/v/ - Video Games

>>15444729

>What you posted are the equivalent to summer blockbusters

I'd say summer blockbusters are more akin to Call of Duty, Battlefield, Destiny, FarCry and Asscreed.

>>15444717

the nu-raider games as well

>>15444729

goon detected

TLoU is oscar bait, the rest is as >>15444729 said even though hes a faggot lumping in Nier Autobutta with the tripple ayy trash.

>>15444737

lol the mad

>Breath of the Wild

>Oscar bait

<Not just Nintendo's misguided attempt at recreating a classic interpretation of Zelda but in the modern age

The rest of those are oscar bait, yeah.

>>15444750

>recreating a classic interpretation of Zelda but in the modern age

>with less dungeons than the first zelda game

>>15444753

>conveniently misses the "misguided attempt" portion of the sentence

<this much lack of reading comprehension

>>15444755

Misguided doesn't mean complete failure.

>>15444717

Why Oscar "bait"? Even shit that actually gets an Oscar is terrible nine times out of ten

>>15444757

Popularity doesn't mean quality, either. What's your point?

>>15444760

The point of oscar bait is trying really, really hard to get as many nominations as possible. Doesnt mean the movie has to actually be good.

>>15444767

Makes sense, seeing as how good movies usually don't get nominated.

>>15444717

But those aren't holocaust videogames at all, OP

>>15444717

BoTW isn't really oscar bait because what defines an oscar bait game are 3 main characteristics; muh feels, muh "depth" and muh cinematic experience. BoTW doesn't really have any of that, what happened to it is the same cycle that happens every 5 or so years when a new Zelda game is released, it gets almost perfect scores everywhere and it's nominated for GoTY regardless of actual quality, mainly because its fanbase is one of the most autistic and vocals in this industry and had been for quite a while. It's funny because out of the 18+ games in the series only 5 are actually good and maybe 2 can be considered masterpieces.

>>15444729

>>>/cuckchan/

>>15444799

considering the reception of the games at the game awards, it's tga bait i guess

>>15444799

>Even then, can it be said that there has ever existed a game that was produced for the sole purpose of acquiring a Game Award nomination?

Depression Quest

I liked all of the Bioshocks except for 2, it did have a good DLC though.

>>15444795

>>15444799

The video game equivalent of Oscar bait has… yes

>muh feels, muh "depth" and muh cinematic experience

but there are also other aspects:

short playtime (to make reviews), is very easy but doesn't look easy (almost flat difficulty curve), and "mature" storytelling.

>>15444811

Garbage taste

Depends what you mean by "Oscar bait".

If you mean pretentious shit that tries specifically to get good reviews by having deep, revealing stories and being sentimental to a fault while suffering in every other aspect, then that only really applies to Bioshock and The Last of Us. I know Uncharted 4 tried some stupid things, but I don't think it went for a deep, pretentious story. It's more like those shitty action sequels made with an aging actor who doesn't want to do it anymore, and it's got that same sense of dull tiredness.

If you mean games that are specifically trying to appeal to reviewers rather than an actual playerbase, that works for all of them except probably Zelda.

Zelda is really out of place in that image. Whether it's good or not is up for debate, but it's just a kind of bland open world game that does some things well and some things badly. It doesn't really fit into the "pretentious deep story" game clade, because the story is nearly the same story that Zelda has always had to a fault. Regardless of how it fucks up, at least it's still trying to be a fun game rather than deliver some mind-blowing story.

>>15444858

Not to mention the other 4 are have a huge cutscene to actually play the game ratio. While Botw only had a handful when compared to its runtime.

>>15444885

>Not to mention the other 4 are have a huge cutscene to actually play the game ratio.

There is also the technically not cutscene like in Bioshock 1 which you can move the camera and you can't skip.

>>15444909

Those walky talkies "you can still move but please watch this animation" might as well be cutscenes. Especially if you lose all other functionally.

>botw

>being oscar bait at all

>putting it alongside interactive movies

kys. Fucking tired of this forced botw bashing on this board.

>>15444944

Whine more, faggot. It's a slightly more polished Skyrim and nothing more.

>>15444949

Suck my dick. It doesn't belong on that list at all, regardless of what you think of it.

>>15444930

Ken Levine said that he hates the use of cutscenes so his repose is to put barely interactive scripted scenes that you can't skip. In MGS5, you can actually skip it.

>>15444949

>It's a slightly more polished Skyrim and nothing more.

I don't believe you. There are too many Bethesda apologist in this board.

>>15444949

In what way? You really need to justify that kind of claim. I've got my share of complaints about BotW, but it doesn't seem anything like any of the Elder Scrolls games in the least, other than falling under an open world label.

