/v/ - Video Games

>>16329118

CoD2 RR'd mine. To be fair I played a shit load of CoD2 because I'd constantly replay it over and over with self imposed challenges.

>>16329446

It was rushed out the door to get funding for D:OS. It is also the second half of Divinity 2, from a gameplay standpoint. All of that was planned for Divinity 2, but it was never implemented. I guess it worked out for them in the end, but it is clear they were overreaching hard with the RTS aspect.

>>16329220

Tell me about Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, anon.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2. Three fatal flaws, actually. One being the story is absolute dogshit, far worse than WotL and FFTA - it's one of the most half-assed stories I've ever come across in a game. The second is the item crafting system, wherein you have to farm encounters to get certain components in order to make weapons/armor which are needed for certain job skills, thus making it possible to go through tons of content without the ability to learn new abilities because RNG fucks you. Third fatal flaw is that White Mage got gutted, all protect/shell was removed and given to another class that the game pulled out of its' ass, the Green Mage, in addition to a couple others.

>>16329669

And it used to be Bungie could write some pretty great stories. Myth and Marathon hold up even to this day, not just in storytelling, but in all aspects (except the map design in Marathon, fuck that).

>>16329694

The main problem with Bungie's stories after selling out to M$ wasn't just the quality of their writing, but its sheer sparseness. Compare the mountains of text squeezed into every crevasse of PiD/Marathon/Oni's levels (even in the case of Myth, flavorful interface descriptions for everything filled in large amounts of background for the setting), crucial to at least skim in order to progress, versus the consoletard cutscenes and prescripted events in Halo. Following the humiliating defection of desperate lorefags to the novels and even the ilovebees tie-in advergame, Bungie threw in a handful of gimmicky terminals in Halo 3 without any strong connection to the game itself, and 343i continued this trend of strangely divorced and/or puddle-shallow storytelling.

Destiny continues in this trend, by having a game with no real mechanical connection to any story, and a story with no real connection to the game, making both less compelling and immersive as a result.

>except the map design in Marathon, fuck that

<he doesn't like being alternately dumped into giant murky pools and vacuum levels without shield/oxygen terminal access and being infrequently teleported tiny amounts of cannisters by sadistic computers

>>16329760

Hey, at least they've finally figured out to start putting the story into the actual game again. D1 had the whole Grimoire business, where you had a shitload of decent reading material, but to unlock it by doing very specific and grindy shit in the actual game, and then you had to read it on their website. The entire grimoire is now fucking gone from their website, and you either have to go to fan sites or buy a physical book. D2 actually has lore and expanded story content in the game itself.

But, 99% of this new story and lore they're putting into Destiny 2 is in the form of "lore books", which is basically longer and more fleshed out grimoire cards. a lot of these are unironically good if you care about that shit A lot of which have an annoying grind to unlock, or are locked on weekly completions of a certain thing. A certain book unlocks an entry every 500 kills with a certain gun. Five fucking hundred kills. It has NINE fucking entries. NINE. So if you're a lorefag and want to get this book complete the legit way, you have to grind out 4500 kills with single gun you may not even like using, and while D2 has a lot of enemies on screen at once and certain activities result in a lot of quick kills, 4500 will still take a decent chunk of time. For another book, you have to hope the game decides that a certain planet will be the "flashpoint" for that week then grind quests on it repeatedly, hoping that the book entries drop for you, since they're not guaranteed.

Generic 30 second cutscenes after the original storyline are so fucking rare in the game that the community absolutely fucking praises Bungie to high heaven for adding those.

I hate this game, and I fucking hate bungie

but I still like the game

>>16329810

Honestly, the worst part about Destiny is that it's a mirage, a smoky afterimage of something better: Halo, as it was supposed to be, when presented all those years ago.

Giant seamless indoor/outdoor levels, all sorts of different environments complete with artifacts and wildlife with in-game effects, guerrilla warfare in a persistent open world, large simultaneous playercounts in coop, combined arms with infantry and vehicles, an actual story campaign with a start and finish… But then came consoles, MMOs, microtransactions.

And now that the remnants of Bungie got free from making "Halo" for M$, they dove right back into making another watered down spin on the same concept. Infantry-only in combat, instances with a tiny playercap, PvP in a completely different bubble, perpetual grinding gameworld that goes nowhere. They know they could do better, but they don't.

>>16329236

>Arguably the only good game Petroglyph

8-Bit Armies was pretty good too. The only real major flaw the game has is pixel graphics, but otherwise it's pretty good C&C clone.

>>16330157

>should I try the OG or do the themed sequels add to it?

The gameplay doesn't change much between titles, apart from some of the units having their own quirks like acid blood for some of the aliens in 8-Bit Invaders.

I honestly found it a very simple game, but it could be appealing to other RTS fans.

>>16329500

>KoA:R

I liked the combat and DLC locations, but the game itself was pretty easy to break with crafting. You could make a weapon that would be better than shit you get a couple of levels later, especially if you also got into gem crafting.

This also reminds me of a similar issue with Darksiders 2, where once you get a life-draining weapon, you keep it until you find a better one. That, or until you create a demonic weapon that boosts your everything. And there's also the thing that to get all the abyssal armour parts, you have to complete the game almost twice, win 100 fights in a row and collect 40 toilet paper pieces and 30 demonic dildos. At least you don't have to buy it, like in DS3, but it's less "good with some flaws" and more the other way around.

>>16330152

I liked UaW.

>>16330378

KOAR is pretty easy to break even without crafting. Even the hardest difficulty setting is ludicrously easy. A pure mage can perma stunlock entire groups with meteor/tempest. Rogues can do 5000 dmg sneak attacks mid combat, warriors can heal faster than even the most powerful enemy can damage them.

Such a shame the game is so trash, it has potential to be better.

>>16330378

The base combat system was pretty good in Darksiders 2, and probably my favorite in all three games, but the crafting, and some of the skills Death had, broke the game.

>KoA:R.

Never got the DLC. The combat had potential, but it ended up being incredibly boring just because of how powerful your character becomes and how little variation there is in enemies. They should have never planned an MMO and instead just done a proper RPG that fleshed out some of the systems better.