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seeing people say that future trio is oversaturating the fandom and its annoying and making them hate the game
#funnily enough i agree#the game is overrepresented considering its not that much of a jump in quality compared to others#the rest of the games have amazing characters too#i think it gets a lot of attention bc the sum of its parts is so strong#as compared to the other titles#where rt suffers froom 1st game of franchise syndrome#and 3ds games are underrepresented and brought down by certain decisions in story and gameplay#even if their stories have moments that hit much harder than anything in explorers#gates ending is prolly the best moment in the franchise i think#super has the most enjoyable gameplay imo#but gates gets forgotten bc of bad rep and gameplay#while super's overall story is messy bc its 70% its own thing and then gates ending reheated and with extra twist we need to explain#anyways i hope when people get tired of content of certain characters they mute or block people instead off disliking the characters#id be sad if i contributed to people disliking a good game or character
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*sigh* thoughts on Nintendo's botw/totk timeline shenanigans and tomfoolery?
tbh. my maybe-unpopular opinion is that the timeline is only important when a game's place on the timeline seriously informs the way their narrative progresses. the problem is that before botw we almost NEVER got games where it didn't matter. it matters for skyward sword because it's the beginning, and it matters for tp/ww/alttp (and their respective sequels) because the choices the hero of time makes explicitly inform the narrative of those games in one way or another. it matters which timeline we're in for those games because these cycles we're seeing are close enough to oot's cycle that they're still feeling the effects of his choices. botw, however, takes place at minimum 10 thousand years after oot, so its place on the timeline actually functionally means nothing. botw is completely divorced from the hero of time & his story, so what he does is a nonissue in the context of botw link and zelda's story. thus, which timeline botw happens in is a nonissue. honestly I kind of liked the idea that it happened in all of them. i think there's a cool idea of inevitability that can be played with there. but the point is that the timeline exists to enhance and fill in the lore of games that need it, and botw/totk don't really need it because the devs finally realized they could make a game without the hero of time in it.
#i really do have a love-hate relationship with this timeline#because it's FASCINATING lore. genuinely. and i think it carries over the themes of certain games REALLY well#but i also think it's indicative of a trend in loz's writing that has REALLY annoyed me for a long time#which is this intense need to cling to oot#and on a certain level i get it. that was your most successful game probably ever. and it was an AMAZING game.#and i think there's definitely some corporate profit maximization tied up in this too--oot was an insane commercial success therefore you'r#not allowed to make new games we need you to just remake oot forever and ever#and that really annoys me because it makes certain games feel disjointed at best and barely-coherent at worst.#i think the best zelda games on the market are the ones where the devs were allowed to really push what they were working with#oot. majora. botw. hell i'd even put minish cap in there#these are games that don't quite follow what was the standard zelda gameplay at their time of release. they were experimental in some way#whether that be with graphics or puzzle mechanics or open-world or the gameplay premise in its entirety. there's something NEW there#and because the devs of those games were given that level of freedom the gameplay really enforces the narrative. everything feels complete#and designed to work together. as opposed to gameplay that feels disjointed or fights against story beats. you know??#so I think that the willingness to allow botw and totk to exist independently from the timeline is good at the very least from a developmen#standpoint because it implies a willingness to. stop making shitty oot remakes and let developers do something interesting.#and yes i do very much fear that the next 20 years of zelda will be shitty BOTW remakes now#in which botw link appears and undergoes the most insane character assassination youve ever seen in your life#but im trying to be optimistic here. if botw/totk can exist outside the timeline then we may no longer be stuck in the remake death loop#and i'm taking eow as a good sign (so far) that we're out of the death loop!! because that game looks NOTHING like botw or oot.#fingers crossed!!#anyway sorry for the game dev rant but tldr timeline good except when it's bad#asks#zelda analysis
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since i cant stop thinking about things i care about and also i cant shut up ever im gonna say my bit about the "well of COURSE they destroyed everything shiekah after botw bc it nearly killed the entire country DUH do you not understand basic worldbuilding??" type of comment i had directed at me (mostly on twitter to no ones surprise and almost exactly worded like this)
