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indie > AAA Anonymous 04/19/25(Sat)20:19:43 No.11562

recently ive taken up playing indies these days
i feel AAA games are too expensive and bloated with stupid checklists that consist of meaningless busy work
you pay top dollar… and they often aren't optimized well or can recieve updates that ruin the experience
indies are not only cheaper but you're in the pure gameloop much faster; open and play right away
no latest cutting edge visuals but theyve got striking unique artstyles instead

Anonymous 04/19/25(Sat)21:36:23 No.11563

Many indie devs are trannies.

Anonymous 04/19/25(Sat)21:41:11 No.11564

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>>11562
>bloated with stupid checklists that consist of meaningless busy work
Indie games are guilty of this too though - every other indie game is a fucking roguelike AKA we couldn't be bothered to make a real game so play some randomized dogshit 1000x until you win.

On a positive note, I finished I Am Your Beast recently and that game was non-stop action, shit is so cash

Anonymous 04/19/25(Sat)21:41:20 No.11565

>>11563
idk what the statistics are on that but if the game is fun then so what

Anonymous 04/19/25(Sat)21:41:35 No.11566

Last really good indie game I played was salt and sanctuary.

Anonymous 04/19/25(Sat)21:43:17 No.11567

>>11564
>shit is so cash
Glad you liked a game, might I ask what this 4um-zoomer speak means? Does it translate to "its cool."

Anonymous 04/19/25(Sat)21:54:27 No.11568

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>>11562
>theyve got striking unique artstyles instead
They're derivative of classic games, while retaining none of the magic

Anonymous 04/19/25(Sat)22:14:35 No.11570

>>11568
ill take close mimics to autuer visions over ue4/5 realism slop anyday

Anonymous 04/19/25(Sat)23:43:39 No.11572

>>11568
>"Mega Man" Battle Network
>"Mega Man" Legends
>classic
Get the fuck out.

Anonymous 04/20/25(Sun)00:03:34 No.11575

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>>11567
It's from a copypasta that's close to 20 years old now.

Anonymous 04/20/25(Sun)00:30:57 No.11576

>>11572
The games I chose were what I thought the indieshit OP posted looked derivative of, not necessarily what I like. The MMBN series is legendary though and defines the GBA, how could you disagree?

Anonymous 04/20/25(Sun)01:10:17 No.11577

>>11575
Ahh its le oldfeg meme.

Anonymous 04/20/25(Sun)01:43:33 No.11578

>>11576
Battle Network is and always was a shitass "Mega Man" spinoff trying to cash in on the Pokemon scam (two nearly identical fucking games required to access all the content) at the time. It well never be a classic.

Anonymous 04/20/25(Sun)02:07:16 No.11579

Any good indie games like oldschool shooters?

Anonymous 04/20/25(Sun)02:24:28 No.11581

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>>11579
Project Warlock

Anonymous 04/20/25(Sun)05:12:01 No.11584

>>11563
All AAA devs are trannies

Anonymous 04/20/25(Sun)05:18:49 No.11586

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>>11579
Cultic is top tier
Thought it's not completely finished
You should also play the whole Ashes 2063 series mods for GZDoom.

It's top tier ludokino of the highest caliber.
>Post Apoc setting with a supernatural twist
>90s as fuck
>Economy system with stores and items
>Based on Doom but plays like a mix of Dook and Blood
>Top tier soundtrack with remixes of classic shooter songs that are so well remadd that they just sneak in as the track plays

Anonymous 04/20/25(Sun)05:34:16 No.11591

>>11578
>it's… shitass!
>it's really one game split into two!!
It's clear you haven't played the games, but they're like an early 2000's kids' anime in game form. It's super nostalgic and the gameplay is fun. The story is nice too, and at times very emotional.

Anonymous 04/20/25(Sun)05:58:49 No.11592

>>11591
I rented Mega Man X: Command Mission for Gamecube, I liked it. Never played the other Mega Man RPGs.

Anonymous 08/14/25(Thu)15:07:52 No.13055

>>11562
Indie games will never replace AAA games. Might as well just play old games rather than playing this stupid garbage made by gay people.

Anonymous 08/14/25(Thu)16:44:00 No.13056

>>13055
Fuck your ass. Indies are getting more popular by the day, people are finding out the big budget games aren't necessarily fun to play.

Anonymous 08/14/25(Thu)17:44:44 No.13057

>>13056
Peoples have just lowered their standards to alarming levels by following an extremely retarded hive mind. Indies getting more popular is just the result of the degradation of the medium, there's nothing to be proud of.

