No.8070
>>7862they're probably going to go private but the frog family that owns it really doesn't want to get pushed out of the picture
maybe they'll auction off their properties to someone actually competent
loli just want a new splinter cell that's good
No.8074
>>8070>splinter cell that's good>look up when the last game was released>2013completely ded franchise, reviving it this long after is almost guaranteed failure.
anyway the last one i played was double agent and that was a
huge step down from chaos theory, like sub-pandora tomorrow level of step down. i still remember enjoying parts of it but having sam become a fugitive at the end was some gay jason bourne bullshit and i didn't bother with anything afterwards. it's a real shame too considering all the new military tech that's come out since then, a writer that's worth a damn could easily magic up an outline where sam infiltrates like BRICS nations and has to figure out how to operate around modern surveillance and drones or something.
anything but the direction it went. even if you want to be "realistic" about it since sam would be old af by now you could introduce a new operative that he trained and as long as he isn't written to have some rainbow hair marvel quip tier personality it could probably work
No.8078
>>8074prolly, i haven't even played through chaos theory all the way through. i heard it only got worse after that but i want to see it for myself
there's a scene in convction where he beats the shit out of anna but that's all i know. the first one was good, pandora tomorrow was also pretty good, i like the part where you have to switch back and forth between night and thermal vision to avoid the spotlights and landmines at the same time.
have them all burned to discs for my 360 so i just need to set aside time to go through all of them
No.8080
>>8078it's probably been said a million times but chaos theory is the goat stealth game. you should finish it and thoroughly explore all the options for each mission, it's very much worth it imo. i liked the first two games too but the missions are much more linear which kinda kills their replayability
>spoiler lel can you kill her too like you could kill the headscarf lady (delilah?) in pandora tomorrow
was that even pandora tomorrow? it's been years since i played it tbh No.8081
>>8080i think it was just a cutscene, never played it and i only saw the thumbnail
also ya that was PT, i loved that part since you're supposed to follow her in the shadows in jerusalem while stealth taking down IDF soldiers (i think), then right as you get in the elevator you have about five seconds to shoot her or else a ton of guards show up in the next level cuz she jews you
great game design tbh
No.8084
>>8081it really was. when i said "step below PT" i meant more in regards to the linearity of it btw, i didn't mean to shit on PT. it's just that after chaos theory and how every level was pretty open ended with how you went about completing objectives in comparison to the first two games double agent was kinda a slap to the face. it might not even be as bad as i'm remembering it actually bc i played it right after sinking a shitload of time into chaos theory, but i do know the story was fuckin stupid, with the way lambert was killed off being particularly stupid. dude's in charge of aome black budget NSA type shit and i'm supposed to believe he's gonna be retarded enough to personally waltz down to a known terrorist hideout and sniff around? gtfo my face with that
No.8086
>>8074They managed to revive Hitman and that was a similar timeframe I think. How is Splinter Cell anyway and are they playable on PC nowadays? Never really bothered with it back in the day since I was a hardcore MGSfag
No.8087
>>8086the gap between hitmans was only like 5 years, and hitman also wasn't ever owned by ubisoft which is a suicidally incompetent company
it actually tries and imo succeeds really well at being a stealth game for at least the first three installments and
sort of for the 4th, though you can tell that's where it falls apart bc they got rid of the light meter and just put in a two color indicator on sam's equipment. you are very much encouraged to make it through missions with as few kills and alerts as possible otherwise enemies become progressively more alert and remain so for the rest of the mission instead of like with mgs where everyone shits their pants but then everything goes back to complete calm after a timer. i'm p sure they've all got pc releases
No.8111
poe2 is fuckin gud and dont gimme that payin for free gayme i got stash tabs for my hording dag nabbit
a lot lik d2. gorgeous, best loot system in one of these maybe ever, drops are upped to the point i had 4 exalts before lvl 30, not as much customization in builds tho but the leveling feels great and its still missing half the story so hopefully chris'll prob fig that out and add more skills
minor gripes towards mapping but prob 8.333/10 right now
No.8245
>>8243>>8244looks neat
>for consoles fug
No.8246
>>8243>>8244i've seen this on xwitter for a while, looks interesting but the cartoon style matched with non-cartoon violence is a bit jarring
No.8248
>>8245ya i thought the same but on the same screen it lists steam as well as the consoles
>>8246the violence is alright to me but i do find the 3dcg world is
hopefully not a jarring juxtaposition. maybe playing it i wont think about it as much as watchin vids of it
No.8250
>>8249it's at least a more interesting concept than cookie cutter spess/modern warfare fps with generic sound design
No.8314
>>8313looks pretty but i hope the soundtrack isn't all dubstep garbage or whatever the fuck you'd call that ear rape in the trailer
No.8320
>>8315Looks great, I thought it was actually an SNK game at first
No.8324
>>8320played for an hour, its worth
very faithful and the crt filter options may look the best i've seen
No.8327
>>8313>Segalil spro was telling me that all their shit is riddled with always-online DRMs or something since Like a Dragon
No.8330
>>8327they use Denuvo iirc
No.8337
>>8315this is fun. beat the second boss a little bit ago. thx for postin.
