>>3375 ANATHEMA HERETIC CUNT

>>3374 Take your pills

>>3374 Sad bait, plus I'm already Christian.

Aesthetically or mechanically, what is the strangest shmup you've ever played?

>GOG announces a Bullet Hell sale >almost none of the games are shmups >the shmups present are ones no one describes as bullet hell >fucking Sine Mora in the sale I'm sick of bullet hell being a label indieshits steal for their non-shmup games. It's like these people saw one video of a Touhou boss, thought "duuude, how do people even play this," then slap the most basic bitch bullet patterns into generic action roguelite #4633 and pollute the genre's search results.

>>3344 How interesting. The manual concept reminds me of the reading material in Retro Game Challenge (Game Center CX). Unsurprisingly for a name so generic somebody already used it for another fangame: https://solarus-games.org/en/games/tunics

>>3344 Well I took a chance and played this furshit after reading your post and don't regret it. I'm either too dumb or don't have the autism to 100% some of this shit without looking up the rune translations but it's entirely possible to figure out enough to get to the end and I got about half of the fairies/golden spirits/whatever they're called before saying fuck it and going for the final boss. The Heir can be a real nigger of a battle but it was very fun all the same. Sort of a spoiler here, though it won't ruin the game for anyone the hero's laurels can be kinda finicky, I'm embarrassed to admit I had a much harder time than I should have finding my way to the East Forest entrance in the night/ghost world because I couldn't properly teleport to the far shore entrance during my first two tries and assumed the bricks you're supposed to walk on were just scenery before moving on to some other shit. It's definitely controller oriented though, I played through the first half on my keyboard before getting frustrated and digging out some shitty logitech controller I have and things went much more smoothly after that. Overall I'd say this is easily an 8/10 game, and you can get it on gog-games for free so there's not much of a drawback for trying it.

>>3344 More small spoiler response to this. >To my recollection there's one where the password is revealed to you as a spinning reflection of light-rays reflected from a pond onto a bunch of jagged walls. It's not clear if you should take the reflection of the image into consideration, what the starting point or orientation is or where the ending point is and it involves a lot of waiting on the rotation to reach a certain point That was the last fairy puzzle I completed before saying fuck it and going for the final boss, you have to rotate the pattern and it's much easier to just draw it on a post-it note or some shit and rotate it along with the reflection as you're drawing it out. It took me too long to figure that out because I'm dumb and when I finally got it I was drained of any motivation to get the rest of the fairies during that session. I'm going to try for a 100% run next to see the "good"" ending or whatever but if something catches me in one spot for too long I'm going to say fuck it and look it up this time.

>>3383 I'd say that's fine. I feel the reward is figuring out the puzzle and not whatever esoteric knowledge the devs had in mind at the time because they should really signal it better. What if I needed to reverse all of the directions because it's a reflected image off the water? What if I'm unaware which of the jagged walls represents the true orientation of the path? It's just dumb and overly long and involves a lot of waiting.

Hardcore Mecha It's a chinese/taiwanese(one of those two) 2d mecha game. It's a very simple, fairly short(I'd say around 2-3 hours, it's 8 chapters of two 10 minute missions each. You have four attacks, two of which are melee(effectively non-customizable), a main gun(you also get secondary main guns that don't reload) and a secondary shoulder mounted weapon. You also get a boost gauge similar to a game like say Rocktron where holding R1 boosts you in whichever direction you're holding the left analog in. You can also block but I've rarely used it. The game's really simple but doesn't play much to its mecha strengths. There's very limited customization. In terms of weapons you have three configurations of your main gun, a shitty mode, a high power low magazine mode and a medium power high magazine mode. For the secondary you have a shitty peashooter and a slightly less shitty pea shooter and a rocket launcher. For your melee weapons you don't really have a choice, you start off with a shield bash and a dumb punch and then they get upgraded a few levels into the sword and electric shield bash and there's absolutely zero reason not to pick those. The parts where you have the most amount of customization are your mods and consumables. Consumables are meh, you can't go wrong with the health pack and the rest are pretty situational. Mods are just stat boosts and unless you pick boost enhancements and gun/melee enhancements you're likely doing it wrong. You also get to pick one mech and one mech only, which is strange because you can tell there are a lot of mech classes with their own abilities and movesets. Turns out you can use those, in multiplayer. In singleplayer you're stuck with the generic gundam instead of the infinitely more interesting red melee-only mech that your not-rival pilots and you get to have three or so boss fights against. It's so strange that they couldn't even bother rotating the mechs or characters in the campaign since that seems like a sure given to actually spice that part up. Besides that I have no qualms about the actual game itself. It's fun, it's short, it doesn't really overstay its welcome and if I had an issue is that some bosses are a bit of a damage sponge and that the ranking system doesn't make much sense especially when you're never really aware what about your ranking didn't net you an S-rank, and it seems to unlock fuck all. I'd recommend a pirate if you have a few hours to waste.

