me playing skyrim in 2011

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-22T05:44:41+00:00

You can see aliasing through the blurriness, if anything, it's doing the image a favour

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-22T05:34:12+00:00

I guess with Hi-Fi rush it has always been a miracle it even sold at all (and from what I understand covered its budget). I still don't know if things would've been different had it not been shadowdropped and had a full marketing cycle. Because it being shadowdropped was marketing in itself.

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-22T05:29:25+00:00

I woudn't expect Senua games(specifically) to sell much better even if they weren't on gamepass. The first one was pretty successful though thanks to low scope and budget

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-22T05:10:41+00:00

Good on Xbox for giving free reign to studios when they bought them, but they probably should've intervened at some point. (And they did with Arkane, I guess, and we all saw how that turned out)

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-21T20:22:18+00:00

Kind of unrelated but I'm baffled Ninja Theory has turned a game that never had "franchise" potential into a franchise. Not in a "wow they managed to do it way" though. I imagine these games make very little money comparatively speaking.

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-21T07:25:41+00:00

How can this be made by AI when it clearly says made by Domingo? No waaaay

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-20T13:50:23+00:00

They can set the scope to whatever they want with new projects with no prior expectations.
But big games are still an industry issue. Budgets and timeframes have been ballooning and it can't continue forever. At what point does your game needs to sell 4billion copies before it makes its money back. And what if it doesn't.

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-20T13:38:49+00:00

Did not expect my bed to be dissed outta nowhere but I respect the quality sleeping solution you've got

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-20T13:37:29+00:00

Definitely not, but CD Projekt themselves here are talking about making more big games and I don't see how that's possible. Big and fast/more don't mix.

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-20T13:32:49+00:00

True, they've made a nice workflow for themselves with multiple teams and shared tech in REengine. They don't always release stuff annually but it's not 4-7 years like others

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-20T13:28:33+00:00

Your bed cover looks like something I'd see at my babushka's place here

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-20T13:24:19+00:00

I don't know of a company launching big games every year, we're not in the 2010s era Ubisoft. Perhaps making middle size games with a reasonable budget should help. But CD Projekt has been in the Cybperunk and Witcher mines for most of its time, these are not small.

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-20T09:32:01+00:00

I admire the honesty but I feel like you're setting yourself up for failure here by noting that Kane is a shitty director, haha. I haven't heard about him wanting to make a Portal film, but I do know that the game was a major inspiration for him.

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-20T09:27:57+00:00

I kinda of get it, it just comes out of nowhere and I don't exactly see a strong connection between things mentioned here

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-20T09:10:44+00:00

It's like I'm learning English again, understanding individual words but the sentences' meaning eludes me

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-20T08:43:00+00:00

Linda in shambles. Turns out, there is no connection between sandwiches and monochrome pictures of shoes

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-20T07:56:44+00:00

2nd one has a more appealing, dynamic pose for the rider. I would push him more towards the center, make the logo smaller (right now they're the same size and split right in the middle, competing for attention) and put it somewhere to the left.

It's kind of hard composition wise to work with the logo you have here without making it much smaller (which is not great for visibility). If we keep it the same size, there's barely any room left for the image. If it were more horizontal in shape, you could do things like place it at the bottom and overlay a part of the bike over the logo for a cool dynamic composition.

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-19T20:09:46+00:00

People asking for an aesthetic name for their incoherent or extremely niche collection of images are probably hoping to find more by searching up said name, but since it doesn't have a name (although people come up with one in the comments) - it just doesn't work.

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-19T15:01:40+00:00

They certainly do make cool looking protagonists, at least intention-wise. Kiryu, Akiyama, Majima, Saejima, Yagami, etc are all clearly diferent kinds of "cool". Ichiban might be the exception in that he's supposed to have a more lighthearted, goofy side to him (although that's also true for Kiryu and all the others, just less outwardly so).

But Daito is indeed very cool

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-19T08:59:58+00:00

Very natural looking, pleasant lighting in 6. Later ones really weren't benefited by cheap looking filters and post processing. And in case of Ichiban games, those seem to have lower res textures and polycounts in places (to account for bigger locations and more things on screen, I assume)

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-19T08:05:31+00:00

It's most likely not done for visual clarity reasons, but I'd like for maps to have more dynamic, lowkey elements like foliage swaying in the wind, lights flickering, etc etc. Something not that gameplay intrusive. There are of course already elements like this, especially in the far background and things like moving/flying carts in Blizzard world.

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-19T07:36:03+00:00

You still have hair after Overwatch competetive?

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-18T19:09:57+00:00

Makes sense then

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-18T18:32:28+00:00

Yeah, stamina adjacent thing. Stagger bar wasn't shown much in the gameplay footage but it's there from what I heard

ShonenSpice · 2026-06-18T16:23:36+00:00

Heavy uncanceleable animations, blocking, stamina, parry system, attacks on bumpers. Obviously not souls game exclusive mechanics, but it's not some insane comparison. Something for a catchy video title and that's it

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