>>1261
I haven't played drakengard 3 and 1. I watched terrible playthroughs that skipped many things, and i did bunch of research to find some that are fuller to say the least. I will be watching them soon.
What i will say about drakengard is that the actual cut scenes are fucking good, meanwhile this is the gameplay
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CHnAqxAE7fQ [Play]
It's important to highlight this. The actual flight based combat was conceived first and was fully developed (and based after ace combat of all things) meanwhile the land based combat was thrown in at the last second. As anyone can understand, the main problem is that the ground based gameplay is a rip off of dynasty warriors 2, which is in general a shit franchise. Granted, drakengard was intended to parody and piss on dynasty warriors, it's still a direct rip off and therefore, might not be fun to actually play. (take my words as a grain of salt because i haven't played the games besides only a tiny bit of nier and automata)
The actual story and cutscenes are well produced, one scene that wowed me was when a bard sat down to play a tune, the music was nice. It was a sobering moment. The characters where insane to say the least, the producers caught their square enix bosses at a bad time so they kinda just said "do whatever you want lol" so.. they just did. (the bosses later came back and begged tem to mae changes to the story to make it more marketable but the producers ignored them lol) You have a pedophile, a psychopath, a cannibal, a woman with an incestious complex, and a narcissistic old man as main characters, all of whom are written with realistic emotions amd consequences instead of anime tropes, top notch shit. I like how they potrayed caim, it was a commentary on videogame protagonists who kill thousands of niggers with glee and without any care, and who is also silent due to a personal sacrifice, but also because main characters in video games are also silent.
Something to mention about 3 is, while the gameplay is widely developed and refined, the tone is... jarring to say the least, considering the writing of drakengard. It can be best discribed as juvenile and not in a way that makes sense to the early and later games, or is even funny for the most part. The humor also drips with irony and meta humor at the expense of the player. There are plenty of shitty 4th wall breaks for some reason. Then the graphics are... diffrent then what was given in the first drakengard. Things are designed wildly diffrent, which makes you wonder what the hell changed between drakengard one and 3, like why are the golems diffrent? why are the angels less like the watchers from the first game dispite being the same creatures? why is everything more colorful? and then you have the problem of copy pasted bosses thrown out there to artifically extend the length of the game.
I'll change my focus on nier, and automata later.

They never explained how adam was formed in the first place, I mean if he was created once, then therefore the machines could form another, and ascend and make better machines then the shitty short stubby, then they could have actually wiped all androids out. Hell, it would have been nutty if you where fighting a bunch of short stubbies and they merged into more biblically named fuckers. Hell what's interesting is it's implied those guys are actually biological machines, meaning they are more organic then the androids who themselves have biological components. Why not reuse this? Where the writers lazy, because it seems pretty fucking significant of a happening and no one both in game or irl are treating it seriously. Hell, you could have had the red girls freaking out over their creations and maybe adam or eve could have killed their creators, starting another cycle.
I made the mistake of reading ahead by looking at novels, manga and shit but i haven't really made it too far in game so i don't know if they'll bother with it, but god damn.

>>1265
So androids can eat, and then excrete waste matter, they can cry, especially when sad or scared. They have stomaches, a heart like humans, skin, lungs, they can sweat, they can taste, they have red blood. They have hair that grows, they don't have genitalia, and for whatever reason they can be implanted with human memories, sometimes even the memories their original models where based after. I forgot to mention that combat androids are also installed with a pleasure-generating algorithm that releases chemicals into their circuits during battle, (there's even a quest where a character makes fucking robot meth to replecate the high lol) it gives a type of nearly sexual release, although i must also point out that they cannot feel romantic feelings, instead the closest thing they can feel is familial bonding and units tend to see eachother like brothers, and sisters, and so on instead of romantic partners. Dispite taro wanting otherwise there is no gay robots.
It's interesting to me, because i'm personally wondering how far the extent of their "robotic" nature is really robotic, like what if they are fucked up humans but with electronics installed?

