@Elliptica @longyap @ChristiJunior Visually, games peaked in 2015.
"Batman Arkham Knight came out XX years ago" will be a meme for the next decade at least.
@gentoobro @longyap @ChristiJunior @Elliptica A few years ago, I would've believed that, but now we have testimonies by artists being told to make female characters less attractive.
Also pic related.
Much of the insecurity comes from the lack of a loving marriage. Even if they don't think they're as pretty as some other woman, it doesn't matter so long as their husband thinks they're pretty and will be faithful to them.
That obviously worked out well for her in the end
for a redditard feminist type, a traditional wedding can only exist in a satirical context, because to actually have an event like that would be patriarchal.
Eddie Fucksaw Remember when getting cucked and having your nintendo wii stolen was the worst thing that could happen to you?
They were simpler times.
realistic
All the female MMA fighters I've seen are more feminine than the ogres they're putting in games now.
There probably is a disconnect between what they sell and what they do.
There was a guy (I think one of the former heads of Obsidian) who posted a bunch of videos on YouTube about modern game design. This is from memory (so I may have the details wrong), but a dynamic he brought up is that there is an industry wide tendency to avoid ownership of something. So if I ask Sam to program a specific thing, Sam would get mad and say I'm making her feel pressured, likely because if someone does not like it, everyone knows she "owned" it and they might blame her. People feel a lot less pressure being allowed to work on whatever they want whenever they want (obviously), but the net result is that progress is very disorganized. I've seen this with Valve too, which allows people to randomly switch teams whenever they feel like it. As a result, Valve has in a decade released a card game and a VR game.
There also seems to be a pervasive attitude that they think they are too big to fail. This leads to a lot of stupid choices that alienate or even antagonizes players for the sake of some vision or trendy/contrived social issue. In many respects, these people don't care about money, and they stopped caring about money long ago. With the exception of Nintendo, many companies can offset the costs of making bad games and hardware with other businesses. Does Sony make any money selling phones? Not really, but they stay in the market anyway. Same thing with the Playstation.
Because of the huge investments and long dev cycles, this means most games that do come out end up being ultra sanitized, open world ubi-slop botw minecraft clones, designed to appeal to as wide a market for as long as possible, but that no one really gets excited for. But they have to do this, because if they say something that, in like 5 years become "offensive" then they fear it will hurt their profits.
A good detailed analysis of the rot and incompetence in modern game studio management.
Valve too, which allows people to randomly switch teams whenever they feel like it.
It's worse than that. An insider told me that while officially you can switch teams whenever, the new team has to accept you, which creates a big gossipy, political clusterfuck inside the company. Everything carries an undertone of social jockeying because people are trying to switch to a team, or other people are trying to prevent that.
fear it will hurt their profits.
Except they'd actually print money, but they're retards, cowards, or both.
I think a lot of this comes down to management rot. They blow the whole budget rewriting the story and remaking the art 15 times. The artists are off on another continent rather than down the hall. There's 6 layers of useless, incompetent management in between the guy writing the shaders and the guy making the textures.