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Reply #4410 on: February 22, 2019, 11:24:31 AM

What modern games fall into this genre? I feel like I'm missing a few of these loot-shooters.

(As a service)
Anthem
Destiny 1&2
Division 1&2
Warframe

(Platform)
Borderlands
For shame! How could you leave out schild's second favorite game of all-time and the granddaddy of the genre: Hellgate: London awesome, for real
(Okay, technically it wasn't a pure shooter but I think it still counts...)

Warframe's drop/progression systems are so weird that while it is a looter shooter I wouldn't include in the Diablo-like looter shooter category that I think most people think of when they hear that term.

Fortnite PvE (Save the World) mode is a looter shooter. Some might argue the PvP Battle Royale mode is as well though I'm not so sure since you don't keep the loot after each match. Same applies to Apex Legends.

Alienation is a looter shooter with Diablo-style loot but it's a twin-stick top-down shooter so I'm not sure it falls into the same category as the 1st/3rd-person games.

Definitely glad I held off on Anthem. Reviews seem to be coming in between 50-75% even from the paid reviewers. I'm thinking EA sweeps this IP under the rug in less than a year, especially when Division 2 utterly crushes it in a month.
I see more of an overlap between Destiny 2 PvE players and Anthem players than between The Division 2 and Anthem but I guess we'll see soon.
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Reply #4411 on: February 22, 2019, 12:31:12 PM

As a non-multiplayer gamer on the sidelines, I watch some of the convention footage when it's that time of year. I remember the Anthem preview being cringily contrived and the gameplay looked like bland by-the-numbers lootshoot.

On the other hand, I happened to be bored one night and watched some streamers playing Apex and it looked pretty amazing.
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Reply #4412 on: February 22, 2019, 03:07:02 PM

Anthem vs. Apex Legends is proof positive that the suits at EA have no clue whatsoever how their business works and probably just coast on FIFA money
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Reply #4413 on: February 22, 2019, 03:29:11 PM

Anthem vs. Apex Legends is proof positive that the suits at EA have no clue whatsoever how their business works and probably just coast on FIFA money

Hilariously, Apex Legends doesn't support older processors and gives you a POPCNT error if you try to run it.
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Reply #4414 on: February 22, 2019, 03:48:11 PM

Older processors = processors that don’t support SSEv4 so basically CPUs ten years or older because Intel supports SSEv4 and the POPCNT instruction since Nehalem (2008) and AMD since the K10 architecture (2007 - 2008)
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Reply #4415 on: February 22, 2019, 08:14:10 PM

Anthem vs. Apex Legends is proof positive that the suits at EA have no clue whatsoever how their business works and probably just coast on FIFA money

FIFA and Madden money - the two are stupid crazy profitable and propped up the lich of dead studios walking that is EA.

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Reply #4416 on: February 23, 2019, 09:29:48 AM

Now I want to use the phrase 'pop you in the cunt'
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Reply #4417 on: February 27, 2019, 04:38:42 AM

https://investors.funcom.com/funcom-n-v-enters-into-exclusive-partnership-with-legendary-studios-for-games-in-the-dune-universe/


Funcom has entered into an exclusive partnership with Legendary Studios to develop games based on the works of Frank Herbert’s DUNE, one of the world’s best known science fiction universes with multiple adaptations into movies, games and other media.

This is a six year partnership to release at least three titles on the PC/Console platforms, with one of the games planned to be in the “Open World Multiplayer” genre that will enter into pre-production in Funcom’s Oslo studio during 2019.

Entering into this partnership is in line with the company’s strategy of working with strong Intellectual Properties, allowing for two different vast and well known universes – CONAN and DUNE – to be available for the Company’s games.

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl (Norwegian Securities Trading Act)

Badhoevedorp, The Netherlands, 26 February 2019

Funcom N.V.

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Reply #4418 on: February 27, 2019, 05:14:07 AM

https://investors.funcom.com/funcom-n-v-enters-into-exclusive-partnership-with-legendary-studios-for-games-in-the-dune-universe/


Funcom has entered into an exclusive partnership with Legendary Studios to develop games based on the works of Frank Herbert’s DUNE, one of the world’s best known science fiction universes with multiple adaptations into movies, games and other media.

This is a six year partnership to release at least three titles on the PC/Console platforms, with one of the games planned to be in the “Open World Multiplayer” genre that will enter into pre-production in Funcom’s Oslo studio during 2019.

Entering into this partnership is in line with the company’s strategy of working with strong Intellectual Properties, allowing for two different vast and well known universes – CONAN and DUNE – to be available for the Company’s games.

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl (Norwegian Securities Trading Act)

Badhoevedorp, The Netherlands, 26 February 2019

Funcom N.V.

Now it just has to be Anarchy Online 2 with Dune lore and I'll be actually interested...
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Reply #4419 on: February 27, 2019, 07:07:26 AM

Same.

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Reply #4420 on: February 27, 2019, 07:46:08 AM

oh boy that is going to be bad
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Reply #4421 on: February 27, 2019, 10:37:59 AM

I'm trying to even picture what a Dune game would look like.  There's the old RTS (which I never played) that is supposedly good.  Or was at the time.

