No.129770
Did you know that all gacha are strategy games
No.129772
>>129770including genshin?
No.129777
I'm playing Little Witch Nobeta. Having beaten the main game and finished the trial tower boss run mode, I'm now practicing the absorption parry against the bosses. The parry is a much higher risk/reward method of mitigating enemy attacks and recovering mana compared to the basic dodge. Now that I'm getting better at the game, I'm amazed at how much I used to care about tiny little advantages such as breakable vases with mana/health recovery, how I'd do the bookkeeping in my head of how much I could afford to lose before the next set of recovery items.
Really hoping there'll be a sequel, with more types of magic to get good at and even more lolis.
No.129783
my defence rating dropped to 54 from 80. I might have gone too hard yesterday
No.129784
>>129778If it's sanma it doesn't count
No.129785
Mahjong isnt a video game
No.129787
>>129784it was sanma
>>129785it is if you incldue anime girls
No.129788
>>129785video games are fun. Jong is fun
Therefore jong is a video game
No.129789
>>129783were you drunk btw
No.129790
>>129789i was high on life
No.129791
>>129788>jong is fun mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
mmmmmmmmm
No.129792
Thinking about playing EU4 modded.
No.129796
got chitoi but forgot I had a kan
No.129801
If the old general is dead, you should take the opportunity to make a mahjong thread and threads about whatever actual video game you want to talk about. Or move to the blog thread if that's all you're going to do. There's no need to perpetuate this bad habit.
No.129804
do you mean getting angry or talking about a game
No.129805
I think a mahjong thread would be a good idea if it's going to be talked about a lot, yeah.
No.129807
i think this is good because jong blogging forces other people to make their own threads
No.129809
There is nothing wrong with using gacha images, just don't play their games
No.129811
>>129810that's gratuitous
No.129812
>>129806yuno leading spanish reinforcements in the shimabara rebellion!
No.129822
>>129777I didn't know this game was out of early access. How long would you say the game is?
No.129862
>>129822it's not very long. when I first played through it all nooby like it was maybe 20 hours all up. I think I could finish it now in maybe 6 hours. there are only 7 main line bosses and 2 optional bosses. it's a "soulslike" but I don't know how it compares to Dark Souls because I've never played that.
No.129891
>>129862>never played dark soulsHow?
No.129911
>>129891my gamer girl big sister beated me up for touching the playstation and xbox and only ever let me play on the gamecube
No.130098
just bought like a couple dozen things video games are back babyyyyyyyyy
No.130100
>>130097i had one game i wanted to get but apparently steam made it so you have to enter your personal information if you want to purchase anything now and i don't want to
No.130102
>>130100Really? I'm probably unable to purchase new games from no on then. They've been trying to get a cell phone number out of me for years which I can't provide. I wonder how long it'll be before they won't let me play the games I already own online.
Only reason I still have Steam installed is for rollback netcode on a handful of fighting games. Perhaps it's time to move over to fightcade full time. Although last I checked the new fightcade is pretty awful.
No.130103
no idea what youre talking about its the same its always been
No.130104
>>130099kitaura-deficient downie downer
No.130109
>>130103It's address information that they use to calculate taxes. I thought about entering something fake but I think they'll lock your account for that. It wasn't like this last time I bought something, but that was several years ago.
No.130116
>>130109Can you still buy steam gift cards and pay with wallet points?
No.130117
>>130116I'm going to assume no since they want you to dox yourself so they can calculate taxes. In most countries this wouldn't be an issue. But in America each state has a different tax rate. I guess my account is burned for good then.
No.130118
>>130117Well, buying resold steam keys probably still works.
No.130119
>>130116That's what I did, but they still require your info.
No.130283
>>130280oh i disabled this popup long ago you can do that in the options panel
i don't remember how, you should look it up...
No.130599
fuck you
No.130604
>>130547maybe once the heat is over and if we're not too far apart
i'm in eu
No.130605
>>130599I'll be nice
>>130604What's your usual ping to someone in NA?
No.130614
>>130547If I have some free time this week I'd be up for playing. Love BlazBlue even though I kinda suck at it.
No.130618
>>130616Ohh, I heard people talk about this once. Similar to Minecraft but more survival-ish or something? How is it?
