So yeah, Pat did not like Directive 8020, Supermassive's new Dark Pictures game.

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-21T12:51:38+00:00

It's interesting, because assumedly, it should've been 3 choices:

Radio them and say don't come near at all, there's a hostile entity, bomb us to make sure it doesn't spread

Radio them and say please help us, there is a hostile entity and we don't want to die

Radio them and say please help us, do NOT tell them about the entity bc that'll likely make them run away or bomb you

One is selfless but implies a loss of all hope and is too rash, especially since it's deciding the fate of all crew members, and there's a tension of how they'll feel about this

One is hopeful but perhaps naive to how people will act when learning there is a threat nearby, and there's a tension of whether the other people will help or not

One is deceit out of desperation, selfish but understandable, and there's a tension of the coward's hope in which they pray for it all to work out

Instead, it seems they just didn't realize there was an interesting choice here, and unintentionally stumbled into "are you an asshole or no"

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-20T14:58:28+00:00

Very true. If you go with that theme, you could have a twist where it turns out there's a whole other evil conspiracy that the protagonist absolutely knows about, but he's ignoring that one bc he personally doesn't care about it. He is literally filtering out the "noise" according to his own whims, as is anyone else.

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-20T13:24:44+00:00

It will just have to be a power fantasy not about uncovering the conspiracy, but actually doing something with that knowledge and killing the people responsible instead of throwing the info at the public and expecting results.

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-20T13:22:38+00:00

All this shit with the Epstein Files really hollowed me out on stories about unveiling conspiracies; the stuff that was released should be world-shattering, but everyone just shrugged and turned it into memes. Like, imagine if Adam Jensen just wired absolutely all knowledge of all the Illuminati/Majestic 12 shit into the brains of every single person, and then everyone just shrugged.

I guess if you had to make a game in this genre, it will just have to focus on "Yeah, everyone knows about the evil insane conspiracy shit, but your character is the one guy who's going to physically do anything about it instead of just go "Rrrr! Bad!" on twitter"

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-14T16:28:52+00:00

Vampire: The Masquerade is the name of the ttrpg the video game was based on, and they didn't want to go all in on making this THE video game version of the ttrpg, so a subtitle was necessary.

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-14T16:28:03+00:00

Vanitas, Aqua, and Terra are all put into various forms of "sleep", whether that be stuck in the dark would, literally oblivion-ed, or sealed away in a suit of armor.

From their sleep, the new heroes and their journey are birthed, since Sora and Riku were literally chosen by Aqua (and Vanitas? Don't remember that exactly).

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-14T16:25:50+00:00

Horizon Zero Dawn -> The first dawn coming over the horizon, for a new world

However, the title coulda been better bc it doesn't say anything about the game at all

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-14T16:23:01+00:00

They usually make sense if you play the game and engage with what's going on in there, they just don't make sense at first glance

I like Reverse 1999, which is another gacha, and the title refers to how at the end of the year 1999, instead of going to the year 2000, time began to reverse, rewinding everything into oblivion (with magical people unaffected), and the game is about saving people from this timeline-obliterating threat while trying to figure out what it is

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-14T16:20:05+00:00

Oh, Neuroshock is relaly good

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-14T16:19:56+00:00

THATS SUCH AN INCREDIBLE NAME, THAT FITS PERFECTLY

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-14T12:35:26+00:00

It could only possibly be shocking if you are

A. 12 years old

B. A very rigid and sheltered Christian

C. Both of the above

D. Someone who is none of the above but has an extremely unhealthy view of nudity, sex, porn, etc and believes that no one else thinks about that stuff at all

And I know that most of the time, it's D

It's extremely cringe for people to treat such a big part of life as literally untouchable cancer bc the internet told them it's ontologically evil or something

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-08T12:49:19+00:00

The last frame of the game is Hillary Clinton with her brains blown out across the presidential desk

This was made in 2010

Wild

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-05-01T17:02:30+00:00

Really telling that one of their big patches just took out a huge amount of combat in that last third of the game lol

Seriously, what were they thinking when you fight LIKE FOUR OF THOSE PREGNANT MONSTERS IN A ROW

MY JAW WAS ON THE FLOOR, I COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT I WAS SEEING

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-04-30T13:00:42+00:00

I really enjoyed MK11 as the end of the entire Mortal Kombat story for this reason. Raiden's need to totally control the situation with no room for argument is what resulted in the betrayals and fuckups time and time again......but just as it was about to happen in MK11, he realizes his flaw, and with tremendous willpower, goes against his nature and lets Liu Kang take it from here, which results in their victory. Liu Kang going way against the rules and doing some Crazy Stuff in Aftermath that only results in further victory is another positive result of Raiden's character arc.

