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Tracaine, do games w Why do new Silent Hill entries attract so much negativity?

Because they fucking suck. Silent hill is a resident evil clone. I don’t even REALLY want silent hill, I want more resident evil. So when you give me a copy and the copy isn’t what it’s supposed to be either? It’s upsetting.

The game industry has damned near forgotten about single player, third person action-adventure games and it fucking sucks.

Katana314,

Damn man, I love Resident Evil and have never finished an SH game, but we have so many of the former (especially considering the indie scene) this seems like an excessively presumptuous comment.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Silent Hill was never a Resident Evil clone. It always had a unique identity. Resident Evil, except the original game, has the identity of a Hollywood Action movie. The developers of the game have stated that is what they wanted from the series starting with RE2. Silent Hill, on the other hand, is like a much slower Alfred Hitchcock Suspense film. Slower paced, methodical, and plays on the viewer’s imagination. Where Resident Evil might explicitly say something in the lore, Silent Hill is more likely to only imply it.

And then we get to Silent Hill 2 Remake which basically is just a copy of Resident Evil 4 Remake, sadly.

brsrklf, do games w Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Oh fuck, Hard DK has found his way to you too then :)

Streamer Alpharad got a “Hard DK” bit running since they got their ass handed over to them by a crazy Mario Party CPU DK that was just gambling like mad and winning everything.

They trained an incredibly good amiibo CPU DK in Smash they called Hard DK in reference to this.

slimerancher, do games w Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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Heh, I just played Smash Ultimate after a long while too. Had a few matches with my kid. I started strong, beating him in first few matches, then he got better and I lost 70-80% of the matches. 😀

brsrklf,

My problem with Smash is I just can’t commit to one character and I’m just kind of bad at all of them. If anything, the most decent I get might be with the Links and Belmonts. I guess projectile jank is kind of my thing.

MolochAlter, do games w How Zelda and Studio Ghibli inspire happiness and purpose

I’m sure the fact that Ghibli movies and BotW are best-in-class examples of their respective mediums has absolutely nothing to do with anything.

Looking forward to the metric shittons of open world ghibli knock-off garbage being currently greenlit by frothing execs hoping they have at last found the blueprints to the dopamine machine.

daggermoon, do games w Why do new Silent Hill entries attract so much negativity?

I don’t know but its fucking annoying. Yes, the Team Silent games were the best, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have more great SH games. I’d like to think Konami learned their lesson with Downpour. Homecoming was alright except for it contradicting previously established lore. I’m going to play f with an open mind. Being an SH fan can be exhausting sometimes.

memo,
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honestly, imma just say it: silent hill shattered memories had a very interesting take on the series, and I don’t see anything wrong with spin-offs or minor titles deviating from the original formula of gameplay. Are we just bathing a tad too much in nostalgia?

RightHandOfIkaros,

I dont mind spin-offs. I avtually like Silent Hill The Arcade and I wanted to play Book of Memories until I saw its not supported in Vita3k still. I ain’t buying a Vita just for that one game.

I don’t understand IP fans that think spin-offs are mainline entries. Metroid Prime Pinball and Hyrule Warriors (the original one) are among the best of the best spin-offs. I can’t imagine why anyone would think they taint the series they are based on. They are supplemental material made to be fun, not to contribute to the mainline story.

Nico_198X, do games w Why do new Silent Hill entries attract so much negativity?
@Nico_198X@europe.pub avatar

do they? i hadn’t noticed. i thought ppl were generally excited and positive.

memo,
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probably has to do with “negative minority being the loudest” on the internet, but as you can see from this thread there’s a LOT whole of concern for a game nobody has tried out yet. I guess I understand where they’re coming from since Konami’s record with the series isn’t great, but I still genuinely fail to see why silent hill f isn’t perceived as a good game from the trailers we’ve seen thus far.

Nico_198X,
@Nico_198X@europe.pub avatar

i’m stoked. i dunno, man. ppl just want to be miserable.

i’m a SH fan from back in the day. 1-4, Origins. Shattered Memories. love them all.

SH2 Remake was EXCELLENT.

ppl are crazy.

JasSmith, do games w 1 year a go today, Concord was released.

