>If a story can mean anything, then it means nothing
Have any other quotes ever shattered multiple gaming fandoms to their core like this one?

>>714114301 (OP)
>The Wonderful 101 confronts the hard truth that controlling the camera is simply a boring task that we just accept because modern games have conditioned us to do so. Before the rise of the right analog stick, games were built with camera systems that didn't require constant babysitting and playing this is a stark reminder of just how good that can feel.

>>714114301 (OP)
I never listen to what he says but I like his videos for background noise

>>714114301 (OP)
Meaning is a non-existent concept and completely subjective by nature. The meaning one person can grasp can and will be completely different from another.
Welcome to critical theory 101

did he say that about umineko? pretty based if so.

>>714114301 (OP)
What do Hammy boy's stories mean?
>>714114474
Wonderful 101 copies sold is dogshit. Spikeout is a much better example of an automatic camera actually working and it came out in 1998.

>>714114474
controllers in a nutshell

>>714114301 (OP)
>I'll just play something else!
The villains in Gundam Breaker 4 did nothing wrong and were one hundred percent in the right.

>>714115032
Said it about Silent Hill 2

Everything in the universe is inherently meaningless. You are a germ on a speck of dust floating in the vacuum of space. Nothing you do, no video game you ever play or make or movie you watch or book you read or music you listen to will ever have truly any meaning. None of the relationships you have ever will ever have any true meaning.
Such is reality.
Now what you do with this information is what defines the rest of your life. Nihilists should just commit suicide. If you continue to live on anyway, in spite of the fact that everything is meaningless, then that makes you an absurdist. Most people are in that second camp. Nobody likes to die.

>>714115032
Do you think he will like Episode 7?

>>714114474
He was so right.

release the video

>>714114963
This is my interpretation of you and it is VALID.

>>714115807
He seems to so far, though whether or not he'll enjoy the tea party is a different question.

>>714114474
most action games know this and use either fixed camera angles or full lock-on, monster hunter is one of the only ones i can think of that doesn't

>>714115980
He'll release part 2 next april fools

Enjoy waiting another 10 years for the whole thing

>>714114474
This shit opened my third eye. Actually fuck cameras. We've been playing 3D games for decades and the camera has always been an unnecessarily cumbersome problem.

>>714114301 (OP)
I fucking hate reddit pseuds

Its pretty strange to see Fromtshoft lore youtubers not understand their fanfic filling the studios nonexistent storytelling isn't reality

>>714117093
>Fromsoft out of nowhere
Obsessed

Death of the author is the logical conclusion of understanding that the God of the Authorial universe contained within the book is wholly fallible, the audience is aware of this, more or less so depending on the quality of the author/creators argument. Thats not to say the authors arguments are to be entirely dismissed, but that their may be finer details that are missed or ignored by the author to better support their own thesis.

>>714117297
oh what game is mentioned in the OP?

>>714117401
>>714115601

>>714117514
I played sh2 and that doesnt seem relevant quote

its a 20y old story made to fit a horror experience

>>714114301 (OP)
>>714114474
Do either of these crusty faggots bring in oven 100k views on a monthly basis anymore?

>>714114301 (OP)
I don't know what this quote is from or about but literally every story can be"mean anything" because everyone comes to it with their own thoughts, background, understanding and biases. The author can intend to convey a particular message or meaning but each person will interpret it differently to one degree or another.

>>714117597
Depends on whether you divide the views by the number of months or not.
Matthew is busy working on his videogame at the moment; which should be out soon (hopefully).

>>714114474
What about FPS games?

>>714117569
What does the age of the story have to do with anything?

>>714119146
sh2 remake came out recently and it has to follow the plot of a 20y old game made by some japs who dont even speak english

>>714117880
The quote is referring to Silent Hill 2, he thinks the devs did a terrible job of explaining important parts of the story and put it on the fans to imagine the plot of the game. People took that quote and ran with it to criticize any games with open ended stories.

The town is making him stupid

>>714118639
>What about double jump?
The point of FPS games is to point the camera and shoot things, so yeah. But even then one could argue that light gun games are superior mechanically they just have a very niche input device and hence aren't more popular.

>>714114301 (OP)
>>714114474

>>714114474
Kamiya games are shit and this guy is a retard.

>>714114474
He's right but the camera should be dynamic not static.

>>714119738
One could also argue that you're a fucking retard, and that everybody that parrots the opinions of (or even watches) ecelebs needs to be euthanized.

>>714114301 (OP)
Why was this game so hard for him to understand?

>>714114474
it's in statements like this that he loses me, he makes these hyperbolic statements all the time that only have value in context of modern bad practices and not much else

babysitting the camera can be a perfectly valuable gameplay action, he know it too, I'm sure he makes that same argument in his demon souls or one of the dark souls video even

>>714118639
FPS games don't have cameras, they have a perspective.

Lol did he criticize umineko to the point it butthurt some weebs?

>>714120629
people with 'tism can't follow character driven narratives

>>714120321
This is funny considering Ragnarok didn't really improve on anything that Matt criticized.

>>714120636
>babysitting the camera can be a perfectly valuable gameplay action, he know it too, I'm sure he makes that same argument in his demon souls or one of the dark souls video even
Are you confusing him with Mork

>>714117569
His opinions and takeaways from SH2 are pure retardation that hes been shit on for relentlessly so I wouldn't worry too much about it
I think his issue was he couldn't understand James's memory-holing of killing his wife came from his own trauma and self loathing over the whole ordeal

>don't watch JA's analysis vids
>just watch him stream weeb gaems

>>714120953
Definitely the best way to consume his content

>>714120813
I'm sure I'm not but now I'm second guessing myself...

>>714114301 (OP)
That's fucking retarded. Meaning can be whatever you want it to be. Fuck what the author says, you can interpret it anyway you want.

>>714120740
The only episode he dislikes so far is 5 and that's only if you're meant to take it seriously and not as a parody. However he believes 90% of the scenes could be a third as long as they are.

>>714120539
You are always parroting ideas you got from somewhere else, so there really is no difference there.
As long as you're not mindlessly adopting talking points you don't actually understand, it doesn't really matter if you were introduced to the ideas via an e-celeb or a poster on /v/.

>there's a very high chance that his new pathetic paranoid girlfriend is lurking here to casually mention what people think or say about him and here on the next stream
what a sad existence lurking the subreddit and these threads just to keep tabs on all the negative shit people say about yo, mouse

I haven't watched Joseph's videos in years, but I saw that he actually released his Witcher 2 video after 500 years.
Can someone give me a quick rundown? Is he just streaming weebshit now or what?

>>714114301 (OP)
I guess that retard didn't undestand that magic is real.

>>714121876
He released only part 1 of the W3 vid after delaying it for years (ostensibly after irl drama that he hasnt gone in to much detail about)
He primarily streams - not just weeb games but those are somewhat common for him

Whoa, janny, you've been very active about removing "eceleb" threads today so here's one, go get it!

>>714115601
lol what? This is not a complex story at all, how tf do you get filtered by SH2? Is he stupid?

>>714120321
What is the lore behind this one? The retard praised that shitty ass game?

>>714122287
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lhy9QnBHmo
the town made him stupid

>>714121308
Hes right about that. Shame hes not criticizing it more

>>714122287
THE TOWN

>>714122310
I think anderson mostly liked 2018 (havent watched his vid)
But he disliked ragnarok

>>714114301 (OP)
>>If a story can mean anything, then it means nothing
i cant believe that dimwit said something that smart

>>714120801
its possible that corey balrog wasnt at liberty of making drastic changes for the sequel. the point of matt also refers to this, as in devs may be given just a lost of things to include in their game and they making the best out of it.

>>714114301 (OP)
What does that even mean? Like in context? If a story can be a metaphor for something vague then it's bad? Sounds like a retarded statement

>>714121158
https://youtu.be/Ze2aSUJmh5s?t=1467

>>714122310
Yes, his video on it was pure dicksucking. Matthew released a review of it at a similar time that contained some harsh criticism. The fact that the studio complimented exactly one of these two people will always be funny

>>714122385
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NHnyoyx7d3Y?feature=share

>>714114301 (OP)
Profound. He might honestly be the smartest human to have ever lived

>>714122310
He liked it, the title of the video even says "Almost a masterpiece", but he touches on a lot of the same problems Matthewmatosis had, it just didn't sour his experience as much.

>>714122605
His review of the original is a good video. This one is more about remakes in general.

>>714114474
I just know that when he criticized DS2 he sounded like a whinny little bitch.

>>714122287
>the town made him stupid
yes, this guy is a dumbass

>>714122385
How the fuck did this dipshit get an actual following here anyway. I can only assume that his pedantry gets mistaken for insight by morons

>>714122287
He's not stupid, just very stubborn and hates being proven wrong because his chat is full of smartasses

>>714122830
Hi joe

>>714122830
streaming any game blind seems like a nightmare, i can't believe anyone does it for any reason other than money

How anyone ever got anything out of these boring motherfuckers and their pretentious video "essays" is beyond me. Dry, monotone charisma vacuums who take a 30 minute video and stretch it to 5 hours, and all the while it sounds like someone reading a Wikipedia article. No wonder people put this shit on in the background just for noise.

