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The truth about DRM and gaming is simple. No games should be on PC.

The console is correct. Discrete. Self-contained. It would also reduce keyboard usage, which would reduce the volume of chat-room type games such as MMOs.

The console is the essence of craftsmanship. The PC is the realm of the amateur.

Very good point. It also “just works” because consoles are programmed by competent Dorito-fed white men while low IQ trannies build buggy “drivers” and “operating systems”. PC gamers are also cheaters who play games with IGN guides pulled up on the second monitor for single player games, and do stuff like play with 180 FOV and turn graphics down to zero so they can see through bushes in multiplayer. Disgusting anti-art fagotry. Proper entertainment posture is laying down on a couch, ideally with your head on your sweetheart’s milky thighs, or sitting on the floor, not hunched over a desk like an incel filing his taxes.

PCs are for engineers, consoles are for gamers (imbeciles).

XKCD (pbuh) already revealed the best gaming posture. Aim a projector at the ceiling and lie on your back. There is no disputing this.

BillyONare Wrote:Very good point. It also “just works” because consoles are programmed by competent Dorito-fed white men while low IQ trannies build buggy “drivers” and “operating systems”. PC gamers are also cheaters who play games with IGN guides pulled up on the second monitor for single player games, and do stuff like play with 180 FOV and turn graphics down to zero so they can see through bushes in multiplayer. Disgusting anti-art fagotry. Proper entertainment posture is laying down on a couch, ideally with your head on your sweetheart’s milky thighs, or sitting on the floor, not hunched over a desk like an incel filing his taxes.

Simply keyed

Gob - You Go To A Vending Machine & End Up In Trash In A Retro Style Horror Adventure Game

In this video the in-development game Gob is referred to as a "horror" game and I think it's unfortunate there isn't a better term to describe games which resemble Gob in possessing a gloomy or spooky atmosphere such as Yume Nikki or Submachine but which lack the violence characteristic of the "horror" genre, a crucial difference. I suppose "gothic" is the best word available.

Gob by gamma girl

What is our response?

He’s correct

4mex browns get butthurt and misunderstand. He gave Mushimesama a masterpiece rating and spent years of his life playing simple arcade games in Tokyo. Low IQ people will never understand anything he writes despite him trying to make it as grokkable as can be.

(12-02-2023, 05:39 PM)Guest Wrote: [ -> ]
What is our response?

Icycalm has a rather narrow idea of what it means to appreciate or get something. He tends to view games in terms of his own impersonal engagement rather than as a back and forth with the creator. From this solipsistic position it was perhaps inevitable that he would just fall into the black hole of D&D. I've talked about that somewhere or other. There are simple and complex elements of every work. By looking mechanically I would say that Icycalm is himself reading games from their lowest common denominator and so not saying anything too meaningful about the sophistication of audiences or the complexity or accessibility of whole experiences. But of course, he's only talking about mechanical genres. But this is obscenely reductive in the cases of most games that I would consider worth playing at all.

This is the difference between us of course. I am an artfag, Icycalm likes mechanical toys. I like interactive multimedia, while he truly is only interested in "video games". As was written on amarna1, Icycalm really should have said "poser" when he wrote "artfag". The difference could have saved him.

Guest Wrote:
What is our response?

The image is too small to read. If it's all single-player games then it doesn't matter because none of them are complex or difficult. The horizontal axis covers a trivial distance in other words.
If it involves multiplayer, then fair enough.

Anyway, the best works have always had wide appeal and still do. Commoners had good taste in orchestral music for example. And folk musics largely developed in good directions for the same reasons. Shakespeare is also an easy one. There are exceptions to this rule, but they are exceptions. Fortnite is superior to most games. Most people who play fortnite would not waste a minute on 90% of games celebrated by the online peoples (posters.) Posters are simply far more irrelevant than they wish to believe.

The link has the full-size image, now discuss.
https://culture.vg/images/normal-distrib...res-v2.jpg

Thank you Virtue. Yes, the horizontal axis is trivial and so it simply doesn't work.

I think a better question than IQ comes along basic military lines. If you had to recruit a band of soldiers to live and die beside, which games would you take them from and how few from that game would you take? I would take some from FPS, some from RTS, and some from MOBA. But the larger group would come from JRPGs.

IQ itself is an interesting topic. It bears no weight to me unless someone uses it to destroy the world. For others, it is important for various flavors of luxury communism (with different aesthetics depending on if the person believes he is right wing or left wing or centrist.) This is probably a minority thought in this forum. This is generally only applying to genius IQ, which is the only interesting IQ to measure by. I don't know if Alexander the Great would have had tremendously high IQ or not. I prefer race as a proxy, although race has also become impossible to use. Thus, I would simply create a new race and ethne if I had the means to do such things.

