Various video game stuff not deserving its own thread

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I never got to see Starcraft 2 because I would never tolerate Blizzard's site and the fact that, to this day, the have never put a single thing on sale despite WoW making hundreds upon hundreds of millions.
Corporations (as they have been allowed to become) are a mistake.

Blizzard games like SC2, D3, and D4 do go on sale sometimes on the Blizzard store.

SC2 Wings of Liberty had a solid story. Heart of the Swarm had cool aesthetics with the Zerg and you being able to pick between two different variants for each Zerg species. I don't remember much about Legacy of the Void, but it had John de Lancie aka Q from Star Trek TNG voicing one of the characters, Alarak, who was kinda cool.

[Rand]

Blizzard games like SC2, D3, and D4 do go on sale sometimes on the Blizzard store.

SC2 Wings of Liberty had a solid story. Heart of the Swarm had cool aesthetics with the Zerg and you being able to pick between two different variants for each Zerg species. I don't remember much about Legacy of the Void, but it had John de Lancie aka Q from Star Trek TNG voicing one of the characters, Alarak, who was kinda cool.

Okay, seems things have changed a bit since I last looked and they were price gouging hard. Thanks!

[WhiteShark]

"gamedevs should stop making games with realistic graphics" is a peak redditor opinion
80%+ of games that come out now, and I mean the ones with any sort of budget too, are "stylized". Graphics peaked a decade ago, 1 in 2 games look like a fortnite clone.

It's also an atheist take, because it denies that God's work is perfect.

He created it perfect, but nature fell, too. Rather, saying that reality as it is currently is is aesthetic perfection is the atheist take, for it denies the real perfection that existed before and will again in the end.

[Oyster Sauce]

[Just Locus]

Been trying out Final Fantasy 1 through the Pixel Remaster. I'm really enjoying the simplicity of the game.

[TKVNC]

"gamedevs should stop making games with realistic graphics" is a peak redditor opinion
80%+ of games that come out now, and I mean the ones with any sort of budget too, are "stylized". Graphics peaked a decade ago, 1 in 2 games look like a fortnite clone.

It's also an atheist take, because it denies that God's work is perfect.

He created it perfect, but nature fell, too. Rather, saying that reality as it is currently is aesthetic perfection is the atheist take, for it denies the real perfection that existed before and will again in the end.

It's less specific than that, the work of man will never rival that of God.

[Havitner]

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[Roguey]

GTA Online prints so much money that they've been releasing new content for it every year since release https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Updates_in_GTA_Online

A forever game, until GTA 6 anyway.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

[Jordy]

A community where 'the black community' only feels valued and supported for one month of the year.

lmao @ 'the black community'

[DagothGeas5]

I am surprised to see this thing still being talked about after it being removed officially in America, or did it only apply for the government officials?

[Jordy]

I am surprised to see this thing still being talked about after it being removed officially in America, or did it only apply for the government officials?

You're surprised that the libtards are going to try and push back against it?

[DagothGeas5]

I am surprised to see this thing still being talked about after it being removed officially in America, or did it only apply for the government officials?

You're surprised that the libtards are going to try and push back against it?

No, I mean, that it is being talked about in such a way as the above. It's like nothing happened, that's what surprises me. What they usually do with their pushbacks is to make a very long post and say how they will "fight" and whatnot that I recall, the above is like every other year, not sure if I am explaining myself correctly.

[Jordy]

I am surprised to see this thing still being talked about after it being removed officially in America, or did it only apply for the government officials?

You're surprised that the libtards are going to try and push back against it?

No, I mean, that it is being talked about in such a way as the above. It's like nothing happened, that's what surprises me. What they usually do with their pushbacks is to make a very long post and say how they will "fight" and whatnot that I recall, the above is like every other year, not sure if I am explaining myself correctly.

Yeah I get what you mean, they would normally be denouncing Trump and the 'Far Right' but they're weak right now so this is the most they could do.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

I am surprised to see this thing still being talked about after it being removed officially in America, or did it only apply for the government officials?

That only applies to the federal government.

[Rand]

They locked their comments after getting totally roasted.

[rusty_shackleford]

It's also an atheist take, because it denies that God's work is perfect.

He created it perfect, but nature fell, too. Rather, saying that reality as it is currently is aesthetic perfection is the atheist take, for it denies the real perfection that existed before and will again in the end.

It's less specific than that, the work of man will never rival that of God.

Have you read Tolkien's essay, On Fairy-stories?

