western AAA games vs asian AAA games
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It's sad, because it could have been cool. Just ended up being mid tier at best.
If it was made like 5-10 years prior with way fewer diversity hires and affirmative action mandates then it could have been a really cool game. Unfortunately it just looks like a generic Ubisoft action game with an interesting aesthetic.
Basically. I love the idea of the setting, but the execution was not ideal.
I made a post semi recently, but basically it had a lot of potential, and failed to live up to it due to mechanical failings, cringe girl power shit/lefty narratives, etc etc and ended up being more mid tier at best.
Far as I keep hearing the game itself is a lot of "pretty good, wish it had more to it (like more dinos)" while everyone constantly talks about its characters and story which is the weakest part of it.
Like, a game where you shoot giant robo dinosaurs in an open world should be the biggest fact of any game. Instead they want to talk about the dumpy ginger lead.
The characters and story are really weak, and the voice acting sounds like it was all individual lines read from a single sheet of paper without any context to the larger conversation. And of course the moral ends up being "man bad, woman good". The gameplay was decidedly meh with only a couple of fights really standing out. The fact that the "tribes" are all 90s cartoon-level diverse is really immersion breaking.
Unfortunately this applies to most open world games. I'd describe its main rival (BotW) similarly, though that one has great writing and characters to make up for it. What it comes down to usually is if those fights are good enough to justify everything in between, travel, prep, grinding to get to and beat them.
Which, based on the words of people I know who don't get into the political side of these things, the game did succeed at.
one thing that also annoyed me. The handholding in the very basic puzzles the game had.
Stand still for more than a moment and she will start monologing about "maybe i should do this this and this"
Of course modders fixed it because there is no option to disable it in the menus.
The first horizon sold a ton because it was (and still is) one the most visually impressive games ever made. It was the PS4 game to get if you wanted to show off the power of your shiny new next-gen and/or OLED HDR TV. Next to the technical disaster that is bloodborne, Horizon looked at least one whole generation ahead.
But the story was mediocre. And the main character was kind of unlikeable. And the gameplay was typical Ubisoft-tier open world slop. So while a lot of people bought it, I don’t think a lot of people loved it.
Then the sequel released, and the sales were way down. Story was worse, Aloy was strangely uglier and bordering on insufferable, gameplay was stale and outdated. Graphics were still amazing, but the rest of the industry caught up.
TLDR: Horizon’s “success” as an IP was a bit of a mirage. Right place, right time, heavily promoted, but now subsequent releases are flopping. There will always be the Sony ponies who swallow an average console exclusive and pretend it’s steak, of course.
The real question is what would sales have looked like if Aloy were modeled even 30% more attractive with a different, more likable personality. Undoubtedly, the IP would be more popular and probably ascendant as opposed to declining.
This is the impression I got from the players. Amazingly beautiful aesthetic and a very interesting concept, with mediocre to bad everything else. It hasn’t really stuck around in popular science fiction, except for the giraffes with radar dishes that I think act as map/item revealers, which is a nice concept that fits in well with the design of the world.
The Lego game is fun.
Man, it's always funny to see the people swarm out and try to defend this by shitting on people who point out the uglification of characters.
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Neither is "sexualized," one is just pretty, while the other isn't. Also, regardless of how often you get laid, one of these is much more pleasant to look at, while the other is the intentional destruction of beauty. Has nothing to do with getting laid.
And then this guy here says she looks fine in the game...then posts images of her looking ugly.
Then when someone said fantasy character, some smarmy fucks were like "It's SCI-FI, LOL." It's...kind of both. It's technically sci-fi, but the aesthetic is obviously very, very heavily fantasy-inspired. Also, who cares?
Also, never forget the Aloy concept art. Sorry for Reddit link, that was the best version I found. Also, it's hilarious that all fanart is more attractive than what they went with in game.
The best 3D model of Aloy is the one from Genshin Impact.
Genshin really does have the "titillating but not slutty" look down to a science.
Does China have some restriction on making slutty looking female game characters? I’ve noticed that as well, they manage to make a lot of female characters pleasing to the eye but not something you wouldn’t want another person looking at while you played.
China has bans on pornographic images, among other things. So anything that edges towards suggestive is not considered.
Based ching chongs
Why is that fat little boy on the left so surprised?
"Don't look so shocked, little boy; it's the future you asked for."
Put it this way, we want LESS OR NO involvement of Western studios and publishers in Asian games.
And unfortunately, weak Japanese currency is making that hard and Sony is a western publisher that pretends to be Japanese dupping some Korean studios.
Was the western one maybe a AAAA game before its time?