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>>29009
Never thought FNAF of all games would get a movie, not that i'm complaining

>>29011
It already has a movie in my heart, featuring Nic Cage

Fnaf series is a great example of how under capitalism art slowly degrades and turns into a parody of itself. (Fnaf was not that good to begin but it did somehow get worse and damage an entire genre of video games.)

I just watched the entire film, through the trailer.
What even is the point, I know now the main character gets turned into a robot and the ending will be him going back into the fast food place as a half robot/half human with the child character.

it looks like it could be worse
never played a fnaf game

>>29003
i mean yeah probably, what else would you expect?

Did they fix the janky movement and weapon animations yet? Playing it on release feels like playing fallout 3 due to how weird the player movement is

>>29014
i didnt see any problems with the weapon animations, but they said they're revamping everything with this dlc, from talent trees to npc AI

>>29261
>the only science fiction author I didn't consider cringe
<It was the British author, H.G. Wells, that coined the expression: "The war that will end war" to describe World War One, which had broken out in Europe in September 1914. Wells believed the conflict would create a new world order that would make future conflict impossible.
also he was racist even tho he changed his mind later

Tabletop strategy is actually proletarian though cuz it's a hobby that used to be reserved only for aristocrats playing chess

>>29263
eventually I found his "russia in the shadows", which gave me actual secondhand embarrassment whenever we mentioned his personal political fantasies. but I don't know, I prefer to live under the illusion that his disagreements with marxism were a facade to protect his career
I read most of his fiction works on high school a long time ago and I assumed he was a marxist because all of them were basically historical materialism projected into fictional futures

>>29265
>assumed he was a marxist
Did you never read about the time he met with Stalin
https://www.openculture.com/2014/04/h-g-wells-interviews-joseph-stalin-in-1934.html
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1934/07/23.htm

>>29262
thanks for sharing this book anon

I want to massage twinblades back.
Fable in general has these hunks everywhere including the main character if you get your stats up enough

I like Armor King because for all his love for brawling he was a swell guy and pretty much joined the tournament to fill in for his dead friend.
Also he reminds me of Guin.

>>28928
But is the epic scale even noticeable or real if you can't traverse it in real time? If not you are basically just looking at isolated points that are effectively the same as discrete levels that have been the norm for most of video games.

>>28932
One big level, why would you want to suffer through that as a player, because it is "modern"? Epic scale means travel takes forever. This can be simulated so it's true in the game world without the player literally suffering though that. In a space game, you can have cryo-sleep and mind uploading to a series of clones as an in-game explanation for travel that takes decades inside the game universe. It's a common movie technique to show the passage of a lot of time as a montage with music lasting a minute or so. A game with a dude on a horse riding from one village to another can do an equivalent thing with a catchy tune playing while a bunch of random opportunities are popping up and your beard is growing one meter per minute.

Yes, I prefer distinct levels + overworld.

>>28933
My point was that "epic worlds and real time gameplay don't mix" is kind of the opposite of true. You might not like that design approach (which is fine btw) but on a technical level you can't have that kind of epic open world without also having real-time travel through it (or at least the option to do it).

It's about design goals at the end of the day.

Big open worlds aren't actually realistic of course. They massively compress the space you're in, which goes along with compressing the time. Like how you can see Whiterun from Riverwood in Skyrim and walk there in a few minutes IRL, but much more time passes in the game world. It's all about tradeoffs and which ones fit best for the intended design. Worlds like Skyrim are the way they are because the game is meant to emphasize a wide-open-sandbox approach where you can just go anywhere and do any of the game's content in whatever order you want. Basically an a-la-carte approach. But that means you have to make sacrifices in the realism department, because nobody wants to actually sit there for a realistic amount of time to travel between a medieval town and city. Same as how actually building a realistically sized town or city would not be that conducive to the kind of gameplay Skyrim emphasizes, it would mostly be adding a bunch of filler buildings between the important ones making it take longer to travel between key locations with more NPCs spouting their one line of dialogue as you pass. Daggerfall did this and the result is a world crammed to the gills with filler. The compression of the world is necessary to making it acceptable to play, and finding the exact right balance is a challenge.

