/v/ - Video Games

Fear & Hunger

>Fez

How about you suck my dick and choke on it?

>journey

>indie

>>16002217

>MUH COD

GTFO with that ancient boogyman, people dont even play COD on PC and havent for 10+ years

>>16002110

New? I don't recall playing anything past 2015. There just hasn't been an indie game that interested me these past few years. If anyone knows anything fun, feel free to mention it.

The metrodivania Treasure adventure game or the non-free remake Treasure Adventure World

Define newish.

I liked A Hat in Time. And Hollow Knight. And Dusk.

Who is the chick with the sword? the others I know about but I cant remember ever seeing her.

If you like beat'em ups, Fight'N Rage is pretty good, has copious amounts of tits, and you can turn off all the filter shit. It's on gog, too, so easy pirating.

Rain World. Play it.

Do you have a genre in mind?

>>16002404

Rain World proving that Journalists are even lesser creatures then casuals is Rain World's biggest strong point. My biggest gripe with the game is that it's the usual art style where the protagonist is a cute white thing with big black eyes.

Is this kindergarten? Need me to teach you how to make crayons too? ==SURE==

SURPRISE ME

I knew this was a cursed thread.

CUNT

>>16002480

>>16002484

This your day or something, bud?

>>16002461

You have the agree though, the general art-style for the environments is fucking gorgeous, right?

>New le Indie lame

>After 2015

Under what Rock have you been living and why haven't you tried Ghost 2.0 ?

>>16002557

>Unepic devs

Level with me here anon, is it as meme-y as Unepic?

>>16002110

Boobs Saga is the Dark Souls of indies.

That was not a recommendation.

>>16002548

Well yeah, but I already know what type of story I'm in for when it's a cute white thing.

>>16002571

I don't think the story is cutesey at all. It's actually pretty depressing, in an uplifting kind of way. It's about escaping the cycle of death and rebirth.

>>16002571

Honestly, it's the only game I've ever played where I felt like the ending was worth the journey. I actually cried.

>>16002600

Game plays really good up until Cloud Ruins, then it takes a giant dump on everything it had built up from there until the end of the game.

And the writer for the game sneaks in an incredibly cringy life story as if he's a veteran writer on his deathbed and not some stupid fuck making mostly lame jokes the entire game.

>>16002608

>postmodern

already trash, just from the title alone.

>>16002621

H I P S T E R

P O S T M O D E R N

T R A S H

>>16002621

As bad as that is, at least they made a game.

Where's your game, /v/?

>>16002653

http://8agdg.wikidot.com/general:finishedprojects

>>16002626

I should get around to pirating that game

>>16002608

That looks like a great game to play with my wife's son.

>>16002648

> The only thing I took away from it is that the Hipster protag is drawn like a woman, then they slap a beard on "him". Christ even the Nigger beside him clearly looks like a bearded woman.

Soyboys wear beards because without they would look like ugly women or overgrown toddlers.

>>16002655

Oh I didn't realize that Red Sky was both finished and on that anon's Sigma engine

>>16002391

She's what the player sprite in Superbrothers Sword & Sorcery is supposed to be.

>>16002700

True, but in this case the guy's cheek bones and even hsi eyes don't match the beard. It looks like he's wearing a fake beard.

>>16002786

But Fight'n Rage was made by TOR posters Uruguayans

>>16002640

>WW3

fuck off shill, its a dead game that didnt deliver on any of its promises, you can spend less money for more content with BF4 and it probably has more players too

Play Super Daryl Deluxe.

Looks like a professional, adult version of classic Newgrounds.

>>16002684

What game was that?

>>16002608

>advertise it to hell a year ago

>think anyone will remember it now

Going to bomb

>>16003038

India superpower in one year.

>>16003108

game?

>>16003265

Left one is celest or something

>>16002110

I enjoyed A Hat in Time and The Escapists 2 last year.

Subnautica, Terraria, and Cuphead are also great.

>>16002110

It's early access, but you can wait for a piratable version.

>>16002640

They had a rocky start, but I'm willing to give them a chance. Ground branch is another shooter that I'm hyped for.

>>16002608

Soybound

>>16003314

Iji isn't even close to "newish". However, somewhat related, is Slap City, a Smash clone based on the games by Ludosity. Asha, from Iji, recently got added as a character, as well as three different stages based on the game.

>>16003344

>that shit FPS game again

its not fun nor worth anyones money

>>16003416

>Lips ready to accept the black cock

>no one puts a gun in there instead

Kremlingames put out good shit

Galimulator is good.

>early access

Honestly, it's pretty good. 10/10 for atmosphere. The shooting is alright too.

>>16002110

I'd definitely recommend Lost in Vivo. It's a good survival horror game that just got released. It has a silent Hill vibe and ps1 look to it. It has some endings to go off on too.

There was a webm posted here of some upcoming indie game that looked cool, but I completely forget what it was called. Just that the developer goes on about how you aren't the chosen one. It seemed to play kind of like Dark Souls or Breath of the Wild.

>>16002110

Hey, aren't the vast majority of indie games just pretentious trash?

>>16003443

It's still in alpha for fucks sake. Don't buy EA, obviously.

Also, can someone tell me why 4-player is so popular? Shit only made sense back in splitscreen days.

>>16003941

>yeah nah that game is gay

>That syntax

Get the fuck out until you type better nigger.

>>16003951

>Unable to comprehend english

the game is still gay.

