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Subject matter aside this is probably the first time I've seen the minecraft art style pushed to a higher fidelity that feels like it captures the appeal of the art style instead of turning it into an uncanny overly detailed Pixar thing with defined mouths n shit
there's a scene in Sonic Adventure 2 where Sonic rips off a piece of metal sheeting from a helicopter and the first stage has him riding on it downhill like a snowboard through San-fransico while rock music plays and it's baller as hell
There's a scene in The Last of Us 2 where a character just...takes a shirt off, over their head, without any clipping, and it's probably the most technically impressive thing I've ever seen in a game?? Like have you ever seen a character do this in a game before?
using a blown out 4:3 projector effect to depict the year 2013 is so fucking funny dude. we've hit diminishing returns and cultural standstill so hard we've run out of visual language to depict the passage of time. We are on our 3rd generation of 90s kids.
Nintendo of Japan released a new Pokémon commercial that succeeded in making me feel very old by positioning 3DS as a retro system.
Can we wait until a system is 20 years old before we do a childhood flashback scene 😂
on contrary I hope we never ever find this guy and he just remains a phantom to disappear into the night once his job is done bc I'd rather we not hold random ppl up to the standards of public scrutiny and hero worship that they will inevitably never meet bc they Taked good once
this is canonically how Morrigan's succubus subtype operates, they feed off of vibes and excitement and die if they get bored for too long, she is 100% more likely to hit the roller rink with spider-man than succ out anyones soul or w/e
Revealing that Mei Overwatch was actually skinny underneath her clothing was the first of many "Well what was the fucking point" moments that had yet to come
how the fuck did the retro game market men convince anyone that catridges of DS pokemon games are somehow rare enough to be worth more than like, 5 bucks each
they're 2 opposite ends of the spectrum between "bad game" and "bad Nintendo game"
Sticker Star is the ideal blueprint of a Bad Nintendo Game, where the shortcomings don't stem from poor execution of ideas, but 100% perfectly refined execution of the Worst Ideas On Earth
One of the worst RPGs I've ever played but the commitment to the fake game in an early 10s seasonal anime aesthetic was certainly commendable for its time
Idk how to articulate this but the ps1/2 era hit the perfect sweet spot where u could make random weird shit but the barrier to entry was just high enough that u needed to rly commit to it as opposed to throwing together a low effort shitpost in unity and calling it a day
thing about zelda is I'm certain her play style was done for condescending "we cant have the GIRL swinging a sword around" reasons but cutting out the sword combat in favor of creative application of the entirety of weird al's hardware store feels like a direct upgrade designwise
BREAKING —
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy against the United States.
Judge Amit Mehta tells Rhodes he still presents "an ongoing threat and a peril to this country."
what is it about JRPGs and VNs that turns an otherwise sensible indie dev into a mustache twiddling british colonizer who despite their evidently limited exposure declares themselves the one true expert who must save the genre from itself with their deckbuilder roguelite game
Still surreal to think about how the dude who represented the Japan Olympics by turning into Mario got blown to smithereens by a 4kids gun and now the only ppl who mourn him are japanese nationalists from Colorado named Dave
The Nara city government considered building a monument at the spot where former Prime Minister Abe was assassinated, but some residents didn't want one. In the end, Abe got this unmarked flowerbed.
Capcom circa 1995: we are making a game whos scope spans the entire 50+ history of Marvel Comics, and only have enough space on this arcade board for 12 characters. One of them will be Shuma-Gorath.
I think what Multiversus misunderstood is that Smash has the right to joke fighters when it has 82 characters and decades of history. MVS has a lot to prove and giving one of the big 3 relaunch slots to an intentionally stupid pick that nobody was asking for is a massive fumble
Friday gamedev update, I've implemented an 8 way directional dash an- oh goddammit how the fuck did this guy get in my game already I didnt even program him in what the fuck how does this keep happening what the fuck get outta here
not a minecraft guy at all but I've always been annoyed by those yt animations and the telltale series where the characters have articulated arms and mouth rigging and dreamworks faces and it just looks like complete dogshit, why do u have to overcomplicate this so much
This the guy who cracked the code on how to make a fighting game that appeals to both the most casual thumb suckers and maniacs with an infinite skill ceiling and proceeded to kneecap that with brawl bc ppl got too good at the game, that's kind of his philosophy for everything
conversation around women's sports is pretty miserable bc progressives have conceded so much ground to transphobes that they entirely forgot that the feminist position on that was "women are just as capable as men and should be allowed to play on the better funded mainline teams"
not just marvel, 90s Capcom in general is what I could only describe as a Renaissance of games seemingly made by and for artists at the top of their game, where everything had a distinct expressive touch where u could feel the craft pouring in on all levels i miss it so much waaa
It should be worth pointing out: This series has had an absolutely absurd impact on the art community, to the point where neither me or my circles have even really played them and will still list them as inspirations.
