Latest posts on Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine topichttps://rhizzone.net/forum/topic/16028/2022-02-14T01:49:54+00:00Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by Synergy)
2022-02-14T01:49:54+00:00413812Metro Exodus has some really nice scenery, too bad you can't form a communist party at the end, but that's to be expected
Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by Red_Canadian)
2022-02-09T01:30:11+00:00413765yeah, it's pretty good. i like horizon zero dawn, but i was able to pick it up for free so maybe that coloured my views. i've been on a personal strike since october, but the money is running out. waiting on a tax return cheque that was uncashed from 2014, see if i can maybe last a bit longer. sucks cause i'd like to pick up dying light 2 and tw:w3. i hate how our society is either have free time and no money or money and no free time. i don't mind working, just hate how it can become your life.
Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by Constantignoble)
2022-02-08T07:25:28+00:00413763i haven't played a video game since october, but i have come into possession of a ps4, so that may change soon. i may see what all this "bloodborne" stuff is all about.
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<br/>that said, i won't set it up until i finish up some pending tasks. like as a reward for sending out another 10 job applications that won't even net a single interview
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<br/>labor shortage, tho!
Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by damoj)
2022-02-03T06:39:05+00:00413735inside of you is a trotsykist wrecker. do not be afraid to acknowledge this
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Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by cars)
2022-01-28T10:53:58+00:00413669</p><style type="text/css">.custom413629{color:#000000 !important; background-color:#CCCCCC !important; }</style><blockquote class="custom413629"><em><a href="/forum/post/413629/">shriekingviolet</a> posted:</em><br/><p class="postbody_text">as a little tyke I lost a Metroid 2 cartridge out in a snowbank and it stayed there all winter, come spring I found it drowned in a grimy puddle. my dad opened it up, cleaned it off with rubbing alcohol, swapped the battery and the damn thing still ran.</p></blockquote><p class="postbody_text">
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<br/>same
Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by Constantignoble)
2022-01-26T04:03:01+00:00413632</p><style type="text/css">.custom413629{color:#000000 !important; background-color:#CCCCCC !important; }</style><blockquote class="custom413629"><em><a href="/forum/post/413629/">shriekingviolet</a> posted:</em><br/><p class="postbody_text">old boy game cartridge</p></blockquote><p class="postbody_text">
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Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by zhaoyao)
2022-01-26T01:40:45+00:00413630o good. ill give it a shot when i get a chance
Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by shriekingviolet)
2022-01-26T00:14:41+00:00413629</p><style type="text/css">.custom413622{color:#FFFFFF !important; background-color:#4765B8 !important; }</style><blockquote class="custom413622"><em><a href="/forum/post/413622/">zhaoyao</a> posted:</em><br/><p class="postbody_text">the battery in my link's awakening cartridge died :|</p></blockquote><p class="postbody_text">
<br/>old game boy cartridge batteries are pretty easy to replace! they use standardized watch batteries, just gotta unscrew the casing to find out which size you need.
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<br/>as a little tyke I lost a Metroid 2 cartridge out in a snowbank and it stayed there all winter, come spring I found it drowned in a grimy puddle. my dad opened it up, cleaned it off with rubbing alcohol, swapped the battery and the damn thing still ran.
Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by lo)
2022-01-25T23:12:10+00:00413626</p><style type="text/css">.custom413622{color:#FFFFFF !important; background-color:#4765B8 !important; }</style><blockquote class="custom413622"><em><a href="/forum/post/413622/">zhaoyao</a> posted:</em><br/><p class="postbody_text">the battery in my link's awakening cartridge died :|</p></blockquote><p class="postbody_text">
<br/>link's asleepening
Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by zhaoyao)
2022-01-25T10:01:49+00:00413622the battery in my link's awakening cartridge died :|
Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by Constantignoble)
2022-01-24T14:56:33+00:00413617i haven't played Hades but I enjoyed Bastion and Transistor, people i know like it a lot, and apparently now it won a Hugo, too?
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<br/>it's slightly less impressive than i had initially gathered, since the headlines keep saying "first video game to win a Hugo award" instead of "first winner of the newly created 'Best Video Game' category." still, props to Supergiant.
Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by drwhat)
2022-01-24T06:57:56+00:00413616suzerain was good. suzerain made me feel better about the possibilities of game writing.
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<br/>norco coming out this year might be good.
Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by cars)
2021-12-29T11:32:08+00:00413452</p><style type="text/css">.custom413298{}</style><blockquote class="custom413298"><em><a href="/forum/post/413298/">Horselord</a> posted:</em><br/><p class="postbody_text">with videogames the sin is multiplied. you are playing a videogame, you reach a certain point, and then you aren't playing a videogame anymore. it's been paused so that they can show you a scene from a tv show starring the videogame characters. for some reason, it is only one of the exposition scenes. when it's finished then they give you the videogame back</p></blockquote><p class="postbody_text">
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<br/>I recently found out this happens because the parts the player actually plays in that sort of video game are an incoherent series of set pieces, each designed in isolation by teams of the sort of guy who once tried to replace his entire diet with Soylent and ended up in the hospital. Then, they bring the "writers" in later to try to connect that jumbled mess together through an after-the-fact "script", which is, ironically, why all of those games nowadays need pseudo-cinematic "stories" in that euphemistic sense, because otherwise nothing would fit together. That's where you get the cut scenes, audio logs, etc.
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<br/>The "story" happens that way because nearly everything else about the game is complete when the "script" gets written, and because otherwise every game would just be a collection of mini-games, the result of an initial idea about the game's outline that is almost immediately changed around, sidelined and, eventually, outright ignored by the current development process. And that collection of mini-games might be better, but no one will pay full video-game market price for a chess/checkers/poker/and-so-on-style mini-game collection. It's a price point that drives the current industry and can't be dropped to 1/2 to 1/3 of current prices, collection-of-minigames level, without the industry collapsing.
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<br/>There can't be a story when developing the game, because "gameplay comes first" in design and development philosophy, and subordinating development to a story is considered a financial suicide pact. But the video game can't be sold to customers without a story, because then, the game as a collected whole would make no sense at all, and no one would pay the current, industry-driving price for it. So, the "story" is wedged in somewhere between "80-90% developed" and the release date.
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<br/>Which doesn't make you wrong—it's just that there is, not only no story, but no coherent through-line at all for the video game until after it's almost finished, when the "writer" is sent in to build one. As a player, you wouldn't really be able to construct a story using the playable parts. There isn't enough there to allow it. There's just the unassembled pieces of a machine whose plans changed entirely in between the manufacturing of each piece. Please read about this and even worse ideas in my posting, which i plan to replace with a similar method/product after realizing it can't get any worse.
Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by cars)
2021-12-29T10:54:42+00:00413451</p><style type="text/css">.custom413278{color:#000000 !important; background-color:#FC8D72 !important; }</style><blockquote class="custom413278"><em><a href="/forum/post/413278/">tears</a> posted:</em><br/><p class="postbody_text">You've finally won me round to thinking about this... ugh.</p></blockquote><p class="postbody_text">
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<br/>goondolences
Discussion :: Laissez's Faire :: Videogame Thread 2021 + UNREALTOURNAMENTWARRIOR Daigongen (大権現) Shrine (by Horselord)
2021-12-28T10:30:28+00:00413438i must revise my opinion about exposition being bad because i've seen the new matrix movie and then looked at people's reactions on the internet. characters turn to the camera and explain things in plain language, and then the audiance has gone home saying "i didn't understand it"
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<br/>i propose that storytellers create a kind of super-exposition, possibly involving a fun muppet character like big bird