/vx/ - Videogames and Paranormal

>>454
Could be Miley Highliss then.

>>489
Surprised we haven't seen more of her on this board, desu.

>>492
Looks like there's an official backstory for her.

How's the progress on this?

>>818
>>373
Yeah, I'm curious too, are you still here OP? Post your discord or something, I'm still interested in helping you write the game if the offer is still valid

>>820
Seconded.

>>798
My favorite gameboy games, hands down, were the Tony Hawk's proskater series. I could play those for hours, and every game in the series offered something.
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>>799

they had those on gameboy? I got the gba jetsetradio

Advance Wars is one of my favorite gameboy games.

It's a turn based strategy wargame with a fun cast.

I wish that they'd revive the series :(

The final title, Days of Ruin for the DS, shook up the formula too much. I liked it, and mechanically it was fun, but the darker theme and completely new cast didn't click well with fans of the series.

>>802
the Advance Wars series is one of my personal favs

>>798
For GBA, get Donkey Kong Country, Metroid, Fire Emblem, Zelda Link to the Past, Zelda Minish Cap, and Eragon

Pinball: Revenge of the Gator is pretty good. It's pinball. With gators. And balls.

>>802
The fandom made a BRILLIANT hard-levels hack for that game.

>>641
It's on Xbox One and PC, yes. I'd say it's fairly Lovecraftian. If the game could be played from the First-Person, it'd be a horror game.

>>641
While nowhere near as Lovecraftian as its sibling franchise Bloodborne, it definitely has quite a few of the same themes. You can get it on Ps4, Xbone or PC but I recommend getting it on console, if only just because the Keyboard and Mouse controls for Dark Souls are awful.

Bloodborne's only on PS4, in case you were considering it.

I've played dark souls 2 and 3 on pc. I've been meaning to play 1 and complete the DLCs.

A game pad is necessary because HOLY SHIT THE KB+MOUSE CONTROLS ARE TERRIBLE.

Apologies for the all caps, but trust me that they're warranted.

I'm a little disappointed that there isn't more Dark Souls players on /mlpol/. It's a game that truly embodies /vx/.

>>792
I wish a had a gaming PC, I only use a console since I can't afford to make a decent one. Thanks for posting, btw.

>>794
>I'm a little disappointed that there isn't more Dark Souls players on /mlpol/. It's a game that truly embodies /vx/.
Well /mlpol/ wasn't born until after all of the Dark Souls hype had come and gone. The final DLC was already released by then, and the PvP was arguably really shit in DS3 compared to DS2.

Honestly I'm still a bit salty how badly they gimped offhand weapons in DS3 compared to DS2. If you haven't played two, you maintained the weapon's full offensive moveset while it was in your offhand. All of your light, heavy, rolling, running, jumping, etc attacks. While in three your offhand weapon just gets its light attack, and there is an awkward moment where your character spends a frame or two getting into a neutral position before performing the attack.

By far my favored weapon pairing was a mainhand rapier and an offhand curved sword. Usually the Espada Ropera and Manikin Sabre. That gave me the rapier's excellent pokes and the ability to parry attacks (rapier R2 was a parry instead of a heavy attack), while also pairing it with the curved sword's close in wide sweeping attacks. If your stats where high enough, you could adopt a "power stance" with the weapons which added a few variations to the attack patterns and notably added an exhausting "spin to win" attack that honestly was parry bait but god help them if you caught them with their pants down and hit them with it.

I think DSIII was supposed to be the final game in the franchise, but the game was so popular that surely they'll make another souls-like game in the relatively near future.

One of these days I'm going to sit down and play through all the games in some marathon session. Probably record myself for all of the boss fights. Some of them are EXTREMELY satisfying victories. Defeating Fume Knight for the first time was exhilarating, and I've heard that the Artorias fight in DSI was superb.

>I wish a had a gaming PC, I only use a console since I can't afford to make a decent one.
The nice thing about gaming PC's is that they're extremely modular. You can split the cost of a powerful rig over several years.

If I were building a new machine from scratch, I would splurge with the following components from the start.

1: A spacious full tower case. They're fuck-huge, so that can be a problem for some people, but they're SO much easier to work with. Also, many aftermarket CPU coolers are too fuckhuge to fit in smaller cases. Features to look for are dust filters, removable side panels, large fan slots, and occasionally you can find some with a nice removable try that the motherboard will sit on.
2: A high end power supply unit that gives you more juice than you'll think that you'll need. Ideally a modular one so that your case isn't cluttered with an octopus of unused cables...just don't lose the cables. DO NOT SKIMP ON THIS MOTHERFUCKER. A shitty PSU can cause so many hardware failure headaches that are a bitch to troubleshoot.
3: A quality motherboard that's using the newest CPU socket, and has plenty of slots for future expansion.