Thinking about Dark Souls again, as I often do. More often than not in fact. It's just wrong, it's all so wrong. They don't "get it" in even the most basic terms. Due to the mastery of the craft even the somnambulist mudgolems that compose the conjecture of the word "gamer" can approach it and inherently feel that the experience is pleasant. Some even come up with incorrect conjectures as to why it's "good". Now we have wikis cataloguing useless information in the drive for "content", players who cannot miss any of the "content" and in doing so miss the point of the art. You retarded trangoloidic orangutans... watching "lore" videos. "LORE". A bird caught in a cage is what a video explaining the "plot" of Dark Souls is. Or maybe a frog turned inside out on a sterilized metal table. You complete fucking idiots.

Guest Wrote:
What is our response?

Does Icycalm simply believe that mechanical complexity is equivalent to quality? Putting Rust and its clones as well as Koreafun click-mashing RTS games above Halo seems like it is an opinion that could only be sprung from an Asiatic mind. I wonder what his opinion on Baldur's Gate 3 is.

I am consistently amazed at how seemingly intelligent people seem to become suddenly illiterate upon encountering AK. Maybe he is a more complicated thinker than I give him credit since I've been reading him for so long. For context he gave at least half of the games used as thumbnails in that image 5-star or masterpiece ratings accompanied by excellent critiques.

Quote:4mex browns get butthurt and misunderstand. He gave Mushimesama a masterpiece rating and spent years of his life playing simple arcade games in Tokyo. Low IQ people will never understand anything he writes despite him trying to make it as grokkable as can be.

(12-06-2023, 05:56 PM)cats Wrote: [ -> ]Does Icycalm simply believe that mechanical complexity is equivalent to quality? Putting Rust and its clones as well as Koreafun click-mashing RTS games above Halo seems like it is an opinion that could only be sprung from an Asiatic mind. I wonder what his opinion on Baldur's Gate 3 is.

https://culture.vg/forum/topic?t=4048

He changes his mind a lot over time but you can see that his preferences don't entirely get sabotaged by his theory. His taste is kind of SHIT because he has bad white-gamer brain and is obsessed with the possibilities of "ngerrrr we're going to model EVERYTHING in my next PC simulationvanialike" but the Japanese picks are actually pretty good. Pikmin gets high up there. This is why I upload hours of myself talking about stuff like Halo on youtube. I think it's important to fill out what can be appreciated in this kind of thing. Icycalm's top 100 doesn't mean too much without elaboration and he insists that writing about individual games would be a waste of his time when he has to lay out the master theories. From there we can kind of work backward to figure how he sees these, but I'd really like to see him just talk about them.

And of course Icycalm uploads more gametime than I do online, but he barely talks or does anything. Which leaves the level of engagement sort of up in the air. What does he see in the games he likes? He won't really say. Figure it out for yourself if you can.

It's difficult to take seriously someone who says Rockstar and Ubisoft are the greatest video game developers "right now", especially considering the recent promotional material for GTA6. In fairness, this was said in 2013; but I think the writing should've been on the wall for any serious thinker even at that point.

I am trying to give him his due, but even his updated 2018 list is just awful:

Quote:01. Far Cry 2 (2008)
02. Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
03. Max Payne (2001)
04. Rust (2013)
05. PlanetSide 2 (2012)
06. Planetary Annihilation: Titans (2015)
07. Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)
08. Wing Commander (1990)
09. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (1999)
10. Far Cry (2004)

Halo's inclusion among the top ten here is an afterthought. Icycalm has seemingly devised the most contrarian way of ending up at the same opinions on gaming as held by Mandalore and his South American fans. I can understand having a fondness for Far Cry 2 (although I can't fathom why someone as mechanics-oriented as him would tell everyone playing the game to only walk "so you can feel like you're really there"). I don't understand the inclusion of Mexicofun games like Rust or any GTA besides 4, or the Koreafun MMO shooter and mediocre RTS. 

Even more baffling is his inclusion of PUBG as the 4th best game of all time in his 2017 list. I suppose I can commend it for being a truly contrarian ranking; even the Mandalore Mexicans wouldn't put it that high up, even if it was only out of dedication to a "cultured gamer" poseur complex.

I can respect Icycalm's enamorization  with the Star Citizen project, if only because I have reflexively associated its countersignalling with turgid libtards. Beyond some Japanese picks, everything else listed here is overwhelmingly part of the malaise that is killing Western gaming. Looks like artfags win again.

Mason Hall-McCullough Wrote:

A rant about Valve which I found entertaining and agree with.

Youtube did the needful and didn't tell me that I got a reply to my comment here. I forgot about it shortly after making it, but the guy actually got back to me. He weighs in.

The F2P service for the Granblue ArcSys game is interesting, basically prompting poorfags into replacing the role of training CPU. No one likes playing against cheating AI in fighting games and it injects more life into the online lobbies.
I imagine other fighting games will assume a similar system in the near future.