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I had to stop playing Control due to my console being temporarily unavailable and started Marvel's Avengers instead and let me tell you that's a downgrade in every respect. I've gone in knowing it wasn't well received and that the combat isn't great but man, somehow I still feel disappointed with how poor this is.
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Orv posted:Alan Wake isn't even a little Eurojank what exquisite tea posted:Remedy is a Finnish studio, so the correct term is Uraljank. This. I dunno, it's got a schlocky charm that sort of reminds me of the weird poo poo in Witcher 2. Coming from typical, safe, AAA gaming of the early 2010s I personally put it in a similar boat as TW2, STALKER, and other ambitious "charming" games compared to like COD or God of War. Just my opinion, maaaaaan.
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victrix posted:Any Heroes of Might & Magic 3 fans in the audience? Hilarious, love it.
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i liked the writing in alan wake. not like alan's hokey prose, but the actual multiple layers of writers writing about writers writing.
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anilEhilated posted:HoMM3 is really popular in Russia. pentyne posted:it's still actively played to this day I thought this was a joke until I looked it up but nope that's a thing. Pretty fascinating actually.
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HoMM3's popularity in eastern europe is the reason the King's Bounty IP was picked up by a russian company and converted into an (honestly pretty awesome) eurojank strategy game series
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exquisite tea posted:Remedy is a Finnish studio, so the correct term is Uraljank. Jankka
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If we're calling Remedy games "jank" the word is officially dead and meaningless.
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Anti-Hero posted:This. I dunno, Alan Wake for all its flaws feels pretty competent, extremely bizarrely bad faces aside, especially for how hosed its development was. To me Eurojank is like, they're trying super hard but around every corner this thing could totally fly apart at any second and even the best pieces of it are just a little sketch. Alan Wake mostly just has not great gameplay.
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"ambitious" is one of the last words i would use to describe alan wake. maybe that was true in its first draft, but it was chopped down to one of the safest and most limited third-person action shooters of its time
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Orv posted:I dunno, Alan Wake for all its flaws feels pretty competent, extremely bizarrely bad faces aside, especially for how hosed its development was. To me Eurojank is like, they're trying super hard but around every corner this thing could totally fly apart at any second and even the best pieces of it are just a little sketch. Alan Wake mostly just has not great gameplay. Cool, I can get behind that! FWIW I love Alan Wake.
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No Wave posted:If we're calling Remedy games "jank" the word is officially dead and meaningless. Yeah, they're not janky, just not good
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vividlope whips. possible top 5 GOTY for me
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Ghostlight posted:i liked the writing in alan wake. not like alan's hokey prose, but the actual multiple layers of writers writing about writers writing.
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Weird, im also a goon that started playing Alan Wake Remastered on a whim. I think its ok? Definitely shows its age. I like the TVs with "FMV" twilight zone episodes.
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pentyne posted:Slay the Princess Oh, Slay the Princess is great, alright. It's a Stanley Parable-like that nails all the important parts. Strong writing, sassy narration and shitloads of choices.
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Skulker posted:Is there a reason developers don't optimise anything any more? Mr. Fortitude posted:What gets to me about Cities Skylines is that it’s missing basic stuff like DLSS and only FSR1 is supported, support for the much better FSR2 is missing. Apparently the developers wanted a delay but Paradox was insisting they release it this quarter and are paying for it with bad reviews. Upsidads posted:Dear Konami nice start on the Castlevania collections when the hell is the part with SOTN & DS games It's been years Assepoester fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Oct 25, 2023 |
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Skulker posted:Is there a reason developers don't optimise anything any more? the current dominant trend in business management across all sectors is to fire all permanent employees and use fleets of disposable contractors for all work instead. When this concept is applied to game development, you end up with a lot of people who are brought in to design or build specific systems, but nobody with the long-term knowhow to understand how everything fits together and design things to do so smoothly. hence: lots of feature rich games that run like poo poo
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Tbh I hope the industry crashes again, and for a while. I need time to finish this backlog of decent to good games that apparently are now a lost art.
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disposablewords posted:Alan's writing is a case for the importance of editors and drafts. We're getting a hacky author's first draft work produced under extreme pressure, of course it sucks. Yeah the thing is, the parody IS there. The entire chunk of the game with the kidnapping plot is thanks to Alan hurriedly writing what he knows, which is cheap paperback thriller schlock. He's literally the author of legally-distinct Max Payne and that's all that he's known for. The game never pretends he's some legendary genius.
