No.11285
>>11277I hope it's in Morfis (desert magic country). 3H left me with enough crumbs about the rest of the world that I'm interested in more entries there (I miss when FEs sometimes shared settings!), but I know the fandom is going to be a fucking dumpster.
No.11286
>>11285>fandom is going to be a fucking dumpsterOh god, more rehashing of whitewashing discourse because East Asian artists will make the darker characters gray.
Although a lot of them make pale characters literally white too No.11289
>>11279I didn't think I would see the Chinatsu Kurahana disdain even on Fujochan
Anyways I'm glad they dropped the fugly "fake 2D" look for the cutscenes, it looked decent in 3H but the smooth 3D animation always looks so much better
No.11292
>>11277I skipped Engage too and I wish this 3H sequel or prequel were also for the first Switch and not only for the Switch 2. I like how the characters look so far except for the MC's haircut, it's like the designers wanted him to have an afro or very curly hair but it translates very strangely on him I don't know. If it's a prequel that means seeing more dragons, potentially even seeing Rhea and Seteth again but we'll see about that. The 3H fandom was total shit, I think I will simply watch a playthrough at some point and call it a day.
No.11294
>>11174I've been trying to save money for Rimworld and its DLC, and then my computer died kek. It'll be a long time before I get to play it. It seems like so much fun, and I love games like that. Clanfolk is a sort of Rimworld clone, but set in Scotland. You might like it.
>I’m too poorfag to afford any of the dlcAre you hoping to get any DLC in the future? If so, which ones?
No.11299
>>11294Well if you get a new computer but don’t have the money to buy Rimworld, you can always pirate it and then buy it when you want. That’s what I did because I didn’t know if I’d like it or not, but turns out I loved it.
>clanfolkAt least I know if I ever get tired of Rimworld there’s another cool little colony sim I could start playing. In terms of dlc, I definitely want to get odyssey and biotech one day, those seem like fun especially with odysseys new biomes and biotech having robot workers, so playing on rich explorer would be even more fun for me. After those two I’d probably get anomaly because the horror aspect seems like a fun challenge and I saw that there’s an ambient horror mode. Royalty and ideology both seem pretty cool, but they’re ones I wouldn’t mind never owning.
No.11478
>>143>What have you been playing lately? to be honest, i'm picking games again, normally i'm caught up thinking in money problems or doomscrolling to shush the pessimistic thoughts away.
A friend told me to pick up smth to actually calm my mind so i started playing Animal Crossing New Horizons again after 2 years and i forgot how much i enjoyed it despise of the limited experience i have while playing it in emulator.
No.11499
>>11496it felt like one of those love and deep space guys, i am not joking, he talks to Hinako in the same way too, like I was expecting him at one point to ask her about her period.
No.11517
>>11497I think in my mind these games have always been in the category of "I will sometimes put a video essay on my second monitor cause the lore sounds interesting" along with other horror series and I never considered what the fandom is like. I will say despite my wimp status I may actually suck it up and play this entry one day because I have a weakness for the game's entire aesthetic and setting.
>>11499That definitely tracks with the type of fanart I've been seeing all over my twitter feed.
No.11532
>>11496While playing through this I kept forgetting I was playing a Silent Hill game. And this is the least odd character Silent Hill fans have husbando'd considering he's describe as a prince in-game and
his goal is to marry Hinako. But I guess it is weird we got that in a SH game in the first place.
No.11624
>>11497I've played 1-4 and Downpour, and I enjoyed most of them. 4 is my favorite, which I know sounds like something an insane person would say, but I thought it was odd and quirky, and it's a cool moment when you learn exactly whose Silent Hell you're stuck in.
Also there's some good Henry/Walter out there.
No.11627
>>11497>>11624My favorite game is 3 but my favorite character in all series is Walter Sullivan.
He is the best part of SH4 and I wish he got more screen time.
No.11630
>>11627I love how he gets planted in 2 but he doesn't become relevant to the plot until 4.
I tend to catagorize Silent Hill games into two types: games about the cult and games about someone being punished with their personal hell.
1, 3, Homecoming, and origins, are the former, and 2 and Downpour are the latter.
4 is interesting because it hovers between those categories. It's absolutely about the cult, but even when Henry goes to hell,
it's not his hell, it's Walter's. It's a fascinating way to incorporate the elements of the precious games and it's really unsettling and uncanny to play from such an outsider's perspective.
No.11639
>>11627I just can't think about him anymore without my mind going to that schizo circumcision trauma theory.
No.11920
Would you say Zelda BOTW is an easy game? And what about Unicorn Overlord and Metaphor Refantazio? I also have Yakuza like a Dragon and Judgement in my backlog. I'm trying to see what I should play next despite not having a lot of free time, I don't mind long games, but it would annoy me if I were stuck too often again the same bosses and redoing the same parts of the game when I will only be able to play in short sessions.
