since chinese games started to come over to the west I have found myself really wanting to know what chinese developers have been doing over there regards single player experiences that we just haven't been able to see due to the great firewall
unfortunately very few are available over here and those that are don't have english translations, one such game being gujian (sword of legends) is on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/570780/GuJian/ but no english and the english translation mod has vanished into the ether after some people on that project got worried about the consequences of being involved with it (chinese laws i guess?)
mihoyo have shown with genshin that they can take inspirations and create regions based on non-chinese cultures and countries and not fuck it up, yu pengchen the main composer up until a year ago did an amazing job and is currently up there in my list of top contemporary classical composers
also, outside of gacha there have been other games coming out that I didn't realise were chinese until I looked into it
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2452280/Mecha_BREAK/
mechabreak I thought was japanese, the mechs look extremely gundam (to the point where I was wondering to myself if they had perhaps hired one or two of the designers from the more recent anime) and the beta testing they did a month or so ago had full japanese voice acting. (from what I played mechabreak is the gundam game bandai should have made already but they are too busy shoving their collective heads up their arses)
there are chinese people out there making some great games, its just a shame about the chinese state
smartphones were the second eternal September
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
smartphones and social media were a fucking mistake
I like how the replies seem to be claiming that gays and other degenerates in palestine are not persecuted due to islamic laws
theres someone with a screenshot of the wikipedia page on alphabet degeneracy in the state of palestine highlighting the bit right at the top that says they are persecuted and theres replies saying "you do know that can be edited right"
cows for butchers...
the reason that resetera exists its because of a schism at neogaf
neogaf was iirc basically left empty for a few years because everyone had jumped ship to REEEEEEsetera but then the REEEEEing got too much and the bans got handed around like candy meaning everyone not 100% in line with the modern audience got banned and went back to neogaf
I went to this curators page https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44927664-Woke-Content-Detector/ and scrolled until the end and then I found the one review that matches the one the woke retard posted a screenshot of (but tried to hide what the game actually was)
that sent me to this https://store.steampowered.com/app/1459010/Fallen_Leaf/?curator_clanid=44927664
also existing not exist
for some older (as in published 15+ years ago) ones
angelic layer (people engage in fighting tournaments using angels - dolls that the owners design and create clothes for and then control via some kind of mind impulse unit thing)
cardcaptor sakura (magical girl manga main character has to collect cards created by a powerful wizard that have been released and cause havoc)
azumanga daioh (high school comedy pretty funny nuff said)
I don't play it but you don't watch anime without some of it showing up
but from my position its like 99% ass and tiddies
the 1% is the HMS hood who from what I have seen is not overly sexualised in the official artworks (there is the obligatory swimsuit skin) and appears to be treated with some level of respect (the hood was a bit of a figurehead for the royal navy and the loss of the hood was a bit of a blow for morale)
if you compare her to the bismarck https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Bismarck or if i just hit random page until i find another ship the HMS suffolk https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Suffolk
I really want to actually know why the hood is like that now it just seems odd to have this one character in the sea of anime boobs and ass that isn't showing them
In star trek tng during one ofnthe first contact episodes picard says that to instantly transform a society with technology would be harmful and destructive and its why they don't uplift primative civilizations and instead wait until they achieve warp and even then still leave it to them to work out most of the other stuff
Go look at Africa and how fucked up they are because we tried to give them technology that was thousands of years beyond their mud huts
I have noticed that Korean mmos come out of the gate in a pretty decent state
Then some three or four years down the line the updates and new content have managed to fucking ruin everything
Take archeage for example at the start the life skills were super important and you could get a fair amount done just focusing on those because the product was sought after and the labour and land system somewhat restricted supply so the prices were not insane (it was possible to keep your sub up by making an alt in the other region, buying raw materials and then processing them because the processed product was worth more due to the labour system, in other games like runescape and wow buying the raw materials and selling the processed result is usually a loss)
Then with updates they added ways to get character power (gear usually) that did not require the life skills and instead just required endless daily quests and grinding
yeah thats the main reason i see and i get why it is a pretty crap monetization model
there is a thing called grasscutter that essentially lets you run your own private server but i'm not entirely sure how functional it is
I wonder when the story is all over and they don't want to host the servers anymore will they just re-pack it as a stand alone game you pay $60 for
It is claimed he was given to oda who then trained him and made him a samurai
The issue with that claim is oda nobunaga was a prolific poet who wrote poetry about damn near anything
Yet oddly he never made any poetry about this black slave turned samurai
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
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
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.
yeah... I want to know how big Japanese anime is in China because it must have some influence if the Chinese gacha games are using Japanese voice actors as much as they are