>>16003961

it's called early access for a reason autismo, if you don't like that model of release then don't buy it until the game is finished. I don't trust a faceless corporation to not take my money without finishing their product, so I don't but EA.

>>16003443

>>16002908

>>16003961

what's wrong with the game? it's an alpha, obviously, but I'm still having fun with it. even at this early stage, it's some of the most fun I had in a shooter, and that says something about the current state of the industry

>>16004111

it says something about the current state of your willingness to accept shit just because AAA games are bad

>whats wrong with the game?

>its in alpha

thats the point, there are many things wrong with the game simply because its only in alpha and the fact that has that gay bullet time mechanic that FEARfags cream over

>>16004136

I can understand why the game is in an alpha, the devs need the money right now. As long as they keep developing content for it, I' fine with giving them my money, if not,then I will agree with you, but I still had enough fun in tdm alone to justify my purchase, not counting the conquest mode, which is also fun but bf4 exists

>>16004136

also

>bullet time

>in ww3

explain

>>16002608

>>16002621

Okay anon, you made me chuckle.

>>16004015

Holy shit, he aged poorly.

>>16002608

>nu male cuck

>samurai nigger

>shaniqua

>the girls aren't even that cute

>the same developers that made va11 hall4

Kill

Self.

>>16003595

i agree. love this game and the developers push out a good update every month.

>>16005150

>8 hours

Supposedly it should imply more content but I guarantee you a big chunk of those 8 hours is the massive quality drop right after cloud ruins. Going fast is present with how good you can use cloudstep though.

>enemies taking multiple hits to kill

One type of enemy that takes three hits as opposed to the normal one, and that enemy is a melee enemy that's never an obstacle anywhere

>Constant ingame dialogue

Not really constant but sure.

>>16005189

>>BUTCHER

>>Basically 2D Doom

BUTCHER is pretty damn good, very short but has high replay value.

>>16005035

You say that as if he was decent looking to begin with

>>16002608

I really like hipster/nu-aesthetics. I wish it wasn't tied to something so cancerous.

>>16005453

Do you have arguments to back up those opinions or what?

Broforce is the only decent one of the three. SSZ is complete ass and has a much better game in SSInfinite. Salt and Sanctuary is just not that fun to play and the whole soulslike shit needs to stop.

>>16005513

I only have the Steam version, otherwise I'd share it with you anon.

>>16005513

Tried ANY of the CheckingBeforePosting share thread links?

>>16005227

>>16005189

>>16005519

>BUTCHER

>2D doom

But doom is 2D you fucking faggots

Return of the obra dinn was pretty fun, if you like dithering

>>16005518

That git is absolute trash for modern releases.

>>16005500

>Do you have arguments to back up those opinions or what?

Strike Suit Zero is simply a complete unplayable trainwreck that appears to have been released in a pre-alpha state. Maybe there's a game there somewhere but I couldn't find it as it seems more like a tech demo or something.

Salt and Sanctuary you said it yourself. It's just not fun, mostly because the controls / fighting mechanics are utter shit. I actually enjoy soulslike but I think the formula should stay in 3d third person games as it just doesn't translate well to 2d.

Broforce is the epitome of cancerous pixelshit made by zoomers without any notion of what actually made old games good and using Reddit-tier memes and appeal as a hook.

I haven't played the other two (Aragami and MOTN Remastered) but considering his taste, from now on I'm going to assume they're shit as well

>>16005603

MOTN is good and is easily the best Klei has to offer.

Aragami is hit and miss.

>>16005528

doom is 3d, it's just a 3d smash tv.

>>16005644

This looks kinda boring

>>16002404

That's hilarious, given that game journalists are often the first to promote the whole "why can't you talk to the monsters?" anti-violence shit.

>>16005769

They promote, talk, and write a lot of things, what they don't do is play games.

>>16005329

I know what you mean, I can't help but think that if these twats figured out that people want games with actual gameplay and non-cringey writing they might actually make some decent titles.

Book of Demons

Ahnayro

OutDrive

Kingdoms and Castles

Opus Magnum

Outdrive

Hylics

GRIDD

Claire

Camp Sunshine

The Coma

Dyad

The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa

House Flipper

Lethal League

Lucius

Marlow Briggs

Mark of the Ninja

Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae

Nelo

Nostalgic Train (You need an english patch)

Organ Quarter (if you have VR and like silent hill)

Pulsar

Slime Rancher

Before the echo

>>16005513

I'll put the humble version in the vola when I get back from work.

>>16005968

Thanks, wagecuck anon.

Why do all these nu-indie games have the same gay cartoony pastel colour scheme? It's as if they're a hivemind when it comes to the same shitty artstyle

>>16006109

t's in vogue, I guess.

>>16006098

That's what I used, I guess I need to update it.

>>16005643

DOOM 1 and 2 are 2D games with faked 3D graphics. That doesn't mean it'd be as playable or good without those graphics, but there still is not a single 3D calculation in the entire game outside the renderer. The map is effectively the same game as DOOM itself.

>>16006166

>>16006279

>enter this thread

>hurr doom isn't 3d

>butcher just isn't a 2d platforming Doom

Are newfag hits really this fucking stupid?

>ed edd & eddy reaction bait images

Oh. Just underaged redditors. It all makes sense now.

>>16006279

all 3d graphics are faked 3d graphics, if you're going to be a dick about it.