>>714122651
??? weirdo

>>714122736
Yeah, but I timestamped the part where he praises the camera system of the original and makes a point about camera systems in general that's in stark contrast with what Matthew is saying.

>>714122583
Yeah, that's probably what happened, I don't envy his position because trying to implement the changes suggested by Matthew or Joseph would need a major overhaul of the game's systems.

I just think it's funny people gran on this tweet when Ragnarok ultimately doubles down on GoW 2018 design decisions.

>>714123060
It's well recongised that JA is a morron

>>714115032
no but he accidentally said something similar that btfo higurashi fans during the april fools stream kek

>>714120629
He didn't really misunderstand anything about it, SG is just cringe and has a lot of bad weebshit tropes.

>>714114301 (OP)
to be fair, some stories are written with a clear message and ignoring that message to suppliment your own is missing the point
its okay if you simply didn't 'get it' or can interpret a message in addition to the primary message, but I find that people tend to take 'death of the author' too far, which I feel should only be applied in the case of deliberate ambiguity in the writing

>>714123151
oh i didnt watch to the end i thought you were just shilling some unrelated garbage

>>714114301 (OP)
then it means, like most art, it's interpretive.
it's not a bad thing.
the true art is enjoying something in your own way.

>>714123248
that's true but i don't think being obtuse and open ended is a bad way of storytelling either
even if you don't "get" silent hill 2 there are pretty specific themes that are clearly telegraphed, to say it's "about anything" is silly

>>714120636
It's because he simps so hard for Kamiya even when it doesn't make sense. I mostly like his analysis of stuff but that is a huge and strange bias of his.

>>714115634
I'm getting trolled

>>714120629
He understood it fine, he just recognised how boring and stupid it was.

So Feeble King is /ourguy/ right?

>>714120758
Is Steins;Gate really a character driven narrative though?

>>714123107

for what's worth, it made me respect corey balrog a lot. at least it shows that he's more interested in improving than in opinions that just praise his job.

and well, i think matt worded his points in a very careful, respectful way, even calling the devs talented at some point, so that makes it easier for anyone to actually listen.

>>714120629
Kind of hard to take seriously at times even though it had rizz

>>714120629
Is this even a game?

>>714114301 (OP)
this is the same dipshit that said SOMA isn't a horror game because it didn't scare him, right?

>>714115634
>truly have any meaning
That hit hard...

>>714124193
visual novels aren't games

>>714123329
fair enough. It's a literal who guy but I find it funny cause he consinstently shows JA on screen whenver using the word moron in any of his videos

that being said aside from SH2, JA is not that bad

>>714124193
Yes, It's even arguably the best one in its genre.

>>714120758
The characters are VERY deep like 'standard trap that is 100% like every single other trap every written'

>>714114474
>games were built with camera systems that didn't require constant babysitting
AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
>jump somewhere
>camera is stuck in geometry
>camera is stuck in a way that you can't see where you're going
>camera is stuck in your character
>camera is stuck in your enemy
the only way you can say this retarded shit with confidence if the only old games you've played are fucking RE and SH.
mattewphimosis is a retard.

>>714124554
It only started to become a problem with 3D games, so he's right.

>>714124352
>hat being said aside from SH2, JA is not that bad
Didn't he have a take on horror games along the lines of "horror games are bad because they don't scare me" or something?
>>714124554
That doesn't happen in God Hand, Wonderful 101, or Super Mario Galaxy though? Sounds like a skill issue.

>>714120629
because it's boring dogshit and just like trannyneck-o it takes ages to get to the point.

>>714124551
The S;G cast overall is one of the better ones in anime/visual novels. You'd have to simplify them to an insane degree to come up with dumb snarky lines like that.

>>714124753
I don't think he presented that opinion as a critique of horror games, just stating that horror games tend not to scare him, because there are no real consequences to failure.

>>714124761
Yeah, no. Don't lump in SG with joke vns like Umishitko.

>>714123190
he's definitely playing Higurashi after Umineko, right?

>>714124668
he is talking about 3d game though

>>714124753
>Before the rise of the right analog stick
>Before the rise of the right analog stick
>Before the rise of the right analog stick
>Before the rise of the right analog stick
>God Hand, Wonderful 101, or Super Mario Galaxy
are you mentally handicapped? By the time all your examples were released developers mostly learned how to program working camera. Mostly.

>>714124753
>Didn't he have a take on horror games along the lines of "horror games are bad because they don't scare me" or something?
You are giving too much attention to such statements. People are creatinf deeply layared videos with hidden meaning and shit, stop watching dudes dronning about a game on the subsurface level for 15 hours

>>714122385
He was actually right. Masahiro Ito confirmed that the body is supposed to be in the back seat. The town was literally making him stupid.

>>714124938
Didn't he have to make the "subjectivity is implied" video because he did present it as a critique of horror games and people got mad about it?
>>714125143
I didn't watch either video, just going by what people were saying at the time on /v/.

>>714124963
I was utterly bored for the entirety of SG.

>>714124997
I hope not. While Higurashi doesn't move at a pace of ice cube melting in a freezer, it is still filled to the brim with unbearably boring chapters where nothing is happening.

I can live without 6 streams of him reading the fucking curry cookout.

>>714122797
obvious hack writer that can't cut it as an author preys on infinitely more easily impressed media for manchildren

>>714122797
>his pedantry gets mistaken for insight by morons
exactly it, hes the mauler of game reviewers

>>714125327
>he did present it as a critique
what is a critique if not a subjective opinion?

>>714124997
Don't think so, he would not go into it blind because he saw some scenes when his gf was reading it. Maybe his community will get him to do it though idk.

>>714125070
Before the rise of the right analog stick most games were 2D, and of the ones that were 3D (and not first-person) a lot had fixed cameras.
But fair enough, I don't know enough about old games to state authoritatively so I'll chalk it up to Matthew having rose-tinted glasses or knowing something we don't.

>>714114301 (OP)
remind me was this the retard who had some really shitty books out on the side. like ernest cline level prose with worse editing. i feel like i vaguely remember this
>>714115032
i hope this guy likes umineko if only because it'll make umineko fans look really gay

>>714125536
An objective critique based on facts?
Saying "horror games aren't scary" and "I don't find horror games scary" are both critiques; but one is a statement of fact and the other is a subjective opinion.

>>714123248
People deliberately misunderstand "Death of the Author" because they're anti-intellectuals.
>What it means
A work can have meaning beyond what the author intended, and the author's assertion doesn't make those interpretations of the work invalid if it's textually supported
>What retards think it means
I can interpret a work in any way I want and it's all equally valid

>>714125917
>objective critique
lol
lmao

>>714126082
every review is subjective is a cope.

>>714126147
>my opinions are objective because, uhhh, THEY JUST ARE OKAY

>>714126147
manchild alert

>>714126223
its not an opinion. its a critique

>>714125917
His point in the "Subjectivity is Implied" video is that sentences like "Horror games aren't scary" can't be objective (in his opinion). So when he says stuff like that, subjectivity should be implied.

You may disagree overall and think that sentence is objective and that subjectivity isn't always implied. But for the purposes of his critiques, you should watch knowing that he makes these kind of statements subjectively, so even if you disagree, you at least know his stance on the matter.

>>714114301 (OP)
>>If a story can mean anything, then it means nothing
post-modernism nonsense

>>714125727
Play tomb rider 1 or 2 or early 3d PS platformers.
Before we figured out the camera movement the only way to control said camera was dedicated button that snapped it into default position behind your character (that it unless a particular part of the level allowed that, because early 3rd person games used both fixed and free camera perspectives.)
There is merit in his words that yes, not fiddling with camera is something that's rare in modern games, but pre-ps2 3rd person games with free camera were a pain for the most part.
One of the reason why people love mario 64 is the fact that nintendo managed to program an extremely good camera in the age when cameras were shit.

>>714126147
If this is what you genuinely believe, you are retarded.
That's some objective criticism.

>>714114301 (OP)
>the town is making him stupid
I'd reckon this one is truly earth shattering

>>714125727
I recall early full 3D games would assign camera rotation to shoulder buttons or would have some kind of stationary free look mode on a toggle.

>>714126147
you are, objectively, measurably retarded.

>>714126440
>>714126343
>>714126257
not an argument. cope.

>>714126493
have fun objectively proving an opinion can be objective

>>714126295
That's fair. I personally wouldn't pass an opinion as a factual statement (at the very least I would try my best not to) if I was making that kind of content, but he's free to do as he wishes.
He can't really blame his audience or viewers for criticizing him for it though, unless they've seen the "subjectivity is implied" video, understand his stance, and are still doing it on purpose to fuck with him.

