Why are western developers lacking in imagination compared to their Asian counterparts?
>>740321946Compare FPS before AAA and after. People with imagination lost their jobs so the suckers of today could have it.
I think they're just shoved into the indie sphere because hollywood dropouts are gatekeeping the industry for other hollywood dropouts to seethe about not making movies.
>>740321946in video games he would be a genesis/ps1 era mascot platformerit would either be dope or complete trash no in between
>>740321946the fear of being earnest
>>740321946>AsianYou will never be Japanese, Zhang.
My favorite is when a character is a super genius but because they’re eccentric nobody takes them seriously in any context.
>>740322708you'd love real life
>>740321946I still see pic related from both sides so idgaf
>>740321946Selling western comics short tbqh, a lot of goofy supervillains/heroes are cooler than they seem and the reactions to them are often from people who haven't ever actually read the comics.
>>740322845it's just another delusional weeb jerking off asian media while being out of touch
>>740321946I'd argue the asians lack imagination too. Oh wow this character can create thing and then put that thing inside someone else in a way that makes them die. ok.
>>740321946>>740322845I always hated that pic. Western comics did cool things with concepts that sound lame
>>740321946mewgenics is signifcantly more creative than gachaslop #1543
>>740322980Aquaman once had the power to control water and could use it to suck every drop of moisture from someones body. He wasn't dehydrating niggas left and right because that would have been boring as fuck.
asia has never made anything as good as western comics
>>740321946Yeah OP, Fromsoft recycling Dark Souls for 8th time sure is imaginative.
>>740323237ENTER
>>740323598defeated with three panels
>>740322980For me, it was realizing that their storytelling was flawed, and how they usually prefer style over substance. Everyone agrees that they have charm, but it's common that people reevaluate those things with charm years later and comment how probably it didn't age well. Tell me anons, which ones look more appealing, 80s FF and DQ or 80s Wizardry and Ultima?>>740323237This anon is trolling >>740323598One Piece is overrated, this is the real king of japanese media
>>740323598sazae-san is boring, chibi maruko-chan mogs the shit out of it as far as kodomo anime go
>>740321946The thing on the left wasnt always the case. An entire generation or 2 of comics had silly powers that were played straight.Blame irony and writers like Garth Ennis.
>>740323875>writers like Garth Ennis.qrd? How can one writer change billions of minds to not like silly things anymore?
>>740323072
>>740323875garth ennis playing straight?he would take the most ridiculous tame power and put them on a pedophile rapist who'd use it to turn a person inside out while cumming and shitting blood everywhere
>>740323973That's like asking how Joss Whedon fucked over hundreds of television shows and movies. Because EVERYONE tries to copy his writing style.
>>740323974the "why are there nukes" part kills meIt's hilarious how often Japanese authors can't help but include some seething about nukes
>>740321946Because Western developers are mistreated and are there simply for the money, not to mention have 7 bosses breathing down their necks.Eastern developers are left to their own passions the majority of the time, even if money and time can be a hindrance a lot.
Heres your asian imagination bro
oh no
>>740324080I think you misunderstood what I was saying. Writers that played it straight is like, silver/golden age.Ennis is one of the people who is the problem with his rampant seething hatred. Some of his hitman series was good though even if it suffers from his signature wankiness
>>740322817>so gay he wants to fuck the orc or furry cat.genetics failure spectrum: only zyklon-b can cure this rat.
>>740321946>Buttonwillow Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHLw2lyLnA8
>>740323973Garth got really popular with his edgy writing, and wears his hatred of heroes on his sleeve. A lot of how he handles things spread in the industry as the comic industry got irony poisoned before most other industries did.
>>740321946Old (70s and 80s) comic books were imaginative, then the creator got shamed into being realistic and """mature"""
I get it but at the same time I love the The Tickhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkzptjhCkbs
>>740321946jews go "bad ugly.........good!" and everyone follow...........cause ww2>>740322261>man........shot gun........in spaecor>man.......shot gun.........in war......woah..........fps so imaginated ..........
