This is the most accurate description I've ever seen

True

All great channels are like that these days

A river in a dry land!

​@@EirothThe last ace in a lost hand!

LOVE it!

reminds me of “Mandy” lmfao

My thoughts as well. 😂😂

Fitting that he turns up right after that

hbombergambit, if you will

That feels like a threat, *because it is*. Gen Alpha one day will feel existential dread, feel sorrow at seeing the games they used to play, laugh at the old jokes that once were so popular and feel the bitter sweetness of a good time no longer liveable. I remember watching the lego movie growing up, I remember playing Lego Star Wars the Clone Wars on the XBOX 360, I remember minecraft before banners were even a thing and you could block with a sword by crouching, I remember Halo ODST- which I bought the disk from one of those CD stores where you can buy really cheap games from using christmas money from Granny. That same disk store no longer exists, now it is a place that sells suits and wedding gowns... The Lego movie has its shitty sequel, Halo as a franchise has fallen into disarray. The world movies on and it tears us apart- so yes, it is a threat. Gen alpha and the generations after to infinity and beyond? They'll feel our pain, a universal aching that transcends generations and lifetimes... They will feel how we feel in due time. Await inevitable suffering as the habds of time crash down on them, mortality sets in, and they finally realize just how fickle everything is... How little time everything has to last and having that knowledge is the worst thing anyone can have. Yet we all must have it some day, we must all carry the burden and learn to cope- to move on somehow, as unbelievable as that sounds, and find hope, love, and happiness. Purpose, meaning. Time eats all of his children in the end. What will you do when you know the feast soon to come? How could anyone possibly learn to cope with grieving for *yourself*? I don't know... But we'll find a way, we've always found a way. We'll happy. Even if only in moments up to that finalbpoint in our life- and perhaps in the end we'll fully understand or perhaps not at all. It doesn't really matter as long as we smile- even if we can't smile at the future sometimes... We should be thankful that our past was happy enough to smile on. Shouldn't that be enough?

@@RoseRelisnot You have a good point, eloquently made, but I'm still reeling from the idea that someone was under 18 when the Lego Movie came out.

​@@RoseRelisnot I was born in the year 2000 & even though I understand why this is such a common thing & what is meant, I have to say that I don't feel it. Besides many probably never having had such carefree times as children & injustices facing more resistance nowadays, I personally know that I'm better off now than in my childhood even when back then I'd have probably thought that I'm feeling better. I had plenty of those carefree gaming times but back then I was the most stuck in what I'm still trying to free myself from. I know now that every step forward is one towards improvement & as much independence as possible. With age we get the opportunity to grow, learn & "improve" even when we're hit with shitty things. You can't have that as a child, without passage of time & in the best case might just not be able to tap into your full potential yet or in worse cases stuck in a bad perception of yourself, fear, etc. (without even realising it). I'm guessing all this also connects to how many generally tend to (want to) stick to the familiar (& defend it) despite what the reality of that means, scared of change. As I'm typing this I also feel like Vermis might have that in it too. Sadly, that leads to a glorification of (certain aspects of) the past or at least it lowers the potential of one's now & future- which potentially also lowers empathy, taking responsibility & so much more. Staying in the familiar or only looking back at it might seem comfy, safe & nice but despite the scary aspect of change & hardships it can bring, what comes out of that is so much better & more importantly, it is here & now. Yeah, Vermis definitely fits that train of thought. It's okay to miss things, of course, but why grieve for yourself (which would be okay too, of course, as long as it doesn't take over) when you're still here, have developed, have experienced growth, learned things about yourself & can still do something? Even when one's time is nigh you still have the now.

