I want his work to be a "so bad it's good" sort of situation. I want his games to be The Room, but mostly they're just poorly written and overtly antagonistic to PoC and women (with varying degrees of racism and sexism). None of his games ever swing so hard into absurdism that they actually work. As a friend of mine once said, "they're trainwrecks played out in slow motion."
To be fair, I was told by a user on this very forum that apparently his games aren't about the story.
I'm not surprised by it at all. There's still basically no standard for writing quality in video games, and even games that are acclaimed for their writing typically pale in comparison to even average texts in other entertainment media. And I don't think it's a lack of quality writers, I just think, both people who play games and people who develop them, don't typically care (and frequently that's justified).
Wron. Cage's games are really about... ... ... EMOTIONS.
I got a great positive ending with going fully violent as Markus so this is incorrect. Both approaches are viable otherwise there would be no point to a lot of the choices. Doing morally good choices always also kills off a major side character.
This seems silly. There are always going to be contexts in which non-violence can be seen as the better solution, even for characters who have displayed violence. The fact that the game doles out punishment for changing your mind is antithetical to a game about choice.
It only really does that when it flat out wouldn't be realistic to work with the way you have acted before that. If you kill unarmed people and damage a lot of property but then suddenly think you can lead a peaceful protest and expect people to believe that you are genuine it is absolutely fair that the game does not literally break and allow you to succeed with something that unrealistic. I actually believe that is respecting the player's choices way more then just allowing him to do whatever the hell he wants without much consequence a la Mass Effect where it really is simple to get the best outcome by hammering Paragon on every choice. That is boring for me.
Dont forget her high heels and her I-swear-you-can-see-her-panties choice for a battle dress.I'd downloaded the demo of Shining Resonance: Refrain to try on my lunch break- it's only about fifteen minutes long, and ten of those are cut scenes of characters with lengthy fantastical titles introducing themselves. I think this is probably the most anime game I've ever played out of over a hundred JRPGs.
This is the first character I meet, Sonia, a 'knight'. With a lacy boobplate cupping her breasts and leaving her vitals exposed, with an armoured boobstrap on top of them that has it's own boobwindow in it. Obviously stockings, figure-hugging corset 'armour', weird belt deployment, plate armour that must be wafer-thin on her deformed ankles and a a loose idea of anatomy go hand-in-hand. Her buckler is bizarrely attached to the underarm as it's more important that it somehow works as a violin (?!), and a scabbard is unnecessary as everyone's weapons teleport into existence. Which is really bloody handy for the young man who just escaped from prison and had his inner voice telling him to draw his sword.
So which is it then? This goes against the previous argument you just made about the game punishing for making choices that weren't following a specific (violent or non-violent) path.
I literally explained it in the post. It's not binary, it is nuanced. You only get punished if you totally lean one direction so hard it would be entirely unrealistic to heel turn 180 and expect it to work at the last second. You are allowed to do a bit of both and change your mind with the threshold on violent being the harming of innocent people. It's dumb that most choice driven games ignore your choices you made throughout the game and give you a last second chance to do the opposite a la Mass Effect 3 color endings. You should get appropriately judged for the choices you made, but of course you shouldn't be locked down one path permanently after a single decision either which would be dumb. Detroit does this perfectly in my eyes by judging you on the lump of your decisions rather than one or the final one only.
You say that it's dumb, but last minute heel-turning isn't uncommon even in modern politics. To believe that it couldn't happen seems equally silly, even if the consequences may not necessarily make sense. And there are plenty of occurrences in which you are locked into one decision or another that either greatly simplify or outright skip a number of key points throughout the game. I am not so concerned with the "greater message" of the game given that its smaller messages throughout are so mixed and inconsistent, regardless of the decisions you're making. Connor, Kara, and Markus's stories are told poorly, which means whatever impact or greater message is attempting to be conveyed by your decisions can't be built up because there's no basis for it. A house built on a foundation of sand is doomed to sink.
Are you going to decide what's propaganda and what's not? Some people feel like TLOU is now "SJW propaganda", lol.
The status quo is not apolitical, and so shouldn't have the advantage and defence of badging any criticism or progressive idea as 'unwanted politics' while current political biases, advantages, disadvantages and agendas are protected as being 'neutral'. Existing forms of discrimination aren't 'neutral' and thus shouldnt be 'protected from politics and criticism' just because they are invisible to many because they have been around for a while and thus normalised.
Art has always had a bias since the dawn of time. Artist are free to express any kind of political message in their products and we're free to criticize them for it if we dont like it or praise them if we do. Just like that. It happens with books, movies, tv shows, paintings, theater, everywhere else so videogames shouldnt be an exception.
I'm getting sick to fucking death of this statement. And if it's not "keep politics out of media" it's "forced diversity".
Where are his nipplesWe've also got Innes, who clearly shops at the same assymetrical surf shack as Tidus.
I love jumping into this thread every so often to catch up and seeing a great post like this. This pretty much sums up my thoughts on the game perfectly.
Soul Edge is older than Soul Calibur (it's essentially the first game in the franchise) and had far less cheesecake. Perhaps it is Soul Edge that changed for the worse, and the next Soul Caliburs should instead return to its roots... (thinkingemoji.gif)
It boggles the mind at how the illustrator thinks human anatomy allows for giving a good view of your right arsecheek and right breast at the same time to a viewer on your left.
If my credentials of one archery class in college have any say in the matter, that shot is rather poor form.
Clearly you're not an expert in the gourd-form arrow, which uses the natural elasticity of the spine of a young woman combined with the strength of summer blossom to propel the projectile at armour-piercing velocity.
I can't say that I am, there was an advanced class that came in after us in bikinis though :thinking:
It's a shame really- I thought the Valentines ones were really cool, smart, elegant and attractive outfits. It was nice to see formalwear rather than combat lingerie for a change.
