Various video game stuff not deserving its own thread

[Marcus]

TLDR woke games are now being bankrolled by the goverment, not just BlackRock

BlackRock IS the government.

How come they're named different things then?

<TES>Deception 100</TES>

[Finarfin]

Forever Winter launches 24. September. Probably will get it since it is purely pve

[Orvas Dren]

Forever Winter launches 24. September. Probably will get it since it is purely pve

who actually makes it

[Finarfin]

Forever Winter launches 24. September. Probably will get it since it is purely pve

who actually makes it

Fun Dog Studios, is a black-owned new game development studio, established by a group of experienced AAA game developers with backgrounds as senior leaders in some of the best AAA titles published over the last 10 years.

[Orvas Dren]

Forever Winter launches 24. September. Probably will get it since it is purely pve

who actually makes it

Fun Dog Studios, is a black-owned new game development studio, established by a group of experienced AAA game developers with backgrounds as senior leaders in some of the best AAA titles published over the last 10 years.

That immediately seems like a hard pass. Concept seems interesting but the gameplay I saw so far did not make it seem like it was what the devs were going for

[maidenhaver]

I just hate those giant ******* backpacks.

[rusty_shackleford]

What's the reason GOG doesn't carry the DS9 survival horror game?

[UltraFan123]

TLDR woke games are now being bankrolled by the goverment, not just BlackRock

Wtf does "counter-disinformation" even mean? What is that game "countering" in the first place?

[rusty_shackleford]

Wtf does "counter-disinformation" even mean? What is that game "countering" in the first place?

People are looking too deep into what is going to be a crappy web-based educational game with the contract awarded to someone's friend.

If you think I'm coping or something, I can just point to the ones that exist — which nobody has ever heard of or 'played' — as proof.
https://harmonysquare.game/

What is Harmony Square?
Harmony Square is a game about fake news. The game’s setting is the idyllic Harmony Square, a small neighborhood mildly obsessed with democracy. You, the player, are hired as Chief Disinformation Officer. Over the course of 4 short levels, your job is to disturb the square’s peace and quiet by fomenting internal divisions and pitting its residents against each other.

Development and funding



The U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have, in collaboration with Tilt and the University of Cambridge, financially supported the development and tailoring of Harmony Square within the scope of addressing foreign adversarial propaganda and disinformation and its impact on foreign audiences and elections overseas. The GEC seeks to “facilitate the use of a wide range of technologies and techniques by sharing expertise among federal department and agencies, seeking expertise from external sources and implementing best practices” in order to “recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and foreign non-state propaganda and disinformation” (NDAA section 1287).



In support of this mission, the GEC’s Technology Engagement Team collaborated in tailoring Harmony Square to address the challenges of foreign adversarial propaganda and disinformation that could impact foreign elections. Harmony Square is an example of how the GEC’s programmatic initiatives – the Tech Demo Series and the Testbed – assist in identifying and testing tools to facilitate unique technological approaches to countering propaganda and disinformation.



CISA works with partners to defend against today’s threats and collaborate to build more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future.



This game was designed and developed by Gusmanson, a design studio creating serious games.

Gusmanson is a netherlands studio, almost certainly the same exact studio receiving the contract.
https://www.gusmanson.nl/

[edit]
And another from Gusmanson
https://catpark.game/




For the record, I'd fully support my tax dollars going towards a cat park. Better than 98% of the **** it gets spent on.

[UltraFan123]

Wtf does "counter-disinformation" even mean? What is that game "countering" in the first place?

People are looking too deep into what is going to be a crappy web-based educational game with the contract awarded to someone's friend.

If you think I'm coping or something, I can just point to the ones that exist — which nobody has ever heard of or 'played' — as proof.
https://harmonysquare.game/

What is Harmony Square?
Harmony Square is a game about fake news. The game’s setting is the idyllic Harmony Square, a small neighborhood mildly obsessed with democracy. You, the player, are hired as Chief Disinformation Officer. Over the course of 4 short levels, your job is to disturb the square’s peace and quiet by fomenting internal divisions and pitting its residents against each other.

Development and funding



The U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have, in collaboration with Tilt and the University of Cambridge, financially supported the development and tailoring of Harmony Square within the scope of addressing foreign adversarial propaganda and disinformation and its impact on foreign audiences and elections overseas. The GEC seeks to “facilitate the use of a wide range of technologies and techniques by sharing expertise among federal department and agencies, seeking expertise from external sources and implementing best practices” in order to “recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and foreign non-state propaganda and disinformation” (NDAA section 1287).



In support of this mission, the GEC’s Technology Engagement Team collaborated in tailoring Harmony Square to address the challenges of foreign adversarial propaganda and disinformation that could impact foreign elections. Harmony Square is an example of how the GEC’s programmatic initiatives – the Tech Demo Series and the Testbed – assist in identifying and testing tools to facilitate unique technological approaches to countering propaganda and disinformation.



CISA works with partners to defend against today’s threats and collaborate to build more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future.



