>soul = nostalgia
You can't convince me otherwise.

>>713223091 (OP)
sovl is being able to picture together the path the artist took (sorry but it requires a min IQ of 120)

>>713223091 (OP)
If I can't convince you why would I try

Wrong.

No. Soul is the imperfections left by the creators of something bigger than you.

Soul is when you break down a game into equal parts and it adds up to something bigger.

>>713223480
>soul = badly made
this is a pale imitation of soul peddled by autists.

>>713223671
this is real soul.

>>713223480
Weak argument. Not a single one of the sub-90 IQ consumers that make up video games 'enthusiasts' could explain even the basics of game development. Not design, not coding, not storyboarding, none of it.

If you don't understand how its made then you can't pretend to understand you know which parts of the process are made with soul VS which are just soulessly created with sterile indifference. The entire premise is based on a knowledge that 99.9% of Anons don't have.
>But you can just tell-
Then you're once again back to Soul just being vibes, proving once again its all emotional drivel with no definition.

And yet The Wonderful 101 is one of the single most soulful games I've ever played, and I only just played it THIS YEAR, you dumb nigger.

>>713223091 (OP)
What if I think a modern game has soul?

>>713223410
>you need a hecking IQ of 120 to understand the intricacies of the term "sovl"!
Anon, I know you took a test from some Indian website that said you're a very smart lad for being able to showcase basic pattern recognition, but it's plainly obvious to anyone who's been on /v/ for more than a day that when people throw around the term "soul", they usually mean that the game(s) they grew up with have more heart because they played it when they were seven years old.
It's either that, or because of some innate emotional feeling you have that tells you something has "soul" because you personally like said thing (this usually wraps back around to feelings of nostalgia anyway).

There actually was a golden age, most people had a great time in general during that period.

Soul/souless is just a Reddit tinted way of saying somethings good/bad. It's not that complicated. If a person thinks a game looks like shit, it's soulless. If a person enjoys the game, it's soulful.

>>713223091 (OP)
If you say I can't convince you, why would I try to?

>>713223091 (OP)
Soul is just another word for sincerity.

>>713223091 (OP)
Obviously not true. Soul has to do with creative vision. The reason why a lot of remakes and remasters such is the people that make them attempt to emulate what they see in the absence of the creative vision which was the image the game was formed in. Look at the Elder Scroll's Oblivion remake/remaster for a CLEAR example of this. Absolute butchery. Has nothing to do with nostalgia, but even so, consider the strength of the nostalgic affect may have had to do with the soul of the thing itself. If you throw away the concept of soul, creative visions, etc, there's nothing to stop you from getting slop and a decreased quality of life.
https://youtu.be/mYrKqBE6bTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mXEHCTF-0I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADMp5nwHBeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnz2dzJrwVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szFKZsDzyyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGv1cVjMcIQ

Soul is cope word used by 4tranners to say something is good.
Like "comfy"

>>713223091 (OP)
Soul's just je ne sais quoi, the indefinable quality. Stop trying to properly define it.

when DOTA becomes an ideology
resistance becomes a lifestyle

>>713223480
This is half true, but it's obvious most /v/niggers don't use the term 'soul' with this meaning in mind. Faggots just throw the word around without much thought. If anons really did use 'soul' with this mindset, most indie games wouldn't have the term "forced soul" tacked on them.
>>713225185
I'm curious to see what current year statistics show (it's probably worse than any data gathered back in 2017).

>>713223091 (OP)
what does a human soul having been infused in to the assets/mechanics have to do with nostalgia
there's plenty of soulful games that have come out recently that don't play off nostalgia, look at death stranding, soul overload

>>713223091 (OP)
More care and consideration was put into things back in the day. This can be seen across-the-board in all industries, not just gaming. I can play a game from 20 years ago I've never seen in my life and see the creativity and passion put into it that simply hasn't been abundant in gaming for like 10+ years now.

You've probably just grown up in this hellscape and thing that poor quality is normal. No, people actually used to care at one point.

>>713223091 (OP)
soul is the attention to detail brought by the love of your craft

>>713223091 (OP)
Soul means it was made by people with an IQ above 120.

>>713225970
indianbros...

>>713223091 (OP)
Sometimes it's nostalgia.
Sometimes it's simply distinct art direction or writing, anything that stands out from the norm.
Sometimes it's both.
Modern games often blow off the latter with copypaste assets and make shameless appeals to the former, which typically only serves to remind you of a better game you could be replaying than whatever slop you're consuming.

>>713223480
So why is it that when Spongebob drew a perfect circle is was supposed to show that he had talent and Squidward didn't?

>>713225373
Oh and by the way, if you want the opposite of "soul" put simply, Indians. Offshoring to India is the essence of soullessness.

Is forced soul when someone tried to hard at making a good game?

>>713225185
This isnt from video games you dumbfuck

>>713225890
So TLOU2 is soul

Soul is being able to feel a genuine connection to the developer who made artistic decisions from a place of authenticity. Soul is personality.

>>713223091 (OP)
>>soul = nostalgia
Correct, and there's nothing wrong with it. This is also soul:
https://breatharian.eu/Petr/en/index.htm

>>713227379
A lot of old games considered soul were rushed out sequels when the devs wanted to move onto something original

Soul is when I cum.

>>713226261
because he had a talent that involved more than just reproducing a circle, but that has nothing to do with the amount of dicks you sucked today