/ch3/ - Video Games

>>14295
The new graphics engine is enough of a reason for me to avoid it. I'm stuck on the overall look of the original, even if there are certain things I don't like about it. Other than that, I feel like it's getting overly narrow with its civilizations for the exact reason you mentioned. To me the pre-Definitive Edition expansions already struck a good balance.
>>14297
And the Chinese faction wasn't very interesting in that Age of Mythology expansion from what I read. I still never bothered buying it.
>>14303
>True but vanilla is still top tier and there was nothing like it back then, or even today.
If it wasn't for the difference in setting, even vanilla Company of Heroes would almost make Dawn of War feel obsolete. I never liked how clunky the vehicles feel in Dawn of War.
>Something like that won't ever be made ever again.
For a long time I've wished we could at least get an open-source equivalent of Company of Heroes. I'm not even saying it would necessarily have to use the same engine. I would prefer a detailed 2D game in terms of aesthetics if it could be pulled off. While it's nice to be able to go down to the ground level and rotate the camera, I've always disliked the way 2D strategy games have been supplanted by 3D ones. Especially when there games that looked as good as American Conquest coming out. Maybe that would make things like the terrain destruction harder to implement though.
>The amount of innovation Relic introduced in the span of merely 10 years was unreal.
True. I remember the Homeworld games from back in the day, although I never got to give them a try, but the games from Impossible Creatures to Company of Heroes each added at least something really interesting to the genre. In particular Dawn of War and Company of Heroes found ways to streamline the genre and limit the gookclick tendencies within RTS games without jettisoning the integral resource management and recruitment aspects and just becoming RTT games. Although I have lots of nostalgia for the '90s Blizzard games and respect them a lot, I think it was the right move to move away from micromanagPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>14304
>I'm stuck on the overall look of the original
me too, i like the gritty look of those old prerendered 3D models as sprites style games

>>14304
>I never liked how clunky the vehicles feel in Dawn of War.
The fact that Dawn of War 2 kept the same awful basic ass system as 1 still breaks my heart.
>I would prefer a detailed 2D game in terms of aesthetics if it could be pulled off. While it's nice to be able to go down to the ground level and rotate the camera, I've always disliked the way 2D strategy games have been supplanted by 3D ones.
I agree in spirit, but it's impossible to make 2D sprites play like modern titles, at least in isometric view, top down view with less detailed models makes things easier, which is why Flash Games like Mud and Blood 2 have such fantastic amounts of content and detail.
Closest thing is Dorf RTS who went from sprites to voxels exactly due to running into impossible to solve physics issues.
I really do understand you, especially back then, going from C&C Red Alert 2 to something like Empire Earth was rough on the eyes, then again, the lower res and CRT scanlines hid a ton of blockyness.
You might want to give https://store.steampowered.com/app/3305930/Panzer_Strike/
A try, or the Close Combat series, though that one is closer to a RTT wargame with plenty of realistic autism.
>I never tried Homeworld
Please do, It's a fucking DUNE inspired 6DOF RTS, there's nothing like it and it might me of the most unique games ever made.

>>14307
I remember how high tech Age of Empires II felt to me when it came out compared to the original, like the little water effects when your units would walk through shallows. I still think it looks good in most ways.
>>14309
>I agree in spirit, but it's impossible to make 2D sprites play like modern titles, at least in isometric view, top down view with less detailed models makes things easier, which is why Flash Games like Mud and Blood 2 have such fantastic amounts of content and detail.
Do you have anything simple I could read about that? I'm a complete layman when it comes to the technical aspects of games and have never heard that before.
>Closest thing is Dorf RTS who went from sprites to voxels exactly due to running into impossible to solve physics issues.
I was actually going to mention that due to how they're doing the lighting system
>I really do understand you, especially back then, going from C&C Red Alert 2 to something like Empire Earth was rough on the eyes, then again, the lower res and CRT scanlines hid a ton of blockyness.
Empire Earth was such a letdown for me as a kid. I remember visiting the website, playing the demo, and being so excited about it coming out. I actually had family members being on the lookout for it in stores (although I do think I saw it in Wal-Mart once around that time), but I was disappointed when I actually played it. That didn't stop me from paging through the thick strategy guide it came with.