>>16005189

I summon the Anti-Butcher autist thanks to him I didn't buy the game

>>16006464

>>16006325

>>16006411

I've actually implemented a functional clone of Doom in Game Maker. The way both games handle it is to treat the XY plane as a walkable dimension, and Z (height) actually has no bearing. That is, the XY coordinates on the texture are scaled based on the XY coordinates between you and the texture, that is, no actual Z/"depth" texture data is used. It truly is fake 3D

>>16006666

>inb4 hurr satan

"666" != "6666"

>>16006713

Everybody know what you're talking about, but it's not "fake 3d". You see ceiling, floor, walls and depth. If you're going to be pretentious about it, all 3d games are "fake 3d" in some way. Are you going to bitch about parallax scrolling, too?

>>16006734

But it IS fake 3d because the height doesn't exist in any way. Doom is strictly a top-down game and Hotline Miami is functionally identical to it. It's NOT 3d.

>>16006741

That music was pretty excellent, thanks for sharing it.

I'd also like to shill Desync, it's a pretty fun score attack FPS that focuses on comboing abilities and weapons to get high scores.

>>16006796

Nobody argued the fact, only the idiotic "fake 3d" claim.

It was the indie market that spearheaded the SanFran invasion of US vidya.

>>16006734

If you know what he's talking about, then what's the fucking problem? How the fuck are we having an argument about this? It's pure semantics.

>>16006796

You're missing the forest for the trees anon. Everyone knows it's "fake 3d", that's not the point. Saying "But Doom is already 2d" to the comment "It's doom but 2d" is just pedantic and seriously misunderstanding the fundamental implications of that statement, which is referring to gameplay and not the technology behind the rendering of the actual game.

>>16003473

Hollow Knight was my GOTY 2017. Really great Metroidvania with fantastic level design, deepest lore and gameplay.

The Humble store version is DRM free and has all the free DLC updates, which I also very much appreciate.

>>16002232

>There just hasn't been an indie game that interested me these past few years. If anyone knows anything fun, feel free to mention it.

The Messenger was pretty good. Pirate it for a good time. I know a few anons didn't like it, and it seems extremely bland and simple at first, but the longer you go on the better it gets. Also, Rain World is incredible and the devs deserve all the praise in the world for that game, but so many people just don't know about it or complain of the difficulty.

The one caveat to Rain World is that you have a whole slew of different movement abilities, and you can do them ALL from the very start of the game…but the game doesn't tell you how to do any of them. Whatsoever. Which makes a gigantic difference. You can experiment trying to figure them out, but you'll probably die a lot. And once you finish the campaign, there's a much more difficult hardcore version…which is a completely different campaign and story.

>>16002330

>>16002404

To be fair about that screencap, there are different Tribes of scavengers. Some of them are immediately hostile to you and will just to stick you like a pig, but those are generally encountered in later areas. Savanger tribes will remember your actions for them for the whole game: if you "save" a scavenger (kill a lizard who's aggroed on one) it means a whole lot to them, the tribe will be amicable to you, and the scavenger itself will rush to your aid should you get attacked in its line of sight. The hostile tribes will chuck explosives at you and other things, but you can try placating them with pearls, or kill them all, which game journos would NOT have the skill to do.

>>16006741

>Performance: Runs on Unity but is actually optimized considering people with 25 years of programming experience were working on this game

Speaking of, did you experience a lot of performance problems in the second-to-last level, I think it was Vulpecula? Up until that point the game had run at a fairly smooth 144fps, so it was jarring.

>>16006864

>and you can do them ALL from the very start of the game…but the game doesn't tell you how to do any of them. Whatsoever.

I think they tweaked this in a later patch, the control screen explains hand switching and item dropping and things like that. The release version was a lot more minimalist.

>if you "save" a scavenger (kill a lizard who's aggroed on one) it means a whole lot to them, the tribe will be amicable to you, and the scavenger itself will rush to your aid should you get attacked in its line of sight.

Did you know the same is true if you save a lizard from a vulture? It immediately becomes your pet. I only discovered this by accident and wonder how many other things there are like that in the game.

>>16006907

>Speaking of, did you experience a lot of performance problems in the second-to-last level, I think it was Vulpecula? Up until that point the game had run at a fairly smooth 144fps, so it was jarring.

That final levels use some unoptimized shaders for the forcefields which really tank the performance even on high-end machines. Outside of that the game runs like a dream.

>>16006907

>spoiler

Yes, I knew. That's the harder way to do it, you can also feed them, IIRC. In addition, there's a rare mechanic you won't see very often unless you play a lot: there's an evolution chain. Once in a while, whenever a creature is killed (non-sentient one) it has a chance of respawning as a "higher" version of its previous self. There are some enemies you can only see if you play on the highest difficulty and play for some time, and they are not anything you'd want to come face to face with. If you're lucky, you can manage to make one of those evolutions your pet.

>I think they tweaked this in a later patch

They did, the 1.5 patch if I remember. There was one move I was explicitly trying to do and couldn't (I had to look at the wiki for it when I saw someone talking about it), and then realized the version I had was old. They added a few things and gave some basic instructions, but they still didn't mention the majority of the movement abilities, and definitely none of the ones that are most helpful. Maybe the crouch jump, I can't remember.

