souls game "lore experts" feel like some kind of weird prototypical ooze that has infected many other places and turned Puzzle Box Lore Theories into the definitive way of engaging with stories. and i think thats sad

thing about graphical realism is that a lot of the games that cynically chase after it don't care enough about the visual language of film they are trying to copy to make the realism actually interesting let alone work in games. something as basic as colour palette and scene framing is a good one

geoff keighley, teary-eyed: and that was an exclusive first look at Glover 2: Training Gloves Come Off!, only here at the game awards

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the contrarian chud type of guy who complains that the message of [current video game] is "le capitalism bad" *again* is very funny to me. like look around you bitchboy!!!! everything fucking sucks what do u expect

cancel your subscriptions. stop being dependent on what these fuckers drip feed u, hack a wii and play what u want

Imagine being so reactionary that your entire ideological position is "no-one should ever think for even a nanosecond that I might agree with The Chuds on something" and as a result you end up dismissing the constantly growing censorship problem with JP/anime-style media as insignificant or not real

The reason Silent Hill 3 is better than Silent Hill 2 is because we already had had Lost Highway but we never gave Laura Palmer a gun before

we've been buffering metroid prime discourse for eighteen years so it makes sense people are competing to see who comes up w the silliest most ridiculous non-issue about beyond

Nobody's take here is "all art is good" it's that making good art should not be a prerequisite to your work being allowed to exist in the public sphere. If "only if it's good" is the standard we're operating from the say goodbye to all minority art because the majority will never call it good.

genuinely wish the "censorship is bad but..." types would shut up forever

no way this app hasn't figured out turning off retweets for specific users oml

People overexaggerate how hard it is to say u enjoy/recommend xenoblade 2 guys shonen anime is literally mainstream nowadays

it's utterly bleak that this controversy has attracted some of the most rancid anti-fiction people who claim HORSES was rejected for having "csam" in it. mind you, all for a non-sexualised child-like depiction that doesn't exist anymore and has never been seen by the public