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I think the Kingdom Come: Deliverance of the problem of trying to make an authentic artistic product amid culture war bullshit.

Despite the fact that KC:D is historical fiction and is set in the real, historical medieval kingdom of Bohemia, the first came came under fire for its lack of diversity. What were they thinking, making all the inhabitants of rural villages in medieval Bohemia white?! And coming to the defense of this admittedly ridiculous criticism were a bunch of right-wing and GamerGate types.

Now we have Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and… what's this? There's one (1) Muslim traveler from the Mali Empire in Bohemia? And what's this? You can have a gay romance? Are you trying to tell me there were GAY people in the middle ages? This game isn't BASED anymore!

It really shows how creatives are sandwiched between two tribes of dipshits wanting equally stupid changes so that all media products signal towards their tribe.

I really don't understand the entire genre of "cozy" simulator games that are just a minimum wage job.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I don't know if this fits here, but I've been thinking of console wars, My theory is that the breakdown of both the nuclear family and the nation state has led to individuals seeking out tribal loyalties from the only places guaranteed not to turn them down: companies selling a product that want their money. Same with sports. Rather than having a tribal affinity with your family/hometown/nation/people, this instead gets redirected to rooting for this squad of steroid freaks recruited from all over the country over this other squad of steroid freaks recruited from all over the country because the nearest major city has them playing at McBankTM Stadium, Thing is, with a few exceptions, I don't think it's artificially induced the way /pol/ does. I think it has arisen naturally out of the decline of important institutions of belonging: people are naturally reaching out, and like a kid trusting a man offering sweets, they are not necessarily doing so very intelligently.
The apogee of this within gaming was the console war of the mid-2000s. Trump hate is as nothing compared to Sony versus Microsoft. I know this stuff is ancient, like the Byzantine Riots over the coloured chariot racing teams, but I can't help but notice how most of that stuff occurred in the pre-modern era, before nations, religious institutions and families were really crystallised in full. Something needs to be done about this, we can't keep atomising forever.

What is this franchise about?
Can anyone recommend a good analysis?
I have tried a few but games are pretty intellectually stunted. I have a hunch that Simulation and Simulacra (and maybe Society of the Spectacle in some ways) was some kind of inspiration especially in MGS2 on the themes about truth and perception, but i have never seen anything related making this connection (having said that modern google and DDG are stunted in depth as search engines. google-fu is dead)
In MGSV how much of the game was real and how much of it was perceived? Was it essentially a subtler reenactment of MGS2 in which you are nothing but a weapon directed by others?
Is MGSV What happens to then Venom Snake a foreshadowing of what happens to him as Grey Fox later in his life and the inevitable complete breakdown through loss of who he is, every identity implanted in him to make him nothing but the perfect soldier.
Did Huey really do all of those things, but most specifically, the betrayals of diamond dogs intentionally or were we presented information in a way that created his guilt? He was after all the only person questioning you were not the man everybody is reinforcing you to be, that would be reason enough for him to need to be gone, he directly states that you are not the snake he new and the nature of truth on mother base multiple times, humorously with the dog that is clearly a wolf. Also the same kind of anger in the soldiers is fomented against Quiet in the act before, which is shown as to be based in irrationality and in-group/outsider dynamics. Is what happens to Huey a copy of that?
1984 is heavily referenced in MGSV, in any analogy that can be made who is roughly analogous to who when it comes to characters?

These are just things worth exploring, I don't holds strongly to any of these suppositions. So don't debate-mode come at me plz.




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Every fantasy game their in almost makes these creatures as needlessly posh and obnoxious as possible. Only some elf tribes in wow and tes allow elves to bare any semblance of originality. All the other elves exist as greenskin knock offs like in the Harry Potter series or the Victorian ideal of what British people are supposed to be like.

Elf weapons are always the most disgustingly parsimonious and needlessly elegant tools ever. You can tell the concept authors just had to tell the players “oh yeah, these guys are just so much better than everyone else for using knives and slim bows instead of massive clubs and blades like all the other races.” That garbage comes off as so overly sanitizing that it can feel insulting to all the other cool factions.

Also the thalmor were not persecuted enough.

Kitten Space Agency is a space flight simulator in development meant to be the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program. KSP was meant have a sequel but Take-Two Interactive fudged it: KSP 2 is controversially still in early access on steam as its studio is all but shut down.

I have high hopes for KSA as it is being made by experienced developers, notably Dean Hall (creator of DayZ) and his studio RocketWerkz (Stationeer, Icarus) who are creating a custom engine with veteran KSP modders being part of the team.

In an interesting and quite controversial move, they are aiming to make the game free, relying on donations and grants from space agencies, and are refusing to release the game on steam (among other things because steam is pushing gambling on gamers).

Their development process is quite transparent trough their disc0rd and they routinely share their advancements: in vidrel you can see a flyby of mars.

Huh, there’s absolutely no difference between heavily modded Skyrim and the recent assassins creed games….

It's one of the best rhythm games on PC, with great artstyle and music. It's FLOSS so it's blessed by St. iGNUsius and has an amazing modding support as well. What are you waiting for?

I also wanted to recommend the Funkadelix mod which features real vocals and a cool aesthetic but unfortunately it's proprietary. Maybe the devs will release the source code when the full version comes out? At least keep an eye on it. If you have a Twitter acc you can ask the devs directly.

Also recommend other FLOSS rhythm games such as Osu! and Stepmania.

the staircase I am in goes on for 467 blocks deep or almost half a kilometer down. It takes minutes to get to the surface from bedrock level.

It's a shame this series is less popular than CoD. It's both more realistic, more cinematic, more tactical and more immersive. It does a way better job of replicating Saving Private Ryan, CoD is just a glorified shooting gallery. CoD occupies such a weird spot within the FPS genre: it's not arcadey enough to give you a power fantasy but it's not realistic enough to give you immersion. It just ends up trying to sit on both chairs and not doing both realism and power fantasy particularly well.