One thing I don't really understand is why video game critics are such normalfaggots.
If you try to talk to a film critic, they'll probably know about the history of cinema in countries you don't even know exist. A literary critic will know the history of several generations of every famous author and their influences, education, philosophy. A music critic will have more albums by bands you've never heard of than by well-known bands. But then you get to video games, and they're the biggest normalfags, sons of bitches who know nothing but the mainstream and are incapable of playing anything properly that isn't easy as fuck.

>>714122287
Honestly I think he just didn’t find it that interesting but then did mental gymnastics to put the blame on the story being faulty instead of just being honest and saying it wasn’t interesting to him.

>>714126314
The main issue with adjustable cameras is designers pushes them too close for immersion, jankyness and clipping be damned.

>>714126775
I won't lie that the wording on the SOMA video was a bit contentious. I do think he has gotten better at wording his opinions over time, so these kind of comments are less frequent, and if one of these opop up, he can refer them to the video in question.

>>714126295
>His point in the "Subjectivity is Implied" video is that he's putting up a shield whenever someone rightfully calls him out on his bullshit even though he always presents his arguments as objective and correct*
FTFY

>>714126663
if the opinion is based on fact, its objective you mentally retared moron

>>714127258
That’s not how it works buddy. Only the fact itself is objective, not your fucking opinion on it lmao.

>>714127135
I just don't think that's the case anon.

>>714126861
I am struggling to put this into words but most video game criticism is basically a product being sold rather than an honest analysis of the material, most gamers are extremely anti-intellectual and that's the audience the product is being sold to so the quality of the criticism reflects that.

>>714114474
I don't consider playing a game "babysitting". Not every game can just be played from a bird eye view on flat circular arenas.

>>714127258
>>714127319
I think this argument conflating critique with review with opinion isn't doing anyone any favors.
Opinions are subjective, but a critique/review can be objective, like if a bridge is too heavy to support itself or a building is too tall and won't be able to stand against heavy winds or a small earthquake.

>>714114474
Matt's camera autism is the only thing I deeply disagree with him on.
I hate 3D games with fixed camera, it goes against the idea of 3D. I couldn't stand the camera in W101, I was annoyed by the camera in SM3DW.
I agree with him that the lock on in souls games suck ass. But I love that I have full control of the camera whenever I can, and I think every 3D should give played full control of the camera all of the time.

>>714124997
he won't. he's unironically too xenophobic and arrogant

>the town made him stupid
has a single line ever shattered an entire career like that one has?

>>714127610
True but what kind of meaningful critique like that could you apply to a game? You could only talk about measurable things like framerate and input lag, and even then how bad those things are is subjective.

>>714120629
>game
Come on anon

>>714126861
Because most video game consoomers don't care about art, it's more about the entertainment value they get out of their toys.
I personally think it is fine to just approach video games as fun toys, but it becomes obvious that these people have never thought about anything critically when they actually pretend to be critics.
I have a level of respect for Matthew because he seems to put effort into playing and thinking about a LOT of games and also engages with films and books in an attempt to expand his understanding of video games as an artform.
But, most people are just not willing to do that, so you get 3 hour long ''analysis'' videos that are effectively just recapping the story and paraphrasing Wikipedia.

>>714127610
A bridge has a clear and well defined purpose, video games don't. Even if you say that it's to be fun or whatever, that still is totally subjective. You can refer to objective facts about the game to try to explain how you feel about it, but there's no absolute "correct" opinion.

>>714120629
Steins;Gate wasn't enjoyable to play through at all. The protagonist especially was terribly stupid.

Did this dude’s wife really try to kill him?
I read that somewhere but it sounded too crazy to be true.

>>714126861
Videogames are too unique and new of a medium for any of things mentioned.
There is no in depth history past 2 decades, games takes too long to make so no one guy can make a filmography equivalent, and influences are easy to trace.
The criteria to filter normalfags is simply to ask do they want to talk about a game or talk about what they feel from a game/ reading a wiki

>>714120321
>>714122310
It's funny because Matt and Joe had a similar opinion on the game, but came out with completely different takes.
>Both said that GoW 2018 was a jack of all trades master of none.
>Matt's main point was how games should focus on one aspect and perfect it instead of trying everything and getting stretched too thin, where nothing is good enough.
>Anderson said that the game was better than the sum of all it's parts and that no other game had ever been able to balance so many ideas and mechanics as well as GoW 2018

Personally I hated the game and agree with based Matt.

>>714127997
I guess I should say that you CAN (sort of) objectively address if a game lives up to the intentions of the designers, which is maybe the most you could expect for an "objective" critique. Still doesn't say if it's good or not, and sometimes players like or dislike games for reasons irrelevant to the intentions behidn them.

>>714128214
No they just amicably broke up
He still gets access to the kids whenever he wants, no weekend only shit
His new gf is fucking crazy tho

Test

I watched his danganronpa streams and he came across as kind of an elitist. made me lose interest in watching

So because he got divorceraped he couldnt publish that shitty Witcher vid and the thing he did is just a snippit ? (i didnt watch it cause i want to see the whole thing that will never come)

>>714127951
>>714127997
Simple stuff, like you said there are measurable things like framerate and input lag but mostly statements that put the onus on the reader.
>This game is $70 but only 3 hours long and so if you're someone who values their time per dollar ratio you should keep that in mind.
Other things that could fall under objective statements are diversity of content, features, mechanics.

Also I'm not saying reviews/critiques have to or should be entirely objective, I'm just saying they could be.
A critique that is entirely objective probably wouldn't be very interesting or as useful as one from someone whose tastes align with your own.

>>714128378
Not that anon, but I would say that it's kinda subjective because the degree in which the game achieves "what the developer set out to do" can be a bit abstract. I think it's an useful tool for sure but we shouldn't be beholden to developers intentions all the time.

I like to think it like this: it should be used as a descriptive tool, not a prescriptive one.

>>714115217
>copies sold
Who the fuck cares? Tell me about why Wonderful 101s camera doesn't work and why Spikeouts does.

>>714114474
Why the fuck would anyone want less control of their character? This guy is a dumbass

>>714128954
The camera is the least of W101's problems. Spikeout has a much more impressive one though, since it's not just a single angle and moves around.

>>714128976
>less control of their character
The camera is not the character though. Bastion, Transistor and Hades are not bad games because you can't control the camera.

I was compelled to be contrarian because this is /v/ and it brainwashes. But, hes actually right. And the only person ive seen in a long time brave enough and not NPC enough to say so.
Its unfortunate that his community is so cringe and his girlfriend is literally retarded or else id still watch his streams.

He has part 2 of his witcher 3 video left to redeem himself.

>>714120321
>Santa Monica acknowledges and agrees with Matt on various issues including the camera and pacing issues
>proceed to fix none of them in the sequel

lmfao

>>714129160
There is not a single story in human history that "can mean anything"

>>714126861
Matt covers this a bit in his Meta Microvideos video:

>"Game criticism is beginning to face an insurmountable problem: a person born in 2020 stands no chance of being able to play all of the titles we currently consider classics, by the time they're old enough to become a critic. We could go as far back as space war, for a thorough understanding of gaming history, but even starting with space invaders you're looking at over 40 years of releases."
>"By comparison film critics have it easy, they have a longer history to explore, but even the three-hour runtime of Amadeus is short compared to an average game, not to mention that a film is the same every time whereas part of fully experiencing a game is seeing how it might diverge on subsequent playthroughs. Thanks to an abundance of lengthy rpgs and a proliferation of rpg mechanics into non-rpgs the average completion time across single-player releases maybe stretches past a 20-hour mark right now. An average working week in a developed country is about 40 to 50 hours, that's enough time to watch roughly 20 movies if you set your mind to it, or alternatively you could get less than halfway through an rpg, and keep in mind that's just a single play through."
>"This job is time consuming, especially if you want to do it well. As of now I have over a hundred hours in dust force, with a couple of levels left unfinished. I spent months producing three hour commentaries the devil may cry and viewtiful joe while learning new things about them right away to the end. It took me over 200 hours just to play breath of the wild enough to do a review, and the legend of zelda series has nearly 20 mainline installments by now."
>"Even though I've done almost nothing but play games since I could hold a controller, I've had a lot of difficulty keeping up..."

>>714129350
fuck that niqqa mayne! idgaf about nuthin but white chixx bouncing on a niqqa diq mayne

>>714114963
You're a fucking moron. Do you actually think you just typed meaningless gibberish, and that you're a lunatic drooling onto the keyboard?

>>714129350
I don't expect somebody to have played every video game in existence but game reviewers frequently demonstrate that they don't even understand storytelling conventions.

I really don't get what the hell westoids like him and his new gf have against "loli" characters or even just anime aesthetics in general.
Speaking as a third worlder, I really don't understand why western sensibilities still seem so stuck in high school

>>714129350
Realistically, you don't need to play every zelda game. Everything the original does, AlttP does better. Everything Ocarina does, twilight princess does better. There is a critical path of straight up upgrades for games that will give you a crash course on a franchise. Gameplay experience might be different but someone trying to catch up with a story will see the same cutscene as every other person that played the game.

