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[efyu_lemonardo]

Frankly, I’ve felt this way about 99% of the games that have come out in the last 5 years. Not even just the ones that people like to dunk on.

The only fresh games I’ve played in recent memory are indie games, Astro Bot, and a small handful like Metroid Dread and Baldur’s Gate 3.

Play Pikmin 4, Mario Wonder and the latest Zelda. They're all like nothing else.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

For as long as I remember, the game industry has just all just copied reference images from the same movies over and over. Lord of the Rings, Black Hawk Down, Alien, Star Wars, and so on. All regurgitated over and over and over.

This was true even in the 80s. But as kids we were much less aware of it.

 

[Lorianus]

Nearly all modern games since like the middle of PS4 lack a clear image quality, i dont know if im getting old or something but it all becomes just visual noise, like the boss fights in FF16, half the time the picture is either smeared in special FX or dark enough that you cant really comprehend whats happening on screen.

 

[Hohenheim]

These things seems to go in cycles. From 2005-2010 I remember lots of games veing very brown, as "everyone" chased that dark and gritty style.
Lots of stuff ended up just plain brown.

But yeah, those screenshots does indeed look similar!

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Pretty much what I was referring to in this thread: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/woul...ouldnt-have-any-photorealistic-games.1675535/

Nothing here stands out. They’re chasing realism, but can’t do it because of talent / budget / gameplay reasons. And the color palette that goes with this style usually makes things worse. Add designer self-inserts / personal agendas on top of all that, and you get this.

 

[chokotoureiki]

That's cuz it was made by woke devs, that all think alike, which is pretty creepy.

 

[Wildebeest]

This was true even in the 80s. But as kids we were much less aware of it.

Nintendo were terrible for it. "Legend" of Zelda is about as original as my stinky butt. Is that Link or is it Tommo Cruzzu?

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Nintendo were terrible for it. "Legend" of Zelda is about as original as my stinky butt. Is that Link or is it Tommo Cruzzu?

I was actually thinking more about stuff like this:

The first Zelda on NES released in Japan 3 months after Ridley Scott's film came out in the UK, so I doubt there was a lot of intentional influence.

 

[Wildebeest]

I was actually thinking more about stuff like this:

Many people used to say that Japanese people had no originality and just copied things from the west, but made them cheaper and a bit smaller and slick looking or something. It's only now, that honestly Japan is long past its peak, that people think they were some sorts of unique geniuses.

 

[PeteBull]

I was actually thinking more about stuff like this:

The first Zelda on NES released in Japan 3 months after Ridley Scott's film came out in the UK, so I doubt there was a lot of intentional influence.

Its even more deep, i introduce to u actual og snake plissken, movie launched in 1981 btw

 

[MasterDerico]

Many people used to say that Japanese people had no originality and just copied things from the west, but made them cheaper and a bit smaller and slick looking or something. It's only now, that honestly Japan is long past its peak, that people think they were some sorts of unique geniuses.

Japan copied west ? Who said that don't know nothing about videogames.

It's the same if u say: "Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest and old asian movies copied Tarantino"

 

[SHA]

Of course, they are totally different games, but they all look the same to me. They don't have any features that stand out. Everything is a colorful chaos that I can hardly distinguish from each other. If someone told me that all these characters and worlds were made by one and the same studio, I would believe it immediately.

How do you see this?

Play hide and seek or hopscotch.

 

[Outlier]

How do you see this?

TF!?

 

[Outlier]

It's the dark backgrounds and purple hues. I hate it.

I'm anticipating playing Drgon Age (next year), but I hate the purple hues.

 

[GHG]

Don't forget this massive hit.

Sure, they all look the same because they are made by the same people.

Made by the same people, for the same people.

Quite the profitable and worthy endeavour.

 

[Wildebeest]

Japan copied west ? Who said that don't know nothing about videogames.

It's the same if u say: "Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest and old asian movies copied Tarantino"

I don't blame the Japanese. The best way to crack a market as huge and insular as the US market is to copy their culture and sell it back to them. Worked for the Rolling Stones.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Japan copied west ? Who said that don't know nothing about videogames.

It's the same if u say: "Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest and old asian movies copied Tarantino"

Absolutely copied it. Same as China did before they found their own way.

Don't get me started on Link - Peter Pan / Donkey Kong - King Kong, (even with the same artwork, lol)

What do you think of Castlevania, using all the Western monsters?

And this:

 

[Nasigil]

There’s been always trends in video games. All bad. Remember “brown is real”? Oh, the 360 glory days…

Yeah, tough stoic middle age dude gets tiring after too many times, but guess what, there are good amount of legendary games on this list. I am not opposed to trends following great successful games, it's only natural. I'd appreciate more originality but as long as the end product is good I can't complain too much.

Every purple hippy Marvel-ish tone game from mainline studio has been trash fire so far. Never understand what kind of imaginary trend they are chasing. What's the fucking deal with the color purple specifically?

 

[FewRope]

Putting aside the classic woke bait this forum always does, the new Dragon Age legit looks like complete shit, that gameplay in the State of Play looked like a fucking alpha

 

[FeralEcho]

Before i entered the thread I thought this was a PS5 Pro to PS5 discussion...

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

What's the fucking deal with the color purple specifically?

It's the universal color of feminism and, by extension, LGTB.

 

[Holammer]

You can’t be serious. Its just a color.

In Asia purple is the colour of poison and wrongness. Exactly what it represents in Z:EoW.

Technicolor Toxin - TV Tropes

In Real Life, poison is usually detected and identified thanks to its bitter taste and/or smell. But how can we identify a poison as such in visual mediums, where taste and smell aren't an option? Of course, the color itself! Eastern media tend …

tvtropes.org

 

[Peter303]

When I was a game dev we used purple/magenta as a debugging aid to show problems when textures didn't load or shaders weren't configured correctly. A lot of the games in this thread look broken to me

 

[MasterDerico]

I don't blame the Japanese. The best way to crack a market as huge and insular as the US market is to copy their culture and sell it back to them. Worked for the Rolling Stones.

Absolutely copied it. Same as China did before they found their own way.

Don't get me started on Link - Peter Pan / Donkey Kong - King Kong, (even with the same artwork, lol)

What do you think of Castlevania, using all the Western monsters?

And this:

Majority of old games are in anime styles.
And im talking about gameplay, core, designs...

And u show me 3 examples.

U need more substance. U have no idea what was old Asian cinema and culture. (And maybe videogames?)

Of course they copy some stereotypes, but the core gameplay of Japanese games is unmatched.

This subject is too complex. If u want we can continue in particular.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

It's like Western artists are only capable of three distinct art styles:

There's realism.
Then there's the Disney/Overwatch cartoony face look
Then there's whatever the fuck you call this in the OP

It's also so overused and recycled that it's just boring now.