>>740321946/CO/ FUCKING WON BIGLY!!!!!!!
>>740324253the funniest shit is back in the day, Japanese made great gadgets that were just copies and didn't give a shit, before the Jews in US started giving lawsuits to everything. "Oh, I like how that looks, lets make ours similar." (Since they didn't have copyright enforcement yet.) China has managed to survive because they just won't stop copying and they can't be stomped out. Japan also adapted from going from copy -> product with some differences, after lawsuits and still make great quality products compared to American counter-parts which are often fragile chinkshit-tier even at luxury prices depending on brand.
>>740323237pic unrelated I presume?
>>740324348>oh no you can't have le references, cuz that's so bad!!!I don't see an issue with this, original concept, new take on old: not plagiarism. Something chinks won't get. Yes you can copy X's look, just change it so its 80% different and make it your own with backstory differences and features and that's how you keep it fresh.
>>740324660japan have never made anything worthwhile even compared to some of the worst the west has to offer
>>740323875Superhero comics became irredemable, absolute shit when people that thought that they were too immature and silly started writing them. Damaging deconstructions, trying to appeal to normalfags, dialogue full of sitcom cliches, and doing mature stuff that instead was childish. Somehow casuals still think that Alan Moore had the same mindset. No, that nigga was a 60s comics fanboy, and sometimes he wrote superheroes in a very sincere and classical way.
>>740324253There is literally nothing wrong with this.
>>740321946It's more the fact that if you make everyone deadly, you might kill off a random character that becomes a fan favorite so you have to do a universe reboot to get them back.Most villains can do some really fucked up shit when they stop fucking around.
>>740323072That only ever happens like 40 years after the character is created and they need them to beat the god of the weekLike when Cypher can suddenly talk to the universe or Iceman can induce entropy
>>740324591Theres a noticable feeling when something is played for jokes in a sincere way versus in a spiteful way.Parody and silliness itself can still be sincere in a way.
>>740324773True, only comics it helped was Batman, it wasn't goofy or too dark in the 80s, it hit the sweet spot. (realistic character concept demands realistic grounding, even if its later taken to ridiculous levels, see Baki.) Punisher also started as a serious character type so there's no complaints to that either, tone doesn't make a series less silly it just makes it more edgy. People wanted extreme edgy content (90s OVAs, anyone?), not just silly capeshit content where people come back from the dead constantly.
/co/ > /a/
>>740324348The moral of the story anon, is that all "cool shit" comes from an original perfect source.The greeks had a word for it ἀρχέτυπον or εἶδος the ideal essence or first form of an idea.Everything that has come after has been a copy of a copy and with each copy it has strayed from that ideal first form.
>>740324794>you might kill off a random character that becomes a fan favoriteThe lack of consequences is what makes manga so much better, holy fuck. Let characters die, Superman and the rest should've been replaced by new heroes and characters and stories generations ago.
>>740321946I like how most manga are linear stories. Having to read 50 different timelines and comic series for one character is just confusing.
>>740324773>Superhero comics became irredemable, absolute shit when people that thought that they were too immature and silly started writing them.Well now we're in an era where fans are writing them, and it's clear they're just aimlessly ejaculating all over the pages to wank their favorite character.
>>740324458Low T fag
>>740324773Well again, deconstructions can be done in a loving way, people can turn an make fun of their own lifes work but do it from a place of love.Take a scooby doo parody, you can always tell when the person doing the parody enjoyed the classic gags and all that, versus when someone is seething with every second they had to be involved in this.People need to stop worrying about if something is mature enough and just enjoy what they love and make it sincerely
>>740324763and that has to do with you posting the most abysmal dogshit comic ever... why?All I got from that post is that you shouldn't be trusted in matters of taste at all.
>>740324794The Rogues are a special exceptionThey basically have to be limited in how evil they're willing to be because the fact they scrap with the fucking Flash on a constant basis means they're on a really high power tier despite looking retarded as all hell
>>740324968Making a serious edgy run itself isnt a bad thing, but in the 2000s especially (i may have my years off here) it got real insincere where the seriousness was done almost in spite of what cane before, often with hamfisted moments to show "this isnt the KIDDY SHIT any more!"