I'm certainly feeling the itch to make some art now
i think about Tim Rogers' boku no natsuyasumi review where he recounts his time working at sony japan and get that bittersweet feeling how they prided themselves on creating unique experiences you couldn't get anywhere else, now abandoned for literally the opposite philosophy
No understatement: The death of Japan Studio was the death of PlayStation’s legacy.
Many of the best, most influential games of all-time, games that formed PS’s image, and some of the greatest gems- were shaped, or created by Japan Studio.
Their talent was unquantifiable.
conspiracy theory that these winnie the pooh horror things are at least partially bankrolled by Disney to turn the populace against the concept of the public domain
The new trailer for Winnie’s Hole is pure NIGHTMARE FUEL.
Players will embody a virus tasked with capturing cells to grow more limbs and overtake Winnie the Pooh in the 2D strategy dungeon crawler roguelite RPG.
game development tools have been making amazing strides in ease, workflow, and accessibility lately, and yet games are only taking longer and costing more money to make bc execs and marketing are convinced the only audience for games are the dynamically exploding fruit guys
when I played animal crossing on the gamecube i remember one of the villagers said to me "I'm just joshing you, Josh" and I wasn't aware "joshing" was a real verb beforehand so I just started going "I'm just (name)ing you (name)" to other ppl to piss them off
Netflix keeps snatching up the big anime and holds them hostage until everyone stops caring and when they finally get ghibli movies they cant show em in the US bc HBO bought the rights for their random stream service
#295
nobody uses and mfs wonder why everyones pirating shit lul
I remember my uncle met the guy who cocreated Dora and was amazed at just how much meticulous thought and care went into every aspect of the show bc he knew you couldn't just phone in this stuff, and I can't help but think of the consequences of algorithm generated distractions
Apparently this shit causes speech delay in children because it’s overstimulating according some child speech therapists my relatives have talked to
Giving children iPads all day and turning this shit on is genuinely harmful their brains
Just put on PBS kids or some shit
"supply n demand bro supply and demand uuhh have u heard of supply and demand?? i am a very smart boy🤓" supply is the key word here nigga these carts are not in fucking low supply theyre some of the most printed ds games ever put to plastic get ur head outta jake pauls ass crack
Why shows get canceled according to outsiders: gues not enough ppl bought the merch :/
Why shows get canceled according to the CEOs that canceled them: the ghost of JD Rockefeller came to me in a dream and said if too many women like this show the rapture will be postponed again
I was discussing this issue with friends. It's frustrating when I'll hear some people get mad that their shows get cancelled yet they were watching or downloading it illegally and those views and downloads, now in the MILLIONS these days, don’t count for a show’s ratings at all!
