/v/ - Video Games

Spiritual reboots that don't even come close to the hype around them.

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>>14592679

Stay mad fat tranny lover.

>Concept art is absolutely mind-blowing awesome and fucking great

>Actual game looks nothing like in the concept art

HOW THE FUCK CAN THESE RETARDS GET SURPASSED BY LITERAL HIPPIE ARTISTS HOLY SHIT

>>14592597

I heard that Armikrog turned out a complete failure and couldn't get even closely to the Neverhood fame.

>>14592687

>Mad about tranny lovers

>Embeds Youtube videos

>Acts smug when called out

Fuck off, nigger.

>>14592684

Yes. A hundred times yes. The only thing we have now is the Black Mesa, after its completion there will be nothing except of mods for HL1/2. Valve'll never release a new game in Half-Life series.

>>14592695

a thousand times this

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>>14592740

A new example of the absolute state of game design.

1st pic is Tarkov's concept art. Absolutely fucking awesome, I want to immerse myself in that environment and go operate inawoods. Then here's what the actual garbage game looks like.

Absolute fucking garbage draw distance, garbage textures, garbage texture filtering, garbage vegetation, garbage water, garbage lighhting, garbage everything.

>>14592695

The art drive of the idea guy must always be tempered by the business sense of money guy. Otherwise you get another 3.3 Million disaster (although that was mostly just Schafer being incompetent and having a San Francisco team).

For a better example, see American McGee's Alice - McGee himself said during his QA on /v/ that the unpolished state of the game was not so much the fault of EA's deadline, and more that of him and his team spending more time doing artwork than actually putting it in-game.

>>14592766

Spiral Knights is the definition of bitter-sweet for me. On the one hand I remember how cozy the whole game is. On the other, I remember it was F2P, always online and unoptimized.

I wish there was a single player version to get cozy in and not bother with other players, lag, slow ass progression, auction house and useless PvP. I went back to it after not playing for a few years and had a blast until Tier 3 levels where you have to predict when enemies will attack instead of playing by the rules the game presents itself.

>>14592753

Didn't McGee hint at a third part a while back? The games are flawed, but I love them anyway.

Pretty sure EA wouldn't publish a game having child prostitution as a theme nowadays.

>>14592695

Concept art always looks great, no matter how shit the product.

Stalker, Command & Conquer

Both had great games and didn't deserve the guillotine. Now abandoned & neglected only to live through the mods created by the community. You could say this for many other games also

Nobody does unfulfilled potential like Bungie.

The cancellation of Free Radical's Star Wars Battlefront III might just be the most-tragic and catastrophic thing that's happened to Star Wars, the movie industry, and the vidya industry with the chain of events it set-off.

>killed Free Radical

>Free Radical originally planned the game to be impressively-ambitious, truly next-gen concepts like battles being fought across space and ground on the same map (a concept that was borrowed for Elite Squadron… on the fucking PSP of all things), and they refused to take part in the trend of selling games in pieces (DLC) like everyone else was doing, so Lucasarts fucked it off despite the fact it would have sold millions and millions of copies

>shitty games made to fill the void, like The Force Unleashed 2, the Clone Wars games, TORtanic, and Kinect Star Wars

>devalued Star Wars brand, which would eventually be sold to Disney

>Disney shits-up Star Wars even more by dumping the EU canon and making a lame-ass sequel trilogy

>Disney also sells-off the video game rights to EA, who wrought the notoriously-atrocious new Battlefront games

>we're now stuck with horrible new movies and video games for Star Wars, which is basically ruined beyond repair at this point AND selling games with DLC microjewsactions and all this other bullshit has since-become the dominant trend of the industry… and this is ALL because the Jews at Lucasarts didn't like selling their game as a whole without ripoff DLC bullshit

>>14598237

Chill man its just the Youtube autism guy. I swear to god he is a hooktube shill or a New Vegas fan. Either way gay as fuck.

>>14592570

What about a game where half the soundtrack is stuck behind on disc DLC? Gundam Versus does this.

>>14592695

Reminds me of Epic Mickey. At least Soul Sacrifice Delta came close to the concept art.

>>14593189

Reasons like that is why I sometimes buy art books while never playing the games. These artists really pour some love into their art.

>>14593333

The story of the death of Free Radical is the paragon of why the western video game industry is completely fucked. Pure greed and treating your talented devs like shit has forced most of the talent out of the industry.