>>1268
As a warning to those who buy preowned games, remember that not everything comes on disks. As an example, Nier automata, game of yorha edition's dlc is on seperate paper, and not on the disc and is of one time use. Meaning, if you buy a preowned copy thinking you'll get everything, your out of luck. Some games DO have dlc baked onto the disc, AND all previous updates and bug fixes, such as the game of the year edition of fallout new vegas, or dark souls 3 fire fades edition.

>>1270
Although, i bought a preowned copy of Street Fighter V: Champion Edition, with the DLC paper and i entered in the code and to my shock the code worked, so i think some codes are multi use?

Atlus are a bunch of jews so buying persona 5 isn't as easy as you think. Persona 5 was originally developed, and then released for the ps3. With the ps4, came obvious visual upgrades and minor changes due to more powerful hardware. Royal is a diffrent game, totally reworked visuals, gameplay, and assets including dialoge changed to reflect the original japanese script, even a scene is reworked in which instead of ryujii getting raped in the red light district by a bunch of faggots, it's changed where he's dragged off in the dark and forced to wear drag.
Royal comes with a new storyline and major alterations to include more story, making the gameplay as long as 100+ hours instead of the usual 40+ or less hours. BUT WAIT THERES MORE!!!! So, those motherfuckers at fatlus added a disability mode, that you can't disable, which fucks with the UI, and cutscenes, so as to not cause people a stroke but it makes the game look like actual trash. As an example, during an "all out attack", the visuals are edited out, the attack shortened, amd the visuals darkened, from bright red to very dark red. This isn't in the Ps3, 4, switch, and royal versions, but in the ps5 and xbox? yes. i heard the PC version has the same problem bug i don't know. The switch versions has noteworthy downgrades including crunchy, compressed audio, the ps5 version has high framerates and native 4k, at the cost of the aformentioned disability problems, including more problems with lighting that wasn't fixed.
I think its more proof as to why it's really good to do research, and watch youtube videos before you snag a copy, so you get a good copy or buy the correct game. Youtube also has some decent videos actually looking at the diffrent versions, and how they reflect apon hardware, various platforms and so on, and most of them are non spoiler. A good thing is that old copies of persona 5 are actually dirt cheap, 10 or lower, while royal depending on what platform, might be more expensive. I bought a copy of The royal for ps4 for 30 dollars, new at walmart.

>>1280
You also have the problem of not being able to transfer saves. If you played a good chunk of Persona 5 and wanted to transfer your save over to royal, your SOL. The short and skinny of what i'm trying to say is that every version of the game is it's own seperate, self contained thing. The only good thing your save file does is like dead space, where you'll get some goodies if you have a save file on your system and you decide to play strikers, you'll get some extra music as a thank you.
Also, speaking of platforms, El shaddi for xbox has native anti aliasing, and the ps3 has some major unpatched bugs, and yet for some reason the PS3 version is more expensive.

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.

I wanted to just delete the quiet place game and play another because i'm now not too much of a fan, but i'm at 83 percent, and i feel like it's unhealthy to just quit and move on likd i have been doing as of late so i've been pushing through. Pain in the ass level that took me a moment to figure out, you have to walk and navigate the level in a specific way while the angel of death is fixated on you, its fukin over after killing myself a ton of times. I'm gonna beat the damn game and move on to a better one, probably shadow of the colossus.

>>1258
I've played a bit more of Shining Force II. The levels seem to be a step up from the last game. The story is also more engaging. The first game lacked a compelling story the most, and the story made me want to return the game.

>>166
I ended up replaying the part of Live a Live I played before, and it seemed harder than it was last time. This time, I didn't manage to find the keys to unlock the prison or find the ability to trick the prison guard. I had to save scum and not have the prisoner until the end. It was harder fighting the mini-bosses without the prisoner. I intend to play more of the game soon.

>>1275
I don't know what the actual fuck happened but this game became fun again, it started off with a pretty enjoyable train wreck level, then after you beat the level you are transported to day one of the alien invasion where your actually play a super fun rail shooter where there's aliens wrecking all kinds of havok and your in the back seat of a van and you have to shoot at them when they latch on, or run at the van.

