/v/ - Video Games

I've never heard of anyone outside of AAA magazines talk of this game. Pretty sure nobody gives a shit about it.

>>15942119

Yeah, I guess so. I think I'm trying to look at Hellblade though the lens of an action game when it's really more of a "cinematic experience." People praise the sound design in Hellblade but I don't favor it when the voices are telling me to watch out for an enemy approaching out of my field of view. I'd rather have good audio cues that told me what type of attack was coming from where rather than some voice going "Behind you!" The new God of War was guilty of this as well. Meh

>>15942153

>but I don't favor it when the voices are telling me to watch out for an enemy approaching out of my field of view

I thought the whole shtick was that Senua has schizophrenia so the voices were meant to fuck with you.

Other than that I have heard nothing about it and that's not what I would play a game for let alone pay money for what should've been a movie instead.

>astroturfers

The non-retarded term is "people with shit taste".

I pirated this and played it about a week ago, funnily enough. Its got good visuals, voice acting and sound. Gameplay is poor though, which means it fails as a game. Playing it made me upset though, as the premise was cool and would actually lend itself well if the game was an actual game. It would have been more effective if it was less interactive movie and more video game.

The only good that came out of this game was the hard point that you can have decent visuals without spending a ton of cash - so the argument that AAA publishers have to raise prices and use lootboxes to cover the cost of development is pretty thoroughly debunked even for casual fags.

Then again… Senua's advertising was almost entirely word of mouth, and almost entirely precipitated on the schtick that it was a "AAA Indie". The "wow, look at these visuals on this kind of a budget" novelty. If that becomes commonplace, it will cease to be effective as a marketing wedge and then we're right back to making games for cheap and blowing tens of millions on advertising budgets and HollyJew voice actors.

>>15942119

b-b-b-b-b-but muh AAA quality indie medium budget psychological adventure that deals with real squizophrenia and permanently deletes muh save if I fail too many times to make it more immersive staring a strong female protagonist that doesn't need a man!!

They got the artfaggots on their side by depicting mental illness. They'll defend it to the death because it's "depicting something important".

>>15943411

>permanently deletes muh save if I fail too many times

No idea if its confirmed but some redditor tried to trigger that mechanic and found out it was complete bullshit, he then praised them for this "genius" marketing move like a true plebbitor of course.

>>15943516

That's the joke, there was no such a thing.

>>15943426

I was sure I heard, that the people it was made for, the ones with mental illness, thought it was terrible. Funny because they certainly had people who deal and handle mental illness in that documentary. It was a good idea to depict a character with mental illness where its treated differently than it is now. Too bad it was mostly for visual look and easy visual puzzles. One of the top games that wasted its potential from an interesting concept.

>>15943549

>>15943426

Sadly even the moderately trustworthy reviewers here and there praised the game as one "of the best examples" of single player games still being relevant, and "how you don't need a AAA budget to make a good game."

>>15942109

My normalfag friends actually said the audio design in this game is good.

I don't remember them talking about the gameplay though.

This game was cool faggots.

>>15942109

>Is there a way to determine exactly how many astroturfers Ninja Theory has working for them?

Count how many people say their games aren't complete trash.