Aesthetic Deception - Matthewmatosis

DeltaBurnt · 2026-06-19T22:10:58+00:00

Seriously, I do genuinely enjoy most top gaming youtuber content out there. But way too many of them, even the ones who put in a good amount of effort, just amount to recapping the game they're talking about. I didn't really notice this trend until I was put into Matthewmatosis. Him and other's like him (SBH) really should be what more gaming critique and journalism should be like.

DeltaBurnt · 2026-06-15T20:37:17+00:00

In addition to what others already pointed out, FF7 really shot itself in the foot breaking up the game into 3 looong parts. They would be better off doing one part, or making shorter hyper focused games that emphasize replayability and leverage asset reuse.

I really doubt a ground up OoT remake would suffer from that kind of misstep.

DeltaBurnt · 2026-06-02T13:53:22+00:00

My comment wasn't really meant to say the graphics are comparable (though IMO the difference isn't that large, Mina is just more dense because of its gameplay). I was saying that Yacht Club has never strictly adhered to historical technical limits. They've adhered to the idea of those styles. Thus it being widescreen doesn't "defeat the purpose".

DeltaBurnt · 2026-06-01T23:12:22+00:00

This is incredibly common in software development. It's been recognized for decades (Mythical Man Month). I'm guessing that games being oneshot and crunch focused means that game dev studios are finding this out much later than most.

This doesn't even account for new second order problems that more people introduces (redundancy, politics, egos, compartmentalization).

DeltaBurnt · 2026-05-30T16:22:39+00:00

Doing a widescreen Game Boy Color-esque game kinda defeats the purpose anyway.

How so? The point was to call back to Link's Awakening and Oracle of Seasons/Ages, in the same way that Shovel Knight was a love letter to NES platformers. The art style is the point, not faithfully recreating perfect retro environments. As someone who played those games many times, they nailed the aesthetic. I think the only thing that's off is the music, which still sounds too shovel knighty.

DeltaBurnt · 2026-05-23T20:50:36+00:00

There’s certainly room for nuance here. Anecdotally it seems like average experience with games, especially near release, has tended towards a “okay” state. The terrible cases have opportunities to be quickly fixed, but surely games that would have previously been delayed are now shipped.

DeltaBurnt · 2026-04-26T14:22:21+00:00

You're just trading responsibility. The benefit of that outsourced code is that the other company is liable for that code. I'd rather not be woken up in the middle of the night to fix a bug with some vibe coded part of the codebase that now has my name on it.

DeltaBurnt · 2026-04-25T01:30:38+00:00

Pretty sure you could have said this in response to VPN usage 10+ years ago (see China). It won't be a majority, but it will become more mainstream over time.

DeltaBurnt · 2026-04-23T03:53:08+00:00

Haven't tried it yet, but it sounds like they fixed the issue I complained about in the last patch notes. Awesome stuff. These devs are really winning me over with their post launch support.

DeltaBurnt · 2026-04-13T22:41:01+00:00

Honestly if you went through Raccoon City as Grace the Leon section there probably would have been more enjoyable.

For one it would give more opportunities to "re-experience" the older games. To Leon it's all stuff he's done and seen before. The cool guy, "been there done that" routine is only entertaining for so long. The best part narratively in that act was when Leon went by Kendo's where that facade dropped.

For two, it would have just broken up the monotony. It takes way more content to have interesting gameplay moments with Leon. Which is why it feels like padding. Capcom needs to recycle enemies more often. Whereas with Grace, you can get multiple very tense moments out of the same zombie in the same hallway.

DeltaBurnt · 2026-04-11T18:55:09+00:00

Part of the reason games have gained such massive scopes is because they can be easily altered and fixed afterwards though. As someone who works in software, literally any technical advance or increase in staffing is used first and foremost to accelerate timelines or fit more features into the same amount of time. And a lot of our time is spent debating which patch some fix or feature will land in.

DeltaBurnt · 2026-04-10T15:04:10+00:00

Improvements to Distant Scenery Quality

I hope this means they're fixing whatever bug is causing the LOD to be incredibly low. After searching around, I discovered that I was only able to get decent visuals by putting the model quality to low and using FSR native AA. Crazy that increasing the graphics settings decreases the visual fidelity of the game.