[Acrux]

He created it perfect, but nature fell, too. Rather, saying that reality as it is currently is aesthetic perfection is the atheist take, for it denies the real perfection that existed before and will again in the end.

It's less specific than that, the work of man will never rival that of God.

Have you read Tolkien's essay, On Fairy-stories?

Or Leaf by Niggle which is basically a narrative version of his main argument in that essay.

In b4 Leaf by ******

[maidenhaver]

@rusty_shackleford I recall there being a conversation about interactive game menus (where you can click on different parts of the screen and they will react). Forgive me if it was not you that started the conversation that I recall, I might be recalling wrong, but in case I am not: I was adding more items to my list of games and it came to mind that this one has an interactive menu and UI.
The game in question is called "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride". The menu of the game is a sort of interactive hub with a lot of these small interactive actions (time-stamped as the guy showcases the menu in question).

(The guy clicked these only once, but they all have different outcomes. The spider, for example, will weave different shapes in its web, two that I recall being the Disney Castle's silhouette and the Mickey Mouse symbol, while clicking the waterfall can also display Timon and Pumbaa going down at full speed on a wooden raft).
If my memory got something mixed up and no one asked, do forgive me for the out of the blue mention XD I hope it is at least midly interesting

I'm convinced Jump Start 2nd Grade could never be made today.

[DagothGeas5]

@rusty_shackleford I recall there being a conversation about interactive game menus (where you can click on different parts of the screen and they will react). Forgive me if it was not you that started the conversation that I recall, I might be recalling wrong, but in case I am not: I was adding more items to my list of games and it came to mind that this one has an interactive menu and UI.
The game in question is called "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride". The menu of the game is a sort of interactive hub with a lot of these small interactive actions (time-stamped as the guy showcases the menu in question).

(The guy clicked these only once, but they all have different outcomes. The spider, for example, will weave different shapes in its web, two that I recall being the Disney Castle's silhouette and the Mickey Mouse symbol, while clicking the waterfall can also display Timon and Pumbaa going down at full speed on a wooden raft).
If my memory got something mixed up and no one asked, do forgive me for the out of the blue mention XD I hope it is at least midly interesting

I'm convinced Jump Start 2nd Grade could never be made today.

I'm not familiar with that game, but I did notice there are no more games like these being made for children Even cartoons are all low effort CGI garbage that I know of, I wonder why though. Stuffed toys as well, it all feels very synthetic and soulless

[Stack of Turtles]

I'm not familiar with that game, but I did notice there are no more games like these being made for children Even cartoons are all low effort CGI garbage that I know of, I wonder why though. Stuffed toys as well, it all feels very synthetic and soulless

Because those areas are increasingly controlled by people who don't have or want kids, especially the kind of women who, if they even have kids at all, treat them as a kind of accessory through which to actualize their own identities (see also: transing kids). Everything for that particular kind of person is a vehicle to be 'subversive' and nothing else.

ETA: To put it simply, they can't empathize with children, don't remember what it was like to be a child (and were probably highly abnormal at the time and very likely grew up full of resentment toward the idea of childhood anyway), and don't care about children at all. Instead they only want to create what they, as adults, "wish they'd seen as children", usually for purely ideological reasons like "if I'd been raised with these leftist tropes I wouldn't have gone through that phase of saying ****** on xbox live all the time that I'm now embarrassed about".

[UltraFan123]

they only want to create what they, as adults, "wish they'd seen as children", usually for purely ideological reasons like "if I'd been raised with these leftist tropes I wouldn't have gone through that phase of saying ****** on xbox live all the time that I'm now embarrassed about".

Case in point; a CGI "children" series made by Disney-Pixar called Win or Lose.

I mentioned it briefly before some time ago on this site, but basically, that series was originally going to have a transfag scene featuring a boy entering the girls' bathroom and for some reason his invasion was shown as being accepted by the girls.

After Trump won the election Disney decided to edit out that particular scene, to the predictable outrage of online activists who even started a pathetic online petition in Change.org "demanding" Disney to restore the propaganda scene.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, this petition went nowhere.

Yet that didn't stop a no-small number of raging freaks to flood the comments section of this petition to vent about the exact same thing you mentioned; "my horrible childhood would have been so much happier if I had seen that deleted scene as a child! I would have felt validated as a ***** child who still didn't knew was *****!"

I'm very glad that Trump won the election and is helping to lead the shift in culture, but the fact that such a scene was even written, approved, and then animated in the first place for what was supposed to be an animated series aimed at children is disgusting beyond belief.

