Your video game hot take(s) thread
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In PC gaming that's a choice. You don't have to go for the most cutting edge of graphics, but should you choose to you can. With the PS5 it's built into it. And it's mainly console games succumbing to their own graphics rather than high end graphics itself that's the issue. Both Horizon: Forbidden West and Spider-Man 2 suffered from a lot of dithering, and Capcom notoriously and very obviously cuts the frame rate in half for characters moving in a distance. The smearing/tracing effect is also in nearly every AAA game on consoles. It's counter productive for console games to push graphics so hard only for those graphics to trip up visual fidelity and frame rate.
Also budgets. This graphical arms race is starting to really take its toll on a lot of big studios. *cough* Square Enix
Yes, but also heavily bogged down by their own ambition, and really lacking in momentum. I really like God of War '18 and Ragnarok is alright too, but thinking back to the classic games, they had a drive the newer ones miss. Once you started, you were going, and it wasn't going to stop for the next 8 to 10 hours. However, this then got criticized as 'not enough bang for your buck' because it was seen as too short, so studios started craft these 30 to 40 hour long behemoths that crammed themselves full to bursting.
Which doesn't even make sense as most of these critics (Most of them the same) were praising the Greek games for their 8-10+ hour length. The only time somebody from the old days complained about the Greek games being too short were one of the PSP games. That was X play being dumb asses. Though my problem with some of the old greek games of was, they dragged too but in a different way. The mainline trilogy, especially had segments or chapters, that could have been cut, shortened, or outright removed. I really feel this with GoW III especially. Ironic enough, both PSP games suffer from this the least. Especially Ghost of Sparta.
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The new GoW games had to adopt a more “mature” tone, since *old Kratos* was pretty played out with the unchecked rage, tiddy games and whatnot. It was fun for a while but it can only go so far. I recall even around Ascension wishing he’d be given more dramatic depth because it was clearly there to develop in capable hands (similar to how I feel about the Killzone series that was never done proper justice).
Gameplay-wise is far more hit and miss IMHO. Most of the added length boils down to slow moving narrative immersion sections for cinematic flare (which is still less artistically effective than the old games were with their camera work alone), and progression/gear gating with grindy skill trees and XP. There must not be an effective way of mitigating this tedium yet because it seems to be par for the course in combat heavy action/adventure games now, where it’s creeping into RPG territory.
Gameplay-wise is far more hit and miss IMHO. Most of the added length boils down to slow moving narrative immersion sections for cinematic flare (which is still less artistically effective than the old games were with their camera work alone), and progression/gear gating with grindy skill trees and XP. There must not be an effective way of mitigating this tedium yet because it seems to be par for the course in combat heavy action/adventure games now, where it’s creeping into RPG territory.
Yes and no. The combat heavy action games or mainly combat games that have little or no RPG elements usually avoid this.
- Hi-Fi Rush - One chapter does it a few times in the museum stage. But that's the only level to do this. It doed get annoying or repeat playthroughs.
- Evil West
- Devil May Cry 5 - Does it for about four seconds and never again
- Oneechanbara Origin
- Gungrave GORE
- A lot of action games from the indie side that follows in the steps of DMC.
- Most Soul/Soul style games or Fromsoft games in general.
@hanselthecaretaker2, Max has pretty good nuanced take on video game remakes I wish more gamers, and gaming critics especially, would abide by, learn, and except. Not all remakes are not created equally and remade for various, but usually the right reasons.
Still hard to believe considering the way Konami has been the last decade, that not one but two highly coveted games are getting remakes that actually look damn good.
These days Konami do their best work when they let someone else do all the work.
Sega with their lesser know or lesser focused IPs. The only difference being Sega was smarter to realize it earlier enough and continue to do so.
Kinkymation with Horizon hot takes:
- She finds Aloy sexy in both games. Keep in mind, Kinky is bi-sexual. She tolds the haters and the sexist assholes to fuck off.
- She considers both games to have some of the greatest stories in gaming, but more so the first game.