How do you expose yourself to games you've never heard of before?
8/v/ has been my primary method for introducing myself to new games for last few years. I try to look into every game that is talked about here. Specifically I'll go through every game posted in Friday night threads and look it up.
Pic related was something I'd never heard about before and someone made a thread about a month or two ago. Ended up really enjoying it.
Occasionally a game will get mentioned offhand in a vidya review or article too.
Did she recommend any good video games?
same here. Mostly using the emulation threads to find some games i never knew about.
You read or watch anything in particular? I've watched a lot of reviews by Classic Game Room. The guy never has anything interesting to say about the games he reviews and his videos are filled with shilling. But his footage is short and demonstrates the gameplay effectively. It works well to see a lot of games in a condensed form.
Mostly find games here to play.
Sometimes simply looking at lists of different websites and yarhar it myself if it looks fun enough.
Not much of a problem really.
What really seems to be my problem sometimes is that I don't really see any games that I would like to play
Not nowadays, I watched everything made by a dude called antisocialfatman but he quite literally died a few years ago so I ran out of videos to watch
Download a rom fullset or part of one and take a binge. Try something you think looks interesting.
I've found them very useful as they talk about a large variety of games that are easily accessible. I've picked up a lot charts from those threads too. Sometimes I just pick a game almost at random from a chart in a easy to emulate system like SNES.
Carefully else they bite!
cuckholding the game
Someone was translating a VN where your girlfriend wants to watch you fuck other women and then it can all end in harem.
Sadly the project seems to be dead.
You enjoyed it, but is it a shit game? I mean, those are nice tits.
There was a DS RTS or TTS game where you can play as over 100 unique characters like fire emblem. What was it?
1. releases.com to keep track of all upcoming games
2. fags on Holla Forums for older games
3. going through GOG
By buying and playing them?
Sometimes you have to make a leap of faith or you'll forever be stuck with the mainstream trash the marketing parasite wants you to play.
I bought a ton of dreamcast games. My favorite of the bunch is zombie revenge. Never would have glanced at it if it was on its own.
Didn't know a service like this existed. Should I be wary of any shilling that happens on this website?
Some time ago I used steam and I would filter with tags but it gets old really fast not being able to blacklist tags and the store being generally filled with absolute trash.
It's not articles, it's just list of release dates. If you click on a game, you get some screenshots and a quick description (probably lifted from steam?)
GOG adds games so slowly that it's not a problem to go through all of them.
Tvtropes, Steam, Gamespot, Holla Forums and Holla Forums recommended, steam curators, GoG, play-asia.
Also used Gametap before the french ruined it like they ruined their country.
Might as well go ask reddit for their shit tastes.
Apparently the Japanese boy was from a Japan fairy tale because the Japanese couldn't find any western fairy tales with a STRONG MALE PROTAGONIST.
Tried this in the past and didn't find anyone who covered anything other than hyped releases and games that already had classic status. Do you have some specific suggestion?
Then again I'm not sure whether or not your whole post was just bait since you mentioned Tvtropes.
Literally just look up " ゲーム" on Google and then you'll see a bunch of releases that no one in your country knows about.
I keep looking through threads on Holla Forums in hopes that I find something.
Usually the thing that gives me the most results are the "played-expected-got" threads but those seem to get nothing but reposts now.
This game looks kinda neat. Is it genuinely good, or just fun because of the setting?
Rankings pages on gamefaqs. I've found hundreds of games that never get spoken about that way.
Also pick a studio you like and play their back catalogue.
Look up creators you like on moby games and play the other stuff they worked on.
Etc
If you like playing games Holla Forums is playing, check the music threads and boss threads, and lookup the names of the games being referenced. You'd be surprised how many new games you can find out about just from some soundtracks or mentions.
This is the easy answer, honestly. From Software, for example, made some neat games before Demon's Souls that a lot of people don't know about. Even people who are really into games mostly only know about Metal Wolf Chaos.
Truly the worse VNs next to those half hours ones.
Before I discovered review site, and before I realized they were cancer, it was always dependent on whether or not I liked the cover art, and if the game trailer made me like the game or not, and if I already knew about the frachise. Through this I managed to amass a small, half-decent library of games Though I got a few movie-licensed games along the way
Way to ruin an otherwise 10/10 game.