I've always thought it was disappointing due to the scale of the game being an inch deep and a mile wide, but Rise of Nations came out a few years later with a similar but reduced scale and did it well. That's still one of my favorite games. I decided in recent years that the AI in the skirmish games was one of the reasons the game never connected with me. I just never found it fun to play against. Rise of Nations has much better AI than the average RTS game in that it plays more like a human and tends to fight in formation and everything. Even back then I preferred 2D graphics engines too. There are some I think that added something to the game, like Populous: The Beginning. That's a lot of fun and wouldn't be the same iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Yunru is a loli

>>14193
The Jurassic Park for SNES did some neat things. I remember the difficulty being high. It had a FPS mode when you went inside the buildings. They should've just made the whole game a FPS, imho.

>>14194
Too bad it had no save system or other method of continuing your progress later. Massive flaw in a game that didn't appear to be trying to be arcade-like.

>>14195
Arcade games gave you unlimited lives and let you start exactly from where you died as long as you forked over that quarter.

Fucking hate when people call these older consoles games "Arcade like", they were just bullshit.

>>14189
>>14193
I've also CONQUERED Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues on Game Boy. I guess The Lost World: Jurassic Park was taking too long so they went ahead and made their own sequel, where the plot is essentially… you go to Jurassic Park, kill some of the dinossaurs, and then leave… it's great, it helps that it plays incredible, I had a genuinely hard time putting it down.

>>14194
I'm curious about the top down perspective titles, though the ones I'm most curious about is the 1st title on PC and Lost World on Genesis, for some reason the Game Boy, NES and SNES versions always felt like they'd be frustrating for me for some reason, maybe I'm just bad at video games… but the lack of saving on SNES for me seems like a pain as it looks long…

>>12976
I've conquered Gafield: Caught in the Act on Genesis… I was worried it'd be one of those titles where all its got is the looks, and while the presentation is the best part, the title as a whole plays well and has fun level and boss design, I had a good time playing and I'm hoping to give the Game Gear port and the Lost Levels that just came out a try soon enough, it's fun!

>>13970
What the hell are you talking about?

>>13973
This guy Harman Smith believes that the US government is favoring Nintendo when they're sending C&D warnings.

>>14019
Imagine being a grown man and acting like this

>>14024
Has anyone read his books? He's such a (((special))) boy.

>>14293
Is that his wife's black son at the end of the video?

>>14212
>nipples outside his uniform

Good lore addition

>>14078
It's a fucking hugbox simulator, how terminal online one has to be to find sexually appealing creatures that don't even resemblance a human being?

>>14228
>how terminal online one has to be to find sexually appealing creatures that don't even resemblance a human being?
That's just furfags. This gayme is tailor made to appeal to terminally online tumblr/reddit degenerates. From the le heckin wacky "humor" to every character looking like what furfags think their cum and shit encrusted costumes look like or how the entire gayme's theme is basically 'if you kill your enemies they win.'

>>14228
>>14234
the game's initial popularity before release was mostly because of the demo, which was entirely centered around the player's interactions with the furry goat "milf" character
there's even dialogue options where the player can flirt with her iirc, though they don't lead to any actual romance.

>>14173
I don't understand what you're trying to say with that image.

Why are Nintentoddlers so fucking embarassing?
Jesus fucking Christ

>>14174
he's telling you to download the justin bailey mod for super metroid
https://cdromance.org/snes-rom/super-metroid-justin-bailey-hack/

>>14176
>there is a coomer mod for Super Metroid of all things
Nice, do Samus' boobs bounce in that?

>>14178
i only played it for 5 minutes but I don't think so, if they do it is subtle rather than exaggerating gainaxing

Stacy is cute

>>14110
It's actually just a really elaborate shitpost by an Aussie

>>14112
I wish that was the case, but this whole thing was created by some spineless Afrikaans

B-but Fallout is suppose to be sarcastic le wacky reddit chungus dialog options!

>>14113
Redditors were so confident that being politically correct nerds was the way forward and exposed themselves so hard over the last few years that even other normalfags hate them now.

Did they dump the dogshit tabletop-derived skill system?

>>14114
Even other leftiod pedophile enablers hate retardditors.

>>14072
Classics to listen to while I play MOON.

>>14100
Soynyniggers are truly the brokenest of bucks.

New kino just arrived!

>>14097
I hope the Switch port is okay, haven't seen any gameplay footage of it, but that's what I'll probably be playing this on.

>>14103
That sounds comfy. The Switch 1 or 2?

>>14104
Switch 1, but it'll be on both. It's coming to all active platforms.

>>14101
Tezuka did it while Walt was still alive

>>14097
Now this does look cool