>>15445039

That's exactly it's downfall - the content, what little there is of it, is spread apart by mindless ten minute drudges through empty fields. The dungeons are uninspired, the world itself is uninspired, and there's no fun in exploration - exactly like Skyrim. The slight polish comes from small touches like the Weather system, and some of the neat intricacies of how you can approach enemies. But combat is fucking trivial after ten hours or so.

Zelda's been shit since Ocarina of Time, and even LttP was just barely average, getting away with it since it was one of the earlier ones.

>>15445242

more of a Cannes film amirite?

>>15445283

So the Dear Esther style of shit not walking simulators, but the stupid poetry themes things

>>15445292

And Gone Home.

>>15445283

The "video games are art" crowd of hipsters and tumblr types.

>>15445283

>Maybe you should actually define your terms first

How retarded are you to not be familiar with oscar bait?

I hate botw, it's such shit.

Lmso niggers amirite fellow virginias?

>>15444717

I can see the rest of those being the game equivalent of oscar bait, but how is BoTW oscar bait? I haven't played it but I thought it was just an open world Zelda game.

>>15444799

Journigger bait

>>15444717

Meta shit like Undertale, Spec Ops: The Line

>>15445423

>Spec Ops: The Line

Oh, that one DEFINITELY qualifies as Oscarbait. The way journos and ecelebs held up that mediocre sludge was disgusting.

>>15445131

So they're both empty and boring open-world games. That doesn't make BotW a "more polished Skyrim", that just means they're both poor examples in the same genre. I'm not saying BotW is good, but it's really nothing like Skyrim at all, other than being the same genre. They have as much in common with each other as they both have with every other open world game.

I find the term to be a little confusing. It could either be interpreted as "E3/awards show Bait," games that look great at E3 and ceremonies but actually suck, or games which appeal to the "critics" which in our case are hipsters and SJWs. TLoU and nuGoW fill both criteria very well so I think everyone can agree they're Oscar bait equivalent.

Other games I can think of include Aliens Colonial Marines, Sea of Thieves, and Gone Home was the very definition of the term since it won a fuckload of awards while having nothing of substance.

To my knowledge BotW was just an attempt to emulate Skyrim. The others are linear (not that there is anything inherently wrong with a game being linear) "cinematic" affairs with reduced focus on gameplay. Most of them also shackle you to someone else's kid. BotW definitely doesn't fit in with the others.

>>15444782

That's way too high for Dear white people.

Dear Ester and that gone home thing are oscar bait.

>>15444782

>>15445637

What "Dear White People" is anyway? Never heard of it.

>>15444717

Every recent David Cage cinematic experience.

Life is Strange. One of the writers got angry at Brote for making fun or their shitty script.

>>15445292

>Dear Esther

The devs got triggered when people used the term "walking simulator" when talking about their game.

>>15445645

>ooga booga

>white boi da debil

>gibs us dat

>>15444782

>I'm not sure about UC4.

it's total journalist bait, there's lengthy fucking sequences of walking and talking and petty attempts at deconstructing it's own themes, they even have the audacity to do a sequence where dialogue is purposely muted, I thought my fucking TV was broken.

The real disgusting part about bait like this in games is it's not even bait though, the games writers really think they're clever, mature, and ground breaking for making boring fucking games

>>15445400

>Best game of this generation

you say that like that's an achievement in this barren wasteland of an industry, just because something's a 4 in a sea on 2s and 3s doesn't make it good, the literal only reason anyone bought this slog of an painfully average game was because they were to busy thinking with their dick to even notice the gameplay is sub-par, Nier Automata is the literal Overwatch of Hack and Slashes.

>>15445830

The /v/ rating scale is about as helpful as IGN's because everything that isn't a 90s PC game is either shit, mediocre, or average at best.

>>15445847

I'm sorry that most people here dont like your shitty PS4 JRPGs.

>>15445857

> in a much less malignant way

>>15445830

This. Fucking accept it shills, there has not been a single good game released in years and this is something all oldfags can agree with.

>>15445847

SEETHING

Keep defending your shitty games, we'll keep BTFOing them again and again.

I have never touched a Zelda game and want to get into it which should I start with? Also whats so bad about Breath of the Wild?

>>15445937

Link's Awakening DX for the GBC

>>15445937

>I have never touched a Zelda game and want to get into it which should I start with?

ALTTP or the Gameboy games

> Also whats so bad about Breath of the Wild?

A mile wide and an inch deep

>>15445860

This. But don't expect shills to understand that our culture fucking requires people to see the truth about the shittiness of these games. If they don't, they can fuck off and stop derailing.

>>15445847

>(1) shill pussies out of the thread after being BTFO

The state of cuckchanners.

>>15444717

>Bioshock Infinite

Definitely. In fact, their plan of making a MIND BLOWING story involving time travel and possibly the dumbest interpretation of the many worlds theory ever portrayed in media, got the game tons of 10/10s and GOTY awards, despite the game being objectively awful.

