Various video game stuff not deserving its own thread

[rusty_shackleford]

How much of this do you think is because most modern games suck, rather than the economy being in a bad state?

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/video-gam ... t-suggests

there's no games worth buying

[Norfleet]

How much of this do you think is because most modern games suck, rather than the economy being in a bad state?

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/video-gam ... t-suggests

Modern games are ****, but the spending is down across all, so THAT particular change is more economically-driven. The modern-games-are-**** drop can be seen in how the bulk of games people are buying on Steam are older titles.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

The bulk hardcore gamer demographic aka white middle class is shrinking. Associates and now bachelors degrees don't cut it anymore to get employed. People having to go back to college and grind for years and years with not that much time left over for gaming. Similar issue happened in Japan/Korea/China, which began overall moving towards preferring shorter play sessions that can happen on the train ride to work. China is implementing new laws and invasive control of people's computers to restrict playtime and increase studying time/work productivity. Etc.

[psychic_dream]

How much of this do you think is because most modern games suck, rather than the economy being in a bad state?

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/video-gam ... t-suggests

there's no games worth buying

I only realized yesterday that Death Stranding 2 came out about a week ago, which seemed odd because I remember both normies and journalists hyping the first game as the “return of the video game design genius.” In reality it was a boring walking simulator set in a vast but shallow-as-a-puddle open world with little to no interesting things happening in it.

Maybe it’s just me not having enough time for gaming, but it seems like even huge releases with hundreds of millions spent aren’t attracting enough interest for people to buy or invest time in them.

[psychic_dream]

How much of this do you think is because most modern games suck, rather than the economy being in a bad state?

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/video-gam ... t-suggests

Modern games are ****, but the spending is down across all, so THAT particular change is more economically-driven. The modern-games-are-**** drop can be seen in how the bulk of games people are buying on Steam are older titles.

I could be wrong, but wasn’t there an article saying that a big chunk of Steam users actually spend more time playing games over ten years old than the latest releases?

[Norfleet]

I could be wrong, but wasn’t there an article saying that a big chunk of Steam users actually spend more time playing games over ten years old than the latest releases?

I heard something like this, yes. So basically, new-games-are-**** wouldn't decrease games spending very much because there are already more games out there than most people will care to play, so they just spend their money on old games instead.

[Bing_xiLim]

New synthcore just dropped:



I haven't played Death Stranding but if it's anything like what Synth says then you'd have to be a total globohomotard to play this ****.

[Breathe]

New synthcore just dropped:



I haven't played Death Stranding but if it's anything like what Synth says then you'd have to be a total globohomotard to play this ****.

I liked the first. It was really easy to not pay attention to the story and just focus on trips and the game's progression.

[Bing_xiLim]

New synthcore just dropped:



I haven't played Death Stranding but if it's anything like what Synth says then you'd have to be a total globohomotard to play this ****.

I liked the first. It was really easy to not pay attention to the story and just focus on trips and the game's progression.

Really? From what I've heard the ******* cutscenes and holograms keep getting in the way of the core gameplay loop. Or is it supposed to be a "slow burn" game that only really opens up to you when you're 40% of the way through.

[methoxetamine]

New synthcore just dropped:



I haven't played Death Stranding but if it's anything like what Synth says then you'd have to be a total globohomotard to play this ****.

I liked the first. It was really easy to not pay attention to the story and just focus on trips and the game's progression.

Really? From what I've heard the ******* cutscenes and holograms keep getting in the way of the core gameplay loop. Or is it supposed to be a "slow burn" game that only really opens up to you when you're 40% of the way through.

I lost total interest in Death Stranding the moment I saw le walking dead man was the MC. Facescanning actors for games is ******* cringe. MGS has been one of my favorite series since I was 7 so in theory I should've been excited for a new Kojima game

[logincrash]

I liked the first. It was really easy to not pay attention to the story and just focus on trips and the game's progression.

Really? From what I've heard the ******* cutscenes and holograms keep getting in the way of the core gameplay loop. Or is it supposed to be a "slow burn" game that only really opens up to you when you're 40% of the way through.

