Thread 720112838

why don't games look weird anymore? even weird looking games are kinda rare, everything is just so plain.

>>720112838 (OP)
Business.
Do you want to make a cyborg zombie vampire game that only appeal to 1000 people?
Or do you want to make a john smith the bland guy game that 1 million people don't mind playing?

>why doesn't mass review-bombed, style over substance, bargain bin, clones of better games, total slop no one bought, have any demand?

Only ironyfags care about weird/obscure shit. OP pic would be a female protagonist metroidvania soulslike in 2025.

>>720112838 (OP)
the internet killed creativity and individuality

>>720112907
>1 million people dont mind playing
normalfags are getting bored of vidya it'll be more like 10000 people wont mind burning hours on

tbf loads of games looked "like that" back then. It's like when people complain there's no manly anime protags anymore, it was a fad/fashion and they made a million of them and then they stopped. You can just find anything from that era if you want some.

Still, I like it a lot more and I wish it happened during the era of full 3D games. So many PC98 tactics games with amazing art lol

>>720112907
>cyborg zombie vampire game
that's incredible unoriginal and would sell like hotcakes
>>720112964
>metroidvania soulslike
what? those are two very different types of games. metroidvania's used to be really good until it became default setting number 2 for indie slop and souls slop is pure shit with the worst combat system ever created.

>>720112838 (OP)
focus-testing killed soul in games

>>720113078
by weird I mean stuff like septerra core, planescape, morrowind

>>720112838 (OP)
Were in the remastering era for gaming. Originally concepts are being thrown out the window.

>>720113078
What game? Temple Master isn't giving me anything.

You don't care, want or buy weird games.
You just want to sigh and long for the ones that existed because you want to return to a time you can't.
Daydreaming can become a mental disease, you know.

>>720113852
王宮騎土物語

>>720113979
Yeah, for example you could end up being a soulless golem who imagines everyone is as spiritually impotent as he is and then go on 4chan projecting his failures onto everyone because he can't accept that the world is actually crumbling around him and everything is getting worse.

>>720113979
this, indie games fill the void every jaded anon cries about, but they dismiss all indies as "trannyslop" or some other lame buzzword salad and cry that they aren't the target audience of bloated AAA budget video games any more.
all because they're too lazy to do their own homework and want algorithms and journalists to tell them where the real hidden gems are.

>>720112838 (OP)
A lot of concept artists suck and those who don't get fucked over by devs who take the soul out of their art.

>>720113979
>You don't care, want or buy weird games.
For this part yeah, unique aesthetic can help but if it plays like dogshit than I'd rather have fun with something that looks more generic

The world gave up on sci-fi and fantasy.

>>720112838 (OP)
because you arent playing games made by trans people

>>720113979
t.

>>720114085
fucking lmao! this faggot >>720113979 got rekt

>>720113979
>>720114214
Feel free to post examples of this overflowing river of weird games.
>inb4 you just claim youre not going to "spoonfeed" because you dont have a single example

>>720115292
no, stay pessimistic

>>720113979
holy projection batman! did you even read the op? he's taking about art style not le heckin weird games like Mr. Mosquito you absolute fucking faggot.