>>714128352
>Criticizes GoW for stretching itself too thin
>His favorite video game is the Wonderful 101, a game that can't go more than 10 minutes without interrupting your gameplay with some new incredibly dogshit minigame that feels like it was put together in 30 minutes
MatthewMatosis is an autistic pseud and it's crazy how many retards on this board parrot some YouTuber's opinions and don't have any of their own.

>>714130020
>I really don't understand why western sensibilities still seem so stuck in high school
you just answered your own question. they hate anime because they're emotionally 13 years old. The only people who think anime is embarrassing and for little kids is ironically actual children

>>714130020
A lot of western people have a moral superiority complex that they project onto absolutely facet of life.

>>714129292
finnegans wake

>>714130097
>Realistically, you don't need to play every zelda game.
>Everything the original does, AlttP does better.
The original and AlttP are very different games and your comment makes me think you have never played the original. Which goes to show that you should play both.

>Everything Ocarina does, twilight princess does better.
Better is debatable, but TP does feel like a rethread of OoT with pointless dog shit added in.
However how could you judge Tp properly if you had never played OoT before?

>>714130154
Don't forget the nonstop onslaught of cutscenes every few minutes in Kamiya games.

>>714130294
>t. Ogre

>>714129350
This opinion is completely autistic.
Try applying this same line of thinking to literary criticism and you'll see how childish his opinion is.

>>714129350
Video game are very derivative. Play one Zelda and you've played them all. This is especially true for JRPGs. Not to mention that playing the full 50 hours of a game is rarely necessary to figure out what's interesting or unique about it. Familiarize yourself with the classics that spawned influential series or entire genres and don't bother with every single minor iteration.

>>714130020
Animu and it's aesthetics have always been the ultimate normie filter.
E33 is the single greatest example of this in history, make a good jrpg, add a coat of ue5 realism slop artstyle and bam, more success than the same game with animu aesthetics.

I'm glad I am old enough to have entered anime during the golden era of akira, og gits, wicked city, cyber city oedo etc

It's understandable that normal fags are filtered by anime since the last decent anime was samurai champloo

>>714130342
Thanks for the reminder that I need to actually take Ulysses off my shelf at some point

>>714130020
Loli artists and fans are pedophiles.
A father of little girls like Joe can tell how gross and pedophilic loli shit is.

>>714114474
How bas this faggot not killed himself yet?

>>714115634
Those are bad hermeneutics, the universe having universal laws does point towards an inherent order.

>the worst part of BioShock Infinite is that the game never gave me the chance to gun down potato niggers by the dozen

jesus matthew

>>714130484
hi mouse

>>714130020
He has children himself, I think it makes sense he is put off by loli stuff.

>>714124753
The camera in Galaxy made me hate the game.

>>714124245
it sure is

Watching these youtubers is a massive red flag of being an NPC.
Why do you need someone else to make an opinion for you?

>>714130426
The problem with anime isn't the aesthetics but the "humor" (see "japanese humor.webm").
Normies can tolerate anime visuals, but they start to drop it once the screams, cringe humor, and blatant sexual harassment starts happening.
Only people that have gotten used to that shit can tolerate it and easily ignore those awful parts.

>>714130660
Hello pedo

>>714125521
Mauler isn't (or wasn't, dunno about his current circlejerks) necessarily liked for his pseud reviews, he was liked for being a "contrarian" with enough tism to present a shopping list of arguments on why (X) sucks

>>714130904
>Josh-posting on /v/

Joe is still tolerable even if he's a huge normalfag and can be a huge retard since he's upfront about his opinions and lays out his reasonings for why he reaches his subjective positions.
His chat and his discord faggot groupies (who are lurking ITT right now) are the worst most annoying motherfuckers on the internet however.
They're every stereotype about annoying progressive redditards crossed with the annoying pedantic cinemasins sort of wannabe media criticism; they're like worse facsimiles of Joe: even more retarded, even more annoying, and not even able to explain themselves; only interested in simping for and emulating him

>>714130648
It was so funny watching resetera lose their shit over that video and making him a persona non grata.

>>714130904
What does Hololive have to do with what a private contractor does

>>714130323
I can see OG zelda and OoT and then play AlttP and TP and say
>Ah this looks better
And move on

>>714131125
You are quite the golem if that's your actual takeaway.

>>714131125
>looks better
there is more to a game than looks brainlet-kun

>>714131125
I just imagined Roger Ebert watching a trailer to Citizen Kane and going
>Black and white? Looks bad
and moving on.
Now I can't stop laughing

>>714131232
Yes but I can play the more complex gameplay and pretend it's an evolution from footage of the older games. The point is I don't need to play ping pong with Ganondorf to understand how the games went from OoT to TP, I never played Skyward Sword and I still understood where the stamina bar in BotW came from.

>>714131313
It's not about quality you fucking retard and if you scroll up you can see it's about the very specific case of videogames that take 10+ hours to complete instead of a movie
Retard

>>714131409
Zelda 1 is not a 10 hour game.

>>714114474
>being able to look around is a chore

>>714130426
>golden era
>akira

>>714131459
Kill yourself

>>714131409
>>714131459
It doesn't even matter how long it is or isn't, a review that takes past games in the series into account for comparison or at the least context is always going to be more complete than one that doesn't

joms

>>714124193
in the same way a 'choose your own adventure' book is a game

>>714131528
>implying it's not
>implying it's not the best looking animu of all time

>>714116728
Just use a mouse.

>>714131534
You can understand how a game plays by looking at trailers, right? Why wouldn't that apply to walkthrough videos or let's plays?
I'll never play Dinosaur Planet but it looked like Ocarina of Time or Soul Reaver if Raziel was holding a spear.
I haven't played every generic third person shooter from the PS3 era but I know how it'd play because I played one generic TPS once.
Unless it's a special snowflake gameplay mechanic you don't need to play a game to know how it plays.

>>714131679
Holy secondary cope.

>>714131679
>you don't need to play a game to know how it plays.
lol, lmao

>>714131679
lmao the absolute state of this post. Playing a game is literall the only way to know how it plays. Does the fucking steering in Big Rigs feels as tight as Gran Turismo?

>>714131528
it did come out in the same period as the ova boom so he's not completely wrong

>>714131659
>best animated
maybe
>best looking
fuck no

>>714131679
Kill yourself.

When is The Witcher 3 part 2 coming out?

>>714132305
Kissing those two

>>714131869
What looks better then?

>>714132951
The Beginning After the End

>>714130904
This guy is such a whiny bitch, god I hate kiwisharts. Failed normalfag galore

>>714114301 (OP)
It pissed me off when he said in one of his recent videos that he takes a long time to post new content because he values quality over quantity... THAT'S NOT TRUE YOU FUCKING CUNT, YOU TAKE AGES TO MAKE VIDEOS BECAUSE YOU SPEND HOURS STREAMING SHITTY GAMES ON TWITCH. I can't really blame him for it though, I'm sure streaming is a lot more profitable and doesn't actually require any effort

>>714130648
What I learned is that you can't get canceled if you don't even acknowledge the people canceling you.
Like the best defense is to not even assume a defensive position in the first place.

>>714120321
then they listened to dsp instead
dspGOD always wins

>>714125224
>retards still can't spot incredibly obvious tells
>99% of /v/ still doesn't understand James' psyche

>>714130426
>Animu and it's aesthetics have always been the ultimate normie filter.
Not really, it's just that most of them aren't very high effort.
A majority of anime are very flat and don't really utilize the medium much at all, and don't even have the baseline hook of quality animation in regards to TV anime.
>E33 is the single greatest example of this in history, make a good jrpg, add a coat of ue5 realism slop artstyle and bam, more success than the same game with animu aesthetics.
Final Fantasy 8, the game it is most an evolution of, also sold a lot. The issue is most JRPGs aren't appealing.
There hasn't been a good Final Fantasy game in 25 years, and a generally appealing one hasn't been released in about 20.
Dragon Quest was never appealing outside Japan.
SMT is actually doing better than it ever has, in reverse correlation to its quality.
Persona since 3 (really 4) has always been lowest common denominator shit.
And then you have stragglers like Hundred Line or whatever which again, just aren't generally appealing.
>I'm glad I am old enough to have entered anime during the golden era of akira, og gits, wicked city, cyber city oedo etc
You watched a bunch of normalfag shit that aired on the scifi channel.
>It's understandable that normal fags are filtered by anime since the last decent anime was samurai champloo
Your only experience after the syfy channel was Adult Swim.

Brat

>>714130020
It's pointless to have a conversation about morality and lolis when Kanna Dragon Maid and Rebecca Edgerunners are both put in the same camp, clearly lots of people have very different perspectives about it.

>>714134869
>very different perspectives about it
And some of them are wrong.

>>714134323
It's honestly too obvious. Especially on repeat playthroughs. It's like James is winking to the camera the whole time.

>>714114474
>>714114301 (OP)
It's kind of surreal how lazy these fucks are. They could be FARMING videos. I can't even think of anyone with a worth release video.

