Also i find it funny how this game was marketed as a morrowind clone when the dialouge choices are literally Fallout 4 tier with yes, sarcastic yes, question, no
Why are people so sarcastic in this game? These games could at least use some system based on psychology like the 4 temperaments or Id, ego and Super ego. It would make choices more interesting.
to be fair morrowind did not have much of choices, most of the dialogue was wikipedia hotlink articles, it was the choice of joining one of the great houses that mostly made the choices in morrowind, i dont see how this is like morrowind, to me it looks like kings field, also in morrowind you could kill every character, in this game you cant, seems to me the "morrowind" part is just looking weird and alien, as the game does not look like morrowind at all, it looks like a psx game, morrowind was a pc game ported to xbox with all settings tuned down. Not a psx weird game with the eastern cycle of rebirth that this game is going for. I hate what bethesda has done to fallout, they took a franchise about choices and good characters and humans being tribal and turned it into a goofy repettive looter shooter crafting survival base building Minecraft clone.
But it does mean everyone is cringe. Tbh, this type of writing just seems like a way to mask your lack of ability to write characters with a personality, flaws, hopes, fears etc. But I suppose you need to have a personality first to begin with.
Modern writers will create bad guys and evil groups based on the people they hate, which is why the common man ends up supporting and relating to the villains. Ken from Barbie. John Walker from Falcon and Winter Soldier. The Helldivers in Helldivers 2.
@@Al-xq4ectheir heroes are my my my narcissist abusing the people who made fun of them in high school and crying about how misunderstood they are they are they villains are anyone who ever held themselves to any notion of personal honour dignity or proprietary whatsoever
> Mary sue women npcs and main villain > quirk chungus reddit dialog > safe edgy 'grimdark' setting > oh yeah its time to play a 2024 indie game. Hope my wife's boyfriend lets me.
Omg this game eases my mood due to me having the ouchies from my vasectomy!! But it's worth it cuz I can play ebin VIDYA GAMES and watch NETFLIX and no nasty crotch goblins!!!?1
They literally don’t make games starring male characters anymore. Every indie game I see is also just another female protag, no matter what genre. It’s just ridiculous
Indie slop either has only female protags or a genderless human looking creature wich they make everything possible to never tell you if it's male or female exactly like Undertale.
YES! recently i saw a duke 3D inspired game on the steam store that interested me, but guess what, STRONG FEMALE PROTAG THAT TALKS LIKE A DUDE, SLAYYYYYYY
Borderlands had some decent gunplay but the dialogue and stories were so rough. Never liked it. I really enjoyed TT TWD but it took so long for it to come out that the most of the choices you made diddnt matter anyway. Your forgot by then too. They also always came out super buggy even though i was already giving the bad graphics a pass.
The lack of fantasy racism is so noticeable in games like Skyrim because they dont want to lock characters out of certain quests, but it has the effect of undermining your choice in races when nobody reacts to ensure its never offensive.
Dragon Age Origins did it in a really good way in that each race and origin gave you a unique perspective of the world that allowed your character to form their own worldviews
It was really jarring in Skyrim when you go to the racist town and you're an Imperial Dark Elf, and then everyone sells you goods, and not even with inflated prices.
@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer it literally removes roleplaying content from my game. How am I supposed to prove them wrong if everyone agrees with me the whole time?
Skyrim is especially frustrating cause there's an obvious way to have one's cake and eat it too with being the Dragonborn, Ulfric et al. can still be racist while being smart enough to know that having the dragonborn on their side is so much more important than their prejudices hence why it doesn't lock one out of their questline but instead it's purely fluff that only affects the automatons at the theme park. Even Oblivion at least had Countess Caro react with noticable disgust to me being Argonian in dialogue even if it didn't affect any questlines, Skyrim doesn't even do that.
Something something, they'd rather you be dead then let you be yourself. Honestly hearing that outcome I figured maybe Synth was misinterpreting the authorial intent.
@@LamelKendrick I think we'll eventually get a crash like the movie industry is facing, then after a few years of little coming out it will revive again, everything in human history seems to suffer from a rise and fall cycle.
