>jumping is scripted, essentially a QTE
>barely any physics, interactions are scripted like it was a goldsrc mod
>overwhelmingly positive reviews
It really does feel like gamers(tm) are trying to troll me personally, what the frick is the point of this game? Walking sims from 10 years ago have more interactive "gameplay"
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In case you didn't notice by now the goyim cattle are fricking moronic. It's popular right now because le heckin kitty, not any sort of objective merit.
People are unironically sheep at this point. Whatever algorithm shows them becomes their personality for a month
American hours tend to be like this
It's not just Americas. All of you homosexuals have never been more moronic.
>People are unironically sheep at this point. Whatever algorithm shows them becomes their personality for a month
I unironically envy my parents growing up with 1 or 2 channels on the TV and everyone they knew listening to the "top 10" music channel every friday evening or whenever. The feeling of belonging together nationwide was so great we're still having boomer programs relating to it on the telly. Everyone they meet in their age group can fondly remember going the same things and the same struggles like recording the music and stopping before the announcers started talking again. Instead of through an algorithm it was more or less monopoly but I guess the effect is the same.
Now we have like "video games" with 12 genres and at least 30 years of games created that now get remakes. Basically everyone sits in their own corner if they don't submit to the most advertised games that wring you of shillings and time though either subs or microtransactions. To get a community going for anything more niche than WoW you'll be spread all over the world and it's just not the same. I'll never run into someone I can confidently start talking about good times in video games or video game culture without first becoming friends. Even if you do it'll be considered hardcore cringe most likely.
How about you develop a personality that isn’t consooming? You ever try reading a book?
Reading a book is consooming
moron pseud
And you get all your opinions from Ganker, probably never had an original thought in your life. You really think you're smarter than everyone else? Get a grip zoomer.
It's a fricking casual ass walking sim. Frick sakes, let people have fun. It's not like AAA devs are gonna make copies of Stray and stop making your Fortnites or your dumbass JRPGs you frickwits.
Yes we know youre a homosexual you dont have to keep telling us
unlike you, i presume, who's always had original thoughts not influenced by any outside factors?
>People are unironically sheep at this point. Whatever algorithm shows them becomes their personality for a month
Always has been. The modern algorithms and the ubiquitous use of the internet by the sheeple has just revealed the fact for everyone to see
It took me years to finally realize that the "Dead Internet Theory" is just cope from oldgays who can't comprehend that most of Web 2.0 is just normalgays browsing on their phone.
Oh yeah, bots don't really exist either, they are just third worlders who can't speak proper english/normalgays who are too moronic to comprehend anything or low iq schizos who genuinely do believe that russians had installed trump/yuri bezmenov was right and theres a giant israeli/communist plot to subvert the great ideals of democracy originating from the united states
>yuri bezmenov was right and theres a giant israeli/communist plot to subvert the great ideals of democracy originating from the united states
>recognizing patterns is... LE BAD
The same 3 npc post. Ironic.
Ninties are desperate.
I pirated it.
>goyim
Again with the loxism and blaming the real victims.
moronic israelites.
>new game releases
>no discussion allowed
You don't understand you can play as a cat and do cat things
So its completely fine to not have gameplay mechanics or challenge
Just sit in front of the screen and look at the cat
Can i lick my ass and balls?
Sounds like we need a postal: cat edition
>dead bird on doorstep mechanics
>lick butthole button
>midnight neighbourhood fightclubs
>some kind of wildlife huntathon thing
>rest on warm porches to save
>tsundere female cat next door who fights you but succumbs to your barbed penis after you defeat her
>Haven't played Postal 4
The game you want already exists
Someone post the postal WebM where he pees in a store, spins a clothing rack, gets caught on the rack, pees spinning, puts fire everywhere spinning, and still pees.
>pay money to look at a cat
Wow that explains it all. Definitely not moronic
you can't do cat things, your cat things are restricted to what the devs say you can do, there is no freeform gameplay, you can't even jump without a command prompt
basically, Stray is a dog game.
Stop being such an incel white supremacist btw im american and i love wiener
why aren't all games bing bing platformers!? REEEEE
I remember when people used to make fun of walking sims, and walking sims actually usually offer more freedom than this game
Holy fricking shit. The state of this industry if this is true.
Someone said it on Ganker, it must be true.
What is true, people making fun of walking sims or most walking sims offering more freedom? Just play more games dudes...
I don't play walking sims, at all. But the only way to have less freedom is by being a fricking visual novel.
This game is worse than any mario game ever created
The atmosphere was nice. Cute interactions. Good storytelling. Maybe the game wasn't for you?
there are plenty games that hit those points, but this game is bare minimum effort to offer gameplay. The gameplay is tech demo tier.
what did you expect exactly?
i didn't expect much, except that it would be more cat simulator-esque than every situation being rigged to play out a certain way.
a better game than astro's playroom
There’s not much game
The story is the holy thing captivating people
it's the cat. that's it really
what's up with Ganker latching onto this game like its the bane of their existence just because its easy?
Okami was also easy, but it was still a great game on a game mechanic/audio/visual/character level. Beyond being able to play a cat, Stray has nothing unique to offer.
> Stray has nothing unique to offer
its an enjoyable game for normies who want an easy/short/''atmospheric'' experience and for people who like cats, it doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to understand why its popular.
Again, I just don't see why Ganker has had people spamming threads since it released talking about how horrific it is that the game exists/people like it considering how inoffensive it is both gameplay and visuals-wise.
im sure being "inoffensive" is a great quality for you but you know whats a good quality for me? being a good fricking game
The game not appealing to someone because they think its bland doesn't really equate to the people spamming threads and denouncing it like its a sin against god though
who here has said anything beyond its a bad game in their opinion? you are literally conjuring up a fake person in your mind that does not exist
literally just go through the archive and see how many threads have been spammed in the last day with people endlessly shitting on a cat game
i dont care what other people have written, im talking about this thread. assigning bad experiences youve had before to literally everyone else is schizo-tier
> I'm talking about this thread
even the OP is literally thinking that people are trolling him by liking the game
well, did you read the whole post? its not wrong about this game having worse gameplay than most walking sims
i was in those threads. i was the one asking what the appeal was and got told to shut the frick up because CAT!
so frick you and frick your game. take your ass to a normie board and jerk it off
You want to be either loved or hated, indifference is death. To be ignored is to not exist.
