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Discussion False maturity

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So I stumbled upon The gaming brit's video on God of War (2018) and it ticks several things that Dimitri talked about in his "false maturity" video. It's quite interesting how we've gone from having distinct video game genres to either slurper durper geeeees, bloated AssCreed sandbox games and pedestrian cinematic games with unskippable cutscenes and slow af walking sections.
His rant was such a joy to my ears.
>Let me cozy up back into bed with my PS2
This speaks to me on a spiritual level
Golden age of survival horror and JRPGs
 

namedoesntfi

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So I stumbled upon The gaming brit's video on God of War (2018) and it ticks several things that Dimitri talked about in his "false maturity" video. It's quite interesting how we've gone from having distinct video game genres to either slurper durper geeeees, bloated AssCreed sandbox games and pedestrian cinematic games with unskippable cutscenes and slow af walking sections.
His rant was such a joy to my ears.
Quote from the video: "(...) trying to put an action game into a serious story."
Yeah, that's how this game feels. This was one of those games that after the first couple of hours, I was more interested in the story than the gameplay. I like Nordic mythology (though less than I like Greek mythology). And like the video says, the close over-the-shoulder camera easily makes enemies move away from your vision. You end up relying on that enemy direction thing he means there and you often end up dodging into enemies attacks because you couldn't see them coming. Boss (or mini boss) variety was very disappointing (for those who played it, the Helheim boss left a very bad taste in my mouth).

The "best part"? The reason I kept playing, the story, by the end of the game is such a lackluster. It's just setting up for later games. :miku-anger: They just sprinkle some references from the previous games here and there. Doesn't explain shit.

Oh, and let's not forget the director went off on Twitter to criticize fans and gamers.

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Oh, and let's not forget the director went off on Twitter to criticize fans and gamers.
This always infuriates me, maybe it's the writer in me.
While yes, 'Customer is always right' is a fallacy that props up entitled thinking, 'Consumer doesn't understand the artistic vision' is equally fallacious.
If they're all missing the point on what your story is trying to say, maybe you communicated it poorly?
 

Mandrake

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Oh, and let's not forget the director went off on Twitter to criticize fans and gamers.
This always infuriates me, maybe it's the writer in me.
While yes, 'Customer is always right' is a fallacy that props up entitled thinking, 'Consumer doesn't understand the artistic vision' is equally fallacious.
If they're all missing the point on what your story is trying to say, maybe you communicated it poorly?
It's a bigger problem than just a mismatch of artistic vision (that can happen) : many game journalists and game developers hate people who play their games, anime/game translators despise their own fans, etc.
I won't ask for full on fake hypocritical speak, but maybe if you are that full of contempt for people who buy your product and pay your bills, you should change jobs.
 

immahnoob

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This always infuriates me, maybe it's the writer in me.
While yes, 'Customer is always right' is a fallacy that props up entitled thinking, 'Consumer doesn't understand the artistic vision' is equally fallacious.
If they're all missing the point on what your story is trying to say, maybe you communicated it poorly?
Yes and no, maybe their artistic vision wasn't made for you, but then if they're claiming that it should have been noticed by the masses, yeah, clearly their expressiveness sucks.
 

Fennec_fox

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>Let me cozy up back into bed with my PS2
This speaks to me on a spiritual level
Golden age of survival horror and JRPGs
All the platformers...
Man I wanna go back when it was fine to make simpler games and not churn out muh mature game with over-the-shoulder camera and realistic graphics. All these fucking games just gel together :hinata-acid:
 
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