How late is anderson's witcher video? 3? 5? years

>>714135267
They wouldn't be so liked if they shat out videos. Their whole thing is quality over quality (or the illusion of such).

>>714134750
I borrowed them on vhs zoomie
This is where you ask grok what "vhs" is
Your maid Cafe pantsu bullshit is not real animu

>>714135267
Matthew is making a videogame
JA is farming twitch
Videos just aren't worthwhile unless it's politics/drama in today's youtube

>>714114474
>said the TotK/EoW item menu is good, actually
lmao

>>714135456
Ok i didn't know either of these.

>>714135398
if you can't put out a decent quality video once per week you need to pack it up

>>714135525
Nigga you don't understand how fuckin slow the editing process is.

>>714135525
>if you can't put out a decent quality video once per week you need to pack it up
Who are you, the YouTube police?

>>714135484
I'm not sure what his exact wording was, but I believe it was something along the lines of having players consider different options by making them scroll through items rather than pick whichever one they want from a grid.
I don't believe he said it was objectively good, just that it was good at fulfilling the developer's intent.

>>714135443
>I borrowed them on vhs zoomie
If you were borrowing Samurai Champloo on VHS, I'd really want to know what fucking third world shithole you were living in, since everyone just rented the DVDs or watched it on Adult Swim if you were going legit.
>Your maid Cafe pantsu bullshit is not real animu
Actually, that is the realest anime can get. Anime exists to create merch and advertise. The foundations of anime lie in Astro Boy using a lack of animation to highlight poses and create cheap stickers to sell for a couple yen.

>>714135687
Everything but samurai champloo on vhs faggot, that was DVD era
>soulless slop is real animu
Sasuga

>>714135991
Yeah, which is why I highlighted Champloo retard, since you lumped that in.
Anyways, you're still a normalfaggot.
>>soulless slop is real animu
>Sasuga
That "soulless slop" is the very foundations of the medium.
Astro Boy, Tetsujin-28, Cyborg 009, Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, Ace wo Nerae, Minky Momo, Gundam, Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump, Urusei Yatsura, Ranma, Maison Ikkoku, and so on and so on and so on.

Can you even define how the anime you watched were somehow not "slop"? Did you recognize a degree of artistry in them that wasn't you, as a child (or more likely, a fetus) gawking at the screen and going "Woah... cool animation..." all while listening to a butchered dub of the proceedings with new music slotted overtop?
You're not some avoider of slop or whatever. You watched the most popular shit that got imported to America and think you're somehow better because you stopped watching when they stopped broadcasting anime on American TV.

>>714136378
>You watched the most popular shit that got imported to America and think you're better
This but unironically
The most popular shit in the late 80's/early 90's was better than the kiddie toy slop you listed
Stay mad

>start streaming Umineko
>enjoying the content because his weebshit is the most fun
>bring on retarded new egirlfriend after divorcing wife
>she does absolutely insanely cringe inducing laughter when reading lines
https://youtu.be/9zMkCC9nGm4?si=_O1L9QLJigNkwDLn&t=8596
Seriously this shit cuts into my bones like a rusty knife. It's so fucking grim

>>714137050
>The most popular shit in the
Those weren't the most popular anime is the thing retard.
My point, which I guess you missed, is that they were the most popular shit in AMERICA. Just a selection of stuff that'd be easy to dub over using D-Rate actors and toss on VHS for $20.

>>714137085
yeah she's awful
joe is a retard but at least he can be entertaining while being so
she's just unfunny and cringe and she recently brought up le fascism in a recent stream

>>714137451
>she recently brought up le fascism in a recent stream
Oh she's one of those? Doesn't surprise me I guess.
>joe is a retard but at least he can be entertaining while being so
Indeed, that's why I like his weebshit content. There's plenty to actually laugh at. It's less entertaining when he tries to break great games like Outer Wilds and such

>>714137085
OOOOOHHHH EVA

how did this thread end up being two losers arguing about weeb shit

>>714118072
>soon
— She has a stump of an imagination. Not that she lacks it completely, you know? She's not talentless. That's what stings the worst. The inquisition only takes the talented. They look for children with potential, and then teach them... to look for openings.
— Look for openings?
— You can't be a creator and a critic at the same time. To create greatness, you must ignore the minutiae. Work in wide strokes. But... inquisitors eat into everything, like vinegar, lingering on every detail. They find a blemish, a flaw, then claw at it until you're finished.

>>714125952
Biggest problem with how retards use Death of the Author is when they include it in their critiques or reviews. They fail to understand that its applied to the experience gained, rather than the work itself and what it can offer.

What's with the uptick in all the e-gossip about the dragonman? Do I just browse the board at an unfortunate hour?

>>714137085
>woman ruins good thing
Tale as old as tiiiiiimeeee

>>714137449
>>714137449
I'm well aware it wasn't as popular as kiddie merch bullshit
I give 0 fucks what was popular where, I'm not even American.
It wasn't the ease of the dub that got it imported but the fact that based madman (in my country) recognised the quality and uniqueness of the releases of that era which hadn't been seen before or since
There's a reason why James Cameron rates Alita so highly or Spielberg gushing of cagliostro.
Also, Akira's og eng dub is fucking soul, you dunce

>>714127769
>I hate 3D games with fixed camera, it goes against the idea of 3D.
No it doesn't.

>>714138232
>I'm not even American.
Admitting to being some mystery meat from the forbidden zone isn't doing you any favors.
>It wasn't the ease of the dub that got it imported but the fact that based madman (in my country) recognised the quality and uniqueness of the releases of that era which hadn't been seen before or since
No it mostly came down to the following criteria
>Amount of dialogue (the less there is, the better)
>Is there any licensed music?
>Can this be censored enough to air on TV?
That was it.
>There's a reason why James Cameron rates Alita so highly or Spielberg gushing of cagliostro.
Neither of those are works you mentioned, and Cagliostro is a work you indirectly shit on. Lupin is definitionally "kiddie merch bullshit", ESPECIALLY Lupin from Cagliostro to Part 3.
>Also, Akira's og eng dub is fucking soul, you dunce
And this wraps around to my prior point, you keep going on about what is and isn't slop, but you don't view these works artistically. What you have said has boiled down to "uhhh... they're unique... and the smart movie man liked these other things... and SOUL", but you have no earthly idea of what is going on in any of these things. You are an innately incurious person who has likely never read a book much less considered any media beyond mundane ideas like if you got an erection or if the animation is flashy enough to distract you from said erection. You're a living caveman.

>>714137687
well to be fair it was the kinzo flashback stuff with the italians and all, but it's eyerolling how performative she is.
apparently she was "silently seething" at that other dude they stream umineko with saying that the ushiromiya crest tattoo on one of the fanart piece made for them looked good on her avatar; because it was le fascist symbol or whatever.
I thought, how the fuck do these people even live

>>714138554
Holy shit you're mad
Last (you)

>>714138876
>you're mad
And you lost.

>>714128647
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmnPTk8QBbo
This pseud is genuinely too dumb for DanganRonpa

What do you guys think of his Zero Escape streams?
I found his kneejerk reactions and laughing at everything the characters said to be kind of annoying. Like he clearly was just taking the most reductive stance on what was happening in the game just to fill space in the stream. Never giving the game the benefit of the doubt, and never letting anything sink in

>>714139636
expecting him to treat any vidya story seriously is waste of time

>>714138137
Every fucking time, bro. It’s like clockwork. Dudes find something niche and good, some girl with terminal Twitter Brain worms her way in, and suddenly it’s all “problematic themes” and fake laughs louder than a dying CRT monitor. Let me enjoy my autistic seagull murder mystery VN in peace without it turning into a sociology lecture.

>>714139636
On the one hand he's a big, smug pseud. On the other hand Zero Escape kind of destroyed its own legacy and it's hard to get invested knowing that the third game completely shits all over everything (I didn't actually like VLR that much but I know that's a minority opinion)

>>714137085
isn't she just imitating the character in the vn?

Why are you gay so fucking obsessed with youtube men. Every 5 minutes it's
>youtube man did this youtube man did that
Fucking hell.

>>714140359
She is, but it's very grating to listen to regardless
>>714138709
People like that are fucking insufferable

>>714141029
Why is anon so obsessed with me and what I'm doing? He's made like 3 different posts ITT alone about my 4chan posting habits...

>>714137085
>NOOOOOOOOOOO ECELEB MAN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Kill yourself

anderson might have some of the worst confirmation bias I've ever seen
he'll make a theory/prediction and if it isn't true, he gets butthurt
if it is true he kinda groans about how the game is too predictable
if you ever want to suffer, watch the ace attorney stream compilations

>>714114301 (OP)
>wife took all his kids in the divorce
>is wrapped around the finger of a former discord kitten who makes him dance like a monkey for her entertainment
lol
lmao

>>714141696
He seemed to have fun in ace attorney thoughbeit

>>714130020
fear the japanese

>>714141842
>wife took all his kids in the divorce
he sees his kids daily

>>714115634
to continue to live is not absurdist at all, you can see the absurdity of the universe but humans and animals in general have very tangible biological programmings that control our preferences, emotions, wants, goals, staes of being, etc.

