/v/ - Video Games

>>15927515

lots of japanese towns are empty too, but thats kids moving into the cities and low birth rates but many still have power and water with the houses retaken by nature. The ones north of the fukushima no go zone probably wont see human habitation again for a long long time.

>>15927539

I want a STALKER game set in Fukushima please

I do enjoy spooky forests.

>>15927566

We all do brother, we all do.

>>15927575

>japs were retarded enough to build a nuclear plant on a fault line

>>15927566

How much time has to pass before it stops being faux pas to make a game about an environmental disaster?

Socotra Island.

>>15927539

Boars are becoming a huge problem in depopulated areas. I'd support a mutant boar-hunting simulator.

The southern/coastal part of Croatia. Imagine the African bush. Then add Karst topography. Hills, cliffs outta nowhere, sinkholes, caves, underground rivers, all kinds of "oh god my legs"-tier shit everywhere. All of that sprinkled with incredibly thick low and medium brush that burns stupidly easy. Now, add a shitload of murdersnakes, jackals, a couple of lost bears, a lost bobcat or two. Then, add people packed together pretty densely. Small villages on hillsides, burned out and abandoned villages, just abandoned villages, minefields leftover from the war, locals who think you're a Strigun and decide to stake you for the fuck of it, locals who think you're a Serb and decide to slit your throat in the night, locals who think you're a Slovenian so they shoot you, locals who think you're Italian so they call you a faggot and kick you out.

And uh, then you cross a hill and go slightly north. And you're in giant green valleys surrounded by large hills, with a few villages sprinkled inbetween.

Then you go slightly further north and inland. And now you're in mountain country, don't die to a bobcat.

It'd be great as an ARMA map, or in some kind of post-apocalypse game.

real crime scenes and suicide spots

>>15927655

Never heard of it. There are plenty of Japanese castles in Korea that have decayed to their foundation, but I'd never describe this as a burial mound.

>>15927539

That image makes me very sad for some reason

>>15927503

Svaneti and highland Georgia. Bonus points if you fight invading turks and pidorashkas.

400+ acres of well maintained quail hunting land, like that golf course map in bad company 1 with alot more trees

>>15937858

im surprised otaku haven't already. Shit Coppelion already exists so 'lolis in a nuclear wasteland' would be there go to at this point.

>>15938425

Apparently things called "Lonely Deaths" are on the rise in Japan. It's when someone dies alone and the body isn't discovered for months or years within their own living space.

One explanation behind it is that the nips just don't deal with death in their family directly anymore. They're too busy or isolated themselves to go and visit the people they loved. It wouldn't be disrespectful for the Japanese to start to portray lonely deaths in a video game then. It would actually be kind of necessary.

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>>15937954

It's built over the aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, besides angry spics you could have angry aztec ghosts.

>>15938432

Theres a manga /animu/ is gushing over right now Sanju Mariko about a 4 generation family cramped in one house and the 80 year old oba chan runs away to live in a manga cafe after finding out her friend died in her room and her family were so busy they didnt notice for days and she didn't want to be a burden.

Shits fucking heartwarming nigger.

Lemuria and the antediluvian world.

Literally anywhere is interesting.

But I'm tired of European dudes man, give me some something Arabic, African, Filipino, or Mesopotamian - fucking something.

There's so much out there to use.

Kowloon walled city.

>>15938697

>The push for 'diversity' hasn't introduced any new or unique uses of other cultures and histories.

>It's just replacing the white dudes with trannies, niggers, and lesbians.

I love my traditional fantasy and space operas but I'm pretty sure the Japs and (((indies))) are the only ones to come out with anything bordering on unique these days.

I'm surprised there aren't more horror games with settings on oil rigs. Seems like a perfect environment for a serial killer or cosmic horror story.

>>15938726

>2nd pic

Feels almost like a metroidvania. I wonder how that would work in 3D though. Probably too complex unless you combine several rooms.

>>15938745

>>15938697

Came here to post this.

the Middle East, South/Southeast Asia, China, Mexico/Guatamala, and Peru Bolvia all had thousands of years of complex civilization and yet 99% of vidya and media as a whole is just europe or japan. And the ONE postive thing we should be getting from SJW's is more of other cultures and not even fucking that happens because the devs are either too lazy to bother doing anything more then just slapping minorities into the same roles, concepts, and themes that already exist, or are too scared to represent other cultures due to their own censorous astmosphere they built up.

