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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · Jun 14

Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 56m

'canon' is one of the funniest marketing schemes of all time "a corporation paid 6 billion dollars for this series so they get to decide which made up stories REALLY didn't happen."

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やしろ学/Manabu YASHIRO @yashiro-manabu.bsky.social · 9h

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 3h

every single Sega of America interview with 90s era people makes the interviewee sound like a malignant narcissist it's insane

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 9h

[inktober day 15]

ink drawing on grid paper of a knight wearing a very ornate helmet

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 3h

I have met many AAA devs, extremely passionate and stupidly hardworking by and large, but they are, almost to the last, as averse to playing old games as the average gamer, and if offered creative freedom would largely keep making the same kinds of games they already make.

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Alex @alexdz.bsky.social · 8h

"Why do people get upset with remakes? It's not like they replace the originals"

Capcom execs: We replaced the original games, why re-release them?

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 3h

cool, I suspect that SF2 example is the far more common story

Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 10h

yeah, I strongly suspect it's mostly a consequence of guys making really arbitrary changes to 'suit' western tastes and therefore getting to take a share of credit if the game did well, which is a key motivation for a lit of other weird localization trends

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · Jun 7

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 15h

does anyone have a primary source about games being made harder in the west to combat rentals? I've never actually seen that confirmed in interviews and a reasonably large number of games are easier in western versions. I tend to think middle managers trying to claim credit are a more common cause

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 15h

I absolutely love those movies and still do, especially the first one, the third I think is the one that struggles the most to balance the qualities of the source against the needs of film making and has some goofy choices but it does the job of providing the emotional closure.

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 15h

I am a true intellectual I will rent it for 15 dollars + 30 dollars in late fees after playing it exactly once and forgetting I had it

Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 15h

I don't give a shit about glorfindel but they should have had tom bombadil and the scouring of the shire, this is true adaptation radicalism

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 16h

pre-PJ lotr art is really interesting because it's so much more varied and even stuff that is distinctly not trying to evoke those movies today still seem caught in their gravity well

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 16h

I really had to filter out the PJ trilogy the first time I read the book especially because they were really foundational to me as a kid it's really hard to step outside the box the created

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 17h

Shinobi Non Grata is a good time but a perfect example of this phenomenon in action, hopefully the Scramble Vice has more emphasis on stage design

Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 18h

relentlessly ripping off Michael Mann movies makes for great trailer material but they just have no idea how to make a videogame lol

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 21h

GTA V, rockstar are the biggest frauds on the planet

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 1d

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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