--how would you even destroy it, the only thing you can actually damage with anything are guardians and nano-guardians, anything else cant even get scratched, hell you cant even climb the darn things, are you seriously trying to tell me they somehow completely pulverized not just the shrines but titans (divine beasts), the shrine of life and the pillars holding the guardians in storage around hyrule castle and the dome beneath it (whereever that went lol) when it was built to and DID last over 10 000 years ... and if you did somehow find a way to dismantle literally all of it why would you not ... use its parts for something else and also research it (lets be real here, purahs new towers are just the sheikah towers but more impractical and would by all means not need all of the material from all the missing stuff and the purahpad is just ... literally the shiekah stone but looking more like the switch and also worse bc its got almost none of the functions the shiekah stone had) they were so integrated into botws landscape removing them and their chambers would have been so much effort better spent in other places and just so unnecessary (think of the shrines at the twin mountains, removing all of that would be so dangerous and difficult to do), removing the pillars and the dome under the castle would endanger it collapsing no? there also would have needed to be a giant mechanism down there to make the pillars rise up, why would you go and try to destroy that instead of focusing on rebuilding the most important infrastrucutre
(on a sidenote, yes there are holes to the underground in the place of some shrines but its by far not all of them .. .even so there at the very least should be some rubble of them lying about at the bottom plus in most of their places its just plain earth, or sometimes even a cave locked by some puzzle which is.... so weird)
really the only explanation would be that it all just ... disappeared after zelda sealed ganon, which wouldnt only be hella unsatisfying as an answer but also again pose the problem that i would have caused the castle to collapse considering how shiekah tech was so integrated into it... unless it turned to earth somehow ... which would explain that but still be as satisfying of an explanation as 'it was all just a dream uwu' additionally, the zonau stuff under the castle wasnt even that far down so it must have intersected with the shiekah stuff, like the pillars or the dome?? but no its all just zonau ruins now wahoo
if literally all traces were gone and totk was a paralel to botw but with zonau instead of shiekah OK, they still called it a sequel tho, they still talk about the events of botw but in a way that sounds like it was just another lost legend, the tapestry exists as well, and there are a few old guardian parts on top of the hateno institute (still feels like an oversight considering how cleanly everything else was wiped off the map), plus purahs towers and the purahpad are clearly based off of it, so it cant really be some time fuckery either, some things still remain; it just doesnt add up and its frustrating as hell .. ... especially if you were like me completely thrilled and intrigued to learn more about the ancient shiekah, what WAS that dome under the castle for?? what WAS ancient energy really and why was it found in these specific places only?? did they know about ganondorf?? if they built stuff down there shouldnt they have inevitably come across the old tunnels?? the monks literally talk to link in botw why would they withhold that info, what reason could they have?
--by far my biggest annoyance with that excuse is that ... if you are so afraid of tech you dont fully understand being taken over by the bad guy again to the point you destroy not just the titans you basically worshipped as divine protectors but also immovable shrines that literally couldnt do shit to harm you even if they were pumped up to the brim with malice/miasma after they have already become non threatening/non functional anyway... HOW could you just go and fully trust and personally play around with new tech that LITERALLY rained from the sky out of nowhere, from a group of people no one knows shit about (like at least the shiekah were still existing and had a small part of recorded history) and never cared either until now that they are suddendly everywhere, even if it cant get corrupted somehow (kinda disproven by the spirit temple) how the hell would anyone know that?? if anything this would be a reason to be MORE afraid of it
even the ancient king that persecuted the shiekah bc he was afraid of their tech when they invented it didnt order them to destroy it, just bury it, despite them of all people knowing the best of how to completely destroy it??? and zelda doesnt seem like the type that would order old history and relics to be destroyed liek that??
it would have been such a golden opportunity to show that hey, the ancient shiekah based their tech on that of the zonau, they found the mines and tech and reasearched it to built their own from it, strucutres that show they were down here building the shrines from underground, titan prototypes, you cant do anything with it, its old and broken, but its there, environmental storytelling and all that
the shrine of life especially pisses me off bc thats like .. ok it was kinda not the best maybe but it still saved links goddamn life, even if it all became useless for some reason at least leave it there as a sign of respect, if there needs to be a cave have it be half collapsed after the cataclysm or something wheres the problem
