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 No.12393[Reply]

As a Sonic fan, I do not understand this fandom at all. As I grow older I start to understand why that IGN employee said "Sonic was never good." Yeah, sure, Forces is hot garbage, but that doesn't suddenly make '06 good. It feels like whatever a Sonic fan grew up with as a kid becomes a 10/10 masterpiece, and the fandom seems to be generally averse to change (is it because of neurodivergence?). And I don't understand the fans who defend the Meta Era either. Like, you can criticize both '06 and Forces, why only hate one game? It doesn't make you superior to '06 glazers in any way. At least Sonic haters aren't biased to this or that time period. Not like I think they're right but I at least get where they're coming from, their complaints make perfect sense on the surface level. I do sometimes agree with JP purists and classic elitists but they also tend to complain about miniscule shit like character designs or Western canon/characterization or gameplay changes.
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 No.12398

>>12394
>I've never had even a hint of interest in the 3D Sonic games.
Mania was great, but it's basically more of the same that was on genesis, just on a modern screen. Also fuck running out of breath in the underwater levels
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 No.12399

>>12398
>Mania was great, but it's basically more of the same that was on genesis, just on a modern screen.
I was complaining about it first but now I accept that it's a good game that does exactly what it's intended to do. Copying good levels from other games is better than fucking them up like what Forces did. People made fun of Lost World's artstyle but in retrospect it was vibrant and bursting with life compared to Forces' washed up textures and sloppy level geometry. Like, why tf are there those flying paper-thin platforms with grass? It doesn't look good even for an acid trip level design of classic platformers. How tf does a PS4 game look worse than fucking Sonic Unleashed that came out in, like, 2007? No Sonic game was able to top Unleashed in graphics. NONE.
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 No.12400

>>12397
It's funny how people consider Sonic uncool yet love TMNT and Ratchet and Clank. Go figure.
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 No.12414

I've changed my mind. Both Sonic fans and Sonic haters are annoying for different reasons. A typical Sonic hater is either:
>a normie
>a fan of a different franchise or company
>a fan hater
>a combination of the two
The first category isn't even worth talking about. Normies historically shat on anything they don't understand, be it weird hobbies, queer people, rock music, communism or anything outside of the "normal" really. The second type often criticizes the things in Sonic that their own favorite franchise is guilty of and has a habit of putting their favorite franchise on a pedestal. The third type takes their hatred for the Sonic community to the point that even liking Sonic games is considered some form of a crime against humanity and usually parrots the talking points of the previous two types, while the fourth type has the worst aspects of all three combined. I understand that there's plenty to hate in Sonic but it's just going a bit too far. Sure, it may come off as a joke but it often feels like they genuinely despise Sonic. If people were making fun at their expense it wouldn't be as funny to them anymore but if people make fun of Sonic then it's okay because Sonic is an acceptable punching bag. And it just feels like a giant double standard. Even anime fans make fun of Sonic now. People used to view anime fans as no-life losers all the time in the past.
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 No.12431

Think about it:
>the PS1 Need for Speed games are Genesis Sonic games
>Hot Pursuit 2 is Mania
>Underground 1-2 is Adventure
>Most Wanted is Adventure 2
>Carbon is Heroes
>ProStreet is Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
>Nitro is Secret Rings
>Undercover is '06
>The Run is Unleashed
>Hot Pursuit 2010 is Colors
>Rivals is Generations
>Payback is Lost World
>Unbound is Forces

You can say that Spider-Man is the Sonic of superhero games. Some Spider-Man games are peak cinema while others deserve damnation.

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 No.12355[Reply]

https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900

What is the geopolitical significance of the most hated American company in video games soon being owned by the Saudi Arabian government?
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 No.12357

I remember wrestling subreddits being mad about Gulf States funding wrestling because of human rights violations (or some shit), but that same standard doesn't seem to apply to US/Western companies funding wrestling…
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 No.12358

Brings new meaning to wage slaving under an EA contract. Since the gulf dictatorships basically turn migrant workers into slaves.
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 No.12359

>>12357
The treatment of women and LGBTs is undeniably worse in the Gulf States.
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 No.12361

>>12359
Only the worst offenders in population extermination hide behind troons, cunts and other shitskin faggots who conveniently compose the least amount of population that you can skimp on in procuring a Kapital reset.
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 No.12418

>>12355
>the most hated American company in video games
EA gets shat on constantly as "literally Satan himself" all the time despite producing some of the greatest vidya games ever made. Sure, it's a piece of trash now and its treatment of workers sucked even before it went to shit but you can say the same about pretty much any Western AAA company really. Like, how is EA different from Activision or Ubisoft?
>What is the geopolitical significance
Saudi bougies buy out American bougies so they can co-op in exploiting and laying off workers and shitting on their customers, that's all.
>>12361
Are you mentally retarded?