>>1262
In the west we had one game, called Nier. In japan, they had two games, Nier Replicant, and Nier Gestalt.
Nier Gestalt is what was given to us in the west, with the blanket title of "Nier". It was altered because Square Enix thought the west wouldn't like a younger protagonist. It stars an older protagonist, all the dialog was altered to fit this role. In japan, replicant stars a younger protagonist.
The story flow is the same, but dialoge differs to the point where it can be said that it kind of is a diffrent game. Both original nier and replicant has gameplay kind of derivative of god of war. Later, there was a remaster, and upgraded version titled Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139… that adds cut content only featured in novels and world guides, and the gameplay was altered from the clunky god of war, to the smoother nier automata gameplay. This is supposed to be the "full" version of the game.
Which is canon? For whatever reason, both are mentioned as canon but for the most part nier replicant is the one that has the highest favor.
>>1265
The story, and characters and so on of automata, is a good one but it doesn"t feel fully fleshed out or developed. Or atleast maybe the translation for the english dub might be poor because it feels empty, if not slightly confusing. One example is emotions. We're led to believe that androids, atleast the yorha units are not supposed to feel emotions and yet even early in the game, even if it's denied by characters, do act quite emotional, as an example you'll get moments like when an operatior, is crying about how she was rejected by another operator, and 2b has to comfort her. This is kind of explained away by the commander being way to liberal for her own good out of guilt, (in a conspiratorial manner because she's guilty of something) and that the "androids must be emotionless" stems from the pearl harbor decent accident, because emotions fucked everything up,
and is personally enacted by 2b so she doesn't have to feel guilty about being a secret assassin. But i don't really know to be honest, maybe i'm the idiot but i'm way too confused.

Something i ignored on my last two playthroughs of dead space was the audio, I thought it was clever that you can hear his heartbeat when he's scared and you can hear him gasp and wheeze when he's low on health or exausted, which was pretty fucking clever. I guess i really wasn't paying attention back then. It gave the game a bit of a claustrophobic feel.

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YOU FUCKING NECROMORPH!

>>1255
What the fuck does "necromorph has a double meaning" even mean? Is it unitologist gibberish?

>>1256
I just imagine a sad necromorph moderator typing it out with his little hands, maybe the politically correct term for necromorph is "Vitally-challenged"
As i was typing this i did some googling and i found this:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Necromorph
So its slang now for tranny lol.

>>1205
I didn't pay attention to this the first time it was posted, and now after actually watching this, LOL

>>1234
The hospital sequence is fucking thrilling, my favorite part is when your stuck in a parking garage with one of those fuckers and you have to walk around and hopfully avoid it, lol at one point i was kinda walking behind it and at the last second turned in another direction. The first time i died, i was walking down a hospital corridor and the fucker appeared out of nowhere and was walking IN MY DIRECTION so i was like: fuck this but he started following me and caught up and killed me. Tried again, theres a room nearby where you can hide for a few minutes so he can leave, then you can keep on going. Glad to make progress and atleast the game isnt utter trash so far.

>>1245
If i have to say anything about the story, it's fine. Some people where bitching about the death scene, but honestly i don't know. It doesn't seem too retarded, her leg got stuck in the tree trunk, (which made a loud noise) what was she supposed to do? The alien heard her and was going to go in for the kill, how was the death of a certian character her fault exactly? (her leg literally broke through the rotten wood, its the trees fault) yeah she dropped the inhaler but again that was after and she was already fucked to begin with. If anything, the second her leg got stuck and the loud noise was made because of it, the boyfriend should have gotten a rock or something and threw it at a car or really anything and fucking wait for fuck knows how long for the alien to leave. Of cource that's not what happened but thats the only solution for it. I'm also curious as to how the alien broke in the hospital, i mean they've been living in there for god knows how long, and the alien just broke in? Did someone fuck up outside and attract its attention or something?

>>1246
I had a feeling in my gut that something in the game would piss me off, and it happened.
A character is a ranger, the mother of the boyfriend character, martin. anyhow the girlfriend sees a gun in the rangers car and is spooked, then later eventually heads to the attic of the house with martin and the girlfriend freaks out when she sees the rangers gun collection "GUNS ARE LIKE BAD AND SCARY" I mean jesus christ what the fuck is the god damn problem here, like wow she has like 6 guns big whoop and she's a fuckin ranger what do you think she does with that shit? Fuckin population control when there's too much deer and shit.
Besides that, another thing that confused me is that the girlfriend character is given a handheld ham to communicate with another character but i'll be honest i think theres thousand of shit that can go wrong here, one of them is getting your ass curbstomped by a fucking alien. I own one, and you can have a little headset to connect to one, but she doesn't have a headset so how the fuck is she going to survive after he tells her whatever fucking instructions?
Still fun i guess, had another cool scene where i had to run around with the alien at my tail, throwing objects and shit to distract it. Funny moment happened when i climbed in a log cabin and he broke down the main door like the coolaid man and then walked off like if he didn't care.

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Today, I started Shining Force II, and so far, it's been so good. The sprites, when you talk to NPCs, are improved, and the way characters walk has improved. The story seems interesting enough for me to continue. The gameplay is a slight improvement because you can counterattack now. I am looking forward to playing more Shining Force II.

I started nier automata all over again. Some misunderstandings i had is kind of cleared up, and as a major bonus i discovered an old sword you lose after your first death, i forgot that you have to find the area you died at to retrive your weapons, and a bunch of extra shit.
It's too bad there's no vehicles to traverse the open world areas, although the music is pretty, its quite the slog.