No.130629
>>130618Its a pretty good game! It has really neat stuff in it like knapping and ore panning. The little details make everything better in the game, for instance, when you are in your house and its raining, it sounds really relaxing.
No.130801
wish i bought something on the sale
No.130839
no....
No.130902
thinking about gaming in motherfucking EU4 or something, playing as a random polity and conquer the world with them.
No.130957
>>130943I thought my poor white trash friends and I were the only ones that remember this game. We used to spend hours playing it together.
No.130958
>>130943>>130957Your post reminded me of our other favorite 2-player game from that era. I had a Sega Genesis and my friend had SNES. If we were at his house it was Rock'nRoll racing. At my house we played this.
Best hockey game every made. I really wish they would have modernized it during the early 2000s for a 3D console. I've been considering attempting to make a clone for many years. It's so much fun. You can kill the refs and the goalie. You can call a play and launch exploding puck at the other team's star player. The crowd throws weapons on the ice that you can use to kill the other team. There are bombs and holes in the ice.
If you get too far behind you can give up on scoring and still win by killing all the players on the other team. It's really fun. I wonder if anyone plays it online with fightcade or something.
No.130959
Yep, I played each of these games extensively. Rock and Roll Racing was a really good 2-player game. It was a superior version of PC Pro Am.
Mutant League had a good (American) football game, too. The football game did get the remake treatment, but I don't know if it's any good.
No.130960
>>130959I remember the Football game. The Hockey game was better than the football game. Never played the remake.
No.131334
Brings my spirit down when i read about some japanese player achieving a significantly higher record score in difficult shmups like batsugun but it only gets like 10 likes, no comments, the guy has less than 100 follows despite working so hard at it and then compare that to any teen playing valorant putting some shorts out of a low kill streak or just their new knife skin and they get loads of attention for it.
No.131337
>>131334you should post something in his channel instead of bemoan society here
No.131339
>>131334This is the way the world works now. 99% of "content creators" are just ripping off someone with actual skill and claiming the work as their own. Or they're copying the work and striking down the other person to avoid competition. Once you break the 100k or so subscriber threshold you can coast along doing almost anything you want and the rules no longer apply to you. The "platforms" only care about revenue. They'll throw their full support behind people that didn't make it on merit simply because they're easy to control, safer and likely a failed actor looking to "make it".
Did you know up until the early 1900s actors and whores were considered the same class of people? There is a good reason why that was the case. They sell their body for profit while contributing nothing of value.
I've tuned out of the gaming scene for a long time now because I saw the way the wind was blowing. Content is no longer something to be enjoyed for what it is. It's something to exploit for attention and money. I wish the endless drama merry-go-round would stop. Perhaps some day it will. At least we get games every now and again that are more than a marketing campaign.
No.131341
>>131339holy crap what a miser
No.131342
>>131339Well, not 99%, but some people trying to make a living from it will do such things, yeah. There's still people doing it out of passion, but doing something for fun and doing something for money produce two wildly different results. For every scummy guy there's 500 amateurs that really have no chance of "success", but if you're not watching those amateurs then it's your own fault. It's just like the older days of the internet in that you need to go out of your way to find the good stuff since the algorithm only favors those that play along.
>while contributing nothing of value.Actors actively bring value to my life in the various forms of media I consume practically daily! Entertainment is an extremely important role in civilization as we continue to automate things and increase our free time. Pretty much as soon as we started agriculture we've needed entertainment. Without voice actors what would we talk about on kissu...
When I was a kid I thought it was dumb that acting or sports was considered a job, but it's something that produces value for many people financially and emotionally. People slaving at a traditional job all week can relax on the weekend with friends and watch the athletes or actors do their thing. It most certainly has value. A basketball player can be paid $20 million because the ticket sales and TV deals he attracts generates $200 million. At the end of the day he's still a pawn that's used and discarded just like an office drone or miner.
No.131808
>>131788>StingOkay I'm interested
No.131883
>>131879They worked alongside Aquaplus for stuff like Utawarerumono and Dungeon Travelers. They also worked with Idea Factory for some stuff (as seen there in the screenshot) when that company needed someone that could create good gameplay. (sadly they weren't used for Neptunia games) There's some other stuff, but I don't remember it. I think
very highly of them.