Focus on making the best of the best visuals in media overrided the attention towards good writing and literature in general. I think the mass majority of people never grew out of their childhood flipping through picturebooks phase.
@@Aurora-pi6jr That's what I've noticed. Movies and games are mere spectacles with no depth. No one reads anymore, let alone thinks critically about a story
@@SonofTiamat It's the "reference spiral". Best works get written on the basis of real life, Tolkien studying cultures and mythologies, inventing a whole new language for his books. Then newer work skip a step and instead get influenced by other books, then by the books referenced by other books etc. etc. And so the cycle starts (from Tolkien we went to the generic fantasy setting). Currently we are at the phase where most of the writing for modern videogames has a major part of its core rooted in popular media. Videogames from at most 10-15 years ago, books read in highschool and pop culture movies (including... marvel movies). Any research is surface leveled, inspiration bland and watered down through countless reinterpratation of the original ideas and no actual helpful criticism to help improve the writing since the consumer majority also suffers from the same issue and is unable to produce helpful advice for the work, instead only feeding into the echochamber.
Do you know if it even makes the Rotten Onions lines even worse? They go out of their way to explain why they call themselves The Rotten Onions and how they thought it would strike fear in their enemies. They're explaining the joke.
Also, notice how the Rotten Onions is the first faction you encounter in the game that is led by the male leader, and it's a laughable bunch of morons with a dumb name and their head is implied to be a buffoon? Very subtle, Akuma Kira.
then clearly indie devs really aren't the solution to modern gaming. they either share the same problems with AAA or lack what little advantage AAA does have.
@@CJFripp It's not Judaism lol it's marxism. Communist have infiltrated us a century ago and we're paying the price for it in every facet of our lives.
Yeah the quirky "nihilism amirite? XD" "OMG so quirky" and "LOVE IS LOVE" type writing is so oversaturated these days. I played Outer Worlds and it had stupid quirky chungis type ish writing and that one is like the holy grail for the soylent generation. Also picked up Pacific Drive because it looked like a cool car game and immediately its two bumbling norwood 5s and an old boss bish blabbing reddit nonsense and insults in your ear. Haven't gone back to it. It's a shame because a lot of these indie devs are pretty good systems programmers but they all have the same ideology in their heads regarding narrative. Also they all think they're the first one to write DEI narratives and standing up for the little guy when its been over half a decade of the same recycled social score narrative points.
They don't have any ideology per se that they reasoned into. The nerd kind just goes with whatever thing will protect them in the court of public opinion or make them appear nice, cause they're otherwise not very interesting and also susceptible to persecution so its just a defence mechanism. Tribal stuff.
The biggest problem with indie games is that a lot of them are trying to be like AAA games, completely missing the point of why people play indie games in the first place which is because they're tired of AAA slop and instead of trying to capitalize on the market they try to be the very thing people are trying to avoid.
Not only that but their concepts are copy-pasted from older games (and not improved either) , lack any creativity to make games that are actually more serious and is more setting-driven instead being only chararcter-driven and being not inspired by classic games but maybe by obscure and underrated games that actually were ahead of their time. Indie-games itsself have way too much stinkers there that arent worth to pick it up.
@@Snyperwolf91 It has many stinkers, but the ones that are good, are really good. I mean, Mortal Sin, Prodeus, Risk of Rain 2, Valheim, Turbo Overkill, Gunfire Reborn, Wizard of Legend, Mullet Mad Jack. All of these are good indie games, none of them woke and all of these focus on gameplay first and foremost, the way it should be.
