Thread 716151093

When will other types of fantasy be financially viable in games again

>>716151093 (OP)
More trans representation would be nice

>fantasy thread on /v/
>fantasy anons complaining about no good fantasy games
>detractors suggest nu fantasy games and get rejected for not looking right
>detractors say fantasy anons are only concerned about aesthetics

>someone makes an AI sloppa mockup of an old fantasy game
>gathers millions of likes and shares on social media
>thousands of people saying "give us this!"
>implying no modern fantasy game provided that feel for them

Aesthetic chads.. we are vindicated

when people have interest in them

>>716151093 (OP)
When gamedevs will be made of people that have actual passion and talent instead of onions riddled millenials that have grown up on trash franchises like star wars.

>>716152443
Unrelenting supply problem, everyone just let Hollywood, tumblr, and Japan ruin fantasy for three decades

>>716152740
>Japan ruin fantasy
They're the only ones keeping it alive.

>>716152943
Isekai is a joke, dark fantasy is okay but too one note to be the sole source of fantasy

tnd tkd

>>716152740
No you retard, it's obvious the true ruiner of fantasy was WoW.

>>716153330
WoW's influence on fantasy never left games, and it vanished by the 2010s, the rest are much more enduring and infected all mediums

>>716152740
I wonder how many comments mentioned Avowed. anyway this is why people still play Shitrim, because nobody else is even making first-person open-world fantasy games where you can just get lost

>>716152943
Putting porn in fantasy is not keeping it alive, it's desecrating its corpse

Still don't understand why no one has made a AAA GoT game. There's a shitty telltale series, two average indie games and a Korean MMO.

Also, we need more metal fantasy with a heavy metal soundtrack.

>>716152343

Pretending the original with a female warrior is not woke is hilarious.

>>716156468
She was there cuz she was hot not to push the message that women should be soldiers

>>716151093 (OP)
>ASOIAF
>low fantasy
wut

>>716151093 (OP)
We just saw a huge push for folklore fantasy from Wukong, there will definitely be some copies coming over the next few years.

I like Dark fantasy a lot, too bad now a days is just, Souls shit, i've grown sick of it.

>>716156468
Your brain is rotten

>>716156634
> it's ok to have feminist strong female warriors killing men so long as they are HOT!

Based creepy male feminist.

>>716157116
ASOIAF is a high fantasy setting that became low fantasy through a series of monumental catastrophes, LOTR is a high fantasy setting going through catastrophes that will ultimately remove magic from the world and turn it low fantasy

>>716157404
based, I didn't think of this
But to me LOTR is always high-fantasy because I think of myself as an Elf while reading it

>>716157285
>>716156468
In most stories the female warrior either gets raped as a backstory, explaining why they decided to become warrior, and or gets raped in the story. Or is saved from rape by the hero.

They're rape bait and damsel in distress, but cooler.

>>716152740
Ain't this just pixelated Elden Ring?

>>716157638
> They are cool becuase i made rape fanfic that never happens and she uhh has full plate armor and kills men

Yeah feminismis cool and totally not woke, amirite fellow 4channers

>>716157726
Evidently not given that everyone is asking for it to be made into a game instead of saying "just play ER with a low res shader"

>>716157852
First person pixelated Elden Ring then

>>716151093 (OP)
Is warhammer dark fantasy or high fantasy?

>>716157852
>If you're a 3d artist and you want to help me make this game slide in my dms

"I'm an ideas guy, I proooompt an AI and you make the game for me, I am a dev saar"

>>716158274
>Warhammer
You mean Warhammer Fantasy? or Warhammer 40k? or Age of Sigmar? or Bloodbowl?
Any way the answer is "both"

>>716158438
I meant warhammer fantasy
I guess both are actually correct, it highly depends on the setting

>>716151683
Looks very comfy. However I recognize only Enclave, Gothic, King's Bounty and Lands of Lore. Can anyone assign names to the rest?

>>716157404
>became low fantasy through a series
Not that anon but it becomes more high fantasy. More dragons, more white walkers and more use of magic. You have Arya becoming a waith, armies of whit walkers, giants, an undead dragon, other dragons, Jon Snow resurrecting and all the other magic stuff with zombie greggor and Melisandre and that dude that can ressurect himself.

>>716158980
Quest for Infamy, Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood, Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight

Crossed Swords, Dungeon Hack, Hammer of the Gods, Stronghold (1993), Lands of Lore

Icewind Dale 2, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, FATE, SpellForce: The Order of Dawn, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone

Enclave, Gothic 2, SpellForce: The Order of Dawn, King's Bounty, Two Worlds, Drakensang

>>716157207
What game is that?

>>716158260
Public says no

>>716152740
Isn't that just KCD but with a castle in the background?

>>716157852
>>716159678
This pics have like 30-40 2pixel lines for houses in the distance.
In a real video game you'd need actual houses with npcs with dialogue
Same reason why Bethesda towns are small. The alternative is Ubisoft/Rockstar/CDPR clone-people towns.

