That’s how it used to be, not so much anymore.
It used to be write a fun game and wrote a story around it.
Now it’s write the story, spend most of the budget on cutscenes and try to make a game that fits into it somehow.
Welcome to 2020 it’s a few years late, but fun doesn’t matter much anymore.What the heck has happened that there's even a need for such a question?
“Above all, video games are meant to just be one thing: Fun for everyone.”
- Satoru Iwata
"fun" is just a colloquial way of calling an emotional response to an activity that you subjectively feel pleasure in pursuing. It comes in a wide variety of colors
Talk about overly sensitive. Dry your eyes.Oh look it's yet another TLOUP2 hate thread masquerading as a thought provoking one, we don't have enough of those in the four-
Here cure your butthurtTalk about overly sensitive. Dry your eyes.
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Are you fucking mentally deficient?I maybe old fashioned, but good old fashion fun is what draws me to my favorite games. Thinking on this, games like the Last of US 2, dark souls, bloodbourne, do not appeal to me because they lack FUN. I understand the real sense of accomplishment when beating a hard boss, level, etc. Often times between that accomplishments there is tons of frustration, cursing, some even break controllers.
Take a game like the Last of Us 2. It is a technical marvel that many including myself hating the story. After reading dozens of reviews, I cannot think of one that said the Game was FUN.
Does it matter to you?
Are you fucking mentally deficient?
Unless you are living in some war torn shithole or surrounded by death, disease and famine then for you own health and sanity I'd at least try to look at things a bit more positively.For me, "fun" is bleak and dark and depressing. I just respond to those elements in a way that something that is forcefully "cheery" could never hope to. I guess it depends on your existential outlook. Mine is that life is something strange and awful and the world is not a good place, so to incorporate that into a game is satisfying like applying a balm to an itch. When games or any media try so hard to be "sunshine" it always feels forced to me, like a guy contorting his mouth into a smile with both fingers.
Yes, but I don’t quite get what isn’t fun about Bloodborne / dark souls?I maybe old fashioned, but good old fashion fun is what draws me to my favorite games. Thinking on this, games like the Last of US 2, dark souls, bloodbourne, do not appeal to me because they lack FUN. I understand the real sense of accomplishment when beating a hard boss, level, etc. Often times between that accomplishments there is tons of frustration, cursing, some even break controllers.
Take a game like the Last of Us 2. It is a technical marvel that many including myself hating the story. After reading dozens of reviews, I cannot think of one that said the Game was FUN.
Does it matter to you?