/games/ - Games

>dirtbag left
You're very obvious

>larping
go back to /pol/ rightfag

>>6396
Probably wanna remove the dirtbag left statemnet

Can I make my own nation state?

The mods over there are just as cancerous as over there.
Litterally banning the word two in some convenient contexts.

Best game to roleplay an Amish Jeffersonian democracy with Khmer Rouge characteristics?

>>6458
Dwarf Fortress.

>>6466
kek

>>6463
Based game tbh

>>6463
>>6458
Pretty sure you can nail the feel better with Rimworld.

>>6479
The exceptions to this being Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium and maybe No Man's Sky

I think it's a really good game about managing a small community of individuals with different skills, needs and personalities.

Pretty barren but it is a really good platform for modding with lots of open space for turning the game into whatever you want, from making a colony of raiders moving across the planet and razing settlements to exploring the stars in your handmade spaceship and fighting the mechanoid hoards.

Warfare in RimWorld is fucking terrifying because every warrior is a guy you have spent hours with, you understand their importance, you know of their relationships, you understand their personalities and if they die there's a true sense or loss there.

Vanilla is pretty barren, but there are excellent mods for this.
Much recommended for any leftyanon

The only good thing about Stellaris is that it conforms to the leftist worldview (ironically, porky Collectivism equals Authoritarianism versus Individualism equals Freedom equals Entrepreneurship was overtime changed to Freedom equals Egalitarianism and Communism, Private business equals oligarchy)

The game, however, was broken by later patches. It's overcomplicated and requires tedious routine, but also doesn't have any variance at all. It's perfectly balanced, but due to being overcomplicated and drawnout doesn't work out for multiplayer. Like every other 4x strategy game, it seems to think that throwing a billion different menus and mechanics at players is an acceptable substitute for actual fun. Even if I don't mind it breaking the KISS principle, the issue is it doesn't get anything from it. The reason for their design is to try and make it a "real sim of a sci-fi galaxy". It awfully bungles it, as none of the systems are actually in any way deep. Its just a bunch of puddles that haphazardly get dug with each DLC.
For instance:

It would be cool to have each empire be ideologically or culturally different…
But in practice this is done by barely noticable gameplay wise (unless they are op) traits that have no effect on the procedural "story".
It would be cool to have politics of your empire…
But in practice its just a tab that you farm influance from that has no narative response to your actions.
It would be cool to have space trade…
But its just a simple pact with a flat income boost and a non-specific value resource that maybe atracts pirates if you are stupid and can't play the game right.
It would be cool to have your empire evolve over time…
But all the outcomes in the civics are predecided, you just choose when to unlock them.
It would be cool to explore the Galaxy…
But there is zero randomly generated expedition sites, so you will see the same shit each game.
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>>6482
Huh, so what is this? A collective review? That actually sounds like a rather iteresting idea. We could do something like "/games/ reviews X" and make compilations like this. Weird how this one fits together well.
Also bonus points for making me feel somewhat insane, as parts of that were posted by me, so I had this weird moment of "wait… did I post this? Why is it bumped up? And did I also write those other parts?"

>>6484
To be honest I noted that the Stellaris and Rimworld threads were basically dying since the topic is too specific to stay alive, so I proposed making a single Space simulator thread for smaller games that aren't relative big shots like Outer Worlds. I compiled the best posts, edited them a little and added my own two cents (or old posts).

Your idea holds quite some merit however

>>3909
It's not so much that they're bad, but that they aren't good.

The main thing you get out of buying and using an RPG somebody wrote, aside from incidental setting "fluff", is rules, especially for conflict resolution and world generation. But rules in storygames invariably boil down to "make shit up", just like little girls holding a pretend magical tea party, thus the epithet "MTP".

Now, there's nothing wrong with using MTP sometimes, there's even a discreet reminder about it in D&D with "rule 0". The problem is, every child already knows MTP, so anything written inside a published tabletop RPG must be different from and superior to MTP for at least some tasks, otherwise it's just a book full of "fluff" instead of a functional RPG.

Aside from weak or outright nonfunctional rules, however, actual rules and guidelines typical of storygames are also corrosive. For instance, fate points and narrative control disassociate players from their characters, and discourage detailed worldbuilding, in favor of vague worlds that leave room for limitlessly escalating bullshit:
>the wolves press you to the cliff's edge
&lti jump off
&ltso you fall to your doom?
>*burn a fate point* *POOF* *a branch appears*
>no, i grab a branch and climb back up after they leave

>>3922
I see, hey, so Burning wheel is a storygame, but it's like a thousand pages of rules and shit, what say you?

>>3922
think it really depends on who you're playing with and what kind of person the dm is

Any DMs willing to start an online /leftypol/ D&D campaign?

>all this discussion
&ltnobody even plays
MFW

>>6379
Also what the fuck is the point of recruiting a getaway driver that is the second best driver in the car?