>>740325334I'm going to commit a crime>blink>in jail alreadyDAMN YOU FLASH
>>740325072Agreed, getting into comics is fucking frustratingBasically the only way to have consistently enjoyable stuff is find one of the few good authors and just completely ignore everything not written by themI got turned onto Jed Mackay's stuff (particularly his Dr Strange and Moon Knight) and it's been quite good
>>740325334>Be Ice Villain #24564>Kind of a joke>Wear cold weather gear in the city>Got an Ice gun>But also the Flash's villain>So no one can bat an eye when I kill superman in a videogamelol.
>>740325334flash is wildly overrated. He's not very powerful when you factor in his incompetence.It doesn't matter how strong his powers are when the user is as foolish and clumsy as The Flash. And this applies to all of the flash incarnations, they're all retards. Normal people with crappy powers end up equally as strong as The Flash because of this.
>>740325086Either dumb and resentful fans or pretentious snobs are writing them. Picrel for the fans. And just like Moore, many good capewriters back then were also fans. And they enjoyed the characters and stories. But unlike modern ones, they were smart >>740325184I'm not against deconstructions. As I said the damaging ones.
>>740321946The left is the Gen X audience response to watching the Super Friends babies show, and not how the actual comics are written.
>>740325787Nigga he has time travel as a rather tame part of his moveset, Flash is absurd
>>740321946That comic is retarded. Making anything appear inside someone's lungs would be an overpowered power.Even air, you could just do a dobson and inflate them to death.
>>740323974On one hand, I see why. And a lot of what made old western games good was because of similar philosophy. Richard Garriott always wanted his games to really bring you to a fantasy world and do things like you were part of that world, and I think that influenced a lot of future leads in that field.But on the other hand, it didn't age as well with the changing times and skill levels of new people in the industry, while the "crazy" stuff in Japanese stuff did, and it made it easier to build on for future material. For example, in a western game, it's great at emulating reality, but that comes with too many of the actual foibles that make reality grounded. In a JP game you have some inexplicable absurdities, but it's usually done for gameplay or at least tonal reasons, like having the ability to summon a deity mid-combat, or the world getting shit by a laser and then being fine on the next turn.Ultimately it comes up to preference, and I find that mine can enjoy both a game with connections to reality and a game like Ace of Seafood.
>>740322817>I still see pic related from both sides so idgafBullshit. Western games have zero attractive women of any species.
>>740325787Because if you give competency to someone with Flash's powers you have created an unbeatable hero. I'm not saying he NEEDS to be Loses-to-Deathstroke tier retarded, but he can't be anywhere near competent.
>>740325808>I'm not against deconstructions. As I said the damaging onesThen yeah fair, i think we're on the same page. I feel like this is also what led to a lot of the modern marvel movie nonsense. I think a lot of the creative talent went into more independent circles now since the bigger companies feel like they are reveling in nonsense
>>740321946The west is less imaginative and more self-conscious in general.The west finds everything cool "cringe".The west is obsessed with surface level maturity like gore and tits and finds moral dilemmas gay and retarded.The west is egocentric
>>740325937Yet he still loses to someone sticking out their leg and tripping him. He's rubbish. He's like a mentally retarded toddler that has a keypad to launch nuclear weapons next to him. Yeah, in theory he could do something crazy, but 100% of the time the baby will just drool on itself and babble. The fact there's a nuke launcher next to him is irrelevant information. Likewise, the fact that The Flash can do x, y, z amazing thing is irrelevant because when a fight actually starts he'll run in a straight line, slip on a banana peel, and lose.