(also idk if im the only one with that but in botws true ending when zelda says that vah ruta, i think, has stopped working it seemed like a good setup for more? and that she wanted to investigate that in the sense of ah shoot i want it to keep working tho and not in the sense of hell yeah lets smash it to pieces i know this is theory territory now but it seemed like it somewhat confirmed that the titans need a pilots strong spirit to work since they are not connected to the ancient energy network and the spirits of the champions passed on at the end ... the idea that ancient energy was spirit energy either gained from luminous stones or directly spirits is so neat, and i loved that idea of hey the reason why all of the energy went out all of the sudden is bc ganondorf is breaking free after having been kept in a stasis to use either his malice or his strong spirit to fuel it all has never left my mind since i first read about it bc its such a good setup for intrigue, like oh heck the ancient shiekah werent so coolio and 100% perfectly good either, maybe they knew about gans 'future' or history and hey why not trick him or sth into being sealed against his will so that problem is out the way and whoop hes pretty much an infinite source of energy nice lets use that for our research and not tell anyone oh no we created a monster (calamity gan) l guess we are gonna use the tech we fuel with his own life against him lol, OR you could have connceted it to the zonau maybe doing the sealing first and the shiekah discovering him later and being like oh neat an endlessly rich powersource we arent gonan tell anyone about weehoo
it would have tied into the ancient shiekah stuff, explained why it doesnt work well anymore, give a reason to explore the underground and discover it all, give a reason to why it was kept a secret bc no one wanted to admit yeah we made this monster ourselves whoops, give ganondorf a reason to be this angry and make it all more nuanced bc yeah ok maybe the zonau knew about gan and in their effort to prevent it caused it instead by sealing him before he became a problem and it all started a domino effect of disasters leading into all this mess that now poor zelda and link gotta solve
im not saiyng this is the better version or that i am better but again you can literally do so much with the setup for it all and what totk ended up doing with it feels so ... not even underused but straight up backwards treading you had it right on front of you INFINITE POTENTIAL AAARGH)
theres only so much fun gameplay and fantastic music can save and man can you imagine what could have been if the story got the same polish as the gameplay and music ;__;
#ganondoodles talks#ganondoodles opinions#zelda#totk#the best part of totk is the yiga clan and the music#fuck the music got me more emotional than the actual happenings#anyway compeltely random thought#but why was the gerudo temple light-mirror themed and the lead up to the spirit one lightning themed#what#again i LIKE this game#but i want to LOVE it#and yeah fun gameplay is important#a good story can save bad gameplay and great gamplay can save a bad story#but you know whats even better#good gameplay and good story#its not somethign that cant coexist#and yeah a bad story can diminish the fun im having with the gameplay#some people seriously argued -imagine playing video games for the story- to me and i ????? what#this all got way longer than i wanted again ...#longpost
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if youd like to read the stephens from the beginning you can over here:)
if youd like to read the stephens continued you can over here:)
theo- scarlett brought up something she first approached me about this. about making it a making peace thing. im kind of thinking this is more FOR YOU than anything. dustin-oh.. for me? theo-for you. dustin-then if its for me why do it on tiktok? theo- well because shes also a bitch[smiles and nods] dustin- dont call her that [huffs a laugh] theo-look im cool to do this...in front of everyone. i think its a good idea to put my shit out there. dustin- but you can just talk to me theo. theo- i know. dustin-then TALK theo.dont do an interview for fucks sake. just talk to me. theo-i know i can talk to you about anything but i told scarlett i would do it her way. so thats what im going to do . answer her questions. bobbis questions. and have it recorded so that one day..when im long gone.. you can rewatch it. and get mad all over again. get happy all over again. feel my love all over again. i dont know, i just have to leave you okay.i want you to be okay that you spend the rest of your life with me dustin- theo... theo- i fucking love the shit out of you, really.. dustin-i love you too, but theo. theo- naw no more mushy shit. im okay..just remembering.
#a video love letter to the man that put up with him#but theo is okay#hes just getting older which is hard for him to swallow#he has a lot of guilt#and dusty kinda of refuses to acknowledge that hes not what he used to be#and thats a good thing and a bad thing at the same time#theo kline#dustin stephens#the stephens continued#ts4 story#ts4 gameplay#sims 4#simblr#the sims#ts4#the sims 4#ts4 simblr#the sims 4 gameplay#sims 4 story#ts4 screenies#the sims community
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okay so as a gen 5 stan who does adore the story in bw and bw2, and now that gen 5 has experienced both a vicious hatedom that wouldnt hear a single positive thing about the games, and now a super protective fandom that insists they were perfect and had zero flaws... can we admit now that the bw1 story at least was. a little mid.