>>16006741

My only issue with Overload were the final level purple alien ships. They just threw so many of them at you and their projectiles are the real problem. I was playing hardest difficulty, and it was just stupid. It was a constant bullet storm the entire time; the whole rest of the game, if you got hit, it was your own damn fault. In the alien levels, if you get hit, well, too bad, you're stuck in a tunnel and there's a nonstop rain of purple streaks firing down it that go faster than any other projectile, you just can't avoid them all.

>>16002610

>Game doesn't stop at just aping ninja gaiden like some basic shovel night shit, it instead expands in completely unexpected ways

<Ahurr durr shoulda stayed mediocre and unsurprising

I don't understand how you're expecting to convince people the Messenger is bad through that argument.

>>16007015

A metroidvania where you've already explored the maps once and they barely change is a godawful idea to no end.

>>16005644

my issue with butcher is that the pixel graphics are among the worst I've seen in anything. Like they started with bad pixelshit, and then downsampled it twice over on top of that. It's a blurry, chunky mess, like you're playing the game with some pixelized veneer of depth of field.

>>16007032

I can understand someone being irritated at the backtracking and calling it a bad aspect of the game. I didn't mind it much myself. You shouldn't be backtracking a lot. That said, I don't think any of the areas are bad, Clouds included. It was perhaps one of the hardest, but as long as you time your strikes you can stay airborne.

>>16007074

Don't get me wrong, Cloud Ruins and every other new level is great, the backtracking sucked because all the rhythm of the platforming was sucked out.

Where they Cremate The Roadkill is a rpg maker with beat em up combat and really really good art. Criminally underrated. The story is so surreal and abstract.

Hob is another indie Zelda like with this time a world that activly transforms as you complete areas in the world. Fucking massive the world is too. All connected too.

Amid Evil whilst not complete is one of the best shooters I've ever played, absolutely incredible levels.

Lucah Born Of A Dream Top down indie hack and slash with a very dark story. Beautiful art style. It's really fucking hard though.

Mothlight A free rpg maker game on steam that's a got a really cool dark fantasy setting that get's ruined half way through its very edgy. Like the save areas are you litterally cutting a wrist to save. The dev is fucked up dude.

Anodyne is a essentially link's Awakening without the dungeons and with really strange visuals and sound effects and music that I would describe as mostly ambient its honestly one of my favorite games mostly due to how at ease some of the areas put me in even though the game isn't a horror game.

>>16007032

Well Metroid didn't really change their maps either, what changed was your perception of the map once you realized certain parts of the map matched what you had to get past with certain powerups.

Voidspire Tactics and its sequel Alvora Tactics. Voidspire has really great exploration and item interactions. There are puzzles you can dig right through if you have enough pickaxes and there are tons of hidden items that you need tools like shovels and bombs to find. Alvora focuses more on combat and is broken up into sections but there are still a few secrets in every section.

>>16005513

You really should remove yourself from the gene pool if you are being honest about this.

>>16002786

can i have a link for Succubus kind anon

>>16005644

Looks like a flash game from newgrounds, A pretty good flash game but still a flash game.

>>16009001

I live here

You're high on legal marijuana if you believe this

>>16008988

Isn't Portland or Seattle one of the whitest major cities in the USA? Ironic that it's full of liberal minority lovers.

>>16002621

I kind of want to take the general idea about this (game about y2k) and make a megaman legends / battle network fusion.

>half the game is like battle network, walking around as a kid and encountering technology fucking up because y2k rollover

>you "hack into" it or some shit

>other half is full blown psychedelic MML clone crawling net dungeons

>there's a level where you encounter a den of degenerates in a MUD

>there's a level where you have to prevent a plane crash by hacking into air traffic control and the boss is a bane reference

>final sequence is just a full blown acid trip where your character's online avatar is about to get updated and you're just fighting to survive

<sad ending where everything gets fixed but you lose your avatar forever

<bonus: the avatar had a mind of its own and was your only friend + gets no recognition

is this a good idea or am i autistic? and no i would not do this faggy low-poly look

>>16008988

oregon and washington as states unironically aren't bad. it's just seattle and portland. and even then it's only in areas where faggy hipsters and transients gather.

the tourist and residential areas are largely fine and you don't get problems like california does with their hepatitis outbreaks and street needles

>>16002608

What a cancerous faggot game…

>>16009031

>These games less than 5 years old are the holy grail of my youth

I am glad this game exists. I have had more fun seeing how god awful it is than anybody will ever have playing it.

>>16009031

>pic 1

If we give him the benefit of the doubt, it's a combination of laziness/ignorance. Still, it's pretty fucking retarded if the game is set in 1999. First off, no one dressed like that soy-bloated cuck back then and even if he actually did play the games growing up, he should have a good idea of roughly when they were released. Did the thought that they wouldn't have been that old in 1999 really never cross his mind?

>pic 2

Fucking tasteless. How tone-deaf do you have to be to include something like that? He's probably so self-absorbed that he thought it would come off deep or some such shit.

>pic 3

I feel sorry for the cat.

>>16008614

Let me make this clear if you haven't played the game

>First iteration you're playing through linear levels no problem

>second iteration you're playing through the same linear levels except you can now go back, and every level has a one new exit you can go through for a teleport or a music note or a path to a new level

There is no exploration or new aspects to the levels, it's literally just "backtrack through this level because we couldn't be assed to think the teleport locations more thoroughly". There's some dimension swap portals but they're guacamelee tier in how they're used.

>>16002621

illuminati want my mind, soul and my body

>>16002786

Gotta agree with mark on this one. Demons are meant to be killed, not loved.

