Video game thread

@TeamBlueplant  
Ah. I’ve heard about the continuing issues with getting games down there.

@Officer Hotpants  
yeh, it wasnt until steam became a thing that we had little in the way of gaming, and piracy was rampant

Grand Theft Auto 4…
 
Only the SMGs are truly full-auto, the assault rifles need to be bump fired or they’ll start missing the target.

@ᏰᎯᎠᎻᎬᎯᏒᎿ  
They do knock the target around more easily than other weapons, though.

can we all talk about the fact that playstation refuses to release bloodborn on PC DESPITE the fact that it has been an exclusive since 2015!? lets not forget the sheer amount of praise 343 Industries recieved to the point where people have been ordering pizzas for them, when they decided to port the halo to PC. my question stands, why playstation still dint do it?

This is a fucking DOOM 2 mod. I shit you not. Why have we continued to make new engines when we’ve apparently already made the most flexible one possible?
 
@office mare  
Because Japanese companies are just as economically fucked in the head as Western ones, but in different ways.

SAD NEWS, FOLKS!  
https://www.sportskeeda.com/gta/why-gta-online-shutting-ps3-xbox-360-significant-future  
First, MS decided to eventually shut down Xbox 360 Halo Servers later this year, and now, THIS! 😪😥😣

in other news, Creative Assembly (who are the ones that make the total war series) released a “minor technical update” to shogun 2 (a 9 year old game) in wich they deleted public room chats and region locked players instead of, yknow, fixing bugs and issues that exist since launch  
speculation is that they want to kill the game (again) because almost every other total war game is bad in comparison to shogun 2, specially in the multiplayer departement since its the only one with a proper effort put into it. and all this just after a community tournament
 
so chances are they want to slowly kill shogun 2 so their other titles arent compared to it and actually look like they are worth a damm

@TeamBlueplant  
Reminds me of when Blizzard snuck out a “patch” for Diablo 2 that kneecapped multiplayer over IP when Diablo 3 was “underperforming”.

@Azure Fang  
I so hope that D2 Ressurected is modable so that people can make PlugY for it. I want all the exclusive online stuff in single player.

@Azure Fang  
yea, most probably the same line of thought, apparently it isnt the first time they try to kill the game, but last time filing a support ticket to sega itself was enough, lets see if that happends this time as well

@TeamBlueplant  
>refusing to capitalize on success because of being petulant, jealous babies

@Barhandar  
There was one studio that said something to the effect of “We don’t know why people liked our last game”. Can’t remember which one, though.

@TeamBlueplant  
Either that or they’re planning on releasing a new Shogun soon.

@Officer Hotpants  
And are already sabotaging it. If you feel the need to put down a decade old game so that your new one gets sold, your new game is either shit, or you personally believe it to be shit.

@Barhandar  
or not realizing that shogun 2 still has success 9 years later because the multiplayer and the game itself had actual effort put into it, and the gameplay actually requires tactical thinking and strategy
 
i mean total warhammer is fun and all but “bury the enemy in rats” its an actual strategy
 
they could capitalize so much on its success despite being an old game kind of like how microsoft did with age of empires as a whole
 
hell, even coh1 thats over 10 years old has the servers still up, plus a “legacy version” and “new steam version” when coh2 exists and its the main one still being updated on
 
even fucking natural selection 2 its still recieving updates and balance patches

@Barhandar  
Retroactive planned obsolescence. AKA “Ah shit. They’re still playing the old one. Someone break that fossil so we can shepherd them over to the new one with poorer performance on better hardware, less flexibility and all the popular factions from the old one locked behind day-one DLC.”
 
Which is usually followed by “oh no. Why is everyone review bombing our awesome new game? All their non-bug-related complaints are fixed with the DLC!” Or am I thinking of Paradox? Bah. Doesn’t matter. Same fucking thing at this point.

A common complaint I hear about fps games is that some mechanics that make a game unique and challenging either get watered down if not removed altogether and weapons get endlessly and constantly nerfed or have their unique mechanics ruined, all supposedly to make it easier for retards/avoid dealing with “cheating”. This results in veterans leaving. I actually did experience both situations.

@Officer Hotpants  
I mean, that’s not unheard of in the software world. Every few years Apple puts out a new version of iOS that cripples everything but the very newest phones they’ve introduced, to force people to “upgrade.” The performance penalties on last year’s phone are merely accidental and not the least bit intentional, they assure us, and will be fixed in the next version. HINT: it’s never fixed in the next version.

@IvanSatoru  
Either that or they dumb the sequel super hard to the point that no one but a few reviewers and people who didn’t play the previous entry will pick it up.
 
@Anonymous #0A6B  
If you’re still buying iphones at this point, you deserve it.

@IvanSatoru  
Works with pretty much all games. The result of “trying to appeal to a wider audience” and “expand into a prospective new field”. a.k.a. basic-ass greed resulting in making games for money, instead of making games for games with money-making only being there so you can continue making games.
 
@Anonymous #0A6B  
Yes, but “apple zombies” moniker hasn’t been created out of nowhere. Reasonable people have been avoiding Apple for a decade now, due to what you’ve described, being extremely overpriced, and alternatives to its stuff being made. Even for designers, last good Apple thing was macbook pro (and they can stick macos on a regular PC, hur hur).

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance is coming to PC at long last and I think I might cry a little. I have missed that game so much. Played the shit out of it back in the day. It was like Champions of Norrath, but with replay value.
 
EDIT: Well, Champions II. Never played the first one; it might have been better.

I’m thinking of someday hacking the PS Vita (2000 model) that I got for my birthday this year.

@Absol95  
I keep side-glancing at my PS Vita, thinking to do the same. I love my modded PSPs to death. But with the Vita still store-active, I’d rather not risk my account until I have a chance to back up all of my purchases, and I really don’t have the storage space to cover that.

I think it’s amazing people managed to recreate the GTS after Nintendo WFC shut down. It’s incredibly useful.