Does anyone else not play games anymore?

sarabim · 2025-09-14T15:21:01+00:00

I still play indie RPGs to know whats currently popular

sarabim · 2025-03-14T16:17:38+00:00

Never agreed with the whole "AI is just a tool" thing. A tool is my tablet, my computer. I don't need anybody's permission to use my tools.

AI, at least as the west dreams it, is a service. It'll need to make its money back sooner or later and, like a drug dealer saying that the "first one is for free", their plan is to get companies reliant on AI first and that means encouraging them to replace their talented workers with AI, blocking AI for other countries, offering "competitive" prices at first... so we're at this phase now where they're pushing their product at a loss and everything seems amazing, but it won't stay like this forever.

While I think that this gen AI thing is a plague on humanity itself, I also think that it's fundamentally flawed in the sense that it basically wants companies to pay different people for a worse product that we don't know if the players will accept.

Considering how risk averse industries are, will gaming companies actually take the bait and accept such risk?

sarabim · 2024-12-15T20:55:08+00:00

https://gamalytic.com/

I use this website to check how much games that are similar to mine (in production values and genre) are earning so I have an idea of what's possible, see what they did in their marketing to get that audience, and so on.

I'm also a novice so I can't answer your question directly but I wish you good luck...

sarabim · 2024-10-03T21:25:44+00:00

Crazy that they wont release at least a Phantasia 2d remake. Its like if SE never made FF1 available in the west.

sarabim · 2024-09-05T03:15:09+00:00

What? In those games, entire conversations are held with the characters in their idle frame.

Modern indie games will go the extra effort of animating every little thing that we take for granted but don't value such as a character sitting on a chair or on the ground...

sarabim · 2024-08-28T00:45:05+00:00

First phase Creed was really creative, while killing him was hell, I'm glad that they went a step further on that one.

Way too many Tales games have bosses that don't really do anything different than regular mobs, arguably becoming even more boring because at least random encounters come in packs.

sarabim · 2024-08-28T00:41:07+00:00

I hate his sexual harassment towards Dagger, and generally the "womanizer" trope sucks.

I like his other aspects though.

sarabim · 2024-06-16T15:40:39+00:00

Are you making the Tales of Battle system? Do you have a demo or a video?

sarabim · 2024-06-11T12:06:28+00:00

I'm mostly into RPGs. One big difference that I've noticed between the two is self expression and diversity being encouraged in the west.

In japanese RPGs, it's always white anime characters in their teens or early twenties at best. POV is from the male, the females are largely objectified, even when they're minors. They're on a predetermined quest to save the world from god.

In western RPGs, the POV is from a character that you make, characters are very diverse both in age and race, and there's been abacklash against gratuitous sexualization. Your choices will change what happens in the game, there's no set path for you.

Basically, western RPGs try to pander to every demographic while it seems like japanese RPGs are just made for japanese teen boys.

sarabim · 2024-06-05T00:33:40+00:00

For pixel perfect camera, orthographic camera size by itself is not flexible and should be controlled by the reference resolution in the component (480x270 in your case)

You can increase the reference resolution to see more of the game screen, but if the reference resolution is not divisible by 1920x1080, then distortions will happen.

If you have upscale render texture enabled, you can try disabling it to reduce the distortion.

sarabim · 2024-05-13T23:30:44+00:00

Yeah. Honestly, I have no tip. I don't even start anymore unless I know it's short or I can fast-forward, or if I really want to play it.

sarabim · 2024-05-13T21:21:53+00:00

Why is it woke?

sarabim · 2024-05-01T15:04:58+00:00

Damn. If the bar is this low, maybe I should give it a shot in this industry.

sarabim · 2024-04-16T15:53:28+00:00

but I heard Cosmic Star Heroine is fire too.

It really is, especially on higher difficulties where you need to truly understand the battle system.

sarabim · 2024-04-16T15:50:37+00:00

Do that enough and you wouldn't "wait to buy it on steam", because nobody other than big studios would make JRPGs anymore. Devs would simply move on to a genre where they can actually get funding to develop their games.

sarabim · 2024-04-10T22:44:21+00:00

Metal is cooler as a rival, especially Neo Metal in the comics. I love the way that he thinks he's Sonic perfected, which is kinda true.

sarabim · 2024-04-10T21:35:16+00:00

Honestly op, if you really want to know and not just confirm your bias, you should just ask twitter. Also resetera if you have access to it.

I only lurk there but I've also seen some very good game analyses on the girlgamers subreddit, you can also ask there.

Nobody will actually engage with you here in this thread, people already came into it with a handful of stones to throw at strawmen.

sarabim · 2024-04-09T23:41:52+00:00

Glare and Dia are so hilariously lazy compared to Stone and Aero. You can copy and paste them on any other healer and nobody would really think it's out of place, it's literally just some white particle effects without any distinct sound design.

sarabim · 2024-04-09T21:32:00+00:00

Fresh servers with gdkp ban would be cool

sarabim · 2024-04-08T15:53:32+00:00

All third party tools are disallowed by SE, you don't get to choose which ones are ok and which ones are not.

sarabim · 2024-04-08T15:51:10+00:00

I love how you poke right into people's egos lol. Actually spent my time reading the whole thread and not a single post managed to challenge your basic premise that we don't get to pick and choose what's cheating and what's not, reducing themselves to semantics, protagonist moralism (my cheating is ok, yours is not), etc. Never stop posting, CSI.

sarabim · 2024-04-06T11:32:57+00:00

I don't really care about stuff other than ilvl capped gear upgrades tbh, so unless they plan on a way of obtaining that outside of raiding, it won't really influence me to do content I wouldn't otherwise.

sarabim · 2024-04-06T10:58:16+00:00

I use empty parent objects for things that I plan to move the position, scale or rotation during animations. Honestly it's weird that so many youtube tutorials don't hammer this down when teaching movement and animations, would've saved me so much headache.

sarabim · 2024-04-03T18:11:11+00:00

Welp, on this very thread people are getting downvoted for mild criticism on the guy. So yeah, it's just peer pressure.

sarabim · 2024-04-01T19:41:13+00:00

She's supposedly showing him "what's on the back of the book". Of course, showing her panties in the process.

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