Video Game General 3.0 - You know what should come back? Pre-rendered backgrounds!

po_pimpus · July 11, 2015, 8:31am

Not Samus… Don’t care.

Negative-Zer0 · July 11, 2015, 8:42am

“You niggas care more about graphics and characters that fucking GAMEPLAY”

Po Pimpus

po_pimpus · July 11, 2015, 8:50am

Get it right.

Characters and characterization is important… It’s why I can’t stand fucking DINO.

crotchpuncha · July 11, 2015, 9:27am

Those are part of the story fool.

po_pimpus · July 11, 2015, 9:38am

Fighting game characters tell more of a story through their idle animations than most of these “story-driven” games tell in an hour’s worth of cutscenes.

Saitsu · July 11, 2015, 9:41am

Po is at his most blissful right now.

crotchpuncha · July 11, 2015, 9:45am

Aaaaaand that’s still part of the story. Characterization is story.

Kurokun · July 11, 2015, 9:57am

Splatoon Weapons IRL
https://youtu.be/2rt1C4uyWUE

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-07-09/splatoon-fan-makes-water-gun-version-of-inkzooka/.90251

Tono2 compares his homemade Inkzooka with commercially available water guns, including the much-feared Super Soaker. Its power knocks them out of the park — and its recoil knocks the shooter backwards. It should certainly make water fights at the pool a lot more one-sided. As a bonus, Tono2 also developed a version of the Splat Bomb, which seems a little dangerous for pool play.

Unfortunately, Tono2 writes that he was “in a trance” while putting together the Inkzooka and forgot to take pictures of its construction. He says it’s based off of mounted guns used for games in amusement parks, but reworked to be portable and covered with colored tape. The Inkzooka is 180 centimeters long (about 5.9 feet), weighs 15 kilograms (or 33 pounds), shoots at a range of 25 meters (82 feet), and has a pressure of 320 kilopascals.

crotchpuncha · July 11, 2015, 10:06am

Nomura botched it with this one imo. You’d only know it was Catwoman if someone told you.

rukawa_kaede · July 11, 2015, 10:29am

orochizoolander:

I must be the only one who is not the least bit hype about MGS5 launch nor the least bit sad about Kojima Productions dissolving. I played MGS 1-4 and Portable Ops (ugh PSP controls), loved them all especially 4, but I totally forgot most of the story especially since each entry tries to patch up the plot of the previous one and then weave in and out of each other thematically being at times needlessly complex and a little bloated despite having enjoyed the ride, so I won’t play 5 until I beat all the others again and get the story and hype fresh in my mind, I guess it’s a bit of gamer OCD. As for KojiPro disbanding I don’t understand why people are upset, sure the downside is it’s not likely KojiPro will ever get the financial backing that Konami gave them, but one of 3 things will definitely happen: They’ll get absorbed by another big developer/publisher (Sony maybe?) who will treat them the way Konami should have in the first place, they’ll self publish, or they’ll go to kickstarter either way any of those 3 options will afford them all the creative freedom they obviously didn’t get at Konami to do whatever they want.

I don’t know what they’ll make after MGS5, but I’m sure it’ll be a lot less constrained by focus group testing, marketability, and profit driven executives than their previous work and that can only be a good thing for them and the fans.

the problem is that something will definitively be lost. You think everyone on his team will follow him? i’m sure more than one will take this opportunity to do something else.

This is the end of an era and I can’t help but feel a little sad about it. I still remember one of the main reasons I wanted to get a ps1 was to play MGS, MGS was the game that kept me going with this hobby in a time when I was having doubts thinking I was probably already to old to play video games.

till to this day I sometimes daydream what could it be if the “old” snk was still in business. Every time I ask myself that question I say I’m sure they will be putting out the best fighting games right nowno doubt. They still in business but one thing is for certain they’re not half as good as they used to be.

