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Westerado: Doubled Barreled is this week's game. Originally a flash game, it fortunately escaped to Steam, which is fortunate, because it has an impressive degree of fidelity, considering the pixelslop aesthetic. In it, you are tasked with avenging your family blah blah blah, except the killer can be any one of the many NPCs who you otherwise interact with, with clues drip fed across it's (admittedly) brief length. Discuss below in the comments, and vote in the linked comment. It also appears that I forgot to post a vote for Call of Duty last week, you can find the vote for that in the pinned comment.

Future Game Discussions

January 5: Sid Meier's Civilization V

January 12: The Sims (2000)

January 19: Black Myth: Wukong

January 26: Satisfactory

carp, capy, geto, donger pin please

I mostly buying my games on German story but if the game is some kind of horror it often gets censored and cost more than in other countries in other countries including US it cost 34,99

https://old.reddit.com/r/Slitterhead/comments/1gl4b2t/censorship/

Seems also changing your region removes the censorship.

If you wonder what that game is, the main writer did silent hills, main game play director did gravity rush so it's a very unique. It's of course by default standards a shit game but shit games are the one that evolve the game industry by introducing new gameplay elements

!g*mers !fightclub

!macacos o Sifudeu tá de graça

There are many ways to ask tiny indie devs to add localization to their game. These requests can be polite or rude, but leaving a negative review for missing localization is one of the worst approaches.
I pay localizations from my pocket, and I hate blackmail practices!🤬🥺🤢 pic.twitter.com/FPBpukIR25

— Ko.dll (@ko_dll) December 28, 2024

Apology post:

A sincere apology to all players across the world! pic.twitter.com/knInFYq1jf

— Ko.dll (@ko_dll) December 29, 2024

Cuckery to pirates:

I have heard a blogger on Bilibili finished a Chinese translation of my game in just 11 hours. Do you have a contact for that blogger? Would they be willing to provide me with the translation? I can pay for that, of course. I did not expect it to be possible to do it that fast.

— Ko.dll (@ko_dll) December 30, 2024

>I'd rather do a drive-thru than a drive-by!

!g*mers !moidmoment

Max Payne (2001) pic.twitter.com/aH6WKHkZEL

— Cozy Gaming Aesthetics (@cozygamingvibes) December 29, 2024

!g*mers gemmy thread or nah?

Video Games Can't Afford to Look This Good

The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?

By Zachary Small

Dec. 26, 2024

One way to understand the video game industry's current crisis is by looking closely at Spider-Man's spandex.

For decades, companies like Sony and Microsoft have bet that realistic graphics were the key to attracting bigger audiences. By investing in technology, they have elevated flat pixelated worlds into experiences that often feel like stepping into a movie.

Designers of last year's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 used the processing power of the PlayStation 5 so Peter Parker's outfits would be rendered with realistic textures and skyscraper windows could reflect rays of sunlight.

That level of detail did not come cheap.

Insomniac Games, which is owned by Sony, spent about $300 million to develop Spider-Man 2, according to leaked documents, more than triple the budget of the first game in the series, which was released five years earlier. Chasing Hollywood realism requires Hollywood budgets, and even though Spider-Man 2 sold more than 11 million copies, several members of Insomniac lost their jobs when Sony announced 900 layoffs in February.

Cinematic games are getting so expensive and time-consuming to make that the video game industry has started to acknowledge that investing in graphics is providing diminished financial returns.

"It's very clear that high-fidelity visuals are only moving the needle for a vocal class of g*mers in their 40s and 50s," said Jacob Navok, a former executive at Square Enix who left that studio, known for the Final Fantasy series, in 2016 to start his own media company. "But what does my 7-year-old son play? Minecraft. Roblox. Fortnite."

Joost van Dreunen, a market analyst and professor at New York University, said it was clear what younger generations value in their video games: "Playing is an excuse for hanging out with other people."

When millions are happy to play old games with outdated graphics — including Roblox (2006), Minecraft (2009) and Fortnite (2017) — it creates challenges for studios that make blockbuster single-player titles. The industry's audience has slightly shrunk for the first time in decades. Studios are rapidly closing and sweeping layoffs have affected more than 20,000 employees in the past two years, including more than 2,500 Microsoft workers.

Many video game developers built their careers during an era that glorified graphical fidelity. They marveled at a scene from The Last of Us: Part II in which Ellie, the protagonist, removes a shirt over her head to reveal bruises and scrapes on her back without any technical glitches.

But a few years later, costly graphical upgrades are often barely noticeable.

When the studio Naughty Dog released a remastered version of The Last of Us: Part II this year, light bounced off lakes and puddles with a more realistic shimmer. In a November ad for the PlayStation 5 Pro, an enhanced version of the Sony console that retails for almost $700, the billboards in Spider-Man 2's Manhattan featured crisper letters.

Optimizing cinematic games for a narrow group of consumers who have spent hundreds of dollars on a console or computer may no longer make financial sense. Studios are increasingly prioritizing games with basic graphics that can be played on the smartphones already in everyone's pocket.

"They essentially run on toasters," said Matthew Ball, an entrepreneur and video game analyst, talking about games like Roblox and League of Legends. "The developers aren't chasing graphics but the social connections that players have built over time."

