Actually most games are intended to function without sound, they have settings for deaf players for many games. Colorblindness is another one, although full on settings are more rarer.
I don't really necessarily agree with that, it really depends on the kind of game. Obviously Tetris doesn't have a story. But to the extent a game has a story, it should be told through gameplay and not through retarded cutscenes.
That's kind of the issue we have though. Many people put such an emphasis and importance of story, devs usually wind up telling through cutscenes. Telltale is probably exhibit A of what happens when you go full retard into story.
That's true though, in a way. You're playing against hit- and bounding-boxes. That's the actual game, the logic of how and when things interact/intersect, then pretty graphics is draped over it. The general complaint against the PS4/Xbone was that they made the graphics(GPU) way better but the game(CPU) didn't take similar steps to run way more advanced games. This is not related to any tittie anime games though and if you play visual novels you're not actually playing games.
Are you saying that Link and the Faces of Evil is not a masterpiece of gaming?
Telltale fucked up by bad business investments, trying to cut cost by hiring underqualified employees and tossing experienced ones to the curb, relying on the same story formula, and oversatursting its own market. Going full retard in story was just part of it. There's still indie story focused game studios that didn't crash and burn spectacularly like telltale did.
Things suddenly made a lot of sense when The Chinese Room closed up shop due to brexit. They were relying on EU tugboats(art grants) and without those they couldn't continue making their pretentious games. I guess they didn't sell well. The couple that owned/ran the studio also seemed like they created a toxic workplace through their poor leadership.
There goes my dreams of seeing an anti war assymetrical slasher style game where you play as persecuted minorities in a war zone hiding from nazi and isis death squads come to reality. Yahtzee was right in dunking on these kinds of games.
I don't get why they're dunking on James for being boring, he's supposed to be the everyman, a you. You have a lot of japanese games that make blank characters like that for the player to slide into - had Americans made the game it feels like it would all be first person since that's how we get people into a "this dumbass is you" mindset. Besides, his blandness is meant to show anyone can commit evil, even a nice guy like him.
I really fuckin don't know why indie horror assholes swarm around social justice. Does it make them feel more intelligent? What the fuck am I missing?
That is an extremely high autism bar to clear. No wonder they aren't even trying anymore.
It's not hard, you can buy the Artbook to Myst and Riven for like 10 bucks. You can see the earliest drawings to puzzles or creatures looked like scribbles but by the 9th or 10th literation they looked real solid and could be easily mechanically and logically explained on paper.
That's 2015. You guys missed the autistic sperging about where AIDS comes from...
I doubt that. All the rest of the stuff, every hole or doorway is a vagina, Pyramid Head represents guilt or rape, but the toxic masculinity point is new to me.
I don't think it did. For us, sure. We've been playing these games since the 90s. The problem is that there hasn't been a big budget horror game other than Resident Evil since Dead Space 2. The Evil Within and Alien Isolation might count, but one was an incomprehensible action game and the other a hide-and-seek meme game.
Evil Within was the equivalent of a monster movie, and Alien Isolation was a slasher movie with just one protagonist. It's actually really hard to do a proper horror game these days because we're so used to it. The Fatalities you see casually thrown around in the most recent Mortal Kombat games would have made schlocky movie directors in the 80s jizz in their pants with how gory and unsettling they are, but for an audience who thinks The Boys is the shit it barely registers anymore.
You almost have to go back to Pong for that. I know SJW "walking simulators" have more or less wrecked the reputation of vidya as art (because apparently the SJW concept of art is it has to suck). But a game can and probably (usually) should actually tell a story too. Back when Valve still made games they did this very well. And even games like Wolfenstein told a story, even if it was pretty much "go kill Hitler."