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[wtfNeedSignUp]

I'm not even mad, just sad. It's like the concept of beauty just fucking died due to politics and every TDS afflicted asshole races to make the most disgusting thing he can while raping the work they were known for.

 

[Stabmaster Arson]

I love MI and I've played them all.

This doesn't look good.

Having said that, if it plays OK I'll forgive him.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

I'm not even mad, just sad. It's like the concept of beauty just fucking died due to politics and every TDS afflicted asshole races to make the most disgusting thing he can while raping the work they were known for.

"First time?"

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I really should have known better. There is no need to get exited for anything in the current year. But I gave Gilbert a chance because Thimbleweed Park was a good, nice looking game. Who would have thought that fool would make a complete 180 & make everything as ugly & bizarre as possible?

And again: He DID IT ON PURPOSE. He knew the reaction would be very negative. What an asshole.

Anyway. Let's laugh about the "fan"art from /v/

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

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"First time?"

Probably not, but it also stings a little more when it's talented individuals rather than faceless megacorps

 

[Brahmin Baron]

I suspect that a big factor in the crappy artstyle choice was cost, cause this has to be way cheaper to make than the artstyle in MI3 or even the 1+2 remakes. Has Ron said anything to that effect or is he claiming it was solely an artistic choice?

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

At least this makes the decision to pirate this game extremely easy.

 

[Jack Awful]

"Consume the trash and smile, chuds"

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

"Consume the trash and smile, chuds"

It's like: Look at the garbage I made! That subverts your expectations, doesn't it? What, you don't like garbage?? Hurr durr that's a personal attack!!1

 

[starborn427614]

At least this makes the decision to pirate this game extremely easy.

The irony of pirating a game about pirates is not lost on me.

 

[Jack Awful]

It's like: Look at the garbage I made! That subverts your expectations, doesn't it? What, you don't like garbage?? Hurr durr that's a personal attack!!1

It all keeps coming back to The Last Jedi.

 

[Polarity]

I was going to say that it looks just like Broken Age, but Broken Age actually looks better. Wasn't a fan of the art in it, but it's definitely unique and looks like some talent went into the dreamy backgrounds. Unfortunately the plot, writing, and puzzles in Broken Age were pretty mediocre, especially in the second half where they clearly ran out of money.

I think this will be fine if the writing is on point, but it certainly got off on the wrong foot with the Apple app store art style or whatever the hell is going on.

And yeah, he clearly didn't do it on purpose. Who knows what the reason is, but cost is almost certainly it. God knows how much they had to agree to give Disney per sale to get the license.

 

[The Cunting Death]

It looks like the rough design of the characters used in the music video for Money for Nothing.


EDIT: For Reference

 

[Marissa Moira]

It all keeps coming back to The Last Jedi.

To be fair this was foreshadowed in A New Hope when Obi-Wan tricked the Stormtroopers with the Jedi Mind Trick by going "These are not the droids you're looking for".

You see The Last Jedi much like the droids was not what the audience was looking for.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It all keeps coming back to The Last Jedi.

There is an insane commitment today in pretty much every western media to making things "groundbreaking" despite no one asking for it. The problem is that some things were killed for a reason - ugly artstyle won't elevate a work unless it's really in tune with the themes (and this ugly 2020 soulless corporate artstyle does not scream "pirate", like I wouldn't even pirate it), and going against genre convention is just repeating subversions that were dead for a reason.

And in gaming specifically, if you don't have terrible "groundbreaking" writing it's trying to make an insane scale and then cheating to make it possible in a way that makes the scale pointless.

 

[Marissa Moira]

There is an insane commitment today in pretty much every western media to making things "groundbreaking" despite no one asking for it. The problem is that some things were killed for a reason - ugly artstyle won't elevate a work unless it's really in tune with the themes (and this ugly 2020 soulless corporate artstyle does not scream "pirate", like I wouldn't even pirate it), and going against genre convention is just repeating subversions that were dead for a reason.

And in gaming specifically, if you don't have terrible "groundbreaking" writing it's trying to make an insane scale and then cheating to make it possible in a way that makes the scale pointless.

Dude these trends go as far back as 40-50 years already.

How old is the term Oscar bait? Because that's what you're describing.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Dude these trends go as far back as 40-50 years already.

How old is the term Oscar bait? Because that's what you're describing.

Oscar bait is usually the opposite, highly predictable plot with, at best, a possible sad ending.
And 80's and 90's movies usually only competed on the number of explosions and bodies in them rather than how many white men it can anger.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Oscar bait is usually the opposite, highly predictable plot with, at best, a possible sad ending.
And 80's and 90's movies usually only competed on the number of explosions and bodies in them rather than how many white men it can anger.

Spike Lee has been making films for way longer than that.

I think you're forgetting just how bad movies were back then. Take a look at all the Disney direct to video sequels. You had a ton of trash made specifically for rental chains, much like how content for streaming services is being made now.

 

[Calandrino]

At least this makes the decision to pirate this game extremely easy.

"I have concluded that I will not bother to pirate this. That was easy."

 

[Marissa Moira]

"I have concluded that I will not bother to pirate this. That was easy."

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Yeah thanks buddy, every act of non-piracy will doom us all.