is it the yeah yeah yeah song or did they something even worse since that
this game just emanates yeah yeah yeah song energy
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again I am vindicated
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yeah yeah yeah song is worse but this is close
the weird combination of lips and number girl makes me think dave friedman had something to do with this
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yeah itās the kind of thing that a super small proportion of people will really be able to hook into, i totally get that, but if thatās the case then for me it gets to the question of why anyone would even bother going so over the top on production values in service of a concept thatās soā¦basic? because the only people who would really appreciate the conceit are the same people who would want more from it
i guess thatās why i called it patronizing - the trailer tells you that the whole conceit is that everything is based on the rhythm of the song and then the game shows you that the rhythm is so basic as to barely matter, itās the worst kind of tendency common in AAA
slight tangent: when i thought pretty deeply about what that kind of rhythm based combat would feel like for anything more complex than quarter notes i ended up at the same kind of dead end, which is why i ultimately think that expanding the design space of music games that arenāt strictly in the benami vein means thinking more deeply about how one experiences music and less about how games can tie mechanics to rhythms - separating things into stems so players can manipulate the sounds themselves, having players play with song structure, that kind of thing. music is more than just rhythm but it seems to be the only aspect of music games want to engage with
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oh for fuckās sake I had forgotten that this song existed but yeah that tracks.
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I guess I can thank this gameās existence for forcing me to consider that Iād rather watch 40 minutes of vintage burger king commercials than ever listen to at war with the mystics again
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It helped me to my familiar conclusion, that specific thorny work just isnāt doable at that scale and needs to have a deliberate small budget. That or you get the power to smuggle it in knowing itās a bad idea.
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fwiw enemy attacks include 8th notes and syncopation (and you carry them with the same timing) itās just your attacks that are only on the beat. so far everything is 4/4 though which is pretty boring
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wow itās 2000ās ipod commercial rock combined with the kind of late 2010ās/early 2020ās colorful low poly 3D art thatās so insipid it looks like an algorithmically generated youtube autoplay ad.
i still wanna play Ghostwire Tokyo though. i donāt care if that game is bad (and i stopped listening to people about these kinds of things anyway) cuz it appeals to me a lot more than this game.
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I was interested in Ghostwire and almost bought it last sell but watched a letās play and the most realistic Tokyo Iāve ever seen didnāt help that well, sigh, it is certainly a video game.
You have more patience for FPS than I do so who knows.
I watched this earlier and was just disgusted
Then I watched that and got real sad
Do not reply about how the inclusion of Wheels in the Kids Club was a political act, letās not talk about these shitty cartoon characters at all!!! I wish I could forget they ever existed! I would do arson to the Honeycomb Hideout if I could!!
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commercial producers are ācontent creatorsā
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I think the Black Keys were so behind the curve on the garage rock thing that theyāre public domain now.
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im gonna be thinking about how Zwan is in this thing for a long time
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The arc for this thing has been
A) I donāt have my glasses on, is this a new grasshopper game
B) oh no
C) I need to play the Honestly level right away
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Yes, I too would like a rhythm combat game completely centered around Muzak-quality smooth jazz
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This is like a 7/10 game on the original xbox that I would probably pick up years later, play 3 hours of, and write about itās neat but esoteric systems. Then Iād bring it up anytime anyone asked āwhat are some hidden OG Xbox gamesā
Tangent: I donāt care if it sucks to high hell and back and all the music is garbage, they are doing something radically different in an ecosystem where there is so much sameness and as a developer who normally doesnāt go for something this different.
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This is wild. Willard Scott was the original Ronald McDonald so this must have been a big betrayal.
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This game is unplayable ugly and feels like somebody wanted to prove they could make a Sonic Forces and yet still somehow failed to meet those aesthetic standards.
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great now Iām wondering: what if Voodoo Vince came out in 2023 with post-Marvel production values and was also a musical with tunes pulled from Twitch ads?
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