Then just ignore it.
Because, when games like this are successful, it tells publishers that they don't need to bother with gameplay innovation, just combine some things that normies like ("you are a cat... IN A DYSTOPIA!") and spend all your budget on marketing.
mobile games are destroying gameplay innovation a lot more than stray is, and there isn't a million threads being spammed about that all day.
walking simulator/super easy 3rd person games have literally existed for over a decade now, stray isn't really any different than shit like journey or abzu.
Fricking guillible moron its called marketing and its fast
>just because its easy
I haven't seen a single anon shitting on it because it's easy
It’s be more accurate and honest than the shit they’re currently copy pasting.
It's everywhere. People won't shut up about it. I've seen several friends who checked it out due to the supposed overwhelming popularity and felt scammed.
I sure do wish it was a 100% open world bland "physics" based game where you can "do anything" and the game is mostly collecting 10000000 "cat treats" and there's no real story or anything actually interesting to do because it would just end up being the same copy-paste formula as every other open world game.
Now that would be a heckin 10/10, after I played it for 30min I could go back to play fortnite
You could wish for it to be a good game instead.
>open world physics game
Sounds like the kind of kino that only moronic zoomers who started pretending all open worlds are Ubisoft and all linear shit is good would hate.
Guess who these devs stopped working for to make this game
What?
>I sure do wish it was a 100% open world bland "physics" based game where you can "do anything" and the game is mostly collecting 10000000 "cat treats" and there's no real story or anything actually interesting to do because it would just end up being the same copy-paste formula as every other open world game.
It's okay when Banjo-Kazooie does it
that would actually be good though because it would put the focus on a weird cat-based movement system???? moron
You haven't seen footage, let alone played the game if you think it's a "walking simulator"
>why is my movie game shit a movie game?
What rock do these anon's crawl out from under and where can I find it? Must be paradise there.
These threads are just ONE schizo anon shitposting about the game for... I don't even know why, there's nothing to complain about and what he 'does' bring up are total non-issues. Be this for bait or some MK Ultra bot thread with a few bugged lines of code, jannies really need to step up.
>"adventure" game
>tools for adventuring severely gimped
>total non-issue
Speaking of a few bugged lines of code, are you a literal npc?
You go on an adventure. What, you're gonna throw a hissy fit because you can't autistic jump everywhere? Cry harder baby boy.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I accept your concession, remember to take meds
Not much of an adventure without jumping.
>a game about a cat in a cyberpunk metropolis
>can't even fricking jump
kek
being in love with cats so much you overlook literally everything else makes you have lower testosterone than msnbc writers
I've seen blatant bacterial marketing on this board for the last two weeks where someone makes an inoffensive defense of the game and posts that out-of-fashion shrug ascii art. How much do you get paid to defend the game here? Is it worth it? Been thinking of having someone anbivalently defend by dick size online if you're interested
Is this the Cyberpunk 2077 obsessed guy or is he part of the The Last of Us shitposting fanclub? So many autismgays... It's hard to keep track of all this Dead-Internet bullshit meta.
It's probably one of the better walking simulators out there.
>walking sims from 10 years ago have more interactive gameplay
Give me 5 walking simulators over ten years old with content closer to actual interactive gameplay. Shills for the game try to pretend it's not a walking sim and people who are anti-shilling for the game pretend it's not one of the better walking sims, for what little that's worth.
>Give me 5 walking simulators over ten years old with content closer to actual interactive gameplay.
The Walking Dead
The Wolf Among Us
Life is Strange
Amnesia 1
Death Stranding
I didn't "play" all of them but I'm guessing most, if no any, Telltale games completely shit on Stray in terms of interactive gameplay.
>amnesia
>life is strange
Neither have more interactive gameplay than Stray and I'm not setting the bar high there. I haven't touched many either, just commenting on the ones I've bothered with. I still think Amnesia is a better game though, since walking sims are all atmosphere anyway and Amnesia lands that better. Same with Soma for what little of that I did play.
Not a single one if these games is a walking simulator lmao
>I didn't play
Yeah no shit moron
>a game literally about walking and/or riding to deliver packages
>NOOOOOOOOOOO, IT'S NOT A WALKING SIMULATOR BECAUSE I CAN'T COPE
what a homo
eh, it's ok. the soundtrack is phenomenal tho
>has guns
>baddies
>ghost baddies
>grenades
>bike
>trucks
>A million other things
Yeah it's not a walking sim. It's a hiking sim at the start that turns into Kino.
hmmm, i'd say calling it a "trekking simulator" fits it better.
there's not that much walking, really, maybe at the start before you get a bike in quite literally the 2nd act, and right before the end, in the mountains you get to walk a little, otherwise you shoot, hide, and ride.
love the game, what an experience.
crazy ass insane story and awesome characters.
A walking simulator would be something line the vanishing of ethan carter. You know, a game where you just walk.
DS has much more than just "walking", and you'd know if you actually played the games.
>DS has much more than just "walking"
True. You have a bike you can ride.
Yep, and guns you can shoot, and inventory management, and character progression. Wew, glad we got this out of the way
>guns you can shoot
You're not supposed to though.
pirate and play it, it's really good. don't be that one asoomer homosexual. Unless you test it hands-on, you can't judge.
Literally all of them are the exact definition of walking simulator though?
>Walking dead
Walk from a to b and do a few cutscenes and QTE's
>Wolf among us
Walk from A to B and do a few cutscenes and QTEs
>Life is strange
Walk from A to B and do a few QTE's
>Amnesia
Literally walk from A to B and pull some levers
>Death stranding
Only one I would argue. But at it's core, you walk from A to B to deliver a package
The funny thing is that walking simulator used to be reserved for stuff like Dear Esther, and Everybody Goes to the Rapture, but the drive to expand that meaning for everything you don't like was just too great. Now it's to the point where you could just squeeze games like Myst and Deponia into the walking simulator box, depending on how disingenous you want to be.
