Post AYEB2Nz3rOK2SSlfP6 by sysop@iddqd.social
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(DIR) Post #AYE1pDC3lfw1dlUVbk by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:20:29.956661Z
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(DIR) Post #AYE204cE07kWDnuPKK by ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com
2023-07-30T16:22:34.965958Z
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@coolboymew Didn't those retards over at Game Rant try to claim that Xenoblade 3 was just as much of an interactive movie as FF16?
(DIR) Post #AYE24UzPsv6fB4rnW4 by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:23:21.862876Z
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@ChristiJunior no idea I don't follow mainstream video games website and opinions. The worst I actually go to is NintendoLife and I avoid the fuck out of their editorial
(DIR) Post #AYE29GhaQuiqJUnjou by olmitch@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:24:15.346077Z
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@coolboymew @ChristiJunior Nintendolife is the life you live :0000:
(DIR) Post #AYE2HlXXf6p0Gx9epU by ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com
2023-07-30T16:25:47.001183Z
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@coolboymew NintendoLife does suck, they defended fucking Allison Rapp.
(DIR) Post #AYE2IwIV9TALvRgB1M by why@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:25:58.347860Z
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@coolboymew bruh
(DIR) Post #AYE2OqyfqMN3AEE1ZI by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:27:02.527643Z
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@ChristiJunior the issue is that they have some news that other sites don't sometimesDo you have a better something that supports RSS?
(DIR) Post #AYE2TqaGjb2tOJBuZE by ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com
2023-07-30T16:27:56.291700Z
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@coolboymew I only use Nintendo Everything myself, at least. They seem pretty comprehensive, and don't really editorialize.
(DIR) Post #AYE2YoZtcVkucLNxkO by Zettour@gearlandia.haus
2023-07-30T16:28:51.429537Z
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@why @coolboymew Is this due to branching storylines with their own cutscenes or is it really that bad?
(DIR) Post #AYE2ZXVsYIHRyuqtEW by dookie@freesoftwareextremist.com
2023-07-30T16:28:53.545646Z
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if youve ever used a website called anything like nintendo life or nintendo news youre ass retarted and should kys š
(DIR) Post #AYE2b8XONjJb6HJzpw by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:29:16.080497Z
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@ChristiJunior >No RSS:reeee:
(DIR) Post #AYE2cfVZHdIre8CNgO by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:29:32.603639Z
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@dookie @ChristiJunior @olmitch bruh
(DIR) Post #AYE2eMVWtkf5IPzKhU by ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com
2023-07-30T16:29:45.433995Z
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@coolboymew Oh, my bad, what GR did was try to claim that Xenoblade 3 and FF16's battle systems were somehow the same thing because they're both not turn-based:https://archive.is/QBbXsNever mind that the combat systems are nothing alike, and that the combat is the ONE thing I see FF16 be consistently praised for.
(DIR) Post #AYE2pPbDk9EG4Qv3Am by ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com
2023-07-30T16:31:43.155379Z
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@why @coolboymew -when you're much more of a movie game than even MGS4, lmao.Metroid Dread is of comparable length to FF16 in terms of main story gameplay.
(DIR) Post #AYE2swPQDKuuhG5Dge by Zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com
2023-07-30T16:32:30.856771Z
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@coolboymew https://www.nerfnow.com/comic/628>Last Mod:Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:27:01 GMT
(DIR) Post #AYE3EVwdHwu8zQu7Zg by slash@cdrom.tokyo
2023-07-30T16:36:17.509808Z
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@nano @why @coolboymew Nope. Even back when nintendo released ocarina of time they claimed it had 60-100 hours of playtime. Studios have always made that number real flexible to make it look like youāre getting extra value for the price of the game, even if itās not even close.