>Last of Us

Definitely bait. Faux emotional story. Muh struggle. Muh suffering. Muh nature. Muh hard choices. Muh illusion of challenge. Of course, journos ate it up.

>Breath of the Wild

Not sure. Unlike the other games, this one didn't try to portray itself as deeper or more meaningful or more "real" like the other games you've posted. It still made journos fap themselves raw, but not for the same reasons. It's an okay/10 game, but it's hard to figure out what it was that really made journos sperg so hard and declare it the best zelda ever.

>Uncharted 4

It can be assumed that anything naughty dog does these days is a blatant attempt to bait for critical accolades. Typically works, too.

>nuGoW

Muh dead wife. Muh difficult father-son relationship. Muh family drama. Muh boy is suddenly a huge prick who thinks he can do whatever he wants. Muh RPG elements and gear crafting. Undoubtedly, they were aiming for what they got: Journos sucking their dick because the game was fractionally deeper than a primetime procedural drama.

>>15446023

>some wanna-be polcuck thinks screeching about a post is BTFOing someone

o am i laffin

>>15446031

>polcuck

Thus entire site is /pol/. And that's good, lefty shill.

>screeching about a post is BTFOing someone

<telling the truth is screeching

>>15445665

I asked because I'm not american, I can't just imagine a nigger and get a premise from that.

>>15446023

>>15445998

>>15446035

Fuck's sake, blackpillfag, you're such a faggot

>>15446074

>Torfags can't stop slurpin' cock and eating jizzum

>More at 11'

>>15446035

>entire site is /pol/

>/pol/ has less population than two next boards combined

Yeah entirety of /cuteboys/ or other faggot boards might be /pol/, but it doesn't mean the entire site is /pol/. Math is not hard, maybe it's time you should learn it.

>>15445669

I meant in regard of being a dad simulator. Unlike BS:I, tLoU, and nuGoW; you don't log around a kid.

>>15444729

I feel as if Yoko just read wikipedia entries about philosophy lol. Other than that I didn't really care about the existence crisis 9S was having, because I would still classify him as man. Like Christ says, there is those born of flesh and those born of spirit. Everyday I commune with people who are already dead. And I think what difference is there between them and machine. Everybody who has been saved is written in the book of life, the rest will perish. I would tell 9S to cheer up because you're basically like any other human without spirit. Very few will enter into the kingdom of heaven. My whole family is basically dead and maybe even I, yet I still love them and talk to them. Its weird, I guess it teaches you not to get too attached to things. When they die, they will return to the earth like the saints of old, in a deep sleep until the Trumpet sounds. I have loved girls who are lost sheep, so android waifus are not much of a difference. I figured, feeling sorry for androids for not having a soul is basically feeling sorry for flesh without spirit. You see it as a fact of life and move on.

>>15448320

/pol/ is a shithole with even more scum sucking redditor crossposters than /v/

/pol/ has been a shithole since late 2015 and the 2016 election was the killing blow.

True Oscar bait appeals to the people on the committee, itself. So it has to feature older white males as the protagonists, be a period piece because they're all old farts nostalgia about the "good old days", and most importantly be ABOUT THE INDUSTRY. There's nothing those fuckers like better than a movie about movies and/or moviemakers.

So for a video game, it would have to be something that directly references it being a video game, or just be about video gamers. So… if you could combine Bioshock Infinite (a period piece with a white male protag) with Undertale (a game essentially about gaming) then you'd have your video game equivalent to Oscar Bait.

>>15448432

You're not wrong, but /pol/ and their "culture" still rules this entire site and you'd be stupid not to recognize that.

>>15445830

Automata's gameplay is fucking superb as is almost everything else in the game.

>>15448327

It's supposed to be a realistic look at the seedy underworld of post-WWII America. The characters aren't supposed to be likeable

>>15448994

The term is "write" home about"

>>15448978

>multiple people coming to the same conclusion?

>no, it's them who are wrong, not me!

>>15444944

It's actually worse than skyrim.

>>15444944

>forced

the game is mechanically weak as shit, it's not "terrible" but anyone who thinks it's some grand masterpiece has only played a handful of games, or religiously sucks nintendo cock

>>15449087

t. Hideki Hayakawa

>>15444811

Bioshock 2 is the only decent game in the series.

Next you'll say Infinite is the best game in the series, it's the only way you could show even shittier taste.

>>15446038

You'd be surprised what gets an investor hook. I think there was a movie called "the cuckold" or something that actually had funding put into it.

this thread is oscar bait. bravo anon i am moved to tears

>>15450712

Game isn't good because it isn't good

What games are equivalent to Wong Kar-Wai kino?