>>15938487

Nah, Tenochtitlan, and Mesoamerican cities in general, were actually clean and well maintained for one (It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Mesoamericans, the culture that composed the core Aztec cities in particular; had the best sanitation and public health practices of any pre-modern culture, they were autistically, religiously obsessed with cleanliness) and in general weren't violence ridden, poor quality of life shitholes. They were pretty comparable to cities from Ancient Greece, with similar political systems, sizes and populations, and a similar emphasis on the arts and intellectualis

i'd post more but people get assmad when I post info about Mesoamerican history for dumb reasons, but tl;dr I think the lack of games set in their civilizations is some of the biggested wasted potential along the lines of what I was saying above.

>>15927566

>>15927597

Why has no one attempted to make it yet? it would be cool to use some japanese guns and equipment.

>>15927503

>City 40

First of all, what you written is based on documentary made by one (((Samira Goetschel))). Second, there IS a video game set in Ozyorsk.

>>15938726

There's a horror game out called Phantasmal that takes place in it. Not shilling, just bringing it to your attention.

>>15938726

Guild Wars 1 Factions' Kaineng City is based off 1:1 for the City of Anarchy, but the level design is wasted on GW1 due to no interiors, no traversing, no wall climbing.

I think City of Anarchy would be excellent for games likes Spiderman. I find New York city an exceptionally boring setting compared to settings like the walled city.

What I don't like about it is the literal newspaper+dirty wood aesthetic showing off its poor as dirt. You easily get tired of the brown color palette.

Oooh member Cereal Sam? I wuved Cereal Sam, first and second meetings. Back when humans had imagination! not like these spy zombies/zoomers under cover.

>>15947194

It seems like a lot of cartoons do inside-your-body episodes, Osmosis Jones for example got a theatrical movie and an entire tv show.

But I barely, barely see video games with locations at the molecular level, not even biological necessarily. All I can think of atm is Earthworm Jim 1's Intestinal Distress level.

Instead I do see a lot of video games with tiny characters in normal locations which appear gigantic for them, like an apple is the size of your character.

>>15938697

I want to see more actual European settings. Most fantasy games are set in generic American-made pseudo-European settings with very little depth. Even the Witcher is miles ahead of its competition because it's set in a European-made pseudo-Europe.

I want an RPG set in renaissance Italy or ancient Greece - not an American renaissance fare.

>>15947310

that captain america guy looks a little like bob odenkirk

>>15937780

Why don't games use Georgia as a setting or at least an inspiration? I was doing some research for a paper about the Georgian language, and it felt like I was reading a Tolkien book but the Orcs are turks and Soviets.

>>15947310

While I agree with you, the fact of the matter is is that there's both more fantastical-european AND realistic european historical settings in media then either fantastical-other-regions and realistic other regions in media.

>>15945628

>>15945878

>Are you macuahuitl fag?

I don't know, maybe? describe them

>I'd love to hear more about mesoamerican city structure and maintenance if your enthusiastic enough to post.

Alright, I went ahead and typed up a explanation about Mesoamerican urbanism, but since it's too long to fit into a single post and I don't wanna disrupt the thread by making a series of like 5 posts, I put it in a pastebin instead: https://pastebin.com/7xaEuvCt, pics related are referneced in the pastebin.. Also note i'm only covering urbanism/city layouts here, not matinence/sanitation, etc, which i'll cover separately.

As a tl;dr of the pastebin though:

>Mesoamerican cities tended to have a dense urban core with communal and religious structures and elite residences, and a gradually less dense, radial set of residential suburbs and farmlands and smaller cores radiating out from the core: urban design was laid out around communal structures and spaces as a result, as well as having more open spaces and naturalistic areas, such as gardens and open air courtyards even inside structures

>most maps and artistic recreations of Mesoamerican cities tend to only show urban cores or even only a few structures of said cores, giving the impression that Mesoamerican cities were just ceremonial structures and that's it, when that's false

>recent LIDAR scanning indicates that in the Yucatan at least with Maya cities, the suburban surrondings might have formed wide reaching sprawls extending out hundreds of square miles, outright filling in the space between seperate cities/urban cores

>Population figures for Mesoamerican cities due to the lack of clear delineation between where they start and end is therefore iffy, but large notable cities tended to have populations of like 30,000 to 80,000 for their urban core + surronding suburbs, is my understanding, more like 100k to 150k including depedent rual settlements and towns inside it';s territory as a city state, probably, though the really, really big cities could hit 100k to 200k just with their core+suburbs.

