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Mr Fish said:
Just thought of another thing I want to get off my chest:

How come barely any fucking game developer (or director for that matter) understand what the appeal of zombies actually are?
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Yea no one has really made a good zombie game, which is absurd.

I never played Dead State, but it looks like it at least tried to make something other than a generic surv-ombie-horror-them-up. Someone should tell the Fantasy-obsessed RPG developers - make us a zombie RPG.
 
I love Dead State (mostly) but most of it is about turn-based combat and resource gathering. The story that 'is' there is pretty good IMO and there are some unexpected twists that can cause shit to flare up within your community which I really enjoyed.
 
Alright, I'm just gonna come out and say this.

Voice acting is ruining RPGs. Specifically, the obsession with voicing every single line in the game. I'm sick of it, especially because no one has outright gone and gotten a voice cast large enough to make me not start noticing when it's the same VA doing a different voice. I'm more "immersed" by a well written block of text than I am in hearing the VA do multiple characters throughout the game, even if they give a good performance. Just it being the same person ruins the illusion for me. It also limits just what sort of story you can tell if you have to voice every single line, because then someone has to perform it. Just write it, put it in a box, and let me read it.
 
Chromevod said:
Alright, I'm just gonna come out and say this.

Voice acting is ruining RPGs. Specifically, the obsession with voicing every single line in the game. I'm sick of it, especially because no one has outright gone and gotten a voice cast large enough to make me not start noticing when it's the same VA doing a different voice. I'm more "immersed" by a well written block of text than I am in hearing the VA do multiple characters throughout the game, even if they give a good performance. Just it being the same person ruins the illusion for me. It also limits just what sort of story you can tell if you have to voice every single line, because then someone has to perform it. Just write it, put it in a box, and let me read it.
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Yes people are confusing the presence of voice acting with quality. Fallout 4 is the best example of why this is not the case. Unfortunately Bethesdas marketing has already implied that they wouldn't remake Morrowind because it has too much text for Skyrim fans.
Mr Fish said:
I love Dead State (mostly) but most of it is about turn-based combat and resource gathering. The story that 'is' there is pretty good IMO and there are some unexpected twists that can cause shit to flare up within your community which I really enjoyed.
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I might have to check it out then. The studio that made Age of Decadence is somehow involved in it IIRC.
 
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If you have subtitles on for voice acted lines you can just read them off way before the NPC does thus wasting my time. I prefer text based.
 
-Soma's an underrated horror/science fiction game and deserves more attention than it received.
-Gone Home's pretentious and boring.
-Microsoft and Sony need to stop forcing indie developers into becoming exclusives.
-Crafting/survival games bore me to tears.
-The last good RTS was C&C Tiberian Sun.
-Persona 3 & 4 are too cutesy and immature.
-The Binding of Isaac needs to add new game mechanics instead of just more of the same. [Greed Mode is good, more items and samey enemies are bad.]
-There needs to be more regular Joe and Jane characters, and the choice to play middle-aged and elderly characters. Humanity doesn't start and end with pretty young people.
 
Chud said:
-Soma's an underrated horror/science fiction game and deserves more attention than it received.
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SOMA is wonderful, and if you think it is underrated then you should check out their first games which I think are even more underrated: Penumbra Overture and Penumbra Black Plague. It's also sci-fi/horror. They're affordable and very well done. I think they're on both GOG and Steam.
 
I'm play the divison for the last couple of days picked it up pretty recently. I have to say it pretty decent. The world map is really filled with buildings ect tons of missions that actually have a bit of varriation a bit of RP ect so not that bad. Also gives you desion what you want to what you want to level up ect Different ways to get better gear to either by buying it making it or finding it but this can be quite intresting. The gun functions really well and does't crash glitch or anything

only negatives;

Enemeys are same looking not much varriation (does have good boss varriation though)
You can find a gun you like but soon becomes rubbish against eneyms

and yeah thats it. I really have enjoyed it. It kind of a more thought out muitplayer game that actaully provides a bit of choise and intrest
 
Persona 3 and 4, th cutesy and iimmature games about suicide, social pressure, self destructive behavior and murder...
 
Walpknut said:
Persona 3 and 4, th cutesy and iimmature games about suicide, social pressure, self destructive behavior and murder...
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Compared to the tone and story lines of mainline SMT or Persona 1 & 2, yeah, they're childish and immature. Just because they touched on suicide and other topics, doesn't mean they did so in any meaningful way. I enjoyed my time with 3 & 4, but I miss the overall heaviness of Persona 2, and the Freudian nightmares contained in Persona 1. The character arcs in Persona 2 especially felt well earned compared to those in 3 & 4. I could not care about most of the characters in 3, though I did find the ones in 4 more compelling, save for the needless cringey bits of cutesy humor.
 
I just thought of another thing that really annoys me in recent gaming:
  • Day one releases of several "Editions" of the same game...
We have now the Normal version and then the "Deluxe" version when games are released... And usually the Deluxe version is exactly the same shit but it brings a PDF or maybe the OST as mp3 (usually one can get the sound track anyway from the game's files for free) and costs a ton more. Idiots flood to buy the "Deluxe" thinking they get a better game (because it has the words "Deluxe Edition") and don't even realise it is the same game.

There used to be Deluxe versions of games in the past too, but usually that edition would bring a ton of free goodies and real ones, not only digital ones (it would bring real and physical books, figurines, maps and charts, a CD with the soundtrack, T-Shirts, and tons of other stuff) and usually those editions wouldn't be released on day one (and if they were it would only be for pretty big games, today every [ok I might be exaggerating a bit there] indie game seems to have a Deluxe version when released).
 
The NV collector's edition came with lots of neat shit. Got it for $30 at my local book and music. Got my own platinum chip, deck of cards with characters faces on them, comic book, poker chips from all the other casinos...
 
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