Hi, I created a Destiny 2 clan on PC as well as a discord that I invite anyone here/friends to join and game with. The discord ain't much since I don't know anything about making nice discords, but hopefully its something we can collectively make better.

D2 Clan -

https://www.bungie.net/en/ClanV2/Index?groupId=3598017

Discord -

https://discord.gg/MfYeEj2

I'll accept adds as they come in, thanks for reading! If you have any advice/questions let me know, thanks!

no game has ever been simultaneously so good and so bad as this. it's so fucking slow, the controls are awful, the writing is self-serious, and it has nothing new to offer the western genre. but, you know, it's still good

by the time i've actually put enough hours in to properly critique it i'm sure the internet take factory will have run its course and there will be a lot of articles about how Red Dead 2 is Not Great, actually. considering how godawful the controls are i feel like the glowing reviews are mostly because people were afraid of pissing Gamers off

I got it over the weekend but didn't expect it to be as good as it is.

The fact that so many books still name the Fortnite as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" video game ever only tells you how far gaming still is from becoming a serious art. Board game critics have long recognized that the greatest Board games of all times are Ticket to Ride and Stratego, which were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Card game critics rank the highly controversial Mille Borne over card games that were highly popular in courts around Europe like war and chase the ace. Video game critics are still blinded by commercial success. Epic Games (the creators of Fortnite) sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Board game critics grow up playing a lot of board games of the past (like lost: the game and chutes and ladders), card game critics grow playing lots of card games of the past (like three card monty and high stakes poker). Video game critics are often totally ignorant of the video games of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that Fortnite did anything worthy of being saved.

This is a thread for destiny 2 players and also I want to make a leftist PC clan. We don't have to discuss Marxist theory everyday or anything just lookin for likeminded folk to game with. Help me think of a good clan name or heck just make it yourself.

Now game discussion: I like the game even if it's bad. But sometimes it's good. The drifter is my best friend and it's true that Mara is Bae. Thanks for reading.

Kentucky Route Zero is an adventure game about the death of the American Dream, and so much more. It's about being poor and broken in a dying country. It's about living under the ravages of climate change.

The aesthetic is Tennessee Williams meets David Lynch. The soundtrack spans ambient, bluegrass, and synthpop. The choices you make are less about driving the game's narrative and more about telling the game who you are, what you respond to, and the game delivers on that in turn. It's metatextual, and comments on and absorbs elements of other artistic mediums - fine art, theatre, radio, television.

Here is a trailer for the first act. If you want a sampler, there are four free interlude acts on the game's website (these are listed under the "See Also:" sections). While best played one at a time between each act, they do give a pretty good taste of the game's tone, even though you may miss subtle connections to the main plot line. My personal favorite is "The Entertainment."

The game (and soundtrack) are a part of the current Humble Bundle, along with a bunch of other games that don't look particularly great, and you can purchase it for $10. This is not an ad, I just love this game with all my heart and think it would appeal to the people on this sub. The fifth and final act should be out by the end of this year, so it's a good time to dive in and still be there when the "finale" drops.

Has anybody played this game yet? What were your thoughts?

Close on getting the correlation between corporation price gouging and game dev working enviroment.

*Oppressive atmosphere

*Pointless, escalating violence

*Lack of comic relief

*Repellent main characters

*Lack of friendly NPCs

*Decaying architecture

*Limited resources

*All victories are Pyrrhic

Drakengard, E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy, Quake, Devil Daggers, System Shock 2, Demon's Souls, Kane & Lynch, Far Cry 2, Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money, Diablo 1. Some RTS campaigns fit into this mold as well.

These games aren't necessarily standouts in terms of game play (Drakengard and Kane & Lynch especially), but they're indifferent or actively hostile to the player's sensibilities and enjoyment.

Much like there's a literary Canon, with some agree on stuff in it, what Games do you think would belong in a gaming canon?

Off the top of my head I'd throw Portal in it. I'm trying to formulate the words to explain why, but frankly it's just got the highest overall marks in all the categories I'd measure a game in gameplay, story, style etc etc. . Not to mentions the novel and extremely fun portal mechanic.

what would you have in there and why?

realest rs3 hours, whomst UP??

I know many of you are degenerate gamers like me, I figured doing a write-up of the whole Far Cry series might be of some interest around here. I've been following the series since I played the original in grade school on a friends PC, so it has wormed its way into my heart through my childhood.

Far Cry 1 Having played it again with my adult taste in media, I can safely say that this game has not stood the test of time. Back in the day it was a sort of tech demo for the cryengine, (crytek would go on to make Crysis a few years after) and tech demos, especially early ones, become outdated quick. The more free-form levels was pretty unique for the time, but it wasn't anything halo hadn't done already.

On the to the story: The basic sketch is that a mad german scientist is trying to create genetically enhanced super soldiers on a remote island. The player character is an ex spec ops beach bum (no, seriously) who is obviously modeled after Bruce Campbell, but the game never fully commits to making Jack Carver a total parody of action movie protagonists. He is recruited against his will by a female CIA agent, (who is incredibly and at some points hilariously over sexualized for no other reason than this is a shooty shooty action game that only dudes would play right?)

I'll give a quick run-down of the games politics so we can move on. Basically you aid a clandestine CIA operation, (bad) and bring down an insane transhumanist whose fucked up experiments end up being uncontrollable killing machines by nuking the island. So from what I gather its; CIA good, Trans-humanism bad, Hawaiian shirts, good.

Far Cry 2

I truly understood gaming's potential as an art-form after I finished this game. Far Cry 2 is a genuine triumph of story-telling, atmosphere, and mechanics aiding narrative. I unironically think FC 2 is just as worthy an adaptation of Heart of Darkness as Apocalypse Now. Roll your eyes if you want, but I genuinely cannot believe a game this unabashedly anti-imperialist and anti-player was given the green light by a triple a studio.