@@TearThatRedFlagDown They aren't "really good", just good. I like Prodeus and Gunfire Reborn is cool, and Mullet Mad Jack is a nice masculine game, but none of them do better what the classics already achieved. For instance, a lot of Mullet Mad Jack borrows a lot from MadWorld, but it does neither the style, nor the violence, nor the themes better than MadWorld. And Prodeus is an obvious nod to Doom and Quake, fused into one. The levels are asbtract and confusingly complex like the 90s Doom games, and the graphics are obviously better than the original Quake trilogy, and the shooting is satisfying, but it doesn't actually do anything better than Doom or Quake did. It lacks the horror vibes of the Doom games and lacks the originality in concept, levels, and weapons of Quake. In fact, all of the guns are just retreads of guns we've all used before. And before anyone says "But it's an FPS game and they're limited" no, they are not limited. Go look at the original Halo trilogy, or Perfect Dark, or the original Ratchet & Clank games or even stuff like Corridor 7, Chex Quest, Blake Stone; a lot of the classics had tons of unique and outrageous weapons, stuff we just do not get these days. Supplice is the exact same way -- just a retread of Doom except you play as a stronk black VVoman. BPM: Bullet Per Minute is definitely a unique one, and sort of veers away from just being a modern retread of an old classic. So I have to give it some points for that, but the weapon selection is still pretty basic. It's like a lot of people -- especially indies -- who make games forget that there are no limitations in creativity when it comes to artistic design and functionality. Gone are the goop guns from Unreal Tournament or the stake-revolver from Painkiller or the gravity gun from Half-Life 2. But you're right that at least the indie games that are good are at least enjoyable. I just wish they were as inventive or creative as games from the 1990s, like Meat Puppet or Messiah or Sanatarium.
@@Billy-bc8pk I don't necessarily look for innovation though, all that a game needs in order to be good for me is to be fun. Though these days it also has to not be woke. But it's true that I would like to see some more interesting weapons in indie fps games. Tbh I thought it would be cool if you had some type of time based gun, where instead of reloading you can pull the bullets that you fired back into your mag by reversing time on them, so they damage everything on their path on their way back. Or maybe it fires spears or something, so you an stick enemies to walls with it lol. What I also really wanna see in fps games is dismemberment systems. The one in Soldier of Fortune is pretty good, I want more.
@@thelostpuppet4068 Undertale popularized this whole meta story telling thing. And I hate it. Now everything is meta and let me tell you this Meta isn't deep or clever it is the laziest thing you can think of and I'm tired of it.
@@emptyorchestra I avoided Undertale when all the lgbtq people were lauding in years ago. Looked into it recently and it's not even that "meta." The entire game is pretty straightforward, gameplay is shit, writing is shit. The only meta thing is the flower in the beginning - that's it.
@@trisbane4086 Yeah I agree on what you said about Undertale's quality but the meta thing goes beyond than that and I firmly believe that is why almost every indie game afterward started to do meta.
The problem with indie games is indie devs are more concerned with telling a story and pushing their ideology through badly written metaphors than actual gameplay.
I didn't need to watch the video to know they didn't even understand your complaint btw. Something to note: MoistCritikal is clearly someone that might be depressed and is a pessimist. It's always bothered me how his manner of speaking and acting is. He lacks any sense of HUMAN charisma. Therefore the only reason I can see this happening over and over again is that people feel compassion or pity without them even knowing. Despite the fact you just... punched up? Wtf
@@HPLovesCraftsCatYet Synthetic takes it personally and mocks moist critical for his looks and personal life. Synthetic man is a sensitive pos who can’t take criticism.
it's really sad that my first glance at Dread Delusion my first thought was "This looks interesting." And immediately after that thought "how gay is it?' I didn't even have to look into the story or the dev's background to know it'd be modern gay reddit garbage, I had no proof and yet I was right after seeing this review. My noticing levels has transcended to the point where I just KNOW homosexual hands made something.
Well, aside from the fact that one of the first things you do is find a scroll that launches you thousands of feet into the air for no other reason than to troll new players.
@@providencebreaker1558 Even then, it still makes contextual sense within the world. Plenty of wizards would attempt to cast powerful spells that ultimately back fire.
I genuinely loath how modern writing, be it in novels, games, or film, insists on having redditor dialogue. The characters speaking could be ancient gods and they will still use extraordinarily limited diction and insufferable random humor that others of my generation derive some sort of sick pleasure from.
Talking about indie games, you really need to check the game named "Capes". Turn based Xcom like games with super-heroes. Sounds cool, right? Wait untill you see the writing. there are 8 heroes. In order: Black funny guy, Died hair lesbian, handicap indian man, brute force alfa male chinese girl, puerto rican man, fat body-positive tiktoker girl, Trans/non-binary person, powerless white man. Just couldn't play that shit. Now even indie devs are going this route... Dire times.
