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>>16780802

<Shit-n-Shat

Heh i'm still surprised that there are people who defended that piece of shit even until now

<Death Stranding

More like fail stranding LOL

<Sniper: Ghost Warrior

HOLY FUCK, are these guys the Piranha Bytes of FPS?

Control was so mediocre it hurt to play. It amazes me how a TPS can not have a cover system, and include telekinesis, a dash, mind control and flight and still play like complete ass solely because it's a sort of metroidvania and fights are barely designed as much as they are thrown in. What the fuck happened to Remedy? Did Kojima Productions infect them too, with the appeal of hollywood thots and DEEP STORY?

Getting Ring Fit for Christmas, found a bit of a deal on it, that seems like it should be good fun. 2020's looking better than this year did because it has games I'm actually excited for, being Brain Age, Animal Crossing and Postal 4.

>>16780802

Also Phoenix Point "released" in December, although from what I've read it's a Total War/Firaxiscom "release" where the game is super buggy and is also barely complete compared to what was promised to backers.

Astral Chain was cool. That's about it.

>>16780796

Curious about Death Stranding, will probably pirate when it releases for pc

Astral Chain looked interesting but a tad too anime and also cel shaded which i dislike, so pass.

Like the aesthetics of River City Girls, i'll try it even though the premise is pozzed as fuck.

Control looks interesting too but not enough to give it a try any time soon.

And that's all i cared about.

>>16781037

I really like telekinesis so I'll probably like Control because it has a lot of cool stuff for that. I decided I might as well play all the Remedy stuff. I've played MP 1 and 2 many times, did Alan Wake for the first time and now moved onto Quantum Break. Shame its so cutscene heavy because the time powers are pretty fun. Control or American Nightmare is next, just not sure if I should bother with AN.

>>16781037

The atmosphere in Control is excellent. The ideas are excellent. The gameplay is utterly mediocre and barely fleshed out,

>>16780796

> Remnant: From the Ashes

I played this with a friend. It was pretty mediocre. The worst part is that the bosses you fight are randomly generated each playthrough, so if you finish the game and want to fight all of the bosses, you have to keep playing the game over and over until you are lucky enough to have the game spawn the content for you. The game isn't fun enough to bother doing that, and bosses don't reward you for killing them additional times, so there isn't any point.

I'd describe the game as a boring Hellgate London, and I actually liked Hellgate London.

>>16780871

I accidentally got the best weapon in my first mission, the gauss rifles. There are no weapon tiers, just sidegrades. I had nothing to look forward to until I quit playing. Soldier deaths are more random than NuCom's "that alien walked through a wall and hit a 2% hit and crit and killed someone instantly". Aliens will throw grenades at you through obstacles, but you cannot return fire at them or throw grenades back, because you cannot throw grenades through walls. You can also just sit there for minutes aiming at the same target, because each time you enter aiming mode, the alien's idle animation freezes, so if you're patient, you will always be able to fire at a monster's weak point. The game also allegedly has "learning AI", but it pales in comparison to X-Com Apocalypse aliens changing tactics entirely based on combat data, since in Phoenix Point, it mostly boils down to:

>Aliens get headshot a lot, start wearing helmets

>Aliens do most damage with X weapon, just bring a lot of them

Anyone who is considering pirating Phoenix Point, I'd suggest you just wait to see if the game is finished. If Gollop disappears yet again and leaves the game as it is, it's just shovelware. The biggest issues are ingrained in the engine, so not even mods can fix it. I went and played X-Com Apocalypse after that ordeal, and had a much better time.

>>16781079

Why do the models and pokemon for a mobile game look better than the main series?

>>16781073

I've played the first few levels of Remnant, I dig it. Ammo management requiring good aim and the boss fight was very intense and enjoyable, although I can feel it getting stale quickly.

As for PP and XCOM, It's a terrible shame. I really want something that's a bit more streamlined than X-COM, but not too simplistic like the Firaxis games.

Did XCOM2 modding go anywhere besides Long War 2?

>>16781143

More about Phoenix Point, I'm amazed they went with a free aim system instead of something like Silent Storm's aiming system where you can aim at limbs, each limb having a hit chance instead. Free aiming is bullshit, it's a neat idea but it slows down the games too much.

>ITT, we'll discuss all the games that came out while 8chan was dead, starting from

That's going to be every game that will ever be released in the future.

>>16781145

Hell no man, free aiming is great, you can do shit like destroy cover with one soldier to have another kill the enemy behind it, look for points taht enable particular abilities that you discover through autopsies and disable enemy weapons.

>>16781240

No what I mean is that instead of letting you manually free aim, just give the player like a list of what to shoot at. Head, cover, limb, whatever. Just have it as a list or something delectable instead of free aiming because, at least with Valkryie Chronicles it made the game so slow.

>>16781257

But anon, that kind of aiming doesnt give you the ability to fuck around with your shots, like for example, i knew a guy was behind a glass panel in a synnedrion town, so i aimed at the glass with the heavy weapons guy, used the mag dump ability, and destroyed the glass with the rest of the bullets going through and killing the fuck.

Besides, you can just not use it and let it play out like in the original x-com.

>>16781186

Then it's a good thing we're starting now, so the list is smaller, compared to how large it could be in a year or two

Holy shit, has it really been 4+ months? Time always seems to be flyin' for me lately.

>>16780802

So Pokemon, I think it will be like YGO games from now on, all pokemons exist but only a certain amount will be featured in every subsequent game and the bank/home will be the only place to have them all.

>>16791391

They really ramped up the jew tactics after Iwata died.