>Water management and hydraluic systems were common and very complex, even by Eurasian standards, but this is more a matinaece/sanitation thing so I'll go into it for that post.

And again, the images I posted won't make sense without reading the full pastebin, where I talk about each.

>>15947310

>ancient Greece

>not medieval Greece

>>15927503

Atlantis

As in Ancient Spain the other side of the Gibraltar straight.

>>15949082

>Medieval greece

No, I don't want Plague

>>15946319

>yfw someone actually did that

Mont St. Michel

Think of the setting from the original Devil May Cry, except it's the size of a small town. The island itself is accessible by land, but only at low tide. At high tide, the land bridge floods and cuts off the island from the rest of the world until the next low tide. I've personally visited there, and I can tell you that as beautiful as it is during the day, it felt like something straight out of a horror movie at night with the isolation factor, confusing layout, dark alleys at every turn, and rats the size of full sized chihuahuas.

>>15949113

Source? I highly doubt it, but if it did, it woULD RUIN MY

F U C K I N G

NIGHT

>>15949169

http://www.transenzjapan.com/blog/door-to-door-sales-and-scams-in-japan/

>>15949239

>>15949231

It's non-zero

>>15949271

Rape numbers from UK are rarely committed by nationals though, that was one of the main reasons people in the north of the country voted for brexit, to get the kiddy-fucking immigrants out of the country.

There was a section in the Victoria & Albert museum a few years ago about the Japanese and included a number of gifts the royal family had received from prominent members of the Japanese empire at the time. Some of which included wood block prints similar to pic related for which they were shunned by the western art world because it was "too vulgar" and I think that has continued on to any kind of Japanese "artistic" export I put artistic in quotation makrs because >video games are art"

The Japanese have always been weird to their non-appreciators, many of which probably exist on this board, ironically considering its formation.

Nice (((noses))) on the brits btw

>>15949250

Fuck Germany, the Holy Roman Empire is where it's at.

>>15949367

>mfw

>>15928966

>>15937767

>>15947602

>>15949132

You guys should look up Andean stoneworking, those guys were crazy with Masonry.

Worth noting that the two filennames that say "Inca" aren't actually Inca, but are from Puma Punku, which is a site that's a part of Tiwanku, which was an earlier culture and empire in the region from around 600AD or so.

>>15949692

>>15949648

Nah, there's actually studies detailing how exactly the style of stonework for the first 3 were made.

>reddit, I know, but here's a 12 paragraph post from an actual archaeologist breaking it down and citing actual papers and studies

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3hx31g/all_in_all_its_just_another_12_sided_block_in_the/?st=jqi8rnti&sh=97d840cd

>>15938697

>But I'm tired of European dudes man

>>15938697

Fuck off nigger.

>>15928560

That's why i want the next TES game to be set on Black Marsh. And why bethesda doesn't

>>15947310

I agree we need more games set in ancient times, i can't even remember any games other than AoE set in ancient Sumer. Bonus points if it's set in pre-(((akkadian))) sumer

I used to do off trail hiking in the Laurentian mountain range north-west of Quebec city when I was a teenager with my father in the Jacque Cartier national park and just going out there with a topographic map and compass I would find all sorts of crazy shit including:

A mountain path bordering a waterfall that was on a cliff, going for about a kilometer over 600 meters of elevation, just at the top we found all sorts of crazy shit like a pile of bitten and used shoes, a makeshift fishing pole with hooks made out of bent metal cans and last year's newspaper preserved under a foldable chair. The interesting part was getting there, you got to climb on stones that are very huge and numerous, with moss covering them (and the space between them), each step could be a literal pitfall in a rock pile up cavern or cave-in and you could break a leg or even fall entirely into those places, you also have to climb over the rocks to get higher in certain spots and that is mostly chest-high rocks and sometimes you have to climb over dead tree trunks and such.

Second place we visited we found a few years tagged WW2 era lumberjack trail (that I retagged at the time) going to a cross-country skiing trail from the 90s (no longer on any available national park maps) that went across the mountains and was very easy to practice compared to the first example yet it was old and unused and went for dozens of kilometers, we happened upon a cabin that was still maintained (probably by park officials and people who still use that cross country ski trail). Eventually we came back to the cabin with permission from the park to stay there for the night (for a 15$ a night price, the price to use a camping spot), the following day we followed this trail until we happened on the site of an actual lumberjack camp that had burned to the ground, we found enamel pots and pans, an old 19-20th century stove that was left there, I digged up a bit and found dozens of early 20th century bottles such as maple syrup and cyanide bottles (probably for rodent control) and we brought back some of those that I still have (no worries about taking park artifacts here, the authorities do not outline taking them out of the place as a part of their rules).