CoDMW2_J...mp4 CoDMW2_Judgment_CoD_音MAD_sm11880684.mp4

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MW2ブチカ四つ...mp4 MW2ブチカ四つ子の弾倉と米国兵_sm9769852.mp4

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https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm11880684 [Play] - 【CoD:MW2】 Judgment CoD 【音MAD】
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9769852 [Play] - MW2 Buchika: Quadruple Magazines and American Soldiers
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9721713 [Play] - 【CoD: MW2】 Star-M4 Carby - Call of Deluxe 【Sky High】
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4680152 [Play] - Night of Duty 4

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https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8883571 [Play] - COD4 COD4イム
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2809413 [Play] - U.S. Marines Were The Strongest? Final Brutal Landmine Claymore x2
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm11496882 [Play] - Makarov's Perfect Espionage Classroom
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm24868111 [Play] - 【音ゲーMAD】マイムマイム×CoD:MW3

I wish the last one had a video since the audio is nice.
Also I really find it funny whenever there is multiplayer gameplay shown you have to wonder how they even got the people together to make a MAD.

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https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14506089 [Play] - 【音MAD】Postal 2 Aka-Neck Cannibal!! [Ojamajo Carnival!!]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9349104 [Play] - 【音MAD】 Milk Milk Postal 2 【マイムマイム】
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm11701119 [Play] -【音MAD】Native Faith with Postal 2
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9662490 [Play] -【音MAD】Postal Dude's Gourmet Race

I remember searching it up out of pure curiosity and honestly imagine my shock that there was one guy making these. He's even using footage from the Postal movie LOL.
His steam review on Postal 2: https://steamcommunity.com/id/810892/recommended/223470/
>A grotesquely gory, buggy, fetch-quest crime dismemberment game.
>BUY

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I like how fitting the song lyrics are.

>>1145
https://youtu.be/D2914jRNyic [Play]

>>1193
Whew that must have been frustrating, for me i caught a golden krabby at the Safari Zone in soul silver, i wasn't even trying lol.

>>1193
pog

So even in firered, the dialoge about the "lightning american" is still there, interesting to say the least. America exists in the pokemon universe, really makes you think. And the pokemon war is kinda silly, i can imagine a bunch of fat pikachus holding little M911 guns with little military uniforms.

Also there's a hiker that was supposed to be high on weed that was taken out of the english translation, and in the english translation there's a ton of anime jokes like from G fighter gundam as an example and a few jokes taken from music like hit me with your best shot, the song by pat benatar

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The main reason why all the adults are retarded, high on drugs, and even lecherous is because, the war, WW2. Pokemon took for the first few games took place in the real world. Kids took over, changed the laws, blamed the adults for everything, which is why the first two games have such a diffrent tone. there was some censorship in the english translation of pokemon so some stuff was lost to be honest, so it's probably why most people got a more fantasy feeling like if pokemon was in a diffrent reality then ours.
>This country heavily resembles 20th century Japan, but there are some differences.
>Allow me to explain a few of those differences here.
>For example, compulsory education ends in primary school at the age of ten.
>Students are free to continue into middle school if they wish.
>When children complete primary school at the age of ten, they are legally considered as adults.
>In this facet, it more closely resembles the country England... >Engliss, than 20th century Japan.
>This is the “All Primary School Graduates are Adults Law”. Or PGAL (Primary Graduates Adulthood Law) for short.
>.Basically, as of the April following your tenth birthday... you are able to gain a Pokémon License and are permitted to carry Poké Balls to capture Pokémon. However, due to a law for preserving natural habitats, you are only permitted to have six balls at a time.
>Of course, there's more to being a legal adult than the right to own Pokémon.
>All adult rights are granted. Under 18s don't qualify as minors, not even 14 or 15 year olds. For example, if you were to steal something from a convenience store, the consequences would be more than just the shopkeeper getting mad at you, the police would arrest you. And no matter how much your parents try to apologise, you are still culpable as an adult.
>The most important point of this law is... after leaving primary school you make your own life choices.
>You can strive to achieve higher education or take over the family business.
>Naturally, you're free to search for a job you like as well. If they were so inclined, an eleven year old boy and girl are even free to marry without parental consent. You are considered an adult right down to details like traffic violations. ... And you pay taxes like an adult too.
It's why for the most parts kids could do fuck all like run a pokemon gym, and why everyone besides you are so powerless to stop the yakuza team rocket.
It's also interesting to see that red had such a serious vibe to him.
>>1181
Where i got the text from, super fucking interesting to say the least.

>>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

>>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