SRKarcade · July 11, 2015, 12:01pm

Phantom_Angel:

SRKarcade:

Sadistic_Masochist:

HD-Man:

rukawa_kaede:

HD-Man:

Glad to see Capcom taking big risks redesigning the old characters in SF5, even if Ken’s face looks ugly as fuck

Looks like all bets are off, those old characters will most likely not play or look quite the same anymore.

Looks like Capcom did learn something from MK X

MK? You spelled SNK wrong

Ken kicks reminds me of Kim kaphwan and the Kim brothers the most
I’m glad this game is not looking like the eyesore that is SFIV. I might give it a chance this this time.

When I mentioned MK, I meant that like MK Capcom took risks in changing alot of the characters up but keeping them somewhat recognizable

Not that Ken resembles SNK Fighters. Unless u meant something else

Who the fuck are you? You seriously don’t know snk but give mk props for changing shit up? Every character in mk still has the same jump arc as each other iirc, not to mention they all share the same damn normals. Let’s not even get started on all the mk designs that are retarded to begin with.

Sf shits on mk and then makes mk eat the shit up. They are not even close to being in the same class and status as fighters. Mk is shit tier, capcom and snk are on that God status. Mk ain’t teaching nobody shit son.

The NR games are some of the best sellers in the industry. Most people will recognize the trait system as a mechanic from injustice and SFV’s longer combos are probably going to draw some comparison to MKX’s combos. SNK games simply don’t have the visibility even when it’s clear SF takes inspiration from certain aspects.

What kind of idiot would relate long combos in a SF game to MKX? One that just started playing fighters this year?

The combos in SFV involved a lot more juggles then previous entries. You also underestimate the stupidity of some casual players. I was playing 3s at a video store with one of the employees and a random customer asked if we were playing mortal kombat.

Sonicabid · July 11, 2015, 12:08pm

It’s 5 a.m. and I can hear birds chirping as the sun comes up.

PATH OF EXILE=CRACK

Joshkaz · July 11, 2015, 12:13pm

Which class has the biggest dick in POE?

Phantom_Angel · July 11, 2015, 12:56pm

SRKarcade:

Phantom_Angel:

SRKarcade:

Sadistic_Masochist:

HD-Man:

rukawa_kaede:

HD-Man:

Glad to see Capcom taking big risks redesigning the old characters in SF5, even if Ken’s face looks ugly as fuck

Looks like all bets are off, those old characters will most likely not play or look quite the same anymore.

Looks like Capcom did learn something from MK X

MK? You spelled SNK wrong

Ken kicks reminds me of Kim kaphwan and the Kim brothers the most
I’m glad this game is not looking like the eyesore that is SFIV. I might give it a chance this this time.

When I mentioned MK, I meant that like MK Capcom took risks in changing alot of the characters up but keeping them somewhat recognizable

Not that Ken resembles SNK Fighters. Unless u meant something else

Who the fuck are you? You seriously don’t know snk but give mk props for changing shit up? Every character in mk still has the same jump arc as each other iirc, not to mention they all share the same damn normals. Let’s not even get started on all the mk designs that are retarded to begin with.

Sf shits on mk and then makes mk eat the shit up. They are not even close to being in the same class and status as fighters. Mk is shit tier, capcom and snk are on that God status. Mk ain’t teaching nobody shit son.

The NR games are some of the best sellers in the industry. Most people will recognize the trait system as a mechanic from injustice and SFV’s longer combos are probably going to draw some comparison to MKX’s combos. SNK games simply don’t have the visibility even when it’s clear SF takes inspiration from certain aspects.

What kind of idiot would relate long combos in a SF game to MKX? One that just started playing fighters this year?

The combos in SFV involved a lot more juggles then previous entries. You also underestimate the stupidity of some casual players. I was playing 3s at a video store with one of the employees and a random customer asked if we were playing mortal kombat.

Probably, but not those juggles aren’t the same as MK’s. They’re what is expected out of a SF game. MK doesn’t have air resets, so every hit continues the juggle. Only certain moves in SF have juggle properties, and those are usually special moves. Only in SFxT did most normals have juggle properties, and that was because of the Tekken influence. It’s really easy to see the difference between the way combos work in the two games.

