General gaming talk

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15 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

Yes, I did. It helped me go through the 3rd freaking lockdown (which in reality was the 5th if you count the curfews).

 

Kassandra and Alexios have the exact same lines in the game.

 

I know but to me the canon protagonist is Kassandra. I much preferred the voice work. I also think Alexios works better as an NPC.

[SympathysSilhouette]

15 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

Alexios and Kassandra are not my favorite characters.

 

Bayek of Siwa and Aya were better IMO.

 

I still need to play Origins. I had given up on the AC franchise, until all of the good reviews for AC: O made me give it a try.

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It's always funny to me when Japanese games give Japanese haircuts to the white characters : D

 

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7 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

No Man's Sky is another example of a game that tried to use procedural generation as the entire basis of their game-play, yes.

 

Well the golden grail of a procedurally generated game would be one that gives each player - and through each new playthrough - a completely unique experience.

So the world is unique, the enemies are unique, the NPC companions are unique, the story is unique...

 

A small indie game that has experimented a bit with procedurally generated story lines is Wildermyth.

 

 

But a problem comes to mind: would the unique story lines actually be good?

 

 

[SympathysSilhouette]

22 minutes ago, Cult Icon said:

 

But a problem comes to mind: would the unique story lines actually be good?

 

 

 

That's why it's a holy grail. It is something that has been tried many times, but so far hasn't been achieved. Part of the problem is that most of the companies trying are smaller/indie set-ups. I think to make huge strides in this type of game-making, you would need one of the major companies to pump some real money into it.

I do think we could already have achieved good things had more been invested in this type of game-making. Instead it is mostly used for stuff like world generation. And occasionally for something cool like the Nemesis system.

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I looked at another video.  From what I saw in Shadow of Mordor, the Nemesis system is mainly implemented with the Orcs, to make the confrontations more personal and diverse/interesting.  

 

That is a neat feature but really comes across as being a minor feature, not really a paradigm shift in the gameplay.

 

[SympathysSilhouette]

2 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

I looked at another video.  From what I saw in Shadow of Mordor, the Nemesis system is mainly implemented with the Orcs, to make the confrontations more personal and diverse/interesting.  

 

That is a neat feature but really comes across as being a minor feature, not really a paradigm shift in the gameplay.

 

 

Well this is what I mean. Whenever they have gone that route, it has mostly been to create little niche things.

They have never used it as the core concept upon which their entire game is built.

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The Sifu kungfu game came out, looks pretty good.

 

 

 

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cool trailer:

 

 

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13 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

 

 

In the upcoming Halo series... the main roles and antagonists are wamen. Bye Masterchief, you're punished for your "crime" (having the wrong gender).

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(TV_series)

 

 

 

Sounds pretty bad that they cast women as the elite warriors/primary cast.  All a successful Halo movie/TV show had to do was to copy Black Hawk Down/Generation Kill aesthetics, have all males as soldiers and have female non-combatants, family etc.  Make it a remorseless human vs alien war.  Too bad.

 

And the spirit of this terrific commercial:

 

 

[SympathysSilhouette]

12 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

The Sifu kungfu game came out, looks pretty good.

 

 

 

 

This game is getting some bad reviews because most of the developers working for the games company are white. This is beyond stupid.

Also, how exactly is this supposed to work? "We have three Asian characters and two black characters, so make sure we also hire a proportional amount of developers/artists"?

 

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Horizon is coming out on Feb 18

 

Elden ring on Feb 25

 

Fun!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_Forbidden_West

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2 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

This game is getting some bad reviews because most of the developers working for the games company are white. This is beyond stupid.

Also, how exactly is this supposed to work? "We have three Asian characters and two black characters, so make sure we also hire a proportional amount of developers/artists"?

 

 

The Sifu game is a very short (literally there are people beating it in 2 hrs) but fun game. 

 

I think Ghost of T was also made by a non-Asian company and it was outstanding.

 

Given the huge amount of Chinese/Hong Kong and Japanese cinema to work from, it shouldn't be hard for non-Asians to make creative media off of it.

