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>>48344
>I expect the retarded chuds will blame it on Bioware being too woke.
On the steam forums they already are. I tried to point out that the AAA sector of the game industry is collapsing due to things like the AI bubble, the overinvestment into live service games, and the energy crisis and that shit flew over their heads.

there's going to be a bunch of medium sized studios being broken down by big publishers because the only way to make margins look healthier is by cutting down on the capex side. people are going to be shocked when it's insomniac next, they'll blame the wolverine smell trails i guess.

>>48355
If you tell me woke, AI, and private equity are destroying the gaming industry, that makes me like those things.

>>48346
This. Everyone clowns on Andromeda but it's clear the rot had already set in by Mass Effect 3.

>>48355
>AI bubble
This isn't a real issue that has resulted in studios closing or not - its happening at the same time, but it doesn't have a lot of impact one way or the other.
>overinvestment into live service
This is definitely a factor, along with greedy demand for every game to have the same ROI as some mobile gacha nonsense .
>energy crisis
This has downstream effects for everyone, but isn't a major issue with game studios closing or not. If anything, they COULD go back to post-COVID19 work from home to cut down on commute and office operation.

Many of the issues with studios closing have to do with money being pushed into projects after the COVID19 lockdown boom - similar to streaming TV being funded at a massive rate that is now contracting. There are many other problems, but "wokeness" operates primarily as a negative modifier. In a good to great game it makes it worse but the game is still decent, but in a meh to horrible title it only highlights things getting worse often in visible ways. Ultimately, no matter if its consultants or internal committees if you're spending resources to censor your game so that it doesn't make the most obnoxious people on social media mad, you're making it worse. Its not the only reason that a game can be bad, but lets not pretend it has no role at all. THe "woke fad" was a waste of time and money, undermining games in the hopes to expand to a new audience that didn't really exist and isn't happy with anything that won't obliterate what most people enjoy; most of them won't buy no matter what you do. Lets hope that media companies including gaming have figured out chasing that fad has repeatedly proven a poor idea.

Much of the industry contraction now is related to non-woke things, but clearly titles like Veilguard didn't do anything to help and when Bioware's primary creatives are pushing forward that sort of products, its not going to go well.

>>48457
Yeah true. I was about to say that, North Korea is like Top Gun one and two, fighting against indescript small rogue nation with jet technology. Alienating the Norks is equivalent to alienating a made up country since they're not party of the global economy. But Americans are such fucking cowards. Imagine making up movie after movie about how you beat up on this podunk nation or that. I guess it's the new Victorian adventure genre. At least with Nazis we can pretend they had Nazi super science and mecha and moon bases and demon technology or whatever.

>>48457
It is also easier to demonize and basically make up anything about the DPRK and people will believe it. The fact that people get executed for having the same cut as KJU AND you get executed for NOT having KJU cut in the same propaganda reel shows that you can say anything and people will believe it. China has too much of a diaspora abroad and is not sanctioned to the degree DPRK is and Chinas Markets make it much easier to dispute ridiculous claims.
The demonization has also made reunification less attainable to the point the DPRK gave up on reunification. If you hear what ROK say about Northerners it would make anyone afraid, literally talking about slave labor for Northerners because "they are all cultists for the Kim family" and are "too dumb unlike the prosperous South".

>>48431
Video games are more childish than TV and movies which were more childish than novels which were more childish than oral traditions.

>>48451
If China were a revolutionary socialist state it would be producing media about the yellow man's burden of spreading socialism across the world instead they make nationalist bullshit like everyone else.

>>48452 (reposted the comment with edits. also wtf i posted the remastered nuke scene, fixed that by posting the original)
>treyarch
>Treyarch was the more redpilled of the studios.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB-n_8zq9Qo
dont underestimate iw like this, iw back in the cod 4 days was willing to show the usa fucking things up so badly that the end result was a nuked middle east and a completely destroyed us invasion force.

Also there was zakhevs speech that talks about what the west did to russia and shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHNlia4SK0M

>>48332
What do you mean, from trailers alone you would never guess this is a dual protagonist game.

my thoughts on how this game is gonna be

>>48332
>How, all I see is rockstar promoting Lucia over him,
wrong
>>48337
>What do you mean, from trailers alone you would never guess this is a dual protagonist game.
overcorrection

>>48337
from the trailers i would not even guess this is a game at all

>>48363
Yeah, its going to be one of those games you can watch cutscene compilation of on youtube and lose nothing compared to playing it.

>>44736
Some people can take a joke, crazy, right?