This game was designed and developed by Gusmanson, a design studio creating serious games.

Gusmanson is a netherlands studio, almost certainly the same exact studio receiving the contract.
https://www.gusmanson.nl/

[edit]
And another from Gusmanson
https://catpark.game/




For the record, I'd fully support my tax dollars going towards a cat park. Better than 98% of the **** it gets spent on.

I see, thanks for the clarification.

And I also want to say that I'm weirded out by the fact that in these government-funded "educational" games, you - the player - for some reason is the one spreading division and misinformation rather than being the one to stand against it.

Not very subtle there if you ask me. lol

[Stack of Turtles]

For the record, I'd fully support my tax dollars going towards a cat park. Better than 98% of the **** it gets spent on.

I want to stipulate that I was agreeing to this part

[rusty_shackleford]

Wtf does "counter-disinformation" even mean? What is that game "countering" in the first place?

People are looking too deep into what is going to be a crappy web-based educational game with the contract awarded to someone's friend.

If you think I'm coping or something, I can just point to the ones that exist — which nobody has ever heard of or 'played' — as proof.
https://harmonysquare.game/

What is Harmony Square?
Harmony Square is a game about fake news. The game’s setting is the idyllic Harmony Square, a small neighborhood mildly obsessed with democracy. You, the player, are hired as Chief Disinformation Officer. Over the course of 4 short levels, your job is to disturb the square’s peace and quiet by fomenting internal divisions and pitting its residents against each other.

Development and funding



The U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have, in collaboration with Tilt and the University of Cambridge, financially supported the development and tailoring of Harmony Square within the scope of addressing foreign adversarial propaganda and disinformation and its impact on foreign audiences and elections overseas. The GEC seeks to “facilitate the use of a wide range of technologies and techniques by sharing expertise among federal department and agencies, seeking expertise from external sources and implementing best practices” in order to “recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and foreign non-state propaganda and disinformation” (NDAA section 1287).



In support of this mission, the GEC’s Technology Engagement Team collaborated in tailoring Harmony Square to address the challenges of foreign adversarial propaganda and disinformation that could impact foreign elections. Harmony Square is an example of how the GEC’s programmatic initiatives – the Tech Demo Series and the Testbed – assist in identifying and testing tools to facilitate unique technological approaches to countering propaganda and disinformation.



CISA works with partners to defend against today’s threats and collaborate to build more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future.



This game was designed and developed by Gusmanson, a design studio creating serious games.

Gusmanson is a netherlands studio, almost certainly the same exact studio receiving the contract.
https://www.gusmanson.nl/

[edit]
And another from Gusmanson
https://catpark.game/




For the record, I'd fully support my tax dollars going towards a cat park. Better than 98% of the **** it gets spent on.

I've submitted an email to America First legal that previously submitted a FOIA request regarding this grant. I was unable to find any information on the FOIA request on the state department site, so I'll keep you guys updated with whatever they send us back.

[Orvas Dren]

Forever Winter launches 24. September. Probably will get it since it is purely pve

who actually makes it

Fun Dog Studios, is a black-owned new game development studio, established by a group of experienced AAA game developers with backgrounds as senior leaders in some of the best AAA titles published over the last 10 years.

[Finarfin]

who actually makes it

Fun Dog Studios, is a black-owned new game development studio, established by a group of experienced AAA game developers with backgrounds as senior leaders in some of the best AAA titles published over the last 10 years.

Is he a woke ****** or a somewhat tolerable one? The stuff he said in the Early Access trailer were nice but it's surely just PR to make themselves look better compared to the other devs that **** up

[Orvas Dren]

Fun Dog Studios, is a black-owned new game development studio, established by a group of experienced AAA game developers with backgrounds as senior leaders in some of the best AAA titles published over the last 10 years.

Is he a woke ****** or a somewhat tolerable one? The stuff he said in the Early Access trailer were nice but it's surely just PR to make themselves look better compared to the other devs that **** up

the best case scenario is he's one of those weeb-obsessed ****** who just wants something that is reminiscent of the media he loves and is thus hands-off beyond that. The good sign is that it seems the rest of the Studio leadership are normal-looking white and asian male game devs

[LemonDemonGirl]

https://www.smite2.com/gods/mordred/

Arthas-looking ***

[Finarfin]

https://www.smite2.com/gods/mordred/

Arthas-looking ***

****. He looks cool. Hope he gets a Lich King like skin.

[Finarfin]

Is he a woke ****** or a somewhat tolerable one? The stuff he said in the Early Access trailer were nice but it's surely just PR to make themselves look better compared to the other devs that **** up

the best case scenario is he's one of those weeb-obsessed ****** who just wants something that is reminiscent of the media he loves and is thus hands-off beyond that. The good sign is that it seems the rest of the Studio leadership are normal-looking white and asian male game devs

Good, maybe there is hope yet

[logincrash]

? Wasn't aware another Dying Light game was announced

Wow, I am genuinely intrigued. Cautious, but intrigued.
Dying Light 2 was ****, as was the Dead Island 2. Dying Light 1 was fun because you could spend hundreds of hours just bashing zombies who would ragdoll hilariously. DL2 removed the ragdoll physics and reworked the levelling system to be worse. Plus, the factions **** is really weak and boring.
Dead Island 2 could not even manage to be half as fun as Dying Light 2 and it was full of insufferable faggoty writing. The only good thing it had was the zombie dismemberment system. It was only visual, but it was fairly impressive.
I really hope they don't screw it up. They most likely will, sadly, but for now I actually have a game I'm looking forward to playing.

