I mean, that’s fair, and super fucked up. I have a lot of issues with that, including the cultural ramifications

Still, it seems a different caliber to being actively hostile to players in the game design department. Nintendo games aren’t the ones using psychological manipulation to give me a gambling addiction

That’s fair, though. It’s hella fucked up, and I’ve been wary of Nintendo’s approach to this stuff since way back when AM2R was coming out

I get that corporations are all ultimately after your money and nothing else, but I’m curious why Nintendo is on here. As far as game companies, the only thing I really see from them that’s kind of ass is their hyperprotectiveness of their own IPs. It sucks, but I don’t need a battlepass to get the full experience of the next Mario game. Zelda doesn’t require an always online connection. Metroid Prime 4 is actually gonna be finished on release instead of just shipping it in a terrible state

The game that spend 10 years removing things from AC Black Flag

As someone who has written songs… We get them, and I don’t think it’s particularly ironic

I think it’s really cool that you think we need more random kindness. I agree ^^

“It’s not a sequel or a remake, it doesn’t take 400 hours to beat, has zero microtransactions, no pointless open world grinding…”

All of that sounds pretty great, though. I hadn’t heard of this game until now, so I’m wondering how efficient they were with that 40 mil in marketing

Or maybe the idea is good, but the execution is bad. Maybe meeting strict deadlines meant the game had to be pushed out unfinished, or concepts had to be cut or changed. I don’t know jack shit about this game, but there are a lot of things worth looking into besides “These games just don’t sell these days”

Editing to add that it’s currently 60% off on steam, sitting at a “mostly positive”

Finally got around to playing Disco Elysium. I don’t think I’m very far, but I love it so far

Besides that, also doing a first person run through Elden Ring, and occasionally a bit of Lethal Company here and there

I legitimately know someone who speaks about Nintendo religiously. Like, he says “Miyamoto almighty” and I reeeeaaaaally wanna believe he’s doing it ironically, but I don’t know if even he recognizes it as ironic now. He is defensive of every of nintendo’s actions, all of them, justifying everything they’ve done while condemning other companies for doing the same. It looks like nationalism applied to a specific corporation

Like, I’m a big nintendo fan, but I cannot fathom the zealotry that I have personally witnessed coming from this person

But that’s not what’s going on here? Nintendo is suing a mod creator who modded their actual IP into the game, and furthermore locked that mod through a paywall (Patreon), so, you know, profiting off of unlicensed distribution of another’s intellectual property

Regarding genre, yeah, nintendo has no leg to stand on, and they know it anyway. You can’t claim ownership of art styles or game mechanics, but that’s neither the article nor the situation

Between this and crowsworn, I’m more interested in the latter, as it looks like it has some more polish, smoother animations, really committing to the artstyle

But, honestly, this still looks cute, and I like some of the gimmicks and mechanics it’s bringing to the table

“Snitches will find themselves in a situation in which stitches would be desirable”

Almost like that’s what his supporters wanted anyway

At this rate, it’s gonna release after Bloodborne 2 comes out on PC, or maybe even after Metroid Prime 4

An interesting read, especially considering I found out about it through the video. Only thing is I wish they’d release it on steam

I don’t think it’s quite that simple, though I suspect there is a grain of truth to it, that apolitical or less emotional music is manipulated out of popular and financial success. Mostly, though, I think it’s just the nature of reaching wide audiences. The “blander” (here meaning simply not particularly heavy on any subject matter) something is, the fewer people will be put off by what it has to say. If all there is to a song is just enjoying the piece of music for entertainment, there are simply more people who would appreciate that over, say, black metal, that is designed to evoke certain specific strong emotions

I also suspect that your premise is not so much flawed, but a disingenuous oversimplification, and that popular music probably involves heavier and “angrier” themes then you are giving it credit for. Or maybe you’re right entirely. I couldn’t name a single Taylor Swift song. I’m a metalhead, and whenever I go outside that comfort zone, it’s never to pop music. I look for artistry in music, and the top 100 don’t guarantee artistry, only sales, which if you wanna get into, is a whole lot of conspiring, just not political

Sales as a measure of success is entirely flawed in a capitalist society well after the invention of the field of psychology. When you know how to manipulate people, you can manipulate populations into buying shitty music. If you have the money, you can pay for advertising, which will make your artist seem more popular than they are, and then give you even more money to pump into yet more advertisement. It is certainly political, but not in a “we can’t have people having revolutionary thoughts” way, just in a “capitalism must perpetuate itself” way

Yeah, this is a contemporary trend I kinda dislike. It’s never enough to dissuade me from a game, but always seems little off to me

Hey now, that’s not fair. They also had Extra Punctuation :P

I struggle to think what that channel even did besides ZP and EP. Is Cold Take them as well?

EP is him doing the same thing, but not as reviews, more generally discussing broad topics regarding games and the industry. I personally prefer it to ZP

Well that’s an unsub. Literally the only thing from them I ever watched

In any case, I look forward to whatever he’s got cooked up. Hope he keeps doing stuff like extra punctuation as well