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F-Zero X or there's this other similar n64 game I forgot the name of. Burnout 3 was pretty cool too. Oh, and Rally for the gamecube, just because of nostalgia. I can't really get into modern car racing games because I hate cars. Airframe Ultra is looking really exciting though. The Akira-style they're going for is really strong.

>>34315
>Burnout 3 was pretty cool too
>I hate cars
I'm getting mixed signals here.

>>34315
>F-Zero X or there's this other similar n64 game I forgot the name of.
The one where you can fly high? Aero Gauge (not popular).
The one with weapons? WipEout.
The one with bikes inspired by Tron? Extreme G.

>>34320
Star Wars Pod Racing.

>>34319
guessing this was his favourite mode

>>34289
That's a good broader topic for the grand strategy thread. What do all think? Is paradox pseudo real-time stupid? I can see how it might be good for multiplayer but I never play multi-player. I think turn based is a he'll of a lot more convenient instead of watching the game play itself while you wait for something to do.

>>34290
Personally I can't stand turn based games. I like paradox style real time with pause a lot more.

>>34291
Why p? I find paradox style so whack and pointless. Like I said you spend a good portion of the time watching the game play itself. With turn based I can go straight from my actions to my opponent's.

>>34292
More on paradox games:
>crusader kings
So unbalanced with diverse elements of game play. I'm trying to conduct a war and meanwhile my character is on a meaningless feast or hunt and I am like get the fucking pop ups out of my face, I'm just clicking what makes sense statswise without even reading the rest of the bullshit.

That applies to all their games. Hoi is all about some stupid trees yet I never read any of it but the Stat modifiers.

The whole concept of text that has no gameplay value is stupid, just make a fucking game.

>>34295
Thinking too how asymmetrical game design always leads to balance issues as well. I guess paradox games are not supposed to be balanced, but even in context of the starting factor, the tree of course can have any manner of OP things in it.

>>29651
On second thought since they seem to use wormhole drives (per Google) that might not work for FTL. Even still relativistic warfare seems like the best option.

>>29653
I think they cover that in Rocks Are Not Free Citizen or whatever that essay is called

>>29685
>Rocks Are Not Free Citizen
Correct name.
https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Rocks_Are_Not_Free!

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Rocks are NOT ‘free’, citizen.

Firstly, you must manoeuvre the Emperor’s naval vessel within the asteroid belt, almost assuredly sustaining damage to the Emperor’s ship’s paint from micrometeoroids, while expending the Emperor’s fuel.

Then the Tech Priests must inspect the rock in question to ascertain its worthiness to do the Emperor’s bidding. Should it pass muster, the Emperor’s Servitors must use the Emperor’s auto-scrapers and melta-cutters to prepare the potential ordinance for movement. Finally, the Tech Priests finished, the Emperor’s officers may begin manoeuvring the Emperor’s warship to abut the asteroid at the prepared face (expending yet more of the Emperor’s fuel), and then begin boosting the stone towards the offensive planet.

After a few days of expending a prodigious amount of the Emperor’s fuel to accelerate the asteroid into an orbit more fitting to the Emperor’s desires, the Emperor’s ship may then return to the planet via superluminous warp travel and await the arrival of the stone, still many weeks (or months) away.

After twiddling away the Emperor’s time and eating the Emperor’s food in the wasteful pursuit of making sure that the Emperor’s enemies do not launch a deflection mission, they may finally watch the ordinance impact the planet (assuming that the Emperor’s ship does not need to attempt any last-minute course correction upon the rock, using yet more of the Emperor’s fuel).
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>>29653
Light speed still means waiting like 30, 50 years for it to get from some system not even that far off in 40k terms. Warp travel makes it trivial. However
>>29686
doesn't explain why not just drag the damn rock through the warp, put a fucking geller field around it if you must, then drop it. I guess the idea is these unobtainium made planet killer weapons are cheap and plentiful.

But that's not even the problem. The biggest problem is combination of fleet battles and the stupid ass between WWI and WWII tier tactics employed by any side in a conflict. It's even funnier when everyone is called "a tactical genius" and it literally just consists of fucking line fire, or at best a feint.

Actual warfare is still going to be much like firing relativistic weapons, space rocks, Rods of God, dyson sphere energy weaponry and the like on the micro to macro scale. See also why the F-16 being faster than the F-35 doesn't mean jack shit and how they would lose miserably to modern fighters and you begin understanding how actual battles would ultimately work. Anyone with super far off weapons wouldn't even see each other.