[Nemesis]

Should I post about Age of Mythology Retold here or do a seperate thread for it?
I want to talk about it since it seems to be a good remake without any woke **** so far.

Make a thread.

I just hate those giant ******* backpacks.

The game allows you to make them comically huge.

Miles desperately needs a haircut.

[Lich]

How might RPG games benefit from having many narrow classes rather than general classes?

[WhiteShark]

How might RPG games benefit from having many narrow classes rather than general classes?

I know this is more a tabletop consideration, but in 3.PF, specialist casters tended to be much better balanced against mundanes than generalists, and they were always much more interesting thematically than the do-everything casters. In video games, the larger the expected party size, the more sense it makes to have narrow classes, I think.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Wow, I am genuinely intrigued. Cautious, but intrigued.
Dying Light 2 was ****, as was the Dead Island 2. Dying Light 1 was fun because you could spend hundreds of hours just bashing zombies who would ragdoll hilariously. DL2 removed the ragdoll physics and reworked the levelling system to be worse. Plus, the factions **** is really weak and boring.
Dead Island 2 could not even manage to be half as fun as Dying Light 2 and it was full of insufferable faggoty writing. The only good thing it had was the zombie dismemberment system. It was only visual, but it was fairly impressive.
I really hope they don't screw it up. They most likely will, sadly, but for now I actually have a game I'm looking forward to playing.

So much was lost in Dying Light 2. Don’t know why they took away guns in the sequel although you can get a crossbow that is massively OP and completely breaks the game.

[gerey]

So, apparently, Sony is claiming that Concord sold cca. 25,000 copies - 10,000 on PC and 15,000 on Playstation.

Considering there less than 700 people were playing the game on launch day on Steam, and the fact only cca. 1200 people earned the easiest achievement on Playstation, I call ********.

The game might very well have sold a maximum of 2000 to 3000 copies, which is beyond disastrous.

[LemonDemonGirl]

ico

[Red7]

why its third person when they mention ready or not and battlefield 3 as inspirations

why there are like 10 meters tall lumbering weeb ******* with claws

why vaginas dont have tactical bikinis
where are strip bars? did all males in this gaymeverse turned into vergil like eunuchs?

also, if there is famine where are grilled vaginas? chinese know what to do when famine occurs and this **** seems pretty weeb



why all those games are so ******* ******** and disjointed, its like somebody watched some movies from 80ties and glue them together. ******* ai made commericals have more coherence

[1998]

So, apparently, Sony is claiming that Concord sold cca. 25,000 copies - 10,000 on PC and 15,000 on Playstation.

Considering there less than 700 people were playing the game on launch day on Steam, and the fact only cca. 1200 people earned the easiest achievement on Playstation, I call ********.

The game might very well have sold a maximum of 2000 to 3000 copies, which is beyond disastrous.

It's the usual sales number inflation for these kind of mega flops. But pretty hilarious that the largest number they thought would be convincing is 25k

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Glen Schofield seems to have aged 25 years. The failure of Callisto Protocol destroyed him. Jittery, stammering, slurring speech. Should have moved out of gamedev on a high in the late 2010s, when he was still the good guy Dead Space creator screwed over by the empty suits in the eyes of the public.

Real shame how Callisto Protocol turned it, had such high hopes for the game.

[rusty_shackleford]

why its third person when they mention ready or not and battlefield 3 as inspirations

why there are like 10 meters tall lumbering weeb ******* with claws

why vaginas dont have tactical bikinis
where are strip bars? did all males in this gaymeverse turned into vergil like eunuchs?

also, if there is famine where are grilled vaginas? chinese know what to do when famine occurs and this **** seems pretty weeb



why all those games are so ******* ******** and disjointed, its like somebody watched some movies from 80ties and glue them together. ******* ai made commericals have more coherence

like any piece of chinese history, this is fake

[maidenhaver]

So, apparently, Sony is claiming that Concord sold cca. 25,000 copies - 10,000 on PC and 15,000 on Playstation.

Considering there less than 700 people were playing the game on launch day on Steam, and the fact only cca. 1200 people earned the easiest achievement on Playstation, I call ********.

The game might very well have sold a maximum of 2000 to 3000 copies, which is beyond disastrous.

It's the usual sales number inflation for these kind of mega flops. But pretty hilarious that the largest number they thought would be convincing is 25k

Its basically chinese history numbers.