Such a comprehensive example of poor decision making at so many levels. From the decision to charge for a PvP hero shooter in a saturated market of free PvP hero shooters, to spending what appeared to be tens of millions on marketing, PR, and CGI cut scenes, to the worst character designs in living memory. It’s clear they did zero focus group testing on those characters, or if they did, they ignored all feedback. As is so common now, everyone involved in the fiasco is going to be integrated into future projects and destroy them too. They’ll learn nothing and keep doing it.

glimse,

The character design was derivative but they weren’t awful, come on now. Absolutely true about the rest

JasSmith,

I struggle to think of worse examples in the AAA space. The colours weren’t just badly complemented, but intentionally violated colour theory. Their skills had nothing to do with their aesthetic or stories. They were just kind of thrown together without any care. Why was Baz, the bulky man, given ninja-like skills? None of the characters were attractive. One was morbidly obese. Almost all of them were gender non-conforming. And the biggest sin of all: none of them were cool. They were all lame as shit. You must know all of this if you’ve been following the story and criticism. It’s fine to disagree and in many instances there is room for subjectivity, but this was one of those rare examples where we can all come together to objectively declare these characters a train wreck.

inb4_FoundTheVegan,
@inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world avatar

None of the characters were attractive. One was morbidly obese. Almost all of them were gender non-conforming

Some real capital G-amer takes here. Come everyone, let’s join hands and “objectively” agree to hate minority bodies.

Poopfeast420, (edited ) do games w Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
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Decided to check out VOID/BREAKER, a roguelite FPS, which just released into Early Access. The trailer makes it look like some crazy, super fast-paced, effects filled shooter, where you constantly destroy your environment, and maybe it gets to that point, but so far in my <10 runs, 6h, with the game, it’s been pretty basic.

Each run you choose a single weapon, so far I’ve unlocked a pistol (default), automatic rifle and shotgun, and then you’ll find different upgrades and abilities that you slot into your weapon to modify it.

The main thing of this game is the grappling hook. You can either grapple objects in the environment to throw at enemies, like explosives. Or you can grapple to specific points in each arena to fly around, but so far, for me, that hasn’t been as fun as it should be.

Then the destructible buildings, although they are really basic (mainly just boxes) and take a surprisingly long time to bring down, and even then it’s mainly in parts, not the whole thing. Unless you find some upgrades, your grenades (and the aforementioned explosives) will be the main way to destroy stuff, so you’ll have to constantly wait for the short cooldown to throw the next grenade or look for more objects in the arena.

I’ll give it some more time, because I can see the potential, but I haven’t really found anything like the “deep gun modding” or “deadly synergies” the Steam store page is talking about. 90% of the time it’s been stuff like your bullets fly faster, and your grenade deals more damage.

redwattlebird, do gaming w Whine harder you assholes
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This is why games should allow modding.

Aaron_Davis,

I do love modding games.

Dvixen, do gaming w Whine harder you assholes
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My favourite characters are those who don’t fit the ‘norm’.

My Dune character is a bearded lady with purple hair. I’ve had my purple haired lass in multiple games now.

People complaining about representation in games… Most of the time we are playing as murder hobos, and inclusivity is their big whinge?

prole,

Exactly… I’m all about stories that include all aspects of the human experience, especially ones that I’m not personally familiar with.

thatKamGuy, do gaming w Whine harder you assholes

Honest question, can anyone actually name a mainstream game where the main playable character is canonically and explicitly portrayed as gay?

I honestly can’t even think of one.

skisnow,

That’s what makes it even more pathetic, literally just being given the option of a gay subplot is having it shoved down their throats.

It’s so ridiculous that I question how many of the complaints we see online are even sincere, because surely people aren’t that dumb.

bluecat_OwO,
@bluecat_OwO@lemmy.world avatar

last of us?

darkpanda,

A bunch of characters in Apex Legends are canonically gay, trans, nonbinary, bi, pansexual, and Mirage. As a hero shooter, I guess there’s no real “main” character as such.

Aloy in Horizon is pretty much there if the Burning Shores DLC is any indication, although she seems to be a work in progress as a fully developed person.

Katana314,

I remember when dinoflask did YTPs of Overwatch’s lead designer, he poked fun at how, whenever the game needed a progressive image boost, they would retcon a character to be gay at random. He sentence-mixed something like “Our fans are always wondering who’s going to be gay on our next update.”

buttnugget,

Life is Strange series, Before the Storm. Not sure about the others.

GladiusB,
@GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

FFXIV. Like the whole raid tier for Gia and Rynne.

Notyou,

Mainstream? No, but my character decided he was gay in Disco Elysium.

prole,

Last of Us.

Life is Strange games.

scala,

Guild Wars 2

kazerniel,
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

I have an example that’s not gay, but trans - one of the two protagonists of Tell Me Why is a trans guy. (The other protagonist is his cisgender twin sister.)

Jomega,

Yuji Naka once said that NiGHTs gender was “up for interpretation”, which I think makes them nonbinary. That’s a pretty deep cut though.