>>16002608

>niggers are just people with dreadlocks

>>16005189

tell me more about CrossCode

>>16005974

Holy shit I completely forgot about this.

I put in in the vola https://volafile.org/get/B2dZPxlfSuSfg/RainWorld171212_STANDALONE(1).zip

Hollow Knight

Crosscode

The Messenger

Hotline Miami 1 and 2

Binding of Issac

Enter the Gungeon

A Hat in Time

>>16009532

the story is not isekai. Isekai means person IRL trapped in MMO worled

in Crosscode the story starts with MC being a player who can't logout, but the MMO is still an MMO, not a real world.

The issue with CrossCode is that the puzzles overstay their welcome. There needs to be a healthy balance between enemies/enemyrooms/minibosses/gauntlets and puzzles. In CrossCode the dungeons are 80% puzzles 20% enemies, when it should be more like 70% enemies 30% puzzles.

The puzzles however are really well done and really enjoyable. They can be tiresome, that's all.

There's free content patch coming out this year with a new chapter, epilogue, boss rush, post-game bosses, that is lvl 70 content (10 more than what you need to beat it), and a second DLC for one more dungeon in the making. The devs of this game are pretty cool hardworking Germans who like to talk to their fans and have a Discord where they have a community. The guy who did the OST is also very humble

>>16009847

>>16009626

Isekai doesn't necessarily involve an mmo. It just means a person in a world that is not their own. They often involve game-like aspects or the world in question is basically a copy of an mmo setting but it's not required. For example, SAO is not an isekai but Kumo Desu Ka(game-like elements) and Mushoku Tensei(no game elements) are.

>>16009626

>>16009959

if the game world is immersive vr that incapacitates the player like .hack then that's trapped in a game, which is a kind of isekai

I recommend Deadly Tower of Monsters for a quick laugh. It's a top down adventure game where you're playing a director's cut of a failed B-movie, and you have a director's commentary with the director and the sound guy recording him. It's a pretty fun game but it gets repetitive near the end and I think it's supposed to be intentional, but it sucks.

>>16009994

.hack wasn't really intended to be isekai. Sure, one of the characters can't log off the immersive MMO, but everyone else can. The one who is trapped is meant to be a curiosity that leads down a rabbit hole to the real plot of "I'm going to use an MMO to crowdsource my AI's development, what could possibly go wrong?'

Dead Cells is pretty fun, a rogue-like Metroidvania. You don't so much as return to that position on that play through, you unlock something on one play through, die and go back to the location on the next one. The rest of the map is procedurally generated, but the main spawns and their prerequisites are the same each play through. Difficulty is fair, if you die it's your own damn fault

>>16005644

Kinda reminds me of Soldat

>>16009994

That's literally what SAO was at first. I wouldn't call that isekai because the mmo world they're in exists within their own world. If they got transported to another actual world that replicates the mmo then it is isekai. You can't live out a life trapped in an mmo, your actual body will die. The key elements are probably the transportation of the person to another world and the actual existence of that world in relation to their original world.

>>16010044

I think trapped in a game is isekai, even trapped in a nightmare could be isekai if the dream is induced by some external force.

The imposition of the other world on the characters by some force that isn't known to exist until after the fact is what defines isekai.

The force keeping people in the game isn't known or known to be capable of that a priori.

>>16009031

Why is the save sign on backwards?

>Chrono Trigger, Lufia 2, Secret of Mana

>Not even "Lufia II" as it was, but "2"

>"Childhood"

>1999

Should have gone with Dragon Quest, Phantasy Star, and Crystalis, or something. Fuck's sake, there's speaking through your characters, and then there's breaking immersion. But more than that, I'm kind of surprised they're able to even mention those names. How much of their budget went towards licensing the usage?

>Second image

Not going to lie, I laughed. That is some gall.

>>16010871

… Now I kinda want to rewatch .hack//sign

>>16012118

>>16012452

But point being, I'm not sure how well it holds up on rewatch.

>>16012503

What's the guy's twitter? Has he said anything post-launch?

>>16010821

>But more than that, I'm kind of surprised they're able to even mention those names. How much of their budget went towards licensing the usage?

None, copyright isn't THAT restrictive.

Well, I mean, I assume none since it wouldn't be necessary. This idiot might have sent an envelope full of cash to Nintendo labeled "our little secret" or something.

>>16012792

Got a link to that or possibly webm it?

Crypt of the NecroDancer. Its a rhythm-based RPG game. There is a ton of shit to do, such as beating the game in one run without dying. Or trying the character where if you miss a beat you die.

>>16010821

> How much of their budget went towards licensing the usage?

As >>16012802 points out it would be zero. They didn't use any aspects of those works only mentioned their name. Entirely legal and above board.

>>16013069

…It's bad that that got a chuckle out of me, right?

>>16013076

Nah the foundation of the joke is solid but the execution is off. Too verbose IMO, drags on way too long.

>>16013031

>Crypt of the NecroDancer.

Made in association with Silversting Media, a group formed to actively inject poz into the games industry. If you support them, you are part of the problem.

>>16013069

>words words words words words

>>16013076

>>16013111

Not really. I remember going to a movie once and there was a segment with a similar sort of joke. It was a while back, but one character gets into a conversation with the token black guy about what sort of music he likes. The black guy gets indignant and says something along the lines of "Oh, I bet because I'm black you assume I just love rap music. How do you know I don't like [insert other genres here]" The other character cucks and apologizes before the black guy starts laughing and saying he was just fucking with him and does like rap.