[DagothGeas5]

Wanted to ask, I sometimes am searching for a game on GoG and, though I find it and can see it in the "app" (Galaxy store I think it's called) I cannot see it in the store proper or even buy it if I wanted to. Were those games added and then removed, or are they some sort of placeholder? For example, I was searching for a game called Heart of Darkness ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_ ... ideo_game) ), and though I found it, I could not do anything with it besides reading the description and seeing the images and video showcasing it.

[Oyster Sauce]

Wanted to ask, I sometimes am searching for a game on GoG and, though I find it and can see it in the "app" (Galaxy store I think it's called) I cannot see it in the store proper or even buy it if I wanted to. Were those games added and then removed, or are they some sort of placeholder? For example, I was searching for a game called Heart of Darkness ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_ ... ideo_game) ), and though I found it, I could not do anything with it besides reading the description and seeing the images and video showcasing it.

You might be seeing games people are wishlisting to bring to GoG https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/heart_of_darkness

[DagothGeas5]

Wanted to ask, I sometimes am searching for a game on GoG and, though I find it and can see it in the "app" (Galaxy store I think it's called) I cannot see it in the store proper or even buy it if I wanted to. Were those games added and then removed, or are they some sort of placeholder? For example, I was searching for a game called Heart of Darkness ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_ ... ideo_game) ), and though I found it, I could not do anything with it besides reading the description and seeing the images and video showcasing it.

You might be seeing games people are wishlisting to bring to GoG https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/heart_of_darkness

I find it very strange that they have a full fledged page ready already, I am going to guess it means they may be considering the people's wishlist pledge then as, when I searched for an answer, the games I found were all in this category of people asking for them. Thank you for the information!

[Acrux]

Wanted to ask, I sometimes am searching for a game on GoG and, though I find it and can see it in the "app" (Galaxy store I think it's called) I cannot see it in the store proper or even buy it if I wanted to. Were those games added and then removed, or are they some sort of placeholder? For example, I was searching for a game called Heart of Darkness ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_ ... ideo_game) ), and though I found it, I could not do anything with it besides reading the description and seeing the images and video showcasing it.

You might be seeing games people are wishlisting to bring to GoG https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/heart_of_darkness

I find it very strange that they have a full fledged page ready already, I am going to guess it means they may be considering the people's wishlist pledge then as, when I searched for an answer, the games I found were all in this category of people asking for them. Thank you for the information!

Yes, it seems like some games already have pages. Blake, who is something like an archivist for old Civ games, set up a campaign to get all the versions of civ 1 - civ iii on their list. Most of them alredy had pages except for Civ II Test of Time (which would be at the top of my wishlist).

[Tinky Winky]

A community where 'the black community' only feels valued and supported for one month of the year.

lmao @ 'the black community'

Looks like shAIt honestly, ask the ***** about what prompt ze used and watch ze seethes.

[rusty_shackleford]

Feel like if I go dig into it I'm going to find out Africa never had at least one of those pigments you always see associated with them until trading with europe

[Rand]

Wanted to ask, I sometimes am searching for a game on GoG and, though I find it and can see it in the "app" (Galaxy store I think it's called) I cannot see it in the store proper or even buy it if I wanted to. Were those games added and then removed, or are they some sort of placeholder? For example, I was searching for a game called Heart of Darkness ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_ ... ideo_game) ), and though I found it, I could not do anything with it besides reading the description and seeing the images and video showcasing it.

You might be seeing games people are wishlisting to bring to GoG https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/heart_of_darkness

I find it very strange that they have a full fledged page ready already, I am going to guess it means they may be considering the people's wishlist pledge then as, when I searched for an answer, the games I found were all in this category of people asking for them. Thank you for the information!

The one with the GoG page is a different adult JRPG game "The Heart of Darkness".

Users are asking GoG to add the 1998 JRPG you are talking about via the forum:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/heart_of_darkness

https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/?title=he ... order=desc

[DagothGeas5]

You might be seeing games people are wishlisting to bring to GoG https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/heart_of_darkness

I find it very strange that they have a full fledged page ready already, I am going to guess it means they may be considering the people's wishlist pledge then as, when I searched for an answer, the games I found were all in this category of people asking for them. Thank you for the information!

The one with the GoG page is a different adult JRPG game "The Heart of Darkness".

Users are asking GoG to add the 1998 JRPG you are talking about via the forum:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/heart_of_darkness

https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/?title=he ... order=desc

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