By that logic every linear game boils down to walking from A to B and thus a walking sims. Similarily how you could argue that most games are RPGs because you take up a role of a character.
So most games are walking sims because after all, you just fo from point A to B and press buttons to see stuff on screen?
Two can play this game gaytron
Stray has walking, yes, also simple puzzles, combat, sneak and hide sections. Unlike say, the game I mentionned, the vanishing, where you literally cannot do anything other than walking. There was also the game where you explore a house
Have you never played a real game in your life? How can you not tell the difference between something like guitar hero and life is strange? Life is strange, the walking dead, the wolf amogus and the like are glorified choose your own adventure novels. Games have GAMEPLAY. I pity you if you think walking and pushing the one button to advance dialog is gameplay.
Death Stranding is a fricking masterpiece.
>Telltale games
>Literal visual novels
has more gameplay than this one
Less gameplay. You don't even get a walking simulator, the game walks for you.
youve literally never played a telltale game
You don't need to play telltale games to know they're shit
thats not the subject of the discussion is it Black person
>this is the intelligence of the average Straytard who spams these shill threads
i was playing alley cat on my i486 pc before most of this board's fathers laid their eyes on their mothers. and that game had jumping. stray is a shit cat game made for the most Black personlicious braindead cattle this industry has pulled into the hobby with its giant moron magnet called viral marketing
comfy handholding experience > your gay ass games
I got it for free and there's not much to it other than the little bit of exploration and looking at a decent-looking cyberpunk city. I don't hate it, but it's not even going on my top ten GOTY list.
Don't care, still playing
>here is a game about being a cat
>but you can't do any cat shenanigans
>you can't do anything a regular cat would do
>instead here is a drone through which the cat can talk, because we have zero environmental storytellying skills
>also here is a pretentious post-apocalyptic story
>because that's what you want from a cat game, right?
An actual faithful game about doing normal cat shit would be awful too, to be fair.
>walk around
>catch a bird
>fight another cat or run
>shit
>lay around and sleep
>this continues until you get bit by a snake, fall on a spiked fence, or get caught by a large dog and die
You do need to embellish and pad it with a shit-ton of external factors, the devs here just didn't do that well.
That shit sounds cool as frick I dont know what your smoking
>>walk around
a bird
another cat or run
>>shit
>>lay around and sleep
>>this continues until you get bit by a snake, fall on a spiked fence, or get caught by a large dog and die
Survivor simulator with roguelike elements, I like it
Much better than some shitty walker simulator
You mean awful to (You). People simply want a cat game to be about fricking cats and cat things, not a "muh deep dystopian story". Quite a shocker, huh?
The issue is that Stray's execution is shit and the game people are saying they'd like would be shittier under the same devs. Stray's idea is better and under devs that were competent it would be trivial to add the shit I mentioned and have something larger in the background that you could also explore. A faithful cat game wouldn't be that because cat's don't actually do much. You would need to dress it whole lot from a systems-standpoint to make it good. Devs for stray tried that but in the wrong direction.
>"if this game was different it would suck, man"
>describe an infinitely cooler game than the shitty walking sim Stray is
>>this continues until you get bit by a snake, fall on a spiked fence, or get caught by a large dog and die
damn, already more gameplay than stray
Rogue-like cat game with 9 lives
nailed it
I don't get how anyone can claim this game isn't woke as shit (besides telling people there are two genders the robots identify with which was pretty based): CLIMATE CHANGE, HUMANITY DOESN'T DESERVE SAVING, HUMANS MADE GHETTOS AND THEN EVERYBODY DIED, ROBOTS ALL HAVE DIVERSE NAMES AND HIPPY PERSONALITIES. The story was so bad, I could see the ending a mile away. Playing as a cat was just a fricking gimmick for sales and made no sense or even mattered in the concept of the story. The ending was fricking bad and a complete waste of time.
>>also here is a pretentious post-apocalyptic story
oh god.
not another climate change story?
You play as a cat and save the world with robot bros.
Instant 10/10
>NO IF I DISLIKE GAME IT HAS TO GET POOR REVIEWS OR MY OPINION IS WORTHLESS
>PLEASE THINK OF MY OPINION
Nah.
OP said none of that stuff you're just angry, because he tries to give legit criticism, but for some Ganker Chooces game they will protect till the end with no arguments and dragging everyone else down.
What is the actual gameplay of this
Is it just Tokyo Jungle?
Much worse
You make legitimate points for why this is infact a shit game being propped up by "le cat meme"
Stop talking bad about popular games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's basically an unreal engine tech demo where you walk around as a cat. There's no gameplay
Not basically, literally, its FULL of asset flips
The biggest drawback to unreal basically taking over the gaming world is more shit like this being churned out and lapped up by normies. I remember the old days when unreal was a cool way to make fun games with decent graphics. Now it's just Fortnite and cookie cutter bullshit like this.
>you play and interact with the game in various different ways from start to finish
>has no gameplay
You weren't the smartest kid in class were you
>press space to jump when prompted on the screen
>press shift to meow when prompted on the screen
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW I FRICKING LOVE VIDEO GAMES
Just turn off the prompts autismo lmao
>the game is better if you close your eyes
lol
lmao even
Holy shit you are dumb.
>Point cat towards where you want to go
>Hold jump button
The prompts are actually useless.
>Point cat towards where you want to go
>Hold jump button
not him but that just makes the game sound worse lmao
Manual jumping would add nothing to the game. It's a short story adventure. Pirate it and play the game for yourself. It's short 3 hours max.
Have fun.
Oh so at least we agree it's a prompt and not a QTE
But why do you people have to be so defensive over some shitty cat game that is like 6 hours long.
You people hate everything but when there is dumbass cat now you like it?
What's so special about cats?
