In a video that covers a few game mechanics, over-commercialization, verbal abuse in gameplay and the general state of games… what is the hot topic in the comments?
This seemed a good post to bring back in the wake of E3 and bizarre combinations of people insisting that developers need to make parts of x games how they want, but better not adjust y parts of games for anyone else.
We’ve featured Duelyst before, so the quality of the designs isn’t the surprise – it’s them being praised like they’re something exceptional. In the interest of fairness, let me share the positive example from the article:
And there are a couple that are not quite as terrible.
But seriously, if this is the best character art video games can produce we need to try switching them off and then back on again.
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On Sunday I featured a Bingo on Magic: The Gathering with some commentary that was a little confusing, so I’d like to take the time to clarify now. As the bingo covered, this was a design from ten years ago:
It was compared to some more recent designs, which were quite practical, but some people were confused by my comment that Wizards of the Coast keeps going toward but never quite committing to real progress and failed to elaborate further.
See the images at the top of the post? They’re all promo images from a recent campaign Shadows over Innistrad – the premise being that the “angels” (who are exclusively sexy ladies) have turned on the populace.
It was promoted in variety of places, including Twitch, and had a trailer which reaches it’s climax with the phrase “on bloodied wings…” and this image:
If you look, you can see some blood on her wings… but that sure isn’t the focus of the picture.
Potentially so far… and yet we have to go back to sexy ladies with wings in ridiculous sexualized armor as our concept.
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At this point I feel that it is also worth pointing out that Shantae’s magical abilities allow her to transform into a variety of creatures. So people arguing she needs the outfit, that wouldn’t work for belly dancing, at all times are apparently fine with her being an elephant in game:
But not with the idea that maybe she should wear something that doesn’t look like a sex shop parody of a Genie/Bellydancer outfit. It’s puzzling.
That and we should also mention, there was a vote for backers to decide which design for the “rival” genie would be used. Let’s look at the variety of options.