​@@KanashiAtisuto hahaha wow. You are still barely an adult, still hopeful and sincerely believe what you're saying and feel that way right now. But 24 is still basically the honeymoon era of being a grown up - especially if you went to college. Wait until you blink one day and realize you wrote this 10 years ago, and how that was almost half the number of years old you were since you had an almost naively optimistic attitude, and the actual grind of life takes its toll and numbs your soul. Then you realize you're still pretty young even though you start struggling with the fact that you no longer relate to college aged kids while somehow feeling like a child compared to the adults in your life. Having friends when you start to enter midlife years is basically having a handful of people you occasionally see after telling each other you're going to meet up but either life happens and someone cancels or life happened and you're just too tired for company and cancel but you mean it this time cause it's been months of rescheduling. And then the realization that someday you'll be your grandparent's age. For real, our work culture and the desire to feel like you're doing things that will help you grow as a person end up being the same anxieties you have later on because you're constantly wondering if you've grown enough and acquire more instances to potentially regret. Lol I don't mean to be a downer, but you reminded me of how much drive I had back then. There's a reason they say youth is wasted on the young, and you'll understand why some day. Not understand what it means, but actually feel what it means. I never understood why there was such an emphasis on life being suffering in religion, but now I understand what they mean and what they were trying to find peace with. And it's not like I was a bright and shiny kid, either. I dealt with depression starting in 10th grade pretty bad, cut myself, just emo-ing it up. But that is angst. Adulthood is a much more numb and subtly insecure, but infantely worse you drift through. there's only so many new "firsts" experiences you'll have. Take up a hobby now, cause you will need one just to not feel crushed some days.

If you like that energy then boy should you watch Versus Wolves.

Lmao true. But he is pretty adamant in his Funger video that the game is NOT fun. And he tries to open a debate about whether video games should always be fun or not

Honestly, if Vermis were real it would probably be fun in the same way that Fear and Hunger is. It wouldn't be for a long time but once you learn it's ways it would be a very fun and - for a lack of a better word - fullfilling experience to play.

Vermis=simreV

I dont think he ever argued Fear and Hunger was fun. He just said it was compelling.

Vermice? Time stamp?

Oh wow. I think that is the most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard Tumblr do. Ppl fled that site cus of the censorship, and now no art is safe. The fact they’re even profiting off of it…they don’t even own it…

​@BelBelle468 according to the tos they probably do :(

yikes

fortunately you can opt to opt out of it in the blog settings but unfortunately its on by default so you have to manually turn it off :( opting out of ai without privating seems to only work on desktop which is probably why some artists have privated their entire blogs

Omg.. and here I was these past few days tempted to create my own tumblr to share my artworks on :(

that sounds cool :0 where do i find it?

I feel like there should be a name for this kind of choose your own adventure content.

Nice, were you involved with MS paint adventures back in the day?

@@aykarain Google for "Snoots and Shadows" (including the quotation marks). Once you're on the site, it'll be Thread 1 on the right side of the page And naw, not with MSPA, I was with QuestDen which is similar kinda?

To clarify: I didn't invent the quest format, haha, I created a mechanic that's in a specific quest-the mechanic I named "Social Mode."

You can't do the same thing but you can do the sort of quirky shit classic Metal Gear games pulled. OneShot has puzzle game elements and some of the clues were notepad files that the game would generate on your PC to find and read through (rather inoffensively, mind you, it wasn't asking you to dig around in System 32 lol).

Aren't there digital manuals?

@@BaconNuke Genuine question, are you younger? There's a lot of nostalgia behind physical manuals for a lot of people and it's just not the same as holding it in your hands. Plus a lot of poeple might not know there even is a digital manual and will just Google it which is definitely not the same feeling

maybe a game designer or artist, but probably not a coder (They said artist my point deosent count )

Yes!!!! Best thing by far to get into the games industry

Maybe not so much that a studio would wanna make the game real, but it shows that you have the skills to work as a game artist and making "fake screenshots" is a lot of what a game concept artist does

@@MasT0obviously. They say artist.

​​@@MasT0 remember when they said that it would be useful as a coder to make a fake videogame and build a portfolio? Yeah, me neither.

I've never heard of your pasta so I gave it a read. It was really good not relying on the usual tropes of videogame creepypastas.

Currently reading. It's a very good story. It disturbs me yet pulls me in to read more. great work.

small world we live in

God, it has been a while since a creepypasta legitimatedly made me feel so uncomfortable, especially on the part where Evelyn tries to explain away the abuse she recieved as somehow being her fault and tries to salvage the relationship despite how abusive it is. I also like how it avoids the usual generic "oooohhhhh the game misteriously appeared out of thin airrrr" and instead opts for the way creepier idea that some anonimous weirdo thought the game was hot as hell and that some other anonymous asshole thought it would be funny to trick some kids sites into hosting the game in hopes of traumatizing some children. 10/10

was expecting spaghetti

The line hits harder when you've seen SEW fight against Omikron: The Nomad Soul

@@Kydrou But still not as hard as if you watched the original Suffer-through, complete with Woolie unintentionally sabotaging the play through and causing the boys to sit there yelling at each other searching for the progress flag.