(DIR) Post #AYE3MKJ2RcPZD56qh6 by why@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:37:48.716051Z
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@Zettour @coolboymew MGS4 is completely linear. it tries to close every open plot thread from the series, plus make its own statement about PMCs and war in the middle east. despite all this, it's a surprisingly bloat-free plot. just a lot of exposition (explaining entire backstories for every boss), long action scenes that can't be done via gameplay, characters make speeches all the time because everyone is important. there is 1 hour of uninterrupted cutscenes after the final boss, and the hour before that is mostly cutscene and holding the analog stick forward.still a better game than MGS5 which has 30 seconds of cutscenes and a virtually mute mc
(DIR) Post #AYE3RemXk85oA9S4Uy by why@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:38:46.566413Z
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@ChristiJunior @coolboymew the video is with some gameplay segments too
(DIR) Post #AYE3WwtznewhoFSeeW by slash@cdrom.tokyo
2023-07-30T16:39:37.255229Z
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@nano @why well in that case yeah i remember that time and i miss it, thankfully there are still quite a few that donāt try to replace gameplay with prolonged direction
(DIR) Post #AYE3rJPrnqIXQY4vXU by NEETzsche@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T16:43:23.346811Z
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I never really got into movie games because they werenāt really games. I wonder to what extent people who are into them just zone out for most of the content. I always wondered that for people who binge watch series and the like, too.When I watch a movie or something, I try to really pay attention to it. Itās kind of why I like works that are about the length of a feature film. I can pay attention to the details and itās long enough to really drive a sophisticated point home and insert a lot of important details, but itās short enough that they do have to get to the damn point.
(DIR) Post #AYE3szzwyAxLmZlDDk by why@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:43:42.742601Z
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@nano @coolboymew even worse when a 2 hour movie is condensed and deliberately paced to pack in more information per second than any other storytelling medium. spending 2 hours watching a xenoblade cutscene is like fucking kindergarten by comparison. even kojima doesn't take enough from film to make cutscenes more than immediate exposition, death stranding got really bad near the end
(DIR) Post #AYE4ZGZJke0NKySS5w by why@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:51:21.384948Z
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@NEETzsche @ChristiJunior @coolboymew i've always liked the comparison that narrative video games are more like books than movies: designed to go at varying pace, over multiple sittings, it covers a much wider scope (novels often go on detours for "100% completion"), and the author/genre has a great impact on how the story is told. with games taking ~30 hours, they definitely can't be treated as film, despite how they try to.
(DIR) Post #AYE4hIlxRQ1EUOCZw8 by why@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:52:48.442488Z
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@honkwerx @coolboymew @nano it's like the opening of Oblivion: "YOU MUST DELIVER THE AMULET NOW NOW NOW OR ELSE APOCALYPSE but also here's an open world and a billion more interesting quests have fun"
(DIR) Post #AYE4oQheM1CZ71aNaS by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:54:00.941260Z
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@why @NEETzsche @ChristiJunior IMO trying to imitate film is really ruining the JRPG genreA lot of what makes it great is the carrot on the stick, seeing it unfold little by little when you wish, or can, move on and continue the storyDragon Quest games makes this even better with the overall story not mattering, but what happens during the trip mattering instead
(DIR) Post #AYE53z0n4rIvrXxHG4 by RyokoPilled@freespeechextremist.com
2023-07-30T16:56:55.186634Z
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@why @coolboymew lol that is very inaccurate, it would take way longer than 32 hours to 100% mgs4. Just getting The Boss ranking would take a couple of days because of how difficult it is.
(DIR) Post #AYE5ABI6KvJjgR0WYK by RyokoPilled@freespeechextremist.com
2023-07-30T16:58:02.402797Z
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@Zettour @why @coolboymew I think whoever made that image has never played it beforeOr beat the game once on normal difficulty and said "well that's it there's nothing else here" but MGS4 has a lot of replayability and unlockables
(DIR) Post #AYE5EAEmCCQ9ZeLrA8 by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:58:42.004821Z
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@RyokoPilled @why it's user submitted and averaged outI wouldn't be surprised if most people filters out the stupid hard challenges, like 1HKO modes in some games
(DIR) Post #AYE5FE0XfAFbYcCQ8e by why@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T16:58:55.595056Z
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@RyokoPilled @coolboymew yeah howlongtobeat isn't super accurate beyond the casual first time playthrough
(DIR) Post #AYE5jizB3Hl4Jz6X32 by NEETzsche@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T17:04:23.285993Z
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Iām into TTRPGs and in particular play-by-post, which is usually done asynchronously, because you can play a much bigger role in the storytelling element of the game. It makes you, the player, a part of the exchange again. Thatās the point of games. In games, you make choices. You shape the outcome. In movies and books you typically do not, the main exception being CYOA, which feels like a cheap knockoff of TTRPGs, which are semi-freeform.
