/v/ - Video Games

The Lady of the Lake is the greatest prank the elves have pulled on humans since kidnapping their children and holding them hostage for a few centuries as "entertainment."

>>16356281

>follow impossibly bueatifuly slag that rises from a lake

>said magical tart promises incredible wealth and power if only you attain a obscure magical artefact.

>in a world where the ruinous powers of chaos exists these literal white knights see no issues with this totally legit quest

>get grail

>world blows up

>everyone reincarnates

>your leader becomes vampire that nagash turns into gibbering crazy ghoul

>craziness is contagious

>all the serfs and peasants left in the wake of wars see him as mighty king and join him, turning into ghouls themselves

>see their lands as gorgeous and fruitful

>really just ruins filled with troughs of gore and bones shaped into the fleur du lys

People bitch about the empire turning into stormcast and rightly so, but grailcucks got it worse, but only have themselves to blame.

>>16356180

>card game

lol

>>16356942

You have no idea how bad the comparisons have gotten do you?

>>16356954

Don't try to use that defense when our unix stamp is different than cuckchans.

>>16356281

>>16356286

People say this but the Lady of the Lake sacrificed herself to create a dimension where Bretonnians can live without having to deal with Chaos or Sigmar's gay marines.

>>16357009

Otherwise known as actually reading the lore of the setting.

>>16356180

Seems this shitty free to grind mechanic is standard for these crap card games.

>>16357195

This one you can skip an obscene amount though. There are tons of /tg/ sites that have images of the bonus booster card. You open the mobile app or hold those up to a webcam and every 5 gets you a booster pack. I just found a thread on board game geek and scanned over 300 and got a collection of 245 cards with my fresh account. No doubt this will be discontinued at some point because good lord.

>>16356265

>crooked moon ripoff

>with no Skarsnik ripoff

absolute gutter trash even by Shitmar standards

>>16356265

Nugoblins and Nughouls are trash, go back to /tg/

I mean 4/tg/. 8/tg/ doesn't want you either.

>>16356286

They have GW's shit writing and handling of the End Times to blame.

>>16357258

My guess is the Imperium goes back to enforcing atheism and SCIENCE!, but this time it somehow magically works.

Reminder the Men of Iron have a retcon into not being extinct. There is at least one Man of Iron survivor named UR-025 who claims to know both the Machine God and Omnissiah, and there's a suggested "dindu nuffin wrong" retcon for the Men of Iron. UR-025 will probably have plenty of bullshit shenanigans to come in the future of the Age of Guilliman.

Good 40k vidya when?

>>16357254

They don't have a fucking limit on scans?

Is the game any good?

I like card games, I just hate the grind to play of digital and the artificial rarity of paper cards; where both methods of monetization create an unacceptably high cost of time/money to even begin to be competitive.

Even then though, if they ever fixed this shit, it'd be right back to grind to play.

Why the fuck can't these assholes just create a fucking monetization model where each new expansion costs a flat amount and you obtain all the cards? Then any extra grinding gives you "foil"/"golden" or some other kind of gay cosmetic that the skinnerbox retards and whales can pursue for their daily dopamine drip.

>>16358679

There is supposedly three Warhammer games on the works by Focus Interactive, and two of them will be 40K ones (And the other one not sure but is it will not be Fantasy, then it will be Age of Smegmar shit then).

>>16358967

If Smite should get credit for one thing it would be their f2p model. There's a one-time purchase to unlock all current and future gods for ~15€ (may have increased since beta) and after that you can grind currency for cosmetics or be a good goy and pay to unlock them.

>>16358967

eh? mechwarrior online is dying?

>>16358967

Indeed. In a free to play game, the monetization scheme is inevitably as important as the fucking game itself. Finding that "balance" of fair and greed is an impossible goal and they ultimately spend more time tweaking that shit than making a good fucking game.

In the past, so many titles were able to survive with a small, but dedicated community because you got the entire game and the developer didn't have to worry about continuing support for the title. The expectation players have that free to play requires life time support isn't wrong either. If I'm having to play through an artificial grind and continue to invest money into a title to get the full experience, you can be sure that I'm going to expect a better experience than a typical $60 game.

It's like a catch 22 that free to play puts itself in. Games are doomed with this model, and as you said, any success has been 100% luck, every single time.

The only version of this model that has any kind of merit is the DOTA2 model.

>Tribes was particularly painful to lose

>>16358967

>Tribes

>Airmech

>Firefall

>Hawken

I feel this feeling of yours quite deeply.

>>16358977

I don't get how Hi-rez makes money on either Smite or Paladins. You get premium currency for free and more often than not the cosmetics are either not worth it or are outright shit.

Plus they've actively ruined both games to the point that they went from being arguably the best of their genres to clones barely worth playing in terms of gameplay and polish.

An AoS card game makes perfect sense for a glorified mobile system like the Switch and its audience.

Could one get a pirated copy of Vermintide 2's multiplayer working using smart steam emu, for 2 player co-op? I haven't used SSE much to know.

>>16358967

>janky/niche/stillbirth games

>surprised no one is gonna pay for them when no one fucking plays them in the first place

f2p was the least of their problems

>>16359099

there are just as many outright failed pay2play games if not more, in the end f2p is just a business model up to the dev/publisher to decide how retarded he wants to be. if anything f2p helps those games more having at least some activity instead of bombing right out of the game when no one wants to pay 20+ bucks on a dead multiplayer game (meanwhile shit like atlas probably made it's money back already)

>Tribes was particularly painful to lose

I really don't get why people are surprised what happened with tribes, that shit was obvious from a mile away. niche game with high skill ceiling run by company with shit track record, ofc it will be mishandled and milked hard if it doesn't bring in the dosh they expect, and tribes being tribes, how could it? tribes only chance was piggybacking on a popular game as mod, but no one does mods anymore in this timeline.

also, wasn't there a not!tribes indie fps that died outright because no one played it?

>>16356180

>age of shiggy, the edition that wipes the whole setting for the sake of stricter copyright protection

>unpozzed

So which rock were you living under for the past five years?

>>16363511

>also, wasn't there a not!tribes indie fps that died outright because no one played it?

Several, the most recent being Midair which died because the devs decided that taking the most retarded part of T:A and amplifying it would be a good idea.

As a card game, it's sorta complicated, but not overly so. It's like Magic if it forced itself to stay within the playmat and not involve a hundred token creatures. Each faction is fairly different, which is nice, although I don't really feel like having undead commanders really feels like an army of undead. Their other game, Lightseekers, is much better in terms of strategy possibilities, but it's in a kid-friendly format, so I don't know how successful that one is.

Champions is fucking shit, also I bet most of the faggots here are American

>>16357673

>No Skarsnik Ripoff

except there is