/v/ - Video Games

They focus on production because they know nobody else can compete in that regard.

I've never understood why people were so critical of midi music.

Because it's about puffing up their resumes, not running a business. Now go away.

Money

>>15365430

What kind of idiot are you that you think Realistic graphics don't attractive simple minded morons and therefore generate business?

Why do you make low effort threads asking questions you already know the answer to?

>>15365493

dopamine

>>15365429

Because use of library samples ruin midi music.

Easiest way to hide they are creatively bankrupt

It's the gaming equivalent of oscar bait. Is there a term for that?

They can't compete with Japs on fun so they need a gimmick.

>>15365727

yes

>>15365429

I don't mind it myself, but my dad always fucking hated it. Couldn't stand "boops" and "beeps" coming from my Game Boy and what not, so I'd have to mute them if he was around.

An attempt to appeal to the masses

Sage for fuck you OP

>>15365412

you know this really got me thinking

do big companies really focus on the manpower-intensive shit (of course without trying too hard to make that part actually good) and try to make games with those parts popular purely so smaller game devs can't compete in those categories and take the normalfags away from them?

as in, do they really make the "normal" expected game something that small devs can't achieve just for profit?

holy shit

the problem isn't realistic graphics, the problem is bloated graphics.

>>15370382

Yes. They also invest heavily in "gaming course" shit that makes would be talent unemployable anywhere else outside of their sweatshops and set up shop in prohibitively expensive cities so people have a harder time leaving them. It's a very pimp and hoe type relationship.

>>15365429

People don't even understand what MIDI is, they think it's a le 8bit retro buzzword for early synthesized music and such.

>>15366169

>Game Boy

>MIDI

Case in point. Go fucking google what MIDI means.

>>15366169

>Gameboy

>MIDI

At least call it "chiptune" instead you ignorant bastard.

>>15370382

Are you just getting around to realizing this now? Yes, they make graphically advanced games so they can tout the "AAA" tag for their game and have associated AAA with quality. Since most normalfags are retarded and just want "bigger and better" here we are. Which to normalfags translates to:

>Open World = Bigger

>More realistic and shiny graphics = better

And it goes further than that too. As >>15370394 points out, they like to set themselves up in prohibitively expensive cities while paying all the grunt workers who are the real miracle workers behind every project less than $50k a year to live in a city where rent, utilities and grocceries will add up to about $4k every month. This is a deliberate move. If they paid their staff properly then they'd have the freedom to quit their job and go look for better prospects or start their own studio and the publisher doesn't want that. They want to make it so the only time you're looking for a new job is when they shutdown the studio after cancelling your series because they decided to set the sales goal of the third game to be greater than the first two combined (Yes, I'm still mad about Dead Space and the eventual death of Visceral).

To anyone looking to get into vidya, go into indie studios, do not even give a single thought to AAA studios because they will fuck you at every opportunity.

>>15370847

And to add to that, AAA studios/publishers' business model are different from the rest of the business world's. While other industries have to squirrel away money for certain pesky things like "expansion", "underestimated overhead cost", "unforeseen cost for disasters and accidents" and "reinvestment to improve or maintain infrastructure", the software industry has an unbelievably wide profit margin peddling relatively low cost products to a niche but numerous audience. If you're familiar with ETFs, mutual funds and trust funds in the Asian markets, Tencent is reliably the largest investor in almost every fund I've came across. They're literally making so much money the only thing left for them to do is to put the money into the financial sector to generate growth and occasionally cash out to buy a company or two.

>>15370847

>all the grunt workers who are the real miracle workers behind every project less than $50k a year to live in a city where rent, utilities and grocceries will add up to about $4k every month.

It's worse than that actually when you consider the management themselves and their bosses own all the real estate. You're practically paying them back 90% of your wage.

>>15370974

And that's an issue with society at large.

We're always fucked unless we changr society itself.

Because it sounds good and looks good.

What's so wrong with having a game look good and not some trash rick-and-morty nigger shit that /v/ loves to praise?