@@Samael1113 It's Shut.

I forgot who said this and will butcher this quote but I read a tweet by a gamedev years ago that said something to the effect of "There's a word for a game that's full of bugs, poorly balanced segments, and janky cutscenes: Shipped."

i'm 14 and this is deep

Thank you for putting into words why I was so bummed out watching this video.

whenever i see really cool stuff i cry like a little bit, because in one way it makes me happy but in another i just feel some weird somberness that this isnt the core of our existence

and this is why we need anarchism, removing all exploitation, filler work etc will get us down to a 4 hour work week.

Exactly, that's how I feel about all these....

@@stm7810 Hell, a 4 DAY work week would be a massive improvement. One day to rest, one day to create, then another day to either continue creating, spend with family, do chores etc.

Fucking love that video xD such a great cautionary tale

Man I just realized I need to go rewatch that

Yeah that’s getting a rewatch

It is *only* half an hour. However, due to the black hole at the center of it, time stretches to two hours for you even though 30 minutes passes for everyone else. Do not panic, this is normal.

I watched that video the day before I started my (not particularly successful) career in IT. It was...formative, to say the least.

Cat wanted to show you something cool. W cat.

😂

Does the W stand for wang?

This is why I love cats.

@@DILFDylF Yes, short for Wang Li.

im just a baby that's too scared to watch horror, im more comfortable viewing from a distance

Wow, that's a very cool reference, I had no idea! In my case I use to watch the explanations of ARGs not because I think its more fun, but because of I dont have the time I used to

Genius

I personally have come to the same realization, I don't really want to play Warhammer40k or read the novels, play the videogames, but I have watched at least 15 hours of lore videos, because I love the premises and the stories. It makes me think of old times, when people told stories and legends at the fireplace.

And sometimes the ARG are very hard to understand on their own, so what can they do, except look to the video that tries to make sense of it

I’m genuinely over the moon. I was suffering the Sunday blues tbh, but this video has absolutely peaked my mood. None do it like John.

Haven’t finished it yet, but I will disappointed if there isn’t some existential dread in some part of the video

"it's me, back from my journey down another internet hole... To bring you... One of these fucking videos..." I'm glad he knows us so well 🥰

Another generic like baiting comment that makes no point whatsoever and is just meaningless praise? Fuck off

Another descent into madness

Silence! I concur!

My kind of people. Ditto

What is it called?

That’s what I was thinking when he brought it up-I didn’t know about the TikTok account and was surprised to see the same girl from the game lol

@@ellamurray4924 its a demo (the full project got canned) but its just called 'excuse me sir'

​@@Vexxa_ Oh nooo, it got scrapped? That's a shame.

@@SlayrinaF One of the devs involved was Airdorf, who made the Faith trilogy and other retro horror hits, and Jesse Cox was on as a producer due to his own love for her videos. Molly was the one who decided not to move forward, but that's all we know!

I mean, as someone who would like to make a fake video game, a big reason is definitely because I can’t code and have no interest in learning.

Gamefeel and balance are what killed my enthusiasm at the last dev job i had. It took far longer than the actual implementation and was basically just playing over and over to get it just right, only for someone else to come in and screw the balance with a new feature. Also, the artists were the ones suggesting changes, and i was constantly receiving contradictory feedback.

I remember I used to save my game on a usb stick so that i can work on it during my spare time at work. After a while, it got corrupted. And i lost about 4 years of work from that 😅

As someone who literally quit doing cs at university because it was so unbelievably difficult I tip my hat to any of you guys who genuinely enjoy it or are competent at programming. It's always confused me when you see game credits and see how little programmers there are compared to all the people in the marketing and design departments like if anything needs the most man power it's coding.

I feel like fake games are closer to movies that games

1) the sad peril of that type of stuff 2) WHAT I WISH HAPPENS WITH *ALL.OF THE ONES IN THIS VIDEO!* P5I for Switch!!!

I dont see catastrophe crow on steam and I can't find anything about it but I swear I felt like i saw it on there before

that doesn't even make sense, it's completely under fair use laws, so as long as the artist is outside of japan (who have like no fair use laws), they're fine. these big companies overreaching like this are insane.