#just a little. just a little.#i am saying this as someone who adores it and loves the characters a lot#...... but good god team plasma kinda sucks ass as an evil organization#bw2 is sorta better about them with the split factions but in the first game theyre so obnoxious and come across as strawmen#the game talks about how the world is nuanced and not black and white and its not good to take extreme sides#but then. it sorta does that with the protagonists? by refusing to talk about abused pokemon that werent hurt by team plasma?#obviously they are wrong. the game hammers it in with a mallet. but is it really nuanced if our stance is ''ha ha thats silly''#and yeah groups like plasma exist irl but like. as someone who cares abt animal rights and stuff a lot. i feel like they fumbled it here#the answer shouldnt have been ''well ig some pokemon get hurt. we wont talk about them though. watch the grunt kick a munna''#it shouldve been about animal welfare. like maybe instead of becoming assistant professor; bianca couldve become a nurse joy#or she couldve joined some organization that rescues and rehabilitates pokemon from abusive trainers. maybe the reformed plasma from bw2#and before someone goes ''erm its a kids game they cant do that :/ thats too complicated'' first of all- the anime showed a malnourished te#tepig#kids can handle a bit of text next to a skittish lillipup thats like ''its scared of humans'' or something and its being cared for by someo#someone''#plus the side games were tackling much heavier shit at this point#also again they were apparently fine with a grunt kicking a munna and bragging about how he loves doing that so.#like even as a kid i felt like that scene was really over the top and stupid#team plasma feels less like an attempt to do commentary on harmful animal rights ideas that lead to ecofascism and dont care abt the animal#true needs#and more like gamefreak read a lot of obnoxious critical pokemon posts like ''lmao training is like dogfighting'' and ''this promotes anima#abuse!'' and just made a strawman out of those people. and like i agree thats all stupid but it sorta hurts the message of the game#that the world is very nuanced and taking extremes is bad and reductive.#and this isnt getting into poor story and gameplay integration and other stuff like underutilized characters (you know exactly who i mean)#idk. again i still adore the story and have a huge soft spot for it. but i think the only reason people say its perfect is out of defensive#defensiveness and not having engaged with a ton of video game stories. and pokemon stories not being fantastic in general#like i think pla is better put together story wise than this game and its got less going on than this#echoed voice
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Get yourself out of that time loop.
Stop playing that gatcha game.
#luna rambles#something something games and media in general designed to go on forever are inherently predatory and rely on people wanting comfort in#something they can come back to again and again more than they focus on actually good storytelling and gameplay#thinking about whales keeping old mmos alive#thinking about gatchas perpetually making stories for the sake of new costumes new characters new new new new new and yet all the same#something rotten kept alive through sheer force of consumption#a sunk cost fallacy kept pretty in a loot box#I am not better for not being a part of this. I know these sort of media would be bad for my brain#I just... cant comprehend the investment in something I know will never end#anyway had a lot of feelings about this I guess
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I beat Dead Space 2 . . .
#I have a lot of thoughts both good and bad.#I pulled an all nighter to beat the game (worth it) so I’m going to wait until I’m more awake to explain.#Plus I’ve learned I have to watch the Dead Space: Aftermath movie because that has important lore.#Unless I watch that movie a certain character’s lore isn’t available.#They’re a very important character so it seems weird it’s not . . . all in the game.#There’s a thing in Dead Space called text logs and audio logs which would’ve been perfect to put the information in.#Yet for some reason Dead Space 2 barely used them compared to the last game.#Quick Review: Gameplay 9/10 + Horror 6/10 + Story 7.5/10 + Enjoyment 8.5/10.#Delete Later
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Fromsoft saw that Miquella’s story is about unfulfilled potential and decided to apply that philosophy while writing the Shadow of the Erdtree…. Miyazaki is truly a genius
#I am so salty.#I WANT to care about the lore of this game and the dlc is pretty good gameplay wise but#this is the most horrendous twist I have ever seen#*shakes fromsoft by the shoulders* EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT MIQUELLA AND GODWYN AND MALENIA AND OUTER GODS AND DEATH AND ST TRINA AND HEALING#AND MARIKA AND THE ETERNAL CITIES AND SLEEP AND DOING BAD THINGS FOR GOOD REASONS AND AAAAAAAAA#BUT NO. RADAHN.#I have never been so turned off by a story this quickly b4#anyways. at least the dlc is fun#sote spoilers#sote spoiler#shadow of the erdtree spoilers
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need some of my succtuals to play red dead to elevate the fandom discourse just a little bit. I'm drowning in x reader smut over here and I need at least one (1) of you with whom I can discuss themes and motifs and what the hell is going on with d*tch v*n der l*nde
#censored the character name bc I dont want this post to show up in his tag lmao#exaggerating a 'lil bc there are one or two good analysis blogs. and I do appreciate the more classic fandom blogs which dominate the space#but I do miss succ-level discourse#we truly had something so so so so so special#I'm down bad enough for this game that I actually started recording my story mission gameplay#so I can edit it into lil 'episodes' for my irl friends who have heard me talk extensively about it#and say it sounds rlly interesting but they have never picked up a viddy game once ever in their life#and like. is it good enough to even be worth all that effort? idk but im doing it anyways
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love da2 wish it was good video game though
#like story and character wise it's pretty good#but the video game parts of it suck ass#which for a video game is bad yk akdkdkfk#it's the only da game that i think would make a good tv adaptation#cause if you take out the actual gameplay parts out of it it's a good story#but god is it a chore to actually play through (at least to me personally)#dl
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The toxic unpopularity fire emblem tournament they're running over on reddit reminded me of a realization I had recently. I realized that Honkai Star Rail is giving me the same kind of sour feeling in my stomach that FE3H does.
