/vx/ - Videogames and Paranormal

Welcome to the new /vx/ board - Videoganes and Paranormal! Just as mlpol was born of the merging of two wildly different topics into a single merged board, this board combines the topics of 4chans /v/, /x/, and /tg/ boards. And while /vint/ did not live on as we did, this board pays homage to the board, created and killed by an indifferent 4chan administration, in the flags that adorn this board.

As this is a new board, it does not have a firmly established set of rules. Unlike 4chan, this is a user driven site, and we are looking for user input into what the rules of this new board should be. Post your suggestions in the comments

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"Dominion of Darkness” is a strategy text game in which the player takes on the role of a Sauron-style Lord of Darkness with the goal of conquering the world. He will carry out his plans by making various decisions. He will build his army and send it into battles, weave intrigues and deceptions, create secret spy networks and sectarian cults, recruit agents and commanders, corrupt representatives of Free Peoples and sow discord among them, collect magical artifacts and perform sinister plots. Note – one game takes about 1 hour, but the premise is that the game can be approached several times, each time making different decisions, getting different results and discovering something new.

Game is avalaible for free, online: https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominion

I am constantly improving the game, adding new content and mechanics, so Your feedback would matter.

If you are hesitant to play the game, I invite you to watch/listen to the reviews:

Indie Sampler (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM6f4UCEgWU

[BOKC] BlancoKix (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgNpSKToOSg

One of these threads.

~ Vintage Story shill thread ~
Today I am going to take the initiative of enlightening you autists on a better Minecraft alternative called Vintage Story.

What is Vintage Story?
> Vintage Story is an uncompromising wilderness survival sandbox game inspired by lovecraftian horror themes. Find yourself in a ruined world reclaimed by nature and permeated by unnerving temporal disturbances. Relive the advent of human civilization, or take your own path.
> Trailer: https://youtu.be/NJjifFq1NGY

What are its features?
> Microblock chiseling to fullfill your every antisemetic or autistic desire
> Beyond sexy world generation with REEEalistic geology and mineral dispersion
> Written in chad C++ instead of virgin Java
> Anarcho-Primitivism!
> Seasons and climates
> Automatically managed server mods
> Based community
> Native land claim support

So what are you waiting for anon? Spam NIGGER on your minecraft account, get banned, then come and play Vintage Story today!
Free Key: https://account.vintagestory.at/createaccount?gamekeycode=vHm21EG4nPTKaDylgQsWju7yVx%2BT%2FpwPLdt4eRMMAqM%3D
Crack: https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=63310107 (use at own risk)
Servers: /vm: 35.185.72.191:42420 Dove's: 144.126.153.95:28300

VVV Minecraft/Bill hate thread or questions/comments below VVV

If you thought the current landscape of video game consoles and handhelds was already packed, the entirety of Russia has something to say about that. At the very least, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin does, since he’s issued a mandate: produce Russian video game consoles to compete with the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Bit of a tall order there.

Per a report from the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the order was handed down from the Kremlin to “consider the issue of organizing the production of stationary and portable game consoles and game consoles.” Kommersant’s sources tell the nationally distributed Russian paper that the VK Group, a major Russian tech company behind the similarly named social media service VK, will be largely responsible for the project. The production of consoles will be handled by the GS Group, which was previously known as General Satellite and is the single largest Russian developer of set-top boxes.

As part of the order from the Russian government on March 25, the VK and GS Groups will be responsible for producing both home and portable consoles for Russian consumers by June 15, 2024. The order has only grown taller.

As an additional measure of Russia’s order, these developers have also been tasked with the “creation of an operating system and a cloud system for delivering games and programs to users.” Again, the government and these developers have been ordered to realize this by the middle of June. Of this year. Our own functional cloud services, like Remote Play and PS3 game streaming on PS5, still falter, leaving the possibility of realizing this in a matter of months unfeasible.

Per the Kommersant, analysts are already saying that “there is no competence to produce their own PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and creating such a system from scratch will take up to ten years.”
https://kotaku.com/putin-russia-consoles-playstation-xbox-1851388516

>over 700 cops
>SWAT, and Military
>all flights grounded
>black hawks seeing flying around
>60 thousand homes with cut power
>People running in terror, claim they saw large 7-8ft tall "entities"
>All 5g towers and internet in the area shutdown
Seriously, wtf happened?

https://www.equestriadaily.com/2024/04/war-thunder-mobile-brings-back-pony-for.html?m=1
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DLYTQQ8BBSA
Runs through April 8th.

Threads about this company, Sweet Baby Inc., are being constantly moved from /v/ to /pol/.

>Sweet Baby Inc. is not the
largest narrative design company in the games industry. Nor is it solely responsible for the characters and stories in recent high-profile releases like Alan Wake 2, God of War Ragnarok, and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. But good luck telling some gamers that.

>Though these kinds of social media posts argue that companies like Sweet Baby Inc. somehow “force” game studios to include diverse characters and storylines, the reality is vastly different. Sweet Baby Inc. is a narrative design company, meaning most of its work is focused on writing stories and dialogue—they are not a DEI consultancy firm. That means they ensure a game’s plot points make logical sense and are satisfying to players, and that characters speak and behave in consistent ways. Narrative designers may also provide a final round of polish, like a Hollywood “script doctor.” For example, the team worked on Suicide Squad long after the story was written—and even then they joined just to write in-game ads, audio logs, and NPC “barks,” CEO Kim Belair tells me over video call.

Thoughts?

https://kotaku.com/sweet-baby-inc-consulting-games-alan-wake-2-dei-1851312428