R/gamingcirclejerk has been seething a lot about stellar blade the last few weeks
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"we totally don't care that eastern entertainment is on the rise and totally aren't trying to infiltrate their industries and update content for non-existent modern audiences"
cope, seethe and don't forget to dilate, GCJ troons
Yeah just like how comic book creators are "totally unconcerned" about being completely dwarfed by manga.
dwarfed is an understatement really, back in 2020 Kimetsu no Yaiba nearly outsold the entire american comic book market
It's a game intended to appeal to normal heterosexual gamers, so trans folks absolutely cannot tolerate it and there's nobody on Reddit who can stop the screeching.
I would love to see a chart of straight vs non straight gamers. Anyone with any business sense would ask why there is such an obsession with ignoring the norm.
Well, they can't exactly admit to the finance people that their goal is to stamp out "normal" forever, can they?
The finance people are part time commissars. Fink is at the top of the biggest financial institution in the world, and he’s a confirmed authoritarian leftist.
True. Just wish at some point they allowed market forces to dictate
"Capitalism sucks, and our current system is proof of that," shriek the communists who've perverted everything and refuse to let us engage in capitalism, but insist that we're currently suffering under capitalism.
They love to go on about "late-stage capitalism." When it reality all that team really means is capitalism perverted by socialist regulations like DEI, "too big to fail," etc.
Look up the pillars of communism. We're living in Marx's wet dream right now. "Capitalism" my ass.
Oh market forces will be dictating it whether they want them to or not. The market is and always will be bottom-up. The commies can try to force it to be top-down all they want. The only thing it will get them is bankruptcy.
They have been programmed to assume the majority is evil and so they decree themselves benevolescent to appeal to the minority, and the smallest group yields the biggest faggot points, which is why they are now appealing to the mentally ill trannies at the expense of literally everyone else
It’s a microcosm. Communism cannot succeed anywhere if capitalism exists anywhere. So long as there is a free market alternative to communism, people will reliably choose “not communism”.
That’s why, despite controlling virtually all AAA game production, leftists are freaking out about Stellar Blade. It’s just one sexy game in a vast sea of intersectional ugliness, but that’s all it takes to prove that people want the former instead of the latter.
The absolute worst possible thing you can do to any communist is very slightly disagree with them on one tiny issue.
I.e the people buying and playing those games.
Entertainment is one of the few industries that somehow manages to (barely) survive, while actively berating, insulting and generally hating their main consumer base.
It's baffling.
Hope the demise of the Western AAA game industry comes soon.
Looking at SteamDB, only 4 games released in the last year are in the top 25 of 24-hr player count. Those are:
Helldivers 2. #6, highest player count in the last 24 hrs is 242k
Palworld. #15, 100k
Baldur's Gate 3, #17, 87k
Football Manager 2024, #21, 67k
Taking IGN's list of biggest games of 2023 (archive here - https://archive.is/yg2fP), and listing the ones on Steam:
Forspoken: 24 hr peak of 57
Dead Space: 570
Hogwarts Legacy: 8.5k
Wild Hearts: 127
Atomic Heart: 627
Company of Heroes 3: 3k
Sons of the Forest: 12k
Kerbal Space Program 2: 601
Octopath Traveler 2: 592
Wo Long Fallen Dynasty: 704
RE4 Remake: 6k
System Shock remake: 130
Minecraft Legends: 22
Jedi Survivor: 2k
Redfall: 58
Suicide Squad: 475
Street Fighter 6: 23k
Diablo 4: 4.5k
Starfield: 6k
The Expanse: 34
The Day Before: shut down now
Armored Core 6: 2k
Forza Motorsport: 6k
Lies of P: 2.5k
Payday 3: 357
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 878
Granted, those numbers could change drastically when you factor in other platforms, but of those 26 games "most promising" games, 14 don't even have 1k concurrent players a year (or less) after release, and only 2 have above 10k. Sure sounds like you all are on the right track.
Wow, diablo 4 worse than starfied? yikes
Starfield is a boring buggy mess, but Diablo 4 feels like it's actively sucking your life away
It also got added to game pass recently
These are steam numbers, not even remotely worth considering since they only added D4 to steam as a dying gasp to get more players that didn't want to use the battlenet launcher.
Game Pass just got Diablo IV as well
To be fair, and I bring this up any time someone lists player count, significant drop off - especially for single player games - is the norm. Even many beloved games drop to very low numbers. Now, I'm not saying this data is useless; it is hilarious how badly some of these failed, and they absolutely did. There's no excuse for Redfall, for example. And I haven't followed Payday 3, but that looks like a mess just looking at those numbers.
Single player games obviously drop way faster in player count than multiplayer games, so the list is not super perfect. But it shows enough.
Suicide Squad & Forspoken were both woke shit and the numbers are really bad, even compared to other single player games (Atomic Heart, Jedi Survivor, ...) especially when you consider they're a "popular genre".
Sad to see Payday 3 so low. I had a lot of fun with Payday 2 back in the day with my buddies. It had such a satisfying gameplay loop.
You know what's great about a game like Football Manager - it's full of all races so wokes can't complain - whilst users have the freedom to have an all white team if they choose.
Just be glad the alternatives are mostly from Japan and South Korea. China could easily dominate the entertainment industry by just not being retarded.
Was watching this from Vee, the studios can help but turn every mocap actress that's at least an 8 into a transwoman looking man chin, they're hopeless.
I have a bet that Ubisoft will do the same in AC Red and that stuck between playing either a man chin Asian woman or a 'historically accurate' black man in period Japan, they'll see what Asia can offer instead.
Chinese gacha game studios understand that the key to gacha game success is to hire Japanese people to do all the art and voice acting.
