original game, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel.

there really needed to be more variation in this list.

no nomination for silent hill f? dk bananza? no mario kart world? all of these games have amazing art direction, regardless of what you think about the games in general.

@beardalaxy >complains about sequels of newer games making the list
>wants mario kart 213 on it
what

@WandererUber the point of complaining about sequels is that they all have the exact same art direction as the previous game. mario kart world is a sequel but it's in a different art style.

@beardalaxy @WandererUber I see what you mean but tbf Silksong's visuals are a substantial improvement over Hollow Knight's and insanely impressive (IMO) for a small team.
It's also true that Mario Kart World is in many ways a big step up over 8 in terms of visuals, the characters and their animations look amazing. But it's on the new Nintendo and they made some asinine decisions about both ranked and single player gameplay structure so people will chimp out if you praise anything about it.

@LittleTom @WandererUber i really hate how the online for mario kart world turned out, and the open world is empty and gay. 24 player races may have been a mistake. the art is awesome though, i love the way the game feels to play, a lot of the courses are so well made (which is why online feels so bad since you never get to play them), and the soundtrack is full of remixes but there are so many of them and they're so good.

chimping out about video games seems to be the default these days it seems...

@beardalaxy @WandererUber The mechanics and most courses are crazy good. They just need to let people play them as much as they want. And yeah some tracks feel balanced for 24 players, a lot of them don't...but I will say coming from 100 hours in Sonic Crossworlds I can't complain about overly chaotic kart racing too much.
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@LittleTom @WandererUber i only played the demo for crossworlds but it seemed way more chaotic while also feeling way more fair. they balanced it a lot better. i was in the lead pretty often and when i got there it didn't feel hard to keep the lead over some bullshit. and if i do drop i don't drop to 15th place, i only drop to like 3rd max.

@beardalaxy @WandererUber I think you might be surprised how insane the items can feel when you're in a lobby of players who have gotten used to utilizing them correctly. It's why the number 1 meta loadout in the game is built around being completely invincible for as much of the race as possible (at the cost of being a pain in the ass to use in other ways). But I love the game, it's really good.
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