Of course, you can forego that balancing act entirely if you just have a different game structure, like the "classic" discreet levels. More recently there's been the "open zone" method getting attention (Mario Odyssey and Sonic Frontiers), although it's older, going back as far as Deus Ex and other immersive sim types. That's potentially a better balance for this kind of open gameplay because it's a lot easier to design a more compartmentalized zone than an entire world where you can just walk from any one place to any other. This could be combined with the other really key feature of these sandbox type of games, which is the seamless travel. We've already got ePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>28937
A bigger isse with daggerfalls open world design is how small locations are and spread out they're not the size of the map itself


The towns are literally copy-pasted but even worse theyre barely the size of actual towns even by the standards of the middle ages, not to mention the fact that the wilderness has no natural npc and enemy spawn points, roads connecting cities, particularly interesting dungeons with explorable exteriors etc.

Most issues with exploration in daggerfall could be fixed by expandinf the size and number of ingame structures and adding spawn points for NPCs and enemies in the empty space in between

>>28939
yeah but daggerfall is basically procedurally generated. nothing on that map was handcrafted, and to get a realistic scale the cost was making it impossible to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time without fast travel. i know this because i played that game (even if i didn't finish it) and because of the need for fast travel the world barely even feels real because you are fast traveling everywhere and are unlikely to actually manually travel anywhere in that game

at least that is how i remember it, memory may not be accurate

>>28841
it is almost as though capitalist cultural hegemony has evolved to commodify its own opposition

Games are for kids, do something better with your time.

Yeah rightoid bros, we sure own the lefties by playing corporate goyslop #344404. This truly is a red pill moment where we have based consumerism vs bad consumerism

>>28843
>smug manga girl
Sorry kid, but you are in no position to argue for anyone else being infantile.

>>28849
Would be interesting if there would be a route to defect to the side of Reds, though that would be likely a "bad" route given the events that inspired the whole game's plot was the Czechs escaping the Reds rather than the Whites. I do not see much how a bunch of pro-Entente volunteers could do a 180° like that other than perhaps a faction aboard the train raising a mutiny akin to the one that happened aboard the Potemkin ironclad.

sounds like an interesting concept
>>28837
probably not no

>>28899
The trailer narration says "…through territory disputed by Red and White armies.". As far as I know Czechoslovak legions never fought against whites, but the wording implies that will be an option in the game.

>>28901
I'm guessing both sides will just be your enemies, didn't the whites fight each other sometimes?

This game is by a Czech dev team so I doubt they will sully their nationalist opus with communism sympathising

>>28902
Most likely wont, and I dont want them to. I want me as a player to get an option to choose, but I dont need a video game to propagandize to me.

>>28798
this but unironically

>>28794
What would you change about it? I don't have a great aesthetic sense but it doesn't strike me as bad, just uninspired. It's reasonable to think a conventional, easily understood style would emerge the same way wasd-movement and escape/start menus have, being less about zeroing in on the one true game and more about using a risk-free, legible design to devote more development resources elsewhere.

>>28801
The UI is important in games, you're looking at it the whole time you're playing.

>>28797
>but when it was clear all the "spells" were all just glorified guns firing variations of magic missile I lost interest
that sounds fun thoever

>>28794
It was Destiny who shitted all over gaming UI. Starfield menu looks good tho.

>>28476
kys Vermin.

>>28650
Kojima didn't direct that game

>>28246
Kojima is still stuck on Metal Gear, and he will double down on Death Stranding 2. The gameplay it's cool, unique and fun. The story should have been more focused and humanistic. Long cutscenes should have been left on Metal Gear Solid.

>>28703
I dunno if I agree on the cutscenes, but I think the constant grinding dilutes the story beats. I mean it's supposed to be a distributed task, irt building roads, but that system is broken, it doesn't work, so it means grinding.

>>28703
>more focused and humanistic
Did we play the same game??

>>28738
>with actually introducing Communist ideals into the mix
Won't even get past the drafting stage.

>>28732
Well they can't have anything set in the future, because then that will constrain whatever the Disney writers room shits out in 5 minutes for the next movie's plot.

>>28732
Disney can't make anything new. They can only make pale imitations of the old EU, possibly even ripping off shit from it like Palpy coming back.

>>28747
>Disney can't make anything new. They can only make pale imitations of the old EU
Tru, all those damn remakes are cancer.

>>28743
Right but still I came up with a fucking plot in like 10 mins of survival horror. Linking up the ideas from the KoTOR games having the Star Forge Slowly Rebuilding itself, calling to unsuspecting victims turning them into hive mind like zombies while on the Planet its still primitive with the Rakatans still an extremely hostile race. While everything around Rakata Prime is ship graveyard.