As such, a human will always see meaning in things that speak to this state or feeling of humanity, it is almost impossible to be fully nihilist, even when your brain tries to logic itself into "nothing matters" for hours, at some point you are gonna think "damn but fucking a pussy and cumming would feel pretty nice though".

>>714130154
>>714114474
Matt is insanely autistic indeed, I get the apprecfiation for not having to control the camera but if every game had to use a camera that's 200 kilometers away from the main character like W101 does I would kill myself, I like where the camera is in Mario 64 and GTA and Dark Souls and literally any firs tperson game ever thank you.

>>714115634
You are a soulless golem that sucks dog dick if you think that you have any claim over the inherent properties of anything. Put that tranch coat down and take the reddit out of your ass.

>>714121765
I doubt Mouse browses 4chan lol, definitely browses reddit and discord though, she's a cis woman with an insane obsession about blocking bigots who misgender people so she would not even be able to stomach coming here in the first place.

Why do people do this anyway? I get being progressive, gay people and trans people are cool in my book, my best friend is trans, but it's so cringe when people take it upon themselves to be "the LGBT community's strongest warrior" even though they're not even gay.

>>714117346
This is not what death of the author really means.
But either way you are just articulating a crude demand for a signaling theory that would account author and memetic ecosystems on a mass scale with proper measurement.
Maybe Ai will produce it eventually. I predict 15-20 years down the line.

>>714122830
>>714122287
Idk about SH2 but this is probably a retarded take, still, I can forgive it cause this was years ago and he's released newer content now that I like much more.

Joe definitely has defensiveness autism, if someone shows signs of hostility or "no you're wrong" that put him in any kind of pressure he seems to not know how to handle it all, and he's not very skilled at conflict resolution, wether he's right or wrong.

>>714121308
Ofc he does
He is a redditor that lives like a pig in front of his feed
So this is the pacing he knows and demands
Even consuming umineko he does with a chat feed to pacify his hysterical woman mind of anxiety and bloated mediocre white boy arrogance

>>714126147
you can say objective facts in reviews but at the end of the day someone's preference or lack thereof for a game will always depend on the particular tastes of that person.

Some people can ignore flaws in games that other people find to be dealbreakers, while other people love certain virtues that may not be as impressive to others, surely you must have noticed this.

So are we still calling him Hamsterson or something new?

>>714143005
Punished Hamter.

>>714126295
>>714127135
Joe's autistic as fuck, there's definitely situations where subjectivity is clearly implied and cases in which it's helpful to clarify subjectivity to make things clearer, but Joe chooses the lane of "it's a youtube video of mine, so of course it's all my opinion", in contrast, many people view youtube reviews and videos as if they were fucking philosophers making objective statements about reality so they get insanely butthurt by someone saying "Horror games aren't scary" because they may think that person is being an annoying fag bragging about not being scared of jumpscares and using it to make some kind of objective point.

Truth is, that when someone ina review says "this game is boring" everyone knows that it is a subjective statement, but saying "horror games aren't scary" without an "in my experience" at the end sounds like you're putting down people who may get anxious or scared of horror games, or appreciate the horror themes, and you're trying to make a statement about a whole genre, so just to be safe, a clarification there could have helped.

>>714131005
Well but they are the fruit of his tree
This is an honest signal

>>714114301 (OP)
This guy is autistic, isn't he?

>>714131005
Joe needs to get some backbone and actually start having some edge and getting rid of annoying mfers cause as of now he seems almost scared to say things sometimes out of being afraid of offending people

>>714130020
Most of the replies to this make me sick

>>714142597
either virtue signalling or the specific brand of NA slave mentality white remorse

>>714143232
Everyone in and mentioned in this thread is on the spectrum.

>>714142735
Lately he just strawmans anything like that as ramblings of weebs or losers.

>>714138709
Not having integrity turns every person into the same shape moralism golem
The universalism of bug men
If women gain more control over society we will unironically become humanoid bug colonies
Equality and empathy are the software of this parasitic evolutionary reproduction strategy
Cursed femoids and their recruited bug men

>>714139636
Nigga you really gonna be taking ZTD and Wikipedia girl Akane seriously? The Zero Escape games have good elements but they are also very goofy let's not kid ourselves.

>>714115980
>starts developing a game just to avoid pressing submit on an already finished video
>such a fucking pussy he has to make it an aprils fool so he can claim its a joke if it sucks

>>714130619
>does point towards an inherent order
Nothing points to nothing, you disingenuous nigger

Still surprised Joe liked 13 Sentinels as much as he did

>>714139636
It's Japanese anime-tier games that are mostly bad but has their moments (except ZTD which is just full retard), so it was entertaining. Writing in games like these is generally not good, so it's fun to laugh at.

Reminder that Joe was considered a lolcow until he became irrelevant: https://youtu.be/0lhy9QnBHmo

>>714144115
He has definitely never been considered a lolcow. At worst someone with shit game tastes.

Reminder that he got spoiled on most of the core mystery (including the identity of the culprit) at the beginning of EP4, mostly through chat but he also had the wiki open for a few seconds during a pre-stream, the clip got posted everywhere for a day until it got deleted.

>>714144321
>the clip got posted everywhere for a day until it got deleted
I'm curious to see if what you're saying is true

>>714144115
A lolcow needs to do a lot more than just have a couple dogshit opinions

>>714144427
I made it up

>>714144115
I almost forgot about this video. It's incredible that anyone thinks this guy is intelligent.

the
town

>>714130426
>It's understandable that normal fags are filtered by anime since the last decent anime was samurai champloo
>actually typing this during the time when anime is more popular with normalfags than ever has been before
>games with anime aesthetics are actually doing better than before too
This board makes no sense.

>>714143110
Maybe it's because the counter to "this game is boring" is "I don't think this game is boring" which is a subjective statement, while the counter to "horror games aren't scary" is "of course they are, else why would they keep being made and consumed?" which is more of a factual statement.
>>714144174
>>714144449
I remember people tearing into his shitty books a lot, definitely a lolcow in that regard at least.

So what do you think the reason is for the numerous witcher 3 video delays? He's only said that it's something serious, and that it's something that contributed to his divorce but was NOT cheating.

I'm guessing it was either a miscarriage or a dead child

>>714117597
Anderson is a full time streamer now and he gets a lot of viewers in that, he sometimes randomly starts streaming in the middle of the night because he couldn't sleep and still get 1000 average viewers

>>714144837
A lolcow is someone who can be easily baited into doing stupid shit that is fun to lol at. The entire point of the term is that they can be milked for cheap laughs.
Having shit opinions or making shit fantasy books isn't a lolcow, you dumb newfag.

>>714144837
Lolcow is chris Chan or dsp tier

>>714142597
she referenced that ancient DESUDESUDESU meme when he said desu a couple of times, she's definitely one of those mid 30s losers with troll's remorse

>>714144990
>>714145095
If this is true then why are 80% of the threads on lolcow farm about absolute nobodies

>>714145227
Because KF users have largely become more retarded as time has gone on and their standards fir lols has only gotten lower

>>714145227
because they're made by newfags such as yourself

>>714144867
she said mario odyssey was great and he punched her in the face

>>714145227
They're trying to make artificial GMO lolcows now

>>714145458
Based joe

>>714137983
This. It’s most common application on /v/ is to be a contrarian, safe from threat of actually having to engage with the content you’re shitting on. Ex.
>this game is about how X is good, but imo they did it poorly, so actually this is a game about how X is bad.

>>714145458
Basado

>>714114474
I get the point and it's true sometimes, but there's also value in being able to look around and really get a good idea of the setting that you're in.

>>714123248
>but I find that people tend to take 'death of the author' too far, which I feel should only be applied in the case of deliberate ambiguity in the writing
No, retard. Authors aren't gods, and ultimately, whatever message they want to convey is irrelevant if they conveyed something else instead.
>>714125952
>A work can have meaning beyond what the author intended, and the author's assertion doesn't make those interpretations of the work invalid if it's textually supported
Correct
>I can interpret a work in any way I want and it's all equally valid
It's up for you to debate if the interpretation is valid or not, but as you said, whatever the author said outside the work is irrelevant and not an argument.
>>714137983
Death of the Author is literally conceived as a critique of critiques, retard. Of course critiques and reviews are a part of it. If you think the author is blatantly trying to tell you something but he fails at doing it, so the work comes out sounding schizophrenic, that's a valid critique.

>>714130426
>It's understandable that normal fags are filtered by anime since the last decent anime was samurai champloo
bro, you are the normalfag

>>714114474
Bitch, we had shoulder buttons and the c buttons.

>>714120758
Steins;Gate is a character driven narrative in the sense that the story is driven by the characters' stupidity.

>>714115634
Absurdists says you make your own meaning in what truly matters to you despite it all, that's gay I'm part of the third camp I'm perfectly fine living without meaning

>>714146574
And you want to waste them on camera controls?

