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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I honestly don't know why people care so much. Like bro you don't complain about the DoD owning CoD, or the German Government's censorship of WWII games, the fuck do you care about the seeseepee so much?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

It's Yellow Peril 3.0 really

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Western Chauvinism in crisis, as it’s presented with more and more evidence that it is not in fact inherently superior.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Nationalism

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Tencent also has a non-significant ownership of Blizzard which produces CoD. China should be criticized for funding these shitty games to be pumped out, but of course gamers are more upset because they’re afraid of asiatic brainwashing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I honestly don't know why people care so much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

it's also because they're malding that China is successful without being a capitalist run hell.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

when the private company is based in Bad Country™

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Paradox is owned by China

damn, that must be why gommulism is so powerful in Victoria 3

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

6 pages of command economy constructions go BRRRRRRRRR

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was able to triple my construction in a month when I got command economy and I was still in the green by a few hundred thousand

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, too bad I don't have the perserverence to play for that long anymore, and also trying not to use switch country. I had to bankroll GDR for like half the time on my communist Mexico game because of overflowing gold reserves, lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It really does take forever. But it also has arbitrary economic death and suddenly you are going to need to build constantly it makes me cry. Also how did you do mexico? I always get angry when the US comes knocking. I've tried almost everything short of cheating to get them to go away.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Switch country + surrender

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Dev A: "Here are the design docs."

Dev B: "This is just all the volumes of Xi Jinping's On the Governance of China"

Dev A: xigma-male

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

China needs to step it up and buy/make more games.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Amazing Cultivation Simulator and Dyson Sphere Program are great. Of course, Path of Exile is also owned by Tencent but they don't really exert control over the Western version of the game, so it's more of a technicality.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried getting into Amazing Cultivation Simulator but there's just so much to know it was a little daunting.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

It's one of those games you have to play with the mindset of enjoying the emergent gameplay instead of trying to win, at least at first. I had a lot of fun that way as I learned the systems. Once I understood how most of the basic mechanics worked I started over and actually got pretty far, used some guides for certain things like Agencies and the really weird adventure system.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I just want a cool single player game with popular Chinese fantasy aesthetics. Naraka Bladepoint (from what the promo material on the steam page back when it released) looks awesome but multiplayer 🤢.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jade Empire but not made by a bunch of Canadians

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lol yeah. Jade Empire doesn't have a nostalgia value to me like KOTOR, so when I dipped my toes in when it was free or something I couldn't get stuck in.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I played it years and years ago and I sort of liked it, but most of what I liked about it was the aesthetics and idea of the setting rather than the game itself

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm really afraid to revisit this one. I remember liking it when it came out, but I don't know how possibly racist it was. I remember some of the people having the KotOR-style repeated alien voice lines in a made up language

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The fake not-Chinese language was a really weird choice

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Naraka is really hard core. Even the bots are hard to fight. There is a pve mode but it's fairly limited. The people who play it are really dedicated and getting up to the skill floor requires good reflexes and lots of practice. It's more or less a fighting game, in 3d, with grappling hooks and super powers. It's a lot of fun but it takes a lot of buy in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That sounds awesome, I like verticality and a complexity/difficulty, I just don't want to fight real people almost all of the time. And when pvp is the whole focus, pve stuff tends to feel like an afterthought.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

You'd have to go look at the different modes. The bot AI uses a lot of perfect parries and other dirty tricks, so the highest AI levels are punishingly difficult even for high level players. At low level, in the US, there isn't enough player pop to populate the servers with 60 people so you end up with a bunch of bots in most matches. There's a really full featured training mode if you just want to download it and mess around. You can try out all the weapons at all quality levels, the AI dummy can be set to be passive, defensive, aggressive, use specific kinds of attacks. It's neat.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Do they know most of the shit in their house is from china?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

you might even say that China, the nation, owns their entire house

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Thank you China, for letting me live out my space communism dreams in Stellaris.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

The funny thing is Tencent does not give a shit about what content is produced if it’s just released in the west. As far as I know, they’ve never forced any developer to change any decision out of censorship and the ones that are censored are an exclusive Chinese release.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Didn't even know that TIL.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're just letting you know where the good shit is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The "China Affiliated State Media" tag of gaming.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That Wukong game looks neat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Steam tags: dating sim, mythology, action, RPG

I'm curious how the dating sim will fit into this - it's a darks souls inspired game, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Any Souls game is a dating sim if you're lonely enough.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ive been following it since it was announced ages ago. i dont have high expectations for it but im really hoping its awesome. i love sun wukong and i dont think he's seen a good game yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That WuKong game looks kinda sick tbh

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