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The beginning of Sifu is literally ripped off of Old boy (excellent film) 

 

 

[Enrico_sw]

19 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(TV_series)

 

 

 

Sounds pretty bad that they cast women as the elite warriors/primary cast.  All a successful Halo movie/TV show had to do was to copy Black Hawk Down/Generation Kill aesthetics, have all males as soldiers and have female non-combatants, family etc.  Make it a remorseless human vs alien war.  Too bad.

 

And the spirit of this terrific commercial:

 

 

 

Black Hawk Down is an awesome movie. I loved it. It was the time when the American entertainment industry was at its peak. Great stories, movies with soul, heroism, respect.

 

It was doing a lot of service to the US. Now that the American entertainment industry has been dumbed down, I feel that there are lots of Anti-American feelings growing everywhere.

 

 

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This ad popped up on reddit lol.  witcher gaming chair

 

https://secretlab.co/pages/thewitcher/?rdt_cid=3615318200570416917&utm_campaign=prpt_witcher&utm_content=witcher-awareness&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=reddit

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Wow, this mod is great:

 

 

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12 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

Black Hawk Down is an awesome movie. I loved it. It was the time when the American entertainment industry was at its peak. Great stories, movies with soul, heroism, respect.

 

It was doing a lot of service to the US. Now that the American entertainment industry has been dumbed down, I feel that there are lots of Anti-American feelings growing everywhere.

 

 

 

Black Hawk Down is a fantasy, pro-military propaganda selling the myth of the "warrior brethren" to paint over the carnage which actually occurred in those days.

A lot of regular Somali civilians were killed, something that is largely missing from the hurrah narrative.

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2 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

Black Hawk Down is a fantasy, pro-military propaganda selling the myth of the "warrior brethren" to paint over the carnage which actually occurred in those days.

A lot of regular Somali civilians were killed, something that is largely missing from the hurrah narrative.

 

Black Hawk Down is based on a journalist's history book.

 

Brotherhood/band of Brothers/comradeship isn't a "fantasy", it is actually a extremely well researched and well known (from Veterans, not just American) aspect of the armed forces, particularly in crack elite troops.   This social aspect is deliberately cultivated in training and tends to strengthen over time. It is a key component of combat morale.

 

Bascially the result is that in combat and stressful situations, the combat troops support each other and risk their lives for each other, then do what is "rational"/self-preserving, which is often retreat and GTFO.  I think the film actually presents this quite well, although it overstates it for dramatic effect.  

 

The film is definitely too politically incorrect to be made now, as it is very biased towards the American point of view, and liberals would say that it looks like a film of white warriors vs black savages lol.

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14 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

Black Hawk Down is an awesome movie. I loved it. It was the time when the American entertainment industry was at its peak. Great stories, movies with soul, heroism, respect.

 

It was doing a lot of service to the US. Now that the American entertainment industry has been dumbed down, I feel that there are lots of Anti-American feelings growing everywhere.

 

 

A lot of big budget 1990s films were patriotic, however in the modern post-Iraq/Afgan environment/great recession/covid/Trump/political media ...patriotism has taken a big beatening.

 

 Black Hawk Down is an awesome movie, hugely rewatchable and something similar will probably not be made again for a long time.   I think the US military did provide equipment and direction for the scenes, which made them pretty outstanding & nothing has matched them in quality over the past 20 years.

 

I don't recall that BHD is openly patriotic, but it is definitely a movie that could spark feelings of patriotism and admiration.  The film focuses on comradeship and also American military skill/high tech in the face of crisis.  I do agree thought that it has a proproganda aspect to it.  As a result of the feelings invoked by the film and other media, I can see teenagers of a certain bent joining the military and so forth.

 

BHD is also hugely influential in gaming, besides its influence on subsequent TV/films.  I think the Call of Duty : Modern Warfare franchise is deliberately influenced by it, especially COD: 4.  There were others too.  I think the Halo franchise deliberately shows the humans to be American soldiers specifically rather than say some sci-fi faction.

 

The US govt/US Army actually develops shooters, this can obviously be perceived as proproganda.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_Army