#fernandaps2

[buginacup]

do you think games that are made for a niche appeal still have a future?

I think they have as much of a future as they have a present.

I think capital is always going to put financial and social pressure on artists to make things for mass appeal. No matter what circle you're in you will find a group of (probably well-meaning people) who think that making art for a select audience is a kind of moral or artistic failing.

But as new as it seems it's the same obstacle that every inspired artist has wrestled with under a capitalist system. For every weirdo niche game that gets streamed by some Twitch boy and sells gangbusters there are thousands that go unnoticed by the larger culture perhaps forever.

That being said, I have to believe that the audience one finds by being raw and honest and specific is stronger and more artistically fulfilling than the bigger audience that moves from game to game turning everything into a fandom machine. Being able to share art with people you know will give it a fair chance, and will think with it in new and interesting ways is the greatest joy of artmaking to me.

So if your idea of "a future" is big fandom and financial riches, probably not - but I don't think they've ever consistently had that. The internet may wash away into something unrecognizable, but for better or for worse there will be people sharing their weird art with each other online for as long as there are computers.*

(Footnote below)

*It's worth noting that since games are so expensive to make and often financially unrequited the only people who can typically afford to take the L and keep making their own weird games are those with a degree of privilege or comfort. That plus the material reality (cost) of computer technology means that a lot of even the more niche art is rather singular in terms of perspective.

As much as I like what the internet can do for people who struggle to have a place elsewhere there's always a degree to which it's infinitely more accessible to white people in the United States than anywhere else. I think there are a lot of voices who'd have a lot more trouble building an audience even if they had the resources - anyone who waxes poetic about the power of the web has an obligation to at least be aware of that.

[karthedense]

my guy naoto kurogane

Am i a fan?: I do not know or played enough bout the character to really have any strong opinions on him

favorite move:

Fave storyline: Idk enough to comment

Fave quote: Alot of his win quotes are really endearing, i remember that much

Enjoy playing: Don't think i've yet to touch him in BBCF

Changes i would make: To know him better, ask what his favorite foods are the works

Unpopular opinion: Don't know enough to come up with a joke answer.

[fyeahsonicthehedgehog]

please help me what are those shadow and tails products with the fig bars?

They're some kind of oat and wheat thing that the brand calls "Snackers".

[princewylder]

dmc1 is good its just kinda arcaic definitely worth it for its aesthetic and characterization that wasnt kept as the series went on

Ah thank you for answering! A mutual also mentioned that DMC 1 is pretty good so I'll definitely give it a go thanks :]

[multitrackdrifting]

will u ever change your youtube pfp to spiderman

it was supaidaman for a while, i actually mean to commision a friend for an icon but its just far down the order of things at the moment

[blazehedgehog]

a lot of what i dont like about ian flynn's recent stories are more so attributed to the sega mandates thing, like shadow not having friends and such. but i really dont vibe with the idea of sonic being a super hero with constant one to one battles and thats like a lot of what's seen in idw past the metal virus saga

Well, yeah, because there hasn't been a big threat in a while. Like, The Metal Virus was a world-ending kind of thing. It concerned the lives of everyone on the planet.

Post-Metal-Virus, it's been a lot more inter-personal stuff. Characters going on (well-deserved) vacations and smaller-scale threats. One gets the impression Eggman is gearing up for his next big plan (after all, we've seen he's experimenting with pocket dimensions), but in the interim it's going to be a lot of stuff like dealing with Surge.

You gotta have contrasts. Small, medium, and large stories. I know we just passed 50 issues, but really, IDW has only had maybe three story arcs to date?

The return of Neo Metal Sonic, The Metal Virus, and now Surge (With a bunch of smaller stories between major arcs).

I'm sure there'll be things for Team Sonic to do together as a group again some day. I personally appreciate the diversity in stories being told, and that we can't just always have Eggman threatening the fate of the entire planet every single time.

But yes, the Sega mandates stuff does suck. Though I wonder if they're going to be given more leeway soon, given that Ian Flynn (and Tyson Hesse) seem to be moving more in the direction of becoming secondary loremasters under Takashi Iizuka. They might be able to push or pull things more now.

[finder-plus]

This is a real possibility, but until it happens I have the distinct feeling they'd do something more casual-friendly or gimmicky. Like, my understanding of the series is it would take them having the idea for a fight hungry version of Monokuma to start a tournament of some kind. But that lends itself more to being a sequel with new characters rather something for older characters to get in on. So best guess it'd be a parody spin-off thing since the characters who know how to fight are way more capable than those that can't, far as I know.

It wouldn't be farfetched if the setting was a simulation, right? But then again the series is one for twists on the setting itself so

[carnival-phantasm]

happy bday check your steam you will see guilt

Thanks fernanda!!