>>714144867
Tom is a gigantic atheist, and I think his wife turned very religious as she got older and this caused strife in the family.

>>714120629
Because its story is nonsensical drivel, like 95% of all Japanese games.

>>714147148
That would be a weird thing to have such a massive uplift of your life over (especially in the way that he always talks about "the reason" in such hushed tones) but I could kinda see it
Isnt his ex wife bipolar or something too? Maybe that has somethin to do with it

>>714147148
Based on what? I know that Lili had BPD or Bipolar for which she had to go to a psychiatrist regularly, which probably hurt their marriage, 4 children plus a major mental illness would've been difficult

>>714147445
I genuinely think him being so secretive about "the reason" is just him being overly protective of his private life.
>>714147489
>Based on what?
Pure speculation.

>>714122797
>How the fuck did this dipshit get an actual following here anyway. I can only assume that his pedantry gets mistaken for insight by morons
Watch a livestream or a replay of his streams sometime it's very obvious. Every person who thinks he has good point is a huge pseud exactly like him. They don't understand what they're seeing or experiencing in any way shape or form. Literal npcs led by a bigger npc. It's somewhat fascinating like a hive of bees led by a retarded queen.

When is his book getting a Netflix adaptation?

>>714126147
>every review is subjective is a cope.
Yes and no, there are objective parts of a review generally - graphics, camera movement, sound design and performance and subjective parts of a review - story, music, art style, mechanics (enjoyment of).
Combining said scores is a cope in some ways.

>>714128647
I enjoyed Joseph Anderson playing Danganronpa actually. I do hope he can find a way to enjoy hundred line if he ever plays that.

post the flurry rush meme

>>714148330
Still waiting on his metaphor refantazio run
I think he'll like it a lot more than purse owner

>>714114474
This is like complaining about having to turn your head or move your eyes while your walking around outside, the guy has to be autistic.

>>714114301 (OP)
>>714114474
Two biggest vidya pseuds of all time.

>>714114301 (OP)
>>>/incel/

>>714115634
>Everything in the universe is inherently meaningless.
And yet you are using human language. Dumbass

>>714130426
Exquisite bait

>>714133753
Eeryone reasonable understood that Matt didn't say nigger to offend people. He said it because treating your audience like children is stupid.
>unalived, r-word, n-word, graped, SA'd
The infantilization of culture continues.

We have to confront a hard truth that few people seem to want to face about the Souls games, but here it is: the combat is nothing remarkable.

In terms of actual complexity there's not much going on. There's not much depth, and that wouldn't be a problem, except the series has increasingly leaned on its action elements more and more as time has gone by.

If you're a staunch defender of the series this is where you might be tempted to rattle off all the attack animations your favorite weapons has... It's true that there are differences in range and damage, but the effect on the enemy is usually identical. They lose some health, possibly suffer some hitstun which either lasts long enough to get another attack in or it doesn't, in which case you go back on the defensive until your next opening. Positioning is important, but that's about the extent of it.

In terms of defensive options the series is a lot better, with the ability to block, parry, or dodge most regular attacks...Unfortunately, against bosses, parrying is often completely impossible and blocking is often ill-advised, which leaves you with rolling as your one and only defensive action. So prepare to roll again and again, and again and again and again. When you're not rolling you'll generally be getting 1-2 hits in with whatever weapon you choose, hits that usually provoke no response from the boss whatsoever making every weapon basically the same thing apart from whatever damage types and numbers it has.

You go in, you learn the moveset, maybe you die a few times along the way, until you know the boss's moves like the back of your hand. Then you dodge past them, punish at the right times, and win the battle. It's perfectly serviceable gameplay but doing it 20x in one game is just excessive.

I'm not saying you should be able to juggle Hollows or anything, but if the game is going to be so relentlessly focused on action then I have fewer reasons not to just play a better action game.

>>714148330
that's unlikely with how hard his chat is memeing it and how often his discord mod "friends" shit on it
>>714149367
his E-girlfriend hates it, he's gonna hate it too

>>714138554
Sir, owning niggers like that isn't legal anymore

>>714150395
other series don't have this so actually your argument is invalid

>>714150395
I sometimes wonder if Matt has never played any class in dark souls besides a knight/warrior.

>>714114301 (OP)
>A meaningless quote about meaning.
lol are fags pretending this is deep again?

>>714150412
>his E-girlfriend hates it, he's gonna hate it too
That's a shame it could be a kino playthrough

>>714136378
>no Combatterer V
Anon please

Will joe go back to making videos in a reasonable amount of time once witcher 3 is done?
That was his excuse for taking a decade hiatus afterall

>>714114474
Controller problem. How come gamepads still have abhorrent camera sensitivity to this day?

>>714142597
>she's a cis woman with an insane obsession about blocking bigots who misgender people so she would not even be able to stomach coming here in the first place.
That type doesn't actually have any beliefs

>>714114301 (OP)
>Have any other quotes ever shattered multiple gaming fandoms to their core like this one?
Yeah, this one: "son, get a job or we're kicking you out"

>>714150605
>endless jokes about dex = fags dual-wielding katanamen
>ranged being considered the cowardly option, assuming it's not a tedious grind
overall build hardly matters when rolling all the time is still the intended way to play

>>714151168
I'd have more general respect for souls players if they weren't universally fucking retarded. Every game has a slew of items, gear, builds, whatever to make the slog less painful...and they will without fail refuse to use all of it then complain the game is too hard. It's not hard, the circumstances of life is hard.

Painticus is the superior video game pseud

>>714143110
Jumpscares aren't scary, it's the equivalent of a dev clapping his hands in front of your face once in a while while you're busy doing something else and going "Haha, you scared? Scared?" it's annoying and disrespectful towards the player. All the best horror games never had to utilize such dogshit and could unsettle the player without a musical cue going "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" when an evil rotten half-skeleton face covers your screen.

>>714151635
i don't much like the fundamentals of fromsouls combat, but they only focused on that aspect more or more, so all the different items and strategies are only of so much use when being a naked retard with an ultragreatsword is more-or-less the optimal strategy anyway and a bunch of "honest duel" sort of mandatory bosses
it's hard to be a scrappy UMD rogue when you are using dogshit inventory system, unless you wanna practice quick-switching weapons and consumables

>t. idiot who finished only elden ring because of open world exploration and none of more linear dork souls

>>714150368
Some of those are to avoid demonetization not because they're against using the word.

>>714114474
He has a point, but at the same time certain game can't realistically work with an automatic camera because it'd be too hard to implement

But yeah in an ideal world you shouldn't break your finger bones doing stupid claw maneuvers because you need to press a button while making sure the camera doesn't go fuck itself

>>714124997
His girlfriend dislikes it so probably not

>>714150412
>>714152505
Does she even like anything?

>>714152345
It started as that, but since none of jewtube's community standards are written down and they change all the time it turned into a cargo cult of self censorship

>>714152651
She works as a consultant in the industry so she has a very critical approach

>>714152505
In the most recent Umineko stream she said that she likes Higurashi's horror but hates the otaku humor. She's still reading it though.

>>714153104
Higurashi is hilarious though. The prose is generally a lot funnier than Umineko even in "normal" scenes with no jokes just because of the deadpan narration.
I'm guessing she thinks it's "problematic", lol?

>>714152651
>>714152998
>>714153104
>>714153172
make it less obvious

>>714153104
>hating Higurashi's comfy sol moments
Why are these people so soulless?

>>714153360
Wdym?

>>714153172
>>714153852
If you go into a game or novel with an agenda and get disappointed when the agenda isn't reached, the first instinct is usually that of dislike.

>>714152080
I personally think Jumpscares have a purpose in horror games. No doubt they get overused in both games and movies, but to keep up a constant tension, the player will soon find out, "Nothing happens." and it could kill the momentum. It's the fear of unknown that brings the best spooks, I think.

>>714154012
Counterpoint: Alien Isolation

>>714154072
I never got around to playing it. That's a good example, because the Xenomorph constantly stalks you(At least I'm led to believe she does), but the thing is... something does happen. In a game like Penumbra, it's scariest in the beginning because you anticipate something, and eventually you realize that no, it won't. Or even something like FEAR.
But I think that tension needs to lead to somewhere. The Xeno is scary, because it will kill you, however you can fight back. In something like Outlast, you just have to run. A lot of players just aren't scared of anything that they can fight back, and a lot of players find running away tedious. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.

>>714114474
something tells me he hasn't played a lot of N64/ps1/saturn games

>>714154012
The only jumpscares that are good are ones that come about naturally due to the gameplay. Fixed jumpscares placed by the devs are 9 times out of 10 just going to irritate me after it happens.

I'm going to say it, Higurashi's slice of life is frequently mind-numbing and the only truly good utilization of it is the water gun fight in episode 6. There's nothing wrong with liking the VN but it's incredibly overrated. The horror is usually done well when it actually happens. Episodes 7 and 8 were a mistake.