All this just to sell less copies than some game called Scary Fuckville by a 20 year old furry roblox dev with photo bashed models and default mixamo animations
this is rly just bc pointing at Oda Nobunaga's huge samurai nigga and going "this sucks actually" is an opinion u could literally only have after years of indoctrination by the smelliest people on earth. 10 years ago that'd be the most uncontested coolest thing that could exist
it feels like the whole yasuke situation is really backfiring on the anti-woke crowd, it’s forcing them to be the most blatantly disingenuous they’ve ever been and I haven’t seen this many people jump to assassins creed’s defense since 2013
I respect they captured the robocop feel by basically making an anti-movement shooter, just move slowly forward while prioritizing whatever the most immediate threat is, reminds me how Goldeneye was a virtual cop esque rail shooter before being retrofitted into a standard fps
what is the psychology behind this
the more fucked up an IP is, the more controversial, violent, gory, terrifying it is, the fandom is inversely chill and fun-loving
meanwhile the more cute, soft, wholesome, uwu smol bean it is, the more the fanbase is made of rabid cops
uhm ACTUALLY if u translate this statement through esperanto and back 50 times and collect 50000 coins to unlock luigi in Guilty Gear 2: Overture you would know that Daisuke is actually referring to an obscure japanese tongue where he says bridget is my dad now
Sonic 06 was a product of biting off more than they could chew despite best intentions, with sticker star they had an exact vision in mind and went through with it perfectly, it's just that said vision was devised by the soul-depraved to maximize human misery
sure I'm biased bc I'm still getting used to "10 years ago" referring to when I was old enough to drink and be employed, but we had full HD 1080p video playing on devices that fit in our pockets and nintendo directs, what possible shorthand is there to do a So Retro to that era
I keep coming back to this post to find the seemingly inevitable guy going "noooooo look at all my starfield fanart you know nothing tourist" but they just never come. First game with absolutely 0 shooters. What happened
It’s kinda genuinely insane to me that Bethesda released their highly anticipated game Starfield months ago and I have never seen a single piece of fan content for it. No fan art. No memes. No discussions about companions. I saw more about Fallout 76 when it launched. Like… what
Still remembering that time toby fox, for just a moment, broke his consistent life of solitude in the mountains somewhere post-undertale's success just to call Matpat a cracker
not everyone who goes viral needs a big victory lap and podcast and Ellen show ep and youtooz brand deal and fornite skin, even if he somehow has every good opinion on everything on earth (like meeee :3) most ppl rly dont need an Extended Universe to keep up with we get the idea
I'm "lived long enough to see the paradigm shift between "wait, the capcom game with the WWRRYYYYY guy is based on a comic book?" to "wait, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki had a game made in the 90s by the street fighter guys?"" years old now
Unironically they should be focusing on marketing gundam more to women instead of dudebros, I have always held this opinion and I have only been more vindicated over time
This question goes out to the Western
#Gundam
fans.
With the recent announcement of the collaboration with
#CallOfDuty
what are your thoughts on this, and also what are your thoughts on all the new Gundam related promotions you have seen released in the last year?
Really
Marathon is the quickest I've seen ppl go from mind boggling hype to immediate disappointment, like ur dad finally coming back from his smoke break after 20 years just to inform u he's on the sex offender registry
didnt expect this to blow up so I'll elaborate-
Sakurai has always been very reactive to how ppl play his games, but u can tell by Brawl the widespread proliferation of the internet has had some wide-reaching effects on his decisions, the OP quote being an obv example but-
this gif from a project that's on the backburner atm. I guess its obv why but I'm kinda sad the project itself is kind of up in the air in terms of status so idk if I'll get to deliver on it lol
Lost media is so funny the community will turn every inch of the dark web and Bermuda triangle to find 3 second audio test of The Scrimplydorps on nick Jr while the first live action adaptation of a video game was found after almost 40 years and it was on a publicly available dvd
Do you want action games with more soul and less "souls"? Is your only desire to play an incoherent hodgepodge of several Treasure games happening at once? Do you want a video game about a wasp in a cloak that you'll be able to play sometime before you die?
dw I got u😎
#Rubine
tbh if anything this is proof you should shoot your shot however u can, cuz going from ur biggest role being Raditz in a dragonball internet parody to being The Real Mario is an insane career trajectory
Netflix completely ruined the brains of an entire generation of show-watchers. Just absolutely deep fried them, past the point of any return. This sucks.