Going Hollywood

Developers had long taught players to equate realism with excellence, but this new toaster generation of g*mers is upsetting industry orthodoxies. The developer behind Animal Well, which received extensive praise this year, said the game's file size was smaller than many of the screenshots used to promote it.

A company like Nintendo was once the exception that proved the rule, telling its audiences over the past 40 years that graphics were not a priority.

That strategy had shown weaknesses through the 1990s and 2000s, when the Nintendo 64 and GameCube had weaker visuals and sold fewer copies than Sony consoles. But now the tables have turned. Industry figures joke about how a cartoony game like Luigi's Mansion 3 on the Nintendo Switch considerably outsells gorgeous cinematic narratives on the PlayStation 5 like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

I fricking hate motion blur, depth of field, bloom, and lens flare so much bros.

I'm finishing the reddit>resetERA>Kiwi Farms>rDrama pipeline

The OP

Starts with the Monster Sipping

Quotes a reddit post that he found relatable- the heart of the complaint was it being annoying having to go through so many log-ins and child account bullshit which sometimes also randomly threw off errors just so his kid could get a Lego game installed

His original commentary- perhaps it should be less annoying to buy a game for your kid

Seems reasonable right? No Child! Banned for 2 months for complaining about video game purchases on a video game forum

Enjoy no threadmaking privileges when you return!

The enlightened replies

Of course we got some great contributions from the epic game players.

this is true

NOOO JUST DON'T HAVE AN ICKY CHILD. This isn't a problem for me, specifically

But it still is if you have a child

Ummm akshually why aren't you buying this Soyney game for your PS5???? Sony probably gets less money when you buy it for PC, so you should have no reason to buy it there

Why don't you remember all your passwords for shit like Sony accounts that you literally type in once and never again??? Are you stupid? (I guarantee you this guy uses the same password for literally everything)

User is confused as OP is just griping and reminiscing about the good old days instead of trying to stir up hate

Adding unnecessary bullshit steps to everything is a good thing actually! It's you who are impatient for wanting to simply install a program and be done with it! And yes it can be annoying, but why would you want it to be less so?

Remember, you're not a true epic g*mer if you don't spend all your time simping for large companies

Somebody do the effort for me and find the Juicy slap fighting, I'm on farm a d can't really link on phone

Whole thread 🧵🧵🧵 is soys Vs Coomers Vs chuds Vs Feminazis

Every RPG has bad gameplay and most of the time it is because they are RPGs.

Good gameplay isn't 100% objective but there are some fairly objective parts. Gameplay should foster experimentation and progressive improvement. Both of these conflict with core elements of RPGs.

RPGs have you make permanent decisions about your character, STR vs INT, mage vs warrior. The fact that you might have to replay hours of gameplay just to see what you could have done differently ensures that you stick with what you started out with even if it means save scumming your way through hard fights.

Another fun aspect of gameplay is progressively facing new challenges that build on old ones. Because most RPGs these days are open world and don't know where the player will go when they can't pace challenges properly and most of the time just scale enemies based off your level so that the challenge remains constant throughout the game.

Roguelikes are the fix for this. You reset every run and can experiment with a new build and have randomized elements so that you don't just stick with one build when you find a good one.

My version of Luigi is now available for download from my Patreon Page!

🔗Link in my bio!
📌#FreeLuigi on 01/14(2025)!#TheSims4 #TS4 pic.twitter.com/0gydCF2Iz6

— OngOng (@wakawakaongong) December 24, 2024

#justified

#based

I'm in a groomercord server with a few friends from college that I occasionally use voice chat in to play with them. I don't partake in the nonsense that is the text servers, I use it like the lord intended, a team speak replacement.

Some "trans ally" type was asking what people got for Christmas for vidya, despite being 33 years old. He said "I am tempted by the price of it [quidditch game] on sale but I'm holding strong not to support JK".

I just came in over the top, bought the bundle thing on sale for $33 and posted "since you're holding strong I'm going to double up and buy both for TERF Mommy". I'm awaiting the seethe response.

Note maybe 3-4 of the people that use this server are this online to understand but he's one of them. I'm sure I'll get blowback I can just ignore since I don't type in the chat.

Anyway I got these two games now, they worth installing and playing through? I don't normally play consumer grade slop but since I spent $30ish to troll I may consider it.

Absolute of a thread.

We've been testing this for over a week now and we've pretty much figured it out. Reply here and I'll add you to the chat.

Here are a few clips from one of our games.

I try to make @pm-me-manifestos lose all his money goombling so he can't buy a star, but my plan backfires spectacularly:

@Hohoshrexual rolls a 1 and ends up losing it all in the next 2 turns:

Literally right after this clip, @pm-me-manifestos wins this minigame by guessing blindly (1/27 chance):

A modder coming out of nowhere with 0 followers or submissions just posted an INCREDIBLE mod adding DIO in DBFZ and WOW

Looks like the ASBR Dio model with DBFZ-style shading and it's AMAZING!!!!

Kongmeng, you are RIDICULOUS!!! pic.twitter.com/yLIhYuP4Hr

— Damascus (@zDamascus) December 24, 2024