(DIR) Post #AYE65jepEdXOm953Kq by why@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:08:25.700888Z
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@RyokoPilled @Zettour @coolboymew ive played it multiple times, you can read my posts ITT or just ask me instead of insinuating. the picture is from howlongtobeat.com which is what OP is as well. it may be surprising to you, that some people just play a game once to experience the story and the main content, and then go on to play a different game. a major criticism of MGS4, both when it came out and as it is mentioned today, is that the cutscenes are too long. i used MGS4 as a benchmark to compare against the OP image criticizing Final Fantasy XVI (that's roman numerals for 16 btw) which also used howlongtobeat.com and a youtube video of cutscenes to compute an actual gameplay time. using MGS4 as an example was especially striking given the ratio of gameplay to cutscene on a casual first time playthrough being more than that of Final Fantasy XVI (that's roman numerals for 16 btw). the ratio of gameplay to cutscene means that there is more gameplay than cutscene, which would mean that the time you spend on a first time casual playthrough of MGS4 has more gameplay than the time you spend on a first time casual playthrough of Final Fantasy XVI (that's roman numerals for 16 btw (because X stands for 10 (and V stands for 5 (and I stands for 1 (so you add 10 and 5 and 1 (adding is a mathematical process where you increment the number by another number (so 5 plus 1 would equal 6 (and then 10 plus 6 would equal 16 (therefore X + V + I would equal 16 within the roman numeral system of numbers)))))))))
(DIR) Post #AYE6HtFjNzTi0f8eu0 by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:10:36.151239Z
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@why @RyokoPilled @Zettour yeah but the time for a JRPG is pretty awful IMOShort JRPGs like Chrono Triggers and SMRPG are praised because they flow, but the cutscenes of FF16 would then go and destroy that flow. An awful situation all around
(DIR) Post #AYE6KZQ5a4OjMrGH5s by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:11:05.396496Z
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@why @RyokoPilled @Zettour Also the game is getting mogged in sales by motherfucking Pikmin 4 is a single week lmao
(DIR) Post #AYE6SgiELomcImcMhk by DocScranton@roysbeer.place
2023-07-30T17:12:34.693898Z
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SMRPG but 90% of the game is cinematics of Mallow bawling about his past while piano music plays
(DIR) Post #AYE73auOtM0X15uOKO by romin@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:19:15.229464Z
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@DocScranton @RyokoPilled @Zettour @coolboymew @why not liking what I've seen so far about SMRPG's remake ngl (still going to buy it because I'm stupid)
(DIR) Post #AYE7LoItpNR7m13Ol6 by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:22:30.495602Z
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@romin @DocScranton @RyokoPilled @Zettour @why why? Game is exactly similar and retain most of the art style and even comes off as prerendered
(DIR) Post #AYE7aJ2gL7dNA3NdnE by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2023-07-30T17:25:09.662364Z
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@coolboymew @romin @RyokoPilled @Zettour @DocScranton @why I had no hope on the visuals but that actually looks nice, really nice tho i guess seeing it in motion will be the real teller.
(DIR) Post #AYE7havuDkmgfvgbz6 by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:26:26.817435Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur @RyokoPilled @Zettour @DocScranton @romin @why I always thought it would look like a normal 3D Mario game and the level design would have to be compromised for full movements insteadI never ever thought that they could do that, make it chibi like the original, so it was a very nice surprise
(DIR) Post #AYE7wGcC2piq0JSibA by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:29:05.209465Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur @DocScranton @RyokoPilled @Zettour @romin @why and check this from the trailer, that gives it quite the prerendered looksI just wish they touch up bowser and peach, they look a little too modern, but oh well
(DIR) Post #AYE8EKapzc7dYRRRyq by why@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:32:23.258031Z
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@NEETzsche @ChristiJunior @coolboymew video games have lots of categories, and not enough names. competitive games like Street Fighter or Quake or whatever have almost no story, and you only play by match. narrative games like MGS or JRPGs are continuous and all replays are optional (unless its nier lmao). you could play narrative games skipping cutscenes, but the narrative is still important to what happens in-gameplay. somewhere in the middle are non-competitive games that are also non-story (like roguelikes, doom wads, arcade games).choice being the factor of gameplay is definitely true, but i would argue that choice concerning the story is a distraction. in a linear rpg like Final Fantasy X, you still make loads of choices on party members stats, roles in battle, etc, despite the whole game's map being one big hallway. making choices within the confines of the story is fine by me, good gameplay will encourage player expression.CYOA is a great example for branching narrative games, like Detroit: Become Human or Telltales Walking Dead are made exactly like this (and have basically no gameplay otherwise lol). it can be a good format, but these stories struggle to stick as much as the best narrative games.
