@Jay2Goat_ People used to host book clubs or become Freemasons. gotta fill the void somehow.
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Majuular
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Majuular
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The video game discourse on here is opening my mind to just how people's brains work different than mine because I had no idea that people play (or I guess don't play) games just to be a part of the fandom, the fandom is the very last thing on my mind when I want to play a game
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@Apuru_kun Ya I agree. Games so expensive now that experimentation and out of the box design is a liability. This spiritually looks like something you'd see in the 90s, throwing a bunch of cool ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks. Get more excited when I see 7/10s than I do 9s lol
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@majuular But honestly... I think the impressive thing, to me, is that I'm struggling to say what the game is, because it's incorporating so many mechanics and gameplay modes. People are pointing to this as a flaw--like it lacks focus--but I think that's the Zelda/Ultima magic at work.
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Based on what I've read
- Many interacting systems
- Unbalanced
- Focus on verisimilitude
- Technical mess
- High lvl of interactivity
- Kitchen sink world
- Sorta kinda an RPG but not really
- Never know if you're going the right way
Close enough, welcome back Ultima 7
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@Apuru_kun I hope it's fun. Seems like some people are put off by the jank, but you don't see these sorts of systems driven games very often anymore so I think I'll give it a try.
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@majuular 'Welcome back Ultima 7' Fuck, I was already excited. Fuck.
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@VerySlowRaptor @UnderTheMayo Agree, there are definitely exceptions. If you watch all routes of a VN you may as well have played it.
But for most games, interactivity is a mechanism through which the intended emotional effect is delivered. Its at least worth making a distinction between the 'fan' categories.
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@majuular @UnderTheMayo If being a "real" fan means you need to play said game. That implies the game mechanics are an important piece of the whole in every game. However this isn't the case. Some game's art and storytelling are 90% of the experience
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What is the term though? If someone has never played a Silent Hill game, but loves watching playthroughs and streamers, learning about the story, etc. If they aren't a "fan" what do they say when they talk about it?
Sora@KingdomHeartGuy
“You can be a fan of a game by watching gameplay instead of playing it” is like saying watching a movie review is the same as watching a movie
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@Felmendorf @UnderTheMayo between the two types of "fans", rendering the term so broad that it ceases to be useful.
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@Felmendorf @UnderTheMayo Good question...certainly some kind of delineation. A player could be growing to love the world of Skies, but find their experience poisoned by the high encounter rate. The annoyance could have a knock-on effect that a passive observer wouldn't understand, creating a disconnect-
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@keirburrows @UnderTheMayo Good point. Though I think the method of engagement for, say, a sports fan necessarily implies spectatorship. There's a distinction between "I'm a Football fan" and "I'm a fan of Italian food". There's a gradient in between, and I'm not sure where video games exist on it.
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@majuular @UnderTheMayo I think 'fan' is the perfect term for those who watch but don't play. If you're a player you're not really a 'fan' are you? You're a player. You can be a fan of the game design or world or franchise, but that's different from being a player.
Similar language to sport I reckon.
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@megatog615 Based Todd doesn't believe in abstract horse shit like "style" or "artistic intention".
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This will be graphics in 2013
NVIDIA GeForce@NVIDIAGeForce
Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality. Learn More → nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/…
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@TheOrcosaurusVT Unfortunately software that makes games look worse will now be used as an excuse for big companies to put even less work into optimization.
The silver lining is that nobody will be able to afford a gaming PC soon, so it's a nonstarter anyway.
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@majuular This makes the game look so much worse. It’s amazing how „AI“ does absolutely nothing apart from making everything effectively worse. This might be the biggest scam the tech industry has ever pulled on humanity.
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Plot twist - Majuular only covers older games because he's actually in the past and they're still new for him. His only connection with us is through a magic phone that shows him the dire future of gaming
About 10-15 years ago this would have absolutely been some YouTubers bio
Majuular@majuular
This will be graphics in 2013
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So proud of DLSS5:
Fully generative neural rendering, in real-time, in real games.
Mind-blowing realism. A whole new generation of real-time graphics.
A decade of continuous research and development. Coming soon to PCs everywhere.
💚
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@majuular P.S. happy to snail mail you a copy if the US/CA version isn't the same and I can find a copy at a newsagent still (it's become such a rarity to find magazines in the wild outside of subscriptions)
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@majuular So nice to see you got a double spread in this month's copy of PC Gamer in the UK 😄
Congrats on the growing success fellow nerd
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@AbsenceOfGravit @YungJunko I agree that his definition of art is rigid. But the overarching point here is that stylistic and mechanical choices are artistic choices. Remakes have a tendency to overwrite those choices in the name of wider appeal or playability, which disregards original artistic intent.
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@majuular @YungJunko He says that remakes that aren't 1:1 recreations are anti-art
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NeroTsumi 🪄@KuroSekaiAnime
Seems the video got some traction so here's him saying that if you like rem imagines remakes it means you dont think games are art.
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There is nothing controversial or supposedly pseudo-intellectual about anything being said in this clip. Is everyone just insane now
NeroTsumi 🪄@KuroSekaiAnime
This is probably one of the best videos ive seen discussion Video game remakes ive seen, highly reccomend it.
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@kurriochi @YungJunko I had a completely different experience and takeaway from the video. He plays devil's advocate quite a bit for the sake of dialectic, which I guess you could interpret as derogatory if you went into the video with that mindset. But his final statement is pretty even handed.
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@majuular @YungJunko When I got up to that point in the video I have to say, considering how the rest of the video is, I'm not sure I'd lean on the earnest interpretation. Either way, it was tacked onto a meandering video where so many of its points railroad you into the derogatory interpretation.
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@kurriochi @YungJunko As someone who puts together PS1-style renders for lots of my videos, I'll echo the sentiment: yes, lots of solo developers choose it because it's an attainable art style. That doesn't devalue it in any way.
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@majuular @YungJunko He also basically shits on a ton of indie developers by suggesting the reason they picked PS1 style graphics is to look more old or weird rather than it being a stylistic choice the developers made because they wanted to do it.
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