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You don't get Baldur's Gate 3 without Divinity: Original Sin
Or Elden Ring without Demon's Souls
Or Metal Gear Solid without Snatcher
Or Myst without Manhole
Many of the best games of the present and past are built by people who are able to iterate on ideas forever.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare broke the brains of everyone who plays games
I truly don't understand the modern FGC mentality. My most played game (+R) never received any (further) updates and I played it for years, same for AH3X. I play the games because I like them, not because of updates/content. Do people not like the games they play?
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Fallout 1's time limit was famously patched to be more lenient not long after release (in 1998!!) b/c there were so many complaints about it from critics and players alike. Time limits in games have been fought against for as long as the medium of games has been a thing
TBH time limit in games is something I see a lot of people having insane aversion to even in the early 2010s. Lightning Returns was lambasted for it despite being super lenient, and Dead Rising chipped it away because of audience feedback despite hardcore fans loving it.
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Howdy Doody had a run of a few years on TV, TMNT immediately became a multimedia franchise that still gets movies, TV shows and merchandise every year
I agree with the overall msg but let's not kid ourselves here
People my age are trapped in perpetual adolescence through their consumer identities. You’ll see a ~40 year old man in an all over print Ninja Turtles hoodie. A unique phenomenon? You never saw guys in the 80s or 90s decked out in Howdy Doody gear.
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i’ve been having a crisis recently about how making video games is perhaps contributing to a general pacification of people. escape, distraction, etc. these infinite “task” games seem to be the epitome of this. contextless work, total escape, total passivity. idk.
Labor. It's always labor. A lot of avid anime watchers would be taken back at just how little Japanese animators are paid.
fun fact! the Chainsaw Man movie's budget was less than $6 million (including advertising). meanwhile, the average budget of a single episode of Invincible was around $10 million.
What the Fuck is goin on here.
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To those who’ve never been to an anime convention, this is an ad hoc memorial for a street vendor.
This is the energy that keeps me in the fandom through all the weirdness and exhaustion.
I'm just gonna make a better counter-argument than most people dunking on Tyler and say the sequels are *better* for expanding on lore and cutscenes, not worse
Sometimes still think about how Doom 2016 had doomguy destroy a thing that was trying to explain lore and story to him, rejecting the very idea of exposition and lore in a doom game
and then the next 2 games just decided "you know what? this game needs more lore"
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So many people succumb to FGs b/c what they think takes hours only takes 10 minutes, but they believe it takes hours because 5 minutes *feels* like hours. It just a lack of patience and accountability from players, and no amount of redesigning FGs will ever fix this issue.
"Just play in a padded cell against a dummy or against animation-reading/input-reading npcs for hours before you have the bare minimum amount of experience necessary to glean the most minute amount enjoyment online.
Why aren't new players getting into the fgc?"
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What Max is alluding to here, is that the current administration has virtually no consumer protections operation whatsoever, and that's by design, to be as business friendly as possible.
There's also the fact that the Supreme Court is extremely corporate friendly.
So there's no legal avenue in the United States to realistically challenge Sony, or any large multibillion dollar firm.
This is all of a result of our current trend in electoral politics. Who we vote into office matters, and there are downstream effects that you wouldn't normally connect that flow out of who controls the American government.
I know a LOT of people have varied opinions on Max Dood, but on this point, he's actually right.
Everyone hates every character archetype except for the one they play, and if they go against someone with that archetype they suddenly hate that one too. Grapplers, zoners, rushdown, etc etc etc until the heat death of the universe
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The point about celebs is valid but I don't think people outside the US understand that pointing cameras at "baddies" here is a cultural taboo. B/c of the ultra-mysoginistic culture of the 90's and 00's (and trauma that comes w/it) many of us are sensitive to that kind of thing
This might be the most difficult cultural adaptations yanks have to make to truly join the global football family: we don't care about celebrities in the stands. The cameraman's job is to locate and then zoom into international baddies whenever play is stopped.
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Man, when I was 8 and my folks couldn't afford an N64 I emulated it on my dad's crappy Win98 w/no GPU and played it on keyboard at 20fps (AT BEST) w/sound all messed up and I loved it so much I beat it that way twice.
If you care about games, you will find a way
also this whole argument to me is just a divide of who had a console growing up and whose family could not afford it. if you had no option but to watch playthroughs when you were a kid you're obviously going to have more empathy for this and understand it's not as black and white
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It's not classist to point out that it's ok to not be able to experience something
It's strange when people don't account for history when talking about older games.
OoT is highly regarded these days b/c it's *THE* blueprint for EVERY 3D action game to release since. Every single one takes cues from it, to the point that Citizen Kane gets jealous
Ocarina of Time is considered the greatest game of all time for the same reason that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie made 1 billion dollars in box office. Take that however you will
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