I'd skimp on most everything else for the initial build:
1: We don't need a high-end CPU right away, but it's important to be using the latest socket because today's top-end CPU's will be tomorrow's bargain bin CPU's. Many game's don't really stress the CPU that much anyway.
2: We can skimp on the graphics card with an entry or midrange model for now. Midrange stuff should play most everything on at least medium or low grpahics for years to come. Eventually upgrade to a high end card, but keep the old card in your closet as the "spare tire" for your machine just in case your fancy card dies on you.
3: You can always add more RAM at a future date.
4: You can always add more hard drives at a future date. SSD's are awesome but not necessary. I highly recommend buying at least a small one for your Operating System installation though.
5: You can probably get away with using a stock CPU cooler for an initial build, but they're pretty shit. An upgraded cooler will give you better cooling and quieter operation. It also opens the door to allowing you to have sufficient cooling to consider overclocking your CPU for a budget performance boost. I'm fond of some of the liquid cooling units that are available today. That does put liquid inside your machine though, so if that makes you uneasy then a conventional cooling fan is always an option. The more enormous the better. You want a giant copper heatsink with lots of fins and a large diameter fan to move air across it. The full tower case comes in handy with a conventional cooling fan. Whenever you mess around with replacing a CPU cooler, you want to make sure that you do it right. You can look up videos about how to properly clean and prepare the mating surfaces, and also how to apply the thermal paste properly.

Holy shit I didnt know we had one of these. Imma need someone to help me with the latest dlc on PC.

>>588
Why are people who document this kind of stuff always so shit at photography? Would it have killed them to set up a constant video, instead of giving us a fucking slideshow of individual photos?

>>588
Holy shit, this is near my area. I'm going to see if I can't go there and confirm this.

>>664
bring back images if you can, I want to see this shit.

>>664
So when is our /vx/ intel gathering mission happening, Agent? :)

>>679
>>728
I'm sorry, Agents. I couldn't make it down there. Too much going on right now to see it.

>>795
It's fine, soldier. you did what you could, and that's what matters.

>>786
I've seen those places, it's not great. some cringey shit goes down there, and unless the server's gonna require a password then it's still open to that shit and you'd be surprised how resistant the gmod community is to some things.

Gmod was the greatest thing ever, back when you were about 12 or 13. That rule still applies. It's highly autistic and low effort, making it available to everybody. Again, great if you are a kid, not so great for us. I wish gmod matured with the player base, but it is and will forever be primarily the playground of children. I'd love to have a good game platform to RP with in a relatively non-cringe way, but Gmod is not it. Patriot Anon is right too. You'd have to password it.

>>789
>>790
They called passworded servers, name the server a random collection of digits and post rhe password here

>>742
>developed its own language
Holy shit. What?

>>743
Basically, it or they (dunno if it was 1 or 2 softwares) started to use some english-babbling but it was enough to communicate on the basic level. I do belive they could develop sentience if running for a certain period of time.

And funny Tay posts would have been least of our problems.

>>742
Good thing is that if these AIs get implemented and try to take over humans with weapons and such, they will always fail. Because these robots would be a bit too expensive to really spread all over the globe. Besides, Russia wouldn't be fooled and implemented it as well.

But if they were to try doing it like illuminati... I don't know if we have a chance. Kikebook should be shutdown.

shitty EA game that'll never be good as the original.

>>678
The newest ST: Battlefront was such a let down. Multiplayer was incredibly shallow, I don't think I played it for a week before getting bored. No single player, no space battles, 60 dollers up front that well over doubled in price from dlc. The only good thing about it is it looked fucking great but that's it. Everything but its graphics is shit. I don't know why I expected more.

>>718
I think we could have become a space faring civilisations shortly after WW2 but we instead changed our focus to one uping each other and secretly working out better ways to kill each other.

Divert military spending to spacecraft development and we would already be on a few planets and moons.

Instead we prefer to kill each other.
The tech already exists, but it is classified.

>>720
and to some extent, wasn't our one-upping each other based off of (((their))) intent to force us into a mutually assured death?

>>721
perhaps. But even if (((they))) didn't exist wouldn't there always be predators in any system. Shouldn't we be able to resist all predators?

>>722
if (((they))) didn't exist, it's quite likely that we'd be the apex predators, and not require any resistance on our part except from external threats.

>>723
Interesting response. Plausible.

Back to "Aliens as a coverup":

1977 - Senate Hearing on MKULTRA
1978 - nuclear physicist and author Stanton T. Friedman starts interviewing Jesse Marcel regarding Roswell UFO Incident
1979 - a Nazi Flying Disk landed in Germany and was photographed multiple times. >>>/mlpol/56131 →
1980 - GENE CLONING: Stanley Norman Cohen and Herbert Boyer received first U.S. patent for gene cloning – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20genetics#The_genomics_era
1980 - The first conspiracy book about Roswell UFO Incident was The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz (13 years US Army, mostly intelligence) and Bill Moore (ufologist) (1989 MUFON conference, Moore claimed: did “disinformation” against Bennewitz for AFOSI - United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations).