Someone like that isn’t the type of person I’d even include in this discussion, as they’re clearly ignorant to fighting games and probably video games in general. Most, if not all, gamers know what MK is and looks like.

Akhos · July 11, 2015, 4:45pm

So…you don’t care about story…but you care about the character…which is a part of the story…

You make even less sense than I do. If you really cared about just the gameplay, you’d play a game with the gameplay you liked. If it’s the game you’ve always wanted in everything but name, wouldn’t you still play it?

If there was a new game in the same vein as Klonoa, I’d play it, even if Klonoa wasn’t the star. If there was a new game in the same vein as the Legend of Zelda, I’d play it, even if Link wasn’t the star.

(Which reminds me, I still want to check out 3D Dot Game Heroes if I can find it.)

rukawa_kaede · July 11, 2015, 5:46pm

Lots of people getting baited by Po troll post

Ghost Song is looking legit way better than that travesty axiom verge

Akhos · July 11, 2015, 6:00pm

Eh…it’s not a troll post. He just has some…interesting opinions/logic.

Not unlike myself, really.

rukawa_kaede · July 11, 2015, 6:18pm

LordWilliam1234:

crotchpuncha:

Nah I feel him. My first time through a Metroid game tends to be in spurts because if it’s a well made Metroid game, you’re gonna get stuck for a decent amount of time at least once an hour, and that shit gets boring.

No, that’s not it. Getting stuck and working to figure out how to…well, not be stuck, is part of the fun. And it’s those moments that I can keep playing for an extended period, and it’s what kept me going at first as I was figuring out how the game worked.

It’s just that now, there’s no challenge. I just mow through everything without any effort, and that gets dull after a while. The bosses have been nothing but a joke. Fighting enemies just becomes a nuisance rather than part of the fun, 'cause all you do is point and shoot at them until they’re dead. Maybe dodge a shot here or there. Fusion had a better balance of challenge, remaining fun and interesting without getting to the point of frustration, even if there isn’t much combat variety in what you’re able to do.

Exploring’s okay, but the environments are kinda bland and uninteresting. Combined with the fact that secrets are too easy to locate, even without the X-ray Scope…it gets tedious more than anything.

So yeah. Fun in short bursts, but gets dull if I go longer than that.

Super Metroid is all about the exploration more than anything I think that’s the main purpose of the game they really want you feel alone in this world the peaceful scenery, the creepy music complement this. I don’t think it will have the same effect if enemies were constantly hitting you ala megaman although it gets more difficult at the later half of the game as you reaching the climax getting closer to mother brain.

Akhos · July 11, 2015, 8:40pm

Another random question, which Po reminded me of. Previously I asked about your top 5 favorite video games of all time. What are your top 5 favorite video game characters of all time?

Mine:

[details=Spoiler]#1: Link (Majora’s Mask incarnation)

#2: Roxas (Kingdom Hearts)

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/kingdomhearts/images/b/be/Roxas_(Art)_KHD.png/revision/latest?cb=20110716102834

#3: Lucario (Pokemon)

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/nintendo/images/d/d0/Lucario.png/revision/latest?cb=20120709160647&path-prefix=en

#4: Klonoa

#5: Yang (Street Fighter)

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/streetfighter/images/9/92/Yang_SSFIV_artwork.png/revision/latest?cb=20141124013248&path-prefix=es

[/details]

Phantom_Angel · July 11, 2015, 8:51pm

Aah, shit… I’m gonna have to think about this, but allow me to brainstorm a bit:

Dante
Zero
Mega Man (X)
Cammy
Chun Li
Kain Highwind
Tifa
Genesis Rhapsodos
Riku
Spyro the Dragon
Crash Bandicoot
Sonic the Hedgehog
Shadow the Hedgehog
Lars Alexandersson
Jin Kazama

I know I’m missing a bunch…