They've been going this route since the 2010s. They are the ground zero for all of this. Most of them got picked up by triple a later on. They hired people from reddit and tumblr to be in control of the modern media industry.
I was intrigued when I first saw the trailer, and lost interest with how ugly and drab it looks. Doesn’t have to be super colourful, but super powers _are_ fantastical. Make it look interesting. There’s so many games with similar enough gameplay, that if the art isn’t appealing, I’m just not gonna bother. I don’t want to look at something ugly for hours. Speaking of superhero XCOM-like games… have you played Marvel’s Midnight Suns? It’s awesome! Tons of fighters with a variety of abilities, some light “dating” (friendship) sim aspects, and characters are authentic. I sunk way too much time into it. Get the Legendary edition with all the DLC. It’s cheaper now, and you’ll _definitely_ want to at least play Venom early on. Mainly because there’s basically no post-game (outside NG+ and DLC missions). Wish we got Hulk earlier. He is beefy, but you get him like 3 missions before the game is over. I basically played a bunch of random missions just to have fun with him.
The indies were way early on the whole woke thing. Brigador has all the ethnicities of today in some cyberpunk space future. Like, even cyberpunk 2077 knows today's ethnic cultures etc. will not remain the same or survive that far into the future but they were like 'no no no, we gotta put a full turban sikh man inside a robot in space future cause that makes sense!'
So you get to play as a predditor in a fantasy, horribly looking "game". Yeah the modern slang and dated language really ruins games. I was just playing a space combat game set into the far future and the MC starts talking about 'reactionaries'...
@@mhmtakeyatime9000 Nothing is more mature that watching half hour unskippable walking cutscene and get bored to death. Truly peak gaming experience, according to zoomers.
People who are on the right or at least not leftists/ affiliated with them, need to get into these creative spaces such as game creation, film making etc. If not then these spaces will continue to be monopolized with these woke agenda pushy games. How are indie leftist so passionate about making these games but rarely it is seen of people on the right. Also people on the right need to stop being afraid of expressing their views. I am not talking about grifter fake conservatives or daily wire types, as those types already put out their shitty content all over the place. If we want to see better content we should be making it or at least supporting it when it comes out.
simple its because to make games you need a massive amount of resources something the right doesnt have. We are a small hated minority who is gatekept censored and ousted everywhere we go. Even if you have the technical knowhow and resources to make a game that game would most likley get censored and cancelled by the woke industrial complex that runs the platforms media and publishing services.
@@jfkst1 Conservatives in general maybe so, but people who are opposed to these neo leftisms that have dominated modern art shouldnt have to be less creative. If anything all the culture autism we've seen should be a launching point for creative new art if someone with balls and a half brain could try and make something. the problem is the culture and media complex and the total social control of these ideologies in western countries that censors deplatforms and publicly denounces all alternative thinking
@@jfkst1 It's really not about it though. Gaming studios, including indie, are being incentivized to push those things . They are prisoners of both the money/sponsors and the press.
@@jfkst1 Because conservatives are too busy bettering themselves and working real jobs to waste their lives with creative pursuits. Of course there is the minority of creatives who are actually worth a damn and I'm not insulting them, but most of them make the modern troonslop you see on Steam's discount tab
Thanks Synthetic, I had this game in my wishlist but it's gone now. Why the fuck can't those indie devs make like a serious, cohesive game? Why is everything ironic, "quirky" and or subverting expectation now? I had the same expirience with Lunacid - a bootleg King's Field/Shadow Tower. I didn't know it was made by some queer, but suspicions creept up on me pretty fast. Pronouns in the character creator, weird anime character thet seems like a creator's self insert, muh funneh reddit tier NPCs... It just breaks immersion of what is otherwise pretty decent game with nice, dark atmosphere.
Because that is what postmodernism is. Subverting expectations and destroing old systems whithout any sort of value judgment, logical thinking or reason. All they are is emontionaly unstable mid-wits who think themesleves to be great thinkers.
"or subverting expectation now?" The ironic thing is, as a result, crap like this _is_ the expectation now. They really shot themselves in the foot by pushing the Overton Window this far.
19:44 if this is supposed to be like morrowind, they failed misserably, there are no essential npcs in morrrowind, every single character in the game can be killed.
