Why is modern vidya so soulless?
>>744631396If you legit prefer the top, you're just being a contrarian
>>744632094I prefer the top because I'm not a bottom.
>>744632209but raziel is an effeminate bottom bitch
>>744632094you have no imagination and have an undeveloped brain
>>744632094you were born in a year starting with a 2
>>744632323>>744632368>case in point
>>744631396the gold saucer is rebirth is soulless as fuck too
>>744632094Ive always hated the original FF7s shitty early 3d character models, but the lighting is way better and more interesting on top.
>>744631396Too good at copying the real world, which is just the real world.
>>744632586in* rebirth
Photorealism
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>>744632650purple is admittedly a cool color
>>744632687Yeah, but they use it in the gayest way possible.
>>744631396top looks awful, it's unrealistic and the models are too goofy
>>744632740that happens when you're gay
>>744632740what's a straight way to use purple?
>>744632094>said the contrarian
>>744631396>>744632650evil cannot create, only corrupt and destroy what the forces of good have made.
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>>744632586Good. isn’t that the point? Shouldn't midgar and the saucer feel soulless? The Golden Saucer is giant monument to consumption and distraction while you waste your time playing little mini games and looking all the flashy scenery and lights its sucking the lifeblood of the plant literal souls being used so you can play stupid little arcade games.
>>744633378kill yourself
>>744631396doesn't a soulless elevator suit a soulless company even better?
>>744633558No because it's a city that's haphazardly built and expanded rapidly. It's not supposed to look professional, it's supposed to look grungy and steampunk.Outside of character models, ff7r does nothing right, least of all art style.
the lengths people will go to defend the demakes is insane
>>744631396>Old art was programmer art or scanned in from professional art. Asset libraries for textures were possible (Mario 64), but they couldn't carry your game, someone still had to put it together so that it looked and played right. Assets look soulful in the game, because the concept artist is guiding the limited capability of the 3D artist and trying to figure out how it looks in game on a real display.>For new art everything is churned out by asset mills, outsourced or bought off an asset store. No one competent is putting anything together, it's just being mashed up, yellow paint is outright the most communication that happens between level designers, the people populating a level with assets, playtesters and the end user. Many art assets look soulless because the stages from concept, to model, to integration into the game happen without any communication and guidance between the steps, so often lighting is just fucked due to differences in how different stages handle lighting and topology of models.The scope grew beyond the ability of individual developers and management to control it, while simultaneously developers capable of that scope left the industry and managers that could manage the scope regardless got involved in dick-measuring contests with less competent managers.
>>744631396because you're a depressed millennial who wants their childhood back
The corpo elevator in the Shinra building is soulless and modern in FF7; because back then they understood visual language. However I see no point in comparing these, one's FF7, and the other a soulless cash grab wearing a FF7-adjacent skin.
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>>744640280Prime 4 was mid.
>>744631396Can't say anything bad about the characters but that elevator is literally soul/soulless
>>744633961The elevator image helped me realise that 7R has its own Barry.If you love 7R, fine, defend it when it's criticized. But what I noticed is certain people can't let you away with anything negative. Nothing. If you like the new story and the new comabt and hell even the time jannies, okay, make your case. But the fact that there's someone who can't stand to see the old elevator praised and the new one disliked is how I knew some people had just gone to the extreme with their overdefensiveness.Because I've seen fucking ESSAYS written about how the old design makes no sense and the new one is PRACTICAL (who the fuck ever cared about practicality in FINAL FANTASY before where rule-of-cool reigns supreme?) and they were serious. I don't know how much they really believed it, but the bottom line was clearly if the OG was praised and the remake was insulted, they HAD to step in and make clear everyone was WRONG to do so.Personally, I'd say "yeah the elevator in the OG was cooler, but 7R is still good for these other reasons" but they can't do that. They literally cannot. Your big criticism of 7R? WRONG. Your tiny criticism of 7R? WRONG.Similarly, Barry couldn't let you say anything bad about XV, big or small. And if you asked him what flaws, even tiny ones, XV had, he sure as shit wouldn't admit to any. He'd just start crying about Nathan or something.
>>744631396Not enough limitations. Human creativity thrives within limitations that these devs no longer have.
>>744632094OG is a much higher rated game than remake, prefering top is the popular opinion
>>744637940You may have had a point the first time but the fact that you have said this hundreds upon hundreds of times over several years... it kind of starts to sound like projection. What's certain is you are not currently enjoying a happy adulthood.
Everything becomes soulless. I believe it's just the natural progression of things. There's no point in whining about it .You just gotta learn to live with it.
>>744641921Um actually the 2026 version is what mcdonalds wanted to do from the start, they just didn't have the technology yet