That's the issue, nobody is defending it "because it's a le cat game". It's nothing special, just a short, cute and well made game, simple as.
It's ok to dislike or even hate the game and give criticism, this is what a board is made for
But you have to admit, what we see on Ganker for this game is what we see on every new release for ages now, just pure seething and insanity. It's like watching those compilations of deranged american leftists
Some people are legit mind broken by this game. Holy shit I couldn't care less about Stray that's not a reason to have a complete meltdown for days. Just read the replies. Even if a fricking cat game the complete schizos here will find a way to start rambling about trannies
This, anyone saying that the reaction to this stupid cat game isn’t ridiculously hysterical in regards to hate is either moronic or just lying.
“That’ll be 60 neetbux for your comfy kitty tech demo, anon”
its a walking sim but the main character is a cat instead of a troony for once. it was always going to be a smash with normies
>WOW THE GAME IS NOT DEEP
>PEOPLE ARE SHEEP AND CATTLE
>GOYIM EAT UP SHIT GAMES
I don't want to hear a single criticism from a board that plays and defend WoW, CoD and other goyslop games.
This is barely and offender.
>and
ESL marketing shill
an*
>HAHA HE MADE A TYPO
underage or a genuine moron
Calling other person R*tarded or underaged is very mature behavior especially showing anger and losing your cool
>you are totally angry! LMAO!
okay here's your (you), it was the last one so savour it.
Dunno why you even bothered to respond, he fricking censored moronic
Most obvious bait in recent history
I'm at work and bored enough to argue with mentally deficient
Well if you type on all caps and use ! then I kinda expect you to be angry, especially after making a typo into a big deal.
>Well if you type on all caps
>>WOW THE GAME IS NOT DEEP
ARE SHEEP AND CATTLE
EAT UP SHIT GAMES
all caps is supposed to be mocking in this instance, anon...
>anonymous post holding positive opinion about one game
>anonymous post holding negative opinion about other game
wtf how is this possible bros
>reddit likes X
>therefore I must hate it
Ganker npc hivemind rent free
I'm perfectly capable of hating open world shit all on my own, without thinking about reddit
inb4
>n-no it's open levels
speaking of npc hivemind, did you even read op or just got blindly triggered when someone criticised your cat game?
>game isn’t a platformer
>therefore it doesn’t have gameplay
Excellent logic as always homosexual OP. Fission is just around the corner at this rate.
whats the gameplay then
It’s an adventure game. You look around the environment for your objectives and solve little puzzles. It’s not my cup of tea because I’m not 10 anymore but neither is any other adventure game.
Exploration, collecting objects, navigating environmental/item based puzzles, navigating chase sequences, shooting segments, stealth segments. All extremely easy, but they're still there.
>v defending a walking simulator now just because it has a cat in it
damn..
whats so wrong with a walking simulator?
is it illegal to like walking simulators?
>game is straight up comfy
is that illegal?
im supposed to hate that?
its not a game
it is a game.
you hate it, but its still a game.
unless it plays by itself if i let go of the controls.
Yes you're supposed to hate paying 30 dollars for a game with no gameplay
>supposed to hate paying 30 dollars for a game with no gameplay
No moron you don't hate the game you hate the price.
Pirate it and shut the frick up.
>Pirate it
Still overpaying
No. I enjoyed it.
Honestly the price isn't even the worst part of it. If shit games like this do well or even decently, more devs will make more shit games instead of decent ones. There are only so many resources a publisher or dev team can allocate, so more shit games means less good ones to choose from.
"Games" like this are dogshit and I want less of that because I want something engaging when I play games, Ican watch movies if I want movies, which will be better for that experience.
Maybe you've been in a coma but there have been plenty of incredibly popular walking sims before this game came along.
You don't actually play games which is why you are here complaining about a 3 hour cat game instead of playing whatever epic games you play.
>bro in case you didn't notice, other walking sims are a thing too
Yes and they're dogshit as well, and I hated them as well for the same reasons I gave.
>you don't play games
Playing rimworld right now anon. There are plenty of games for people who don't want movies with extra steps or walking simulators. And I want to keep it that way because shit like this and what came before it deserve to be shamed as videogames. If you want to argue it's a decent movie or distraction for a disabled loved one who would still be ale to complete the game then fine, but as a videogame it's trash.
>Yes and they're dogshit as well, and I hated them as well for the same reasons I gave.
I accept your concession. Stray won't change anything.
>Playing rimworld
About as bad as playing the Sims 4. Colony management games are all fricking garbage. That's just my opinion though I don't shit up Rimworld threads with it.
>accept your concession
You didn't make an argument, just said that there were other walking sims. My argument is that every time a game like this sells well or reviews well it encourages devs to make more. You didn't address that so I accept your concession.
>management games are garbage
Yeah I'm right there with you anon, just not enough cutscenes. How am I supposed to get invested if I build my own narrative instead of having it lazily shoved down my throat?
>Yes and they're dogshit as well, and I hated them as well for the same reasons I gave.
There are good walking sims. But for that you need to walk an incredible tight rope: you need a story that is iron clade without being pretentious, you need to entice your players (in that case they're more like readers) immediately and persistently, and you need to have parts that break the gameplay monotony consistently. I could name Edith Finch as a good walking sim.
Most of it is boring 2deep4you tardness, like Ethan Carter or Dear Esther, the worst video games ever made, like Gone Home, or barely fun for two hours, like Firewatch.
do we really need 1 new stray thread every 5 minutes
Yes it proves that nobody here plays games that all they do is whine about a game they haven't played.
The TORgays are hungry. We’re in a drought and they’re getting desperate.
>everyone who doesn't like my heckin' cat game belongs in this unrelated group
Real schizo hours
> heckin
>everyone who shits on new games despite clearly not having seen so much as 2 minutes of gameplay belongs in this very fricking identifiable, predictable group
ftfy, homosexual
How is OP wrong?
Read the thread. Note the explanations of why he’s wrong that mysteriously go un-replied.
