ITT: environmental storytelling

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You just know the new SWAT-like game coming out is gonna have none of the kino levels such as the serial killer or mass grave. Instead it's gonna be dumbed down zoomer shit with sprinting etc. A shame because all the original SWAT4 really needed was a school shooting and more cults like true detective season 1

the first level of swat 4 had you enter a home then venture down into some freak's dug out underground sex cave. that game was based

i liked the variety you had to approaching the scenarios. i loved rolling with the beanbag shotgun though it sucked the non lethal weapons became completely ineffectual against enemies in the later levels

FUCKED!

FUNCTIONING

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ADAMANTIUM PLANE

This was actually fixed in a newer version.

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Never will it be done better.

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This game is so bad

what did she mean by this

This game has potential:
youtube.com/watch?v=0PH_f3zo5_A

4u

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I hope we get a waco mission

>equitable fire bottles and door blockers

Nobody's gonna do a school shooting level in this day and age.

The blue-hairs and nu-male "gaming journalists" would lose their fucking minds.

you sick fuck
what kind of "mission" would that be?

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> it sucked the non lethal weapons became completely ineffectual against enemies in the later levels
Honestly if you weren't playing swat 4 multiplayer with a mod that allowed you to shoot armed terrorists with real bullets without "losing" the mission I dunno what the fuck you were doing dude.

That was the second level.

The first one was that underwhelming forgettable shit with the restaurant that was a front for an illegal gunsmith.

They have a school that's seems like people got out of it in a hurry in the reveal trailer.
I think the chance is there

dios mio

My trip to the Philippines in a nutshell.

Based if true.

Just as long as they don't turn it into some gun-grabber soapbox bullshit.

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Mid Health 2: Kinographic mod

TRAILERS

RoN has a confirmed school shooting level
youtu.be/IjscQ0HtaCg @ 0:48
There'll also be sex trafficking, neo nazi, and anal staircase levels

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>neo nazi shoot outs
Can't wait lads

Japan after a nuke?

completely overrated.
some faggot running with an ax that looks like it was cut out from a looney toons cartoon is not scary.

yep

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what the fuck is an anal staircase

Gay bar

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>he's never had an anal staircase
lmao look at this virgin

VALVE

>see nukes dropping outside the window
>quick, gotta become an environmental storytelling skeleton

>tfw you take a shit

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I liked MMod

Every playthrough. I know it's coming up, but it still gets me.

Calling what Bethesda does "environmental storytelling" is an insult to quality level designers everywhere.

This was the most amazing trainwreck. We need more like this.

This one is a fake and an art piece iirc.

This one is real.

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regarding fallout 4 yeah, skeletons and terminals that were supposed to tell a story and give a good idea of how the world reacted to the apocalypse were mostly replaced with wacky shit like funneh positions spookers and other dumb fuckerey, most easter eggs were those dumb teddy bears.
but again, in 3 they were pretty nice, germantown police camp, z.o.b offices were really interesting reads, and you had things like those two skeletons in the hotel rooms, they were supposed to make a deal but they shot each other and you can hear on a tape one of the two saying this was supposed to get him and his daughter to rivet city, kind of disproving the whole "did people just stopped dying after the war, why are they only pre war skeletons around todd???"

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meh, it's really hard to do this kind of shit when the environment is so huge and you have less control over what order/time a player experiences such things. I don't see what's the problem, of course the idea of a skeleton staying in position or even existing in most cases that long is absurd, but fallout has always been a cheeky shitpost setting where style > logic so it works for me

early 2000s bethesda is kino and people who shit on oblivion back in the day were just faggot contrarians now that the dust has settled. however it's hard to defend them after the soulless hells that are fallout 76 and ES blades

Fallout 4's skeletons don't tell a story, they are literally just jokes. It is inappropriate to call it environmental storytelling. I can't even remember any instances of Oblivion and Skyrim even trying to do environmental storytelling.

I found the small addition of Florians grave in White Orchard in Witcher 3 to be a nice addition.
I liked how the backstory of Florians homosexuality was tied into several quests in the game.

