I remember my best friend from highschool telling me we should contact videogame companies so they'd send us their games on release date so we could play them and write reviews. We spent hours deciding a name for our indie magazine... and never even tried making it true.

This was almost 20 years ago. Neither of us could ever have anticipated that smartphones would exist, let alone allow any idiot to share their opinions for the whole world to hear.

One of my younger cousins tried becoming a vidya-review youtuber a few years ago. He reviewed like 40 games, some of them in-depth and somewhat professionaly... but he eventually gave up. We all did. We all work boring jobs and play vidya solo for the most part now.

Have you ever dreamt of making a living off your passion for videogames, /v/? Have you taken any steps to make it happen?

I have no ulterior motives. Post sexy squids.

is this good?
im trying to decide what to play and remembered somebody mentioned it.
are devs not troons like Signalis developer? i dont want to give my money to child molesters.
also I tried DreadOut recently and I liked it.

The great debate.

This may sound ridiculous but Escape From Duckov is my game of the year.
It's just an incredibly well-made game, from top to bottom, made by five people with minimal resources but absolute inspiration and instinct.
To me that's something special. It's like a really good album. Like Moon is a Dead World, 5 people took a Unity-based Chinese extraction shooter and turned it into a masterpiece.

Let that sink in

>work all day expecting to play vidya at weekend
>play vidya
>money stolen
China social control being implemented into the West. Amazing.

do you ever break stuffs over vidya?

What is the Evanescence - Fallen of video games?

it's happening. sony is giving up on exclusives, everything will be day 1 on PC

We WILL have a thread about the cutest Witch in gaming and her game, and her handsome charming totally not perving gentleman Father.
Or else.

Why didn't Platinum just stick with what worked? Instead they made a game that appeals to no one

Astral chain is as good as dmc and ninja gaiden.

>Kill rat
>It drops Gold

>get defeated in a fight
>enemies cum all over you

Now that normies adapted this way of thinking openly, what is the future of AAA industry?

GOTY

Ok lads it's been out for 10 hours. What's your impresion of the game?

BUT BUT I THOUGHT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SONIC RACING CROSSWORLDS

ALL AROUND THE WORLD, REMEMBER??

Any good games where you get to play as a detective?

>https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/11/nintendo-84percent-of-switch-2-players-transitioned-from-the-original-switch
This is called "pleasing your audience".

>people boycotted L4D2 because it was released too soon from the previous game and because they didn't think the changes were compelling enough for purchase
2009 was a different world

After beating Bloodlines 2, I wanted to take a break, but I was craving more WoD games like I crave dopamine so I went and put Bloodlines 1 back on and, uh...the game, as a GAME... does not hold up very well.

Granted, a part of it was cause I forgot to set my steam to play the version with the Unofficial patch (and I will be playing again with it on this time) but uh, wow is the game just... not very functional.

While the Unofficial patch will certainly address some of the more egregious issues, I was just kind of gob smacked by how technically fucked baseline Bloodlines 1 was. And to check if I wasn't crazy, I went and tried Kotor 1 again since its a similar kind of RPG from about the same time period and Kotor, while definitely showing its age and not immune to problems, had nowhere near this level of jank. And there is shit here that I do not think the Unofficial Patch can fix.

Bloodlines 2, on the other hand, ran very smoothly for me. I encountered a grand total of one bug in the whole game and all it did was put a quest marker in a weird location until I finished that quest. Bloodlines 2 has some design issues and a few big missing quality of life features, but it is very much well put together as a game. Yes, that should be the standard by 2025 but it really isn't. But going from 2 back to 1 made me appreciate it more, and also understand why they may have thought removing, overhauling, and changing a lot of these systems was a good idea. I still love Bloodlines 1 but I get it.

I do think they threw the baby out with the bath water but that tub needed some dumping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTM6BQ1XlXc

THIS IS IT, ANON
DEFEAT THE VISITOR
SAVE THE WORLD

How many of you have beaten Stormy Ascent level in Crash 1 in less than 4 mins? I did and got the gold relic

We're the DUSTBORN!

You now remember this kino from farcry 3

https://youtu.be/Tt5kTUI8-XE

Looking back at past Halloween weekend, why have vidya themed costumes never gotten popular the way even contemporary movie costumes have?

The time you spend on video games will never come back, you're wasting precious moments that would be better spent on meaningful things, like building a family.

>perfect romance material
>stuck in dogshit game
Why is this so often the case?

>Asking game questions on
>reddit
>deleted for not using the megathread that no one uses
>4chan
>bumped to page10 by ragebaits and targeted by the archive repost police
>Twitter
>get doxxed
>discord
>ignored or groomed
>Google
>gets nonsense advice from AI
>Fandom Wikis
>is shit
Where can you get actual game advices nowadays?

If FEV can increase the brain activity of creatures, just how much more dangerous is every animal you encounter in all of Fallout? Not only are Radscorpions, Giant Ants, Radroaches and Bloatflies big scary bugs but they might be able to outsmart some wastelanders as well. The Master was right, humans might get left in the evolutionary dust with how many competing intelligent species there are.

What the fuck is wrong with videogame bans and punishment nowadays?

Fighting games peaked with SFV

https://x.com/capcom_official/status/1985919302806155522

You better stop lewding Roll, /v/

Make way for the OST of the year.

Say something about Super Mario World right now. Doesn't matter, what just say literally anything about it.

Why the fuck they abandoned it???

>All they had to do is updating the database yearly and gullible soccerfags will eat up your slop every single year
>Fuck it up anyway
HOW?

Final chance to get your predictions in for chapters 5 and 6.
What are you most looking forward to?
I want to see how the rest of the office reacts to Robert hooking up with the boss.

BETHESDA, HANK YOU! I FEEL SO IMMERSED IN YOUR WORLD! I LOVE THAT I CAN LAND ON ANY PLANET AND CUSTOMIZE MY CHARACTER IN SO MANY WAYS.

So what makes this game want men to transition?

You like flat-chested vidya girls, anon? Why? But the large-breasted girls are way better...

What does the "Doug" button do?

At least I still have my 3ds.

>advertised as a climbing game
>is actually a game about falling carefully

was it good?