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Anonymous 08/15/25(Fri)01:13:14 No.13064

>>11568
none of those games are like the ones in the op

Anonymous 08/15/25(Fri)04:09:02 No.13065

>>13064
Your retarded

Anonymous 08/15/25(Fri)04:58:32 No.13066

>>13055
>>13057
Total Chaos will be better than 90% of the shit in the market.

Anonymous 08/15/25(Fri)22:38:15 No.13070

>>13065
your opinion is that if a game uses a grid it looks like every other game that has a grid. You're the one that's retarded.

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)00:29:16 No.13071

>>13070
Nice job moving the goalpost from saying none of the games look like the ones I posted to focusing on just one of them - and then conceding there is in fact a similarity. Fail! Imagine attempting to prove indieshit is original - the whole point of pixelart stylized games is to return back to a earlier time in gaming - their inspiration is explicit. None of those devs would ever deny this like you are trying to.

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)00:43:52 No.13072

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Videogames used to soothe my soul, old videogames still do, some indies do too.
The issue with indies isn't even the amateurish stuff or the huge amount of shovelware.

It's the "indies" propped up by big companies to give their nepobaby friends/family a job, trash like Celeste and Fez.

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)01:14:16 No.13073

>>13071
Are you from 2010? You sound like you haven't even played an indie game since super meat boy or cave story.

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>>13071
>none of those games look the same
>Your retarded (it's "you're" btw)
>you're comparing games based on a single similarity
>HAHA YOU'RE MOVING GOALPOSTS FROM SAYING THEY AREN'T ALIKE TO POINTING OUT THAT MY COMPARISON MAKES NO SENSE HAHA

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)02:25:23 No.13075

>>13073
That is almost dead on, but I've played a few more than that. Last one I played was Stardew Valley in 2017. Decently playable game, but with a generic cutesy aesthetic, shitty music, diversity, blunt millennial social commentary - the map was ripped straight from Zelda Link's Awakening, and the activities in the game consisted of a bunch of things taken from other games. Mining ore like it's Pokemon Diamond & Pearl's underground area while holding Link's sword and killing slimes, really? It just left a bad taste in my mouth.

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)04:11:34 No.13079

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>>11577
OLDSCHOOL SHITPOSTERS

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)04:23:01 No.13080

>>13075
Still enjoying Stardew myself. Great game that really addressed the flaws and stagnation of the game it was inspired by (Harvest Moon series).

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)04:31:50 No.13081

>>13075
Anything else? Stardew valley is one of the most surface level indie games of all time, it's like saying you've played minecraft or undertale or fnaf. If it's the basis for what you consider the standard for indie games it means you need to try more, lmao.

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)04:34:59 No.13082

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>>11562
How the hell did they poz the CD-i genre? I understand that the main audience are fucking millennials and zoomers raised with YTP's but come the fuck on, in this game:
>you play as a mystery meat dyke
>packed with Vinesauce's humor
>lesbian romance
>at the end she decides to turn her kingdom into a (((democracy)))
They couldn't bother to bring the humor that made YTP's so special, just another lame game thrown into the mix.

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)06:09:03 No.13083

>>13075
>>13080
>>13081
I never tried Stardew Valley because I'm not into Harvest Moon-style farming sims, but I did check out Eastward, made by the same people, and I really enjoyed it. It's more of a straightforward action RPG, some people say it's inspired by the Mother series, except the fighting isn't turn based. They made a DLC for it that is basically a farming sim, it's pretty solid as far as those go.

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)06:11:51 No.13084

>>13083
>made by the same people
You're thinking of the publisher, Chucklefish, which no longer publishes Stardew. Stardew was made by one guy who hasn't released any other games yet. He seems to have been working on some weird chocolate shop game for some time now but it's still not out.

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)06:40:13 No.13085

>>13083
>farming sims
Assuming the genre is sims is actually one of the pitfalls that led to the Harvest Moon series going to shit. These games are best described as farming/social RPGs. When the game elements get too sim-like they end up sucking.

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)07:21:26 No.13086

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>>13082
Joel > Vinny

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)15:56:09 No.13087

>>13081
The rest look several grades worse than it. Why don't you recommend something, because I'm quite content just playing old games like the Mega Man Battle Network and Sonic Rush series on my Nintendo DS - I'm about to get my PS3 delidded as well.

Anonymous 08/16/25(Sat)22:15:56 No.13088

>>13087
You still have a working DS? Did you have to change the battery?