(DIR) Post #AYE8XSnxgbJwWahg5w by Kookee2k2@poa.st
2023-07-30T17:35:51.527817Z
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@coolboymew @RyokoPilled @Zettour @EdBoatConnoisseur @DocScranton @romin @why Is squarenox working on it too?
(DIR) Post #AYE8bYOYqLvP1Mlylc by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:36:32.996491Z
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@Kookee2k2 @RyokoPilled @Zettour @EdBoatConnoisseur @DocScranton @romin @why we have no idea, it's apparently made by Nintendo and Square are obviously showing up in the trailer because they own a bunch of itOtherwise, 0 details yet
(DIR) Post #AYE8mu0ooPEnFb4xV2 by romin@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:38:38.975459Z
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@coolboymew @DocScranton @RyokoPilled @Zettour @why just don't think the artstyle or the humour works well with 3D models.
(DIR) Post #AYE8rkTZh8Uj7eq9yK by romin@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:39:31.486452Z
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@coolboymew @DocScranton @EdBoatConnoisseur @RyokoPilled @Zettour @why>peachPrincess Toadstool.
(DIR) Post #AYE9IsuKSFJJ5iIHC4 by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:44:22.424588Z
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@romin @DocScranton @RyokoPilled @Zettour @why dunno, looks just finehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r5PJx7rlds
(DIR) Post #AYE9eKIjnhVI8Gw2Fc by moi@p.moi.cx
2023-07-30T17:48:17.833150Z
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@coolboymew @RyokoPilled @Zettour @DocScranton @romin @why looks fun, i want to play it
(DIR) Post #AYEA1jy2XZhUOYQ0Zs by sysop@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T17:38:59.645472Z
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@NEETzsche @why @ChristiJunior @coolboymew I know this is nitpicking but how do you play a tabletop RPG and do a play by post RPG the two ideas seem to conflict. Do you just mean like an RP that has more structure to it? Instead of like maybe some random chat?
(DIR) Post #AYEA1ktT63dbGfHs5g by NEETzsche@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T17:52:29.406293Z
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Well, ātabletop RPGā as in we use the rules manual from Vampire: the Masquerade or whatever, but itās over the Internet and we write prose as opposed to being in a voice call.
(DIR) Post #AYEA5oF6aT5KoSLCAC by Zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com
2023-07-30T17:53:16.488989Z
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@NEETzsche @why @coolboymew @ChristiJunior @sysop rpg instance where btw
(DIR) Post #AYEAJDtaWOEW8efl8S by NEETzsche@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T17:55:40.237168Z
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I tried to run Werewolf: the Forsaken over an instance, and I had this MRF written called āWalledGardenā where messages can go out, but no messages can come in, and people can āreactā to posts. The idea was that people can peanut gallery but wonāt disrupt the gameās flow on the website, but the game site would show reacts. If players wanted to interact with people OOC they would just go into another tab for their main instance.I bill iddqd.social as a /g/, /vr/, /tg/, etc instance as well
(DIR) Post #AYEAcng5hwm4cLh7dw by romin@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T17:59:14.025662Z
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@coolboymew @DocScranton @RyokoPilled @Zettour @why trailer looks hype for sure, just don't wanna get disappointed like with LA (the game, not the nefarious city)
(DIR) Post #AYEAngWsctTndFZnV2 by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2023-07-30T18:01:11.746192Z
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@romin @coolboymew @RyokoPilled @Zettour @DocScranton @why was peach on the og jap
(DIR) Post #AYEB2Nz3rOK2SSlfP6 by sysop@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T18:02:35.335434Z
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@NEETzsche @ChristiJunior @coolboymew @why Okay I understand it's more like in the vague sense of the word.
(DIR) Post #AYEB2PrgrlcAIBKoC0 by NEETzsche@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T18:03:48.397385Z
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Yeah calling them āTTRPGsā might be a bit antiquated considering in this context they arenāt played over a literal tabletop. But thatās what theyāre called even when itās over the Internet because of which manuals weāre using and the way the game is structured ā character sheets, ādiceā (a dice bot, online), a GM, and so forth.
