All the weird life sim mechanics were why I loved Deadly Premonition so much. Shaving, washing your suits, checking the weather and getting a cup of coffee every morning, getting your car fueled and washed, fishing… granted, those were about as consequential as similar stuff usually is in Rockstar games, but still

I have the opposite problem. I’d like there to be more pointless immersive rpg and survival mechanics. The problem is that Rockstar is the only company that does games on this scale but that scale itself necessitates them being accessible to the lowest common denominator so most of them are just there for show. For reference look at all the stuff that you can do in Red Dead Redemption 2 which is ultimately completely pointless with no gameplay consequence.

Basically they should replace Rockstar’s creative leads with weird German or Eastern European nerds, or the sorts of people who make ultra hardcore STALKER mods

Is it just a Soulslike? The old Onimushas started out as old school Resident Evil with melee combat before evolving into their final form as a very light character action/ARPG

It’s not that surprising. The hyperrealistic AI filter really doesn’t work with games with anime aesthetics and makes everyone look much older. If it instead made every woman’s skin smoother and gave them pornstar makeup and bigger boobs they’d love it

That’s what I typically do but there’s so many of these specific videos

A video showing off ludicrously modded Minecraft gameplay with ray-traced lighting, photorealistic water, 4k textures, actual physics and one of those mods that make the world not blocky is at least impressive to look at on a purely technical level because it’s all a “real” simulation running on someone’s machine. AI hallucinated graphics just don’t mean anything to me

As I recall Dad Nier was only ever a ploy to get Westerners to buy the game and was never in any Japanese version of the game

Kids do also like media about kids like them going on adventures though

There’s probably just some cultural aspect to it as well. They weren’t kids but I’m reminded of how its famously said that part of the reason why Kojima introduced Raiden in MGS2 was because many female Japanese players complained about Snake being too old and unattractive.

Also I’m reminded of something I once heard about Marlboro (?) having to swap rugged cowboys for rich ranch owners in advertisements in some foreign market (China?) because they were just seen as dirty farmhands, not aspirational figures

It is made kinda funny by being said by a guy who then gloats about having escaped his own identically aged body by mindjacking a 70-year-old

Nothing really visually clues you in on him aging rapidly in MGS1 and 2. He’s just a handsome scruffy man with a supple butt

Not so young anymore, eh Snake? You’re drowning in time!

(Snake is like 35 at that point)

It tries to do some of those things sometimes. How the series handles racism feels weird. Most people are horrifically racist against the Darcsen (the broad analogue for the Jews/Roma), even on the Gallian side, but the protagonists seem weirdly passive about the issue even when its their friends or adopted family members being racially abused by randos in front of them.

What, you want stories set in a retirement home or something???

For all the amusement you can get from the setting, at its core it’s very “generic late 2000s/2010s anime.” Every game has a literal beach episode as an excuse to put the (often underage) female characters in swimsuits and to animate them jiggling

There are some secondary characters with some weird brother sister shit going on

Let me know when they have a Metal Gear

This game is giving me such a huge whiff of “quirky, janky and trashy Xbox 360 game” in the vein of things like Deadly Premonition or Shadows of the Damned. Can’t wait

Is there some specific language where instead of file size they talk about weight

It was already pretty great in RDR2, seems like this is continuing in the same trajectory. Looks like the videos were already deleted but I recall seeing RDR2’s contextual NPC interactions in some of them

If this game is just modern day RDR2 instead of GTAVI I would be very happy, lol