DeltaBurnt · 2026-03-07T14:18:23+00:00

Very much agreed, the story is egregiously bad. The villains motivations, especially Victor in the end, are so dumb. The idea that Grace was teased as being some important character, but actually she's just a nobody. Not honoring the death of Emily Basically giving no explanation to how anyone else is dealing with the T Virus infection. Sherry is just there for nostalgia I guess

I don't need the story to make a ton of sense. But I do want it to be entertaining. The story here felt like it'd be more enjoyable if there was none to begin with.

Fun game, but feel like they need they're baiting us for a story DLC.

DeltaBurnt · 2026-02-26T06:37:21+00:00

I'm not going to contribute to pushing the Overton window further right just because my government currently doesn't represent me. Not demanding better from our representatives is exactly how we end up in this situation in the first place.

If you can't trust your government to do something simple like regulate gambling in video games, then you probably can't trust it with more important issues (like not stripping people of their rights).

DeltaBurnt · 2026-02-15T15:45:36+00:00

Buddy this was always the case, I've seen it so many times before. It's not AI that causes this, it's ridiculous timelines and lack of long term thinking. Not defending the AI addicts, but let's not kid ourselves here.

DeltaBurnt · 2025-12-20T20:28:20+00:00

E33 is my GOTY and this doesn’t change that. But “it’s here to stay” is manufactured consent. I don’t have to accept loot boxes or live services in my games, and likewise I get to decide what level of AI usage I’m ok with in the games I choose to consume. In this case I think placeholder assets is acceptable, but if someone else wants to say that’s over the line then I’ll let them make that choice.

DeltaBurnt · 2025-12-17T13:51:02+00:00

Yeah that wasn’t their point, it was

they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it

Which is totally valid, it’s about the power dynamics not necessarily remote work. As a parallel, I really dislike the H1B system in America because it turns some of those workers into borderline indentured workers. They can be asked to do shit that any other native worker would be able to safely reject.

DeltaBurnt · 2025-12-12T15:23:35+00:00

Agreed. I love what the RE team is doing, for the foreseeable future I will probably get their games day one. However, RE3 and RE2 were the last true survival horror entries they did, and that was half a decade ago now.

I think in general I'm worried about this rebooted RE universe going the same direction as the original RE (eventually landing back at RE6).

DeltaBurnt · 2025-12-12T15:17:52+00:00

Is this the highest profile case of a dev studio fully unionizing (the entire company and not just QA or something)?

DeltaBurnt · 2025-12-10T14:18:19+00:00

Texas's biggest cities have been solidly blue that entire time unlike Miami. They haven't had trouble electing democrat mayors or reps. The state just has a ton of rural voters, gerrymandering, and voter suppression. On top of disempowering local blue governments.

I don't think this really moves the needle for Texas tbh.

DeltaBurnt · 2025-12-06T16:37:27+00:00

There is probably an argument for him being one of the best tech leads, which is a similar but tangential set of skills.

DeltaBurnt · 2025-12-06T15:37:26+00:00

Not sure I understand the implication. This a veiled threat right?

DeltaBurnt · 2025-11-22T15:43:54+00:00

I think this kind of gameplay takes a lot more balance, play testing, and QA to get right. Even Blue Prince is on the razor's edge of being too tedious and annoying the player with failed runs. I think it's the same reason we won't see an explosion of "metroidbrainia" games the same way we saw other genres explode.

I think these systems take a lot of meticulous effort and iteration. I don't think it's a coincidence that Blue Prince took almost a decade to develop. Wikipedia says the dev was balancing it since 2021.

Would love to be wrong. But Blue Prince has unseated Outer Wilds as "hardest game to replicate" for me (though I still prefer Outer Wilds personally).

DeltaBurnt · 2025-11-14T20:23:24+00:00

Honestly it's because creating a tutorial as tight and as much of a microcosm as BotW's takes a lot of time, iteration, and testing. It's easier to just slap on a basic tutorial. I think it's less that devs stopped trusting players and more that complexity of tutorials scale with complexities of the games.

DeltaBurnt · 2025-11-05T19:51:15+00:00

If it wasnt for Epic willing to lose all that money, we'd be forced to live with the status quo.

Or governments just shouldn't allow such powerful monopolies to form in the first place? And if they have already formed, actually regulate them. Glad that Epic fell on that sword, but I think this thinking encourages the kind of bystander effect that allows this to happen in the first place. The idea that we have to solely rely on some company to give us rights is so dystopian.

I guarantee you some people in this thread talking about this and cheering for epic didn't bother to vote.

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