(DIR) Post #AYEB4oZ40MFRTYlXLU by sysop@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T18:04:17.778710Z
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@NEETzsche @Zerglingman @ChristiJunior @coolboymew @why I was thinking about building something with a similar thought process in this kind of makes me want to pursue that idea again.
(DIR) Post #AYEBBE2uB90cF4mTTc by noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T18:05:26.299339Z
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@NEETzsche @ChristiJunior @coolboymew @why CYOAbooks mostly existed so spergy loner kids (me) could get a little piece of the tabletop role-playing experience. even moreso for the CYOA books with heavy RPG elements and randomization, like Fighting Fantasy and the Lone Wolf series, which were made for kids who were too isolated for tabletop gaming and too poor to afford a computer for CRPGs. it was a good compromise, and a financially successful one, though of course the internet and cheap personal computers made them completely obsolete.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Fantasy
(DIR) Post #AYEBjZB07dV1chwVAu by NEETzsche@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T18:11:38.529094Z
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Do you remember MUDs? I was super into those. And MUSHes and MUXes and so on
(DIR) Post #AYEBpLgbBxUZWNTn84 by noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T18:12:40.958269Z
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@NEETzsche @ChristiJunior @coolboymew @why never played MUDs, but I did use IRC for various role-playing opportunities.
(DIR) Post #AYEC7QLQbtdVBLCDGS by NEETzsche@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T18:15:56.433948Z
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Iāve been exploring the possibility of making something akin to a MUD that uses an LLM, except instead of it being strictly command line like they were, it would accept natural language descriptions of what the players do. It would end up basically being an automated GM, and I can use embeddings and other things of that nature to feed into the LLM key details about world state, rules, and dice outcomes, where the LLM produces prose that describes the outcome.
(DIR) Post #AYECM68o0cFGriHyvg by noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T18:18:36.026188Z
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@NEETzsche @ChristiJunior @coolboymew @why soon AI will replicate the dungeon master's job, and no human will ever have to talk to another human again. all hail Bonzi Buddy
(DIR) Post #AYECVC3fNXFlp6DqDo by NEETzsche@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T18:20:13.693431Z
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Well, actually, what I was thinking of was a persistent world with many players. Iām not sure I really want to have one on one with an LLM.
(DIR) Post #AYECe9ZPzvQIiILXGa by noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.club
2023-07-30T18:21:52.169690Z
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@NEETzsche @ChristiJunior @coolboymew @why that sounds like a lot of work. but the joy of role-playing is worth the effort.
(DIR) Post #AYEGSoFDLWhZCgk5Oi by sysop@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T18:28:08.440831Z
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@NEETzsche @ChristiJunior @coolboymew @why Yeah you're right there is no better term for it. I think that's funny considering we live in a society of constantly updating definitions whether we like it or not. I think it might have something to do with the fact that the general online population of role players just does it freeform. Not enough people care about structure based RPGs. That being said I've seen some good freeform RPGs that have great storyline but I think they have two huge problems.1. Lack of structure definitely is a problem and I can't tell you the amount of times I wanted to be a new player in a rp in a freeform situation and I just got lost in what was going on and nobody cared to summarize it or anything like that.2. Lack of chance that good old dice provide. I love a world where I can role play and and it's not always going to go my way. When it comes to story based games I think the struggle is super important.There are other problems of course but honestly I've always wanted to build something that would definitely fix these two problems online.
(DIR) Post #AYEGSp0iUuhPa0y1RI by NEETzsche@iddqd.social
2023-07-30T19:04:32.766595Z
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Iām not a fan of freeform because like you say there is no structure and no element of chance. The point of the dice and character sheets systems is that your stats bias the chance of one outcome or another but itās never actually, truly guaranteed. David can always beat Goliath, and will from time to time. Freeform just doesnāt allow for that, and people can only lose when they choose to, since imposing it is āgodmodding.ā
(DIR) Post #AYEv76JbZhz100YzI0 by RyokoPilled@freespeechextremist.com
2023-07-31T02:40:08.666650Z
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@why @Zettour @coolboymew i wasn't "insinuating" anything calm down lol i was talking about the how long to beat thing which is retarded