Video Game General 5.0: HEROES NEVER DIE!

[KimuraLOX]

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[Chiro]

Of all the shit I’ve taken that game to task over, Monster Hunter is not one of them. She looks good.

I will call out the fact that the character you have to pay extra for seems to have more effort and better texture work done than the base roster, however…

Monster Hunter looks like she took the entire budget. They tried to use her to get $5 DLC sales but if they put her in the main game they could have gotten more $60 game sales.

Quality is not the problem I think. it’s that everyine feels like no care was put into it so why should they care? I still think it looks much better than KOF14 for example but you can feel how much effort went into that game and you don’t feel like a chump for buying it. I feel bad for the workers who did put in the effort but were fucked by higher management in this game.

[angelpalm]

That’s what tickles ya’lls fancy?

That terrible design is why I actively avoided that franchise until now. She looks like kirby ate one of those generic dragons dogma pawns, an actual dragon, a bunch of ac ducts, and then he proceeded to shit out this fucking mess of polygons and bad ascetics.

[Eskills]

Alright angelshit when and fucking where?

[Chiro]

That’s what tickles ya’lls fancy?

That terrible design is why I actively avoided that franchise until now. She looks like kirby ate one of those generic dragons dogma pawns, an actual dragon, a bunch of ac ducts, and then he proceeded to shit out this fucking mess of polygons and bad ascetics.

only thing i don’t like is the skirt but ill take that over tit armor.

[DANZAN]

7€ pickup

According to the person i got this from only 500 promo copies of these were made worldwide. It’s a good game so i think i’ll keep it for myself
but i will sell if price goes up in the future.

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Persona 5 fan I AM

I now have 2 of these. Should give you an idea as to how how i love this game. Will probably sell one of these abit later tho.

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[Black_Jaguar]

Its no big deal. I got a cool new title screen out of it, and I’m down to play it again in the future

[Bious]

Things I’ve learned playing Touhou:

Your eyes will hurt.

[angelpalm]

That’s what tickles ya’lls fancy?

That terrible design is why I actively avoided that franchise until now. She looks like kirby ate one of those generic dragons dogma pawns, an actual dragon, a bunch of ac ducts, and then he proceeded to shit out this fucking mess of polygons and bad ascetics.

only thing i don’t like is the skirt but ill take that over tit armor.

Liking a bunch of blocks and sheet metal over something like this

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[Hawkingbird]

If you guys want a good laugh here’s one of the Shadow of War developers defending the game’s microtransactions

Shadow of War developer discusses the game's controversial loot boxes

What can you say to reassure the fans who will never buy a loot box that Shadow of War has still been balanced with them in mind?

Bob Roberts: We’re working our tails off to make this massive game and as a designer - the design director - I focus on balancing it. We do a ton of playtesting and make sure it is tuned to a setting where people can enjoy it. We kept all of the loot boxes and the economy of real world money turned off in playtesting so we know we are balancing around an experience which is rewarding without any of that stuff.

Because some people think you guys have ulterior motives - that you’re waiting for a tough bit to pop up an onscreen prompt saying 'hey… have you seen what we’re selling…'

Bob Roberts: No - absolutely not. 100 per cent not. It is important to clarify this as there were a couple of misconceptions. First, the concern about balancing - hopefully when it is out there and people are able to talk about their experiences then the balancing question will be answered, hopefully by people you trust to play through it and see that.

***The other big misconception was whether the game had to be online too - and it’s important for people to understand that no, it’s not required to be online to play the game, and it’s a massive game where you can enjoy the full experience without putting any extra money in.

Which begs the question - why put it in at all? As a design director your life is spent ensuring players don’t get bottlenecked in certain places, that people never run out of resources when they really need them. Why complicate that?***

Bob Roberts: Yeah, in the game you earn resources at a regular pace and the systems are tuned to that so you don’t need another option. At the same time, it’s there as a player choice. It’s there, from my perspective, for people who are protective of their spare time and scared when a massive game comes along that they’re not getting to see the full experience.

It’s the same design philosophy as us adding in difficulty modes. So we now have Easy mode, and we’ve added Hard mode at the other end of the spectrum. Frankly the Nemesis system comes to life when you are dying loads, so you could see Easy mode as a system which makes the game less enjoyable if you are the type of player who really should have put it on Hard. It’s putting more control in people’s hands - saying, you know how you play best, you make that choice.

