Yes, but it’s also devoid of creativity and takes up space that could be occupied by more creative endeavors, so it’s a similar path at the end of the day.

My point is pointing a finger at Fortnite and Epic Games is fair, but same finger should also be pointed at Universal, Disney, NBC… etc.

And the biggest finger should be pointed at capitalism itself.

And time machine leads to multiverse, and multiverse leads to reboot. Never mind the spinoff potential…

Hmm… title is a little bit clickbaity—author seems to be mainly going after live service games, not necessarily every video game.

Also, novels and movies don’t always end 😂 Not sure why they threw that into the title. Freaking Fast and Furious will surely outlast planet Earth at this point 😂 What about Star Wars? It’ll never end.

I agree with the general sentiment though: I think players are flexible and will be inclined to give your new IP a shot, but capitalism is risk averse, and will obviously disagree.

Yes. You probably will miss out on branching paths if any exist, but you will miss out on those in a regular playthrough anyway.

You also probably should’ve asked this question instead of the one in the title of the thread—they’re two fundamentally different questions.

I know narrative-driven games are dominant nowadays, but not every game is narrative-driven.

To add to this: Plus R was released on Steam in May 2015, and Xrd in December later that year.

So 10 years ago ArcSys were so niche, they barely had any presence outside of Arcades and PlayStation.

I’m sure they planned 10 years ahead for that dogshit Avengers game and Kevin Feige been a Testament main since 2013, yes 😂

I’d be extremely surprised if Sony reached out to ArcSys to develop Tokon before Strive’s release.

I’m assuming they probably did right after Strive’s release and Tokon has been in the works for ~4 years. 10 would be crazy foresight from Sony and Marvel…

It’s weird how 4 or 5 years between entries actually feels

Hmm… TBF, Strive went on way longer than anyone would’ve thought when it was announced… I’m pretty sure even ArcSys weren’t ready for how popular it ended up being seeing it’s the first time they broke their 25 character cap in GG… who even knows when it’ll end? They may end up releasing one or two characters after this season ends—Jam, for example, hasn’t made it in yet.

I’ll be watching from afar given the direction this series is going, but it’ll certainly be interesting to see where they take it from here seeing every major GG release broke new grounds one way or another.

Where did you look it up?

Merriam-Webster defines it as:

the force of impression of one thing on another : a significant or major effect

And lists “affect” as a synonym when impact is used as a verb.

The Mafia shit continues with no repercussions because governments nowadays are by the corporations and for the corporations.

RPG and open-world player problems.

In linear games, we do not “have control over when the game ends” unless we decide to stop playing the game. Shmups, for example, autoscroll along a Y axis or X axis—you have no control over where your ship is headed, and typically no control over how fast you’re traveling either. Similarly, most action games are linear by design; there’s hardly anything else to do if you decide to procrastinate—if anything, these games are designed to be replayable and you’re likely excited to finish your first playthrough, unlock everything, and start another playthrough on the game’s true difficulty with all your skills/weapons unlocked.

Now, here’s a question: why do RPG players talk as if they’re playing the “definitive” version of video games? It’s not the first time I’ve clocked this behavior from an RPG essayist and it’s obnoxiously self-centered. Not once throughout the video has this dude tried to qualify the kind of games they’re talking about—just kept using the word “games”

Fantastic, now when are we getting Steam ports of Viewtiful Joe and God Hand?

I’m telling you: they need to work on camera management—introduce some kind of fixed camera mode where it’s zoomed out a bit, and movement directions/passing/shooting is relative to the player, not the camera.

You’re probably not even bad at the game, it’s just too awkward for no clear reason other than emulating Rocket League.

My bad. Didn’t know I was replying to a bot. Didn’t even know we have bots here, TBH. TIL.

I mean, I wrote a whole lot of text explaining why I collect so many games.

And suggested nothing.

I haven’t even told you how much money I’ve spent.

You said a few thousand dollars, which’s exactly what I said. Why you acting like I made up a number?

You’ve already written paragraphs. Go figure.

No thanks to you.

If you want to see posts where I talk about specific games, just go through my history.

Yeah, I may actually. Wish this was one of them.

Oh, there’s sense. Maybe not sense in your prescribed manner, but there’s sense.

Go ahead and walk me through it, please.

The reason why you’re commenting here now, and not on my post about Curse: Eye of Isis is because this specific post created an emotional reaction in you.

Not really. The reason I’m commenting here now is the original comment I replied to criticized my response to your post. I commented on your post and moved on—feed here is just too short I ended up seeing it again shortly after.

