Thread 719831809

I thought this is niche genre nobody but tryhard neckbeards played. Im officially out of touch

>>719831809 (OP)
you can thank all the thousands of video essays on youtube.

you left out the part that it's an action game, action games aren't niche at all

>>719831809 (OP)
It's a metroidtrania first and foremost, the 2d platformer part is basically irrelevant

>>719831809 (OP)
Never overestimate normalfags and they're trend following NPC brains
They're all literally sheeple who can't think for themselves

>>719831809 (OP)
It is a niche genre. Hollow Knight is some weird anomaly that got really popular. Which is strange because it's really tedious to play and looks ugly as fuck.

Maybe you're so jaded you forgot that people can be excited for something

>>719831809 (OP)
>this is the future savior of humanity grown up
GRIM
I think I'll be siding with the AI

>>719831809 (OP)
Watch the numbers fall like Monster Hunters, normies are retarded

>>719831809 (OP)
Man what the hell happened to him? He looked like young leon kennedi back then.

>>719833340
Metroidvania isn't some particularly huge genre, it's generally been pretty niche comparitively, even with Metroid and Castlevania.
Hollow Knight is a weird outlier, like BG3 was for CRPGs

>>719835607
It's what Weinstein's cock does to you.

>>719831809 (OP)
everything is niche until some tiktok retard makes a short about it

>>719831809 (OP)
There is officially no standard of quality for what sells. why do these games with shit art sell?
HK is 1 step removed from stick figure drawings animated at an abysmal 10 fps.
>minecraft
block graphics and low quality pixel textures
>Among Us
more poorly drawn flash slop
>Five Nights at Freddy's
awful simplistic game with Pre-rendered, compressed designs with jpeg artifacting.
>Undertale
some of the worst pixel art ever made. toby has no artistic talent at all.


Meanwhile really polished stuff with spot on art direction barely sells.
Why even bother as an Artist/Animator when talentless hacks can make millions form literal garbage they shit out with no skill.

>>719836478
You're right, we should all be buying AAA games with great graphics! Who cares about gameplay

>>719832367
fpbp

>>719836065
Drugs and alcohol. People will tell you they're cool and fun but they never tell you what happens next.

>>719836478
Unironically some of my favorite artists would be called shit/bad at drawing.

>>719836624
Stress is what ages you bad, if you have a comfy life you can keep the looks unless you're a fatass/slob.

>>719831809 (OP)
This happened to me after I got on steroids. Thankfully I course corrected before it got super bad. But I’m still a shell of my former self. I didn’t realize how many girls would just cold approach me until I realized how bad my body dysmorphia had gotten. It’s been a painful and humbling experience for me.

>>719836530
AAA games don't even have artists.
They feature some ugly photo scanned monstrosity in UE5 covered in grainy artifacts and TAA smearing.

You should buy smaller games with polished animations and high quality art direction.
-Ori
-Tiny thor
-Corn Kids 64.
-Iconoclasts
-Marsupilami

games that actually look good and have decent animation.

>>719837189
>Marsupilami

Kino. A little too easy, but kino.

>>719837375
But very fun and some of the prettiest, most impressive visuals I've seen in an obscure game.

>>719837189
>Iconoclasts
I was so disappointed with this but at least last few boss fights were fun.

>>719836478
>Unironic jraphicsfag in current year
It's like I'm back in 2013

>>719837189
>Corn kids is full 3D platformer with seamless animation and movement, that nails the N64 charm and aesthetic so well it surpasses all of them.. for $10 AUD
>Silksong is a stiff, generic 2D platformer with repeating tile caves/hallways for $30 AUD

>>719838134
Art not "jraphics".

>>719831809 (OP)
Niche genre? 2D platformers have always been uber-casual, like Mario, Sonic, etc. The only difference is that this time it's made by a smaller company.

>>719838459
Oh that thing that's entirely subjective and you can just decree is shit and anyone who disagrees with your taste is retarded and you won't delve further. How convenient.

>>719838635
it's not there are talented artists and then there are people who draw the blobs and stick figures like in hollow knight.

>>719838708
Blobs and stick figures aren't objectively bad.

>>719831809 (OP)
We've been telling you for well over a decade that indie games are the only place videogames are actually alive and you refused to fucking listen because "n-nuh uh dats for tryhard neckbeards...."
You don't fucking belong here. You never belonged here.

>>719831809 (OP)
It's just FOMO

>>719838459
Even more pathetic.
Gameplay is what matters. Gameplay will always be what matters.
>>719836478
That said everything else you listed here is just kidslop unironically and it's retarded to expect any standards there.

>>719831809 (OP)
>500k
it's closer to 15 mlliom
steam can't count

>>719833456
Fat Bastardcore

>>719836478
Some of the greatest games I've ever played were flash games.

>>719831809 (OP)
You were never in touch. 2D indie platformers have never been associated with tryhard neckbeards.

>>719831809 (OP)
90% aren't going to finish it.

>>719831809 (OP)
2D platformers is like 1 step below Fortnite and Rocket League in the glacier anon. You're actually just retarded.
You're telling me that the genre as we know it today who's origin is Super Mario Bros is popular? Holy shit.

>>719839058
Steamfags forgot other consoles and platforms exist

>>719833340
fucking hang yourself nunime oshimai trannynigger tourist

>>719836206
Facebook
>Still single. I need a strong women. With good heart, honest, care. Supportive. I don't care about age
Grim. And Weinstine didn't touch him, he was abused by a woman like 20 years his senior.

>>719831809 (OP)
>>719832367
Do you guys live under a fucking rock? This isn't the 2000's anymore where Metroidvania games are somehow niche.. Nintendo is a global name, especially the Metroid series. It's not niche in any way at all.

>>719831809 (OP)
Nigger-kun, 2D indie platformers were the first games I ever played. They were called Super Mario Bros.

>>719836478
You fags jerking off graphics are the fucking worst.

>>719836478
did you start playing video games in 2012 or something

>>719831809 (OP)
Symphony of the Night came out nearly 30 years ago dude