>western fantasy games stopped being good the instant they stopped trying to look, feel, sound etc like heavy metal album coversCorrelation or causation?
>>749374397Western fantasy became good the moment they took inspiration from Ocarina of Time, the greatest game ever made, 27 days to go, bros.
>>749374397used to listen to rhapsody while playing nwn in the early 2000's, good times man
>>749374768>rhapsody while playing nwn in the early 2000'sWhoa you're literally me
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>>749374397Well they stopped being made by White guys who liked metal albums and swordgirls with nice tits
>>749374397Should've moved on to edgy death metal concepts instead of more Conan dragonz n shiet.
>>749374397>>749374970>>749375157really tertiary thing to think about but I’ve always wondered how people go about choosing or making fonts for their logos
>>749374768>used to listen to rhapsody while playing nwn in the early 2000's, good times manSame.I'm still listening to them right now...
>>749375268Hire an artist who iterates over it a shit ton of times. The art of lettering is pretty interesting.
Not trusting any fantasy devs that don't have at least one heavy metal song behind themhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUBrjGrzBm0
>>74937526890s>Yo Spoogy can you draw me a cool logo for my band?>Yeah whatever>autistically layers colors over an edgy logo>here>COOLToday>Singer rips some generic font and photoshops it so nobody notices
>>749374397Listened to that whole album today while working.Nice.Maybe I'll play some Neverwinter Nights 2 tonight.
Queen..Queen of the dark horizons!
>played tons of fantasy games in the 2000s but only got into heavy metal a couple years agoI feel like I missed out like crazy
>>749374397I think it was when the subversions and deconstructions became the default.
>>749378373You have an amazingly long backlog.Enjoy.
>>749378373jej ironically I quit metal last year(still listening) one in one out I guess.
Aesthetic is far from the only thing that determines quality but a lot of fantasy feels like it's trying to either heavily subvert the overdone aspects or stick so staunchly to convention that it's dull with that wiggleroom sweetspot in-between being ignored.>>749374768For me it was Blind Guardian & Dragon's Dogma (Japanese game I know but it was a perfect match).
It's the other way. Metal albums copied fantasy covers.Metal really is for losers.
It shouldn't surprise you that in 1990 SFF was dominated by male readers and it was mostly Anglo-European.Now it's female reader dominated, morally grey dominated, and systematized over mythologized.