>>740322845>>740322960>>740323072>>740323237>>740323760Ameriboos are more pathetic than weeaboos tbqh. Even with Japanese shit being a lot more mediocre than past offerings, they're still decent more often than not and certainly not irredemable trash like American media that retards like >>740323974 posting one of the dukes of the declining American gaming industry.Americans should just stop bitching about other countries being better than them (including pretending they aren't yet still getting mad at them despite supposedly being worse) and actually make good media again if they want to be take seriously. If Americans stopped talking out of their ass and actually did shit like the Japanese or even the French with a sense of aesthetics and taste, then they could easily surpass them in anything they put their minds to.
>>740325620YeahIf you're a villain in mr "I can run faster than the speed of light" stories you can't be low tier.
>>740326635What if Mr Run Faster than the Speed Of Light is instantly defeated the instant any surface becomes slightly slick and he never ever ever never proactively tries to stop anyone from doing that?
>>740326051>>740323974The problem is that todd is missing how insane the earlier western rpg scene was with its foundations in things like the dying earth (due to ttrpg crossover being very heavy in the early genre).And the fact that this is actually the same stuff that inspired eastern rpg philosophy as well.Theres a lot of grounded western fantasy now sure but going back through the 90s and earlier it was a lot more crazy, especially with the whole sword and sorcery style thing that feels grounded artistically in paintings and stuff, but is actually pretty batshit when you get into it.The elephant man says hi
>Powers and abilities:>Can summon squirrels>Can communicate with squirrels>Squirrel-like agility>has used this power set to defeat cosmic level threats like Thanos or Galactus consistently>Doctor Doom is actively afraid of her after their first battle and goes out of his way to not antagonize her (she doesn't notice because she is naive and polite, all of the time)
>>740326907No one is stronger than "mr the writer is fucking retarded and made me win".
>>740327054that accurately describes every The Flash villain, though
>>740326427I was about to post something like this but 5x the length with some paragraph about societal standards but you said it better.Therefore I'll just say I really love mecha and over the top weapons. Thank God for Japan, it feels like the bulk of decent entertainment is almost monopolized by them with a smattering of decent KR/CN material that slips through the gacha-infested cracks. I miss Bionicle.
>>740326617>crying about new shitNigga I'm enjoying and talking about old or indie media, 24/7. I don't care about the new Bethesda game or Marvel movie
>>740324879Yup pretty much, someone like the Breadmaster and Chairface are actual villains with shitty gimmicks but still dangeroushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMPhF-TrcTM
>>740326945>Can summon squirrelsThat's the OP ability because there's no limitations on itImagine having to fight one quadrillion squirrels
>>740326945Ditko design was the best design
self censorship and HR deparment dominant culturesWestern animation is basically dead because of this, and then they are trying to do the same to Japan, despite, legally, not being tied any different really, its just retards
>>740327825>a quadrillion squirrels constantly calling you a cuck
>>740327451They are honestly perfect examples.Also shifting medias significantly here, something like kung fu hustle is a good example, as well as a lot of stephen chows stuff. Plays a lot of stuff extremely silly, but still has some kind of sincere core that makes you give a shit about whats happening in some way.It may not be for everyone but a lot of western stuff has forgotten how to pull off "does silly thing, doesnt apologize for it, and still takes itself seriously'. Its the polar opposite to the marvel movie philosphy of trying to be self aware and embarrased over every gag
>>740326921Yeah, and it's easily observed even through just looking at scifi or fantasy art from the time, whether it be from game covers or even book and music albums.Pic related. And even before that, there's art like the Eyeball Balloon (which is not related and is standalone) or the cover of Transarctica with its fantastical and impractical megatrain that doesn't look like the one in game. It was a lot more in line with things like the Japanese cover of The Guardian Legend and really highlights how things harbored some pretty neat fictional designs that have no grounding in reality, at least to the point of functionality.
>>740327370I'm talking about all westoid shit for the past 3 decades: it's overrated as fuck and only people that grew up on it and don't want to leave their comfort zone care about it at this point. Once they die or stop caring, that shit is gone. The Japs have found a way to make their shit leave more of a mark across the world to the point that countries like the Philippines, China, France, Spain and all of Latin America consume Japanese media like crazy.>>740326427>>740327353Pretty much. Westoids bought into the retarded lie that you have to be a boring drone as an adult and you can't be imaginative or find things cool. It's extremely childish when you think about it and yet this is the view that is commonoly considered "normal" in westoid media and culture at large.