The ideal for people who set it to Easy is if they are just finding things too punishing, not because they don’t want to die. We’d rather you die regularly to get the full experience of the Nemesis system.

Right. And you’re not saying switch it to Easy and pay for loot boxes.

Bob Roberts: laughs Right.

Will you pay for loot boxes?

Bob Roberts: I personally, probably, will just let the systems feed me the rewards as we’ve balanced them. It’s a weird question as a designer - I want to have the experience I think most people will have so I can relate to what people are saying around balancing. I wouldn’t want to shortcut anything and then have a skewed perspective of what people are saying around balance in case we do need to go in and update anything later.

Speaking generally, do you think it’s fair for full-price triple-A games to feature loot boxes like that? I have chosen to pay for them in the past in other games on the odd occasion - and I’m still not sure how I feel about it.

Bob Roberts: You put your 60 bucks in for a big game like ours upfront and our focus is that its initial purchase price is more than worth it. You want people to be pleasantly surprised by how much stuff is in it.

But I understand the argument that the fact they exist at all as a distraction.

Bob Roberts: Yeah, it’s such a charged topic. It’s frankly complicated - you see the debate play out online and forum threads where people argue with each other about it.

There’s so much complexity to it. Especially when you see articles coming out about our game, or another game, and we have announced a load of new content and we’re trying to find out what people think about those things but the conversation keeps coming back to that [loot boxes]. It’s interesting to see the discussion but we want to get people’s opinions on more than just that.

**It dominates the conversation, especially before people have had a good chance to see how it works themselves.
**
Bob Roberts: Yeah. Obviously we have tuned our game so it works without those things and that including them does not distract from the rest of it.

“Putting more control in the player’s hand”.

Don’t play easy mode, just buy the lootboxes.

[Chiro]

That’s what tickles ya’lls fancy?

That terrible design is why I actively avoided that franchise until now. She looks like kirby ate one of those generic dragons dogma pawns, an actual dragon, a bunch of ac ducts, and then he proceeded to shit out this fucking mess of polygons and bad ascetics.

only thing i don’t like is the skirt but ill take that over tit armor.

Liking a bunch of blocks and sheet metal over something like this

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https://i.pinimg.com/736x/06/7a/61/067a613df470f62fc51d50f9b9bf007b--anime-rules-anime-art-fantasy.jpg

im gay so designs like that have literally no appeal to me. i like my women like i like my men, badass.

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[po_pimpus]

Lol… But I’m not supposed to be enraged when these clowns say stupid shit to justify the corporate greed tactics…

[Reiraku]

Things I’ve learned playing Touhou:

Your eyes will hurt.

Which one did you start off with?

[Iduno]

Damn just picked up the “We unfucked local play now” Switch version of Pokken.

They gave Lucha Pikachu Naito’s fucking tranquilo pose as his crouch lol, anyone else grab it?

I’m pretty sure Lucha Pikachu is also the same size as Rey Mysterio but I’m pretty sure that’s just a coincidence.

[angelpalm]

That’s what tickles ya’lls fancy?

That terrible design is why I actively avoided that franchise until now. She looks like kirby ate one of those generic dragons dogma pawns, an actual dragon, a bunch of ac ducts, and then he proceeded to shit out this fucking mess of polygons and bad ascetics.

only thing i don’t like is the skirt but ill take that over tit armor.

Liking a bunch of blocks and sheet metal over something like this

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https://i.pinimg.com/736x/06/7a/61/067a613df470f62fc51d50f9b9bf007b--anime-rules-anime-art-fantasy.jpg

im gay so designs like that have literally no appeal to me. i like my women like i like my men, badass.

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It figures since Monster Hunter looks like a man as is. A man that fell down into a well filled with super glue and random car parts.

[Black_Jaguar]

I’m tired of all of the temptation. I need Venom’s trailer to drop so I can know if I’m buying this game or not

[Black_Jaguar]

Man and I really hope they don’t go realistic with Venom. It always looks like shit.

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Give me the classic, Oily, Angelpalm so black its blue look

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[po_pimpus]

You know you’re getting that first one, right?

[Shinkuu_Tatsumaki]

They going for a “cinematic” look bro… you ain’t getting anything close to the comics. They might even model him after Eric Foreman.

[Eskills]

Yeah…we gettin’ the ugly venom. Smh