-Core is the new term for just aesthetics, and I think that’s much more fitting over punk. Though in the case of steampunk, it’s one of the oldest -punks so getting people to swap over to steamcore or something would probably be met with a lot of opposition.
What an incredibly superficial comparison.
“BotW/TotK is the same because it’s an open world anime game with action combat.”
“Tales of Arise is a seemingly open world anime game with action combat.”
“Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is an open world anime (realistic style but still anime AF) game with action combat.”
Blue Protocol is an MMO, with MMO gameplay and design philosophy that just happens to have a cel shaded anime aesthetic which has existed loooooooong before Genshin somehow ‘monopolised’ the style. Meanwhile Genshin is a mostly single player experience with some online elements. Look at your apples before you start calling them oranges.
If anything, the article talks about the developers being surprised at how much of a casual audience the game attracted and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the exact same people that are comparing it to Genshin somehow thought they’d get the same experience out of a grindy MMO.
iTs AnImE.
This is the return of the space cowboy?
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Here’s another one, Solace Dreams https://youtu.be/IcrYfmkPl-E also really impressive, though the game didn’t seem all that balanced when this video was posted, not sure if it’s been improved since or if the creators moved on to another project.
Doom wads and hacks in recent years have been doing some absolutely insane things, and it’s only been getting better as more and more people are realising the things they can do with it. I’m not surprised in the slightest.
Total Chaos has got to be the most mind-blowing to me, it’s a total conversion mod built of GZDoom. https://youtu.be/L7IITZDBvqE
“Don’t be evil”
Shit writes itself.
I remember it being convenient for getting screenshots off it to pc quickly, but I don’t know if there’s a better method of doing so. I rarely, if ever, use the share function to begin with.
To be brutally honest with you, the left one has a terrible thumbnail and an even worse title if the goal was to gauge interest and get people to check the video.
The right one has a thumbnail that says the name of the game and “First Look” which tells you everything you need to know about what you’re going to watch.
The first look at a new game called ____.
Meanwhile “GREY ZONE GREY ZONE GREY ZONE,” while flashy, doesn’t convey anything to someone who hasn’t already heard of the game. The actual image used is also better on the right, they’re both reloading, but the right one at least has something going on with the two teammates and not just a non-descript background, right one is even framed better with the mountain and field being clearly separated by the text.
As for the titles, “So I played ____…” only works for games that already have some sort of buzz around them, whether that’s because they’re popular, infamous, controversial, etc. otherwise people aren’t going to have a clue what the video is going to even be about. Is it a review? or just someone talking about their experience playing it? is it going to be gameplay footage? That title gives the audience nothing to work with. For example, “So I played The Day Before…” would work as a title because that game was getting a ton of coverage across the board due to the controversy surrounding it, most of it was commentary about it so seeing that someone actually played it would grab the attention of a viewer wanting to see/hear first-hand experience.
The other title, while verbose, says everything enough that needs to be said to grab anyone’s attention. The only thing that irks me is the “that’s actually real” because it just come across as a shallow clickbait tactic. The rest of the title is rock solid:
New [genre/type of game] - [game name] [video content]
Yeah, I’m not at all surprised why one video is greatly outperforming the other. Not sure what the point you were trying to make was.
the problem is companies have weaponised complacency, there’s too many people that don’t care and that’s why they keep getting away with it. do it enough times and people will begin to think it’s inevitable and just put up with it.
is this not SEGA being cheeky about Ubisoft claiming that Skull & Bones is a quadruple A game?
or are they being serious that they’re dumping that much into Crazy Taxi?
No it’s not, it’s Che like check.
Fair enough, it’s not like it wasn’t immediately apparent anyways, so in that sense the order doesn’t matter.
Is it painted or is the shell custom as well?
My first thought was Four Swords but the order should be Green, Red, Blue and Purple.
A lot of folks are sleeping on mobile games either because they’re mobile games or because of gacha, when a small amount of research (in the right places) will inform you on what the quality of the games are as well as how much gacha is required to enjoy the game. A lot of which don’t “require” it or give you more than enough to obtain enough out of it to progress (usually the gear based ones). Though if you outright don’t like the blatant waifu/husbando nature a lot of them have you’re free to avoid those, no point in forcing yourself to do something you don’t like.
Genshin Impact for example, might have a massive number of players, but I have found the game itself and the storytelling to be very underrated because folks either expect far too much out of it or just don’t care. Even out of my friend group there’s a few that only play to collect characters, that’s their prerogative. It’s also technically not a mobile game since it is available on just about everything, but it does have a gacha and therefore gets lumped in with other mobile games.
I can understand why some folks were put off by the first act back when the game was new and there wasn’t much else to do, but it’s grown considerably and there’s a lot more available to new players to keep them occupied during downtime. Like an entire TCG mode that gets updated regularly and even has its own competitive scene.
A lot of these games have more effort put into them than full releases on consoles and it amuses me how many players are quick to shit on mobile games when the games they play on whatever other devices are either worse, equally if not more “predatory”, or similar enough that they would enjoy it if they actually gave it a chance.
Same thing happened to me recently with their stupid BOGO sale, I bought Xenoblade Chronicles DE and Skyward Sword “New” and they sent me both packages with no plastic wrapping whatsoever, the pre-owned stickers very obviously ripped off and lots of damage to the cases. I went to a brick and mortar to return it and they didn’t reimburse my shipping fees, I had to call customer support for them to give that back to me.
I tried to just buy them new in store and they told me they “don’t carry rare games like that anymore.” I said fuck it, and went to my local Walmart for Xenoblade and Target for Skyward Sword and it cost me less. What a fucking joke. GameStop is trash.
My most recent gripe is with Amiibo, Nintendo literally announced some new ones recently and yet none of their supposed retailers carry them, aside from Amazon who have ridiculous upcharges on them. Went to GameStop and the employees didn’t even know what the fuck I was talking about. So if you can’t buy them directly from Nintendo you’re shit outta luck cuz good luck finding anyone that sells them for retail price.
I was aware it was a pre-existing term, but it’s seeing a bit of resurgence, even in music, presumably because the younger generations think they’re inventing things left and right.
What on earth is crust-punk by the way? First I’ve ever heard of that.