I liked LA Noire but hated when it did that. The chief demoting Phelps and ripping him a new one for cheating on his wife and mother of his children with a kraut jazz singer, and I'm sitting here like "it wasn't me, that was a cutscene!".
This is a very frequent sin of video game writing which boils down to "am I playing a character, or am I playing myself in a fictional world?". In the former case the plot can have the character be a dumbass as long as it fits the character, good example is Geralt or Joel. In the latter case the devs have a lot of freedom in what the character can do but can't railroad him to be an idiot without the player getting annoyed.
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i never minded walking sim type games as a concept because that can exist as its own thing . Radiohead did something like that for one album that i thought was kind of cool for example. It free though.
This looks SO INCREDIBLY lazy, I am shocked this is coming out on a console, it looks like an itch.io Unreal Engine 4 game with stock assets.
The game is great, the shooting sucks. If you've played Alan Wake 2-3 years ago you'll remember it as great, because you remember the good parts. If you, god forbid, play it again then you'll remember why it is so tedious.
Always thought that stanley parable was pretentious by design, less because it consider itself superior, and more because acting like that its actually part of the joke its trying to make.
Borderlans isn't pretentious, its just unfunny cringe, don't confuse the two.
I don't want to use "pretentious" to describe Elden Ring, "stretched and stale" are probably a better terms.
I would say it is, the second was written by Anthony Burch so I believe he wants us to take the comedy more seriously than it should actually be taken. A bit like Rick and Morty.
And with these 3 words, I automatically hate it.
Nah, fromsoftware games, at this point in time are like Ghibli movies. And Ghibli movies, most of them at least, are pretentious to a degree given hayao Miyazaki and his shitty demeanour/attitude. The prototypical westaboo asian redditor. So fromsoftware games are to some degree pretentious, especially when they're designed to cater to the same fanbase. Gamer Miyazaki is not pretentious but I feel like he's audience captured to some extent and from in general has become audience captured. If they do a hideaki anno and fuck over that fanbase, id respect them more.
Reminds me of the retards who constantly shilled that the "good" ending of ACVI was that you and your NON-HUMAN """WIFE""" merging into an Armored Core was a good ending.
This aged so fucking poorly now that Yakuza is currently in the gutter after Kiwami 3 and whatever the fuck any game post-7 is.
Too late for that.
It's alright. It's not amazing but you can tell that it was made when developers still cared and it's impressive how much they didn't remove from the Looking Glass formula for the console audience.