If The Punisher got a video game today, he would be called Phranque Castle.
>>740329609>It was a lot more in line with things like the Japanese cover of The Guardian Legend and really highlights how things harbored some pretty neat fictional designs that have no grounding in reality, at least to the point of functionality.Definitely, there was a lot of dream like and nightmare like inspiration in tons of western fantasy, and even dnd, as "generic" as people think it is, was an extremely fantastical "setting"(or rather had some within it like spelljammer as an example). What I think is happening with todd there is that hes mistaking the things that he was into, as being the standards, and has lost touch with the wider nature of western fantasy, especially as things like the lotr movies at the turn of the century made that variety of fantasy more popular for a time. Theres nothing explicitly wrong with lower fantasy. But it hit at a time when people started being ashamed for liking wilder ideas thinking they needed to be less childish (with some of the changes the comic scene was going through for instance)But the varied ideas of fantasy never died or went away.Things like your picture are a great example, and there were tons of artists just desperately penning their fever dreams to paper. Always will be no matter how much the industry wants to push whats "in"
>>740321946Left could describe any of those shoelacer isekai manga thoughever.
>>740327054>Sherlock plans a murder.jpg
>>740329990RGE is that you faggot?
>>740323760style is substanceaesthetic is all that matters and americans fail hard at it
>>740325557true, some comics fit better for that tone (Spider-Man, due to being about a normal kid going through life struggles and getting super-hero destiny tossed in his way), its always, down to earth characters that benefit from having a gritty and edgy drama feel. The rest like supes and other goofy super characters, they are perfectly fine playing it their way.
>>740321946The endless pursuit to perfectly simulate reality rather than make fun, interesting games.
>>740322371Yes, Japs are retarded.
>>740331958>The rest like supes and other goofy super characters, they are perfectly fine playing it their way.Thats true, and the good thing is you can still have a serious moment that feels good and earned within the overall tone of a supe series. I've always liked how superman has managed to occasionally pull out those moments (even in the modernish era)Like when shazam revealed his true form to superman. The comic before that from supermans perspective had been a pretty lighthearted time where he exchanged some light hearted banter with shazam while they worked against that, I think it was a cult? Its been a while.But the way it proceeded from there to my memory felt like the author really "got" superman.The shazam side of the story was a bit edgier but I still think it worked overall conceptually because the writing didnt feel ironic or insecure about itself
>heroes heroes heroes spandex spandex spandexwhy americans can only produce capeshit and nothing else?
>>740323072Ive completely forgotten I read this. Absolutely wild fucking comic. Rich Veitch absolutely mogs all of the "mature" superhero shit that is popular now ie Invincible and Boys. Bratpack is awesome I wish I didnt lend it away....
>>740326945She's a joke character that gets all of her wins offscreen because that's the joke.
>>740333176What do (you) want then
>>740325213I loved biomega. Still waiting to find out what happened to Higuide after his stint as fantasy hero
>>740333548like anything else? Japs can make stuff besides battle shonen
>>740331695Who? Not everyone that disagrees with you is your pet /v/schizo.>>740331793I wouldn't say "style is substance" but it certainly signals it and is closely related to it. I think Americans did do it well at one point just going off of shit like Doom, the Red Faction series, Saint's Row, Lands of Lore, the OG Prey and a lot of AA IPs from the mid-late 90s to late 2000s/early 2010s that incorporated a lot of genuinely novel gameplay mechanics into the greater world and made fun interesting worlds and games. The problem is that at some point in the late 2000s, the AAA industry took over and did away with the type of imaginative, creative nerd that made games great and in the process made the larger gaming world essentially a corporate pipeline to churn out products on par with the homogenized shit you see in supermarkets rather than worthwhile creative products that games should be. So now in order to get people to buy games, they have to market to absolutely everybody and get rid of anything that might alienate anyone, which makes it for no one, and also focus on the actual creative parts of the games. It's been a solid decade and a half since an American game had any sense of artistic vision or unity and just as long since it did AAA western games did something cool or worthwhile. Even Japanese games that end up being very similar in some ways have enough to differentiate them that you can tell the differences between a Nier, Persona, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts or SMT game for example. American games are literally all the same now because the running philosophy behind them isn't to make something artistically worthwhile come into fruition, but just sell the lowest quality product at the highest price.>>740332648Salty Americoid spotted
>>740322371Wrong, it would be a black woman with a peg leg.