What gets me about the archetypical bad Nintendo game is theyre all presented with a My Way or the Highway attitude that genuinely believes they know better than your own sense of good taste, probably why so many of their actual good games lack basic accessibility options lol
the fact that they had to acknowledge, tell the dev team, and actively release a patch over the fact that it looks like Minecraft guy is schmeating his meat in a victory pose is leagues funnier than if they just left it alone
currently bewildered by this 360 launch title snowboarding game (amped 3) where one of the themed mission UIs consists of poorly edited Fire Emblem GBA assets
this extends to the gameplay as well-
64/Melee being what they were is largely a matter of cultural context, Smash was designed for competitive play, but in a more localized"best kid on the block" way with the amount of tech lending a degree of "Jim can do WHAT with Fox?" moments
U know how school tended to oversimplify civil rights as "once upon a time white ppl were racist and then MLK made his I have a dream speech and ppl weren't racist anymore" Well that literally happened with big butts and sir mix a lot
If they did a doki doki panic style reskin of Legend of Dragoon with mario characters Nintendo fans would gaze upon it like the apes around the monolith
Something lve been worried about in the age of yt/tiktok is the prevalence of "synopsis poisoning", where media is primarily digested via summaries and reviews and other low-commitment content, where getting to the point and being told what they need to know is all that matters
imo the zoomer sex scene stuff is a symptom of something worse than youths becoming prudes:
general audiences becoming complete plotcels
seems like in recent years more audiences that ever just think most of art is about what "happened"
very funny to be like "we've uncovered the HOLY GRAIL of Spongebob lost media!" and it's just the crew sketchbook of the characters sucking and fucking like every show that ever exists has
by this point this timeline's version of Yuri would be in her 30s or 40s and *blood rushes so hard I black out for 10 hours* damn what was I talkin about again oh yea anyway during the development of Fighting Vipers a programmer put sonic the hedgehog in the
By the time brawl happened you had online play and youtube, so the skill ceiling was front and center for everyone and these "secret societies" were no more. Its untrue that stuff like wavedashing were unintended glitches but they werent supposed to be surface level features
so now it's just a bunch of going around and saying shit like "trans women ARE just as completely pathetic and weak and incapable of doing anything well just like cis women!" like I know how we got here but we rly shouldn't be here there's no fertile soil in this territory
I feel like everyone has innate knowledge of what JRPGs and especially VNs are but only a specific parody version that exists in their heads so every time they talk or attempts to "subvert" them it just comes off as making up a guy to get mad at
the part at the end about his health issues makes me so sad. Basically confirming the Jump lifestyle ended up taking its toll in the long term. It ain't fair man.
Akira Toriyama's Final Comments from Dec 2023!
Akira Toriyama was announced to have won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2024 on December 14, 2023.
He was supposed to receive the award on stage during the Festival from March 8-11, 2024.
However,
Sword combat in zelda, even the ones I'd classify as having "good combat" always felt more like a means to an end than something that gets u to interact with the direct appeal of zeldas design, replacing it with essentially a cache of endless items feels like an obv conclusion
Take I'll probably delete later, but between Etika and Death Grips I'm further solidified on the opinion there's a certain horror that comes with being a black content creator with a primarily nonblack fanbase who see u as some kind of epic meme man that I can't quite articulate
Amazing the things u can do when u actually treat the visual novel medium with an ounce of effort and dignity instead of just as a cheap wacky punchline about dating sims or w/e
Over 1,000,000 of you have grabbed The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog and it's currently the
#61
highest rated game on Steam of ALL TIME.
Absolutely unreal. Thank you all so, so much. 💙
Shin Scott Pilgrim gets me thinking how by default adaptations are intended to be a stand in for the original in a "superior" medium, so there's something about an adaptation that says "fuk u here's something different. If u want the comic, read that, it hasn't gone anywhere"
Wow, China just killed their gaming industry. Overnight the value of the industry tanked $80B, with Tencent representing $50B of that lost value.
Well... on the brightside, Tencent wont be buying up every single western developer anymore.
anyway with all that in mind Sakurai's stated reasons for scrapping story cutscenes in favor of promotional ones has more context, with video sharing and social media you cant rly curate the intended experience anymore, so why bother.
it makes sense tho i dont agree with it
so I understand why in the context of the online age having top level players zipping about FD potentially being front and center would lead to Brawl's "think of the casuals" mindset, a way to take control of the perception of an otherwise freeform game
Every major video game company has a gigantic backlog of IPs or original new games they could be making that's always treated like a huge risk if they don't sell 50 zillion copies on day 1 and yet they find the time to just burn elevendy billion yenbucks on Literally Nothing
🕹 Bandai Namco is creating its own IP metaverse with $174 million investment. 🌋 What this could mean for the future of Fighting Games: ➡️
#tekken
#soulcalibur
#fgc
VNs about lesbians kissing with their nipples showing is deemed an Unspeakable Evil that will land epic in hot water for showing up on the same storefront as games where they gave their animators PTSD to perfectly replicate pulling a dude's eyes out of his ass
@KaiserBeamz
SAO while not really being a technical example of it, gave way to now default "guy isekais into generic fantasy world and is overpowered and some cute girls are There I guess" format. To many, they've never experienced anime outside of this bubble. This is just what anime is.