I really liked how it'd let you murder anyone, but if you boned the main plot it'd just give you a message saying you screwed the pooch, and let you carry one.
they call him a critic when he literally critiques nothing, he's just an average dude describing his experience with media he consumed. and that's not me over analyzing stuff, he said that himself.
100% because the skibbidi rizz gyatt culture doesn't come from people thinking they're ordained to save society like the reddit ones. The skibbidi rizzlers are the chaotic emergent evolution while the reddit wholesome is hivemind adherence.
I never acknowledge that made up attempt at a slur. I just immediately detract the argument to start talking about c.h.u.d and even c.h.u.d 2: bud the chud in a cinematic and cultural criticism
@@stevenc2149 Space toucans successfully subverted the west by making people strongly believe a crucial survival instinct is a cardinal sin. It's going to be a _long_ road to recovery, so it's up to us chuds to get everyone else traveling on the right path now.
western indie games are now ALL featuring extremely ugly women. they are not even trying to go against the prog narrative. even though the games themselves can be okay, the well is tainted every single time
@@e-tean-son4146 Propaganda, by design, is not intended to convince; it's intended to Demoralize opposition sentiment. So you're telling me you want to pay money to have demoralizing lies presented to you? I mean, you can, but most people don't see that as "entertainment"; thus the majority of peoples problems with the entertainment being made today. You can use propaganda as an excellent story-telling or narrative tool however, which if that's what you meant, then by all means I think it can be done well; it's just a matter of HOW it's done.
@@e-tean-son4146 Propaganda, by design, is not meant to convince, it's meant to demoralize opposition sentiment. If it's used as a storytelling technique or narrative device, it can be an excellent tool. But, most people don't see demoralizing BS as "entertainment"; thus most people's problem with entertainment being made today.
Modern language and jokes in a pre Modern fantasy setting is one of my pet hates , its very urban fantasy, which is perhaps the most garbage woke genre of books post 2010
@@АндрейНеугодников-м6е He directed several very unfunny Marvel movies, and is typically sited as the reason for Marvel's now lackluster and mediocre state.
I AM SO FUCKEN GLAD ITS OVER. this is the one game i cant even listen through in the vod. i start falling asleep and just get annoyed with all the depressed bullshit speeches from the npcs or how conviluded the world is. ITS SO FUCKEN BOARING AND THANK GOD ITS OVER
“But indies” was always a poor argument. It doesn’t fix lamenting big AAA games being junk when they weren’t so much before. It’s like saying “stop complaining your house was destroyed, you can live in this apartment”. Two very different things.
AAA only goes after what makes the most money. If good games made the most money, vast majority of AAA would be good (exactly what happened for PS1 / PS2 / early PS3). If a good indie game suddenly becomes the top seller, then it gives an incentive for AAA games to copy it but with more budget. Indies can't fix everything, but they can give some hope to improve the industry. The real problem is not some indies being bad, it's how people spend their money, something nothing can really fix.
I've been saying this for a long time that indie games are even more woke than AAA games. Also gameplaywise alot of them are inferior to games from the 80's an 90's
I've kept seeing this take here. There is a thing about the 90's: making games was hard and selling them was even more difficult than that. It isn't that there were no bad games back then. It's just that the studios that published games that people actually enjoyed had made a name for themselves, which lead to greater expectations and thus more quality control. There are YT channells like Matt MacMuscles who made a living reviewing bad games from that era. Now that making games is easy and the budget can be crowdfunded, everyone can make themselves seen. While I'm glad that the tripple A studios aren't gatekeepers of quality anymore (Imagine how it would be if they still were. Wokeness would truly be inescapable.) and I'm thankfull for all the hidden and not-so-hidden gems that I and mony others enjoy, it also led to a wave of people who think of themselves as "dominant creatures" just because they made something interactive. It's not like Sturgeon's Law wasn't in effect, it's just survivorship bias.
@legokirbymanchannel I'm comparing the so called good indie titles with the good titles from past days and I think the past titles are way better. Not even close. Of course there bad games in the past. Never said there wasn't.