I lost total interest in Death Stranding the moment I saw le walking dead man was the MC. Facescanning actors for games is ******* cringe. MGS has been one of my favorite series since I was 7 so in theory I should've been excited for a new Kojima game

Kojimbo is a ******. Firing the iconic Snake VA to hire a big Hollywood actor to voice him instead is scummy enough. But to then make said Snake a near mute with like a dozen voice lines tops is ********.
I first played MGSV since it was on PC. It was a really cool 80s merc simulator and Snake was a near non-existent entity with how little he spoke. So, when I played through MGS3 on an emulator, I was floored by how Snake never actually shuts up.
Like, ******, if you're gonna be a starfucker and hire an actual actor, make him ******* act. Don't just make him sit in a VO booth for like an hour total.

[methoxetamine]

Kojimbo is a ******.

Indeed

[Breathe]

New synthcore just dropped:



I haven't played Death Stranding but if it's anything like what Synth says then you'd have to be a total globohomotard to play this ****.

I liked the first. It was really easy to not pay attention to the story and just focus on trips and the game's progression.

Really? From what I've heard the ******* cutscenes and holograms keep getting in the way of the core gameplay loop. Or is it supposed to be a "slow burn" game that only really opens up to you when you're 40% of the way through.

To each their own. This was 7 or so years ago so maybe I don’t remember all the cutscenes. The trips themselves can take a long time along with all the prep. I was looking for something different at the time; maybe that’s why I enjoyed it.

[rusty_shackleford]

Implies that illegal aliens are "immigrants", that America is a country built by immigrants, and that America shouldn't have the right to control their own borders or restrict immigration.
https://deathstranding.fandom.com/wiki/ ... f_the_Past
https://deathstranding.fandom.com/wiki/Elder

Possible feminist agenda by having a female POTUS
https://deathstranding.fandom.com/wiki/Bridget_Strand

Perhaps other stuff but I quit after an hour, don't feel like being lectured by a japanese company on how my country should be the world's dumping ground

quote from the one article:

During this time he feel to be bought into the American Dream for a minute, seen a black guy and a woman take a shot at the presidency but somewhere along the line, all of a sudden people become intolerant and indifferent for other opinions—or other people, electing a new president right before the Stranding that wanted to build a wall along the whole border to protect the people and stop immigrant, like him, from coming.

[UltraFan123]

but somewhere along the line, all of a sudden

I always find it so incredibly funny that either leftards or ignorant foreigners always act "surprised" that people are not willing to be endlessly stepped on and exploited in silence by leeches who hate them simply because said people are Americans/White.

"Out of nowhere and for no reason at all Hitler was elected" ah vibes.

Funnier still is how they love to pretend that the Trump is the first US president in history to enforce border security, when Obama was known as the "Deporter-in-Chief" and still has a larger deportation count than Trump's so far.

[Finarfin]

Implies that illegal aliens are "immigrants", that America is a country built by immigrants, and that America shouldn't have the right to control their own borders or restrict immigration.
https://deathstranding.fandom.com/wiki/ ... f_the_Past
https://deathstranding.fandom.com/wiki/Elder

Possible feminist agenda by having a female POTUS
https://deathstranding.fandom.com/wiki/Bridget_Strand

Perhaps other stuff but I quit after an hour, don't feel like being lectured by a japanese company on how my country should be the world's dumping ground

quote from the one article:

During this time he feel to be bought into the American Dream for a minute, seen a black guy and a woman take a shot at the presidency but somewhere along the line, all of a sudden people become intolerant and indifferent for other opinions—or other people, electing a new president right before the Stranding that wanted to build a wall along the whole border to protect the people and stop immigrant, like him, from coming.

Btw, this illegal alien ****** can die if you ignore his assignments.

[Roguey]

Kojimbo is a ******.

Indeed

He loves' em.

[methoxetamine]

Kojimbo is a ******.

Indeed

He loves' em.

****, I didn't know Kojimber had AIDS. What a tragedy

[Breathe]

Anyone know if there's a quick way to copy all the filenames in a given folder and export? I want to send my brother a list of games I have so he can see which ones he wants to play.

[Oyster Sauce]

Anyone know if there's a quick way to copy all the filenames in a given folder and export? I want to send my brother a list of games I have so he can see which ones he wants to play.

PrtSc

[Norfleet]

Anyone know if there's a quick way to copy all the filenames in a given folder and export? I want to send my brother a list of games I have so he can see which ones he wants to play.

ls -1 > files.txt

[gerey]

Anyone know if there's a quick way to copy all the filenames in a given folder and export? I want to send my brother a list of games I have so he can see which ones he wants to play.

Open command prompt and navigate to the folder you want to and then type:

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dir /B > list.txt

to generate a list of all files and folders.

