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j-52 replied to your post “You know, if you wanted to make Booster a Doom mod, you could split up...”
"check engine" light comes on to indicate having blue armor damage reduction.
That’d be really cool. Car dashboard functions and meters would lend themselves well to HUD stuff, wouldn’t they?
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Then they fly through the derelict husk of Hudson
oh no! yeah p much D:
j-52 replied to your post “it just dawned on me that zelda breath of the wild, among other recent...”
The devs of Yakuza (which always had bad gunplay) made Binary Domain. A solid Gears-esque 3rd person shooter.
oh! yeah binary domain is great. i still need to play it more thoroughly. but... idk. if i remember correctly, cover systems started out in japanese games like rolling thunder and time crisis? i feel like i could compare bd to other games just as much as gears. didn’t vanquish come out before bd? and that’s another sega thing. bd feels thoroughly japanese to me. the plot and storytelling is so “yakuza” that it hurts, which makes sense bc yeah yakuza devs made it. yakuza, though it gets stupidly compared to gta like crazy, is actually a spiritual successor of shenmue. that said, bd also was def not commercially successful. at least not in the west. it’s a great game but nobody bought it. it was kinda a failure... so i don’t really think it’s a good example of “successful” at least.
j-52 replied to your post “why is there a sponsored post of a dog going down a slide i think...”
I once saw a sponsored tweet that was like "look at the knife rack I installed in my kitchen"
ahahah! yeahno i’d def love all ads to just be nonsense without context. i might be able to actually tolerate them?
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They used this scene for Siren's TV commercial in Japan, but decided to withdraw the ad after one or two airings because they were worried about scaring children.
oh cool i didn’t know that! imo this part perfectly conveys what siren is all about and i love it v much. but i get it bein scary bc it kinda is. it’s v sad too like poor tomoko :(
j-52 replied to your post “one of the reasons i don’t rly gif anymore is it’s SO easy to steal...”
The further it is from the beginning of the game, the less likely it was done.
this is absolutely true and good advice for people worried about repeating gifs.
j-52 replied to your post “boring-angel replied to your post “idk if nintendo still does the...”
It's because pixel artists have to draw every frame of animation and it's not as easy to change the models or animations on the fly (flexibility helps with larger production teams). While it risks losing money for large companies, indie devs don't have a publisher to answer to. However, that also means they likely don't have the means to find and hire someone who knows how to model and animate 3D objects, while almost anyone can make 2D art and animation.
when the switch from 2d to 3d only happened, it was still much harder to do 3d. i’d argue it still is, in most cases. when the startup cost to make pretty 3d is so high, it sure seems like it’s much cheaper to just hire artists to redraw pixel animation. especially if, as you say, anybody can do it. while everything you said is totally true, it seems like you’re painting a picture of 2d and pixel being too risky for big companies. i honestly don’t agree with that, nor do i think that’s the reason they don’t do 2d more often. i think the problem lies more in investor pressure, and an assumption that the vast majority of buyers are only interested in “new tech”. while i sorta get companies like EA being afraid to do 2d, i’m surprised that such a nostalgia-driven, retro-oriented company like nintendo won’t give it a shot. they already include so much 2d fanservice in games already, so why not go all the way? but i’m probably expecting too much from n. shig seems to be very afraid to let anyone experiment with any of his old ip, nor is he willing to let any major changes be made, meaning evolution and growth is unlikely. it also means we won’t see him allow smaller indie-style teams make a cool, experimental new 2d mario game.
j-52 replied to your post “wow mad max is actually… good? desert aesthetics, fun storytelling,...”
Nobody hated it, just nobody played it because Metal Gear Solid V came out around the same time.
this is true! but most opinions i heard shoved it below the other 2 sandbox games that came out near that time too like... in terms of “quality”? like people said witcher 3 and just cause were way better and mad max was the one to skip. but idk i like mad max wayyy more than any just cause game and def more than gd witcher.
