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Which 2023 game do you think will win Something Awful’s Game of the Year award? This poll is closed. |
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| Dead Space |
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| System Shock |
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That sounds like an incredibly cringey piece of media that should be forgotten before it does lasting damage.
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Dec 10, 2023 16:28
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It still trying to leverage the "lmao so random 80s" vibe from Blood Dragon is an immediate red flag
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Dec 10, 2023 16:33
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Blankspace posted:Jade & Pey'j join a Suicide Squad heist, Pey'j announces he wants to gently caress Jade, she gets shot to death by a Far Cry guy before her head graphically explodes. Pey'j get shot to death by cops at a race riot. What?
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Dec 10, 2023 16:49
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The Assassins Creed frog is cute and animated well and everything else about it is utterly bizarre It's not awful but it really is just kind of weird and mean spirited Ubisoft is just... a weird rear end company in general Songbearer fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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Dec 10, 2023 17:04
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goatface posted:That sounds like an incredibly cringey piece of media that should be forgotten before it does lasting damage. yep. i was pretty surprised by how positive the reception was, but I guess I'm just not the target audience. it looks like Netflix is just throwing cash at Adi Shankar to just do whatever at this point, so I fully expect more embarrassing gaming-related content in the years to come. look forward to the Devil May Cry adaptation where Dante is addicted to computer duster and has cool sex with tit demons or whatever. Rinkles posted:What? SHANKAR: In a way, it's not just one thing because it's what you were alluding to in the beginning; it's all the twists and turns. Because I've spent the last 10 years really studying all the subgenres that we are either spoofing, satirizing, or riffing on. I mentioned this earlier before the interview started: I've been dealing with some crazy chronic illness issues that nearly killed me. So basically, I went from being this, like, super extroverted dude who was crushing it in the Hollywood ecosystem, and I got to go to cool events and cool parties to the point where I couldn't leave my house because I was constantly overstimulated. I didn't really understand what was going on and couldn't articulate what was going on. So, I spent a lot of time really going, “Okay, what am I gonna do with this time now because I'm effectively agoraphobic?” And I just really studied genre, subgenre, writing, screenplays, and I did a deep dive on this stuff. So yeah, I think it's the subverting of expectations is what I'm excited for people to watch.
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Dec 10, 2023 17:13
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Blankspace posted:SHANKAR: lol
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Dec 10, 2023 17:16
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what if this character said some swears and then died no one has done anything like this before
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Dec 10, 2023 17:33
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And this garbage was something made by a production company recently and not a flash cartoon from Newgrounds ca. 2003?
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Dec 10, 2023 17:44
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Hwurmp posted:what if this character said some swears SHANKAR: Because for years, you know, any time I would have any sort of hit or even a single or a double, you end up getting studio meetings. You show up, and they're like, “So what do you want to do? What do you want to do?” And I'm like, “So you have the rights to Waldo, right?” And they're like, “Yeah, uh-huh…” and then they all get uncomfortable. They're like, “What the gently caress is he talking about? Waldo?” I'm like, “Okay, so imagine a hard R Where's Waldo?"
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Dec 10, 2023 17:46
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are these actual quotes
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Dec 10, 2023 17:51
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In addition, Shankar frequently cites rapper Eminem, writer Warren Ellis, artist Takashi Murakami, wrestler Diamond Dallas Page, and Final Fantasy VII character Sephiroth as artistic and stylistic influences.
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Dec 10, 2023 17:52
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Hwurmp posted:are these actual quotes “They’d say, ‘He talks really fast and has vivid ideas that are kind of left-of-center sometimes,’” Shankar remembers. “I had a pretty traumatic incident when I was 17 or 18. They were basically like, ‘You’re on drugs! And we know you’re on drugs because you have these ideas that are anti-establishment.’” Shankar still carries those admonishments and accusations from teachers and administrators with him. How could he not when he was coming of age in a time and place where the very people meant to be protecting him viewed him as a threat?
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Dec 10, 2023 17:54
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bone emulator posted:And this garbage was something made by a production company recently and not a flash cartoon from Newgrounds ca. 2003? Very recently, it came out in late October of this year
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Dec 10, 2023 17:56
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Hwurmp posted:are these actual quotes Sadly, yes.
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Dec 10, 2023 18:11
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 the least surprising appearance possible
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Dec 10, 2023 18:20
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Great Value The Crow
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Dec 10, 2023 18:36
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Hwurmp posted:
“I don’t give a gently caress — I’ve never given a gently caress about any of this, straight up,” he says, now defiant as he walks through the convention center. “You can’t create when you’re living in fear, because what you create is just bullshit. You’re pandering. I’m not emotionally attached to any of this. You can’t take this away from me.” this guy absolutely rules
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Dec 10, 2023 18:45
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Infinitum posted:Great Value The Crow Hard R The Crow
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Dec 10, 2023 18:53
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Blankspace posted:Devil May Cry adaptation where Dante is addicted to computer duster and has cool sex with tit demons or whatever. Don't you threaten me with a crazy party time
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Dec 10, 2023 19:02
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Blankspace posted:
wtf Waffleman_ posted:It still trying to leverage the "lmao so random 80s" vibe from Blood Dragon is an immediate red flag Yeah I know a lot of people loved that game for some reason but I found it viscerally gross to look at and didn't find the writing funny at all
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Dec 10, 2023 19:04
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I've played every FC game and Blood Dragon is by far the worst, it's good reputation is apparently entirely due to it being short and having a single funny joke (I can't remember one but I assume it most have at least one.)