No.11921
>>11920I think BotW's difficulty is frontloaded and it gets easier over time as you gather more resources. In the beginning when you're low on max hearts and stamina you can't explore as well and even normal enemies can do quite some damage so you need to be more careful. If you're dilligent with finding shrines, gathering and upgrading armor and making good food it gets a lot easier and you're practically unkillable because there's not any sort of food cooldown so you can just keep recovering health as long as you stockpiled enough food. Also since the main plot objectives are available in any order there's no difficulty scaling on the bosses aside from their max health.
No.11925
>>11920BOTW's difficulty depends largely on
if you find the combat hard, personally I think it's one of the easiest Zelda games. It's just a different approach than the rest of the series, the durability can be frustrating but that’s not a really a difficulty thing so much as a game philosophy thing.
No.11931
>>11921>>11925Thanks. I only tried the tutorial long ago on someone else's switch and moved on to other games once I bought my own switch. I barely remember the gameplay so I will pay attention when I will play it again from the start. I only played Zelda Wind Waker long ago and never finished it because my siblings kept deleting everyone's save files, and I have games on the 3DS I never played yet so I admit I'm not very familiar with the series. Since it's an open world game, would you say it's easy to play in short sessions or I could easily get lost?
And to answer my own question, I started Unicorn Overlord soon after posting and it's pretty easy so far. I've even been told by a friend to play on hard mode first and see if I want to change that later. I'm not in the tutorial anymore and have explore one region so far.
No.11932
>>11931>Since it's an open world game, would you say it's easy to play in short sessions or I could easily get lost?My sessions were pretty long since I'd just explore around and gather collectibles for hours and basically allowed myself to get lost but since you unlock the map in chunks when you climb and activate a tower you could restrict yourself to the area of one tower you just activated and only collect stuff within that map chunk for a single play session.
No.12524
Been playing FF12 for a while. So far it's a fine game with good writing, a combat system I respect even if it's not really my thing and nothing gay going on. I don't always play a game with a guide but I'll probably look up optimal character builds soon for the sake of convenience. It's a bit awkward how the background textures upgraded a lot more smoothly than the characters' faces. Also while Fran having a coomer character design 'makes sense' with the sexy brown tribal woman stereotype in mind I find it kinda odd to see an unsexual princess character like Ashe walking around in a micro mini skirt.
No.12540
>>12524meh her skirt is kinda short but she is cute. I usually don't mind sexy designed girls if they are good written, for example I love the Jak and Daxter female characters, and they are all basically sexualized, yet they are full of personality.
No.12789
>>12785I hope you have lots of fun back in Cyrodiil, nona! What kind of character did you play on that save file?
No.12797
>>12789Thank you, nona!
>What kind of character did you play on that save file?I'm super boring, so he was a stealth-based character (Thief birthsign). I get super into writing in-depth backstories and roleplaying, so it works given his childhood (I don't really play as people at all similar to myself in games). He's my "main/canon" Oblivion character (I have one character that is always the one I kind of headcanon as the protagonist moving forward). He is an Imperial (my favorite TES race has always been the Bretons, but I chose Imperial for some reason way back then). I'll spare you the cringe of his whole backstory, but it was initially my goal to have him complete all of the more morally "bad" sidequests (Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood is still my favorite questline in the whole series). He's primarily a very self-interested character (in contrast, my character in Skyrim was more "chronic hero syndrome"). Right now, he just finished Mephala's quest
(the one where you make the two families turn against each other). I had a lot of hours put into the game already, so there's not as much left to do, but I am having a lot of fun with what's left of it!
No.12811
I love buying games en masse during Steam sales and never-ever touching them. #digitalhoarder4life
No.12813
>>12811Modern games(/media in general) have been so dog doodoo I've actually started chipping away at my backlog in earnest. It feels good man.
No.12825
>>12813nta but same for me. A before the pandemic when I finally had enough money for that I played games but also bought a lot of them to catch to game releases that interested me. Then in 2020 I bought a Switch when they were finally in stock again in stores and online, I bought a shit ton of Switch games since then and nearly finished the backlog I had at the time. Then I bought less and less games and now I only plan to buy a few games that were released a few years ago that I simply haven't bought yet and that's just like three of them. So my backlog is full of games now but not for very long. And if I don't count visual novels I buy on Steam my backlog isn't that big.
No.12826
>>12811I forced myself to stop buying from steam sales lately but then I ended up buying a pile of retro games that I'm also not progressing through fast enough.
No.12850
>>12811>>12813>>12826Based golden oldies lovers. What games are you playing and chipping away at in your backlogs? Be specific ffs!
No.12852
>>12850I already blogposted about Togainu no Chi in the BL games thread, but for game games I'm currently playing Xanadu Next. It falls under the "westaboo" umbrella, which is usually a good time for me. It's one of those games with design elements old enough that it's a balancing act between "the dopamine hit of figuring out stuff for myself" and "peeking at a guide because I don't want to dally with my free time". Certain bits of the game are impossible to brute force so you have to engage with the systems to find the right combo to proceed. While I think this is "good" game design it's at odds with my desire to play what I want 100% of the time.
