No.231912[Reply]
I know that I'm a cringe autist geek or whatever, but the sheer number of video game remakes, and their generally positive reception from morons is genuinely depressing to me.
This is mostly an issue with modern Sony consoles, although not exclusively. For all their faults Nintendo does actually develop / publish actual new games, and Microsoft is too busy being retarded and sucking dick to even produce anything.
But all of this stuff is just so blatantly artistically bankrupt, and now so many famous beloved old games have been remakeslopified that they're moving onto more niche things like Fatal Frame, they're so risk averse to actually make something new. Modern hardware is so much more powerful and grants so many new possibilities, and all people want to do is bank on nostalgia, take games from two decades ago, give them a generic unreal engine paintjob (often butchering the artistic direction of the real game) and homogenise the gameplay / camera / controls to make it more like The Last of Us or any other modern over the shoulder game. You can already see that the disorienting, strange fixed camera angles from the real game have been replaced with 3rd person over the shoulder like every other game, and that the voice acting is less subtle / alienated and more generic melodramatic, exactly the same as the slop Silent Hill 2 remake. Yet the comments are all people saying "survival horror is so back!" because of some safe homogenised facsimile of a 20 year old game.
It's honestly insane how little respect a lot of gamers have for their own artform and the preservation of it. When George Lucas made the Star Wars special editions a bunch of nerds got in uproar and said he "raped their childhood" because he added a CGI rock in front of R2D2 or whatever. Whereas with gamers, a studio which often has none of the people who were involved with the real game can utterly recreate the idea of a game and turn said game into a generic unreal engine Last of Us clone wearing the skin of something made by someone else decades ago who actually had a creative vision and they will cream their pants because it has more polygons and justifies their newest gaming pc / current gen console purchase
Not expecting any good replies to this thread and I know I'm correct about everything anyway so don't bother posting dumbass rebuttals because you're wrong and I won't read them, just ranting…
6 posts omitted. Click reply to view. No.231927
I'm ambivalent towards videogames, I don't mind remasters or remakes as long as they're good and fun to play, in fact, I think that remasters are a good thing because many can become lost media or inaccessible, so if a remaster releases in more platforms, it's better.
Remakes are another thing but if they're reimagined correctly, add new stuff nd expand the lore, they're good.
My problem with modern games is that everything must be competitive, multiplayer, micro transaction shit.
I don't mind challenging games but I fking hate when games are difficult just for the sake of it.
I finished some hard games this year but I also want more easier and fun games, I'm getting tired of souls like, I just want to turn my brain off and have a good time, sometimes games feel like a chore.
No.231928
>>231927>>231926Just played the demo of Pragamata. it's a fun game, you have to hack your foes so you attacks can deal huge damage on them. There a good selection of weapons and top tier graphics. The only problem is that the performance on PC is awful, but I think on consoles it is going to be good.
No.231939
>>231919>007 First LightThis looked like liquid shit