Various video game stuff not deserving its own thread

[KnightoftheWind]

OMG GUYS, IT'S AVOWED. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!.

[Vergil]

What does this early access unreal 5 asset store flip have to do with Avowed?

[KnightoftheWind]

What does this early access unreal 5 asset store flip have to do with Avowed?

It's the default aesthetic for every AA-AAA release these days.

[Breathe]

OMG GUYS, IT'S AVOWED. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!.

And I thought you were just kidding lol. I just saw the overview vid and ****** man. I hate to be so negative all the time but it looks like trash.

[Oyster Sauce]

OMG GUYS, IT'S AVOWED. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!.

Thought you were shitposting at first. I prefer the fishniggers.

[Rand]

They can put black women in everything and I'm not going to ever find them interesting or attractive or likeable.
In fact, the more they put in, the less I like them in general, even IRL.
They not only have no value to me, they have negative value because in my experience they make everything they're involved in worse, imo.

[Lich]

OMG GUYS, IT'S AVOWED. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!.

Is it okay to depict black people in front of mud huts now?

[Oyster Sauce]

They can put black women in everything and I'm not going to ever find them interesting or attractive or likeable.
In fact, the more they put in, the less I like them in general, even IRL.
They not only have no value to me, they have negative value because in my experience they make everything they're involved in worse, imo.

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[Acrux]

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[Rand]

Hello everyone, don't forget to purchase your Terreria® brand Life® Fruit® flavored® Energy Drink®. It's just like what your favorite® video game® characters® use to refresh® their thirst®!

I'm not any part black or brown, so I find mango disgusting tasting.

[The_Mask]

https://www.polygon.com/24040541/rockst ... star-games

Rocksteady founders have a new, post-Suicide Squad studio
Hundred Star Games is scooping up Rocksteady talent

Rocksteady Studios founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have established a new development studio in London called Hundred Star Games, which is described as a AAA games studio startup that will consist of “only 100 industry veterans and emerging talents.”

Hundred Star Games has not been officially announced, but it is listed on the corporate data website Endole, with Hill and Walker listed as directors. And according to the company’s website, which appears to have gone live in October, it’s hiring for open positions.

Hundred Star also has a profile on the Great Place to Work website, which indicates it has around 25 employees and describes the studio’s ethos to create “a small team of only 100 industry veterans and emerging talents, who are committed to crafting cutting-edge gaming experiences that inspire and captivate players worldwide.”

It appears that Hundred Star Games’ founders are bringing some of their colleagues from Rocksteady with them. A handful of lead developers and director-level ex-Rocksteady employees have left the Batman Arkham studio in recent months to join an unannounced studio, according to LinkedIn profiles Polygon has reviewed.

Polygon has reached out to Hundred Star Games for comment on the studio’s founding, but the company has not responded to multiple requests.

Hill and Walker left Rocksteady Studios in 2022, after more than 18 years at the company and in the midst of development of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Hill was formerly Rocksteady’s creative director, while Walker served as studio director. Their departure from the studio sounded amicable when the Rocksteady founders announced their plan to “hand over the reins, and for us to start a new adventure together in games.”

At the time, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad implied the departure shouldn’t worry Rocksteady fans, as Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was “nearly finished.”

“We have the utmost respect and gratitude for Jamie and Sefton and wish them all the best in their new endeavor, and like many fans, we look forward to what they do next,” Haddad said.

Since Hill and Walker’s departure from Rocksteady, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been heavily delayed. It was originally slated for a 2022 launch, and it will finally be released next month, on Feb. 2.

Fan response to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been rocky since the game’s unveiling at Warner Bros.’ DC Fandome event more than three years ago. Many longtime fans of Rocksteady’s single-player Batman games have bemoaned the always-online, multiplayer, games-as-a-service structure of Kill the Justice League, and recent hands-on previews of the Suicide Squad game have ranged from middling to cautiously optimistic.

How Hundred Star Games will differentiate itself from Rocksteady Studios remains to be seen, but it already seems apparent that the new studio is dreaming smaller. Based on its company ethos, Hundred Star will theoretically grow to less than half the size of Rocksteady, which boasts some 250 employees. That may signal a return to the single-player narrative games that put Rocksteady on the map.

[SpellSword]

The Valis series is being released in a collection on the Nintendo Switch. Unfortunately the games have been vandalized.

The battle of the maidens transcends time. The legendary beautiful girl action, a culmination of revival!

