Honestly I would argue that the quality of film and television stories has plummeted in the last 15 years to the point of them being a shallow husk that has been gutted by marketing and greed in the film industry.

Most films nowadays are glorified celebrity commercials with more product placements and wanky pop references than story beats.

Being directly in control of the main character puts you in a position to be more immersed in the world and more invested in the characters and story.

Not that the game industry is perfect but it has more going on than just the grids games. That’s the gaming industry’s greed. Live service games are a plague and the artificial padding is designed to sell you their micropayment currency. It’s a scam.

There are tons and tons of highly diverse games for many different skill levels nowadays that will introduce modern gaming concepts slowly and build up a players skill level. Not like the nes and arcade days of them wanting your quarters and making impossible to beat games.

If you need some recommendations on games with an impactful story or that give you an experience impossible with movies I can highly recommend these:

Journey, Outer Wilds, Spec Ops the line, Toem, Unravel, Kena bridge of Spirits, Night in the woods, Hifi rush, Donut County, Firewatch, The unfinished swan, Jusant, Gone Home, Venba, Dordogne, Hollow Knight, Knights and Bikes, Gorgoa, FAR: lone sails, a short hike, shadow of the colossus, bioshock, Spiritfarer

Always struck me as hypocritical that watching movies was always put on a pedestal as if sitting around for 2 hours mindlessly consuming the latest Tom Cruise flick is any more productive than playing a video game. At least there is brain activity involved with gaming.

Do it!!!

Let me know what ya think!

https://youtu.be/vid5yZRKzs0

This is a great video and you should watch the whole thing for context but he goes into RE6 specifically at 14:20.

"By trying to please everyone, you please no one.”

• Resident Evil 7 Producer Masachiki Kawata,

It’s a lesson Capcom had to learn the hard way with RE6.

🙄🤮

Yeah they are gutting them to make them more profitable.

The way ai is being used is definitely heading to bubble territory with this corporate push.

Booooo.

The dlc difficulty was fine, was about the same as base game but fucking people need to whine instead of just playing the game as intended.

No link or game title?

Accessibility is absolutely fine and highly encouraged but they don’t go directly against the core gameplay loop.

The rhythm game might have been a vague example. They have difficulty sliders but are still on rhythm. That’s the core mechanic, being in rhythm. There’s not a “press whenever you want here’s your participation trophy mode.”

Arguably adding an easy mode would rip a lot of the core from the souls games. Their purpose is to be difficult. That’s the point. They are made to be a challenge. Majority of other games don’t have good difficulty mechanics besides making the enemies damage sponges. It’s fucking boring.

Like playing GTA while following traffic laws. You are missing the point.

A practice mode has been in souls games before like Sekiro. Would be a fair addition for practice but that doesn’t change the core gameplay loop.

If there are no mountains to climb why bother to challenge yourself?

Not every game is meant for you.

Sorry but there are millions of others out there for you to play. Everything can’t accommodate you.

Bad at rhythm games? Don’t play em or practice. Doesn’t mean they should add a tone deff mode without rhythm. Would literally defeat the purpose of the game.

February 14th? Do people really get married on corporate love marketing day?

Exactly! It’s more profitable for them to manufacture spyware over building a functional machine. There is no excusing their behaviour, they can manufacture a tv that’s good and affordable, they just won’t.

Shit like this is why we need more antitrust laws and consumer protections. Break up some monopolies already!!

If you can’t produce a product without subsidizing it by pumping it full of data tracking nonsense then you don’t deserve to be a fucking company.

Fuck that and you know it. They only produce this garbage because they get more value out of your data not because they can’t fucking manufacture a good affordable tv.

No we’re past that point. I’d much rather call it X and have the people left on that awful network swallow the jagged X pill instead of kidding themselves into thinking they are still on Twitter.

They are Xers now.

So they have to game their contracts to not be forcefully made to milk a franchise. Sounds like a lovely industry. Maybe it should be torn down and a wave of small creators and indie studios will revive the golden age of film as art instead of being products to milk.

👏We’re👏sick👏of👏the👏waste👏of👏money👏and👏creative👏talent👏producing👏garbage👏

Or just leave a franchise to conclude and take that time and money to create something new.

I can run a multitude of games off my old laptop thanks to emulation. Emulators give games a much longer lifespan and are much more accessible.

Sony is literally selling games with an emulator. Go look at Sly Cooper on the ps5. Emulators are more than adequate.

All this does is put another payment into the publishers pocket.