No.8404
i was reminded of hollow knight the other day and then i remembered there was supposed to be a sequel and it looks like it's in its 6th year of development hell wtf is going on with it i wanna play as the bitch bug
No.8405
im gonna play split fiction cuz it looks interesting and i like josef "fuck the oscars" farris and because it will maek /v/ really upset since i want to form my own opinion on things
installing it now, hope it doesn't run like dogshit through proton
No.8406
>>8405why would anyone here be mad about it? if it sucks then it's your time wasted, if it's fun then it's just another thing to check out
No.8407
>>8405did it run lik dogshit or do i get to be upset cuz ur forming ure own opinion grrrrr
No.8408
>>8405>since i want to form my own opinion on thingscool it with the antisemitic remarks
No.8409
so was it fun or did you just make that post because you mistook this /v/ for some dramaring cry party and only wanted the grrs?
No.8410
>>8406>>8407>>8408haven't played it yet, i think the installer fucked up and wine is being a lil bitch
im just used to vee autists having pissing contests over who can fake being ongry the most, im glad that spartmen are normal
No.8411
>>8410you can't run it with lutris? that's what i resort to when something doesn't "just werks :^)" when i'm fucking around in nobara
No.8412
>>8411i think the installer crashed since it complained about not finding files. i'll try it again later but i am busy making gaem at the moment
No.8413
>>8412wait, you said something about proton so you're trying to run this off of steam right? check the community to see if anyone else has the same issues. brand new games take some time to become fully supported or at least supported enough to run ok in linux and if you're getting it through steam and can't run it in proton then it might not be supported at all yet
No.8414
i just looked it up real quick and the clickb8 articles are blabbing about it being on the steam deck so idk man linux b gay like that sometimes
No.8415
>>8414stamdek loonix tho right?
No.8416
enjoy this stolen text that is green
>be valve, 2018, enjoy printing money from pc games on steam
>realize microsoft could easily kill you by making gaming on windows a walled garden like the app store
>what to do?
>the greatest heist of all time: steal every game from windows by porting them all to linux
>"it can't be done!" screams anon
>"it can, anon. we're going to upgrade wine. reimplement the DirectX API and translate it to Vulkan at runtime. same with .NET, everything." says gaben calmly
>"but you'll never get EVERY windows game to run on linux, we can't even get EVERY windows game to run on windows for christ sake!" shouts anon again
>"we don't need to. we just have to get enough, to convince everyone it's going to work."…
>*cassette time skip to 2025*
>proton is amazing. despite translating everything at runtime, it can run AAA games well and sometimes faster than Windows cuz Windows syscalls slow
>pewdiepie switch to linux
>microsoft absolutely seething
>bill gates personally makes emergency call to satya nadella at 3am
>"they did WHAT? how many users did we lose?"
>"about 30% of gamers sir, they keep saying 'linux gaming just works now'"
>valve's masterplan succeeding beyond expectations
>gaben sitting in office made entirely of knives, laughing
>"phase 1 complete, commence phase 2"
No.8417
>>8415yes that's why i'm saying idk, if it runs on that shit shouldn't it be able to be at least be tweaked to run on other distros besides what the steamdick uses?
No.8422
did you ever get it to run?
No.8437
>>8433you didn't realize that? lmao it's right in the description of anywhere you look it up i thought you had a budy testing it with you. oh well, hopefully stalker 2 doesn't run like ass
like the original games No.8438
>>8434>>8435ty budy i tried it with the 3 proton options lutris lets me pick from and the game insta crashes with all of em. luckily this game specifically dont need nothin fancy for runnin, it werks smooth and all that. idk if the proton thang is my hardware or if its this game specifically or what. maybe i can install it through proton but for now im not gonna do to much cuz hey aint broke dont fix ykno.