Zahille7,

I remember reading about that because I went on a SA2 Chao Garden binge at one point and really got into trying to get a perfect flying one, I even went and played a bit of Into Dreams and read the wiki.

It’s because they’re “dream beings” and don’t really truly exist so they have no gender.

Katana314,

The MISSING: J J Macfield and the Island of Memories is a great one.

EndingPsyche. Though much of the dialog and written messages could lead you, like myself, to believe Macfield is a closeted lesbian undergoing community/family abuse for her quiet obsessions with a girl…it’s actually the less common form of LGBT. Macfield is a closet trans woman; much of the game’s horrific bodily mutilation themes take a stand-in for the dysphoria of being uncomfortable in her own masculine body. Of course, many of the same types who’d retch at a gay protagonist would throw up at the idea of being someone they didn’t identify with - which ironically is exactly what the game is teaching you.

MellowYellow13,

Yes, Life is Strange and The Last of Us. Pretty major games

michaelmrose,

In baldurs gate 3 people of the same gender certainly hit on you. Basically all romancible characters have player characters as their sexual orientation

DreamlandLividity,

I will ask a different question. In how many mainstream games can you actually confirm the main character is straight? Sure it may be more than the two examples of gay main characters, but still very few compared to where it just doesn’t come up.

skisnow, (edited )

Pretty much every GTA, Duke Nukem, the Witcher series, the God of War series, Yakuza, Unchartered, the Final Fantasy games, the Super Mario games (including Donkey Kong), even Pac-man… and that’s just the ones I’ve played. Then you’ve got virtually everything featuring Disney characters, Star Wars, as well as most other TV and movie tie-in games (of which there are many).

That’s the thing about defaultism, is you can play a straight character and not even remember you’ve done it because it’s just the default. I’ll bet you didn’t even notice that Pac-man was canonically straight, and yet if Ms. Pac-man was instead called “Pacman’s Husband Steve”, suddenly Pac-man’s one defining trait would be his sexuality.

If nothing else, you’ve provided an object lesson in just how true OP’s meme is.

Lucky_777, do gaming w Whine harder you assholes

The best thing? To have no fucking preference. Oh the writers wamt me to be a gay main character? Bet.

Oh the writers want me to be a straight homicidal manic? Bet

drunkpostdisaster, do gaming w Whine harder you assholes

Would be nice if you could play a gay dude. It feels like most lbgtq representation is only women

buttnugget,

Yes! It’s that whole disgusting “two chicks at the same time” trope that allows them to get away with it more, I assume.

Stamets,
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

Also sexism. Women can do it because they’re silly creatures who don’t know what they’re doing without a man controlling them so obviously being a leanian is acceptable. But a man choosing to do those things? He should know better

kazerniel,
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

To me it also kinda rhymes with the way bisexual men vs bisexual women are often regarded in wider society. “Bisexual men are actually gay” while “bisexual women are actually straight”. So only the part of their attraction that relates to men is taken seriously 😐

RBWells,

Sexism for sure, in all sorts of permutations.

Women with a sex drive must be bi. Therefore bi women are hot.

Of course women can mess around with women, it’s not “real sex”.

She just needs a “real man”.

It’s so gross, and makes no sense to me. Guys seem much more situationally indiscriminate, sailors, people in jail, and honestly who cares if their guy is bi? Either you are monogamous and it’s a non-issue, or you aren’t, and your opportunity is wider for fun stuff than with a straight guy. No downside I can see.

callouscomic, do gaming w Whine harder you assholes

I want to be something else when I play games. I don’t understand this need to be the same thing I am every fucking day. Bring on other genders, sexes, races, species, colors, limbs, all of it. Let’s be different. It’s a fucking video game.

RisingSwell,

Given the choice I’m almost never playing a human. The fuck would I want to be me for lmao

Zahille7,

Argonian or Dark Elf, almost literally every time.

untorquer,

Get so weird slimey tentacled dozen limbed furry scaley shit going.

DeathByBigSad, do gaming w Whine harder you assholes
@DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m not even gay, but the first time I played Life is Strange (the first one) and when the option to…

Massive Life is Strange 1 SpoilersSpoilers ahead…
Be Warned…



the option for Max to kiss Chloe showed up, I immediatly went for the kiss (well… the first time was a dare and that was barely even a kiss) Their relationship is just so sweet. I chose to sacrifice Arcadia Bay cuz fuck the dumb corrupt town. Max&Chloe is the canon ending to me. (The butterfly killed Arcadia Bay, ’sfault)

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