Once again I'm just gonna leave this here...
Compare to the shit we get now and it's a total joke.
Once again I'm just gonna leave this here...
Compare to the shit we get now and it's a total joke.
Once again I'm just gonna leave this here...
Compare to the shit we get now and it's a total joke.
I know that.But Expedition 33 is a western game.
Yup. And coupling with "infantile" everything, it just leads to non-compelling slop.I'm on the team that echoes that American AAA developers are the ones who are limping atm. Euro developers are still bringing in their A-game, for the most part, while diversifying their output in all sorts of individualist ways. American indies have proven they still got some creative spark in them too.
AAA overall is in a dire creative slump though and someone has to start shaking up the c-suite upstairs to make them realise that this isn't going to go well. They got some fierce competition sneaking up on them. It doesn't help that they for some reason believed that employing people with activist-like tendencies, while pushing out talent with long time experience and instituional knowledge, was a good call. Its made them weaker creatively.
Honestly, its about time they step up their game and show they're supposed to be "frontrunning leaders" of this industry as well as why they managed to establish themselves in the first place. Smearing yourself with a "high fidelity make up" isn't going to cut it anymore. They're in dire need of people with strong imaginative minds and worldbuilding skills.
I have to agree with the bolded. Much of what comes out of Western-American AAA in particular right now feels so... "manufactured". It simply exists for the sake of it. Not because it was meant to. There's a certain lack of "personal touch" in many of those games.
The irony here is that much of the homogenization that we see now had its seeds planted way back in the 7th gen. We're just now beginning to see the consequences of those choices sprout to the surface. The non-gaming suits such as Zelnick, Wilson, Guillemot and Kotick really accelerated that into full gear.This is it 100%. It very much feels like western games are guided by executives trying to chase trends, as opposed to individual designers chasing a vision. So it's not surprising that most of the games feel extremely homogenized.
Man, do I miss the 360 era.
It wasnt made/pitched in the offices/shareholders meeting like 90% of western trash currently is...But Expedition 33 is a western game.
Sorry, but no.European games are better than ever
I'll take either so long as they're quality.Sorry but i'll take western shit over weeb drivel everyday.
Once again I'm just gonna leave this here...
Compare to the shit we get now and it's a total joke.
lol the west is making a fuck ton of money, they'll be just fine, unless some of you just assume folks just stopped playing COD, AC, GTA etc.
This sounds like a bitter old man hot take.
Not liking something doesn't mean others stopped playing and i've noticed this sorta tone deaf desperation of folks acting as if the west is some how in this danger and then have no explanation on why some of those fucking IP are moving record units.
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So...I think the west will be just fine. If COD, GTA and AC all flopped then shit, many someone has a point, but those IP are at the literal highest in their entire histories right now
Yeah, saying Chinese developers don't do "political" is pretty wild. There are literal CCP commissars in most large companies (so Tencent as an example). And Chinese devs won't touch a ton of different topics and scenarios because they don't want to disappear one night.I agree with your sentiment, but frikkin' China? Please, man, understand that everything in China is political, tied directly to its totalitarian ruling party.
But believe me, Japan's cultural independence has been noted, and steps are being taken to correct this issue. They are as we speak under assault from the same subversives that have ruined American culture and media expression.
I remember the reveal of Left 4 Dead 2 caused a huge backlash because everyone was expecting years of support for the first but then Gaben decided to release a sequel just 1 year later.Dude... this is brutal. I remember playing Left 4 Dead 2 on my Xbox 360 with splitscreen and blow my mind, while current gen not only play some games with splitscreeen. Kinda nuts the retrocess gaming got those days.
I have a feeling when people say "Western", they mean US studios. There are multiple great games that have come out from European studios in recent years… Ubisoft being the notable exception.Estimated 80% of my favorite games these days are western made. I guess we just have different opinions
Interestingly enough (for me), Elden Ring and KCD2 are the absolute best two games on my recent playlist.
The 360 era sucked with western developers all using piss filters and characters looking like plastic due to using en mass, the terrible UE3.Western studios still put out good games but it's nothing like during the 360 era. Nowadays it's like they're copying each other's notes. A lot of stuff looks identical to the next.
Indies and Japanese games are where it's at.
Y'know, this is going to sound plain stupid or disagreeable to some, but recently I watched a full walkthrough of Uncharted: the lost legacy, out of pure curiousity. By the end of it, I thought to myself how "tame" the world and storyline was. They had some interesting characters, but the whole adventure really lacked some "oomph". The main villain having a background as a doctor was kinda cool and it would've been interesting if he had been on the chase for some fantastical "amazing cure" or whatever.Nah most games lack the wow factor. Wow factor that an Ico game, Yoko Taro game or the recent E33 has in spades.
Course the games you mention Mario and Meatboy are primarily platformers and lack the Dark Fantasy atmosphere I crave.
When it comes to most Western games they lack artistic vision and often come off as too artificial or soulless.
It's kinda like going to a Bookstore and wanting to read a good Western Fantasy or Sci-Fi Novel but every Western Author keeps writing non-fiction.
Expedition 33 is a JRPG.I know that.
Trailers in 2025.. half of them have the same stupid orchestral "DUH DUUH DUH" smash cut cookie cutter soundtrack that should be invisible it's such garbage.
it was developed in France.Expedition 33 is a JRPG.
It can't have mature matter and be a Western game, that's why it's classified as an JRPG.it was developed in France.
Regardless, what difference does it make? The point is not the style of game, but it's respect for mature subject matter.
I swear some of y'all are morons.
huh?It can't have mature matter and be a Western game, that's why it's classified as an JRPG.
Exactly.huh?