In retrospect, it was still pretty pozzed and the movie overall was shit, but it still worked far better than cuckdev's "joke." The timing was better of course and it didn't drag on with WORDS WORDS WORDS, but more than that it actually subverted your expectations through character action and dialogue rather than just going "stereotypes are bad [inject's soy]"

>>16013076

The joke dragged on way too long. Like they were afraid too be too subtle and nobody would get it.

>>16009506

Imagine you take a bunch of cheap anime cliches and mash them all together and it works

>Amnesiac mute protagonist (there's a reason for the "mute" part and they make work-arounds for it)

>Trapped in am MMO (the MMO takes place in a physical setting and the avatars are build out of what you can bluntly call miracle styrofoam)

>Blue, Red, and White vs Black, Red, and White

>etc

In particular, the game has a heavy emphasis on puzzles, parkour, and combat. Neither of the three elements ever overshadow oneanother from start to finish, and it makes for a satisfying experience. An average run doing just the main story is somewhere around 5-10hr while with all of the side content it's closer to 20-30. It's definitely worth the experience.

Also, contrary to what >>16009532 said, I really liked the puzzles. It's been a long time since a puzzle has made me feel fucking stupid without having a cheap and archaic gimmick attached to it.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Top down real time with pause stealth game starring ninja, trap ninja(as in she uses traps), big samurai guy, The End and a kunoichi. It's pretty fun and there's quite a lot of ways to play it, and quite a lot of replayability too with the challenges.

>>16005171

>One type of enemy that takes three hits as opposed to the normal one, and that enemy is a melee enemy that's never an obstacle anywhere

But that's not good for a Ninja Gaiden clone though. Everything in the classic NG games died in one hit. It was all part of that game's "going fast" theme.

>Not really constant but sure.

The problem is that old games, such as what this one is trying mimic, typically never had unprompted dialogue during gameplay. Castlevania Spectral Interlude had the same issue. Old games would have an opening or ending text crawl, or between level cutscenes (like Ninja Gaiden did), or at most they would only have prompted text from interacting with NPCs. You generally wouldn't just walk into an in engine cutscene or walk and talk segment. Maybe sometimes with RPGs or adventure games, never with action games and platformers.

It's bad enough when new games do this but it just stands out like a sore thumb when modern clones or fan games do it.

>>16014354

Sure but why stop at complaining there? Why not complain about the garbage upgrade shop that serves nothing but make the game a cakewalk or why the essential upgrades(glidesuit upgrade, charged attack, being able to attack projectiles) weren't automatically built into the default moveset.

Game clearly gives up on being a homage to Gaiden and becomes its own thing, the problem is that its own thing is an objectively inferior game to Gaiden.

>>16002110

None of the games you listed in your OP are good.

What is this atmospheric platformer garbage.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

Please stop making bad JRPGs thinking you know how to make a good game.

Grapple Force Rena is a really fun platformer although really short. Book of Demons is a really fun twist on the diablo format with a really unique art style. Brigador has the look of a hd old school top down rpg with real time top down mech twin stick shooting. Highly reccomended. Deadcore is a first person platformer with the with a really, really cool setting. Impulsion is a lot like Deadcore too. Minus a cool setting. Consortium The Tower is a super ambiotious indie Immersive sim with some surprisingly fun combat and decent voice acting. Bright Memory is Devil May Cry meets First person shooting. It's sadly only early access and a hour long but it's got a lot of damn potential. Made by one guy too. Kromaia is a really underrated cool space ship shooting game in 3d. Maximum Action is a case really similar to bright Memory where its a short game in early access with a lot of potential this time though it's a bit like a first person Max Payne it's decently buggy but man I haven't had this much fun with a shooter in a long time. Transistor's a beutiful isometric with a combat system that's so distinctive I can't really put it in any category. Music is great too.

>>16003508

Why is the Turing character from this

https://store.steampowered.com/app/330820/2064_Read_Only_Memories/

In that game?

>>16014933

Same publisher. They also made the va11halla devs add yick content to their game

What I discovered about indies is most of the devs need a backhand to the face.

Das Geisterschiff

>>16002983

>Super Daryl Deluxe

I recommend this too. Highly underrated

>>16003002

For me these games got boring pretty quickly, even when playing with a friend.

>>16002335

DUSK is a shitty game made by antifa supporting leftists. don't buy it

How about Copy Kitty? It's basically Kirby: VR Missions and it has some really good music and intense, fun gameplay with a fair amount of depth(Kicks act as guards and can despawn projectiles, and with timing can reflect them. Also downwards airborne kicks act kind of like the later Castlevania downward stomps). My only problem with it is that it looks pretty ugly.

>>16014579

Is Book of Demons basically Diablo Hand of Fate? It looks pretty nice, thanks for the recommendations, Kromaia looks cool too and so does Grapple Force Rena.

@16016697

shut up faggot. nobody cares what your minority-ass thinks.

>>16016998

>@

>>16016998

I don't care if this is bait or not. You should be permanently banned.

>>16017048

Definitely bait.

>>16017102

meant for >>16016998

>>16017074

who are (You)?

Stale bait. Trying too hard.

>>16016376

I doubt anyone having the skill or patience to sit down and think about a somewhat complex, slow paced control scheme and how to make it fun with good level design.