>>740329990It's just a trickle down effect of a bunch of different standards in the west that lead to a specific set of things being taboo, with threads that tie into what an ideal man/woman acts like and how "growing up" means discarding what you once held dear in favor of what the world demands for living as an adult. Why? They'll give every reason under the sun, but they all boil down to "Because that's not how things are done" in more or less words.I know it sounds like cope reasoning by a loser, and I guess it is, but it's best to just know that the western world will always be predominantly skewed towards realism and boring things, because people want that. Everything else is too weird or not fitting the standard of an exemplary person.
>it's another "third worlder seethes about the west" threadgod i miss when 4chan was 95% first worlders
>>740335806american comics are not well respected in europe
>>740336024yuros fucking love donald duck comics
>>740335806its really weird, they constantly try to pit Japan against The WestTM, but Japan doesn't like SEAmonkeys either.
>>740329990>retty much. Westoids bought into the retarded lie that you have to be a boring drone as an adult and you can't be imaginative or find things cool.Then why is there an uptick in Jap media that ends with "Please return to the real world and become a corporate drone"?Mind you, there are still a lot of power fantasies that end that way, but I'm not going to ignore the recent influx of wage slave endings.
>>740336657and donald duck comics are european in nature, not american
no real beef against western comics, kirkman is a hack
>>740331793I'm tired of the "well the gameplay is not very good but the visuals are amazing, you should play it" reccomendations. Complexity can exist in style, but it's not enough to replace real substance>>740333465It's fucking great
>>740336814They do like Tailand and Malaysia afaik for some reason
>>740336985don rosa is american
>>740336991I fucking love okuyasu man. Super strong power, limited in the plot in a natural way by how dumb he is, is really fun in the non combat segments, and still shows some creativity in a realistic, tactile way.Hes my favorite brojo personally
>>740324253Not arguing asians steal IPs they love that shit and it's not stopped but this is pretty garbage for examples. The watch industry is basically nothing but people imitating million dollar watches imitating hundred thousand dollar watches imitating thousand dollar watches. All of the clothing ones seem to imply making the same style years later is somehow dodgy, hope you're not wearing jeans I guess. But the one that gets me is the worldcat logo because that's mildly interesting as an example of how generic bland logos are inherently terrible. Worldcat and the CSA Japan have no related fields, and their logo has nothing to do with what either does, but they've both stumbled upon the 10 IQ idea of a swirly with rainbow colours and could fuel a few years of lawyer salaries over this stupid fucking thing. Fuck minimalist generic logos man.
>>740330958There's endless examples of it as well, even in redos of covers done to appease marketers you still have measured absurdity and cool factor elements that aren't trying to clip the wings of the subject matter so it will land squarely in reality or reality-adjacent plausibility in regards to fiction.This charcoal-chalk work is from 1878. There is no monstrous eye balloon in reality, and it's an absurd notion, but like you said, artists are always penning their fever dreams to paper. It wasn't that that changed, it was what people would find immature and unpalatable.
