Moto70 wrote:There are plenty of fun, non-gritty, games aren't there?
...I’m ranting now because Tomb Raider really does boil my piss. It’s a 6 hour QTE stuffed, set piece based, cutscene driven, linear story, padded out with 10 hours of arbitrary, linear and downright dull collection quests solely to set off gamer’s Pavlovian reaction to Skinner boxes. This is all so that they can protect the idea that a modern game needs a 100 million dollar budget.
Sasukekun wrote:I mentioned a similar thing in the Last of Us thread. It's a lovely looking game, but it just isn't much fun.
Moto70 wrote:There are plenty of fun, non-gritty, games aren't there? I thought the entire Nintendo catalogue is made up of fluffy isn't it? Choosing to play the very games being moaned about doesn't mean that that is all there is to play.
Brooks wrote:grimdark
davyK wrote:Fun died with the Dreamcast and all it stood for.
Dark Soldier wrote:I think its more we've been brought up on the wonder of MD/SNES/Early gaming, whereas now half those who'd buy such games have been bred on full on FPS/gore/oh shit, and as such violence is seen as a key thing to them. Full on triple A games ain't marketed to us no more, rather 18-21yo COD racist eejits. I agree, I do but its the way of the land.
Brooks wrote:The plus side is we get to expend time on activities with no fear on missing out, albeit that if everyone else in your social circle is banging on about a thing it can be tempting to check it out just to be able to join in the banter.I think its more we've been brought up on the wonder of MD/SNES/Early gaming, whereas now half those who'd buy such games have been bred on full on FPS/gore/oh shit, and as such violence is seen as a key thing to them. Full on triple A games ain't marketed to us no more, rather 18-21yo COD racist eejits. I agree, I do but its the way of the land.
If I had to recast my vote for last year's B&B Game of the Year this would probably be top. It really is an absolutely cracking game and one of the standout games of this gen for me. There simply isn't anything it got wrong for me.Dark Soldier wrote:Well I'm going through the violence happy wonderfest that is Borderlands 2 and by fuck is it fun. Fun is obv still out there.
Pretty much. The number of times we've now heard that a sequel to a successful game will improve upon its predecessor by being 'darker' is now comically large. It's the goto theme for the short of inspiration. Just for once I'd like to see a dev claim it's new project it going to be darker this time and then literally just swap all the white characters for black ones.Brooks wrote:I'm not even sure the decision to make it grimdark is even A Decision so much as the studios literally have no fucking idea how else to present it now. Like, what you're describing requires legit level-design talent for starters. Like fuck do most studios command that.
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