Don't forget some absolutely top tier music
I decided to give genshin impact a try after spotify suggested the music, quite a good game shame about the gatcha mechanics, voice acting in Japanese is top tier (Korean and Chinese I'm told is also good but I can't really comment on that)
The developers for the most part tend to give the audience what the audience likes (anniversary events however appear to draw some ire)
One of the things I dislike about contemporary classical music in a lot of games though is its usually only one or two minute snippets that I wish were just longer and had more time to do things.
Yu peng chens work is superb and the composers they have in house now in hoyomix are certainly continuing with a similar level of quality.
Huge agree. I'll never waste time playing Genshin Impact even though it looks visually appealing, but I follow some classical composers who review music from various media and they went over some of Yu Pen Chen's work and were blown away by it. I immediately began listening to the Genshin Impact soundtrack and I, too, was blown away by just how good some of those songs are, especially Die Mittsommernacht-Fantasie, Caelestinum Finale Termini and the absolutely ethereal A Tale of Two Dragons.
Reminded me a lot of some of Abel Korzeniowski's work, or Nobuo Uematsu's classical pieces for the older Final Fantasy games.
have a listen to "stories of remote antiquity" and "inevitable conflict"
they are both variations on the same theme one more calm and somber with the other being more action but written to sync up so when in game the two tracks can be crossfaded between each other depending on your actions
https://viewsync.net/watch?v=mgOCMnnAkdg&t=0&v=ZuV38DZQgvM&t=0&mode=solo
unfortunately one of the two youtube videos is slightly out but if you mute and unmute them you should be able to hear what i mean
as for not playing it, i get it its not for everyone and the gatcha mechanics... exist unfortunately
for me i decided to try it partially because there were some big name japanese voice actors in it and it looked like it was an actual game (quite rare on mobile) but also because with a lot of game sound tracks the context of the gameplay and the story adds a little extra
and in some cases a piece does not get that little extra until a few patches after the release, for example, the pieces "for riddles for wonders" and "Le Souvenir avec le crepuscule" both tracks introduced in their regions initial release both played in their respective capital cities as just background music (i think the fontaine one plays in the city) acquire new 'meaning' after the 3.2 and 4.2 main story quests respectively
OK, "getting impressed by Genshin Impact music" was not on my list of things to do today, but wow. Haven't heard game music remotely as good as that in years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHGesvRZWk&t=1063s
It's part of the reason why I have no problems with occasionally giving them money, there is quality on display here from the visuals to the music to the story and voice acting and I fully endorse rewarding good behaviour.
Voice acting in 4 languages and some pretty high caliber vas in each one can't be cheap, hiring out orchestras and other performers to record about an hour or two of music on average every patch really can't be cheap, and I know they bring in more money than god at this point due to the gatcha but £5-£10 every couple of months just to say "keep at it" is in my opinion perfectly acceptable, I will leave the whales to whatever it is they do.
Their composers are an in house team, although it started out as mostly just yupeng Chen until inazuma where they expanded the team. It was sad to see yupeng Chen go (people call him the music archon because he was responsible for so much early on) the people he evidently had a hand in training and advising like dimeng yuan have out done themselves with the fontaine ost so I think they will have no problems in keeping the quality up.
Also, from what I understand mihoyo have no issue with you using their music as background music in streams and videos with the exception apparently being "the divine damsel of devastation" as that is owned by the opera company they hired to create it
Sounds perfectly fair to me.
Personally, though, I refuse to touch games with monetization schemes like they've got with a 10 ft pole as I know myself I'm stupidly vulnerable to whaling. Much easier to just avoid it entirely.
Interesting. Thanks for the musical suggestions, I'll definitely check them out!
"wordswordswordswords"?
"Oh no! Anyway..." they say, as they've done nothing but sperg out about it for weeks.
That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works.
And if one hot fictional woman can make them lose their shit this bad...maybe it will "revolutionize the gaming industry and bring back "the good old days."" Heck, this game may save Western civilization.
We must once again give thanks to the fact that our enemies are retarded. They're evil, persistent, and vile...but so, so retarded. So at least we've got that.
Well to quote Clarkson back at them, with one minor change...
Yet another reminder that Japan must be saved. And, yes, I know this is Korean, but the same applies, and Japan is the one currently under the most cultural attack.
These are the same people that say true communism has never been tried.
And the western devs will wonder why they get laid off soon and see their studios going under.
I can't wait to see their tik toks about how they can't find work and aren't able to pay their bills.
"I used to be a senior video game community manager; I just don't understand why nobody will hire me!"
Maybe because they hate gamers and actually admit it?
Retards who believe in objectification theory deserve to die.
But Eve is a woman 🤔
She's also non-white 🤔
But she's...[trigger warning]...pretty.
There are many games where you're getting 95% of what you want, celebrate that instead of shitting on the one game where you're not.
... unless you're a killjoy and don't actually care about any of it, you just like ruining it for others. Which is, of course, exactly why you're doing it. We see you.
And hey I'll even throw you a bone. I don't expect every game to be stellar blade. But it sure as hell doesn't have to be the way it is now either.
Things were fine until the complainathon crew showed up and badgered people into making everything ugly so they don't have to feel as bad about their life choices.
I'll add that if it's not exactly what THEY want, they don't want YOU (or anyone else) to have it. It's against their cult beliefs for outsiders to be happy without their permission
This needs an edit to show him saying "anyway" from a cardboard box out on the street.
here you go, my 3 minute speedrun reply
would love to post it on their sub but banned.
Kek
Sorry folx, party's over soon. Layoff time!
Lol what the fuck is this subreddit