So anons what are your thoughts on stealth games? I finally sat down and played Thief 1 and 2 with the recommended patches and they were both great, that old sound tech is mind-blowing. Here's the links to the fanpatches by the way https://archive.ph/o/238P9/https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Thief:_The_Dark_Project%23TFix and https://archive.ph/o/238P9/https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Thief_II:_The_Metal_Age also somebody told me to try out Deadly Shadows and use https://archive.ph/o/238P9/https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Thief:_Deadly_Shadows%23Sneaky_Upgrade but I haven't tried it yet was that good advice?

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I must confess it's been an age since I last played this but I remember it being comfy as fuck to play. Also that Flak was a Tactical Genius and Orange Star were a bunch of bumbling retards. So Advance Wars time anons. To get the ball rolling I know there's an Advanced Wars play by web game out there that I need to give a go some fucking time: http://awbw.amarriner.com/ I think there was also an emulator around but I haven't heard much about that in a while, if anons care to share info on this it'd be appreciated. I need to jog my memory.

Any of you lads been playing any shmups lately? I've mostly been playing Blue Revolver and DonPachi, although I'm not particularly good at either (or shmups in general) yet. Speaking of Blue Revolver, is it just me or is there something a little off about the stages and patterns? I've heard DonPachi isn't anywhere near as good as its sequels or many other shmups, but somehow the levels and enemy encounters seem...better paced? I'm not sure I can put my finger on what it is mechanically. Stage aesthetics is another story: DonPachi's stages feel like you're moving through locations with distinct areas and purposes while Blue Revolver's seem arbitrary, as though you're going over a themed assortment of tilesets and scrolling backgrounds instead of actually attacking a mountain convoy or shooting up the docks. I get it, Blue Revolver has a much smaller team than a Cave shmup, but when the programmer makes remarks like "The creeping sensation that I earned none of the modest success this game achieved, and that just around the corner the game will be found out as just a bunch of PNGs moving on a screen" and "I became convinced that in terms of the game/level/pattern design, I had completely pulled a fast one on STG fans the world over and just barely got away with it," I hate to say it, but on some level I get what the guy means. You really begin to notice this stuff after playing the same stages over and over. Hopefully Double Action fixes some of this. The patterns shown in the (years old) trailer look good and I like the new UI, shit, the recoloured backgrounds are an improvement as well, but I'm not sure my complaints can be fixed without significant changes to the backgrounds or stage layouts in general. Anyhow, here's a couple freetard shmups you may or may not have heard of: http://olofson.net/kobodl/ - Enhanced version of XKobo, a Japanese freetard shmup about blowing up space bases http://garden.sourceforge.net/ - Not the biggest fan of this one, it's fairly slow and doesn't always distinguish enemies from the stage background very well https://chromium-bsu.sourceforge.io/ - Freetard shmup balanced around fucking mouse controls, I think it goes on forever https://smcameron.github.io/wordwarvi/ - Editor war shmup, haven't tried it yet https://linux.tlk.fr/games/Powermanga/ - Looks cute, haven't tried it yet

I'm sure we can all remember a time in our lives when games were more mysterious, when a background detail sparked our imaginations, making us wonder what secrets may be found if we investigated hard enough. This curiosity led to plenty of hoaxes and dead ends of course, but sometimes there really was something hidden, waiting to be revealed by the most dedicated players. Which tall tales do you remember falling for? Which hopeful rumors do you wish were true? Which genuine secrets still amaze you that they're real?

[8VG04 ~ 28/03/2018] Given the speed of /vg/ it's probably a good idea if we just make a combined thread for open source games and gaming on Linux. Personally I mostly play FOSS games on Windows and a surprising number are pretty great.

Do anons think that a non-powerhouse console can ever take off in modern climate? I keep thinking to PS1 and PS2 who were the weakest contemporary consoles hardware-wise but at the same time were by far the most popular ones. Power didn't matter that much since games came in all varieties from all types of devs and only a very small percent was pushing the hardware. Sure you can point to Nintendo but I feel it's a different situation with Nintendo having a groomed cult-like audience who will consume literally anything they produce. With PS2 Sony made a conscious choice not to go for raw power but if PS5 or Xbox whatever, or some new console nowadays was only moderately powerful could it ever succeed or would it be considered "insta owned" cause it can't ray trace?

>Agni's Philosophy demo came out exactly 10 years ago >Squeenix managed to not realize the only unique and original vision they had in over a decade into an actual game In other news >No news about FFXVI for 2 years now Another clusterfuck incoming.

As you all may be aware the vidya industry is plagued by flavor of the month bullshit trying to sucker fags into spending a bunch of shekels on crap that has the depth of a puddle and no long term entertainment. Remember shit like DayZ, H1Z1, Ark Survivial? could almost say generic open world survival shit is going to be the fad of the month They were all popular for a few months before everyone dropped them for the next big thing. At moment it's all those Cheese Royale games that are the big fad with retards moving from one to the next, each time the game being even more horrible.

Are open world games pointless? If you look at hot point maps from any open world game, everyone is just going to the same places using the same routes, facilitated by the game, and about 70% of space is left completely non-interactable - basically a backdrop. But a costly one at that with all the engine resources going into sustaining it when they could have gone into extra details and better performance. This is all the more relevant considering that "our map is 7 times biggeru than____" is a constant marketing point. Should sandbox games just be big but not "open world", instead using better level design to create the illusion of freedom but not wasting time and resources on useless expanses of land nobody ever goes to. Or should sandbox games use better level design to facilitate exploration of the entire game map somehow?