Evertale! Yes, absolutely! That 'game' is such an interesting rabbit hole on it's own. Such a disappointment that it doesn't exist.

@@flyingsnowycats Wait, what? I actually played that one, it must've either been taken off the app store... or this is a late April fools.

@@KnightmareDigitalis Wait- hold the fuck on- EverTale existed? Well, besides the clear porn bait whatever the hell that's actually on the app store? Cause I know the game exists, but it's like, a gacha game(?) with big boobed anime girls. Not the pokemon-esc horror game the fake adds advertised.

@@KnightmareDigitalis Evertale exists- but it's a gacha(?) game with big boobied anime girls. Not the Pokemon esq horror game the adds that existed advertised.

I believe the answer is that the person making the adds has gone totally off on their own as they could not make a game they wanted and instead were stuck on a shitty gatcha mobile game.

Time to make a game I'll send you the link to the image(s) when I'm done

Yes! I mean, alright then. I'll do it. Why not? (The thing about the career I'm studying is that this might just become the proof of concept for some actual videogames, which I suppose is fine too. I have had this stuff in my brain for way too long. I've told compelling stories to people about it for years. Might as well get started on properly drafting the things.)

@@Ohokok_channeleditionyoutube auto deletes comments with links now, jsyk

Yeah, well put. This medium is super unique and sometimes more interactive and personal in that way.

These fake games are a completely valid way of art expression, but it's such a shame that a lot of excellent videogames never get made because this over-exagerated understanding of videogame development that is repeated constantly across the internet, scaring off aspiring artists. Finishing a videogame is not fast or easy, but is not a life draining endeavor that only a select few can undergo. I understand they say this as a way to pay respect to the work and effort of a field they don't fully understand, but making a game on your free time is not the same as a professional indie/AAA development that takes multiple people. If you love videogames so much that you get a nostalgic feeling with this "fake games", and have a video game idea that you would really like: you can do it, and it's now more accessible than ever before.

ngl the explanation as to why this is a thing makes me wonder why it isn't more common, despite the concept seeming so weird and almost malignant in a way (like some people would just call these "hoaxs" or something whether it was meant to fool people or not).

@@lvl.2greyrat849 I’m kind of with Eyepatch Wolf here. The worse game you’ve ever played is a miracle and that something like Stardew Valley exists is a mega miracle. One dude had to have - The idea for the game - All the combined talents needed to make the game - The physical resources needed to make the game - The free time to make the game Video games also have the obstacle of needling far more extensive external testing than “Show your comedy to a test audience and if they laugh you know the jokes were funny”

@@lvl.2greyrat849 Yes I tottaly agree with you that you can make a game in your free time. But it misses the point. Many of the creators want to create games that are way out of the scope of "game you make on the side". At the bare minimum they would be games at the scale of professional indi dev which demands the sacrifice of many years of work and the years of other people on the team. And that is not even talking about the restrictions of the gaming market that you need to take into considerations when making a serious game. Capitalism doesn't offer a way for small creators to acheive their dreams and so they are forced to fake it into existance. I want so many of these fake games to be made into real games but instead we are fed the same crap over and over. Then some morron walts in and tells everyone that video games acheived their final form because technology has reached a point where any upgrade is insignificant. What prevents us from making fresh new games is not the technology but how our society is organised. To achieve the dream of turning those fake games into free games, the workers need to take control of the video game companies and run it themselfs not for the quest of profit but for the quest of new and innovative games. ps : I would be so down to work on one of these games!!

Funger has more dongs to make it less depressing

Interestingly, there's a pretty good fake trailer for F&H 3 that came out not too recently.

yeah, that struck me aswell, like Vermis could literally have been the secondary media for fear and hunger, as though the soul of the same idea hit them both seperately, I can only imagine what could have been if they'd known each other.

It would be though…not due to content, but because it could never live up to the beauty of the imagined version we each keep within our heads

​@@roryschussler by gulthrax iirc?

Damn...that's a good story

Its great

real

'I know this person that appeared in the video' 'Source trust me bro' Edit: Scroll down before you reply to this comment

@@SentryWill>people can’t be friends with people who made niche online projects

Don't mind me just like and replying so this gets more attention. let's freaking stand by this!

100%

"Too niche" please. Bro needs to know how pumped I get every single time he posts a new vid.