>>15371115

>Because it sounds good and looks good.

No it doesn't

Most of the times it looks like trash due to shit art design and sounds like shit due to complete lack of inspiration.

>>15370960

That's literally plantation economics 101 though.

Because they're trying to compete with Hollywood blockbuster movies, and think if they make video games exactly like movies, they'll capture the audience of movies. AKA: they're morons who think all of media is zero-sum, like people who watch movies never play games and vice-versa.

>>15371652

>like people who watch movies never play games and vice-versa.

It's not that, I attended a marketing seminar where the expert guru of over 40 years of marketing strategy experience claims people who watch movies AND play games would play games for the same reasons they like watching movies (he based this on the fact that movies is the older medium and people are more likely to develop their taste for movies before games).

>and big orchestral soundtracks

They do? Since when? The vast majority of triple A OST nowadays is fake electronic music, including the ones that attempt to make it sound like real instruments. I don't know of any modern game that has actual authentic high quality orchestral themes. The closest to an actual instrument they get is the bits of legitimate acoustic guitar but even those are rare.

>>15371652

>Because they're trying to compete with Hollywood blockbuster movies

The opposite actually. They're in bed with Hollywood and every other Caliphornia centered business racket.

>>15365402

normal faggots

>>15365402

>big orchestral soundtracks?

>that feeling when i don't like orchestral music

just end my life.

>>15372932

The vast majority of orchestral soundtracks are Inon Zur type garbage that's just a bunch of random crescendos with absolutely zero actual melodies and over reliance on brass. The Dragon Quest games were done by an actual lifelong professional and it shows, at least in the older ones.

>>15365402

To pretend that they are doing something important.

>>15373801

Based and redpilled

>>15373801

We should listen to this anon everyday, he knows the truth.

>>15365402

JEWS,MONEY,MOVIES,ART.

thats it

>>15373801

An easy answer, but devs know their audience is the perfect atomized consumer and don't have to jump on every bandwagon they see. It's because they're talentless hacks that they do it.

>>15373847

he cute

>>15373801

Naw, because SJW shit frequently loses them money. So it's not always 100% money.

I wish more games had realistic graphics. Most seem pretty lazy in this regard and don't strive for excellent visuals. DICE and CDPR seem to be some of the few companies that actually strive to make a really great looking game. All the rest are lazy cucks like Activision who make graphics look barely better than late era 360.

>>15371666

I certainly don't watch movies for the gameplay.

>>15365402

Heh I forgot how good Hylics soundtrack was, time to re download it, thanks OP.

>>15370955

The Chinese are not memed as the Jews of Asia for nothing. In fact I'd argue they're even better at it since their culture is just as ancient as the kikes if not even older.

t. chinkanon

>>15371666

>people are more likely to develop their taste for movies before games

This is nonsense, Satan. Maybe people NOW start watching movies as soon as they're five minutes old and the parents thrust an iPad into the infant's hands. But back when I was a kid, any form of visual media was unheard of for a child under the age of 4-5 to consume; content for toddlers, aside from Sesame Street (and the target demographic for that skews higher, anyway), DID NOT EXIST. From my experience, a person's tastes in video games evolves from their taste in non-video games. Depending what they did as a child determines what later types of games they like. Kids that played with blocks play builder games, kids that played with action figures play adventure games, kids that played cops and robbers play shooter games, kids that played sports play sports games, etc.

That "guru" is either a millennial, or a moron who clearly doesn't remember a goddamn thing about his own childhood.

>>15373990

My attraction to Asian women knows no bounds anymore. The other day I was attracted to a woman who turned out to be 40. I assumed she was in her 20's.

Has Hynix 2 come out yet?

>no good retro 80-00's styled games with xwave soundtracks

https://youtu.be/E4eCs4twfco

So sick of normalfag music, glad they havent ruined retro wave yet

>>15389842

Spicy Facebook meme you got there.

Terry Davis really is dead.

>>15390141

Or an extremely dedicated troll that altered the DOM with the DOM inspector.