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Post by Ex on Apr 15, 2024 23:00:57 GMT -5
Vanessa Z. Schneider is Eve's mommy.
Meritorious lineage.
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Post by Xeogred on Apr 15, 2024 23:03:35 GMT -5
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Post by Ex on Apr 15, 2024 23:43:35 GMT -5
New trailer for Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. This game releases in the west May 21, 2024, for PS5/Switch/GOG/Steam. I'll get it on Switch.
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Post by Xeogred on Apr 15, 2024 23:58:16 GMT -5
One of my most anticipated games of 2024, looks amazing. Ain't no way I'm fitting it in this month or soon though.
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Post by toei on Apr 16, 2024 7:08:00 GMT -5
Xeogred I'm going to read this whole discussion, interesting stuff. SK being more adept at using Western development tools is one thing, but as Kim pointed out, they're still focused on mobile games, MMOs and chasing trends as an industry. Offline, single-player games like Stellar Blade are an outlier. Which is why it's interesting that it's getting so much hype; if it does really well, then it could become the trend, and South Korea could inject some new energy into the industry. Interesting to see references to '80s and '90s culture and stuff like Valis (even though it's not a great series). I got the feeling when looking at the trailer that this seemed like a modern take on stuff I like - something I could get into easily despite not playing modern games. EDIT - Just beginning to read the article and it's most East Asian thing ever. Hyung-Tae Kim is like "Nier Automata is so great in every way, I could never write a story that good" and Yoko Taro replies "no no, your game is so much better than mine, the character looks better." After a while, though, you see that Kim is more cautious in the kind of stuff he says, while Yoko Taro doesn't care as much about conventions (joking that he's a slave to Square Enix, etc.)
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Post by Ex on Apr 16, 2024 10:02:10 GMT -5
Here's a Japan only trailer with different stuff.
This is the PS5's sole exclusive killer app. 🤷♂️
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Post by Xeogred on Apr 16, 2024 13:43:51 GMT -5
Xeogred I'm going to read this whole discussion, interesting stuff. SK being more adept at using Western development tools is one thing, but as Kim pointed out, they're still focused on mobile games, MMOs and chasing trends as an industry. Offline, single-player games like Stellar Blade are an outlier. Which is why it's interesting that it's getting so much hype; if it does really well, then it could become the trend, and South Korea could inject some new energy into the industry. Interesting to see references to '80s and '90s culture and stuff like Valis (even though it's not a great series). I got the feeling when looking at the trailer that this seemed like a modern take on stuff I like - something I could get into easily despite not playing modern games. EDIT - Just beginning to read the article and it's most East Asian thing ever. Hyung-Tae Kim is like "Nier Automata is so great in every way, I could never write a story that good" and Yoko Taro replies "no no, your game is so much better than mine, the character looks better." After a while, though, you see that Kim is more cautious in the kind of stuff he says, while Yoko Taro doesn't care as much about conventions (joking that he's a slave to Square Enix, etc.) It was a great read, historically too even. And it shed a lot more light on things than I think some may not realize. - The PlayStation market has been slowly declining some in the West, US/UK, and clearly Japan. - Taiwan's GDP is on the rise and apparently becoming a bigger demograph for entertainment and everything - China opens their doors sometimes to more lately too. Everyone always wants to play with that fire... So to me it suddenly makes more sense why Sony is banking a bit on Shift Up here and helping produce and foot a lot of the bill. This does well (which seems to be tracking so far), like Kim said it could really be the start of some new trends there and Sony continuing to push harder in the East. Which will bring us to an interesting crossroads. Anyone with eyeballs can now look at this new Star Wars Outlaws game and see that Ubisoft intentionally made this character WAY uglier by design. It is night and day with the model they used and this has apparently been a trend. From other sources I'm seeing this is to not offend a certain .0001% out there. It's literally in Xbox's game design manual now, who now command what 40% of Western game development? At least... Now to not get more political here and state the obvious, China/Korea/etc aren't flying with this. So if Stellar Blade looks to be the hit that it could be, $$$ starts talking in the East, I hope we're rightfully going to continue to see the demise of stupidity in Western entertainment ruining things. Hollywood is dying, new generations know YouTubers and normal people more than they know ancient crusty actors, etc (notice how smaller the pool of "famous" people has gotten over the years? They're on their way out). I got my bias as a KDrama/KPop fan, but it's pretty clear that their entertainment is booming globally, along with anime/manga, etc. We're seeing the decline of the American Entertainment Empire. I look at Star Wars Outlaws and then Stellar Blade and frankly, good riddance. It's time for some new leaders and trend setters even in the world of fun entertainment right now. /tangent lol Also as Kim points out, they love Japanese things over there. So this could fuel some healthy competition between the two in the gaming space. Big wins for my tastes.
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Post by toei on Apr 16, 2024 14:26:36 GMT -5
Yeah, the scenario of "two rival Japans" is interesting. We'll have to see how it plays out.
I don't know if youtubers and tiktokers becoming bigger than old-system stars is necessarily an improvement, considering how trash and useless the average youtube video is (and Tik Tok is worse). I'm cutting down a lot on how much youtube I watch lately, and I realize I don't miss it when I don't watch it since it's all so pointless. Any movie, tv show or book that's even sort-of decent has more inherent value than 99% of that trash. But good or bad, it's happening anyway. As for the traditional American entertainment industries, I basically agree. In fact, a few years of losing badly to overseas competitors is probably the best thing that could happen to it in the long run. My favorite period in American cinema is so-called "New Hollywood", which started in the late '60s and lasted about a decade (and brought us many of the big directors and actors that are now getting old, but are mostly still around), and the only reason it was allowed to happen is that the film industry was doing badly as TV had gained in popularity. The executives decided to take a chance on the young guys who wanted to make something different because their old model wasn't working anymore.
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Post by Xeogred on Apr 16, 2024 15:19:41 GMT -5
Very fair point haha. Money corrupts all I guess... definitely some slimeball/dumbos out there in the online personality space who kids and all idolize thesedays.
I still can't get over how Godzilla Minus One was made with like 20x LESS than a current day dumb Marvel movie. Really showcases the bloat and incompetence in Hollywood/Western publishers.
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Post by Ex on Apr 17, 2024 11:23:48 GMT -5
Upcoming stuff that is of varying interest levels:
All of that is coming to Switch and some other platforms.
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