The legend of Valis reaches its pinnacle here!!
The third installment in the highly acclaimed 'Valis: The Fantasm Soldier' reissue series has arrived. This edition finally includes the popular titles 'Valis: The Fantasm Soldier (PC-88 version)' and 'VALIS: The Fantasm Soldier (Family Computer version),' which had particularly high demand for a reissue. Furthermore, the collection boasts a substantial volume with a total of five titles, adding 'Valis: The Fantasm Soldier II (MSX2),' 'VALIS III (MEGA DRIVE),' and 'SUPER VALIS IV.' This is the ultimate culmination of the Valis revival, a must-have for Valis and retro game fans.

■ A popular game supported by many passionate fans
The 'Valis: The Fantasm Soldier' series is a side-scrolling action game released as a PC game in 1986. The unique world where a high school girl in a sailor uniform and bikini armor battles demons, along with its solid action and story, captured the hearts of many game fans. This led to the production of numerous sequels and ports to other platforms. Even now, over 35 years since its inception, it remains a title supported by fans both in Japan and abroad.

■ Play Valis to the fullest with additional features for Nintendo Switch™!
In addition to the appreciation mode that allows you to fully enjoy the BGM and visual scenes, synonymous with the Valis series, there are additional features that let you thoroughly enjoy the charm of Valis. These include indispensable save and load functions for game strategy, and a 'rewind' feature that lets you go back and try again if you make a mistake.

For about 60 dollars these sexy white squares can be yours!

► Valis: The Fantasm Soldier II (MSX2) censorship

[maidenhaver]

Nintendo is a Judeo-Puritan company.

[Breathe]

Why can't they honor the creator's vision?

[KnightoftheWind]

Nintendo is a Judeo-Puritan company.

Why does everything have to be softcore pornography or sexually suggestive?. Perhaps it's better to 'not' have nude depictions of women everywhere. The design of Valis is already suggestive enough, there doesn't need to be full frontal nudity on top of that.

If you're a coomer, at least admit it. Better to do that then make up some thinly-veiled excuse of "it's the artist's original vision!". In that case, you should respect a man like Al Goldstein. After all, porn itself was his "artistic vision". Or how about a banana duct-taped to a museum wall and being called "high art", surely you would not deny the man responsible his dues, after all it's HIS artistic vision too!.

[Vergil]

Nintendo is a Judeo-Puritan company.

Why does everything have to be softcore pornography or sexually suggestive?. Perhaps it's better to 'not' have nude depictions of women everywhere. The design of Valis is already suggestive enough, there doesn't need to be full frontal nudity on top of that.

If you're a coomer, at least admit it. Better to do that then make up some thinly-veiled excuse of "it's the artist's original vision!". In that case, you should respect a man like Al Goldstein. After all, porn itself was his "artistic vision". Or how about a banana duct-taped to a museum wall and being called "high art", surely you would not deny the man responsible his dues, after all it's HIS artistic vision too!.

You're too based for this, they're going to kill you.

[maidenhaver]

Nintendo is a Judeo-Puritan company.

Why does everything have to be softcore pornography or sexually suggestive? Perhaps it's better to 'not' have nude depictions of women everywhere.

Maybe it is better to have depictions of nude biological women everywhere. Maybe everything should be softcore porn. Your move.

[rusty_shackleford]

Rocksteady's first game was a game where you play as a riot control police officer who goes around stopping rioters trying to burn down the city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Cha ... t_Response

[rusty_shackleford]

Rocksteady's first game was a game where you play as a riot control police officer who goes around stopping rioters trying to burn down the city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Cha ... t_Response

It's amazing how much can change in only 17 years.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/urban-chaos-riot-response/

[Irenaeus]

Beating up chimping nigs and antifa-jew pedophiles

[Vergil]

Crazy they're trying for yet another Mass Effect game (that will never come out) where your only option is a human character.

[KnightoftheWind]

Crazy they're trying for yet another Mass Effect game (that will never come out) where your only option is a human character.

Mass Effect 4 is a stupid idea, even if the original team was still working on it. The story ended, and any attempt at a sequel will only cheapen and undermine what was already there. Either have a new and competent story arch, or end the series entirely. It reeks of desperation as it is, and is doomed to fail.

[Vergil]

They're trying to dig up Shepard as a protag not understanding that Andromeda failed because it was **** not because there was some sort of "magic" associated with playing as Shepard. The series was already on a downhill spiral with ME3. Dragon Age 4 is going to be a hiroshima tier bomb and Bioware will be liquidated so ME4 will never happen but if it did it would be just as much of a disaster as everything else Bioware has made in the last decade+.