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Dec 10, 2023 19:19
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Blankspace posted:it looks like Netflix is just throwing cash at Adi Shankar to just do whatever at this point, so I fully expect more embarrassing gaming-related content in the years to come. look forward to the Devil May Cry adaptation where Dante is addicted to computer duster and has cool sex with tit demons or whatever. I’ve never subscribed to netflix, but I was sort of under the impression that the first season of Castlevania was popular, so Netflix said “Well, we don’t understand video game so I guess we’ll crown this guy the video games guy forever.” And Adi Shankar only has one style, which maybe worked for Castlevania?
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Dec 10, 2023 19:21
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DalaranJ posted:I’ve never subscribed to netflix, but I was sort of under the impression that the first season of Castlevania was popular, so Netflix said “Well, we don’t understand video game so I guess we’ll crown this guy the video games guy forever.” And Adi Shankar only has one style, which maybe worked for Castlevania? I really liked seasons 1, 2 and 4 or Castlevania.
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Dec 10, 2023 19:50
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didn't this clown make the edgy power rangers trailer
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Dec 10, 2023 19:52
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Blankspace posted:Rayman loses his TV spot for the evil fascist government after a long bit realizing he's been complicit in space racism or something, goes off the deep end into a coke binge and awakens by becoming a mass shooter wearing a trenchcoat. Rainbow 6 are a Power Rangers team (geddit? Rainbows). Red's actively racist Far Cry Blood Dragon the game the cop pursuing Laserhawk is the antagonist from that Watchdogs 2 The resistance is led by Marcus, and his full crew deadsec crew is seen in his backstory The Rabbids are giant monsters from dimension X The crew Alex Taylor is Laserhawk's lover The assassin sort of is a cameo, he's a caricature of Yves Balak, one of Bobbypills' bosses who worked on this series and also voices him
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Dec 10, 2023 20:27
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Ah I see, this guy couldn't leave his house so he crawled up his own rear end instead
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Dec 10, 2023 20:36
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Dabir posted:Ah I see, this guy couldn't leave his house so he crawled up his own rear end instead wow he's literally me
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Dec 10, 2023 20:57
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homeless snail posted:the monetization in fortnite festival (which is just rock band) is insane lmao. there's a handful of free songs you can play half of which are fortnite originals and a quarter are by the weeknd (you can buy his skin in the shop right now so presumably this is a promo), presumably these rotate idk. or if you want to play a specific song you can buy them for $5 a pop which is like, at least twice standard rhythm game dlc pricing. except, songs are subject to the same fomo store rotation as everything else in fortnite where you can only get what's on offer and you have no idea when they'll come around again. plus a $20 festival pass that has like eight songs (half of which again are fortnite originals) that who can say if they'll ever enter the shop pool, battle pass items generally don't so if you want gangnam style you better buy it now. also $10 guitar skins Wanted to give you so info I just found out too. One of the bigger name epic partner "leakers" is saying Epic is working on making the Jam Packs available as lobby music. If they added the ability to shuffle or autostart a new song while in lobby then it turns Fortnite into iTunes or Spotify. Which lmao if they did this too.
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Dec 10, 2023 21:36
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Also apparently it's not just Rock Band but also Dropmix/Fuser https://twitter.com/Batonicman/status/1733706051382337631?t=5VU-Wwek6D5SOBegQyAxmA&s=19
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Dec 10, 2023 21:37
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Waffleman_ posted:Also apparently it's not just Rock Band but also Dropmix/Fuser Yeah it is fun to mess around with the parts of the songs.
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Dec 10, 2023 21:39
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hell yes rise of the golden idol gonna be GOTY 2024 callin it now
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Dec 10, 2023 21:43
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this is the one where Peter truly becomes the Golden Idol
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Dec 10, 2023 21:55
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Diagonal Movement of the Golden Idol
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Dec 10, 2023 22:09
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Hwurmp posted:this is the one where Peter truly becomes the Golden Idol it took me a while to get this lol
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Dec 10, 2023 23:14
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Waffleman_ posted:Also apparently it's not just Rock Band but also Dropmix/Fuser
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Dec 10, 2023 23:59
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 Tunic captures the feeling of playing an imported Japanese game in the 90’s
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DalaranJ posted:I’ve never subscribed to netflix, but I was sort of under the impression that the first season of Castlevania was popular, so Netflix said “Well, we don’t understand video game so I guess we’ll crown this guy the video games guy forever.” And Adi Shankar only has one style, which maybe worked for Castlevania? I think the difference is he didn't write Castlevania, Warren Ellis did the first show I believe inspired by an old script he wrote that Shankar liked or something. Regardless of Ellis' personal drama, he has a style that pretty much carried that show, love it or hate it. The new show, Nocturne, was written by some guy who appears to have only really done crime dramas before which is probably a big part of why it was so flaccid & directionless. From what I can tell Shankar's personal style is more... what if GULLAH GULLAH ISLAND did DRUGS and then had to GO TO WAR, and it was an ANIME? Thankfully we're getting much less (none) of Warren Ellis & much more of the "Mr. Rogers in Vietnam" guy going forward, and I think his dad is some sort of overseas finance lord so he just can make this stuff forever regardless of whether Netflix drops it or not. Can't wait for the gritty Hyper Light Drifter show!
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bananas in pajamas in afghanistan
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