Nibble. (Gaming)

by INSANEdrive, ಥ_ಥ | f(ಠ‿↼)z | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ| ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 17:07 (1057 days ago) @ Cody Miller

So... this post WAS longer. Naturally, just as I was finished and about to click "send" my computer decided it would be a good time to just... seize up. Lost the whole thing, and boy-oh-boy am I not happy about that. So, now this is going to be an abridged version, based on what I can recall I put down. Shit this sucks. This hurts.

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But you're in the WORLD Cody, and it seems like you didn't even play in it.

I played. I found many things. More than most people apparently. But when the characters don't seem to care, why would I? There are no emotional stakes. Every game creates a world, just like every film or book. What's the difference between Fantastic Beasts and Harry potter? Same world right? So why was one of them so insufferably dull?

A world is not enough. It needs emotional richness. And Control was emotionally impoverished.

It's a game of Bureaucrats. It's not supposed to be Shakespeare. In fact, they're a little too emotional. As for Jesse, let's just say she has always found life a little strange. (It's part of the story.)

Why does it need to be a new invention? Can't it just be something well done, executed with and often far-too-fleeting "folks being good at their job"? Do not besmirch the flowers, and their scent, simply because you've smelled it before.

By this logic, I should be fine playing 2D platformers until the end of time. They are better than they ever have been objectively. If you believed that you'd be playing the same games over and over. But you, and others don't. We as humans crave new experiences, new novelties, and new challenges.

Human experience is relative. While 2D platformers are at their best absolutely, does a new one today FEEL like it did to play Mario 3? No. Because the improvements are incremental, and your knowledge largely carries over. Halo wasn't Halo because it only felt a little better than Goldeneye.

I had a huge response to this one. This hurts the most... something about, you care more about tech or something? Oh... it was a solid observation and I can't think for what it was now. I'm so angry. Rrrrrr.

Cody, you're on a Destiny forum. We do the same thing, have done the same thing, for days, weeks, months... YEARS now. And then after that is was basically "everything is a remix", and some observations on that front, but I'm just so out now... I'm just posting this now out of spite of my computer.

Eh.

Well... at least the meme I made survived.