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>>30156
That was actually a pretty shitty example because the attacks are all super telegraphed including the players. It would make slightly more sense to just make the attacks cover significantly more range but the combat is dmc tier in terms of spectacle over realism.

You want the Truxton?

You can't HANDLE the Truxton.

>>29844
ive always thought it sounded presumptuous in that it assumes we somehow know for a fact that we are getting towards the end of capitalism, and is misleading in the sense that the way society is shaped by reproduction of capital is not based on some definitely half-life of the mode of reproduction, but on the peculiarities of its functions, which are themselves historically contingent. the other side of that coin is that it assumes that the way capitalism operates necessarily breaks down simply through the passage of time, despite the fact that the fundamental laws of capital reproduction remaining the same throughout history, whether or not it is the dominant mode of production

>>29844
its a dumbfuck way of framing capitalism, almost as bad as "neofeudalism"

>>30113
this is splitting hairs

>>29844
>>29846
>>30121
The problem with the term is that it implies something being fundamentally different about how capitalism is now, in its "late stage" and how it used to be, and by used to be in this case means at most like 50 years ago, before post-war boom ended. It encourages reactionary and socdem tendencies, "lets just go back" to the time when capitalism was good and worked for the little guy. To illustrate the point, picrel is the first post I saw after opening r/latestagecapitalism subreddit today.

>>30122
I mean TBH I feel capitalism is different today than it was say before WW2, sure the basic principles are the same but how they're expressed is different, the focus has shifted completely to rentierism, casual work, scamming as a major part of the economy, and so on, the decline in the ROP has made a post-industrial economy where most of the focus is in real estate and other imaginary capital.

Well done for putting the work in, anon! that's more than most people ever do.

I'm working on fully editing your transcript, putting in paragraphs and making general corrections. If you want your work to be read seriously, you should listen to myself and the other anons in this thread. If you just like writing for fun, ignore it I guess.

Keep writing, anon.

>>30020
Thx

I knew Skyrim sucked when I, a fucking nobody, walked right up to the jarl and without any proof told him a legendary creature burned his fort down, and he was like, "by the nine, I need to get my best men on this now. Hey, guy that just walked in and that I don't know at all, can you take care of this for me?"

>>30031
Oh that’s caused by a multitude of problems both related the games combat and Bethesda’s dogshit mentality towards game design. I don’t even to write anything. they basically wanted the game to reward the player and feel good as a primary objective over fleshing out the game itself to feel like a world worth playing in for those that cared about it. This sounds redundant but it’s why the devs gave zero shits towards things like level design, world design, npc encounters, dungeons, fleshing out the cities, fleshing out the characters(in comparison to other TES titles, there’s still some really interesting people in game), fleshing out the enemies you get the point.

>>30034
Hmm, sounds fair. Elaborating on this I would say my main 5 gripes with their games nowadays are:
<Lack of NPC dialogue variety and depth, you hear guards talk about their bursted knees often and most of the time you get only one or two topics to talk about with any NPC outside of questlines
<Shallow questing where you get mostly binary choices at best, and at worst are forced to proceed with one choice, which couple with the first point limits your roleplaying choices and player agency
<In Skyrim's particular case: a pretty poor attempt at replicating Dark Messiah's combat and environmental interaction system that lacks the depth of its inspiration i.e. the shitty resource management, lack of the ability to kick, the ability pick up and throw objects, environmental hazards serve mostly as a deterrent to player and hardly can be used against the enemies
<Dungeon design that often resembles a gastro-intestinal tract in its linearity and lack of branching paths, also extremely claustrophobic when it comes to pathways between the rooms
<The power creep that kicks in once you get to a certain level, with the games pitting you against enemies that for example can disarm and shout you off cliffs while boasting insane amounts of health and stamina
Overall, I agree the issue here it not lack of game systems per se but lack of depth and refinement of them, as well as the lack of depth in the overall in-game world and level design. If Bethesda or someone else were to look to improve on it, they should look into generally expanding and refining what there already is laid out first and only then adding new mechanics.

Some drama in the hardcore community as a guy intentionally wiped an entire Naxx raid (including himself) on one of the only bosses that can't be petri'd out of. Not really clear why they invited him when he's been notorious for the last 4 years to go around fucking people over but it's clear he was playing the long game to reach this point.

>>29230
What a loser. I bet he has nothing going for him in life.

>>29230
kinda epic ngl

Every single design decision that blizzard has had to go back on or regret making can be traced down to a single idea, one wow shares with multiple other MMOs. Wow is designed like a linear game with a fixed conclusion in a game that’s not supposed to end. If you want to know what this looks like compare world of Warcrafts quest lines to RuneScape 2s. RuneScape 2 has quest lines that function similar to gta 5s, although some do connect to the main story of the game most quests don’t relate to any specific grand goal or character arc, they all serve as one off stories about different aspects of the world as a whole and how the player goes about dealing with the problems prosed in them is their own choice. Thus quests in RuneScape 2 rarely ever feel bloated or pointless to the game, because they’re all optional, and serve as content the player can playthrough at any time at any pace they want. Wow on the other hand has a lot of quests that play a lot differently, most are integrated to some major plot point in warcrafts lore, to some grand journey. When the quests go off topic to these stories they feel completely out of place, they feel pointless and serve only to drag out playtime for the player and they don’t have to be but that’s just how they were designed relative to the game. This disparity between how the game is fundamentally set up - an MMO to hop in and play for as long as you want whenever you want - and how blizzard designs new content is what drives out the fun in a lot of expansions, often completely indirectly and this is why so many new decisions put into it get scrapped. Increasing level caps, scrapped due to p2w shit and also just the fact that levelling for that long is boring and hard to balance on the developer end due to bloat. Azerite gear and item leveling, has to be scrapped and completely reworked because it feels out of place and over complicates progression. Heirlooms and the old skill tree, ends up getting reworked or even removed in some places because again it feels out of place, like it’s bloating the game even if the game isn’t meant to be finished without it.