>>3189 he's not wrong

>>3132 Sure thing, Goldberg

>>3263 >seething

why must people respond to the lowest effort shitb8 imaginable

>>2475 Something is going on.

>>591 Again, go take your concerns about quality to the meta thread. I don't claim to be the best poster or a judge on quality. But this personal back and forth, not so much a structured argument with a premise and conclusion, does not belong in this thread. I don't, in the least bit, have a charitable perspective on informationless whining about quality. It reads more like catty behind the back drama between two self-perceived types of posters. And no posturing or attempt to persuade could change that. I'm quite entitled to my own opinion, correct? But here's an argument since you want one: If meta thread is for meta discussions, and this is the gaming on Linux thread, then you should take your board and site wide concerns to the meta thread. I'll be playing my vidya.

[End of Dump 8VG04 ~ 08/06/2019] I didn't recall our vol being that much of a nigger back then, kinda wish i know what happened later

>Frogatto is still being updated >the last full release was 1.3 in 2012 >it just hit 4.27 several minutes ago >absolutely nothing about this on the blog or twitter >the blog has been dead for years

>>3379 FOSS games have serious longevity, stuff like SuperTux is over 20 years old and still being actively developed. Generally this is because they're hobbyist projects that people chip away at when they have some spare time.

>>3380 Even if development is glacial compared to regular games (even indie games and free indieshit), I can't deny there's a weird charm to the results and I hope it's still in whatever the fuck 2022 Frogatto looks like.

>>2969 I always thought that MGS4 as a "conclusion" to the franchise was absolute unwarranted. There were still so many things to do with the series, MGS2 expanded the lore and opened up so many possibilities but then the next direct sequel, 4, didn't really do anything with that and tried to awkwardly wrap things up - the produce of Kojima's bad writing. The original concept for Revengence was Raiden (and assumingly Snake) trying to save Olga's child from the Patriots, which is what MGS2's ending was explicitly about. So I think that potential alternative "MGS4" would have been about that.

>>3248 mgs 4 was a mistake

>>2985 >>2989 Any progress on this?

>>3301 >>3347 Guess i'll make some text for a couple games to keep things moving. Already did Hitman 3 so i guess i'll do CN47, 2 and 4 Blood Money. Assassin's Creed 1, Sneak King and both Riddick games, probably Spy vs. Spy which i found not long ago for the Xbawks. May also try a hand at the intro and details of the genre, don't know about the visuals of the chart because that should be a common consensus i suppose.

>>3124 Personally I'm tired of seeing Yotsuba B on every board. The problem is that it just werks and usually when someone tries to make custom board CSS it ends up either very ugly or less readable or both.

>>3134 So let's use Futaba >>3069 It's basically the same as Yotsuba but not Yotsuba.

>>3144 I concur, Futaba is pretty nice.

>CSS got changed <15 people instantly wrote to voice their disdain! >none of these faggots actually want to post about video games as the board stands for days Typical. Go back to /v/igger and don't complain how shit it is, you don't deserve anything better.