Well, now I see on the page there that it seems to be a pure VN, so I'm not sure why Sting would be involved. But, it will probably still be good since Idea Factory's glaring weakness has always been actual gameplay. But, if Sting was there...
Well, anyway, yeah it will probably be good.
No.131888
>>131883Oh ok that's cool, sounds like they have a nice track record. And yeah this is purely a visual novel, I guess what sets it apart from most VNs is that DAL:RI had smooth dynamic animations for the characters. A lot of VNs I've played have still sprites so it's nice to see them animated.
No.131890
How the fuck am I supposed to get good at Age of Empires 2?
No.131891
>>131890Uh. That's a game I know really well and could tell you if you have any areas you think you're poor at
No.131892
>>131891Why does the CPU's score go up faster? Like what the fuck are they doing faster then me? Is it because I manually click on things? Is it one of those hotkeys are a requirement?
No.131893
>>131892I haven't played that game, but RTS is a genre where the CPU famously cheats to help equalize it against humans. It's quite possible that its score isn't tied to any gameplay that you're able to see and instead operates on a timer or something else artificial like that. It's similar to how a CPU never has to scout you or anything, it just innately "knows".
But, maybe AoE is different from other games and doesn't do that.
No.131899
>>131893Aoe2's ai doesn't cheat
>>131892It does it's economy much better than you. That's the most likely culprit. Also scouting gives points per area explored. If you send me a game log I'll watch it for you.
No.131904
reading a bit more it sounds like you approach the game as if it's Civ or something like that. Which AI skill level are you talking about?
Hotkeys become important pretty quickly because you can't manage the economy quick enough without them. Optimized build orders become more important quickly as well. Your economy will stall out if you overproduce in one area where it's not needed
No.131912
>>131904I'm playing on standard mode. (HD edition).
What is the optimized build order?
No.131916
I suppose I could stream myself playing against the standard AI on definitive to show you how someone who's watched a ton of games has played.
Basically the build orders aim to give you a set of procedures to get a military out quickly. I forget them but it's like you don't touch stone or gold until you're starting to think about Castle. The rest is going into wood and food. Then you want 3 town centers for an imperial age build or you spam knights/xbow or whatever if you want to win in castle age. You use scouts or archers if you want a fuedal win.
you transition between these ideas as required.
No.131939
I am now a strIVer
No.131993
Played some Far Cry 2.
No.132006
I dug up my old DS and played through the world ends with you over the week. It's refreshing playing old DS games and realizing how unique they are. You don't see anything that takes advantage of dual screen technology like the DS did, and while it might be clunky sometimes, I really appreciate the novelty. Apparently it got a remake on the switch but I can't imagine how it plays with a single screen. For me I think the OG is the way to go. Only problems are that it hurts my hand playing it for too long, and the framerate is pretty ass but what can you expect. Not sure I'll do any of the side story stuff in post-game just because of how grindy this game can be.
No.132061
>>132028I wonder if anyone has ever tried to make an authentic gameboy experience emulator thing, with washed out colors and it should be very dark and inconsistently lit since kids would use it in the car and stuff.
Kind of strange that I feel nostalgic for it.
No.132064
>>132061There's probably a shader like that, but pixels won't be the same as the real experience.
Gameboys are easy to get, better just use the real thing with a cheap game or a flashcart.
No.132071
>>132057I remember when Fate was easy to understand...
No.132104
>>132088dang, they look fierce.
May even have to use a bomb.
No.132134
Felt like playing melty, made a lobby and waited around 30 minutes and couldn't find a single person to play. Empty fightan games suck...
No.132144
>>132134It's one of the deader ones, even acpr is more alive. Even if the numbers don't exactly reflect that most 80% of acpr players are actually playing (you can see it too, they did a real good job of putting everyone in one place) as opposed to 80% of mbtl players doing jack shit in single player or wherever they are.
BBCF is also weird in that sense, numbers are in the double or triple but it's easier to find a game in acpr.
No.132145
>>132144i remember when faust was a crazy happy guy...
