/arcade/ - vidya gaems and other gaems too

>>2433
I know what you mean. I always love going back and playing through the ps2 trilogy, before I knew it even Ace difficulty was very doable. I somehow unlocked the secret plane in either 5 or 0 (been too long to remember, but the one with the full 360 computer screen cockpit) without actually knowing what I was doing either.
I really should give electrosphere a proper go, I think I was intimidated by it at first and then just never got around to it, but I hear a lot of love.

I've only played the first two AC games. I thought the first was a perfectly serviceable arcade game that was fun for one playthrough but that's it. I was not expecting to enjoy 2 as much as I did, I loved it. So much fun, and such a fantastic soundtrack. I definitely gotta get off my ass and play the rest of the series one of these days.

Winter is coming….

More aesthetically the same rather than a flight game, but Project Landsword hits a lot of the Ace Combat notes despite being a top down shooter. You pilot a tachiyomi-esque mech in sandboxy missions with lots of options on how to approach them. There's a slick mission select and hangar UI, and even radio chatter.

It does a good job with the feeling of the sense of scale and of the missions being a bit of a tactics puzzle you have to figure out.
It's a mech game rather than a plane game, and there's only an itch demo at the moment, but it really does scratch that itch for me.

>>2547
I checked it out per your recommendation and that was really damn cool. It's a gorgeous little game and I can see why you felt compelled to bring it up here. I look forward to its full release.

>>473
To be honest, it has been a lot easier to figure out monster patterns. I wouldn't say it makes the game easier. As far as streamlining, whether or not it makes or breaks the game is dependent on your preferences. If anything, the first real problem I ran into was the amount of monsters at launch being so small,thankfully, combat is fun enough for me to not care about what i'm fighting, as long as i'm fighting.

>>458
Monster Hunter co-op on pc? What a sweet dream.

I've been playing World on PC a lot as of late, after beating Alatreon in 3U.
Got to Nergi but he one shot me. If there is anyone that wants to go huntan' my steam account is this one
https://s.team/p/kcd-rqdv/qgjdrnvn
(mind me, I wanna go huntan', not just get carried).
Also, I main HBG so I hope that isn't a deal breaker
My timezone is UTC-3

>>1538
It's more likely than you think

Monster Hunter Wilds is lit!

>>2338
Play more games then.

New Capcom (retro) Collection is out.

Let's fight like gentlemen…

Uppercut anyone who jumps

>>2127
>>2335
YUP!

its me Mario!

Super Mario Sunshine is /sushi/core

I loved the Gamecube games so much as q kid. I wish I could go back to those days.. Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, Power tennis, Party etc etc. I think it's an underrated era in Mario

Mario Odyssey is one of the best games out there, definitely the best platformer I played.

>>693
This site is one of the cringiest chans I've ever been on, and you're complaining about fucking Wojak? No wonder this place is dead, kill yourself.

>>1308
HUEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>2529
Do it!

>>892
I prefer its competition, AZURE LANE.

>>892
The History Behind Kantai Collection
https://youtu.be/4IuCBj7WB0o

I prefer Azure Lane.

It has been 4 years since I last played this game.

I married many of my ships, like 20. I don't think I'll play it anymore, I'll just let my shipgirls chill on the base from now on, they are retired.

Prinz Eugen and all of the Hippers are absolute worste trash ships

>>2299
I've never been too into summoner classes in roguelikes in general, but you're right that ToME is much more fun to play as a melee/mage character. You're a lot more in control of combat and can pace yourself better. Unlocking game content through ingame lore and gameplay is fun until you get a class-unlocking achievement that doesn't actually trigger the class unlock but the game registers the achievement regardless, unlocking it indefinitely while at the same time keeping the class locked forever. It's also not as fun when you keep having to restart the game because of many different ways the game has of bullshitting you. It becomes very repetitive very quickly and I'm so saturated with it that the past few times I booted the game I remembered the melody of the first area, got exhausted thinking about what I had to do next and closed the game window. It's a nice game, don't get me wrong, but do NOT spend a full week obsessively trying to beat the game or you'll end up like me. I probably need six more months away from it.

>>2480
Slay the Spire is one of the best games I played in a while. I got to ascension 20 with Ironclad and it was so fun, the game is just so good and I generally don't like card games but this one if magnificent.

>>1923
> Any sushi rolls know this feeling
Me. This was the only true roguelike I ever played, didn't get it at all and kinda hated it, I love roguelites though.

>>2532
As mentioned earlier in the thread, it's not really a typical roguelike and you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you disregard roguelikes altogether based on that experience.

My recommendation would be Infra Arcana, quite simple to get into but still has lots of tactical depth.