I think this is because, to me, it appears that the teams behind both games appear to have prioritized selling the player a selection of waifus and husbandos over making a good game or writing a coherent narrative.
The terrible thing is that this approach clearly works as evidenced by the fact that everyone is constantly talking up these games as having great writing (neither of them has particularly stellar writing outside of a small handful of characters).
#the sour feeling is disappointment#did i just compare fe3h to a gacha game? yes#and you know what there are plenty of games that manage to sell waifus and husbandos#without sacrificing the quality of the writing and gameplay#star rail might still be able to avoid being a truly bad game since the story is ongoing#but i have very little hope#in other news i finally bought tales of arise on steep sale and so far its shaping up to be pretty good! :D
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didn’t realize fallout new vegas is THE beloved fallout game and the rest have a bad reputation. im already hours into fallout 4 😭 although its fun so far. as a story, there’s virtually nothing interesting (yet), but its nice listening to the radio and building or exploring in a wasteland.
#im also a number 1 house flipper game fan so im immune to tedious building games#it does bug out a lot on console however. but nothing egregious#like im guessing New Vegas is a tightly knit and well written game with good story and gameplay#wouldn’t say 4 is bad at all. just doesn’t have much going for it with the story and characters#and it takes forever to do anything#looking forward to getting around to New Vegas though <3#fallout#playing these solely bc I liked the show#and wow they did a great job with it in hindsight lol#might delete
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I played the demo to the princess peach game. It’s entertaining and cute, just not worth $60 so I probably won’t get it
#reminds me of LM3 tho#and I love LM3#if someone bought it for me I’d like it#but I’m a broke college student I’m not getting it alas#the story they established is just… not good#and these type of games don’t have a strong story#but usually gameplay is made up for it#and LM doesn’t have a strong story#but you’re motivated to save Mario#but here you’re not really saving anyone you care about#and the gameplay- while isn’t bad- isn’t super fun like most mainstream Mario games#but it’s not terrible!#I like the villain design and I really like Peach#she’s ssooooo cute#younger me would’ve eaten this game up for sure#but yeah. maybe it’ll get better as the game goes on? I���ll see how people like it#but rn I don’t care enough#smiles rambles
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Honestly it's really wild how often people post stuff like "what if monster hunter was an rpg??" even including fanart mockups sometimes... even though Monster Hunter has had rpg spinoffs since 2016.
#Monster Hunter#like I kinda get missing out on the first game it was much more lowkey#but the second one was like. eeeeerrywhere#Monster Hunter Stories#my personal favorite example is when ppl are like 'I want to fight with the monsters not kill them :/' which like#1) I have both good and bad news about the spinoffs in that regard#and 2) It's a franchise called Monster Hunter. what did you think the gameplay would entail?
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all pokemon games are good but they are not all equally as good
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#pokemon#as a person who has played pretty much every main pkmn game in some capacity#i can find things in them that are worth praise#but like obviously they can't all be the same level of good. there are so many factors to a pkmn game to be balanced#some have a great region. some have a great story. some have just a solid gameplay experience. all of them have great music lol#i could even play devil's advocate and praise bdsp for being a truly faithful remake and pretty incredible for a studio first Real game#but mainly i keep thinking like. everyone has shat on the new pkmn games ever since gen 5 especially#but then over time people are like Huh they aren't so bad after all#like once you get out of the gamehate wormhole generated by inflammatory social media posting you can appreciate a thing more#and there may still be people out there who think red/blue are the best ones. and y'know they have a point#even though objectively those games were littered with bugs to the point where some normal mechanics were not correct#and things just got more complicated and sophisticated with abilities and new types and better moves and stuff#the original games are absolute Miracles to have been made at all and for what they're worth they were Revolutionary#it was a simpler time but the ideas put forth were still pretty complex. especially considering this was the First One#this is the foundation all pokemon games thereafter rose from. and it's a pretty solid foundation despite all the hardships#anyway. i love pokemon. and i love that even after all this time - over 25 years - its spirit from back in 96 still remains in some form#it may not be about catching em all anymore. because physically that's really hard to do with over 1000 guys now#but it's still about finding joy in following a dream of adventure with a bunch of cool animal friends#and sometimes you save the world a little bit. that's p cool
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