Anonymous 08/17/25(Sun)01:47:20 No.13089

>>13088
More than one, and I haven't had to change the battery on either of them. The main one I've been using I found at a Goodwill in 2013 or 14 basically new in its box. I just bought another one for $70 last year - again, in phenomenal condition. Working DSes aren't a rarity by any stretch of the imagination. People don't really care about this kind of stuff - on the other hand, 3DSes are extremely popular and inflated in price, even though that system has a small and rather pisspoor library. I rarely touch mine, though I did play Pokemon Moon for the first time a year or two ago via a difficulty hack - it's actually a good game, it has beautiful cutscenes and feels like you're playing an anime. It has different strengths compared to the older games.

Anonymous 08/17/25(Sun)02:47:41 No.13090

>>13089
The only one I ever had was a DS Lite. I really enjoyed the thing, but I didn't have much time to play it, because I was always working. I ended up giving it to a girl I was seeing at the time, and now I've got a few DS games left over that I don't know what to do with, and no plans to get another DS, although now that you're telling me they're cheap and abundant, I may look into picking one up.

Anonymous 08/17/25(Sun)06:35:19 No.13091

>>13090
Those are the ones I have, the Lites. They're good, and I have a certain fondness for them. The only issue is their d-pads are kind of sucky at registering diagonals. The only DS with a good (top-tier even?) d-pad is the original one from 2004 with the terribly dark screen - it actually has the exact same d-pad as the GBA SP. Only a few games are badly affected by this anyway, however.

Anonymous 08/17/25(Sun)06:44:36 No.13092

>>13089
>even though that system has a small and rather pisspoor library
3DS library is pretty nuts imo, to me it feels a bit like a better PSP library
I think if you look in terms of originality, the DS is gonna have a better library, but i certainly wouldn't call the 3DS piss poor in that sense

Anonymous 08/17/25(Sun)11:53:30 No.13094

>>13092
>3DS library is pretty nuts imo,
Not him but every single game I played on the 3ds was complete trash. I don't know how they did it. I tried mario kart 7, mario and luigi dream team, mario 3d land, fossil fighters frontier, I did actually try a couple more than that too but I can barely remember at this point. I know there are some good ones but man the "system sellers" and the ones I was interested in all sucked.

Anonymous 08/17/25(Sun)19:43:02 No.13096

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>>13087
Here you go you stupid fuck

Anonymous 08/18/25(Mon)04:58:29 No.13104

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>>13094
I agree with some of what you've said, I beat Mario Kart 7 and thought it was okay, but didn't feel like it was a serious improvement over DS.
I beat 3D Land, I respect it for being a unique take on Mario (3D mario but with game design more like 2D mario) but it does just feel inferior to 64 or Galaxy.
Dream Team I haven't played, looks like an obviously inferior sequel to the earlier games, I'm surprised they keep making Mario and Luigi games.

3DS Games I really enjoyed and recommend:
>Layton 5: Miracle Mask
A really good entry in the Layton series, unfortunately 6 and 7 were not as good.
>Ace Attorney 5, 6, Layton vs
Great Ace Attorney 1 and 2 also exist and have amazing sound tracks, but I don't think the cases are as good
>Virtue's Last Reward
Mind-bending sequel to the acclaimed 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors, which is itself a spiritual successor to the influential Otogirisou and Infinity series.
>Kirby Triple Deluxe
It's Kirby, it's fun, nothing more needs to be said. Haven't played the sequel where Kirby has a mech.
>Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask 3D
Beautiful remakes of some really good games
>Kid Icarus Uprising
Phenomenal unique and creative game by the creator of Smash Bros.
>Fire Emblem Awakening
Revived a near dead strategy game franchise by introducing eugenics. You control which characters marry each other and their offspring also become playable characters.
>Fire Emblem Echoes
A massive, complete overhaul of the second Fire Emblem game. More than just a reboot, it's pretty much an original game.
>Pokemon XY, ORAS, SM, USUM
They're solid but obviously inferior to previous entries.
>Code Name S.T.E.A.M.
Nintendo XCOM clone.
>Etrian Odyssey 4
Retro-style rpg with amazing music.
>Detective Pikachu
Baby's first adventure game, but surprisingly entertaining.