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John Murdoch posted:Yeah the thing is, the parody IS there. The entire chunk of the game with the kidnapping plot is thanks to Alan hurriedly writing what he knows, which is cheap paperback thriller schlock. yes it loving does, the entire premise of it is that the dark place is attracted to his phenomenal creativity. never once is it suggested that his writing is schlocky except in his own insecure delusions. the fact that the writing excerpts we actually see don't support this at all isn't some commentary on airport fiction, it's just remedy dropping the ball
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video games are actually really good right now
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The 7th Guest posted:video games are actually really good right now You should have told that to the folks at Colossal Order. Apparently they missed the memo and put out a bad game in confusion
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The 7th Guest posted:video games are actually really good right now Oh yeah?? What's the best one right now?
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Saoshyant posted:Oh yeah?? What's the best one right now? also everyone should play HROT and the golden idol DLC
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Saoshyant posted:Oh yeah?? What's the best one right now? Tetris
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just finished blood death wish, and i don't mess with build games often but that was one stellar mod
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The 7th Guest posted:video games are actually really good right now  There have been some disasters released recently, but a ton of good stuff too. To me, the big gently caress ups seem to be caused mostly by publishers demanding a way too early release, or business suits doing ceo brain things with not much thought given to what the actual product is going to be. But there have been plenty of good major studio releases this year, so it's not happening to everybody.
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The 7th Guest posted:video games are actually really good right now Year of the Gamer
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Oxxidation posted:just finished blood death wish, and i don't mess with build games often but that was one stellar mod Does that work ok in the new-ish blood re-release? Playing Cultic got me in the mood for blood.
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SavageMessiah posted:Does that work ok in the new-ish blood re-release? Playing Cultic got me in the mood for blood. works great, no issues at all
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Oxxidation posted:yes it loving does, the entire premise of it is that the dark place is attracted to his phenomenal creativity. never once is it suggested that his writing is schlocky except in his own insecure delusions. the fact that the writing excerpts we actually see don't support this at all isn't some commentary on airport fiction, it's just remedy dropping the ball I forgot that it was actually no joke Alan Wake's Darkplace lmao
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I’m going to play Alan Wake 2. Probably. Assuming my computer can run it. I’m honestly not sure what I can run any more.
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Oxxidation posted:yes it loving does, the entire premise of it is that the dark place is attracted to his phenomenal creativity. never once is it suggested that his writing is schlocky except in his own insecure delusions. the fact that the writing excerpts we actually see don't support this at all isn't some commentary on airport fiction, it's just remedy dropping the ball
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Saoshyant posted:Oh yeah?? What's the best one right now? yellow taxi goes vroom demo
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Ghostlight posted:i don't recall the dark presence ever gushing about his creativity but it wouldn't exactly be a plothole given that alan is literally living through a story he wrote starring him. the unprecedented reach and impact he has using the dark place's power is also meant to show he's a creative dynamo that it's desperate to get at. alan wake the writer is a Big Deal as far as the game is concerned, even though his prose excerpts all read like a sixth-grader wrote them
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Oxxidation posted:yes it loving does, the entire premise of it is that the dark place is attracted to his phenomenal creativity. never once is it suggested that his writing is schlocky except in his own insecure delusions. the fact that the writing excerpts we actually see don't support this at all isn't some commentary on airport fiction, it's just remedy dropping the ball Alan's there in the first place because he's burnt out and can't create. But he proved desirable because the Dark Presence really needs a narrative to exploit, and a novel author works in a more suited medium than the poets, painters, and songwriters it snared before. He talks constantly about how the narrative has to hang together, not just be logical but also follow the "rules" of storytelling, and it gets hammered in further when he mentions writing for TV serials and having the ability to just write originally beat into him by the need to pay bills. The picture painted of him is someone formulaic and workmanlike, which is what the Dark Presence actually needed. And also seriously, it is a first-draft work, produced under massive pressure without more than the most cursory editing passes to make sure poo poo hangs together. Polish for quality would come later, probably after it had been rewritten so many times it barely resembles the original. A number of real authors are open about the process actually being like that, Alan's situation is absolutely playing into it.
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