[Breathe]

Anyone know if there's a quick way to copy all the filenames in a given folder and export? I want to send my brother a list of games I have so he can see which ones he wants to play.

PrtSc

Thanks but there are thousands.

[Breathe]

Anyone know if there's a quick way to copy all the filenames in a given folder and export? I want to send my brother a list of games I have so he can see which ones he wants to play.

Open command prompt and navigate to the folder you want to and then type:

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dir /B > list.txt

to generate a list of all files and folders.

Thanks I’ll try this.

[Rand]

Many ways:

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tree /A /F > filename.txt

Also:

dir /O:GN /S /B > filename.txt
attrib /D /S > filename.txt


Tree is generally the most useful for display.
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How to open a CMD window to use the above commands without typing a long address to the directory you want:

Method 1:
Using File Explorer, navigate to the root folder you want and replace the address at the top with cmd and press Enter. This opens a Command Prompt directly in the current directory.

Method 2:
Right-click the folder in the left sidebar and select "Open Command Prompt Here."

[psychic_dream]

Whatever happened to AA games? You know the kind that were common from the mid 2000s through the early 2010s. Not gargantuan blockbusters like The Last of Us, but not small Xbox Live Arcade indies either. Just solid, mid budget projects that filled the gap in between. Games like F.E.A.R., Heavenly Sword, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic were fun and memorable, even if they didn’t have the scale or polish of something like Max Payne 3 or Skyrim.

Now they’re virtually gone. It’s either overproduced AAA showpieces or a flood of samey one person indie stuff you’ve seen a hundred times before.

[rusty_shackleford]

Whatever happened to AA games? You know the kind that were common from the mid 2000s through the early 2010s. Not gargantuan blockbusters like The Last of Us, but not small Xbox Live Arcade indies either. Just solid, mid budget projects that filled the gap in between. Games like F.E.A.R., Heavenly Sword, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic were fun and memorable, even if they didn’t have the scale or polish of something like Max Payne 3 or Skyrim.

Now they’re virtually gone. It’s either overproduced AAA showpieces or a flood of samey one person indie stuff you’ve seen a hundred times before.

Average game with a publisher is AA now, AAA is the one that disappeared.

[wndrbr]

Whatever happened to AA games? You know the kind that were common from the mid 2000s through the early 2010s. Not gargantuan blockbusters like The Last of Us, but not small Xbox Live Arcade indies either. Just solid, mid budget projects that filled the gap in between. Games like F.E.A.R., Heavenly Sword, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic were fun and memorable, even if they didn’t have the scale or polish of something like Max Payne 3 or Skyrim.

Now they’re virtually gone. It’s either overproduced AAA showpieces or a flood of samey one person indie stuff you’ve seen a hundred times before.

FEAR and Dark Messiah were sort of AAA of its time. They look less polished because they came out five-six years before TLOU and Max Payne 3.

[rusty_shackleford]

Whatever happened to AA games? You know the kind that were common from the mid 2000s through the early 2010s. Not gargantuan blockbusters like The Last of Us, but not small Xbox Live Arcade indies either. Just solid, mid budget projects that filled the gap in between. Games like F.E.A.R., Heavenly Sword, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic were fun and memorable, even if they didn’t have the scale or polish of something like Max Payne 3 or Skyrim.

Now they’re virtually gone. It’s either overproduced AAA showpieces or a flood of samey one person indie stuff you’ve seen a hundred times before.

Average game with a publisher is AA now, AAA is the one that disappeared.

everyone point and laugh at @Kalarion, he thinks Avowed is AAA

[Roguey]

Whatever happened to AA games? You know the kind that were common from the mid 2000s through the early 2010s. Not gargantuan blockbusters like The Last of Us, but not small Xbox Live Arcade indies either. Just solid, mid budget projects that filled the gap in between. Games like F.E.A.R., Heavenly Sword, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic were fun and memorable, even if they didn’t have the scale or polish of something like Max Payne 3 or Skyrim.

Now they’re virtually gone. It’s either overproduced AAA showpieces or a flood of samey one person indie stuff you’ve seen a hundred times before.

FEAR and Dark Messiah were sort of AAA of its time. They look less polished because they came out five-six years before TLOU and Max Payne 3.

Yeah, I remember back in 2006 I saw FEAR being demonstrated on the screens at Wal Mart to showcase the power of the 360, a killer app. 10 years later, yeah it's AA by those standards.