>no argument
As expected
Literally pic related
It was literally answered multiple times above your post and you just ignore it and pretend you got a slam dunk. Cancer
>continues to reply with no argument
I accept your concession
I genuinely don't get people's issue with jumping prompts
They let you reach virtually anything you'd be interested in jumping on and allow you to get to fully explore game's enviroments
Do people actually think the game would be better if it had manual jumps and had the cat ragdoll down to the base floor from top od a building on every missed jump?
>the game would be better if it had manual jumps and had the cat ragdoll down to the base floor from top od a building on every missed jump
Uh, yes?
How so?
Especially in a game where platforming isn't a main focus?
At least make the graphics better if it's gonna try to sell itself as a tech demo. This shit runs on unreal 4 ffs
>tech demo
I think you're the only person in the world who considers this a tech demo
It has the same shit gameplay a tech demo would have. You walk around as a cat. It's a tech demo for normies. I don't consider it a tech demo because it's using outdated tech
You literally have no clue what a tech demo is
yeah a tech demo would have something impressive to show off unlike stray that is mediocre through and through
I pity the people that have to argue with you in real life
Shows off tech. To a moron, this game would have good tech, so its a tech demo for morons. Plays exactly like an unreal engine tech demo from 2012
But Stray doesn't show off any tech, nor does it pretend to be revolutionary in any regard
Dude you do not question the algorithm, just eat the slop and wait until the next trend
>jumping is scripted, essentially a QTE
There's nothing wrong with it being scripted
>a QTE
That's not what a qte is moron. If the option the jump is always there and doesn't disappear after time it's a prompt, not a qte. Re4 has QTEs
>barely any physics
Are physics a requirement for a game to be good?
>interactions are scripted like it was a goldsrc mod
What's wrong with it being scripted? It's the case for most games ever. Do you want Bethesda or Rockstar tier npcs in this game?
>overwhelmingly positive reviews
Yes, well made cute games in a period where's there literally nothing will be praised. The meme aspect also helps of course. There is no need to have a complete meltdown over it.
This is a board that worships garbage and actual movie games like mgs, literally who weebshit, visual novels and fricking pokemon. A cute cat is already above most games played here
>Are physics a requirement for a game to be good?
Yes
>adventure game
>there is nothing wrong with taking away tools that let you adventure
i swear you have some sort of brainrot, just because people like other shitty games doesnt mean this one isnt just as shitty
Just started last night and I'm honestly enjoying it so far. The environmental storytelling is great here, I don't understand how people are saying it's bad. There are tons of little hints and scenes happening that give life to the world and clue you in on what's happening and I don't just mean stuff like the, "memories," B12 finds.
Also, there is gameplay, there is puzzle solving to get to objectives or complete quests or help people and every character has special interactionswhen talking to them. Yeah, the puzzles are extremely simple and easy, but that's not inherently bad when they're fun or entertaining or adding to the world/atmosphere as a whole.
Mewgenics will be the better cat game
>all defence of the game is saying you hate cats so hate the game or semantics over whether its a walking sim or not because the game has no real merits to parade
Well yeah, because that's their whole reason for liking it
>why is this game good?
>cat
Journalists and normies don't actually like games. They like pretty stories. This is what Sony clearly believes
I wonder how much money the devs shilled for every vtuber under the sun to play their game.
You can tell tendies are jealous of this games success
dont you mean sony enjoyers, those are all movie games too after all
game of the year
Not a whole lot of contenders. There's ER and err frick.
>jumping is scripted, essentially a QTE
it works consistently on literally any surface. there is zero scripting. the jumps calculations are obviously all done from the cats player object and require nothing else. the only thing that's scripted are the prompts which you should just turn off.
next you're going to tell me that ledge grabbing and wall running are scripted QTES.
My coworker explained this game to me. He said it filled the niche of a simplified platformer since you can't jump anywhere only with a prompt.
To me that seemed like zero game play. I could call a book a simplified platformer because you have to turn the page. He also said that last of us was great but too much to unpack.
>too much to unpack.
What does that mean
I dun know. He said he loved it but he'd never play it again because it's just too much to unpack. I assume he talked about emotions.
>He also said that last of us was great but too much to unpack.
Maybe don't listen to that person anymore ever. Too brain damaged.
WHY DOES Ganker like this cat game did you make you homosexuals make this game or something?
You morons are supposed to shit on popular games but when there is dumbass animal for loners now you love it?
>You morons are supposed to shit on popular games
The sad part is that some newcomers will actually believe that
Anon, you should've realized why people love this game the moment you saw the cat.
I didn't think cats would have the same brain rot response you usually get with dogs, guess I was wrong
Caturday has been a thing on this website since before you were born. I don't like cats much but the internet is cat world no matter how you look at it, dogs are for real life.
Quit lying, you catBlack folk are beyond obnoxious with your homosexualry
Who are you talking about?
cum
cat website
it's so homosexual catlover gamers can give their money to help white genocide
>white genocide
wypipo don't breed and have 0.6 kids on average, no genocide is needed, they're simoly breeding themselves out of gene pool
>all these 2 IQ posts parroting the same dumb shit over and over again
Is this discord troony shit?
I'm never gonna play a game where I play as a cat. I grew up with and love cats to death but only women and homosexuals are playing this game right now. That's okay, just count me out.
we don't need your blogpost
imagine giving a shit about who plays a fricking singleplayer game, moron
>see ad for the game
>not interested
>don't play it
>it ceases to exist for me
I dont get the problem here.
>I dont get
games dont exist in a vacuum, the industry is an endless cycle of copying the newest popular thing. ideally you want that popular thing to actually be good
This game is hardly a fricking blockbuster anon. It’s a dumb little game that got some traction, calm down.
Shit like RE7 and all the same generic movie games have done far worse than a walking cat.
whats wrong with re7
Moviegame garbage with zero gameplay. You just walk, trigger QTEs and win.
youre aware youre posting in a thread about stray where people argue it has zero gameplay right
Sure but stray is clearly a normie game about being a cat.
