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- Comment on Capcom says shifting from auteur-driven development to team-led development is what transformed the company and allowed flagship IPs to survive for so long - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
PS3/360 gen was the Japanese game industry struggling to adapt. EA, Activision, Ubisoft, 2K, etc would find their cash cow formula and churn them out year after year. Capcom figured out what the western publishers perfected in the PS3/360 gen and their games are still more varied than like EA or Ubisoft. Same with Sega and Square Enix compared to other companies. There were a couple years where Square Enix was churning out a dumb amount of interesting games in a close time window. No surprises none really stood out among the ocean of square enix RPG games of varying levels of differences
Besides that, in the 1960s Marshall Mclullan coined the term the medium is the message. I’m certain the idea predated him by decades if not millenniums. I’m used to hearing it used as a knock on visual and rhythmic forms of art in regards to conveying gravity of message and urgency of action. And it can drill down to genre too. Like a limerick compared to a persuasive essay
Video games have gameplay loops along with everything also possible in movies. The visual portion was already huge like the often cited reception of radio broadcasts compared to tv broadcasts of the Nixon JFK debates. The topic of the video killed the radio star. In genres I’ve read discussions about decline in mainstream music composition complexity and instrument playing ability in general with the increasing importance of singing and then electronic music and DJ’ing
A lot to say that video games are deep deep on the entertainment/escapism end of the art medium spectrum. It’s there with like fashion and photography and dance. FPS games started with barely a story to remember before even considering whether it had much of a message to send. Then you started getting stories as standard when graphics got good enough. Then back to shooting games barely having stories if at all. Elder Scrolls sandbox ambitions being succeeded by survival crafting games. So many survival crafting games
Video games where people most demand publishers to revive dormant IPs where the original creators names are barely known and maybe they’ve long been retired, no longer in the industry, no longer around. Video games since it hit HD era quickly jumped to the franchise revival/remake/reboot/sequel/spinoff-fest of Hollywood. And it makes sense because it’s that it did since it’s a medium very difficult to enjoy separate from its entertainment factor
- Comment on Gears Of War: E-Day Reportedly Has A Staggering $400 Million Budget 1 week ago:
If true, they’d have to sell a lot more than 5.7 million copies in consideration of non-Xbox digital store sales cuts and physical retailer logistics, currency conversions and regional pricing differences, payment processor fees, discounts/gamepass, taxes, etc. If the budget is $400 million, it’d have to be the best selling Gears game ever
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- Ubisoft Shuts Down Two Studios in Canada and Serbia, Hundreds of Employees Affectedwww.eteknix.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer 1 week ago:
Fire Emblem I think should be way more popular. I’ve tried to introduce people to Xenoblade games and most people I’ve had try it do not like the combat. I can manage it to enjoy the story. But others, the gameplays not enticing to most of my friends
- Comment on Kingdom Hearts IV - Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
I wonder what sort of metrics they’ve gotten on how people have received the art style/this first world they showed off a few years ago and now again today. For me it’s definitely the least appealing KH artstyle. The handheld and mobile games 20 years ago looked more appealing to me both as I imagine myself as a child and me now as a well seasoned adult
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- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I know how your buddy felt. When I got a 970, I was worried that you’d need at least a 980ti to play Star Citizen well at 1080p. Luckily I’ve never spent a dime on the game so don’t have any strong feelings about how development has been going. Just see a news headline every couple months
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- New Halo Campaign Evolved Report Claims Heavy Outsourcing and Major Gameplay Changestwistedvoxel.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, and PCwww.gematsu.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate has been renamed to Dragon Quest XII: Beyond Dreams | RPG Sitewww.rpgsite.net ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
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- Ken Levine's Judas Could Slip Nearly Three More Years, Putting BioShock Successor Eleven Years Deep in Developmentwccftech.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
Have you ever enjoyed any game that’s mostly played one on one like rock paper scissors, tennis, poker, chess, go, cup stacking, most sports you see in the olympics. In one on one PvP games, you usually make friends too
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- Mecha-Driven Sci-Fi JRPG STARBITES Is Out Now on PC and Consoles - Turn Based Loversturnbasedlovers.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominateswww.notebookcheck.net ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 97 comments
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- Planetary Annihilation: TITANS gets Steam P2P multiplayer and more content to comewww.gamingonlinux.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Square Enix Drops The Adventures Of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Demo 30 Days Early, With Saves Carrying Into Full Gamewccftech.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGCwww.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 172 comments
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- The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales boasts stunning visuals and great real-time actionwww.techradar.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
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- Comment on PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies 5 weeks ago:
Your media sources aren’t really indictive of monoculture. More the opposite and that’s the problem for marketers. It’s hard as shit to reach people because everyone can form their own niche media community. If people still treated IGN and like award shows as their mainstream trustworthy source, we’d still be in the pre-youtube monoculture
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