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but surely there's going to be BLM/black nationalist/muslim shootouts right? because they've come into more conflict with the cops than THE EVIL NEONAZIS ever have

you are incorrect m8, all of their games are full of this, and yes many of them are jokes but is such a joke not still a short, flash fiction style story?

VALVE

what would he even work on? Ferns for linux ports of vr software?

I made a mistake, they aren't truly jokes, not the type with a setup and a punchline. They're just wacky shit for its own sake, it's a bunch of skeletons in positions that there would be absolutely no reason for these skeletons to be in. There is no story that would explain their presence there, they are very obviously artificial.

Maybe if there were some side quest about a madman who runs around posing skeletons like a retard, then the scenes might be able to tell you something about his deteriorating mental state or even be a way to track him. That's not what happened though. They pretend these are actually the way the people who left these skeletons died. It's not storytelling when there is no story being told. A bunch of skeletons posed as if worshipping a clapping monkey toy is not a story, it's pointless absurdity to try and make the player laugh.

>neo nazi

OF COURSE THERE'S ONE WITH THEM IN IT.

OPERATIONAL BATTLE STATION

Do you guys think that games have become so detailed that doing interactive environmental storytelling becomes difficult?
Take The Witcher 3 for example, without the witcher senses, clues would too hidden amongst the other unimportant details.

FIRE AT WILL, COMMANDER

There are ways to make them more prominent

Does anyone here wanna play SWAT 4 RIGHT NOW?!

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I just wish games did environmental storytelling better and more interactive.
Witcher 3 just seem too cluttered to pull it off without the God-awfull witcher senses.

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I think what makes this more depressing is that the cultists you arrest a regretful of what they did to their children. They just want to see their kids.

witcher 3 is just too big so it becomes a retarded VN non-game. what they *could* have done was make it a sorta detective story where each monster hunting mission is some highly interactive situation with various outcomes that depend greatly on your choices, clues, etc. you could use alchemy, problem solving skills, etc. to figure out what this beast is and how to best deal with it depending on the environment, practicality, and so on. this is what it almost trolled me into believing it was, and why I bought it originally. instead it's just le epic witcher senses button, press F to proceed the mission, etc. problem is, making a giant fucking game like witcher 3 and having every mission actually be good would take 20 years and 10 billion dollars. so they shit out this mediocrity instead. witcher 3 at least had some kino story moments like pic related though, even if it's not a good actual game

this is why I have soured on the sandbox, t.b.h. I think bethesda has come about as close as you can get to a good game with their fallouts/ES games (NV too), in the sense that they are large worlds but also highly interactive via they way it does combat/spells to allow for so many builds, people call it "inch deep ocean" but the league deep ocean is just too hard and expensive to make. so fuck that, it's time for linear games to return.

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Wow, that's... pretty much just SWAT 5. They're not even trying to hide it.

>sprinting is zoomer shit
Sprinting is realistic

It's a case of wide as an ocean, but as shallow as a puddle.
What you say about Witcher 3 being too big is true. That's why I liked White Orchard which works sort of as a segregated tutorial level from the rest of the game.
There is either a diary, note or someone mentioning it, but the Devil by the well got killed by the Baronet for mentioning that the Baronet's son was a faggot.
There is also a mention of Florians faggotry when you do the quest about the Griffin at White Orchard. Some NPCs even talks about it in the tavern. I really liked how tied together it all felt at White Orchard.

Games can tell a good story, but they rarely do it well as a game, as in tying the storytelling into the gameplay.

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I didn't like the controls. Any way to use WADS?

TL;DR homosexuality is a ruinous force

so you want witcher to be a linear vn non-game then

my game crashed when i exit the castle after white orchard and i havent played it since.

Rebind the keys in the settings then retard.

no, having to actually find clues, make decisions, and stick with your choices makes it less linear VN faggotry than >press le red glowy button

half life 3

Apparently it can give you a stroke, which is all things considering, the least awefull way to die from this ruinous force.

hunt down the freeman was a pretty good dumpster fire desu

>Apparently it can give you a stroke

well that's kinda what they are looking for, from another man

it sets you free from a world of monsters, hags and angry slavs.
so it has a lot of upsides for sure.

In truth Florian got the rope, not a stroke.

do stroke and rope sound as similar in polish as they do in the english language or was that not a considering factor?