RE has had like 15 games of good gameplay before getting shit on by its own devs.
>Normie
Go back
re7 just has a different point of view, thats it
Re4 was more of a movie game than 7. By quite a bit.
Re4 starts you out against a never ending horde of zombies. Re7 starts you out with 3 hours of walking around an empty house until 1 old guy appears and you run around until you find the garage so you can spam X to hit him eith it.
i have to wonder if you even believe in your own post and are just being hyperbolic to defend a point, or if youve actually convinced yourself this is the case. or i guess it could also be youve never played the game but that couldnt be
You don't need to play a game to know that it's shit.
this fricking board lmao
i'm not 100% against the idea one can have an idea that they don't enjoy a game without having played it, even if anon is being a c**t. For instance I have never played The Last Of Us 2, and have no desire to, despite being one of the turbo normies who really liked the original.
buddy your description of re7 was nothing short of fanfiction-tier, of course you dont see the problem because youve never played it
Honestly depends on the game and your taste. The less interactive gameplay there is, the less you're missing out on by just watching it on youtube or some shit. Saying that of RE7 is fricking moronic because anon is just describing the starting buildup of the setting, which horror games should be doing to begin with. Nobody could honestly call RE7 a walking sim without either not playing it or not getting a decent ways into the game.
his statement CAN be true but to then shitpost about a game as if you know everything about it and denounce anyone who likes that game is pure moronation
simply avoiding games because you can tell they are shit is fairly normal
Skip to a random part, watch for literally 20 seconds and tell me you're unable to tell if it's shit.
Not him, by the way, and I don't even know what game you've been talking about. Of course, Ganker always exaggerates and will tell you that a game is shit just because it has a black character or maybe even a woman with breasts smaller than J cup, or just because it's a walking sim - I'm all for gameplay, but even I can enjoy a walking sim once in a while.
But anyone who can be objective for a moment, can tell if a game is shit without playing it, at least most of the times.
>shit-talking Limbo of the Lost
that ones so bad it's good though
maybe you should read the conversation to get the full context, moron
Limbo of the Lost may be a bad game full of asset flips (just like Stray, ahahahahaha) but it was made in earnest and has a fascinating history. Playing it is like looking directly into the mind of a confused, ambitious developer and it fits right in with Japanese kusoge as a result.
Stray is like Pumpernickel bread. Yeah you know it tastes different from white or wheat bread but it's still just as boring as rye.
>Only chefs are allowed to say when food tastes bad
your moronic food analogy makes absolutely no sense, maybe stop thinking about burgers
have a nice day, Giuseppe. No one will miss you.
So 7 is closer to the originql games?
Also re7 isn't filled with cutscenes and qtes like 4
>stray is a normie game
The horror...
Also re7 saved the series
Which is a sad fricking thing, considering how good RE5 and 6 were.
Can't save a series that's been dead since 1998.
Standard movie game but because creepy visuals everyone praises is as going back to its roots and how it's so terrifying.
Literally just walking around the entire time, its shit.
Ironically the remakes are 1000x better than the new games.
>shit game comes out
>it's super popular
>what the game does becomes the standard for the industry
there's your problem
Why would I care a shit what "the industry" does? I have more than enough games on my backlog, even if no good game ever comes out again, I'm set for life
>even if no good game ever comes out again, I'm set for life
not my fault you waste your time on this dogshit board instead of playing the games in your backlog
There's more good games already released than I could play even if I play 100% of my waking life
Keep consooming that AAA shit
>Keep consooming that AAA shit
I've not played a AAA game in years, and Annapurna is literally an indie publisher you moron.
>I've not played a AAA game in years
Sure, that's why you think there aren't more games than you can play in your lifetime, kek
>that's why you think there aren't more games than you can play in your lifetime
Are you actually braindead? Of course there are more games than I can play, that doesn't make garbage like this being popular a good thing.
>Of course there are more games than I can play
see
Don't jump into arguments without actually reading the posts next time
Last (you)
See what? My own post, you fricking moron?
Any examples besides Fortnite and Skyrim?
BOTW, not really shit, but a mediocre game propped up by bog-standard "you can do ANYTHING" open-world marketing, same as Skyrim.
>90% of this games online activity is Ganker threads asking why the game is so popular
Money were wasted for this instead of
>Roguelike game
>Raccoon hive
>explore town and collect trash
>avoid hazard and enemies
>co-op with rats, oppossum or skunks
>Game kinda plays like goose game where you can use the enviroment against your enemies
Live fast, eat trash!
I wonder how Gankerzos will react when they interact with ladders in games from now on. What a thrill I tell you.
N64 Zeldas had no jump button either kek
They could have made a game where you actually play as a cat, jumping around edges of tall buildings, doing mischief, stealing hot dogs, cajoling humans into buying you food, fight for your turf with other cats, instead they made this...
Game devs are just creatively bankrupt.
all that sounds like hard work
>game devs are creatively bankrupt!
>proceeds to list the most basic, uninspired mechanics imaginable
lmao
>games comes out
>man this is just like Untitled Goose Game, streamerbait catgay garbage
>Game devs are just creatively bankrupt
Don't kid yourself, this is exactly how it would have played out.
someone already did, but it ended up being a vomit simulator because of the narrow FOV
>NOOOOOO, EVERYTHING MUST BE 10/10 PERFECT IN ALL CATEGORISES TO EVEN BE CONSIDERED GOOD.
Why is this board like this?
Just enjoy shit you like, ignore stuff you don't and move on with your life.
Who are you quoting?
>Why would I care a shit what "the industry" does? I have more than enough games on my backlog, even if no good game ever comes out again, I'm set for life
>Ganker sucks off Stray’s barbed penis on release
>normalgays like it too
>NOOOOOOOO WE’VE ALWAYS HATED IT REEEEEEEEEEE
Literally NPC logic
It's about time you realize that gameplay is nowhere near as important as you thought it was.
gameplay has never been as important
Gameplay hasn't been important for generations now. Sound design, art direction, storytelling, atmosphere, depending on how well realized any of those are gameplay can be as barebones single button action or push forward to win and nobody will care.