What I’m saying here is that wows fundamental problems game design wise stems from a disconnect between the fact that it’s an MMO meant to be played indefinitely while having content designed to be finished once like in an ordinary game. What ends up happening is all that content ends up getting clogged with system after mechanic after feature and it all feelPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Classic Hardcore is out. Anyone else playing?

>>24131
Bloodborne is the ps4's Xenoblade X. It's never getting ported anytime soon.

>>24131
It will get a remastered on the PS6 that will also come to PC

I want it now

OP here, I think Dark Souls 2 and Bloodborne were fromsoftwares most important soulsborne titles: DS2 expanded massively on NG+, QoL features like fast travel, a central hub the player always has access to without the need of features like lord vessels, and play-style diversity; Bloodborne brought in the mechanics that would speed up the combat of souls-borne titles, build a framework for level artists to design interesting, but believable interconnected worlds and provided graphical optimizations to the havoc engine for the developers to massively improve the visuals of their future titles.

Sounds a little bit too realistic for my liking

where can I get this?

>>29775
I didn't mean to imply it was new, just something I hadn't considered before.

>>29777
You can offer rewards other than XP. You can even build-in costs incurred as the flipside of earning XP (like depopulating an area affecting its economy) that automatically rewards the clever solutions in other ways.

>>29743
This is what immersive sims do because it doesn't require you to grind enemies to progress and it makes variable playthroughs perfectly viable.

MMOs and RPGs should EITHER prioritize class OR prioritize levelling, rather than prioritizing both. WOW is an example of prioritizing both and what ended up happening is that both the classes and levelling experience suffered because both were intrinsic mechanics of the game. A game like morrowind otoh prioritized levelling and any class you pick at the beginning does nothing but influence your starting skills in certain magic schools or combat skills. A game like tf2 prioritizes class and barely has levelling at all and therefore has great pvp gameplay where strengths and weaknesses are what you need to understand to gain skill as a player.

>>29817
I’ll expand on this. It’s better any RPG has its progression focus on at most, two connected systems of its progression, because it prevents feature creep and improves accessibility of that game. Like you said, WoW is a fucking monument to what happens if a game dev tries to include every system at once at the same time, the games so over bloated with systems and features tied as core components to its progression that it’s unapproachable for both veterans after a break and new players. Admittedly those systems aren’t hard to learn, but they become a headache to manage mid to late game. Worse having too many systems alienates players from the world they’re in, because they’ll end up spending more time thinking about their build than the time they actually spent playing through the game. Seriously look at how many max level characters wow vets have on their accounts but don’t give two shits about talking to any generic npc about their day, or their experiences with any encounters, dungeons or low level raids. It’s hard to take those kinds of things seriously when your first concern is how long it’s gonna take before you get your next skill points.

idk about the specific case but animation transitions are kind of controversial because like you said they reduce responsiveness. It adds padding between actions and while it may look more realistic it can be more frustrating to play and make the game feel more sluggish. For a game like assassin's creed that does a lot of acrobatic stealth it's kind of a weird fit.

>>29903
Maybe it’s not even the movement but the map design itself that causes breaks in the quality of animation transitions. It would be easier for the studio to implement the transitions safely in a game like unity, because it’s map is dense with things to climb on, that makes it less likely for the player to have to make large jumps quickly in order to traverse through it. That’s my guess, maybe they’ll change this when mirage releases

>>29857
Yeah Bethesda games are pretty bad about this kind of stuff. At best if you are playing a character with Illusion skill you can cast Fear on NPCs and watch them run away or they'll extremely rarely do it when beaten down to an inch, but making an NPC yield unconditionally is pretty much impossible in vanilla at least.
>>29862
Stealthy pacifist walkthroughs are an option, but like I said it barely affects the storytelling here in any way and it makes the dissonance even more jarring because it still acts out as if you fought your way through. Contrast this for example with Deus Ex, where taking the stealth/pacifist route during levels opened different story paths, affected the dialogue, character disposition etc. If it did affect the storytelling and its outcomes then I would commend it, but as it is the point of the mechanic here in this context falls flat beyond letting you not waste precious resources by avoiding combat.

>>29895
I feel like the issue extends to how the game was set up. ND did a lot of things with uncharted and the last of us, but one thing that was consistent was how linear their games are. It’s not just the fact that we’re playing a story based game, but a series focusing specifically on one or a few protagonists. Other story based games like dying light, gta, what you mentioned, deus ex, undertale, and more can have branches to their stories, but that only works because their isn’t one character in focus for multiple games. If NDs major entries had that kind of non linearity to their stories to fix the dissonance, it would be a lot harder to write a coherent storyline between games without constant retconning, or plots that converge towards the same outcome regardless of the players actual inputs with slight modifications to dialogue(cough cough telltale)

It's funny how the game getting leaked and people seething over Abby completely overshadowed Druckmann writing the story as some allegory to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

>>29898
>Oh, man, if I could just push a button and kill all these people that committed this horrible act, I would make them feel the same pain that they inflicted on these people.
saying this specifically in reference to Palestinians lynching IDF soldiers is just about peak irony, wow

>>29899
Imagine if he was referring to the Israelis from a Palestinian perspective