/games/ - Games

I was thinking about how these games approached violence and just came to the following conclusions on what these games had to say about it.

Violence is multifarious.
Violence is expensive.
The disposition of someone may not necessarily be directly tied to how violent they’re within a given period of time nor how much they’ve suffered.


>violence is multifarious
I think tlou2 and to a lesser extent hotline Miami 2 do a the best at expressing this idea. Throughout tlou2 you play as both Ellie and Abby and how each character kills is influenced by how much they view their targets. Generally these games take a realistic approach to how humans rationalize violence towards one another by using factionalism as a tool the protagonist’s use to justify their actions. You see it all the time, the WLF vs the fanatic seraphites(whom were not initially violent lore wise oddly enough without the WLFs influence), how the residents of Jackson justify the killing of WF soldiers under the guise that they’re harming their communities despite only one group, a group consisting mostly of fireflies actually causing real damage to Ellie and her friends. With the infected they’re always the prime targets no matter what, NPCs, the characters and sometimes even other infected recognize that they’re creatures with convulsive motion, easily and desperate to infect anything and anyone near them and likewise no one feels any remorse for killing them despite some also being aware of how much pain victims of the fungi go through and how you can observe them ingame showing sadness over their inability to control their actions. In hotline Miami factionalism again plays a role in the justification behind the mass deaths seen in game with the Russian mafias tenacity to maintain their control over the drug distribution in Florida up until jacket comes into play without knowledge of what he’s doing to the country he shows so much love for. These games through how violence is setup and how the reasons for it are explored show to the player that how people kill and why people killed shares a direct relationship to how much people are willing to distance themselves emotionally to their targets. It’s quite powerful for the tlou2 to show every npc including seraphites will beg for mercy for themselves or loved ones only when they became vulnerable to one another’s violence as a guaranteed outcome of every encounter

anyone playing marvel snap?
i love this guy's design


shame it's money hungry as usual and no friends feature or i would add you guys
still in early beta, so idk

fucked up how like this and multiversus, they use it to fund now

Apparently during the development of games like half life 2, gta 4, far cry 2, la noire, the last of us 1 and 2, halo, well this list can keep going for games that pushed the technological limits of the tools available for developers to use and gamers to experience the teams behind them had one universal goal. Connect the player to the game world as much as possible. The reason for this was simplistic, by having games be generally more immersive and responsive to the players actions said players could directly play test new features developers implemented and help the studios they worked at understand what to do with the technologies available and produce the games that are made today.

This is why the UI and environment art for so many old games is noticeably minimalistic and for the case of UIs it was almost nonexistent compared to the constant tags and indicators seen on todays screens. Or why the physics were much more detailed before clashes would game designers would have them removed due to interrupting the handling of a game. Or even why developers stopped prioritizing adding a lot of detail to games upon realization that most players would never actually play long enough to see them. Pretty interesting

Thanks to this lovely presentation from naughty dog I found their tech interesting and it explained a lot about how their present day releases function so well when it comes to realistic animation.

To summarize the most important sections of the video the developers at naughty dog animate rigid bodies by first giving characters like Joel, or Nathan real ragdolls that simulate human behaviour as closely as possible, and then have certain collisions of those ragdolls stay active while keyframed animations play. For animations that are used to transition between other animations ragdolls are only active in the instance that the animation itself has an event requiring one. What ends up happening are the characters of naughty dog titles having natural looking motion and playing these games communicate a sense of weight to the player because that weight is real in the game world than doing what most developers do by not giving the players avatar physics but random objects and vehicles. It’s beautiful how many emergent details come up because of this, Nathan and Sam will bounce in response to ruff terrain while driving, NPCs slump over but don’t twist in weird ways when shot at, while climbing certain objects Nathan will move said objects along with his own body, the list goes on and I wish more developers had the time to implement and appreciate and implement such details in their own games.

Naturally all of their critiques basically amount to "I can't be a confederate revanchist and hate crime former slaves and natives".

Wizards of the Coast sent Pinkertons to a youtuber's house because he made a video about promotional materials for Magic: The Gathering, which he received early probably due to a clerical error (happens all the time). Wizards is currently trying to cover up and censor any discussion of this, including on subreddits about their products that they control.

This comes not very long after Wizards tried to update an existing license for their Dungeons and Dragons products, which would effectively make any home-brew content published by the community retroactively the property of Wizards. They publicly backed down and claimed the new license was only an internal proposal (it was leaked by an employee), but this was almost certainly fake damage control because the controversy was causing them terrible PR just before the release of the Dungeons and Dragons movie which the community was threatening to boycott.

the youtuber discussing it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD9HRueI6Js

I'm making this thread here, because the other boards are practically dead. If a mod chooses to move it to /hobby/, that's cool, I just wanted some exposure on /leftypol/.

As you might now, chess played a large role in the Soviet Union. They outright dominated the game for decades and it was commonly played ever since the inception of the union.

I think chess does possess the potential to develop and train the strategic thinking skills of players, if they abstract from the game and attempt to apply it to the real world.

But it's also a fun game. Because of that I made a /leftypol/ club on chess.com, which is a great website with a nice UI and plenty of resources to learn and improve at chess. I've been using it for months now and got far better at chess and I even do the puzzles on it for fun every day. The way the website is designed makes learning chess and improving really, really easy. Making an account is free and would be quick. I know this sounded like an ad, lol.

So, I'm inviting you comrades to start learning chess or improve whatever skill level you are at and join the /leftypol/ chess club. We could play against each other. Perhaps even organize tournaments. I think it would be really cool if we could get something like this going and make it the community wide hobby. If only 3 people join that would be good enough honestly.

[b]Link[/b]
https://www.chess.com/club/leftypol

which is the most likely to help a person successfully evade a police chase by car:
-if this person played 1000 hours of a need for speed game with police chases;
-if this same person played 1000 hours of gran turismo;

which is the most likely to help a person successfully survive in the wild:
-the person played 1000 hours of minecraft;
-the person played 1000 hours of skyrim;

or not?

Mana systems are stupid and make magic in games feel common and uninteresting. Scroll systems as a requirement for spells make magic both scarce and feel both like a choice in games and rewarding to use