@@magicjohnson3121 Quality is subjective, but I'll take your word. After all there were much less "walking simulators" made annualy than today. Although FMVs were a thing. Probably even more tacky.
this is why when i find an indie game im interested in i make sure the dev doesnt have pronouns and make sure they arent political and last but not least doesnt celebrate pride month those are the 3 red flags in spotting a woke indie dev and it will almost always reflect they`re games.
Gaming before 2010; you had no real idea about game studios politics, identity and personal beliefs, beyond the celebrities Romero etc. What changed? Social media
Lots of indies are also hiring SBI etc and even if they're not they're forced to be woke or get largely ignored by gaming journos and losing ways to shill their games. So this isn't surprising at all. Just play older games (actual retro games looks much better than this btw), or just be a weeb (but then you'll have to deal with censorship and bad t roonlations instead)
where were yall when Cyberpunk locked the Judy and Male V romance so they can make her an Lzbo? we could have banded and actually forced CDPR to unlock it officially
@@solidvault3698 no we couldn't have, CDPR has no reason to listen to anyone, plus that's such a lame goal that nobody would care enough to organize in large numbers Stop gooning over Judy you coomer, panam is best girl anyway
Although the video is all over the place, I can see the point. TL;DR: the game's story is a ritual of trying to convince you that what the devs want you to do is the correct thing, which in a way is propaganda and only works if you can't think for yourself. Dread Delusion is a perfect example of pushing (as in forcing) a change in perspective. The game's story/world feels like an allegory for the developers' sociopolitical views. They can't take their advertised theme seriously and instead manipulate it to make you believe their viewpoint. While storytelling often involves some level of persuasion, overdoing it breaks immersion and any connection to the game's world. Sincerity is dead not only because writers can't take themes seriously, they also have to lie or mask what their intentions are.
Fantasy racism is rather crucial in a fantasy world. Why? Well, let's break down what racism is. It's hatred for another one's race? But why hate? Hate doesn't come from nowhere, there's always a core reason why hate exists. In a fantasy setting, racism comes from the differences in culture each race have. The fact there is no incompatibility amongst races, means that they are homogenous culturally and that in the end they're all just humams... Kinda like D&D's upcoming 6th Edition. There will be no interactions, there will be no conflict, there will be no moments that make you go "oh, yeah I never thought of that" because no thought needs to be made for everyone is the same. Now, you COULD make a post-racist fantasy setting but the most important part is you need to think of HOW and WHY as well as explain it and show the changes needed and done in the past. And that takes more effort than just saying "racism is no more" and singing kumbaya in a circle. TL;DR Fantasy racism is crucial because it is the biggest sign that the races in your fantasy settings have different culture, principals, morals, values, etc. and that might always not be compatible with each other races.
No, not really. Fantasy racism can be a great assett, but not a necesity, you can use other stuff like fantasy political conflict, different idiologies collapsing, crisis and struggles in the world that need to be solve in one way or another
@@e-tean-son4146 yeah but... You could just do that with all humans and differing opinions. What races is suppose to offer is total different cultural way of living. Like how orcs are an anti-civ force. Barbaric and ruthless. Or how succubus needs life force drain on a human to sustain themselves. Natural law that are contradicting and conflicting. If you do what you suggest, I'm not saying it won't be a good story, I'm saying that it would be no different than medieval England, France & HRE.
I remember from the streams for Dread Delusion ‘Morally grey decisions’ Literal sadistic zombies which want an inquisition to cannibalise humans. I wonder what should be done with them? Also combats terrible like 3 shot the last boss with frag grenades.
Well, that's the only thing zombies in the game can eat (aside from the flesh farms) it's like saying wolfs are evil because they hunt smaller animals so they can eat
That could just be a cost-saver. In a game with a character creator, and a small budget, it might’ve been easier to write it once, using ‘they’, rather than write it twice and code it separately. But it could also just be an excess of soy and ESG
@@HadzabadZa it still might use the plural in the translation’s though. It probably is done on purpose I’m just playing devil’s advocate, cause I can see the possibility
Personally, if I see graphics as ugly as the ones in this game I usually avoid it regardless of it's message. I get tired of seeing pixel vomit all the time. There needs to be a return to objective standards of aesthetics and beauty.
