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In a parallel universe: staff meetings, but underwater.

Yeees! I keep wondering how the hell they’re funding the remake trilogy. There are dozens of us!

Aside from it being split into 3 games, this is how I feel about the FF7 remakes.

They are so very full of love and obvious developer passion. The gameplay systems are internally consistent, the charachters are adorable, the world is beatiful. Once you own the game, it doesn’t ask again. You can just step into the world and live there until the credits roll.

I was worried, and I’m still worried, that some squenix exec will ruin it. But it hasn’t happened.

Remake and Rebirth are simply good games. Anything bad you could say about them is subjective. I know the gameplay and charachters don’t jell with everyone but I love it.

Same goes for the modern Resident Evil games, Armored Core 6, Horizon and GoW.

There are still good AAA games. But they for sure aren’t the rule anymore, but the exceptions.

They can’t avoid employing artists, and every now and then they fail to stop them from making something good.

I thought about it more.

I really don’t like it. Not because there’s no precedent, but because it doesn’t work thematically.

Fey being alive, actually, undermines so much of the story in the previous two games.

It means Kratos and Atreus and the many scenes where they gradually accept she is truly gone, are wrong, actually. It means Odin was right, and that Kratos and Atreus not helping him unravel death, prevented them from reuniting with Fey.

That’s just insulting. If you’re not gonna elaborate then don’t say anything at all.

TLDR: It’s not a lack of context that bothers me. It’s that no context that would work within the narrative themes of the games, exists.

Long version:

The part of her journey that’s in GoW/GoW:R happened before her death. GoW Laufey takes place after that, not before.

I’m worried that this new game is muddying the thematic weight of GoW, and GoW Ragnarok.

Fey is (was) DEAD. Kratos and Atreus accept this and spend the two games mourning, moving on, and finding themselves in a world without her. While honoring her life and living in a way that does not erase or ignore the fact that she lived. They learn many things about her that they did not know, and feel her love for them live on in the things she has set in motion. They embrace her presence even as she is truly gone. The narrative stresses this multiple times.

That she exists, anywhere (after her death), undermines this.

It undermines the underlying difference pinning Odin against Kratos.

Kratos and Atreus accept death, and that it is something beyond that which can or should be understood. Odin does not, and seeks to unravel it like it’s just another law of nature. Like gravity.

The mask should not be explained. Death isn’t a mystery to be solved. It’s an unknowable to be accepted as such.

The games are about being at peace with that.

Laufey not being gone literally means Kratos and Atreus are wrong in their acceptance that she is gone.

Hell. It means Odin had a point.

The only way this works is if it’s a spin-off that NEVER ties back into Kratos’/Atreus’ timeline, but that they are doing this at all is not a good sign to me. I do not trust them to not undermine their own themes in the face of the potential fanservice that reuniting Fey, Kratos and Atreus would be.

It’s not a lack of context that bothers me. It’s that no context that would work within the narrative themes of the games, exists.

They have written themselves into a corner that I suspect will inevitably lead to events I don’t think should happen, and explanations for things that should not be explained.

I’m genuinely confused.

What do you mean? What did I miss?

Why are you downvoting me for having an opinion, and why are you passive aggressively shitting on my ability to comprehend media?

And unless this comes to PC, I’m not in for any suprises. But I’m more than willing to give Laufey a chance if it does.

She only follows nine commandments.

No denim?

Yes and no.

If the goal is to have the best support for all future games, sure.

But that’s not what protons main goal is.

The main goal is to get all the hundreds of thousands of games that have already been made, to work.

Making one game for linux, only produces one game.

Getting proton right, gets every past game that has ever worked on windows, to work on linux.

That a lot of future games will also work thanks to this, and hence require less work to run on linux, is a bonus. Not the main goal.

Hence, proton is ABSOLUTELY worth it. Even if microsoft released directx 13 tomorrow, that wouldn’t break any of the games that already work. The alternative is to go back and port each game one at a time. Proton isn’t just happening instead of linux ports. It’s also happening instead of porting all old games, and enables running games with shuttered studios, unclear IP onwership, lost source code or lost interest.

If you REALLY want appimages for archiving, the best way would be to package an individual game, a proton wrapper with all the dependencies, and compile that up into a neat appimage. Then you’d have a “future proof” executable file for that one game to keep and run in the future.

But that’s ignoring the fact that appimages and flatpaks aren’t truly that agnostic. Changes in graphics APIs happen on linux, too.

And it makes way more sense to use the same proton for multiple games, instead of bundling an extra copy of it with each game.

Missed opportunity to post this twice.

Cuuute @jorymo@lemmy.world

What?

Laufey does a ton of things in the first two games, but none of it is posthumous action.

The entire plot of the first two games can be boiled down to how a person who is dead and truly gone, can still be a huge presence in your life through the memories, places, and actions they undertook when they were alive.

Everything we see are things she said and did before she died. Some of it is on a somewhat supernatural level due to her abilities as a giant, but unless I truly missed something, none of it “occurs” after she dies.

In fact this entire new game (that Laufey is “alive” somewhere) directly contradicts what Kratos sees when he steps into the light of alfheim, basically confirming that’s where she (or what’s left of her) is.

This is a retcon.

“This, is the cutest girl, in the world”

Riiidge ra-cer 🎵

I’m referring to the art-style specifically. Designs have changed, but the style sticks with the era.

Yes.

Ocean water can also be supercritical. You can find videos on youtube of under-ice water flash-freezing out from a nucleation site.

Yes.

We have absolutely no context for the messages.

How does a cruel response help in any of the contexts you suggest?

There are very, very few situtations that warrant not being cordial to a fellow human being, as it’s almost never, ever, helpful. To either party.

How does telling someone they’re too ugly to talk to you encourage them to show you or anyone else respect?

To be clear, I’m not defending catcalling.

But there’s a difference between informing someone that their actions offend, and insulting their entire person.

The latter only leads to improvement in behavior about as often as it makes it worse.