Wed Jun 19, 2019 4:59 am
jrfox92 wrote:Andrew wrote:Speaking as a woolly Lefty, these Cyberpunk 2077 controversies are so fucking overblown. The genre is more than Neon Purple and Pink with a Robot arm.
Videogame critic websites are just the fucking worst.
Like that IGN video about CALL OF FUCKING DUTY where they complained about how the demo involved killing terrorists and that there weren't any "non-lethal options". I mean, holy shit, just move to china if you're gonna get so worked up about a war game that actually has some depiction of war and involves killing.
I don't understand why these writers seem convinced that all videogames need to be exactly as nuanced as real life. Fuck the source material. Fuck what the game's trying to depict. Fuck that the game is literally being developed in partnership with the creator of the original RPG. Nah, the game's problematic because black people can be enemies in the game and the player character allegedly mocks their pronunciations of certain words.
Wed Jun 19, 2019 6:20 am
Wed Jun 19, 2019 6:39 am
Andrew wrote:I'm finally trying Final Fantasy X for the first time, I will likely hate it.
Wed Jun 19, 2019 1:32 pm
Wed Jun 19, 2019 3:48 pm
Andrew wrote:To be fair, the PR for the new COD has been kinda gross - the edgy; 'what real war in the modern age is like' idea can work. Something like the cancelled 'Six Days in Fallujah' or even a Sicario-esk game where wet-work is justified for the greater cause - though having players potentially kill Babies as an attempt at making them feel bad for is pretty tasteless... I can already imagine the YT thumbnails of the edgelords doing it.
If you want realism, you're going to have fewer but more impactful combat sections, otherwise it's going to be arcadey - which compromises making any compelling moral statements; ala Spec Ops: The Line. Touching on PTSD is possible, but it's a legitimate issue that would need serious finesse to talk about and would work far better in a different genre. CoD4 was an excellent game for it's genre and it worked well in it's own hyper realistic way, it's bubblegum and some gum is better made than others.
Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:30 pm
Sun Jun 23, 2019 6:53 am
Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:46 am
Mon Jun 24, 2019 4:08 pm
Andrew wrote:About 15 hours into Final Fantasy X, the character designs are still questionable, Blitzball fucking sucks and the environments give me massive Star Wars: Phantom Menace vibes. The PS4 port genuinely looks great and the soundtrack has it's moments. I see why people like it. For better or worse, it certainly feels like a game from 2001 - one of the better ones. It's just in this weird period where Voice and writing wasn't at the level it is today and feels like weirdly primitive.
Definitely not in my top 5 FF games, but it's not as bad as I imagined it to be.
...I'm fucking dreading FFX-2.
Achtane wrote:FFX-2 is great though. And the combat system is neat.
Eivind August wrote:Andrew wrote:I'm finally trying Final Fantasy X for the first time, I will likely hate it.
Speaking of, I never really got into the series, but recently picked up a cheap Chinese bootleg of Final Fantasy IV Advance on a whim. Really enjoying it so far! The story got me invested and after a while I actually got into the turn-based fighting, which is generally not my thing.
Tue Jun 25, 2019 1:23 am
Tue Jun 25, 2019 5:22 am
coldbrightsunlight wrote:Eivind August wrote:Andrew wrote:I'm finally trying Final Fantasy X for the first time, I will likely hate it.
Speaking of, I never really got into the series, but recently picked up a cheap Chinese bootleg of Final Fantasy IV Advance on a whim. Really enjoying it so far! The story got me invested and after a while I actually got into the turn-based fighting, which is generally not my thing.
Wooo. IV is great.
If you like that try VI! It's fantastic and the pinnacle of the sprite era FF games.
Tue Jun 25, 2019 2:52 pm
Wed Jun 26, 2019 3:12 am
Wed Jun 26, 2019 1:13 pm
Andrew wrote:https://www.gog.com/game/bright_memory
Hmm, Korean-Jank Sci-Fi FPS mixed with a Beat'em up. Could be... good?
Sat Jun 29, 2019 4:34 am
jrfox92 wrote:Andrew wrote:https://www.gog.com/game/bright_memory
Hmm, Korean-Jank Sci-Fi FPS mixed with a Beat'em up. Could be... good?
Is that the game that was made by using a bunch of UE4 assets and there was some big controversy about it?