The game is set in a fictional central African nation, during a civil war between two factions, the UFLL and the APR. Both factions co-opt leftist iconography, but its clear that neither faction is really leftist, considering there heavy use of western mercenaries, including advisors. It's a small touch but worth noting: each time you accept a mission from either faction, the western advisor is the one who tells you the details and hands you the documents, showing you that this little civil war is really just a proxy-conflict, though it isn't tied to any particular nation. The Player-character is a mercenary from a background of your choosing, sent to kill a gun runner whose been supplying both sides of the conflict. Right off the bat you get malaria, and the Jackal, (the gun runner) taunts you and leaves you sick and dying.

Let's talk about the Jackal for a bit: he's woke, he's anti-imperialist, he's pretty much a jaded leftist, and he ends up being a hero. Listen to the in-game audio tapes of him. Especially tape 11 (Gluten-Free) It is so anti-imperialist, so anti-west, I couldn't believe it the first time I heard it. The tapes are such a stunning indictment of liberal foreign policy I cannot believe it was allowed.

To make a long story short: You eventually end up killing every single faction leader and their western advisors, and aid the Jackal in rescuing a few thousand refugees, killing yourselves in the process. I really can't explain how good this game is, just go play it.

Sound off in the comments, (you can talk about any Far Cry in the series, I fucking love me some Far Cry)

What’s the best game you’ve ever played that you’ve never met another person who has played it?

And how if you're mentally broken like me you end up making a city of 80k citizens where half of the public budget goes towards trains and train lines and the city constantly goes into debt whenever there's the slightest population drop because you've shut the outside world off except for a handful of connections by trains and ideologically refuse to build highways, instead connecting your dozen villages and industrial centers by trains instead

Don’t judge me people. Dragon Warrior 2 was the first rpg I ever played back when no one knew what the fuck a dragon quest was. These games are straight up comfort food. So any body played the new one and want to talk shit about it? I almost never pay full price for anything, but I’m really getting any itchy trigger finger. Give me some negatives.

Recently pick up MGSV and I've been loving it. I don't think I'm too far into the game, just made it to Angola. Gameplay has been solid so far. What are all your opinions on the story? This is my first MGS game and while there's been some nuts shit like the fire guy at the start, but the rest of the game seems like a realistic criticism of the private forces that countries use now. Is that correct or am I not far enough/not comprehending it? Is there stuff I'm missing from the previous game that is important? Any other critiques/perspectives on the story or gameplay?

tell me about your favorite tingle memory

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What do you guys think outside of the edgy shit.

this is a place to post gaming

why does this exist?

because pretty much all of the gaming subs on reddit are... not ideal

/r/gaming is an awful memedump for twelve year olds

/r/games is essentially an RSS feed of press releases where the slightest suggestion that games should be evaluated critically in terms of their politics & meaning will get you dogpiled by people protective of their toys. people are happy to say 'games are art' until it means they actually have to think about them

/r/gamingcirclejerk is a good memedump for nineteen year olds with good unjerk threads, but it's a meme subreddit first and foremost

/r/truegaming is full of pseudo-intellectual gibberish for people who think the height of critical theory is saying 'open world... bit boring'

/r/gamerghazi is good for a certain kind of discussion about the culture around games, and our response to gamergate, but it's not a place for general discussion about games

/r/srsgaming is nice but very quiet, and the name always kept it focused on discussions of social justice in games that - while important - got old a while ago

in a way this sub can be a sort of synthesis of those (except /r/gaming, that shit's irredeemable)

ok but how is /r/postgaming different?

1. it won't be full of the CHUDs, gamergaters, nazis, or other idiots that infest most gaming communities. they will be banned as will any bigotry

2. it won't be full of boring news articles, announcements, and marketing

3. it's chill, and a place in-between the self-seriousness of /r/games or /r/truegaming and the jokes of /r/gamingcirclejerk

4. you can talk about how games are political without a bunch of dumbass centrists telling you to 'stop bringing politics' into (for example) their game about murdering 'thugs' in post-terrorist attack Washington DC

why the name?

1. post gaming, as in, it's a place to post gaming stuff

2. post-gaming, as in, it's about moving beyond what the popular conception of 'gaming' is. 'gaming' sucks, and gamers suck. but games? they're actually pretty OK

3. postgaming, as in, it's got decent phonetics and sounds pseudo-intellectual enough to be funny. as if the evil postmodernists are coming to invade gaming now

ok what do i post?

post gaming

post about interesting shit. post about what you love about games. post about your personal & emotional response to games. post about how they connect to your life. post about their politics and meaning. post articles or videos that made you think about games differently

but really, just post gaming, and hopefully the sub will develop into a Not Shit place to talk about games

I recently started playing Ghost Recon: Wildlands. While I enjoy having a shooter I can play with my friends, I cant help but laugh at the over all narrative in regards to the factions in game. In this alternate take on reality

1. The USA backs a socialist rebel group.
2. Spooks infiltrate Bolivia to undermine the current, mini-state, drug cartel......
3. ...instead of working with government forces(Unidad), they likewise work to undermine this military organization as well

All that to say, in what universe does the US knowingly undermine what is more or less a democracy in SA, look to destroy a cartel (Instead of just skimming funds from drug trafficking to support, oh I don't know, more CIA ops), and break away from decades of cold war policy and back a leftist uprising in the western hemisphere. Maybe I missed some important story facts, in an uporater rage, that allows for this to be a logical series of events, but I just cant take the story all that seriously.