>>44736
>>44734
I think a big chunk of mainling SMT's fandom in Japan is women in their 30's too, and Persona was considered the younger and more male series
I think a selectable female protag would fit mainline even more since half the games are about a random ass normie going through wastelands

>>45680
source if you want to read it for yourself

Is posting on here possible while 4chan is down? Has anyone played the translated patch for the Aegis First Mission game yet?

>>48342
The php shut down is over but I wanted to ask, is this translation part of the new AI vibe coding slop trend where everyone is putting out translation patches for various smt games? I haven't played this but do you know if anyone is working on translation patches for the other G-Mode phone games?

>>48349
Every single Paradox rip-off game I played ended up sucking, so I have very little expectation of this one.

>>48350
Eh, ad long as the core is okay I wont mind so much, modding can fix the rest.
Looking forward to adding in a successful John Brown with insurgency and breakaway Republic. Looking forward to adding the anarchist movement in detail. As long as its half decent at its core.
Vic3 is too sadly unfinished.

>>48356
If Vicky3 is unfinished, what makes you think this game, made by studio with far less resources, wont be?

>>48358
Because such a small studio cannot absorb the costs of the release unfinished shit and polish it over many years business model of Paradox.

>>48349
Little look in to some of the modding tools.

I tried playing Umamusume but the insane time commitment, multiple layers of RNG, and extreme reliance on pay to win made me drop it. Fuck Cygames for making a 2011 gacha in 2021.

I love anges tachyon, I haven’t even played any of the games I just think she’s really cute, she reminds me of an autistic lady in her early thirties

>>45480
I like how the only thing that signifies that shes old are the laugh lines

sad

>>47673
the recommended specs are like 2GB of RAM lol

>>47675
The remastered ask for 12

>>47677
>Playing demasters
ngmi

>>47677
well then dont play that

Jogo massa

I cant explain this forever. The lightphone post single handedly destroyed this board and the kind of the entire gaming industry. You might want to click it.

See? Look closely. The endmins hair is inferior by default. Soycow. Everything you've ever known, soycow.

It basicly leads up to that.

I caved in and bought star wars galactic racer and it's pretty good. they really brought back burnout 3, in star wars form. it has the kinetic energy that was completely lacking in burnout paradise. and the rouge-lite stuff is really good, it makes the game exciting without it being super frustrating, more games should follow suite i think, just make the player endure a gauntlet of challenges before letting him progress to the next set of challenges. and like sound wise and presentation it's all very cinematic, very good stuff. the only sad thing is that they got rid of the twin stick controller scheme from episode I racer and racer revenge, but at least it's sort of justified I guess, and you can mod it in i suppose. probably the fastest pod racer game since, well, wipeout hd.

>>48335
And to text in OP
>Western Tumblr-trained artists who completely desexualize and ruin all of the theming

>>48280
The top pic looks like a playboy girl with batwings bolted on, something boomers would love I guess. Bottom looks more like a demon but it's drawn in a ugly way (not an artist not sure how to describe it aside from the "digital art" look that infested everything after photoshop and drawing tablets reached critical mass).

I think most people would prefer the top design because it's more memorable and iconic. Regardless of whether these designs are sexy or not, the top illustration just clearly has more work put into it. The bottom one is very flat and looks like every other style you would see on twitter. Western artists all derive their inspiration from cartoons whereas it's obvious Kojima derives their inspiration from a more serious study of real world subjects and painting. This is the problem with contemporary western art, it doesn't have any depth to it and people think that adding a million different accessories will make up for the fact that you're drawing a flat cartoon with no personality and no character to it.

On the topic of Eroticism, it works well when it has a level of verisimilitude. The succubus on the top has flesh that looks fleshy and soft, hair that looks textured and voluminous, and an erotic and suggestive expression. The bottom succubus only looks erotic if you're somebody who's only attracted to cartoons. It doesn't look like someone that could seduce you, it just looks like a circus clown. I know, I understand that some people are attracted to that, but it just doesn't speak to the primitive human sex drive.

> erik houdini
i wouldn't say the first one is more memorable but it's obviously more ambitious, it's wearing the yoshitaka amano inspiration on its sleeve and leverages the art nouveau style to communicate "goth" victorian decadence, the bottom one loses that context completely because it's going for something purely functional. i understand not liking what ultimately comes across as generic digital art but what does it need to relate to sexuality necessarily, do you need to masturbate to gustav klimt paintings before finding him appealing

>>48323
I like that your picture is like the exact opposite of OP