No.12854
>>12850Right now I finished the main plot of Pokemon Legends ZA so I'm talking a break from it before completing the pokedex and maybe trying the DLC. I'm in the middle of Unicorn Overlord as well so I will focus on that game for now. After that I will focus on Devil Survivor games on the 3DS, FF Pixel Remaster on the Switch and Zelda games on the 3DS because I've owned these games for a while. After that I'd like to beat the other Switch that I haven't started or barely started yet, so SMT3 HD remaster, Raidou remaster and Zelda BOTW. My other Switch games I think I'll replay them later on NG+ runs. The other games and VNs I have on PC and other consoles can wait for now.
No.12857
>>12854Funny enough I just finished the main story of ZA yesterday as well. I wanna complete the dex but I can't because I'm playing a pirated version lol
>>12855Never heard of Entralinked, will keep it in mind for my next playthroughs of Gen 5.
DS games have been slowly creeping up in price secondhand due to Tiktok, I kinda feel stupid for selling off my physical collection in 2020 if I knew how much more they could have been worth (probably like 5 dollars more for each, lmao)
No.12860
>>12857Ah shit, maybe we could have played online together and traded pokemon to make them evolve.
Although I named the playable character after myself so idk if that's a good idea, it would be like going off anon. If you ever try the DLC I'd love to know your opinion on it. I haven't bought it yet and won't do it until I have more free time.
No.12862
>>12857I'm not the one you asked but after watching a review and various player experiences of the DLC it sounded so disappointing for the price tag. If it was 15 bucks then maybe, but it mostly sounds like it was made for shiny hunters to grind out new targets and for 30 bucks I'd expect something more interesting.
>>12857>Never heard of Entralinked, will keep it in mind for my next playthroughs of Gen 5.I only dipped my toe into it but for now I used it to download a c gear and pokedex skin and it was pretty straightforward once I realised I had to edit the DNS server by going through the game first and not in the emulator menu. Even though I never played the sequel before I feel pretty confident in saying gen 5 is my favourite generation.
No.12866
>>12862>it mostly sounds like it was made for shiny hunters to grind out new targetsReally? That's not really my thing, I like finding shiny pokemon by luck while playing like I normally do. I liked the DLC in SWSH and SV more than the main games so that sounds a bit disappointing.
No.12956
Is anyone hyped for new Resident Evil? I never played village or 7, but I am kinda hyped for this one
>inb4 Leon
It's not only that but the atmosphere of the game, I also prefer third person RE to first person.
No.12968
>>12956Leon is an old man so no
No.12982
>>12968>inb4At least Leon yumes are honest kek.
I am Piers x Chris fujo so the only game that had bl vibes died long ago.
No.12983
>>12979I only played Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 7 Remake on the PS5 so far. I plan on getting FF7 Rebirth once I beat more games in my backlog at the very least and I downloaded the demo for Metaphor but haven't started it yet. I liked FF16, it's not too difficult, it's just that the beginning is very slow when it comes to the gameplay but once you get more abilities combats become way more fun. If we're talking about it from a BL point of view the game focuses on the main character Clive and his little brother Joshua a lot to the point where Joshua feels like he's the actual heroine. But Clive has a female love interest who has a lot of screentime even if she's irrelevant
they even have a scene where they talk butt naked after they finally have sex but the framing of it is a bit cringe worthy. Like the writers wanted to make the story look more mature than it is idk. Regardless I recommend you download the demo and try it before purchasing it. People said the game feels less like Final Fantasy and more like a Game of Throne copy but the further you go into the game the less true it is.
Then you have a canon gay pairing, Dion and his bishonen bodyguard. Which was very well received even by gamergate dudebros because it felt less like LGBTQ+ representation by out of touch boomers and gen X writers, and more like the cool, handsome guy voiced by Yuuichi Nakamura with the coolest boss fight in the game or even the whole series just happens to have a boyfriend. Their backstory isn't shown in the game, it's in an Ultima guidebook so I'll summarize it here:
they're childhood friends who had a crush on each other for a very long time. Terrence eventually becomes Dion's page. They were involved in a battle together when they're like 17 or 18 years old but Dion becomes severely injured and Terrence nurses him back to health and they confess their feelings for each other because it feels like an emergency, it's now or never. Then they start dating after that event.tldr about FF16; there's a canon gay pairing with an important character and and NPC, and you can easily interpret the relationship between the MC and his little brother as brocon.
No.12984
>>12983I'm not usually the type of woman who will immediately start complaining about the writing of female characters in videogames but even I noticed that Jill is barely written any better than Rosa FF4 who was made in 1991 and Jill is far less interesting than the women in FF5 and 6 who were also written in the SNES era like Rosa. I've seen hetshippers cry about how they need to drown out the ~gross brother shippers~ by shipping Clive/Jill harder but instead of being annoyed at them I just find the whole thing funny. You wouldn't need to try that hard if the canon ship was actually interesting.
No.12985
>>12984At least Rosa saved my ass plenty of times during battles in FF4 on the DS, she was my MVP. Jill isn't a playable character so something like that can't even help her. She's nothing more than a love interest and damsel in distress and she shows up too early to have a cool boss fight like the other dominants. I still wanted to mention her because the scene I described in spoilers is so in your face I'd rather warn other anons.