@@Pegarexucorn did you just miss the entire second line of his comment? or did your reading comprehension deteriorate them moment you started blowing steam out of your ears at the first line? yes pixel games can be ugly as sin. I played a lot of 90s sh17 and I know what a game lacking in art direction looks like.
The games are crappy. Don’t let people tell you otherwise. They’re in denial because they’d rather be fooled, and just claim it’s better because “bigger and shinier” as if that held classics back from being classics.
It's really hard to dodge woke trash in indie games because there's less critical reviews of them. I dropped this from my wishlist when I saw it was suddenly released from Early Access and it looks like I made the right decision. Thank you for reviewing this.
I've noticed that a lot. Initially, I thought it was like Hotline Miami and Vaporwave aesthetic influences but the more I looked, the more it was apparent it may be the tran one.
There are some arcade racing indies, I like very much Horizon Chase Turbo, and the developers of Yooka-Laylee are publishing other indie in this Top Gear style
Let's not forget how many indies try so hard to be the next "pokemon/Skyrim/dark souls/doom" and what they end up doing is a half baked bootleg copy of their original intentions besides the lack of budget and resources. Trying so hard to dethroned a 20+ year franchise they end up looking worse and closing for their lack of self awareness
That's who the low effort indie market grifts to. There's like charity steam users that will buy anything with the indie tag on it just to give money to devs. Its like a different type of patreon.
15:39 "I'm a huge advocate of (SLOPPY EDIT) racism" Just wanted to give the tourists a running start at this vid. I wonder if they will say "mask off" again. Hope so.
Don't you love when the Big nose tribe and their sympathisers/obedient golems ruin gaming for everyone? I sure do! All I wanted was to be left alone in my room and to play vidya. They all forced me to become a nooooticer and much more. They Know their Destiny. It didn't happen, but it will.
Demoralisation and control, mostly. However, I think this will backfire greatly. The death of gaming is a part of the inevitable process, that needs to take place. And after that we need to fulfil our duty towards ourselves and the future of humanity. I doubt emperor Hadrian and the other hero, who shall not be named, would've wiped as many of them, if they had nice vidya to enjoy. They are doing all this to themselves.
@@_Code_3 Honestly, after studying history, it appears to be a genetic disposition towards trickery, deceit, and controlling behaviour combined with a disposition against manual labour and creativity in general. Unsurprisingly, that brews a fairly nasty cocktail personality-wise.
that's the worst part, every remake discourages people going to experience the original design and concepts. Perfect example Silent Hill 2 has self inserts as one of the MAIN characters. they just love parading around the corpses of our favorite IPs.@@NuggetsNBAChamps
I just finished Parasite Eve 1 for the first time today and man that game had better combat and story than this indiecrap. How could a 27 years old game can have better, more dynamic and fun combat than a 2024 game is just mind boggling.
@@DPRK_Best_Korea They had a pretty tight budget. Still leagues above of any indie crap we get now. Game should receive a remake but i won't trust modern Square to not mess it up just like with FF7 remake-sequel that they had to cut in three parts for some reason (money)
@@saxoncookHope you have this much contempt for FF7, it's literally the same characters and plot, just combine Aerith+Sephiroth and you get Jenova/Eve.
@@PunishedBrak I haven't played FF7 since I was a kid but I recently played Parasite Eve for the first time as an adult. If you think it has a good story I'd recommend you read basically any book. Classic Western RPGs like Deus Ex, Arcanum and VTMB have decent writing but these Japanese games are poor for even young adults.
This game sounds implicitly anti-Christian. "Apostatic Union" Sounds like they combined "Apostolic Succession," the succession of holy orders originating from Saint Peter, and "Hypostatic Union," the two natures of Jesus Christ. Also considering this institution confronts paganism is basically what the Catholic missionaries did, except they converted them, they didn't murder pagans.
It's pro-judaic, which is about right for Catholics and the Vatican for the last 1000 years since Court Factors took it over. Catholics simply love being called Gentiles and being lorded over by Atheistic desert dwelling blood magicians who think you can fool the Omnipotent Universal Will with a Chicken, some blood, and some magic words. The church is NOT the Christ.