To add to >>2533
If you give Infra Arcana a go the classes go from easiest to harder to get into first (IMO): War Veteran, Rogue, Ghoul, Occultist, Flagellant, Exorcist

>>2532
>>2533
Along with Infra Arcana I recommend Rogue Fable IV, I got minorly addicted to it last month and played about 30 hours. It's fast paced and very easy to learn with a focus on combat and simple character building with a neat system where you mix abilities from other classes in with yours as you find skill tomes. Finding out a new way that a rogue ability can benefit a wizard for example is a lot of fun. I also like how they scattered oldschool health and mana pickups to incentivize moving around during combat. That said it's maybe obviously not the deepest game out there and I don't have a ton of motivation to keep playing after getting a handful of wins.

>>2535
based on what?

Personally, I liked the original Resident Evil REmake. It felt like an improvement on the original bringing back pure survival horror. The prerendered backgrounds still look gorgeous too. Its an example of a remake done right. Generally, remakes are too faithful to the original or they change too much that they loose a connection to the source material. A good remake should be an alternative spin on the original, it has to get the spirit and feel of the original without being a predictable rehash. REmake nails this perfectly. The newer Resi remakes feel more like homages to the originals but I'm just happy to see some new survival horror.

Really they shouldn't remake classics but old games that were good but fell short and remained cult classics. I'd rather see a Clocktower remake than SH2.

>>2234
>It definitely must suck seeing your favourite game warped and twisted to modern, politically correct standards.
Yeah it does. I've not been following the news on SH2. I'm really not looking forward to the remake. Did they remove the abstract rape scenes or something? Its pretty central to the plot of SH2. Why remake it anyway? SH2 was so good there's really not that much to build upon. Its near perfect as it is. You want to make a cynical cash grab? Just rerelease it simple. Its probably gonna flop anyway because hardcore SH2 fans won't buy it and most gamers these days have zero interest in horror that isn't the same Slender Friday Night and Freddy cheap jumpscare game.

>what irks me is that these remakes that have been coming out lately are for games that aren't even that old.
Corpos borrow strategies. Disney pumps out remakes because they know the children that watched this stuff in the 90s and 2000s are now adults with kids of their own, so they can appeal to people's nostalgia. I'm guessing video game corpos are just aping this trend. It doesn't make sense in SH2's case because I can't imagine introducing kids to that game and most gamers these days hate a narrative heavy single player horror. Since creative decisions are now made by suits and gaming is less auteur driven, the winning strategic is formula = $$$ so just mass produce stuff according to established formulas. Its why everything is so samey now. Remakes are low effort and low risk. Its basically rehashing anPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I understand that some games simply cannot be accessed anymore and the only way to provide them is to make a port/remake, but I don't see the need to remake good games other than a quick cash grab. Demon's Souls certainly could have used a remake since it was a tech demo at best, but Silent Hill 2 doesn't need it. Resident Evil 1 had some nice quality changes, like preserving the direction you're moving across screen changes without moving the joystick. The newer REs with the 3rd person camera are junk if you ask me. At that level of investment, I think you would have a better time calling it something else.

I liked the RE4 remake it felt different enough from the original that it was fun to play through again and it didn't kill my desire to ever play the old one either

HD remasters of early 3D games with shitty graphics (or early 2D games without color) can be good if they're faithful and just strict graphical upgrades, but remakes are basically always bad. In theory they can be good when the original creators weren't able to achieve their vision because of technical limitations or production issues and want to go back and do it right, but in practice only games that were popular enough to sell on brand recognition get picked for remaking and those achieved that reputation by already being good. At best you get to buy the same game a second time but with a little bit of its soul sucked out. At worst you get a generic modern game wearing the skin of a classic to trick people into forking over cash. It's really telling how they stopped trying to replace the originals and are now trying to have them exist alongside the originals.

Remakes should just be for better graphics/sound or to make it run on today's platform. Anything more is a reboot.

>>301
True, and a lot of there stuff is soldered and being based on BSD, macOS doesn't have the same issues that Windows often does. But again, the bulk of people I help often cannot afford a Mac in the first place, my main point is that Macs are pretty uncommon, only people who are students, got plenty of money or really scraped and saved have a Mac, everyone else just buys a computer with Windows or builds it and then puts Windows on it.

I agree with your second point but I feel that it's more that people want more functionality from their devices more than "casual vs dedicated". A popular casual game, Just Dance is on the PC and emulators as well as companies trying to push mobile gaming to more hardcore heights with special hardware like controllers and more serious titles makes me feel that devices that only serve one purpose, much like the MP3 Player or iPod before it are getting further pushed out.

I hope that we get tech in awesome/cute colors again. When I had a Lumia it was a pretty nice cyan color, otherwise I'm going to have to spraypaint my next phone or something. Everything is just grey/black/gold and sometimes white.

>>233
Get thee to PSV.

Playstation Five wil be henceforth known as PSV.

Get a PS5 now or migrate to PC.

>>2522
bro is giving advice to 5 year old posts i cant even-