Honestly these VR training mission games are the best.

>>16002110

La Mulana series, Pharaoh Rebirth, Environmental Station Alpha

>>16017815

>Pharaoh Rebirth

Muh nigger. Second best depiction of ancient Egypt next to SS.

>>16010821

>Why is the save sign on backwards?

it spins.

>>16019748

What game are you talking about?

>>16020207

-> >>16016697

-> >>16017145

In the particular post you are replying to I'm talking about Helldivers, since the faggot has recommended it earlier in the thread and now has to shitpost his way out of it.

This argument is autistic please go back to recommending interesting indie games please.

One Way Heroics: its an jRPG where the world is swallowed by a void. You fight your way to the end of the world searching for a way to stop the annihilation or die trying. DLC adds more classes, better UI, and adds some game mechanics. Don't bother with the sequel.

Rabi-Ribi; A platformer / bullet-hell mesh with cute girls. There is sequence breaking, no item runs, boss rushes, regular updates + DLC, varying difficulty options, and some okay music.

Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt: its a straight forward adventure game where you cure diseases or some shit. Two ways to play the game: with or without upgrades. Its an easy game regardless though.

One more Roll is honestly the best marble game I've played since Monkey ball, it's got physics closer to that game instead all these other marble games aping the Marble Madness Ultra.

Mr Shifty is a old school game simple levels with a bit of dialogue mixed with some neat usages of the simple mechanic in it. One of the best games I've played in a while. Very repayable.

Time Recoil is Hotline Miami evolved with the whole time slows when you kill enemies and killing mroe enemies giving you powerups which can then be comboed to kill more enemies. The game itself is pretty lenghy too.

Pig Eat Ball has a awesome aestetic. Lots of creativity with it's levels too. Really long and has a demo to boot.

Pig Eat Ball is so distinctive it's hard to even put it in a genre. Also that and every time I tried to post a web.m it didn't work.

>>16022110

>>16026624

got any recommendations that aren't generic and boring? all of these games are fucking borefests.

>>16034142

Maybe try giving examples for not boring/generic games first? Because from what it looks like games are not interesting for you in general.

>>16002110

>I want to play something new.

why? pre 2007 is better

>>16034149

more that most of this shit is pretty old and just not good. all of the interesting stuff already got mentioned early on tbh :\

I just want a game where I can explore dungeons as a cute girl with cute outfits and some decent combat.

Anyways They Bleed Pixels was alright. Decent enough gameplay and the main character's cute enough.

>>16034167

I've asked for examples, m8. If you just want to b8, don't w8, because I'll r8 it 8 out of 8.

>>16034294

Yeah I'll do what I want, thanks. Can't take anyone seriously when they sperg about some game without giving examples, and push nothing but weebshit (which is fine if that's what you're into but), only decent thing you've mentioned is Neon Chrome and that's about it. Sorry, guy.

>>16034324

>>16034294

Thanks. Going to be stuck in bed for a few days so these will definitely scratch the itch.

Also something to play that's a bit different than Fear&Hunger, which I've been playing since it was shilled in a thread recently.

>>16034294

>>16034324

Demon's Sperm is actually an alright game imo. I'm sure NoR would be too if it was translated.

Princess Interbreed is pretty fun too other than some of those absolutely shit tier physics levels, holy shit those are so bad, and those levels where the foreground blocks what you can see. Why is it that porn games attract the most retarded devs. I hate them.

>>16002431

FUCKIN CASTER YOOOOO FUCK THOSE BUGS MAN

>>16034431

Well, the point is, I have never believed in big names or companies, the end result is largely circumstantial and depends as much on actual work horses as it is on the quality of management. So I couldn't care less about the views of public figures as long as the game is not affected and that is decided post-factum, after the game has already been released.

>>16034435

>tank controls

Retard detected.

>>16034491

By not caring, you enable SJW faggots with indifference. You give their games visibility and therefore shekels which gives them an even bigger platform to build on.

Not caring means that you condone it, and means that you're complicit by proxy. You're getting fucking played, son.

Wait, isn't Crosscode still kind of unfinished? I remember the first time I played it one of the quests(The broken gauntlet line) was still incomplete.

Also Neon Chrome is pretty good. Yes it's proc gen but it has some really good shit for a twin stick shooter like light based stealth, a serious hardon for destructible walls and environments, richochets and shit. It's pretty much the second best proc-gen twin stick shooter. My only problem with it was the riot shield was useless(because getting hit is undesirable 20% reduction from the front or not) and the environments got a bit stale.

Also it spawned JYDGE, pretty much neon chrome but not proc gen, but the levels were pretty hit and miss. I did really like the challenge conditions requiring you to try out and explore the loadout system though.

The first being Synthetik, fight me.

>>16034435

Not really what I meant. Compare the older MGS games to a lot of other stealth games or even TPP or GZ. Movement feels much more deliberate and more complex or quicker movements require some skill and changing your strategy on the fly feels very rewarding and tense. Sure it lacks a solid light/sound system but it makes up for it with great level design(as does every stealth game) and the added tension from the controls makes it stand out. Outside of Brigador I can't really think of a modern game where movement is slick and smooth, but still requires some getting used to before going wild with it and Brigador has it's own problems.

