Your video game hot take(s) thread

[Gergar12]

This was the worst year in gaming.



Also Genshin Impact despite the annoying difficulty spike in Inazuma should have won GOTY. All of these games are either niche to way it. Is anyone even playing 'It Takes Two right now'?

Fuck that year, and fuck Covid.

Edit: I meant 'modern' gaming

 

[BrawlMan]

I rather stick with Rushing Beat X than Crimson Desert right now. Or anything else that is not genAI.

 

[Bedinsis]

Gamers use the term retro wrong.

Or to put it a different way.

Mega Man 10 is retro. Mega Man 2 is not.

I'd argue both usages are right. Though I could see a need to differentiate the two meanings: new art that evoke aesthetics of earlier eras and people being into arts of earlier eras.

 

[thebobmaster]

I think the best term I've seen for games done in a retro style, or art in general, is retraux. That needs to catch on.

 

[BrawlMan]

is retraux. That needs to catch on.

It already did years ago. That's what people were calling them back in the XBLA/Wii Shop days when more 8 bit style games started coming out and become more common place.

 

[ExtraWildGames]

CAPCOM WTF?

FIRST IT WAS SNK WITH THE AI VIDEOS

BUT THIS ALEX BULLSHIT!?

 

[Chimpzy]

CAPCOM WTF?

FIRST IT WAS SNK WITH THE AI VIDEOS

BUT THIS ALEX BULLSHIT!?

Sweet Home Alabama!

 

[Casual Shinji]

Sweet Home Alabama!

Japan has a hard time getting past their oni-chans.

 

[Gordon_4]

CAPCOM WTF?

FIRST IT WAS SNK WITH THE AI VIDEOS

BUT THIS ALEX BULLSHIT!?

Uh, do I want to know the context of this or am I better off not knowing?

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Uh, do I want to know the context of this or am I better off not knowing?

Spoiler: You can't un-know this:

Alex (who debuted in SF3) as of SF6.is now married to his adoptive sister, who is also his second cousin.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Sweet Home Alabama!

I thought it was a very poor attempt at stereotypical redneck humor, but the dude is from New York apparently??? Interesting choice from the devs.

 

[BrawlMan]

I thought it was a very poor attempt at stereotypical redneck humor, but the dude is from New York apparently??? Interesting choice from the devs.

Like everyone said, somebody is forcing their fetish into this character. Not the first time Capcom inserted, "step-siblings, ,so it's okay" into their game (Nero and Kyrie). At least two aren't related by blood in any fashion and were actual orphans.

CAPCOM WTF?

FIRST IT WAS SNK WITH THE AI VIDEOS

BUT THIS ALEX BULLSHIT!?

Japan has a hard time getting past their oni-chans.

Uh, do I want to know the context of this or am I better off not knowing?

Spoiler: You can't un-know this:

Alex (who debuted in SF3) as of SF6.is now married to his adoptive sister, who is also his second cousin.

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[The Rogue Wolf]

Spoiler: You can't un-know this:

Alex (who debuted in SF3) as of SF6.is now married to his adoptive sister, who is also his second cousin.

They must've hired Vince McMahon as a story consultant.

 

[Casual Shinji]

They must've hired Vince McMahon as a story consultant.

No, it's just a Japanese thing. Lord knows exactly why, but the concept step siblings, cousins, and even blood related siblings getting into romantic relationships with one another permeates anime in particular.

 

[Worgen]

Upon seeing the opening cutscene, my immediate reaction was "wow, that looks really good!" Maybe it's the flat polygonal art style, or just the fact that it stands head and shoulders above the quality that other Sega CD games possess, but it was impressive to me in a way that I haven't felt about any AAA in many years. You can tell that the developers were pushing the console near its limits to pull it off.

Not really pushing it as much as you would think. All those backgrounds are just movies. Silpheed is really FMV game, but with rendered backgrounds instead of real actors. Its still a damn cool game and it looks great, but its not really pushing tech like something like quake did.

 

[Worgen]

I thought it was a very poor attempt at stereotypical redneck humor, but the dude is from New York apparently??? Interesting choice from the devs.

I seem to recall a disgraced mayor who also was married to his second cousin and I seem to remember he was from New York also.

 

[Hades]

No, it's just a Japanese thing. Lord knows exactly why, but the concept step siblings, cousins, and even blood related siblings getting into romantic relationships with one another permeates anime in particular.

I know Fire Emblem went full on ''skinship with your real little sister'', who you could of course marry and breed with. I'm not sure whether her actually not being your sister after all was a saving grace or kinda cowardly given the premise of the game kinda hinged on it.

 

[Worgen]

No, it's just a Japanese thing. Lord knows exactly why, but the concept step siblings, cousins, and even blood related siblings getting into romantic relationships with one another permeates anime in particular.

Its kind of an everywhere thing, but it shows up more in Japanese media and its probably a leftover from WW2 where you had a ton of war orphans so you had families taking in orphaned children and such combined with a culture where arranged marriage was still a thing.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Not really pushing it as much as you would think. All those backgrounds are just movies. Silpheed is really FMV game, but with rendered backgrounds instead of real actors. Its still a damn cool game and it looks great, but its not really pushing tech like something like quake did.

I know that, and I don't think it lessens how impressive the game is. They used the unique abilities of the console to leverage a much more visually impressive game than would be otherwise possible. The way they implemented the FMV and matched the style to rendered polygons (the player and enemy ships) worked extremely well and it doesn't really make a difference to the experience if the backgrounds is pre-rendered video or not. I don't think the game would be improved much if they weren't.

Maybe I'm just biased after having seen what the previous ~40 games released on the console did with the tech, which is usually take some existing video footage, reduce the color depth, resolution, compress the heck out of it, and play it in a tiny box in the middle of the screen so that you can barely even tell what is being shown.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Its kind of an everywhere thing, but it shows up more in Japanese media and its probably a leftover from WW2 where you had a ton of war orphans so you had families taking in orphaned children and such combined with a culture where arranged marriage was still a thing.

If we're talking pop culture it's really just a Japanese thing. There's weirdos and creeps everywhere, but Japan seems pretty alone in putting incest and lolicon in their media. And not in the 'edgelord/Game of Thrones' kinda way.