>>3370 It's standard modus operandi for many saboteurs in the webring, i browse many boards and the times that has happened is not even funny although it usually happens with a certain topic in discussion or someone getting banned than the CSS, or them deleting their own posts and blaming the BO; the intention is to cause stir and bring some anons to suspiciously new boards at other sites. I believe a couple of anons were sincere in both sides so i didn't look into it that much but i certainly want a CSS and i don't really like Futaba plus nobody has attempted to write it, which i believe is easy enough but last time i tried that i got flamed so i don't know what to do other than post and change the CSS back to Yotsuba every time i browse the overboard/another board.

And after all this things, here it is, the final yes final Hitman game, Blood Money. Here it seems Kyd wanted to combine a lot of things in the concept, probably to showcase the past years: The choir and orchestra once again by the Budapest boys, the Vangelis synths (or their original horn counterparts) and the clubbing days. Also because a lot of people were feeling this was the last ride. The shenanigans from Contracts took its toll in a bunch of the original Zyrinx/Lemon founders had a fall out with the rest of the team and the parent company Eidos, so after this ride (and multiple hints in the game, including the infamous ending) many of them quit IO to open their Reto-Moto office closed since 1999, but some others changed their minds (and would backtrack later on). The result of this whole "Too Many Chiefs" situation was a bunch of different art styles, plot points and mechanics that some heroes streamlined into a coherent game at the end, the best one in the series to be fair, but that could've been much more (scary to think that) Jesper's soundtrack also resembles this due to the aforementioned showcase work, giving place to different soundscapes for different places and with some of them not matching their song name, along with Ave Maria not being even his arrangement if i read correctly (Pierre Földes, the Budapest conductor, is the man here), but Vegas is worth all of this. Also some of these songs still sound awfully familiar, man. Especially Apocalypse, oh that's right the Magnasanti theme! :^)

Ah, the famous Gears Tournament III, pretty interesting choice in art direction, also in the music department as Jesper did very few tracks compared to the Mr. Di Prisco. At least they are pretty decent but can't say about atmosphere as i never played this one due to the backlash making me scared as a fan of UT99. LockDown is a fucking bomb. And talking about backlash, here's Kane & Lynch, done by IO Interactive featuring Blystad's men in charge of edgy and the few Zyrinx guys left for the tech department. A lot of talk has been said about this so the final nail i can add in the last leg of the 2nd Kyd era is that many of those guys left after this bomb (in the other sense of the word) and went to Reto-Moto (not all tho), along with Jesper who didn't go back to work with IO, but did so with R-M in their only game, Heroes & Generals. Bros before hos i can suppose.

After UT3 and K&L, and after 7 years since the trio of Codename 47, MDK2 plus Messiah, Jesper got his gravy train ticket: Assassin's Creed, the big elephant in this discussion. By this point he was swimming in money, the 3rd Kyd era. Highly overrated series by the masses, but still quite good due to its art department (at least the first game) and it did establish Kyd's name in the hall of distinguished fellas like he deserved. In this thread that will be the end of the road for this danish night owl because things get a bit hairy after these ones, among them is all the Borderland games.

So, that's it, that's the relevant Jesper Kyd experience for those who have heard his name. Will try to upload some of this stuff too, along with some of those 2006 interview clips laying around. Hope i didn't bug a lot of anons i mean admins and the server space with this long webm dump, just trying to smash the subject on point.

2006's interview by IGN in question, lol you can see they were still (or at least pretending to be) a small site with beginner dudes trying to get the note and some actual info. I suppose this came from an E3 event or something similar.

>>3327 That's what break it you buy it policies are for. "That'll be $2000 for a replacement cabinet sir."

>>3325 I would add that nigger hipsters are (unsurprisingly) some of the worst hipsters. They take the culture to an extreme, and it is even more synthetic. Truly disgusting individuals. Can't stand nigger tech reviewers either, or niggers on bicycles of any kind.

>>2787 probably a decent take. white males usually take the vanguard in anything new, and then it becomes infested with normies, women, and niggers.

>>3330 >white males will live in a controlled fantasy world lol

>>3331 White males already live in a controlled fantasy world, dipshit. The average white male doesn't even know the shape of the surface he stands on.