>>16034532

1. Nuclear Throne

2. Teleglitch

3. Isaac

>>16034491

>I couldn't care less about the views of public figures as long as the game is not affected

That is what i was driving atmore often than not the game is affected exactly because of that,because the developer can't leave well enough alone

>>16034532

>Wait, isn't Crosscode still kind of unfinished? I remember the first time I played it one of the quests(The broken gauntlet line) was still incomplete.

You can play to the conclusion of the story but there is indeed unfinished areas of the game. That quest line, sapphire ridge is pretty barren, the arena is closed. There is supposed to be an update coming that adds an epilogue/post game and the arena.

>>16034552

Fuck it, I ain't go through that bullshit like Shovel Knight again.

>>16034543

Teleglitch is great. Isaac I hated. NT I haven't even played.

>>16034504

>>16034532

>faggots that couldnt into MGS

every MGS game you could run around and not give a fuck about stealth, pro tip if you equip a grenade in MGS3 you run silently

>>16034551

Does a public person represent the entire teams philosophy and do the political views affect technicalities of something like music creation or programming?

If you want me to rephrase my point sure.

Political and philosophical views of certain people can affect the entire product drastically, but more frequent than not it is not the actual/the main reason why that particular game has a dip in quality.

>>16034586

>You can play MGS and not give a fuck about stealth

And in Vanquish you can run around playing it like a cover shooter. Still makes it the less fun option.

>>16034597

by stealth i mean crawling around like a dumbass all day, you can run around in every MGS game and never get spotted because every enemy has shit eyesight

>>16034590

True, John Romero supports and funds trannies but Doom is still a good game. Now that I think about it, leftists have made some of the best games ever made.

>>16034606

Oh ok I misunderstood you, my bad.

>>16034638

I believe it was because back then no one really looked to video game developers for political insight and as such no one developing a game thought they were fucking superstars doing so.

>>16034677

Because no one gave them the levarage to do so. They didn't have some social media account to which they can talk about shit that's not vidya and when you get some idiot making a video game thinking he's hot shit he'd probably be ridiculed at that time.

>>16034681

Weren't all of Pitchford's levels edited or revised by someone else?

Man I gotta go play SW again. How were the remakes? Does he still have that wonderful accent?

>>16034527

I don't care if SJW faggots get a bigger platform as long as they are making good games. If you believe, that SJW faggots can't make good games consistently and evidence supports that, then that would mean that I would almost never actually be inclined to support such devs, so I don't know what's your problem. If your base argument for why I shouldn't support SJW devs features political arguments more than it features vidya, then you can fuck right off with that bullshit, because I'm not inclined to share your political views and you are inserting something that's irrelevant into the discussion.

>>16034681

cool guys at the beach!

>>16034761

>four different time periods each with their own unique weapon selection; was apparently so badly spaghetti coded that it's not possible to mod the weapons

timesplitters got it right around the same time diakatana came out too, theres some mod that fixes most of the stuff that actually makes the game sorta enjoyable

>>16034762

Afaik the main reason was because they wanted it so the player could select each individual weapon with the number bar. This was before swapping weapons with like a gun limit like Halo was a thing. They wanted the Ionblaster you get in level 1 to be bound to the same key in time period 4 for the glock you get during that era. The way they attempted this was by having different entity definitions for each time period. (Basically each time period is its own separate game as far as the engine is concerned) this was so badly implemented that if the game came out a few years later they probably would've just made it so you had like an 8 gun limit and could drop guns/swap between them instead. Then again most of Daikatana's poor design amounted to developers attempting to do things the easy way rather than the faster and more efficient way.

>>16034761

Don't forget Romero's girlfriend being on the team for Daikatana. That never works out well.

>>16034885

cave story

>>16035053

>cave story

That doesn't disprove what he stated.

>>16034903

Wasn't she responsible for Stones of Arnhem? One of the most retarded projects to ever get the green light.

>>16034638

>>16034491

The difference between the right and the left is that the right foolishly gives money to their enemies and the left wisely prevents their enemies from making money at all. As a result, you would get proportionately get a larger pool of left wing games than right wing ones.

Right-wingers aren't on the offensive like leftists are, they're generally on the defensive at a point where it's too late to draw the line.

>>16039483

But if politically charged games are shit, then nothing of value was either lost or gained. Also, it sounds like you are making an argument for affirmative action.

All indie games are the same trash rehashed op. And apparently everything is about how much you agree with the political views of the developer now?!

My god, video games got retarded.

>>16048928

You should play the third one that has a moment where you sell a black women into slavery for her to be a performance monkey

>>16049484

Nevermind, they're giving it away.

>>16049511

If I can ask, where? I could use free games.

>>16049576

I second, you guys got me interested.

>>16049576

>>16050635

It was Humble and it's over now, sorry.

>>16006741

zeroranger is too fucking gimmicky and every fucking indie shmup must have some retarded rtype or gradius reference, like i have seen that before and it has problems like the charge shot being almost fucking dick, the scoring system is niggerlicious, it's a fucking horizontal shmup disguised as a vertical shmup, what an epic jojoke

>>16002330

Why do indie games have to have this disgusting fucking, uninspired art style? They have their own, but it comes off as uninspired all the time, and it turns me off from most of them.

>>16005083

I would say "pandercore" or "panda(-ring)core" is more accurate, because it looks like freemium mobileshit meant to appeal to everyone for a quick buck, AIDS not guaranteed. But pozzcore sounds better.

>>16050648

Fuck, whatever happened to those websites that keep track of what games that are offered for free like steamalerts?