And the reason I’m not commenting on your Curse: Eye of Isis post is I never saw it in my feed. Simple as that.

Or hell, you can look on my Akkoma account. I posted this game about Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death last night: https://atomicpoet.org/notice/AvkWBhY1PJvUqiElYu

Nice, keep at it. Doesn’t change the fact that the post we’re in RN is low effort and deserves criticism.

Sure the post is a little fedora-lordish but why not add meaningful input by discussing the value of games and their stories like the post suggests, rather than bashing a stranger for no reason other than hypercriticalism?

Because the post doesn’t suggest anything. It’s a random stranger gloating about spending thousands of dollars on games they barely play. No interest in starting any meaningful conversation whatsoever. OP did not say anything meaningful or specific about their favorite “stories” or “moments” in games, and did not show any interest in learning about yours or ours.

It’s not a crime to enjoy something. Just because someone has a differing view does not make it a wrong view. And honestly if I get downvoted, it kinda proves that lemmings just critisize others and hate when someone is critical of them. Hypocrisy at its finest.

You or OP can do whatever you want, but if you gloat about your senseless consumption habits online while showing zero interest in starting any meaningful discussion, don’t throw out the pikachu face when you get clowned.

I too have chosen to spend a good chunk of my money on games, and came to, you know the “games” lemmy instance, to talk about them. That’s not hyper-consumerism, its me finding happiness in a world where there’s not much to be happy about. Like op said, it’s a way to escape, explore, and lose yourself.

Talk about them then. No one’s stopping you or OP—although I imagine it’s hard to talk about thousands of games they haven’t played 😂

Let me demonstrate: one of my favorite moments in gaming was S ranking Furi’s first boss on Furier.

IDK why, but for some reason I didn’t know I was actually capable of improving at things. I had this silly idea that people are either born good at something or they aren’t, until I picked up Furi in 2017.

I heared the game is most fun on Furier, I find a code that unlocks it, and I start my first playthrough. As if that wasn’t enough, for some reason, I decided my first playthrough will be a challenge run: beating bosses is not enough, I will not move on to the next boss until I S Rank the one before them.

Now, Furi has nothing but boss fights and walking segments between each fight. Nothing to fallback on if you suck except your response time and pattern recognition skills—no weapons or skills to unlock, no shop to buy consumables, nothing. I shit you not: it took me 35 hours to S rank the first boss, and the moment I did it, I genuinely felt like a different person.

It was mind blowing. Like, what else can I do? What else can I get better at? I know it’s a video game, but my experience is indisputable proof I can improve at least at one thing and maybe even pick up new skills I don’t already have.

This lead me to re-examine and rebuild my idea of who I am and what I can do, snapped me out of my chronic depression, and eventually lead to a career change.

I still carry that feeling with me. Every time I pick up a new action game, I get excited about the learning process, and what I can accomplish after 35 hours.

What about you? Is there any moment you always carry with you?

Now, that wasn’t hard, was it? Wouldn’t it have been nice if OP did this instead of generically gloating about amassing a huge library of games they barely play?

Why do I play all these games? Because it’s important that they’re played.

Well, evidently not since you’re actively ignoring about 77% of them 😂 And who boasts about their hyperconsumerism on fucking Lemmy of all platforms 😂

Close to 100%ing Gungrave G.O.R.E and I have conflicting feelings.

Apparently, it was meant to be an open world game—whoever thought this was a good idea should stay away from arcade games for the rest of their career—and they decided to make a ton of changes late in the game’s development to turn it into a linear game, which clearly affected the game’s design and length.

Stage transitions are needlessly confusing—a lot of open doors and rooms that lead nowhere, which makes it really confusing when I’ve successfully chained an area and I’m trying to move on to the next one as quickly as possible before I lose my chain.

Sometimes, even enemies get lost and arrive where they’re supposed to be too late, which also wastes my beat count.

Some things don’t add up: some chapters don’t end on boss fights and some stage transitions are… empty elevators with nothing to shoot at.

There’s also some platforming, for some reason.

On the other hand, especially on Hard and G.O.R.E difficulties, it’s fucking Gungrave and it rocks! Shooting is satisfying, melee attacks are satisfying, and demolition shots are satisfying.

It’s a miracle we got a new Gungrave game, and I’m thankful for that. I can’t deny though: some moments I wished I was playing the original instead.

This happened to me in the beta, but I assumed it’s my internet acting up because I wasn’t wired at the time.

I can explain how manners work now if you need a lesson. Just say the word.