Timelining events is very interesting. And we can see that the grey alien idea is associated to military psyops and occurs around the time we develop cloning.

Just a coincidence.

>>729
Free you say? I love free, although I'm very skeptical about trying anything new. Generally I just stay with my Civ 4 games. I know those are fun

>>730
I await your findings :)

How has it been so far quality wise?

>>735
It seems well designed. It is easy to get into but shows potential to be as complex as you like. You start with one ship and you can just trade and get your bearing. You can max out at something like having a whole fleet armed and take on pirate(s)/planets and steal all their stuff or be a pirate yourself.

You can also optionally take on missions if you prefer a more role play style. It is very open ended and in the absence of anything else you can just capitalistically transport and trade goods.

Ships can be quite configurable too, I think especially as they get larger and you can covert space between cargo holds or equipment "holds" (ie. weapons and defence measures).

>>621
>all that work for something that isn't functional until the very end of the production cycle
It is so true. And at times you can't even test the code before you have written countless lines of it.

Can't say I have any big (or small) projects I am working on at the moment. Sadly I am mostly intermittently inspired to write some code (game) but I find it more fun making parts of it work than the whole. So when I know I can do some functionality I know I could make it all (given enough time), but it is a mountain of work to complete it. And I am shit at graphic and sound, and that is what makes a game I think, at least for the end user. The spreadsheet stuff (the code) in the background is pretty straight forward with some trial and error. But at that time I am "bored" as the fun stuff figuring out how to solve a problem is over. And it is much more fun finding an solution than to refine the solution into a finished product.
If you want someone to help with your game I am willing to join in. I have to say I am mainly a C guy and dabbling a bit in C# because of Unity, and I have some experience in PHP for web.

I've been wanting to make an Arcade flying game more or less in the style of Race The Sun but more free flying and random terrain.

>>624

>Sadly I am mostly intermittently inspired to write some code (game) but I find it more fun making parts of it work than the whole

I know this feeling all to well, sometimes a break though in how to get something working is so exiting that moving on to the next part can be demotivating, because you worked so hard to figure one aspect out, only to realize that there is so much more to be done before the dream comes alive.

>The spreadsheet stuff (the code) in the background is pretty straight forward with some trial and error. But at that time I am "bored" as the fun stuff figuring out how to solve a problem is over

Coding is the prefect mix of creativeness and logic solving, and once it's over and you found the solution, implantation can feel like a chore.

>but it is a mountain of work to complete it

Isn't that amazing, the idea that it can all "work". I love that part about being a programmer, it almost feels like anything is possible, that no matter how big the project is, it's all small little steps.

>And I am shit at graphic and sound, and that is what makes a game I think, at least for the end user.

Graphics can be so important, and yet not really that important to the coder. Did you try learning OpenGl or Directx? Something else? I'm also shit at graphics, I was learning OpenGL for awhile then I realized just how much work I would have to do and decided to keep it text-console based for now.

>If you want someone to help with your game I am willing to join in. I have to say I am mainly a C guy and dabbling a bit in C# because of Unity, and I have some experience in PHP for web.

Hey that would be awesome, though my coding style uses a lot of vectors and loops, with almost no documentation except for little notes that only make sense to me. Haha, still maybe, if your around you could help me with solving coding problems when I get back to work on my project.

>>627
Regarding coding Graphics I was dabbling with a few graphic libraries but switched to Unity as it has all you need (same for Unreal and CryEngine etc). The problem I have with graphics is making 3D models to put in the game or tiles or animations, the Artsy stuff. Putting an image into a game is fairly easy, drawing an image that looks good is another story.

I fully understand the problem you have. Commenting and documenting code is as boring and important as making flowcharts before you start coding. So it never happens. When you find yourself barely understanding your own code without backtracking where the function calls go it is hard to explain it to others.
But just let me know (post in /vx/) if you need help or want input on anything.

>>630
>The problem I have with graphics is making 3D models to put in the game or tiles or animations, the Artsy stuff. Putting an image into a game is fairly easy, drawing an image that looks good is another story.

Oh I know, I'm not a natural artist, I may have potential to be one, but the hours and hours of practice I would need would just to get something decent is to much for me.

>But just let me know (post in /vx/) if you need help or want input on anything.

Yeah, that would awesome. The last thing I was doing for my civilization game was trying to figure out a game mechanic and how it would work in the game, so it wasn't so much a coding issue but a concept issue. If I come across something I could use some help with, I'll look for you here on this board.

Same for me by the way, I wouldn't mind helping with figuring out an aspect of code if you wanted help.

>>577
Same for your game(though I know nothing about HTML code) but I'm sure the concepts(looping though information, the objects) still apply, if it's possible to translate the ideas into HTML then I'm willing to help.

>>632
Many thanks, and also same goes for you >>577 just let me know if there is anything you need help with or input on.

>>627
>Coding is the prefect mix of creativeness and logic solving, and once it's over and you found the solution, implantation can feel like a chore.

Then why not have somebody less skilled in code to do the implantation for you?