Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[TheMightyMollusk]

I miss the days when games could just be fun, rather than super-serious stoic-with-a-dark-secret protags facing super-grim and gritty horrors on a generic real-is-brown backdrop.

[Kolsykol]

I miss the days when games could just be fun, rather than super-serious stoic-with-a-dark-secret protags facing super-grim and gritty horrors on a generic real-is-brown backdrop.

Yeah I don't mind super serious games either, I just feel like there's way too much of it.
I also think that people give it too much credit by default, if something is dark and involves suffering and graphic violence it often gets viewed as '' deep and mature '' quite easily.
It especially bothers me a little with '' realistic '' stuff too that tries to be inspired by history, people back in the day didn't run around in black leather gear lol people wore very colorful clothes.
People also did bathe quite often and make an effort to take care of themselves, you wouldn't survive very long if you didn't.

I just want some more variety and also I don't want '' cool '' to just entirely revolve around super edginess or how bulky and angry a character is.
And I don't think that all of Western medieval styled fantasy basically needs to be like the Witcher or DnD.
Japanese devs manage to do all kinds of stuff at the same time I fail to see why Western devs couldn't too.
Publishers like Capcom alone has significantly more variety in their catalogue, it's pretty crazy just how diverse in styles it is they have it all.

Most of the exceptions I can think of in the West too are old titles that have been around for over a decade or even longer.
I guess that I'll give WoW some credit for it even if I think the newer designs look too much like generic store skins in a F2P game, but if WoW was created today I don't believe it'd go for that artstyle at least not under a big publisher.
And WoW also takes itself WAY too seriously when it's completely unjustified, it honestly makes the poor writing harder to sit through because of how humorless and dry it is.

Edit: I know it's cheesy as hell, but I kinda loved the main theme to Dragons Dogma lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZNbabKjKpA

It took me so by surprise, and it just immediately kinda added a slew of character to the game.
I think that going with a theme like this in a game like that shows a lot of confidence in the game they created.
I think most devs are afraid of that tho and want to really really show to you how very serious and artsy their game is, they want to hold your hand through the whole thing and don't trust you.
Dragons Dogma was just like '' here have some cheesy rock music ''.