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 No.12401[Reply]

PC gaming sucks now. It's all Denuvo cancer, buggy ports, shitty optimization and overpriced hardware. The corpos show no respect or care towards PC gamers and everyone just goes along with it. Don't get me wrong, I love PC gaming, it has clear advantages. But over the years it's harder and harder for me to recommend it over just buying a console.

Fuck NVidia and Denuvo for making PC gaming worse and fuck Valve for allowing this shit to happen. I can't even stand Gabe Newell anymore, it's all his fault. Allowing Denuvo to poison games, caving in to Nintendo and payment processes' censorship demands. This whole monopoly on PC gaming led to predictable results.
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 No.12404

>>12401
I can't play newer games because I only have an 8GB RAM laptop and a 12GB RAM PC with no graphics card
Really want to finish Planescape Torment though
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 No.12413

>>12404
>12GB
I could barely afford 8GB of RAM and that was already enough for comfortable AAA gaming. Now even that isn't enough. Despite the fact that a 2015 game still looks better than 90% of what AAA studios put out nowadays.

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 No.11857[Reply]

Let's discuss Fortnite/post memes!
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 No.11858

I literally haven't played this yet. I have kind of been wanting to but I feel like I wont be able to get in before the next fad rolls in.
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 No.11859

Naruto!
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 No.11860

>>11858
Just install it, anon! Never too late :] get those dubs!
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 No.12408

I used to hate Fortnite's graphics and gameplay loop a lot 'cause the vibrant colors give me an eye sore and the building is nauseating but this Lumen lighting looks amazing and that Zero Build mode looks promising, especially since there's so many guest characters. Might actually check this out once I get a new gaming PC or a Steam Deck.
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 No.12412

That guy looks like a Johnny Gat knock-off.

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 No.12255[Reply]

Hi, I'm Gabe Newell, the CEO of valvesoftware.com. My pronouns are gabe/gaben and I identify as pro-consumer. I'm most famous for:
>sucking Denuvo's cock
>sucking EA's cock
>sucking Activision's cock
>sucking Ubisoft's cock
>sucking 2k's cock
>sucking Nintendo's cock (the biggest cock of them all)
>ignoring the French court's demands
Some people say that GOG is better than Steam. But GOG is for losers who can't afford a good Internet connection and graphics card to run the superior Denuvo games. That's why nobody publishes their games on it. Steam has a larger catalog of indie games than GOG. We keep all the indie devs locked inside our basement with no way out. There is no escape.
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 No.12276

GAYbe Newell.
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 No.12277

>>12276
Dare I say, pwned
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 No.12409

It's so gabeover, guys.
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 No.12410

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He hired this asshole to create micro-transactions and got kids addicted to online gambling with loot boxes.
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 No.12411

>>12410
Just one of the terrible things he's done that plague PC gaming to this do. I do have to thank him for pushing gaming on GNU/Linux and combating AI slop. Otherwise Valve has been nothing but a net negative for gaming in a past few years, not helped by the recent payment processes fiasco.

Who's that guy on the picrel anyway?

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 No.11384[Reply]

I am a socialist in almost every aspect in my life. I help organize, I promote worker rights, I don't ignore feminist and racial struggles. Yet when it comes to console exclusivity I transform into the complete opposite of everything I believe in. As an owner of a console, I enjoy exclusives and I hate it whenever an exclusive gets ported to PC. I know every game being on every piece of hardware especially PC is the right, moral, and "proletarian" choice, but I can't help but rage and denounce at the sight of any exclusive, even the ones from a different console, gets ported.

Maybe it's some residue PTSD from being in a tight-knit Demon's Souls community when I was younger, and seeing the community flooded by morons and petit-bougie assholes when the Souls series was ported to PC.

What do you guys think of console exclusivity?
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 No.11429

>What do you guys think of console exclusivity?

To hell with it. I do not give two flying fucks about 'community' or something like it if i can get to more easily play games with my friends.
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 No.11432

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>>11384
Back to /pol/
>https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/4chan_Chronicle/Endless_Summer

Or the BBS boards of yesteryear
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

The >Universal< Computer
>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-physical-origin-of-universal-computing/

OP, either you are the cringe you despise, the newfag/moron/petite bougie/pick your denigration that doesn't understand how social/public goods like communities work, or this is a bait thread.