@@thistruckingguy5853 I legit ordered the vermis book today thanks to this video. I can't wait to read a strategy guide about a game that doesn't exist 😂😂😂 I'm hyped!!!

@@slamdangles I'm definitely ordering it

Ah, a fellow Borges aficionado. May the library of Babel be with you, my brother in anime.

Also re-creating fictional food.

@@ccm4100 Always pleased to find Borges readers anywhere. Fake authors and novels are quite another rabbit hole, and Borges is a great source for that! I suspect he would rather be remembered as a fictional name than a real one.

Wait, I did not know about the Tlön thing! Thanks a lot. I mean, if you are here because you love fake media… you may as well love Borges too, since he wrote so much about fake authors, fake literatures, etc.

27:46 yea this guy should just make this lost property control thing a game already lmao

Same. It's super fun to conceptualize the ideas in your head!

*...YET.*

I thought it was just me that did that, I'm not even studying to be a game dev, I just do it when I don't feel like watching a movie or playing a game and don't have work to do.

Literally as someone with chronic pain it's painfully fitting cause there are times where you get so disconnected from your body due to unexplainable pain that your own flesh feels foreign.

I had to pause because of that one. Like, I'm old enough and STILL feel threatened

None of y'all are anglophones

“I used to be with it…… but they changed what IT is and IT is strange and weird to me…IT’LL HAPPEN TO YOU!!!!! 👴👉👉👉👉

​@@Ujulahipobaka121 what are you talking about

I'm his age if not maybe older than him and I've never experienced it regardless so... What am I missing, not having a social life at any point? Anyone that knew the deaf girl liked games just mocked, both for being deaf and a girl that liked games. And then wondered why I dug myself into them.

Yeah, Rise of Kong is such an inspiring tale of human creativity

@@TheDeadTexan Yeah but if you sent that game back to when the Odyssey 1 came out in the 70’s it would blow mind chunks all over their oversized collars and bell bottoms

Especially with Omikron as the background

​@@Kuhnonthecob XD

It doesn't have to AT ALL be "fan fiction" based in the slightest, it can just be a video game concept art for a whole new IP that you have planned and you have it made into conceptual work in ANY form to illustrations, animations, 3D models, sketches that can present literally ANY game that you want to make in the production line-work that you have planned that's never really going to be turned into a full on game. It's just something that people do for fun, and it doesn't have to be for video games either, it can be concept work for comics/manga, movies, animated movies, and so forth. Anything really without having to entirely make a complete final product of it all.

How's your masters in literature coming along?

It reminds me of the Goncharov meme (in the traditional sense) on Tumblr. They basically collaboratively made up a fake film based on a typo from the label of fake boots. It was utterly fascinating to witness.

@@BladedEdge more like masters in shiteratute aM I RIGHHHT HAHAHAHAHAHA

@@andyghkfilm2287 No.

Big Nier Automata energy

we thought that was an error until we got to that point, then we felt silly for doubting the vision lol

Vinland Saga moment.

reading this felt so cathartic, best of luck to your creative pursuits in the future!

My guy, if you pull it off I hope you'll come back here and link it so we can all enjoy the fruit of your labor. Best of luck to you!

GO FOR IT GO FOR IT!!!!!

Please keep us updated on what you are working on

Take the chance and do it, and share it with the world Share your creativity

The sad thing is there’s some really talented artists out there who make mock-ups of games just for fun and as a creative exercise but of course we can’t keep things simple now can we? Gotta build LORE around it all.

@@DigitalWolverine ??? whats wrong with that

​@@DigitalWolverinehumans have been building lore about and around literally everything for all of human history 😂 how do you think so many religions came to be? Lore around storms and forests and rivers and death and child abuse and kidnappings and oceans and weird looking fossils, abandoned houses and caves. Whole fake races were believed to exist. It's part of human nature.

@@velvetdraws3452 There's nothing wrong with it. Its a stupid complaint to have, that there's more to engage with a piece of art if you Choose to do so. If they don't like the LORE, as the put it, they can choose to not engage with it and treat it like it doesn't exist. This call for diminishing works is so bizarre to me.

​​@@restfulori212 I think the idea is that some people feel like you can't just enjoy anything casually anymore without having to spend hours learning all this "pointless lore" which while some find fun others may see this as more time than they can be bothered to invest in something and would prefer to just experience it how it is. I don't think this but with "lore" becoming more popular I can see why people would see this as a chore that and a turn off from any niche series that to them may have just incorporated this for the sake of it, making it feel unnecessary.