>>1231
The Flood is the result of the mistakes of the Forerunners, and humanity are the Forerunner's progeny so humans = Forerunners = humans made The Flood

>>1248
Bill gates on Halo: Combat evolved "Halo is the future"
"You are the child of my makers, you ARE Forerunner"- 343 guilty spark.
In a halo 2 storyboard, the arbiter discovers a forerunner coffin. He opens it up, and inside is a skeleton of a regular human being.
Halo legends is a canon anthology series, and in one episode, a sort of prelude to Halo 3 ODST. In this episode, on a far away planet, ruins where discovered. It's freaking scientists out because thd ruins had distinct Indian, Japanese, and Greco-Roman aesthetic elements, (and many more) which asks the question, who the fuck made it?
It was implied this would be one of many keys planted that would lead to more halo media and a great secret being unlocked, that is before bungie left and 343 industries fucked everything up.
In short, in our very own timeline, after endless wars humanity fled to the stars, unlocking the secrets of the human body via the super soldier program, humanity both evolved naturally, and genetically engineered themselves to adapt to whatever planets they found, becoming aliens you see in game. Eventually one of them ascended, becoming god itself. (the great sin) Something happened along the way to piss it off, so it became the flood to wipe away it's mistake. The forerunners captured all species DNA to recreate everything incase something happened, and it did, leading to the halo array to wipe all traces of the flood from the galaxy. This is an endless cycle happening over and over, leading to the halo games.

>>1249
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7KInqNZOZSI [Play]
Why was the flood obsessed with finding earth? To finally end the cycle once and for all.
Why does the covenant have catholic flavorings to their behaviour and relgion? Because they carry the memories of humanity in a fucked up way, a dark reflection. If they where aliens, why wouldn't they be more.... Alien?

>>1249
This is interesting to entertain, and the ways it potentially connects to Marathon are very cool. Unfortunately I'm not very well versed in Marathon's lore or depth so I have little to offer in that department, although I think it's a worthy direction to consider!

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This game called Nehan might be perfect for this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KpVSA1Biqg [Play]
>untranslated rpg maker horror duology
>released in the early aughts when lovecraft was still fairly novel in japan
>came out to critical acclaim, but mostly are forgotten about in japan
>this youtuber stumbles across it in 2024 while searching for japanese rpgmaker games
>they're actually pretty spooky
There's a link in the description if you like what you see

Can anyone recommend me a setup for best strafes?

Malen how do you Strafe like on SJ etc.?

The megaman zero games for the DS are difficult but really fun, and cool to boot.

Dude, if you like watercolor art in games you really ought to check out SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered. Tomomi Kobayashi really needs more of the love that Yoshitaka Amano used to get.

>>1200
I feel gba is slept on a lot. I just got into mario kart super circuit, one of my new favorites in the series. I should explore the system's library a bit more, but I'm well aware of how much shovelware there is to sift through, that and snes ports.

>>1242
The GBA was one of the system that made me fall in love with vidya games. When I play games from the system now it still has it magic for me. Retro GBA games are must play in my opinion.

Metal Slug Advance for the gba is addicting as fuck and both looks and performs pretty great. I'm a dumbass so i keep fucking myself over but there's no way i can put it down, i gotta make it to the end this time.

>>1221
this but throw in some thinly veiled fetish content like doing a quick time event to escape the monster who'll spank you to death

>>1222
So basically Higurashi Rei as well, but not as lighthearted?

>>1223
Yeah but lets throw in that the main character had a girlfriend much to the dissaproval of the town and her parents, and an ex of the girlfriend character who is a male, beats the girlfriend to death with specifically a baseball bat which kicks off the story. Also you can look at the player characters panties.

>>1220
yeah and I'm really excited about it, since I love silent hill as well as japanese history and religion which this seems to be heavily involved with, but I'm still gonna be mad about silent hills being cancelled until I die lol

>>1230
Did you ever see the P.T aka silent hill easter egg in metal gear solid the phantom pain?

>>1114
https://www.ign.com/articles/notch-says-he-basically-announced-minecraft-2

>>1115
It seems like Notch would like to make a game in general, so it may not be Minecraft per se, but if he manages to make something like Minecraft in this day and, age I'd be amazed.

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1.7.10 has the best and most comfiest mods. Millenaire, Witchery, Minefantasy2, and the LOTR mod are all great, I don't need anything else. I thought about learning Java just to make more mods for 1.7.10 and fix up mods I already like.

I like the Create mod. Factories are such lovely things to build and there are some really powerful options for building like the hose pulley, Wand of Symmetry, and jetpacks (from an addon)
>>1113
He better stop calling it Minecraft 2 if he wants the game to be good. I know he was working on a voxel-based fps set in space that eventually turned into Minecraft, maybe it'll be something to do with that idea

I always thought the cave update was cool, besides the warden boss. Having undergound biomes is a neat idea.