Thanks

It's a trip.

Quote from: Ladybird;788497Just look at the fanart, same effect, much faster.

Gah.

I try not to look at fanart at all, after I came across fanart for Thrall and Jaina. And High Inquisitor Whitemane.

Quote from: flyerfan1991;788762Gah.

I try not to look at fanart at all, after I came across fanart for Thrall and Jaina. And High Inquisitor Whitemane.

The sonic fanbase is basically the worst thing in the world in every possible way.

Took a break from wasteland 2 to check out something else I backed a while ago. Road Redemption, a revamp of road rash. First thing, the controls are simply right, it drives like the old road rash games, which is something the 3d editions of that series forgot. Second thing, the devs have no fear of being silly. Cops who drive like mad men, racing against cars that will drive off the road to kill you, swinging a battle axe at someone while moving at top speed, weaving in and out through the cars that are falling from the sky, jumping from roof top to roof top while having to grapple off a helicopter to get enough distance to make it to the next one and my personal favorite, shooting a grenade launcher on rainbow road to take out enough of the opposition to win the race.

I think the last one is the only one that won't make final release.

Despite being rather stupid and pretty gonzo, it's damn fun. There's a lot of different ways your reflexes get tested, and occasionally serious tests of your ability to plan the next five seconds in such a way everyone else gets crushed by the oncoming traffic without you. Think I may bug them a bit about classic mode that's just a series of races since it does play so well it makes me a bit nostalgic, but it's all damn fun.

Quote from: Piestrio;788768The sonic fanbase is basically the worst thing in the world in every possible way.

Yeah, it's gotten to the point that many of the smarter ones openly hate and flagellate themselves whenever the subject comes up.

Anyway, I've started playing FEZ because of the Phil Fish thread in this very subforum. It's great, I'm so glad the domino effect of hate and counter-hate brought it to my attention.

I've been playing Wasteland 2 almost non-stop (in my free time at least) the last week.

It made me realize that I didn't stop loving to play video games, they just stopped making games I loved to play.

Anyone familiar with Wakfu?

Its an isometric, turn-based, anime-themed, fantasy MMO.

I played out the training and first quest last night. Nice sedate pace for me! Turn-based combat is a real change from WoW button mashing.

One interesting thing I haven't been aware of in games is that with this one you can affect the ecosystem. If you kill too many creatures without stocking them later with professions, skills and so on, they die out!

Quote from: BarefootGaijin;790374Anyone familiar with Wakfu?

Its an isometric, turn-based, anime-themed, fantasy MMO.

I played out the training and first quest last night. Nice sedate pace for me! Turn-based combat is a real change from WoW button mashing.

One interesting thing I haven't been aware of in games is that with this one you can affect the ecosystem. If you kill too many creatures without stocking them later with professions, skills and so on, they die out!

The idea of a turn-based MMORPG intrigues me because I for one am fucking sick of rushing through dungeons and raids.

But the art, ewgh. It's like someone reached inside my head, took everything I hate about East Asian pop art in the anime/manga tradition and crafted something to spite me with laser-like precision.

And I thought Tera and LoL were bad enough.

Quote from: The Butcher;790377The idea of a turn-based MMORPG intrigues me because I for one am fucking sick of rushing through dungeons and raids.

But the art, ewgh. It's like someone reached inside my head, took everything I hate about East Asian pop art in the anime/manga tradition and crafted something to spite me with laser-like precision.

And I thought Tera and LoL were bad enough.

Yeah, I can see how it might grate. I need to research and see if it is "anime" for "Western" audiences of "domestic" audiences. It might be quite telling.

Edit: aaaah. A French company making MM0s "in the style of". At least at first glance.

Quote from: BarefootGaijin;790378Yeah, I can see how it might grate. I need to research and see if it is "anime" for "Western" audiences of "domestic" audiences. It might be quite telling.

Edit: aaaah. A French company making MM0s "in the style of". At least at first glance.

...which I find really funny, because games by Level 5 (A japanese developer) always seem to have animation "in the style of" being French.

Quote from: BarefootGaijin;790378Yeah, I can see how it might grate. I need to research and see if it is "anime" for "Western" audiences of "domestic" audiences. It might be quite telling.

Edit: aaaah. A French company making MM0s "in the style of". At least at first glance.

Makes sense. I've had similar reactions to anime/manga-influenced Euro art before.

No indictment of the game itself, mind you. But aesthetics is a huge part of what draws me to (or turns me off of) a game.

Quote from: The Butcher;790382Makes sense. I've had similar reactions to anime/manga-influenced Euro art before.

No indictment of the game itself, mind you. But aesthetics is a huge part of what draws me to (or turns me off of) a game.

I quite agree. My point about "western company" employing certain genre conventions that are readily apparent, rather than a domestic Japanese/Chinese/insert-nation-here company using signifiers and aesthetics that are "normal" comes in to play.

There are many games that are not sold to the western markets because there is little incentive (financial?). This affects computer games and TRPGs. There is niche interest and this is filled by people who want to see, do and play these games. To do this they (seem to) take all the biggest and brightest ideas and mash them together to create a faux-asian looking game.

Maybe. I am generalising, but it might explain why anime-esque or manga-ish games rub people up the wrong way.

Quote from: The Butcher;790377The idea of a turn-based MMORPG intrigues me because I for one am fucking sick of rushing through dungeons and raids.

But the art, ewgh. It's like someone reached inside my head, took everything I hate about East Asian pop art in the anime/manga tradition and crafted something to spite me with laser-like precision.

And I thought Tera and LoL were bad enough.

Atlantica Online is also turn based.

For pretty much the first 100 levels, it's sort of like old school games, only isometric.

You have your party in 3 rows of 3, and your opponents are generally 5 or so in some sort of formation. You can only attack the front row with melee weapons, missile weapons can attack the back.

Then later on in the game it's more like a man to man system, still turn based, but a lot more complex and somewhat broken (melee classes kind of are pointless in it)

My brother bought me Fantasy Life for my birthday.

It's a 3DS action RPG that could basically be called "cute Skyrim". You're dumped in a town, with a house. To progress, you take up various job classes (Called "lives"), go out into the world, and do stuff. Kill monsters to get their body parts, kill the scenery to get it's natural resources, craft them into better tools for the above tasks, craft better crafting tools, and repeat.

It's fun, I like it.

Steam says I have 2,464 hours of Dota 2.

I regret nothing...