No.132167
>>132166URYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
No.132317
>>132311Is that
another hero based shooter game?
No.132327
>>132326waddafug man it's real
third game by the thirtieth anniversary
No.132331
>>132329by putting together tidbits of data such as an ex-dev's resume saying he was working on an "unnanounced project" during 2020-2023 or a voice actresses' site saying she worked on "project white sands" alongside datamining of whatever valve has recently put out (listing files like "xengorilla") and using deadlock's release in particular as a reference point for what's what, we can say with an extremely high degree of certainty that half life 3 is indeed confirmed
No.132341
>>132339
it's not clickbait it's literally that
No.132374
Block string spam is obnoxious.
No.132375
I've never figured out to deal with it
No.132376
facade
need for madness
No.132457
Very tempted to buy P3 reload on sale right now...
No.132680
library of ruina is nice
No.132783
Was playing the new Risk of Rain 2 dlc with /qa/ and it's pretty fun. Saw a bunch of negative reviews calling it extremely buggy and whatnot but haven't really run into those much yet. At least no mid-game ones. I kinda like how there's another way to finish the game now, giving you a fair bit of options for how you tackle any run.
No.132784
>>132680it's quite good
i remember not being able to make it past mahou shojo, if my save wasn't lost i'd try it again
No.132785
I've been really enjoying Little Witch Nobeta these last few months. I think about the characters and the setting all the time. The last thing I have left to do is finish the Trial Tower in one run to unlock the last costume.
No.132866
>>132834I was very tempted to pick it up but I also don't feel like dropping $60 on it... I still need to buy and play Armored Core 6, which I've been putting off for just about no reason, and I am willing to spend full price on.
No.132879
I have this great idea for a pokemon game. You play as a referee for battles. You say when pokemon are unable to battle and call out illegal tactics and maybe look the other way in exchange for cash under that table. You could oversee pokemon battles in prison
No.132887
Been playing dominions 6, it's great. You can play MP pirated too if it's direct connect (/domg/ blitzserver).
A lot of things to learn in this game but that's just what I need right now.
No.132890
i am playing minesweeper
No.133111
>>133110I savescum so much. My strategy:
- Jirai Gumo for massive damage.
- Time Wizard ability to keep your opponent's field clean of monsters, completely negating stuff like Cyber Jar.
- Axe of Despair/Horn of the Unicorn/Malevolent Nuzzler/Metalmorph slapped onto Time Wizard to make him harder to get rid of.
- Maha Vailo goes well with the above.
- Pot of Greed/Graceful Charity of course.
- Delinquent Duo/Robbin Goblin is so good once it gets going. When your opponent has an empty hand and keeps drawing monster cards only to get wiped away by Time Wizard.
- Nimble Momonga/Giant Virus are great ways to fill up your side of the field and heal/burn at the same time.
No.133113
>>132317its dota but third person
No.133114
I like gacha which are enjoyed not by gross otaku but also artswomen
https://www.pixivision.net/en/a/9351>Namie’s first solo exhibition, Wanderlust, is happening now until Sunday, January 21st, 2024, at pixiv WAEN GALLERY in Omotesando. (Note: the gallery will be closed from December 29th, 2023 to January 5th, 2024 for the holidays.) In addition to her previous works for popular franchises, such as Arknights and Fate/Grand Order, the exhibition will feature gallery-exclusive illustrations of original characters, signed merchandise, and more. No.133115
im gross otaku
No.133121
>>133114Apparently 45% of the people that play Genshin Impact are women and also 45% of the people playing Fate Grand Order in Japan are women.
No.133128
>>133121>playing Fate Grand OrderI should mention this statistic was from 2020, I don't really know how many people even play FGO now. I guess people still do.
No.133174
reminded myself of Gang Garrison 2
No.133177
>>133121>>133128You can never trust statistics like that ever.
No.133179
>>133177Yes you can.
Many of these are linked to other services, if you get FGO on an apple device it's through the app store and if you get Genshin Impact on Playstation then it's linked to your PS account. Yes, some people might use fake details and fake their gender when making such accounts but that wouldn't make up anywhere near 45%.