>>6374
>>6379
>>6393
R* really didn't think this one through properly, also that's the issue with R* game design in general in that a poorly designed mission can make you really hate its character even if they're otherwise okay, same thing happened with Zero and his missions in SA.

>>6374
Only now do I see how similar he is to El Grando Smokio

Another bad Goichi Suda game full of terrible mechanics but trying real hard to be cool.

>>6368
>trying real hard to be cool
This is my shit.

watched all the bosses in a lets play…
would never bother to play it myself

I played through the 1st and 2nd recently. Pretty neat games even with the jank and repetition. Liked 1 better than 2 way more though. You can really tell the latter was unfinished and rushed with how they padded out the latter levels and with how undeveloped a lot of aspects of the plot are.

>>6377
Even reddit despises this game fam.

>>6377
Because of trans baiting and feminism garbage. It wasn't as bad as they make it sound, but frankly, with all the garbage being shoveled out in mass media, at this point people are growing MORE intolerant of that crap because it's screaming "Be tolerant bigot!" at people.

An example is the years of shitty Mary-Sueshit and feminist liberalism in movies like the Star Wars Sequels and the Ghostbusters 2016 and Captain Marvel and other trash, which made people absolutely detest any hints of that in the Solo movie, despite the feminist and liberalism being toned down, because at this point people are sick of seeing it to the point of raging out at the slightest hint.

TL;DR: Excessive overexposure to liberalism has made most people have a hairtrigger against anything remotely feminist.

Ironically this also means that merely mediocre movies with female leads are getting flak because people just don't want to even hear it.

Also Naughty Dog literally fired a female game developer who created the franchise because she was against several of the "creative decisions" inserted into the game, so it's blatantly hypocritical too.

>>2451
Upon reflection I think they were trying to pull an Itachi or Pain, and convey the "revenge and hatred affects everyone, and that if you kill someone in revenge you are only continuing a cycle of hatred" but they fucked it up completely, so you only notice this if you disregard some dumb shit.

>>6377
And I'm surprised that you're surprised that 4chan hates everything under the sun. But in this case, the only people who will probably defend this dumpster fire are either completely braindead Sony zealots or more likely knee-jerking radlibs/EsJayDubyas.

>>2447
Yeah, this piss me off. They could have given a way to be complete pacifist or stop being preachy about violence in games, just don’t have it both ways. But in the end since they’re lazy corporate fucks that couldn’t even care enough to pay their workers a decent livable wage, they just copied the first game wholesale and added some better gore graphics.
Dishonored is still the only action game that do this right, where the world just go to shit when you decide to be a murderous psychopath.

>>3889
>The ongoing narrative for Defense of the Ancients is that a series of amateur content creators with limited programming experience and few financial resources created a Warcraft III map that was not only better than Warcraft III, but surpassed the collective efforts of a billion-dollar videogame industry and its world-class game creators. A story that should set off red flags in the mind of any reasonable person has become a rallying cry for transformative change in the world of videogames.
&lthurr only BIG COMPANIES can make good games

>>3889
interesting read, thanks

>>6227
This article was made during the height of the Obama spectacle, when neoliberalism wasn't even questioned and the alt-right was merely an egg.

>>3889
This is a pretty good read. Partly because my friends have been playing dota during lockdown and I didn't enjoy playing it much.

>>3889
So badly written and meandering I couldn't power through it, though there were some interesting points in the parts I read. Shame because I was looking forward to some insights.

t. longtime dota player, quit a couple years ago

>6737
>tfw I have an electric gaming chair that will shock me to death upon losing a multiplayer game
I turned it on yesterday and I haven't lost yet. Wish me luck boyz

>>6280
>>6282
I literally have ADHD and I find this fucking stupid.

Multitasking is bourgeois degeneracy.

>>6328
I'm sorry you feel that way?

>>6329
v_v

I just like to keep occupied. Obviously when the game is heavily story-driven or etc I would just focus on that.

>>6319
hoping it also delivers non-lethal but still painful shocks every time you get hit, with strength proportional to the damage

I really believe we should just make a communist party for the eu and take over it, didn't have much of a problem with it so far.

>>1430
I would rather not be stuck with browser games.

I want something a little more involved than a low effort Skinner box that is designed to suck money out of my wallet.

>>1447
>I would rather not be stuck with browser games.I want something a little more involved than a low effort Skinner box that is designed to suck money out of my wallet.
Well there is no reason why browser-games ought to be low effort, but if you want to install software locally, then you need to improve the software development tools to the extend that normies can modify software. As in have in-game-code-editing with program-logic-visualisation, as well as coding-aids that have a high level of idiot proofing.

they could tax those trades much like they allready do with the community market. this could just serve as an extension to that community market.

You know when you bump ancient threads by contributing nothing meaningful, it doesn't actually make people want to re-engage with them.