A Dune MMO could be... interesting?  Depends on when it's set, I suppose.  Also depends on the fee structure.
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Reply #4422 on: February 27, 2019, 10:56:02 AM

Dune II was the one that developed the RTS formula of resource gathering, base building and unit construction, etc., that was copied by most of the subsequent major RTS games (C&C, *Craft, etc.). Also, nerf Sonic Tanks (longest range in the game).
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Reply #4423 on: February 27, 2019, 10:59:27 AM

I'm trying to even picture what a Dune game would look like.

As previously mentioned: Anarchy Online reskin.

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Reply #4424 on: February 27, 2019, 12:46:22 PM

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Reply #4425 on: February 27, 2019, 04:28:33 PM

I sort of get the AO reskin.  I think they're about 10+ years too late to the party on that one, but more power to them.

I meant the other two games.

An RTS makes sense.

And then what?  An RPG?  Action/Adventure?  Another RTS?
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Reply #4426 on: February 27, 2019, 07:00:10 PM

oh boy that is going to be bad
Dude, come on. Dune Exiles.  Just think of it!

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Reply #4427 on: February 27, 2019, 07:25:53 PM

haaha no

isn't that just minecraft w/ a mod that adds assholes
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Reply #4428 on: February 28, 2019, 07:42:49 AM

Warsaw, it's Darkest Dungeon in World War 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic-HtUkO9_E

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Reply #4429 on: February 28, 2019, 08:53:19 AM

Excited for the game, but that animation is so bad.
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Reply #4430 on: March 01, 2019, 01:20:51 AM

I dig the style.  And man, that is a dark god damned topic to use for a game.

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Reply #4431 on: March 01, 2019, 01:23:49 AM

Five seconds into the Division 2 open beta and I already like it way more than Anthem. Not a surprise, really. Basically, I am just telling you all that The Division 2 open beta is underway. Uplay required.

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Reply #4432 on: March 01, 2019, 01:40:29 PM

I dig the style.  And man, that is a dark god damned topic to use for a game.

Jeeze. I'm bummed out for the day just from watching the trailer.

So NAZI's are bad again? Cool.
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Reply #4433 on: March 01, 2019, 02:33:37 PM

Excited for the game, but that animation is so bad.

I'm less excited because its /not/ made by the DD guys. I mean DD is great so blatant rip off might be great but that's seemingly very on the nose?

Five seconds into the Division 2 open beta and I already like it way more than Anthem. Not a surprise, really. Basically, I am just telling you all that The Division 2 open beta is underway. Uplay required.

Did Division 2 do anything to make PvP a thing and/or make it not feel like you are just unloading entire clipS into human beings bc HP's and stuff? I could never get past that in the first one.

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Reply #4434 on: March 01, 2019, 02:38:41 PM

Did Division 2 do anything to make PvP a thing and/or make it not feel like you are just unloading entire clipS into human beings bc HP's and stuff? I could never get past that in the first one.
TTK is down, including in PvP apparently (haven't tried it myself), and insta-heals have basically been removed. They've also made changes to make it more n00b-friendly like gear normalization which of course all the hardcore Dark Zone players from the original hate.
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Reply #4435 on: March 05, 2019, 01:03:33 AM

Anthem seems to be forcing consoles to initiate a bad shutdown, causing it to do a full repair after restarting. And in some cases it has been reported to have caused the counsole to stop working entirely. And the thing is Bioware seems to have been aware of the issue for days with no response. And this is After a patch that was supposed to have sorted out the existing crash problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi2yCL9n8QM

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/aw6tkr/full_system_console_crashes_while_playing_anthem/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/awtono/this_is_the_only_game_that_causes_a_complete_ps4/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/ax246k/psa_to_playstation_anthem_players/
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Reply #4436 on: March 05, 2019, 01:34:38 AM

I read that last night, it's a deliciously funny train wreck.

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Reply #4437 on: March 05, 2019, 07:30:04 AM

Funcom is doing a Conan RTS, actually Funcom publishes it and the Command and Conquer people are developing it. And the name is -of course- Conan Unconquered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99KGcUMhdrE&feature=em-uploademail

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Reply #4438 on: March 05, 2019, 08:58:29 AM

Funcom is doing a Conan RTS, actually Funcom publishes it and the Command and Conquer people are developing it. And the name is -of course- Conan Unconquered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99KGcUMhdrE&feature=em-uploademail

Workin that IP, Funcom.
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Reply #4439 on: March 05, 2019, 12:18:39 PM

Waiting for the "8-bit" side-scroll platformer and battle royale with cheese.

Newbs.
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Reply #4440 on: March 05, 2019, 12:32:32 PM

I'd fucking be there for Conan Battle Royale.
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Reply #4441 on: March 06, 2019, 06:19:08 AM

Waiting for the "8-bit" side-scroll platformer and battle royale with cheese.

Newbs.

It was called Rygar, and it was awesome.

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Reply #4442 on: March 07, 2019, 08:32:56 AM

Moved the most recent Seikro discussion to its original topic: http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=25867.0
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Reply #4443 on: March 08, 2019, 12:01:23 PM

Might as well post there here also:

Grim Dawn: Forgotten Gods expansion trailer.
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Reply #4444 on: March 12, 2019, 12:57:56 PM

Borderlands 3 announcement coming March 28: https://twitter.com/GearboxOfficial/status/1105543983516639232
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