>>714154551
>naturally due to the gameplay.
Do you have any examples?

>>714154743
Nah, the SOL is SOVL.
The club games in the question arcs are clues for the tragedies of that chapter in a kind of subtle way. Most people don't consider this because they are brainlets used to mindless consumption.
The water gun fight is a particular highlight though, you are right. And I will concede that the final two chapters had severe pacing issues, even for the standards of Ryukishi and his long-winded writing.

>>714155025
>The club games in the question arcs are clues for the tragedies of that chapter in a kind of subtle way
That's great but they should also be good in addition to this, and they're not.

>>714114474
He's absolutely correct.

Higurashi filters another one, good

>>714154962
A burer suddenly opening the lab X-18 slammy door

>>714155737
I finished the VN actually so you might want to check the definition of the words you are using.

>>714154962
Resident Evil 2 Remake turning a corner and having Mr. X be charging down the hallway at you. Or Alien Isolation going through the vent system and having the Xenomorph come out of nowhere and kill you.

>>714155770
Yeah, Stalker's a good example, too. I really should give Stalker 2 a try.

>>714145835
>Death of the Author is literally conceived as a critique of critiques, retard. Of course critiques and reviews are a part of it. If you think the author is blatantly trying to tell you something but he fails at doing it, so the work comes out sounding schizophrenic, that's a valid critique.
You fucking retard. That's not my point. The misuse of Death of the Author is when the author is blatantly telling you something, but you disregard it for your own headcanon and judge him for it or critique his failure to actualize your vision.

why are golems unable to appreciate SoL?
this one genre seems to be the great filter

>media literacy
>video essays
>death of the author
>games are art
>art is sacred
>irony
>post-irony
All funnily enough ruined people's ability to critique and critically discuss videogames and art

>>714155908
I'm talking about the eceleb

>>714156416
slice of life is good when it builds characters or has effort put into its humor and presentation

don't fucking pretend higurashi is a bastion of quality sol

>>714153172
Umineko has all the "cringe" of Higurashi but none of the chemistry. The characters are INCREDIBLY stiff and speak like they barely know each other.

>>714122287
>>714115601
>>714115032
he actually said it when talking about fromsoft and other games where there's basically no real story other than item descriptions and other worldbuilding details.

I have never, not once, thought of japanese otaku humor as "cringe".
Sure, it's silly, which i'm gonna bet my balls on is intentional, but I've never felt embarrassed watching or seeing it.
My whole family used to laze about in the living room as shit like Urusei Yatsura aired on the TV

>>714153172

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Higurashi is intentionally and unintentionally funny, it's a great time.

Hinamizawa Syndrome is stupid though.

>>714156613
Higurashi SOL is perfectly fine for multiple reasons.
>builds up what you want to preserve, the peaceful comfy village life
>heavy contrast with the horror making you doubt these seemingly innocent characters, are they all in a cult or something?
>often used to push themes relevant to the current chapter, eg Satoko's relationship and her brother, water fight, and so on
>sometimes introduce elements of the world (like the town near the village)
>generally just a good pacebreaker that gives some time before horror can creep in again

At worst it would be a little annoying but nothing significant. At best it would be a good addition, sometimes even great (water battle imo).
Either way, obsessing over it like it breaks the story denotes anti weeb brainrot, especially if said person is okay with similar weebshit in Umineko just because of more western presentation.

>>714156830
HS isn't stupid, it has some pseudoscience to back it up a little and is analog to destructive paranoia/mental illness which are very real.
You can criticize it for breaking the "mystery" of the story by introducing something supernatural to the table, sure, but it's not stupid in itself

>>714114474
Are controllerniggers really this mindbroken just because they have imprecise camera controls? Damn

>>714156981
>pacebreaker
pace demolisher

>>714157167
I mean Rika already introduces supernatural elements earlier on.

>>714157167

I don't like it purely on the basis that it introduces randomness to the story, which cheapens the mystery because there's no possible way the reader would know who gets triggered by L5 every chapter, and more importantly, why.

Take Mion and Ooishi for instance. It is never explained why these two in particular are not affected by the syndrome. It is arbitrary because both of these characters are very central to all of the mysteries.

>>714157470
Mion is the younger Sonozaki twin so she has the "spiritual purity", this is what gives her immunity to HS.
Ooishi is an interesting case because he usually unknowingly triggers L5 with his questioning. My theory is that because he's ALWAYS suspicious of EVERYONE in Hinamizawa, he's ironically given a sort of blanket "immunity" to the upper levels of the syndrome. It's hard to be triggered by a persecution complex when it's your job to suspect everyone.

>>714157167
My big issue isn't that the "mystery" is "broken" by HS or anything like that, just that when one of the main themes of the story is that you need to trust your friends and not be paranoid having some of the crazy conspiracy theories rena was falling into be actually true goes against the theming of the story. Like I guess paranoia bad... except when it isn't?

>>714157625
Also Ooishi is derogatively called "Oyashiro-sama's servant" due to the fact that people tend to fly off the handle when questioned by him, which is actually a massive early clue about the nature of the syndrome and could also be an "accidentally correct" clue about why he's immune.
His role in many fragments is to "get the ball rolling" so naturally he is immune.

>>714157687
it's because ryuukishi had no idea what the hell he was doing and threw it together haphazardly, causing issues along the way, due to it being his first major project

people will tell you that's soul, but it's incompetence

>>714157687
How is this a contradiction? Rena should have trusted her friends to be good people but was right that not everyone ever is a good person and conspiracies did exist

>>714157470
>It is never explained why these two in particular are not affected by the syndrome
This is not confirmed. Rika claims Mion never goes ballistic but the more likely truth is that she is impossible to trigger because of her naturally gentle heart and the hesitation to question her on the part of the police. She absolutely does have dormant HS though.
Ooishi visibily suffers from HS in Tatarigoroshi too.

I can buy all of these explanations...

I still think it's kinda bullshit though...

>>714157924
> Rena should have trusted her friends
anon the conspiracy that there's a syndrome that causes her friends to become overly paranoid and evil was true. She unironically was right in not trusting them at least in part since at any point they could have fallen victim to the syndrome and attacked or even killed her like it happened in several fragments. That's what I mean with it goes against the theming. I don't think HS destroys higurashi's story as some say but it certainly muddies what could have been a much stronger story.

>>714158302
blah blah blah what the fuck ever dude

finish writing ciconia instead of coming here

>>714158358
?

>>714147445
Also they were homeschooling the kids at some point so maybe she was very particular about education and didn't trust the public system due to paranoia

>>714157309
You said nothing

>>714158302
Rena thought her friends were working against her more than just a simple syndrome, that's the difference

>>714158358
that's a win in my book

>>714114301 (OP)
>>714114474
Who are these fucking morons?

>>714157470
You can see who's about to get L5'd depending on their circumstances in each chapter.
The crux of the mystery in Higurashi is "who's going to be put through mental pressure, how, and how are they going to fall apart?"

In EP1 it's K1, and the interesting part of that mystery is that because you're seeing things from his perspective you don't think he's the one falling apart but if you start doubting him a little it's easier to pick up some hints.
EP2 isn't that good but EP5 gives you a fantastic descent to hell from Shion's perspective. It's great because the trigger is very harmless and innocuous but the descent is steady and makes perfect sense, until Shion's too far gone to rationalize her actions.
EP3 is actually interesting because the characters don't really do anything that bad but external circumstances lead to misunderstandings and paranoia that drive a wedge between them. K1 did nothing wrong but it LOOKED as if he did
EP6 is a nice subversion of EP1 where the good guys actually can talk, not through words but games, the language they know

>>714156613
What? Higurashi has some of the best slice of life I've seen. It's very effective in immersing you into the setting and building up the characters by making them more likable and human.
There's also lots of hints and foreshadowing hidden in those scenes, which makes them more interesting on a reread. Plus, most of them are funny, because R07 is one of a handful of japanese writers who has a good sense of humour.

>>714114301 (OP)
compelling argument, now prove that whatever story you are thinking of "means nothing"

>>714114474
>I want cinematic camera direction so I can focus on the button-awesome connection

>>714158878
I wouldn't go THAT far and call it great comedy, there are way better JP writers for comedy, but at the very least it's decent.

I take great issue with people who focus so much on it as if it was a huge issue with the story. It feels very performative and ignorant.

>>714148330
He will HATE it, usually when a game have one really dumb plot point, illogical world building or inconsistant character he can't get over it and 100 lines has dozens of those, especially the reveal that all memories are fake

>>714128976
that's the point, your control of the character is reduced because you have to do the cameraman's work

Why do people call Ryukishi a fascist sympathizer when the antagonists of Higurashi are violent nationalists who yearn for "le good old days" and are literally called "Tokyo"?
Is it just Umi-onlys who take the background of Kinzo literally?

>>714159095
Retarded terminally online leftoids flipflopping between Umineko being a trans rights manifesto and Ryukishi being a dirty transphobe because of Gerokasu

At least rightoids just call him retarded