>>322 Sseth released a video on yewtube on the original but the racial selection is for the faction effects and it's far from an MMO. The art style is just the modernization of the originals, MMO just borrow from the same sources is all. >>314 >It looks like Mole and Rat humanoids are some new races in this game. Do you think this will shift the focus to some underground aspect?

>>327 >Sseth released a video

>>328 I'm just saying there's plenty of resources since clinking on the link or reading the OP was far too hard for anon.

>>327 <Sseth I will check video out. Thanks. <Moles and rats underground. Maybe it will have more underground aspects but there's always been a cave-crawling underground layer to most AOW maps as the Dwarves, Goblins, and Orcs operate underground. <MMO's draw from the same sources Yeah. Tolkien created modern fantasy. Then DND expanded the races and subraces: https://www.dndbeyond.com/races. And Magic the Gathering also draws from this. MTG and DND are both owned by Wizards of the Coast, which is owned by Hasbro.

So for anyone interested in this game before May, now is the time to catch up and play AOW 1-3. The first 2 games are very old but run on any computer due to their sprite graphics (but are tricky to get to work on modern Windows). Also, these games have a beautiful symmetry of underlying systems in the game that determine everything. Like the races have terrain bonuses or penalties that affect how fast or slow they move across those terrains. And they have race relations with other races. Some despise other races and that affects whether units on your side desert you and how their unit morale is affected. So if you capture a Goblin town with Elves, the Goblin town might revolt under Elf oppression because the evil Goblins hate the good Elves. And the Goblin units you produce from that town might abandon you. So you have to migrate the Goblins out and ship a new race in. Literal ethnic cleansing in a strategy game, which is based. The races have an good/neutral/evil alignment too. And they all balance each other out in a beautiful symmetry. I took these pics from the AOW 2 game manual to show these systems.

>>312 The only games still using pre-rendered backgrounds are indieshit, and while that can scratch the itch a little bit it's a far cry from having a real AAA game using them. Indieshit also uses them mainly as an easy way out, so you're never gonna see some complex multilayering, depth of filed effects, mixed 3D, or any other interesting effects that were associated with the style. It's usually just a static backdrop and that's it, "game is done".

>>313 I mean, like allot of the indies are just wanting to release a random game even when no one wants to play it.If not it is a love letter to a specific genre or something dumb. And allot of Indies have learned that consumers don't know what they want, so it is your job to tell them what they want and make a game for that and often because they want a good review they will make a preachy social justice game or random bullshit game. And the indies aren't technology wizards or nerdy enough to read these technology papers, most people aren't nerd enough to read these tech pappers if they don't get paid to do it, which you would think a coder in an indie studio is paid enough to waste his time on reading about new technology or how to use technology to his advantage.

>>316 which is why indie shit sucks and is not a solution to anything like some people try and push. at best indie shit just imitates what was done in the past, often times out of laziness/technical ineptitude. It can never actually move forward, it's stuck in the past.

>>324 The reason why so many push the indie stuff is because vidya journalists did it in 09 to 13 they pushed the indies being the next thing making awesome games and new forms of experiences and so on, even not questioning if they are going to release a product when they put it on Kickstarter. Yes, I am still salty that spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness is forever canceled because games journalists found Dyack as the person to target that year for no reason than saying that there is some corruption in the vidya industry and that Silicon Knights got unfair bad press which is true at the time. Oh well. But I would also say that it really depends on the indie dev because you have lazy to even great indie devs also, so the original creator of Silent Hill and he that made Forbidden Siren/Siren series along with Gravity Daze/Rush series, he has made an indie studio to make a horror tittle and I have high hopes for it because it feels like he is going to make something amazing. But will not know before it is released in the future, then you have Koji Igarashi that made Bloodstained that was a really great metroidvania and for me showed what the genre could have been if the lazy indie devs didn't just copy paste metroid and castlevania, just because in theory it is easier to make these games because you have the blueprint. Then you have harder games to copy like a Souls game which most indies don't try to copy except for some few, and these clones are always meh the only ones that was even close to being good was Code Vein and Nioh.

>>326 >The reason why so many push the indie stuff is because vidya journalists did it in 09 to 13 they pushed the indies being the next thing trudat niggersoyjak jornos ruin everything as always

>>264 a map in an open world game is needed. Elden ring isn't a Demon's with it's 4 open levels or dark, or even bloodborne where you can memorize the level on how many enemies and where the bosses are and so on, without any problems because the level design it so tight. Elden Ring is an open world and thus you only have that feeling of level design in certain places, so a map is essential to tell you where you are, and if you want to do a questline it is as retarded and dumb as he other souls games since you have to figure that out on your own. But with Elden Ring with the new patches it told you where the NPC's where to met and progress but it did not tell you how to progress. So I am sorry, a map doesn't make it casual and it is nothing like an elder scrolls game like Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. being an action game doesn't make it a causal game either because then the Souls along with mecha games like armored core would be super casual, and those are really anti-casual and normalnigger. Also normalniggers only way to complete a souls game is to exploit the game with bugs, glitches and cheesing the enemy AI. That is nothing new. Also, you have a bunch of clones that you can try out like Nioh, Wo long, Code Vein and some other crap.