The 'sincerity is dead' is spot on, it's sad how basically there is no real dialogue in games anymore, just reddit tier/Deadpool/Meta humor style of writing.
In the past gaming was more about immersing the player into a new world and giving them the experience of being a different person. Now, it's the other way around, where the characters are supposed to act and speak just like modern gamers, even in situations where it makes no sense. When I kill a zombie I might say something like "boom, headshot" to my friends, but I don't think that's what my character's perspective should necessarily be. My character should be reacting more like how I'd react if I saw a walking corpse in real life. Terror, disgust, and guilt at being forced to kill something that used to be the same species as me. I also get real sick of 4th wall breaks, meta humor, and "lampshading," like when characters can't believe how silly or cliche something is. First of all, like I said before, that's not a believable way for the character to react, and second, being self aware about the stupid game you made doesn't actually prevent the game from being stupid or give me back the time and money I wasted on it. I don't wanna be too hard on this game in particular though, since being silly sort of makes sense in a low budget indie project, but what I really hate is when AAA games and big budget movies try to operate the same way. I also don't think it's always a bad idea for games to relate to politics or real life, but I do think it's unimaginative for the political concerns to directly copy all the opinions of the developers/audience. Like, I don't wanna see a guy 200 years in the future talking about how he wishes the government would cancel his student loans simply because someone who worked on the game wanted his own student loans canceled. The political views should make sense within the context of the fictional world and from the psychological perspective of the individual character who holds them.
If I had the patience to learn programming, I would make my own games. I have some good ideas and I can trust myself to not inject politics into it. Problem is that, unlike Leftists, I'm not a 1%-er and thus don't have the backing of multi-billion dollar companies.
Yeah I'm the opposite. I have no problems learning to code, but the artwork is my weakness. Slowly learning it though. I'm sick of complaining I want to make my own now.
The coding is really easy now. Well you don't even have to code. The big engines will let you use schematics instead, which is a visual form of the code, presented like an electrical circuit, instead of having a 70,000 line text document open in notepad++
Heads up Synth, Selaco and Mullet Man Jack both have pro trans lgbt shit in there game, Mullet man has a Trans pill and reddit "story" of ur character Offing Billionaires but u working for anime "twitch". and Selaco has a bunch of trans flags n reddit humor posters and some posters of characters of soyantests streaght out of validate and "they" (yes im pretty sure its a they/them) went on some forum claiming that "oh i dont wana push any sort of ideolog" but there profile pic literilty has a rainbow flag and posts "happy pride month" n trans flags n shit all over there twitter. so theres that if u ever play those 2 games.
so the games ending is literily the main character dying then the dev/villan monologing that "oh nothing really matters were all going to die anyway better consume product retard"
So true. D&D does not feel the same if you can play a literal demon's spawn and nobody bats an eye about you looking like a hellspawn. Or you know, being an Orc or a Drow. It made it a challenge to play these races, having to deal with discrimination. Dragon Age Origins, or Arcanum was great because no matter what race you chose, people reacted differently to you. Play a Half-Orc and everyone treats you like a second class servant. Play a Half-Ogre and most people treat you like a moron, but are also very careful not to anger the 2.5 meters tall giant.
Hey synthetic can you talk about how a lot of indie games heck alot of boomer shooters are only having female protag or vague protag where they dont tell the gender?
Morrowind: Guy clones himself, creating multiple female versions of himself just to fuck himself for shits and giggles. Dread Delusion: Daughter turns trans with magic. Yeah, I can definitely see the similarities.
Correction: guy clones himself, creating multiple female versions of himself to cook and clean for him whilst he explores literal hell and plays pokemon using people infected with a literal divine disease. -God- Azura bless Divayth Fyr.
My personal idea for fantasy racism is the elves being feared and hated by the other peoples due of legends about the elves being cannibals. Legends that happens true because the elves were created as apex predators/super soldiers by ancient beings that were basically gods.
15:57-17:05 this. Concepts of "your side" and "others" are hard-wired into self-aware beings, i.e. humans. It's delusional to believe you could just leave that out and expect people to still relate to your story.
Also kind of hypocritical, considering that many of the kind of people who write such stories see everyone who thinks differently from them as "far right", as in "evil".
