So Battlefield 2042 and Stalker 2 Heart of Chernobyl were the only games I have seen at E3 that I'am currently interested in.
Battlefield 2042 looks ok, it's also cool to think we're finally getting a Stalker sequel after... 15 years.
I don't think so, I think it'll either be voxel 3D shit, "hand drawn" 2D graphics where there's hardly any animation because "IT'S RETRO BRO", or "PS1" aesthetics which are all on the rise but which one will be the one to take over? Only time will tell
Why no one is trying to emulate the look of PS2/Xbox games yet I don't know, think somewhat low poly but high resolution textures, you could probably get a pretty snazzy looking game that would be relatively inexpensive to make.
Or bring back pre-rendered graphics, either a mixture of 3D character models and pre-rendered backgrounds ala REmake or isometric like Fallout 1 and 2 (to be fair, I think a few games have actually done this)
Either way pixel art is plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayed out, there's other retro aesthetics they could bring back.
What has happened to the game industry is that the idealogues who only care about "inclusiveness" and "representation" have finally outnumbered the people who want to develop fun/interesting games.
It's all about making a point or sending a message now so you end up with a bunch of identical low-effort pixel art games that are 100% geared toward pushing leftist Twitter topics.
Also, too many women in lead roles in game development. Women care more about the label of "gamer" to appear quirky than they do about the actual games. You can't expect people who don't play many games to develop anything decent.
It's fucking this industry up, look at it ruined Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 for one of many examples.
Entertainment to these people is nothing but a venue for their political propaganda, literally all they care about is a world where every last human being submits to their ideology and everything they do is to forward that cause, no matter what industry they infiltrate, they'd fucking make the adult diaper industry Woke if they could and they probably already have, ala Oceania in 1984: "Every word, every deed, tis for thee", there's not a single thought in their heads that isn't related to "ok, how can I push Woke?", the very last thing they're thinking about is anyone's fun or entertainment, hell they probably see that as in opposition to their brainwashing, if you're having fun, then you're not being brainwashed and we can't have that.
It's high time these assclowns get shown the door in favor of people that care about making games fun first and foremost.
And nobody's saying you can't have some politics in your story, look at a game like Deus Ex for example, but if you're prioritizing that over everything else you're an asshole that needs to be shown the door.
Would Dante or Doomguy piss off the smashfags or are those characters they want? My only exposure to their recently is Hax’s schizoposting.
Dante maybe, but i think the reaction to either of them would revolve around how un-family friendly those games are.
I'd like to see Cammy and Mai since we got Ryu and Terry in there, but they would be considered too "un-family friendly" even though I don't think they're too radically different from Bayonetta or the Xenoblade girls, save for the bare butt cheeks, I guess in Nintendo's mind for Smash you can have a female character with as hot a body as you want, but they have to not actually be showing any skin (ala Zero Suit Samus)