No one had any expectations for this game, it was just le funny cat game. No expectations = good reviews.
It's just a fun cute game where you play as a cat.
There's no rocket science.
There's no mona lisa hidden.
There's no message or philosophy to change your life.
There's no revolutionary new thing to change the face of gaming
Don't think too hard.
If you don't like it, nothing bad is going to happen.
Just move on.
I liked the one where you were a detective and also a cat. I think it was called "Ghost Trick"
the gameplay is essentially an extended qte/walking sim with some extremely light stealth and chasing sequences, yes. Most of the work was poured into the setting, ambiance, and music.
Annapurna is an indie collective that's released some decent games, like Journey and The Outer Wilds. They also did the recent Neon White. They've also had some stinkers of course, like What Remains of Edith Finch. They are the literal originators of the walking sim genre.
Yes, it is essentially a walking simulator. It's also short at 4-6 hours. However, at $30, it's almost a reasonable price. It's not like they're selling this shit for $60 dollars. I'd say it's worth a splash at $20 USD, so wait for it to be on sale. Especially since PC performance is ass apparently.
It's just a relaxation game mane. Not everything needs to be AAA boom or bust.
>Not everything needs to be AAA boom or bust.
How ironic considering I basically exclusively play indie games, because indies tend to have much better gameplay than triple-A rehashes. But not this time
I'm really enjoying the 3-9 dollar single A games lately, esp the brainless wave survival stuff like 20 minutes till dawn and vampire survivors (which I haven't played in several updates and ought to)
NTA, I actually played re7 and enjoyed it though I felt it was very content light.
> PC performance is ass apparently
Eh, it wasn't buttery smooth but even my shitbox pc managed to run it without any noticeable issues.
>it wasn't buttery smooth
>without any noticeable issues
Issues for me is actual hitching, which didn't happen
>Annapurna is an indie collective that's released some decent games, like Journey and The Outer Wilds.
They didn't make Journey, they just ported it to PC/iOS.
>They've also had some stinkers of course, like What Remains of Edith Finch
Edith Finch is honestly the only walking simulator I'd consider an actually good experience.
>They are the literal originators of the walking sim genre.
Bullshit. Dear Esther has been around long before them, so was The Path, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Gone Home, even fricking Stanley Parable.
>They've also had some stinkers of course, like What Remains of Edith Finch.
>Putting Stray, a most mediocre game, over the only good walking simulator of the entire genre.
Damn. That Joseph Anderson video really tanked Edith Finch's popularity on Ganker, didn't it? Bad youtube man made praising youtube video about gaem, gaem bad? Something like that?
I'm sad that bad youtube man made your feeling went sad about gaem. Hush. Give me a hug. Bad youtube man cannot hurt your feelings here.
>Annapurna is an indie collective that's released some decent games, like Journey and The Outer Wilds. They also did the recent Neon White. They've also had some stinkers of course, like What Remains of Edith Finch. They are the literal originators of the walking sim genre.
Annapurna is to video games what A24 Pictures is to movie, or what 4AD is to music. If you look at their catalog of games, each one is basically a walking sim with some weird, kooky gimmick that makes it stand out.
Also Neon White is nothing special, It's a 7/10 game saved by a great OST and lots of replayability. It still has some of THE WORST writing in any video game ever made by a Western studio, and the fact that it trivializes surf/bhop movement for normalgays is a travesty.
WHAT EXACTLY IS SO TERRIBLE ABOUT A COMFY CAT WALKING SIMULATOR?
IS IT COMFY AND RELAXING TO PEOPLE AFTER A SHITTY DAY AT WORK?
>WELL, YES, BUT..... UHH.... REEEEEE
FRICK OFF AND PLAY YOUR "PRESS BUTTON TO ROLL" SIMULATOR OR SOME OTHER SHIT AND LET PEOPLE HAVE FUN.
OKAY?
>why isnt this game like my hecking super mario 64
Cats are fricking bloodthirsty territorial frens. This game should have more hunting and show the ugly side of being a stray kot with cat fights
>t. Kot owner whose cat has kept my porch and lawn bug and rodent free for 17 years
You can't trust Birbs or spoders to do jack shit for you. All they do is shit on my car while a wasp nest gets built next to their damn bird bath.
If you hate kots you are one of those gays that wants to eat the bugs. Simple as
Why do you keep talking like you had a stroke?
newbie
it's basically just a chill Adventure game, like Monkey Island. I don't think it's meant to be deep or difficult, just relaxing.
>it's basically just a chill Adventure game, like Monkey Island
Hopefully with less proto-reddit humor. Monkey Island is unbearable to play these days.
It's got anti-capitalist "humans are bad" rhetoric towards the end, which was very obnoxious. It was a solid experience until then, but that final part really killed it for me. Also a shitty stealth mission at that part.
Continuing because I forgot to comment on humor, there's not really much of it. Beyond the cliche trope I previously mentioned, it's mostly just a guided experience with some quirky cat and robot moments, but nothing too in-your-face. Took about 6.5 hours to beat the game after collecting everything. 6/10 experience for me.
>better cat game than stray
Anyone who calls this shit a cat game hasn't played it. It stops being a cat game 15 minutes in, after that you're just a biological transport module for the real protagonist.
>take intersting premise
>throw it out of the window and make a generic postapocalyptic fetch quest instead
Frick b12 and those robot fricks
Every single line of dialogue was one too many
it feels like most people calling this a walking sim don't actually know what that means
Getting hung up on definitions is israeli behavior anon, frick off.
Theyre also calling it a good game which they definitely don’t know what that means
Does it have a happy ending?
It's bittersweet
Cat opens the roof and then leaves. We don't know if the cat ever found his friends or not.
Even collecting all memory pieces won't change the ending
Hope it dies a horrible death and gets eaten by birds.
Dark Souls is a walking sim. Prove me wrong.
You walk from point A to point B, marvel at pretty scenery and press dodge roll instead of jump to overcome whatever obstacles be they enemies or bosses.