Game doesn't have any real story it just has this Fairy Tale theme. The gameplay is where the appeal is. Simply put the Screen drags you upward while you move to the sides avoiding obstacles and manage reloads, special munitions and targets. Just easy fun. Before you commit anytime to it probably just watch a little gameplay as didn't like it.
Played around with this. Mostly returned flash games. But eventually I did find out that there is a Final Fantasy Dissidia 2015 release that I didn't know about so you're not lying. Not very useful for me because I can't read moon runes.
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I've gotten into collecting old vidyas a couple years ago, and thankfully I live in an area where there are small stores run by knowledgeable dudes who have a good selection, good taste, and good prices. I get that video store feeling of browsing the shelves, looking at the box of something I've never heard of before, then taking a gamble on it in addition to chatting with the owner/other customers.
Beyond that, browsing Holla Forums and people I talk to online will expose me to a lot of games new and old. Because everyone's so honest it's pretty easy to gauge how much I'll like it or not beforehand.
Too bad you won't be able to understand those games either.
This, flea markets, secondhand game stores and thrift stores will be your friends for this kind of thing.
90% my time on Holla Forums, i'll lurk threads about genres i don't even play or scroll through threads of anons trying to remember the name of old games they played
this has lead to me being able to identify a lot of games and anime i've never played though
A few more games I didn't know existed until I found them in the wild
DO NOT!
8/v/
I would say recommendations from friends, but that's covered under 8/v/
I pretty much know nothing about it and had no desire to play it anyway, what's wrong with it specifically?
This is my fetish.
Pretty much the same for me, but mostly stuff I remember seeing anons speak well of in years past. Occasionally I might see something out at a store that catches my attention (and if there's one good thing to be said of phones these days having internet browsers built into them, it's to get more detailed information/opinions on stuff on the fly, rather than having to go home and check and hope whatever it is is still there next time you go). Also know of one local chain with actually pretty knowledgable employees that can make good recommendations, as well have decent conversation about vidya with.
Should say though that I mostly play older games, and while that does have the benefit of games from back then having long since been considered worthwhile or not, they're of the sort where there's next to no call for making threads on at this point. Can't even utilize the emulation threads for discussion of them because even if I'm not playing them physically via disc or cart, I'm not technically emulating either, at least by their logic (apparently tossing fan converted PS1 eboots onto a CFW PSP doesn't count).
It's shit for recommendations from the community, but it does a halfway-passable job if you're looking for games that do a thing you liked in another game except allthetropes can do the same thing without the community faggotry
This nigger gets in. Here in the UK you can normally pick up 4 PC games for ~£2, even if one of them is fun for only 6 hours or so that's a solid deal. CeX is a good place to check out if you're a britfag.
Those are some genuinely nice tits.
Shit dude, i played the demo of that game once with my german friend years ago. He moved away and he was the only friend I really had, we had good times together and he was pretty fucking based. Thanks for the nostalgia user.
Weeb cancer shit thread.
This is the exact same shit as 3d nigger cuck porn and if you jack off to it you should be ashamed of yourself.
never, because as soon as I encounter a new game I've then heard about it before.
But once you go black there's no going back!
i tried the Shining Force games once, but the awful voice acting and generic predictable plot completely turned me off of it.
too bad because it seemed like a competent action RPG, but that fucking VA holy shit, it was worse than From Software voice acting during the PS1 and PS2 era.
That is LEWD!
That's how I got into Custom Robo and various fighting games.
I pretty much just live here. I'm on here every day, and every night. I'm on here while I'm working, while I'm shitting, and while I should be sleeping. I browse while feeding my children and while cooking. Every down minute I get, I'm here. I'm here while my code is compiling, while brushing my teeth in the morning, and while showering sometimes. I've got a problem and it's going to destroy my marriage. I've been on anonymous imageboards for half my life now.
And what's worse, I don't even play video games that much anymore. I'm here probably a solid 12 hours a day or more and I don't even play vidya more than a few times a week. I pretty much know the entire plot of every new game but I don't play any of them.