The widescale fellation of E33 is, I must confess, a laughable phenomenon to observe.An "indie" game made on a $10 million budget, with a star-studded voice cast and the backing of wealthy investors, while making use of Unreal Engine stock assets - and all propped up by an emotionally manipulative storyline that anyone who's read a book or two beyond the shallow end of contemporary fiction will recognize is trite and mawkish - sweeping every award in 2025 is perfectly fitting.Mechanically, the game completes the illusion. It is a JRPG designed for normies who hate (or rather, are embarrassed to be associated with) JRPGs and are far more interested in an "accessible and immersive" experience. The result is a combat loop that flatters the player’s sense of participation while asking almost nothing of them beyond rhythmic compliance: press the button, watch the spectacle. It's Pavlovian.The narrative is less a story than a checklist of affective cues, engineered to provoke recognition rather than reflection. It's all handled with the kind of solemn obviousness that mistakes earnestness for depth. It insists upon emotion as a substitute for thought.That this design philosophy is rewarded so thoroughly speaks less to the game’s individual failings than to the current critical ecosystem surrounding games. Awards culture increasingly favours works that resemble prestige television. E33's critical success rests almost entirely on an aggressively curated emotional register. Of course, to question the shallowness of such experiences is to risk being framed as elitist, even as the industry openly celebrates projects engineered to offend no one and challenge nothing.Don't mistake my point. E33 is not a catastrophe. It is worse than that: it is exemplary. It represents the logical endpoint of a medium desperate for cultural legitimacy, chasing validation by mimicking the least demanding forms of "serious" art while hollowing out what once made its genres distinct.
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At least post your own opinion instead of regurgitating someone else's.>>729111527
I could've told you that the moment i read the twist. Not only stolen from a literal Dark Souls level, but also the most stereotypical trop imaginable ( IT WAS ALL A DREAM, HONEY....HAHAH).Thats why i applaud wacky shit like Katamari from a gameplay perspective And triple A autism simulators like POE or Factorio.What do all of these have in common? A "story" in theory that is a footnote to 110% pure gameplay. Thats why TLOU works as a show but is insufferable as a "game".
Verso has a GIGANTIC COCK. This means his mom specifically thought of him to be HUNG. She remade him after all. So she sat there, designed her dead kid, and ensured to give him a BIG FAT TROUSER SNAKE.Imagine.
>>729180212>cannot readftfy
>>729180507New to copypasta?
Good job on writing 5 paragraphs that actually don't say anything
>>729180097you didn't write this
>>729180097@grok should I read this
>>729180097>no movie deal mentioned Update your pasta retardo.