Anyhow to make some long story shorts, I think that places that give good adventures in real life could also be great settings in fiction and video games and I think mountain ranges are rarely used as settings and aren't usually given much thought about how hard and wild the terrain and things you can find in them is.

If only actual exploration games could give you just a compass and a topographic map and show you how to navigate around (namely you go from tree to tree in the direction you want to go in, checking your cardinal points every 10-40 meters) instead of bullshit video gamey GPS navigation.

>>15951795

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>>15951779

You dumb faggots, there's a difference between SJW's wanting minorities in for muh virtue signalling and making the same games they would have otherwise anyways, and actually using other interesting settings from other cultures that go underutilized.

Latin America, the Middle East, and South/East Asia are all shitholes today, but historically they had tons of complex civilizations, cool cities, unique aesthetics, and tons of wars, rulers, and mythology that could make for interesting games.

The middle east has around 6000 years of civilization, South/East Asia has around 4500 years, Mesoamerica/Mexico has around 3000, and the Andes/Peru has around 1500. Hell, despite Japan getting tons of games, other Far-East cultures don't, so you might as well throw in China's 3500 years of civilization: That's fucking 18,000+ years of history with complex socities you could use for influences in games, compared to the 4500 years of european and japanese history that really only gets used.

Pics related. Sadly the first 3 maps, like most, don't actually cover Mesoamerican history in any depth (the first one does a suprisingly alright job for the Andes, but is still missing a fair emount, and then the next 2 barely cover it just like with mesoamerica) because nobody is fucking taught anything about it, but here's a decent summary of it in the 4th image.

>>15951963

Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes are defintelly the most underused historical settings that had complex civilization

>>15938697

>pic 3

I've read some article months ago about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon actually being 'Hanging Gardens of Assyria' and it's possible location is right within a warzone somewhere in Northern Iraq, I can guess whoever TLed the original texts let the sand get into his brain, thinks the Assyrians = Babylonians in some inn he stayed over or some shit.

>>15949648

>aliens

No. MOTHER.

>>15947100

>you usually see that stuff in politics

No, shilling is just a notably weaponized form of the business marketing practice, there's powerpoint presentations about it an a /pol/ thread many months ago, the concept of 'shilling companies' and others like it came not long after it's conception, along with the concept of crisis actor gorups/companies

Centralia after the fires, perhaps?

>>15952097

You can't fool me firewatch cuck.

>>15952880

I actually had no genuine idea of what you were referring to as firewatch in the first place, does it involve actually exploring dangerous terrain and finding historical artifacts ? I get its a walking simulator game set in the wilderness but quite frankly I think thats pretty different from what im suggesting, as in an actual game set in a mountain range and not some walking simulator tech demo, I was thinking maybe something like a survival horror or third or first person shooter, hell even a game with what I talked about would have more hazards than what firewatch looks like it has to offer, that is, dangerous terrain and the danger of getting lost, maybe getting charged by a moose or mauled by a bear, either way Id be down with monsters or human enemies or really anything that involves combat in a mountain range, there just isn't much of that out there.

I'd love to play a New Vegas type game where I play as a Bushranger in convict Australia. Maybe an alternate history with factions like the Eureka Stockade and stuff, incorporate abo stories like Bunyips or something. Escaping to the bush from the brits and getting in shootouts with my gang would be so sick.

>>15953255

The problem with this is how empty and sparse Australia actually was/is. Keeping true to the setting would make for boring gameplay, but bending history to add more content risks creating a Red Dead Re-skin.

A more novel idea might have you starting out as a bushranger, only to get caught up in some Aboriginal spiritualism where not just bunyips but all kinds of demons start filling the bush, testing your sanity under the brutal southern sun. While you'd be able to seek safety in settlements and towns, this would naturally make it more likely that the player would run into colonial authorities and face arrest, leading to a constant trade-off: risk the noose of civilization, or risk a gruesome death by native horrors.

It might be interesting to add something like yowies too, a non-human yet non-hostile NPC group who you can interact with and glean clues as to whether the spiritualism is real or just a heat-induced hallucination. Naturally not a single human European character would acknowledge the existence of yowies, keeping things ambiguous.

>>15959608

I'm autistic and crazy so I believe in stuff like that.