788

Thank you, reddit.

>>15909569

My mom's rule of thumb is always follow the recipe verbatim the first time you make it so you can see how it's intended to be made. After you've tried it out, then you can make adjustments based on how it turned out.

>>15909899

Your mother sucks barbed cock in hell, and that's explains why her taste is so shit.