The only excuse for this is duh durr hurrrr but we only got servitors for that not REAL computers that doesn't even make fucking sense and other factions like Tau and Eldar would still have them.

>>29649
40k is meant to be cheesy and dumb as hell. They literally have to fly through hell to make the central premise make any sense at all. Which is a lot funnier considering they tried handwaving this shit with multiple FTL technologies.

>>29686
>the Emperor will have saved a massive amount of His most sacred money
heh

>>34268
99% of indie projects don't blow up like that though. Corporate slop is more reliable income (usually).

>>34270
sure, but things don't have to go viral to be a fair income tho. It is more reliable big bucks to work on industry stuff tho.

>>34270
I keep underestimating how dumb, bydlo, and childlike the Western masses are true. Like I never gave a damn about Starfield. I am shocked people are still paying for this crap game. I am shocked people bought with honest to God working class wages, a fucking console version of Toddout 4. Or Toddout 76. Or that they pay for all that Paradox shit, or give EA their money.

I am shocked the amount of money people actually spend on these complete trash games, though maybe it's because they saw like one ad, are childlike and stupid and impulsive the way the corpos like it, and based on some shitty marketing thing pull the trigger then never play it past the character creator and never learn from their own mistakes.

It's almost like the Americans treat the act of buying itself like a rat pressing a cocaine button.
It would be easy to just hijack that mechanism preying on their fears and insecurities to then make them feel better about themselves after the buy. I strongly suspect this is why apple retards exist that buy iTrash.

>>34284
>the Western masses
Have you considered there are material reasons that AAA companies put out uninteresting intellectual property receptacles for games that isn't "le heckin sheeple aren't voting with the wallet hard enough."

Your favorite youtuber buying $200 open world games to tell you how poorly made they are is not representative of the proletariat as a whole. Slapping a national flag on that line of reasoning doesn't do anything.

>>34284
starfield wasn't that bad. yeah it wasn't high art but whatever, it was a waste of time for a few dozen actually hundred hours. you don't have to call people rats just for buying something you think wasn't that good. also it was on game pass anyways

Where's the Baldur's Gay eroge spin-off when we need it?

>>33836
yeah Japan wtf

>>33822
>>33833
most sales come from the first month or so, and all the streamers showing people what the game is like will mostly be playing the earliest parts. way less incentive to make the game not a piece of shit past that point.

the raphael song is cringe. i've seen some cope on reddit saying that it's supposed to be cringe and that in the context of d&d it's okay if it's cringe. but that's not true. the song is cringe because it's badly written. the rhyme scheme is doctor seuss level and the analogies/metaphors are are the most basic 1:1 simplistic shit. i get the impression that it was written by some person in the dev team whose actual job was some technical shit and they were unqualified for the task

>>34261
it came off as cheesy boss fight stuff and that is one the reasons i liked it though, that and the singing was competent.

i barely use my gpd win 4, i kinda just carry it around to play games with my sister when i visit my parents, i may get one of the newer retroid devices to play earthbound or something i dunno

>>32922
superpower 2 is too SIMPLE ANON. I NEED SOMETHING MORE.

>>32922
so happy to see superpower 2 mentioned. i really do think it has pretty much the best "template" for a geopolitical sim, it all flows together so well despite its numerous problems

Mao's legacy now tells you what techs due to the economy as a tooltip.

Qol is increasing.

Shallow af but cozy tbqh
It's just one of those games you mindlessly play after work like Microcosmum or something

>>32810
Why do these pictures look so… gray?

>>29791

Phoenix Point, thank me later.

>>34119
Played it already twice, good suggestion though. Polyphonic tendency for life.

>>30591
Battle Brothers and Wartales are great games both on management and tactical level.
But if you are looking something close to XCOM in terms of combat, I cant recommend Showgunners enough. There is virtually no management other than picking which gun to equip, and overworld consists of finding colectibles and solving puzzles, but it has the most tightly designed combat encounters of any of these games I played.

>>34119
I adored the writing (out of place ancom faction and wacky DLC arms dealer notwithstanding) and the desperate atmosphere the whole game had, enforced by how every mission you are under constant pressure, everything can go south due to single mistake. But for that to make for actually fun gameplay the mechanics need to be reliable and clearly communicated to the player. Instead I kept running into shit like bullets flying out of gun at bizarre angles, overwatch soldiers unloading magazine into a wall instead of approaching mutant, enemies hitting my guys through cover or wasting bunch of research time and resources on an armored transport because the game forgets to tell you its not something your soldiers take on missions but rather something you take on mission instead of your soldiers.