>>740337581and american shit taste means his stuff is best sellers in europe but barely noticed hereanybody still reading spider-man or batman at this point deserves anthrax in their next copy
>>740337828ok but that's not what conversation was
>>740338029It isbecause scrooge comics are about actual adventures and character growth instead of Cuck-Man getting into yet another cycle of infantile melodrama because the writer thinks the only version of Cuck-man that's good is the version he grew up with (or is currently going through some kind of drama in his own life and wants to force it on the character) it makes Scrooge comics unappealing to arrested development americansthey're european in nature because they exist for more than just the self-aggrandizement of the writer
>>740338715still written by an american lol
>>740338715>europeans dont like american comics>yes they do>ok but that doesn't count as american because i said sook
>>740335795>I know it sounds like cope reasoning by a loser, and I guess it is, but it's best to just know that the western world will always be predominantly skewed towards realism and boring things, because people want that. Everything else is too weird or not fitting the standard of an exemplary person.That sounds dumb. I'm glad I don't associate or bother with people like that. These faggots would think Ancient Greek plays are too weird and out there, when they're the some of the most human works of art if you're able to look at what the playwright was really trying to convey. >>740336873Because the whole point of the story is to become a better person and that starts by not being a leech and getting shit done IRL.
>>740338715bodied that freak
>>740337764On that note its a really cool feeling going back through the history of sci-fi and seeing the reality of how long people have been having some of these crazy ideas for. I mean practically forever, but its easy for people to fall into this mindset that the distant past didnt think like us at all.And yeah the struggle of artist vision versus what marketing wants is something you see all the time. They want things watered down to appeal to as many as possible, so its nice to see the artists manage to get their vision seen despite that at least to some degree
>>740339315I fucking love the Correa fighting machines from War of the Worlds.Also, the book's description of how they actually move is so creepy that no other depiction has done it justice.
>>740339914I have to admit shamefully that I havent read the original story, but Ive been intending to pick up lots more reading material to develop my own writing more.But that image is a great one. Its "out of fashion" compared to more sleek depictions, yet the fact remains it looks good and gives us a good sense of scale
>>740339914I never read WotW but I did read The Tripods which was probably inspired by the book and had similar/same moving entities.
>>740340804Highly recommend the book. There will be things in it that make you think "Man, why does no adaptation include this?". It's funny that the one that comes close is the musical of all things.
>>740336991Invincible is boring if you dont care about the soap opera drama, like all the fights are just generic superman punch shit and any character with an interesting power either dies or does fuck all
>>740321946DEI funding and woke culture means the west literally isn't allowed to create anything new
>>740324348Okay now, there is only so many angles you can depict an undead army.
>>740323974I enjoy both, although the overall writing in both are very formulaic. In Japanese games you kill God, in western games you must begrudgingly kill the villain because you know them or some shit.
>>740342016>comes close is the musical of all things.Musicals, while they are stage productions for an audience, probably dont have AS much meddling as a hollywood film, so changes and or inclusions are probably more in control of the people involved, at least Id imagine.But yeah Ill put that on the list, I really need to expand my reading horizons
>>740338715>things from america that i don't like are american in nature>things from america that i do like are european in nature
>>740337581Nta but I always thought he was a spaniard. I never looked into it tonactually know, so im not sure where i got that idea.
>>740322845My issue with western comic characters is more often than not we are TOLD they are cooler than they appear. Whereas in manga we the readers also think they are shit until we are SHOWN they are a badass. Take Plastic Man as my case. His power doesnt sound awful, but he is presented as a dumb goofball so your natural inclination is to beleive he is worthless. But then other characters like Batman SAY>if he got serious, he would totally be the biggest threatAs an alternative take Shikamaru from Naruto. Who is consistently shown to be a lazy slacker with a weak team-focused ability. And then we get his fight against Temari where we see him dunk on her, and realise he is far more capable than he lets on. And they story echoes this when he is promoted before everyone else. This is the reason I could never get into comics and cartoons to any real degree. They all share this problem.
>>740339914Doesn't hold a candle to the stupidly awesome 1998 Jeff Wayne's WotW RTS
>>740351267Love the fuck out of that game and design, just wished it looked less mechanical. Book described the legs moving almost like wheels with the way they quickly stride over themselves.COME ON THUNDER CHILD
>>740321946>my [Bubble Gum] has the properties of both bubble and gum