>>267 a map in a game is not casual, if the map is of use and in an open world game there is a use for a map. If it was an open level design but still linear than a map would not be needed, like in Dead Space, it isn't really needed but you can use that along with the way-point finder, now unironically people do not call this game for casual trash. Now, he is bitching that an open world game has a map which you can pick up by your own free will but it isn't needed to pick up these fragments, you can actually skip it. Just like you cannot get some things if you chose to not rest at some bondfires or backtrack to a previous bondfire. you cannot explain how that is casual design or user-friendly design when it is basically punishing the player as the ubisoft designer and game journalists would've called it.

Elden Ring is such a step fucking down I have to say. Everything from the story/lore to enemies and locations. Everything is so bland and generic.

>>307 it looks like ass too. souls games were never hardware pushers but they always looked good due to smart usage of resources and being set in very dark locations in general. With open world shit all that has been thrown into the window and the game has a really ugly dank look to it, not to mention the reusage of old assets. it looks sub Bloodborn. open world shit also killed the enemy Ai, I've seen the most retarded glitching behavior on par with Skyrim

>>64 yeah

bump

go ahead roast me

>>297 You're basic but so what

>>297 >skyrim

There's hype for new games? I haven't really seen it, they look awful. Even FF hype is dead, let alone KH. If you've never played the series here's a quick rundown: >first game comes out in 2002, it's a weird collaboration between Square and Yidsney >it's a comfy little project with a simple straightforward story and a bittersweet ending >skip all the way to 2006, KH2 comes out >it expands greatly on every element, including the lore >this time it's also somewhat of a cross-media project with a companion game for GBA >still, it's pretty straightforward and wraps everything nicely and conclusively >meltdown event, Square merges with Enix to avoid bankruptcy >due to company being in disarray no new mainline game comes out for 13 years skipping a generation >people buy PS3 expecting HK3 and Last Guardian >in the meantime they produce a dozen cheaper portable games none of which pushes the story in any way forward >instead is a constant meandering retcon rehashing the events of previous 2 games, basically an anime filler for 13 years >KH3 comes out in 2019 >it's a "sequel" to all those portable filler games and does nothing new and moves forward in any way >the series is dead

DAE remember the side quest in kingdom hearts where Goofy goes on a date with his own son? It was super weird and featured heavily on feet. He kept moaning Maxie's name and I got uncomfortable and turned off the TV. I know this happened but I don't know which game it was in, can anyone help?

>>190 >blank canvas It still has the stigma of being a cowkike infested shithole, no one wants to post on a site with based weasel at the helm or cucked robi. if people really want change then it has to be an entirely new imageboard specifically for /v/ and nothing else. Also no one posts here, at all.

>>191 which lolcow are you?

>>192 Its likely niggerchu.

>>192 >>193 >this late response Rent Free

>>194 which lolcow are you?

>>116 Took me a while to find the game, but it is from Namco's risque puzzle game, Dancing Eyes. To be honest, I never seen gameplay of it before until now and I have to share it. Lately, I've been binging on some vgms, so I might share some my current favorites on here soon. Link to the soundtrack: https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/dancing-eyes-arcade-soundtrack-013

A teaser for what is to come really soon...

Kinda neat for Konami's in-house sound team to pay homage to Casiopea

A relatively obscure game from Sega, it plays like exactly like G-LOC(Y Board). Music composed by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and this is his only solo FM-based soundtrack before he would switch to sample-based music starting with Outrunners(Multi System 32) and Virtua Racing (model 1). The soundtrack is more rock-based than his later works, also K-City shares a small riff that could be heard in Virtua Racing's Waiting for Entry. The last track is an arrangement from SST, Sega's in-house band.

The P-47 duology was an interesting series since while the gameplay looks standard, the presentation is almost cinematic-like since it plays out like war movie about freedom rather than the casualty of war itself. That was the philosophy Okamura went with in order to make the game stand-out amongst other WWII shumups at the time. Funnily enough, Namiki would later contribute to the game's sequel, P-47 Aces. The original had the cutting-edge YM2151 and OKIM6295 doing the sound for the game. This would become the de-facto chipset for most arcade games for the late 80s to the late 90s. P-47 Aces uses the YMF271B which was woefully under-utilized in the arcade scene, but it had FM and PCM playback in one chip. Okamura's interview from Red Bull Music Academy: https://archive.vn/MCwYr Namiki's interview with SEMO: https://archive.ph/pvJss

I waste my fucking time playing modded minecraft for hours on end and building tons of castles, also thought it doesn't count as really gaming, have spent some time making custom quake levels for fun.

>>167 Another thing I did as a timesinker was going for 100% for certain rouge-lite games. I find that a bit more annoying given the random nature of their design. Honestly, I think sinking time to making levels is more fun especially if you design them correctly since there's a chance it'll get added to a community playlist or a mod of the game.

>>121 Fuck's sake at least let's do something for once in this dead ass board

How bout somethin like this

>>124 fine by me

here's our kits lads

>>121 let's nag the icup guys to get more advertisement for this place