>>34111
I must be at like 200 hours at least… it's just so fucking repetitive and I have to savescum so much. I'm really thinking of just giving up. It doesn't help that my playstyle is kind of boring, I just give 90% of my troops the best sniper rifles I can buy/manufacture because it works for most all situations.

>>34040
>>34111
>>34238
lol anon seeing what you're going trough I'm almost sorry I talked about this mod, I'm currently midgame I think, mid 99, no idea how many hours I played, and it's true that it can be repetitive.
The thing is you have to progress fast if you can on the research tree and the interrogations to stop some missions for appearing, no idea how to get rid of those pesky "haunted houses/farms" though, I just don't do them anymore because those psy attack coming from the other side of the map are too annoying and I have a good score.
The game is throwing you some mean difficulty curve balls also, the red dawn HQ was annoying but man fuck the vampire castle DRAINING your balls sanity, I had to do it two times because I couldn't capture the queen the first time.

As of now I use salvaged alien laser rifles, pulse rifles, black ops snipers with tritanium ammo, one or two smartgun, a minigun, a dog and a laser tank. I also give a smart pistol and a katana to my guy with the most TU who I also equip with a synthsuit built with what I could get from Osiron crates. Melee is OP in this mod. I also save scum, otherwise I would use explosives, mortars, grenade launchers, rocket launchers way way more

>>34181
Much better than when it first came out, get Toybox to fix the still broken stuff just in case.

>>34213
squatmunism

>>34181
This is literally one of the best crpgs I played already and I am barely past prologue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_25eAN2fo14
Like, my God dude

Also I should emphasize that due to this entire game universe being set up in the 1980s that while it is a direct rebuke of Thatcherite bullshit and policies [spoiler]keep in mind GW is literally British, the tongue in cheek poking fun at reactionaries routinely goes over their retarded Poes Law heads[/spoiler] but it was also quite clearly premised more off of Soviet stuff, given that again, 1980s.

Like the emperor of mankind is quite literally Space Stalin. That's the whole hilarious thing about the lore, Lorgar basically found out the hard way that Emprah is not only a dick he's also full of shit, and that is especially hilarious that the entire false, heretical Ecclesiarchy was literally made up by a fucking heretic traitor who helped start the Horus Heresy partly because the Emprah DESPISED religion in all its forms. There's a great part in the fluff where the Emperor hunts down and burns to death the last living priest on planet Earth. How in the fuck a bunch of reactionaries can like that is beyond me, but what I usually found is they're literally too retarded and pigshit ignorant (like all else) to know any better, and so they trundle along blithely thinking this setting agrees with them and their xenophobia. It's just priceless to me because the fake ass pseudo Catholic theme, if you actually know and understand the lore, the Emperor himself would literally murder the entire Ecclesiarchy and purge the fuck out of anybody else who supported it and had the audacity to worship him as a god or replace science and the glorification of rational secularism with religious superstition. It was quite literally a shitty, degraded version of Space Sovietism, it's basically if the space USSR grew so corrupt that someone made a state sanctioned church to worship Mao or Stalin as a god after they died. It's literally North Korea tier. That's part of the irony too, is it's actually one of the most shitty imperialistic societies out there, in much the same way as, who was it Orwell? That one author who was Socialist got horrified at the betrayal of Socialist values by the Stalinist crew. Oh and also that Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>34181
oh shit sorry and I didn't even answer your question, so far so good and I just really love Owlcat. I want them to actually have my money. But I also adore Slavic devs. Mainly, because for whatever strange reason they don't fucking suck like Western corpos, probly due to something called SOUL. Anyway I haven't noticed fuckery yet but supposedly that shit all come at act 4 or something. The first half was fine before, it may be fixed now anyway. Oh and also. Yes this is true, you get Iconoclast, Puritan, and Heretic. There's a choice I made that I literally didn't realize was gonna get me cut by a cursed warp artifact, I now am haunted by a demon. That, to be fair, I took for darkest hour accidentalyl having something to do with a heretical cult. This works really superbly for me, as I like to have an actual personal story arc and struggle with my characters, something that made some games like KOTOR more memorable by not knowing I was the big R, and drifting to the dark side, or VTMB and its whole deal, or even FNV slowly making me cold and callous just by dealing with wastelanders. It's something I particularly adore about RPGs, the ones that actually give you the option to have that kind of terrible push and pull temptation, the inward struggle against darkness and tyranny. Not just as a narrative plot, but truly having it incorporated in both headcanon and gameplay choices, and this game let's me really start off by being a crime lord with accidental flirtations with chaos that I used the devout voice, and got heretical and imperial tattoos. I want this character to struggle, even without being a psyker. And yeah you can do the psyker thing too.

