Video Game General 6.3: Sekiro has so many damn chickens man. Chickens Everywhere!

chadouken · August 30, 2018, 10:05pm

Cancelled my pre-order of Spider-Man.

#puddlegate

Sonicabid · August 30, 2018, 10:19pm

During the recent “flashback” race in Path of Exile, if you hit level 95 you get put in a draw to win some cool looking armor sets. 200 people will win something out of 1000’s who hit 95+

…

WARLOCK ARMOR BOIIIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZZZZZ WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I’ve never won anything in my entire life. I’m hype as hell. The set looks awesome. You can buy the armor set with actual money, but it costs almost fitty bucks.

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Stuart_Hayden · August 30, 2018, 10:35pm

Graphics are the last thing I worry about when it comes to games.

Sonichuman · August 30, 2018, 10:38pm

Battlefield V delayed to Nov 20th

I’m sure there’s a certain robot creaming it’s pants right now.

PUDDLEGATE!

Radiantsilvergun3 · August 30, 2018, 10:45pm

Everything doesn’t look like it’s awash in Vaseline! I want my money back!

Hawkingbird · August 30, 2018, 10:53pm

EA must have seen the writing on the wall. There was no way for Battlefield to succeed sandwich between CoD and Red Dead

Eskills · August 30, 2018, 10:58pm

If only the team behind Tomb Raider could give it’s games a decent release window. Smh

Darksakul · August 30, 2018, 11:27pm

LOL, that would be the day

purbeast · August 31, 2018, 12:35am

Anyone get Dead Cells on Switch? Debating picking it up but the performance issues that I’m hearing about have me a bit skeptical. But the portability is what is making me want to get it on Switch over X1X or PS4Pro.

d3v · August 31, 2018, 12:46am

Actual match footage from Arc’s Kill la Kill game. Is it just me, or are those sound effects cribbed straight from Guilty Gear?

Eskills · August 31, 2018, 12:49am

Like Tomb Raiders sales are going to be crap at first.

It could have easily dropped August with nothing around to fuck with it.

truendymion · August 31, 2018, 12:59am

Do you only play text-based games?

Hawkingbird · August 31, 2018, 1:00am

I haven’t seen any discussion on it on tech talk but I wonder how good are the arcade1up cabinets are and how do they compare to the original thing. I’ll create the space necessary for the Final Fight cab.

Gasaraki · August 31, 2018, 1:01am

I think you’re confusing “graphics” with “artstyle.” I don’t think all of them are saying they don’t care about the artstyle of the games, but that they don’t care about graphics in the sense of polygon counts, realism, high fidelity visuals, reflections, sub-surface scattering, etc.

Maybe some of them are saying they actually don’t care how the visuals look though lol

truendymion · August 31, 2018, 1:04am

I think even then you care at least a little. I wonder what they thought about KOFXIV or Mighty No 9?

chadouken · August 31, 2018, 1:19am

I haven’t, but my brother likes it. I did get Hollow Knight and I’m loving it.

Gasaraki · August 31, 2018, 1:33am

The problems with those games is not the graphical fidelity though, it’s the artstyle, rendering style, texture work, basically all stuff that isn’t related to power but related to artistic technique in graphics.

Eskills · August 31, 2018, 1:49am

KOF XIV has Terry Bogard and Rock fucking Howard! Online is dog shit though. Looks fine to me.

MN9 looked ok…ish and played like ass.

Gameplay > graphics

I’ve never had a game and thought “This gameplay is hot ass, I’ll keep playing cause it’s pretty.”

Hell I just finished Divinity Original Sin. Looks bad, extremely fun gameplay mechanics.

Sonicabid · August 31, 2018, 2:13am

One game that is timeless visually to me is Killer7. I played the PS2* version a while back(which I believe looks a bit worse than the Gamecube version) and that game is gorgeous. The artstyle elevates it quite a bit, but the game is also packing a lot o’ detail as well.

^ Might be a pic from an emulator but that doesn’t matter since it’s getting a PC release soon.

Visually it looks better to me than a lot of PS3/PS4 games. One thing about games that go for a realistic artstyle is that they will age like shit compared to more modern games with modern tech. Then you have games that have a combination of a slick artstyle combined with top-of-the-line graphics are Wolfenstein and DOOM and those games are visually stunning and they will stay that way for a while, especially when you factor in other things like good animation.

Ninja Gaiden on the original Xbox and the Sigma version is another example of this. A cool artstyle with an(at the time) top of the line graphics engine and it still looks damn good today. Also dem Hayabusa animations.

Gasaraki · August 31, 2018, 2:32am

Well sure, if the game was that bad no amount of art could save it, but there are plenty of “just decent” games that can have amazing art that I would absolutely play. There are also games that play really well but look like utter shit and fuck no I would never play it. Like, it doesn’t need to have the best art, but if it looks like total shit it’s impossible to ignore it, for me at least, since video games are a visual medium.

Like imagine if mainline DMC looked and animated like Mortal Kombat, ugh, fucking never.