I don’t have much else to add about Battle Royale other than it’s a shame there’ll probably never be a game directly based on that property, for obvious and wildly problematic reasons.
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i mean i have a wild plan for it definitely featuring children but it wont be a video game and who wants to crowdfund a private island
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Having a BR game starring teenagers would be sick AF
for certain values of sick
The World Ends With You Online
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a battle royale game but it’s just that level from drakengard where you murder countless cursed children
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That’s why you want Day Z back.
I don’t really think “competitive multiplayer shooter” is the space for a broad “emotional and pacing landscape,” it’s kind of like asking for a drag race that respects your circadian rhythms
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Oh, I do prefer DayZ to the stripped-down popular bastardization, but I can respect the virtues that survive in the bastardization the same way I respect Mass Effect 2 but don’t really like it next to the sprawling, overeager ME1.
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read the essay I haven’t written yet about how Mass Effect is the reification of neoliberal capitalism in video games
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I ended up deleting the post I made earlier today analogizing something by way of my scheme of the prototypical action game schism between Nintendo’s tight, clean, considered designs and Sega’s exuberant, bursting, messy designs. It’s the true Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy we live with.
I reconsidered things
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Sega…messy? Can you unpack that because I really can’t see it.
I’d actually would love to see a take on the original Battle Royale concept with all the teenage schoolkids, but have it as a semi-open world single player game with predefined characters who each have their own narrative. something like…Siren?
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Sure – more enemies, obstacles, and stuff fills the screen than can be dealt with. The player is expected to manage the situation but not perfect the situation. The game is wild with micro-options but does not divulge a true option.
See: Mario’s constrained, pathed levels next to Sonic’s multi-tier expanses. Space Harrier and Galaxy Force next to, well, everyone’s 2D shooters (really, most all of the Super Scalar games). You can even extend it to late period Sega: Shenmue’s maximalism, regardless of player needs.
It’s not intended as pejorative, just an observation.
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Wish I could read the old actionbutton review of ME2 I wrote and update it with my Objectively True Opinions on ME3
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in a more just world dragon’s dogma 2 would have revealed itself to be an elaborate dmc prequel 40% through the game
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Sparda = Dark Arisen Type Thang?
(I still need to complete that try as I might fatiguing adventure)
What the fuck was that game they showed at the PS4 reveal that never came out?
deep down?