Plus also, the FGO survey is from Japan which would reduce the number of transvestites which would be another source of men reporting themselves as women(though even in the west transvestites are still a very small percentage of the population, they are just very vocal particularly on the internet).
No.133220
/qa/ Core Keeper's server if anyone's interested
GameID: WE1QtfJb8CJ5nXL9TMiXscBjMSEz
No.133222
>>133220I'll probably try it out after I do my daily walk.
No.133224
>>133220Buy me this game Trevor and I'll join whatever this game is
No.133226
>>133220Plays pretty nice in mp, I'm liking it more than I did in sp.
Some nice mods to get: auto doors, placement plus and "stash and get from nearby chests" is the most important one to keep the chests clean since all you do is press ctrl d to stack all items. I think if server doesn't have them nobody else can use them, I couldn't connect with mods on at least.
No.133235
T's gonna flip when he sees what we did to his base...
>>133224I can buy it for anyone that wants to play, $20 isn't that much.
No.133242
>>133241How long have you guys been running this server? I'm going to play singleplayer a bit because I don't want to jump in and find out most of the content is already finished
No.133249
>>133248I'm serious I could go for a nice long lucid dream/astral projection that feels like it lasts months right now, years, decades even
I only wanted to take it easy
No.133267
>>133248>I taiha advanced when farming gotland and nenohi sankthis sentence smacked me in the face and napped my cat
all i can gather is that the boats hurt you somehow
No.133322
https://www.gematsu.com/2024/09/freedom-wars-remastered-announced-for-ps5-ps4-switch-and-pcHOLY SHIT where did this come from? Freedom Wars remaster AND its coming out on steam. Can't believe its real. If you've never played it that's understandable, it was a vita game after all. But it was a lot of fun for a monhun clone. Gonna keep an eye out for this.
No.133324
>>133322owned
>>133321heheh, behold the power of Kuon
No.133343
Is ranged damage considered separate from magic damage?
No.133404
>>133220Is the server down? Might be a good idea to restart it without any of us powergamers so people can take it easy, but would be nice if we could get a backup of the world to continue so we can finish the latter part of the game.
No.133410
>>133404It's working on my end.
No.133469
>>133468Kek, as I made this post I hit the frame and got the shiny mudkip. Neat.
No.133471
>>133469i see you liek mudkips
No.133584
The new Zelda game leaked early and I beat it and didn't like it much.
No.133633
>>133629Huh, River City and Kunio in the same title. Interesting hybrid localization title.
No.134003
Space Marine II's great fun, especially Co-Op. Though some parts are a bit buggy and could use some optimization...
The Carnifex is a pretty tough boss too, especially while playing on the hardest difficulty. I can parry it's wind-ups just fine, but its less damaging moves come out with almost no time to react and I can't get the parry down on those yet. Also its ranged attack requires almost precognition to dodge if you're in front of it. Not to mention when you get it to half health smaller enemies start spawning to screw with you.
No.134062
Should I buy Dork Souls II?
No.134063
>>134062asking for any reason in particular? the pvp scene must be hyper dead by now and it's generally agreed that was its biggest strength
No.134078
>>134076holy FUCK it's kuon!
No.134085
>>134076¥filenameokay but then WHY did you do it
No.134086
>>134085to see if i could
No.134229
almost 1cc'd crimzon clover on original but died to the last boss when it had literally a sliver of health left
No.134231
>>134076Chaining the bomb things like that made me feel like a genius pro gamer when I did it back as a kid. The only other time I felt like a genius was in SotN when I did the gorilla skeleton thing. Metroidvanias were really good at inflating the confidence of people I think.
Also... KUON!
No.134234
>>134233It's a hosted server on 4/jp/ that goes up once in a blue moon, so it's near exclusively Touhou oriented. The host shares a pack of mods and maps and we play for about five to eight hours. It's not real serious play either, a lot come to screw around and take it easy.
There's a few other games that get hosted as well and by different people. L4D2, Sven Co-op, Killing Floor, Serious Sam, Doom, and very rarely a heavily modded GTA:SA. Pretty much all the games are either free or pirated so anyone can play. Dedicated servers don't work out well, so this spontaneous hosting works out for both getting a high turnout (~20) and staying fun.