But the real reason I say it's like the PSP is there's a lot of games almost nobody has even played, from the first party games that barely anybody touched like Culdcept, Fatal Frame 3 (Spirit Camera), WarioWare Gold, STEAM, Detective Pikachu, etc. to the supposedly solid 3rd party titles that few have played (Ever Oasis comes to mind) to the really esoteric stuff like the Medabots game where women are forcibly stripped by their bots exploding when you beat them or Conception II, a jrpg where the goal is to "classmate" with your female classmates to produce "star children" to use in combat.

Anonymous 08/18/25(Mon)05:19:15 No.13105

>>13104
>Kid Icarus: Uprising
Shit Controls: The Game

Apparently unwilling to learn their lesson from embarrassing mistakes on the DS like Phantom Hourglass, Nintendo once again took a promising premise and thoroughly ruined it with shitty fucking novelty controls.

Anonymous 08/18/25(Mon)05:41:34 No.13106

>>13105
the game controls really well, bad controls was a meme perpetuated by (((journos)))

Anonymous 08/18/25(Mon)08:09:40 No.13107

Did anyone play the 3D Classics ports of old NES games, thought they were solid ports, so solid I pirated them rather than use emulators on my hacked 3DS. I preferred the original 2DS cause I got big hands and it was more comfy.

Anonymous 08/18/25(Mon)16:38:24 No.13108

>>13107
the official3D classics games are well known as being thr best versions of their games since the devs actually applied bug fixes and small quality of life improvements to the game

Anonymous 08/18/25(Mon)18:27:13 No.13109

>>13106
It's an idea that should have been a Wii game with a proper light gun for independent aim control like Sin and Punishment 2. Instead it was wasted on the 3DS with dogshit touchscreen controls.

Anonymous 08/19/25(Tue)00:03:06 No.13113

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>>13104
>Dickriding no talent gooks: the post

Anonymous 08/19/25(Tue)00:43:54 No.13116

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>>13113
this, i only played games made by "whites" for whites on my 3ds

Anonymous 08/24/25(Sun)05:09:38 No.13127

>>13105
phantom hourglass is really fun though, my favorite zelda game and plays really well, with my only issue being the stupid hourglass pattern you draw at the end being a bit autistically precise for some reason.

Anonymous 08/24/25(Sun)07:04:51 No.13128

>>13127
it's not my favorite but I think it's fun, I wouldn't knock it
definitely better than most of the zeldas that came after it

Anonymous 08/27/25(Wed)04:10:10 No.13146

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>>13116
>>haha not really guise, I'm not goshing over Bing Wahoo like some deadbrain sperg on welfare
>>Me so ironic
Here's a (you) for being a good goy

Anonymous 08/28/25(Thu)09:44:06 No.13159

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>>13146
bing bing waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaACK
mario bros death jingle

Anonymous 08/28/25(Thu)18:22:48 No.13160

>>13146
>facebook and reddit posts about the nintendo switch having anything at all to do with the quality of 3DS games
HOLY ESL

Anonymous 08/29/25(Fri)04:19:32 No.13163

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>>13160
>Ben (((Shapiro's))) levels of GOTCHA'
HOLY CANNOLI, SOYNYGGERS SHOULD TAKE NOTES FROM (YOU): THE /TVCH/OMO, JUST OWN AND BTFO DA HATERS

Anonymous 08/29/25(Fri)15:30:12 No.13164

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>>13159
Can't believe you can commit suicide in videogames, very transphobic.

Anonymous 08/29/25(Fri)17:33:22 No.13165

>>13163
>ERMM SWEETIE SUBHUMANS BOUGHT IT THEREFORE YOU ARE BTFO

Anonymous 08/30/25(Sat)08:08:10 No.13166

>>13164
>thumbnail kinda looks like a chick
>open video
>immediate manvoice and skinwalker body

Anonymous 08/31/25(Sun)02:11:15 No.13167

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>>13165
<STAWP STEREOTYPING US THE SUBHUMAN FAGGOTS
Oh sorry for misgendering you people, 3ds users and Switch ARE totally different breeds of spergs. But I'll have to ask you something: Why did Flipnote Studio get shut down? Was it because of some japs luring little girls?

Anonymous 08/31/25(Sun)04:05:23 No.13168

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>>13167
based Iwata kept the company pure and honest, it was only after he died (and the switch launched) that they started doing faggot shit

Anonymous 08/31/25(Sun)04:09:43 No.13169

>>13168
Still, to this day, Nintendo doesn't ostensibly push the gay agenda in their games like other developers. The pic related was from a group of gay NOA employees at the gay pride march in Seattle. Context matters.

Anonymous 08/31/25(Sun)19:33:37 No.13171

>>11567
>>11577
Kill yourself