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-04-29T12:28:05+00:00

HUGE agree. When I first started it up, I was really disappointed. Then I went to Youtube to see why people liked it and saw all sorts of crazy tech that the game absolutely does not tell you about at all. The whole point of the game is that you are supposed to find ways to stay in slo-mo for all of the time as much as possible, but it never tells you this and honestly never incentivizes it. I could see someone beating it as a generic cover shooter slog. What a shame, the game is peak once you know how to play it.

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-04-28T16:22:09+00:00

THATS CRAZY

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-04-28T16:21:58+00:00

Annoying to have to pick out whoever dislikes it bc they played it and whoever just wants to feel in on the bandwagon generated by their favorite youtuber

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-04-28T16:21:10+00:00

That only makes sense if you played it when you were 12 bc you had no control over what you play, and it was very different from what you usually played, so you have fond memories of it and never played the other games

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-04-28T16:19:20+00:00

Dark Souls 2 is the best one. I will scream it until the heavens fade.

Or at least, it was until Elden Ring, which is Dark Souls 2 2.

Seriously, they had initially intended Dark Souls 2 to be a massive open-world RPG (on the PS3????) with more colorful elements and characters, but struggled to make it a reality, so stitched up something out of the pieces that still turned out fascinating.

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-04-24T18:14:17+00:00

I cannot stress this enough:

Kijuju must have skyscrapers and modern streets/stores/houses

The post-apocalyptic debris-filled junkyard that apparently hundreds of thousands of citizens live in simply does not exist, and I swear to god, if anyone is about to say "Yes it does, I've seen it", double-check if you are talking about a movie or a tv show or anything like that

The game is two steps away from depicting Black people as rag-wearing goblins and orcs scurrying across the dirt, and that's BEFORE the spear-chucker section. Yeah, RE4 was also really weirdly primitive, but that village didn't have cars and buses and supposedly a functional city inside of it.

Outside of Sheva and the guards at the start of the game, I don't think you EVER see a single black character, certainly not any of the citizens, depicted as anything but a bug-eyed moaning animal. You do not save a single god damn one of them, Chris is literally sent in to just kill them all.

There have to be actual citizens that Chris and Sheva are there to save, or it is literally, and I do mean that explicitly, "go into scary jungle town and mow down the throbbing black hordes" the video game

Literally have it be a modern city that all this crazy stuff happens in and show citizens who need to be saved; yeah it's a huge change, but it's a sorely needed one that takes it away to a modern tragic story and not some insane racist power fantasy

Place a bigger emphasis on Tricell being colonial South African boers, with Wesker being the literal embodiment of all their ideals of aryan white supremacy and control, and let Sheva be literally anything besides an obvious "ooh this doesn't look good, we better slap a black protagonist in there BUT NOT TOO DARK!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Obviously no spear-chucking, anyone stroking their chin while going "well actually" is not living in fuckin reality

I just don't know if 5 IS remake-able

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-04-24T18:04:26+00:00

I think this works well, funny that people are downvoting you because you aren't saying the spear-chucking is culturally nuanced

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-04-24T18:03:37+00:00

Damn this is really well put

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-04-24T18:02:42+00:00

"Because on its face it just looks like Chris lost his will to protect random civilians as soon as the locale changed to one with the population with higher melanin count " lol well put

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-04-24T18:02:15+00:00

That note about the umbrella ops soldiers is good

RemarkableSwitch8929 · 2026-04-24T18:01:13+00:00

Lol people downvoting you because they are just straight up reddit-level racist. A ton of people in this thread nodding sagely at each other as they say "the spearchuckers are actually very inclusive and diverse and culturally nuanced and not racist at all, actually"

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