10-06-2023, 02:57 AM
(10-05-2023, 09:34 AM)Illustrious Wrote: [ -> ]I suppose Breath of the Wild has replaced OoT as the defacto GOAT in the gamer canon
One day we need to talk about Nintendo fetishism.
Had to happen eventually. I imagine very few people go back to OoT now. It'd be weird to keep talking about it. People don't really go back in general. Media is tv to most people, not a library. There's no big RELEASE and HYPE you can follow for OoT. It won't compete to win GOTY (very exciting sers), you can't measure its NUMBERS against other dogshit coming out lately. It's just a nice thing that exists. Most gamers are at this point tired ZOGlings who will only consume what's in front of them unconsciously, or they are fanbrained degenerate weirdos who will do whatever mass marketing, working now hand in hand with transsexuals on youtube, tells them to.
My thinking is actually that gamer canon, and canon in general will gradually become impossible to maintain as this becomes more normal and widespread. To have a canon you need people capable of thinking with history in mind and exercising personal taste. Yes, in the past this was heavily meme driven from a few centralised points, hipsters still exist, we have trannies horrifically revising the 2000s into some terrible grey textureless nothing about genital mutilation, but I think people are becoming uniquely dead to history now.
The only people who will care about anything more than a year old in the future will probably mostly be broken weirdos who belong to internet personality cults (subscribe to my youtube channel by the way) whose selections will become increasingly status conscious and neurotic. These outliers will get more discerning, but taste will not get better.
You may see what I'm describing already, I think video games are going to become like movies, and the only people conscious of the past will be oldfags nobody respects just unthinkingly fond of the fodder of their own youth (which probably is better, but they aren't discerning or thoughtful on this), and trannies, who will just pick random garbage from this and that point to decorate themselves in like their thrift store pickup cottage grandmacore outfits.
Think of how major forum enemy He/Himzel (Hazel) talks about anything, that's the future of taste. There's your future canon maker, for the 1% of people who care to at least sort of posture towards caring about the history of anything.
Now as for BotW,
As I may have said here before, I don't know, I absolutely loved BotW. I think it's absolutely brilliant in almost all that it aspires to be, manages to be one of the most interesting things I've ever played while also remaining accessible and friendly to just about everyone. It looks nice, it's super fun, it's conceptually super advanced (what it playing around and surviving outside was fun rather than a bunch of gay autistic menus early access vomit for people to make youtube let's plays out of I will kill and bury Project Zomboid), it SHOULD be held up as an example of a peak in video games and what they should aspire to be.
However, as with all nice things, it's mostly misappreciated. I look at the animals on /v/ and nothing said about it makes any sense. It has been declared an "open world game", and so now it is seen as belonging to a class of, mostly western, works, despite its completely different intentions, aspirations, and executions of a barely familiar premise. From that point on people do the counter strike indiana jones 4 thing and declare random things it does "bad game design" as a constant ritualised affirmation. "Weapon durability" is BotW's "spray patterns". As in all of these cases people will mostly just genuinely freak out at you if you ask "why is that bad?" on any particular point raised. As I said in that other thread, I have screenshots of this happening. Maybe I can find some now.
I don't remember what this thread was about, Metal Gear I think, it just always goes like this. Can look for a botw thread I posted in later if that's a point of particular interest.
I really like this thread and wanted to get myself back into posting. Hope we can get some life and interest here.