>>716160148
Yeah the 2D aspect stokes imagination but the thing killing fantasy games is the uninspired content, there's simply no way to fill an entire world with engaging content that can match what people imagine when they see shit like this

>>716160148
>>716160357
i like setpiece towns i'm not expected to interact with
i like daggerfall

>>716160148
>>716160357
reminds me of this image I made ages ago. these things might look nice in a video or picture, but they'd likely quickly lose their splendor when translated to a game
a nice image can capture the imagination unlike anything else, that's a large part of their appeal
I still wish games looked like this and >>716154713 aesthetically, but nothing will ever be as cool as what's in my head when I see these images

>>716160465
Oh so you're saying you'd like instanced zones where only the main alley is available for walking but from the outside it looks huge and intricate.
That's interesting.

>>716160148
the picture depth is flawed, just look at the road.
But i get the feeling behind the post, open worlds games are either packed with useless shit or barren land of nothingness with very little content "checkpoint".
it's not like in some other linear adventure game where you see your goal getting closer and closer while you advance through the level.

normal people don't like fantasy as they find it childish

autistic people are inherently more childish so they enjoy it, but that aren't a viable audience for profit

>>716160769
no i'm not saying that at all daggerfall doesn't do that, but i actually don't mind when games do that, e.g. final fantasy 12 does exactly that where there are incomprehensibly large cities but you just walk down one hallway, that's fine by me
bethesda's modern day thing where "all the content has to be real and meaningful" (an idea they've never delivered on) doesn't do it for me, cities that are supposed to be massive and sprawling having 8 houses where most npcs still only have 3-5 lines of dialogue isn't enough for the illusion

>>716161101
Wait, if you don't want small instanced zones or bethesda style small towns.. do you want gta/witcher3 clone towns? Or Arkham/Middle-Earth ghost towns?
I haven't played Daggerfall yet, only Arena

>>716162123
daggerfall settlements are real worldspaces you can walk around in, small settlements might be 10-20 houses, but large cities are hundreds or thousands of houses and you can walk in every one and talk to an npc in them if you want to, but it's just set dressing you're not actually meant to
it's background scenery, that's it
if you've played witcher 3 novigrad is somewhat similar
i was saying i like clone people settlements because some half-assed "real" small settlement like morrowind/oblivion/skyrim doesn't work, the npcs feel just as much of paper cutouts, but without setting the scale of the world properly

>>716162573
Oh, I see. Well maybe with AI we'll get some good in between

>>716162573
Are you asian/indian/arab btw?
Because their art is usually like that. Lots of extra details without much meaning behind them but which blend together into a whole. Whereas western style tends to be more focused on singular clearly separable idea-objects.

>>716151191
>More trans representation would be nice
Zero trans representation would be better

>>716162671
this is one of the things ai would actually be good for yea, some sloppy real time voice model thrown on a speech model, then a good world procgen system like daggerfall has could work, daggerfall has literally thousands of npcs there's no way you could write meaningful dialogue for them, but having them pick some random topic they care about and generate some bullshit for it would be fine

this is the shit that makes me wish bethesda stuck with the daggerfall system and kept refining it, rather than todd convincing zenimax to switch to gamebryo

>>716162932
no i'm american i just feel unimmersed when i'm told very small worlds are large, in morrowind it's one thing because the fog is so close and movespeed is so low that you can't really get the scale for how insanely small the world is, but oblivion and skyrim everything is just seconds away from everything else, i live in bumfuck nowhere innawoods and me walking to the next closest town is bigger than the entirety of skyrim + oblivion + morrowind combined

>>716160764
>This is the punjab 5000 megaEngine, it can depict anything with ultra realistic details
What if I want more art direction and less realism?
>Noooooooooo saaaaar you can't do thaaaat!

>>716152740
>>716157852
Why post a screenshot of a video?

>>716164117
Why give more attention to AI sloppa

>>716159178
This. Magic comes back to the world slowly but surely, as winter comes, the wights march south, a Targaryen gets dragons for the first time in a century, and a creepy raven grandpa adopts a shota into his mystical ways. Oh, and a loony pirate wants to summon Cthulhu.

>>716159178
>>716165291
Yeah, used to be high fantasy, turned low fantasy, and is turning back into high fantasy

>>716159589
Sadly its not a game, but an illustration book, its shaped like a wannabe manual about a game that doesn't exist, its called Vermis.

>>716151093 (OP)
Dunno, ask Japan, their anime industry is in a D&D fever right now.

>>716152740
Trans and woke exist because of USA propaganda.

>>716164117
I hate AI sloppa as much as the next person
but fuck I want to play a game like that

>>716157207
Love me some Fall from Heaven.
It's too bad it never got the polish it deserves, since it's a Civ IV mod.
Hillariously there is an immense overlap with ASOIAF, so if Martin kicks the bucket, you can deduct the endings

When tumblr's influence vanes

>>716151093 (OP)
There's plenty of low fantasy, high fantasy, and folklorish games
And most fantasy games dip into multiple of these categories

>>716152740
lmao, so just play skyrim?