I have no idea how all this works in gameplay as I not far yet, however this being Owlcat game will give you many such options including eventually alienating your party. Of the starting few, you have an iconoclast, a puritan, and a heretic (Tlas Idira and Argenta don't get along, Sister Argenta absolutely despises Idira and all psykers like her sanctioned or not so I'm pretty sure you'll lose your big gun sister of battle companion by going down that path)

>>30082
It's called the Ultramarines and Matt Ward and yes it does and yes it's fuckin retarded. Stupid mfers, you know, all that is Ultramar and RPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>23673
>left wing
Genestealers are quite LITERALLY how reactionary bullshit establishmentarians operate. Remember the Tea Party and Tea Party Express? Remember how those corpo RNC ghouls tried hijacking Anonymous and the whole "we are legion" thing for their teabaggotry?

Although I always thought the Trump thing hilarious because he's clearly of the ruinous powers trying to take down the imperium, cause a civil war, and spread the coof, the gift of Nurgle among his retarded followers.

>would I support
The fuck kind of full retard question even is that?
No, I don't support being assimilated into the same coopting corporatist hive which has coopted literally everything, even to the point of selling pretorn jeans for fucking 200$ USD that we would get that way by just being working poor. I swear the fucking commercialization and coopting of the working class is one of the most obnoxious fucking things.

>>23678
More or less how the fuck is Chaos remotely Socialistic though? They're literally egotists, fully self absorbed narcissists without any real code or honour well except maybe Khorne. I mean I guess maybe in the sense that many anarchists claim to be pro-communal pro-Social but realistically they aren't that kind of anarchist.

>>23679
A lot of genestealer cults hide by pretending to be worshipers of the emperor. And try to skirt by the law and notice by being as goody twoshoes publicly as possible while subverting all the systems. They're way more like the fascists tbh. Like, it's to the point where an inquisitor can basically just write off yet another failed uprising on some hive city as the type of failed leftist Decembrist type stupid shit incompetence uprising that is no more heretical than it is xeno.
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The world of Teyvat - and Celestia in particular - is a reflection of the neoliberal world order as someone of the mid 2010s might understand it. As we live under capitalist realism, so to do the people of Teyvat live under Celestain realism. The overgods of Celestia are the god-hegemons of Teyvat; their Heavenly Principles decide what is good and what is not, their agents the Archons deliver blessings to their faithful.
Dig deeper and we see how this is all a lie. Of Sun And Moon revealed that they are but interlopers and not the original gods, that their world order is as artificial as the capitalist one of our world. And it is upkept in much the same way, with blood. Teyvat's beautiful scenery is built upon the corpses of the many civilisations that came before and drew Celestia's ire, with at least 3 genocides (likely more) that can be linked directly to Celestian action. Civilisations that advanced too far for their liking and started questioning the world order (or just fell out of favour as happened to Sal Vindagnyr) were both physically annihilated with the Nails and literally rewritten out of history with Irminsul. Knowing this true history is of course forbidden, as Orobashi found out the hard way when he got his coils on Of Sun And Moon and got sentenced to death immediately and his followers condemned to cultural genocide.
And as much as it is in our world, there is seemingly nobody who can take up the banner of resistance. This knowledge has been successfully suppressed outside the mainstream, and even if it was known everyone is too preoccupied with their lives, making a living on the "surface"; what does some kooky old history matter to them, they've got to feed themselves in the here and now. Nobody's got the time for some revolution against the whole world order.

Try Arknights first, much easier to analyze since the politics is a lot more grounded. Also the structure is a lot more chapterized, since there's no open world stuff.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/verse/verse11.htm
Invocation of One in Despair

So a god has snatched from me my all
In the curse and rack of Destiny.
All his worlds are gone beyond recall!
Nothing but revenge is left to me!

On myself revenge I'll proudly wreak,
On that being, that enthroned Lord,
Make my strength a patchwork of what's weak,
Leave my better self without reward!

I shall build my throne high overhead,
Cold, tremendous shall its summit be.
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>>34099
>Marxist Themes in [non-Marxist work]
Don't be like an Evafag plz.

well theres a water spirit frog thats a communist