[KnightoftheWind]

They're trying to dig up Shepard as a protag not understanding that Andromeda failed because it was **** not because there was some sort of "magic" associated with playing as Shepard. The series was already on a downhill spiral with ME3. Dragon Age 4 is going to be a hiroshima tier bomb and Bioware will be liquidated so ME4 will never happen but if it did it would be just as much of a disaster as everything else Bioware has made in the last decade+.

Dragon Age has a chance to succeed despite modern BioWare. It's still a brand that resonates with normies, and it has a sizeable female audience so I'm sure they can make it as gay and degenerate as they want. It will sell, but will it sell enough to justify BioWare's existence?. It remains to be seen.

[Vergil]

Was Cisquisition much of a success though? Plus the leaked gameplay where it looks like it has some weird dark souls lite combat doesn't bode well either. The female Dragon Age audience has been more than catered to by stuff like Baldur's Gate 3 which I doubt Bioware can match in quality at this point.

[KnightoftheWind]

You know what would be cool? Elder Scrolls Warriors. I imagine it to be a vastly superior version of Dynasty Warriors 9's open world, with the budget of a full AAA release. There would be two aspects of play, the first would be a tactics/overview screen of Tamriel, where you command various units to attack provinces and the settlements within them, with varying chances of success. And the second is of course, traditional Dynasty Warriors fare. However this time the world is massive, and more detailed than ever before. You can explore dungeons and caves solo to discover loot to empower yourself or your armies, and conquered settlements that can supply you with gear and helpful services. The scale would be unlike anything ever seen in the series, with the whole of the continent rendered on the scale of Oblivion or Skyrim at the very least. (Edit: Each individual province I mean)

The Imperial Province of Cyrodill would of course be central to the game, and taking control of it would boost your resources significantly. Likewise if the enemy takes it before you can, they would be given bonuses as well. And if you start off in Cyrodill, you would have these advantages from the get-go but with the downside of being attacked on multiple fronts. Finally, you can of course design your own "general" in the traditional method, regardless of which province you start off in. And I imagine the gameplay being more dynamic than ever, with large boss monsters and things that you can climb on top of ala Dragon's Dogma. This is just a random thought of course, but I would play the heck out of this game.

[KnightoftheWind]

Was Cisquisition much of a success though? Plus the leaked gameplay where it looks like it has some weird dark souls lite combat doesn't bode well either. The female Dragon Age audience has been more than catered to by stuff like Baldur's Gate 3 which I doubt Bioware can match in quality at this point.

Sorry didn't see your comment for some reason. I think Inquisition was a success, not as big as Origins but it had it's fans. I'm not aware that gameplay of Dreadwolf leaked, but I checked it out and it does seem very Souls-esque. Time will tell what the game will actually end up being though, but the brand still has power. Will it be Baldur's Gate 3-levels of quality or success?, very doubtful. But I can see it selling quite a bit, with a mixed reception.

[Vergil]

You know what would be cool? Elder Scrolls Warriors. I imagine it to be a vastly superior version of Dynasty Warriors 9's open world, with the budget of a full AAA release. There would be two aspects of play, the first would be a tactics/overview screen of Tamriel, where you command various units to attack provinces and the settlements within them, with varying chances of success. And the second is of course, traditional Dynasty Warriors fare. However this time the world is massive, and more detailed than ever before. You can explore dungeons and caves solo to discover loot to empower yourself or your armies, and conquered settlements that can supply you with gear and helpful services. The scale would be unlike anything ever seen in the series, with the whole of the continent rendered on the scale of Oblivion or Skyrim at the very least. (Edit: Each individual province I mean)

The Imperial Province of Cyrodill would of course be central to the game, and taking control of it would boost your resources significantly. Likewise if the enemy takes it before you can, they would be given bonuses as well. And if you start off in Cyrodill, you would have these advantages from the get-go but with the downside of being attacked on multiple fronts. Finally, you can of course design your own "general" in the traditional method, regardless of which province you start off in. And I imagine the gameplay being more dynamic than ever, with large boss monsters and things that you can climb on top of ala Dragon's Dogma. This is just a random thought of course, but I would play the heck out of this game.

The Elder Scrolls (and Fallout for that matter) have so much potential for good spin offs instead of one mainline release (of worse quality each time) every blue moon and a ****** skinnerbox MMO.

[rusty_shackleford]

suicide squad game looks like a 2008 mmorpg

[rusty_shackleford]

obligatory