All consoles and all culture are united in the future through emulation. You may as well cringe that Agamemnon's accent is all wrong in modern Greek plays. Or that no one mentions the French Parliament under Louis XVI with respect anymore.

As for muh culture, your unwillingness to take the time to enlighten the 'morons' is the reward of sloth and apathy. Leisure now, persistent morons later. There was a time when you were the moron in Dark Souls, I promise you.
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 No.11444

I wish consoles didnt exist because I dont want to waste my time playing sub par games
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 No.12402

Holy consumerism, Batman!

Seek professional help.
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 No.12403

The console is hardly a problem. I hope you worked hard to get one and now trying to validate that work, you try to find any advatages of console gaming over PC gaming, tho PC can be a lot more on the same amount of work (plus extra little to assemble it) and you probably know about it. I guess that might be an actual coping mechanism.

 No.12427[Reply]

People keep saying that realism is what's ruining games and movie adaptations but does it really? I get it, "realistic" graphics can look bad and can tank the performance. I understand that many realistic AAA games are generic open-world over-the-shoulder action games (or CoD). I understand that Disney remakes and Netflix adaptations are hot garbage. But I feel like it's a problem of overblown budgets, bad art design, bad development tools/cinematography, pandering to mainstream audiences and just plain incompetence rather than an inherent flaw of realism. AA games are doing just fine with realistic graphics, you just need to know what you're doing. Honestly, this sentiment feels like the opposite of "realism good, animation bad" and is just as insufferable. Instead of critiquing actual bad practices of the AAA industry and its sheer capitalist greed we overfocus on arbitrary shit of whether a character looks realistic or not. Who cares?
>Devil May Cry V was fire
>Grand Theft Auto V was fire
>One Piece was fire
>How to Train Your Dragon was fire
>Helldivers 2 was fire
A good work of art is a good work of art regardless of its artstyle, no?

What are your thoughts?
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 No.12428

Speak da truth, bougie!

It feels like Twitter is trying to gaslight everyone into thinking we're in the wrong. I constantly see statements like:
>Modern gaming sucks
>Realistic graphics suck
>Cartoony games are for babies and soyboys
>Wokeness isn't real
>The anti-woke crowd hates women/minorities
>Female/black/gay/fat/disabled protagonists are woke
>Uglyfication of women isn't real
>"Uglyfication of women" is a misogynist talking point
>Women ruined video games
>Concord's character designs are great
>Fanservice is sexist
>Woman who look like porn actresses is peak character design
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 No.7126[Reply]

What are your favourites? Been playing pic related (Rogue State) yesterday, it's not the best game but it has a banging national anthem.

https://youtu.be/bXDUHXolrFs

Last week I played Suzerain at the suggestion of a topic on bunkerchan, that was better IMO but I ran into a game ending bug which is always sad.

Which ones do you love? Hidden Agenda, Democracy 3, or?
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 No.12373

>>7126
>Last week I played Suzerain at the suggestion of a topic on bunkerchan, that was better IMO but I ran into a game ending bug which is always sad.
Love me Suzerain, the Rizia update was great

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 No.11928[Reply]

Share you best outcome from playing the game!

This was my best so far. My strategy was to first get the military under control, then do land reform and set up the economy, hold an election with as much legitimacy as possible, and finally to build up stuff like medicine, education, and infrastructure. It went alright for the most part, but the IMF is going to kill the country later, much like what happened in Yugoslavia.

So what did you do? What worked for you?
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 No.11941

>>11940
lol try now
i made it public, but they need other permissions there as well
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 No.11942

>>11941
I don't want to keep derailing this thread but I have some suggestions (if you are open to suggestions), would you mind posting an email or opening a new thread?
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 No.11943

>>11942
[email protected]
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 No.12221

The look of your game reminds me of Timewave Zero Software.
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 No.12363

>>11928
I loved playing this game. I have no idea if it has an underground fanbase of some form.

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 No.10523[Reply]

The Sega System


Description
DescriptionShinobi is a series of hack-and-slash action video games created by Sega. The ninja Joe Musashi is the protagonist of the original series of games. The first Shinobi game was released in 1987 for arcades and has since featured in a dozen other Shinobi titles
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 No.10524

excellent game
SEGA was so good back then
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 No.10528

the only games I had as a kid were phantasy star 4 (never heard of the other games) and battle toads with X-Men characteristics.

still hold up uh yup
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 No.12362

>Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Come Race on Our Level Commercial
shots fired

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