As with the fake vaxes, you were warned.
Gameplay slave
why else play games if not for gameplay? if i wanna read or watch something ill choose media made for that purpose
It's a game made specifically for women and trannies, it doesn't need to be good because women and trannies don't know shit about good gameplay, and it has a heckin cute caterino.
Everybody with at least double digit iq could tell this game was going to be shit right when they announced it.
It's a video game for people who hate video games.
Everyone knows its a mod
What an obnoxious fricking voice.
I like cat game
I don't care if homosexuals on Ganker don't like cat game
I play and complete cat game
I am happy I played cat game
Nintendie behavior
It's free you moron, why do you care?
why do you care that he cares?
Slow day
>Ganker loves Gone Home with cats
Honestly pretty funny
yes
That's what bothers me about new Hitman. I love them, but I feel like they sacrificed so much for the sake of cinematic polish
I never get Hitman, especially the "perfect" assassination methods. Almost all the time it feels like those old games with moon logic puzzles.
Yes, and Sekiro is just a rhythm game.
Manufactured sensationalism. Couple that with desperate need for relevance and you have perfect environment to manipulate an entire market. Naturally this has resulted in decreased quality of product from a perspective of presentation and replayability. The only way out is to make something so good that it devastates all competition to the point that no amount of funneling to marketing would even help.
Lol. The game garnered organic relevance because people liked the novelty of playing as a cat. That's it.
Finished it yesterday. Took 3 hours, I found the ending extremely underwhelming because you never learn where the cat's friends are. The stealth sections were all able to be cheesed since you can literally outrun the drones' bullets. All of the Zurk moments were similarly easy. The only time I died was trying to lure two sentinels inside of the same cell, and go figure, that's basically the last puzzle in the entire game.
Here's my biggest issue with this game's reception: People are using the 100% achievement playtime as the standard. It's fine if you end up taking 6-8 hours finding everything in an exploration-based title, but this is a linear puzzle "platformer" with some basic goodies littered (heh) about. When people say Persona 5 takes 100 hours, they mean it because getting through that game is a legitimate effort regardless of what you do. But Stray is still a Point A to Point B walking sim, the only things to do if you go off the beaten path are collect a few trinkets, learn a piss-poor amount of lore for what could have been a unique cyberpunk setting, and... Sleep? Yeah, no thanks.
All that being said, it was a fine experience. But "fine" is a 6 out of 10. In other words, IT WAS MID.
Can't believe Ganker is seething over what is essentially Sekiros grappling hook mechanic.
>Walking sims from 10 years ago have more interactive "gameplay"
You don't know what a walking sim is, Ganker destroyed the meaning of that term.
A walking sim is a game where the ONLY things you do is pressing the movement keys and an interact button to open doors/drawers/read documents.
Stray isn't a walking sim only because it's linear and there's a contextual jump.
It's just a fun game, you play it enjoy the novelty and move on. I don't know why you expect this to be some groundbreaking masterpiece. It's a cute game with a cat as the main character.
Maybe your setup is shit if you can't kick back and enjoy an atmospheric game. It's slow and its main selling point are the aesthetic, the compositions you get through the game's camera and the soundtrack. I think the reveal trailer portrayed perfectly what you were in for. It's very normie-core, you're right with that. But still enjoyable if you turn off your brain. Were you expecting boss battles?
I'm not the kind of person who enjoys turning their brains off, at least not when it comes to video games. I like gameplay
>dude just turn your brain off and it's good
I never understood this, do people actually play games like this? I can autopilot in games I played for a long time, but that's because of how familiar I am with their gameplay, it's not something I look for going into a new game.
Why do you pretentious virgins need to parrot same stupid shit for days?
>no arguments
yeah...whos parroting what again?
>torrented it
>thought it was an ok distraction for a few hours
>elsewhere, hoes mad
why you gays feel so attacked for such a simple little game
>Tokyo Jungle languishing in hell
>This homosexual hallway game is being lauded because you get to be a heckin chonker
What's wrong with chonkers?
The game is simlly really well made
>well received game only on pc and ps
>Ganker has a meltdown over it
wonder why
You homosexuals drool over Quantic Dream and Supermassive Games garbage. But people enjoying relaxing kot game is some sort of conspiracy to you?
No one promised Kot Fortress or Crusader Kots 2 levels of complexity, everything about this game was pretty clear right from the start. Do you complain just because there's no drama in the industry right now and you desperately need another Cyberprank or YanDev tier of disasters?
I feel bad for the people trapped here
Jumping isn’t scripted you stupid Black person, you’re free to jump on anything you want.
It's a fricking indie game dude
ALL walking sim games are indies moron, yet this manages to be worse than average
You're just mad you didn't think to monetize toxoplasmosis mind controlled goyim first
Oh here it is, /misc/'s latest schizo shit
What do you expect? Snoys will shill anything Sony shits out.
homosexual streamers got paid to play it
Zoomie zoomie see le heckin miau miau and pretend to like it because they suck streamer wiener
Boomers know that it's a shitty game and that dog's life is still the only good animal shitpost game out there
Literally just fricking Gone homosexual 2.0
Its gone home but good
You can be cat
>a simple comfy cat game manage to somehow live rent free in Ganker's head...
what a time to be alive...
>there are Gankerirgins in this thread unironically defending this game
what the frick
Dont buy into the hype and you wont ve dissappointed. Frick viral marketers, frick paypiggies who jump on every flavor of the month, frick streamers for advertising this shit, frick Black folk, frick jannies, frick israelites and most importantly, if you dont agree with the above, frick you
>makes Ninties seethe forever
>no political bullshit
>mocks China
>finished game
>no DLC
>no microtransaction
>no 60 USD
Chad.
what the frick does this have to do with nintendo you obsessed schizos? if anything a movie game like this takes away from sony's movies
Im about to watch a fat indian youtubers VOD of his playthrough of the game, i'll let you guys know how it goes
>VOD is 4.5 hrs long
Yeah that sounds about right