As a fellow disabled someone who makes games/playable literature nowadays, your way is OK. I'd love to experience your worlds. ^_^

Walk me through it

@miserablepumpkin9453 Hey! You’re awesome.

Why not just create a fantasy world by writing a book? You don't really need to create a fake game

​@@roozbeh6999It's not the same. To write a book is to create some fleshed out story to tell others. To make a game is to build the foundation for someone else to have an experience. No two people will have the exact same experience with a game because it's interactive. Even creating mere hints of a game, should it interest people, will draw them in, compel them to fill in the blanks, and involve them with the experience, much like a game intends to do.

John's love and dedication to his essays are what makes his videos interesting, what he is talking about is completely secondary

@@beachbones4050exactly why he is my favourite channel on the whole site. I would literally watch an hour long video of him talking about some tumblr niche that’s obsessed with the history of lasagne and I would love it

WightMind

I love you

Play my house.wad

@@tomby_ no i will instead rewatch the oldest view and some of everymanhybrid

I blame him as well

Likewise

@@user-py7qh8bn8s fair

Who the hell is Hoolopee

@@goese868 The artist who made the Elden Ring demake video featured in the video

Ooo ooo ooo!

@@45Thawk I heard that he also made gwimbly in smiling friends

The Elder Ning demake is the creator of Gwimbly?! Oh damn I love Gwimbly.

If fanfics are what-ifs for the mind, fake video games are what-ifs for the eyes

​@@IkcatcherWhat-ifs for the soul!

Honestly, from the minute he brought up the 5 questions he'd answer, I immediately thought of fanfiction and how it's the same idea, just a different format.

Something I really wish there was more focus on are fake let's plays. I know there's Petscop and stuff like it, but those tend to use the game as a lens to examine the "player" and his surroundings. What I really wish existed was a fake let's play where the focus is mostly on how _wrong_ the game is, with a player that's either entirely oblivious, sticking with it for money or just plain curiosity. I remember someone did something like this as a video supplement to a Contra 3 creepypasta, where the game was actively fucking with him. While it was amateurish I *loved* it because it scratched that itch.

Of course, by that metric the audience is at least as much the artist as the author.

@@boobah5643 in a way yah! The experience of art required someone willing to feel it! It’s not the same as creating, but it is it’s own unique wonder and art form! Letting yourself be open to the story and feeling of media is beautiful!

@Dantalliumsolarium Dammit. Here I am trying to be cynical and you're all chipper and optimistic. Thanks. Seriously. Made my day.

Ooo ooo ooo!

true, its kind of fitting this video is coming out the same time as the gwimbly meme

Gwimbly is so nostalgic in such a weird way.

Lmao no he's not

​@@lalilulelo.n.stitch he is

@@lalilulelo.n.stitch At this point I'd be happy with even just _more_ interesting art direction. The struggle is real and I can do nothing but hope things get better somehow.

my last pokemon game I played was Y, they just look so bad now. Sprites were unironically better.

​@@lavalambchops Ironically, sprites had more detail to them. They had a texture to each of the different pokemon through use of the limited palates and required more consideration of said color. Now they all have this sanitized plastic look to them, probably because its easier to recreate as figures that look look like the models they sell.

I just ordered both copies too *crying*

I don't want you to go broke, but you should buy Vermis

@@ZombiezayBruh I just copped Vermis and the apple quest monsters...

nearly took me out

For anyone interested, this week the game has been rated in South Korea and Brazil, so the game is probably complete and coming out in 5/6 months Edit: obviously it's not completely certain that the game's coming out soon, my comment is just based on anecdotical evidence from a lot of other similar news, but it's, as I said, anecdotical and nothing more

What do you mean? Silksong is a fake game, because it will never release. 😂 (please let me eat my words before the end of the year, please!)

Timestamp?

@@robertschnobert9090 Set-up: 1:49 Punchline: 2:08

Love that. I always felt a direct connection to Link simply because he was left-handed, too.

I had the same feeling when they stated Jonathan Joestar's height in the anime

good man/whatever you identifi as

All of his stuff is this good. Incredible artist here.

Greetings I suddenly took a peep at the newest comment and I'm so glad to see this! Personally it's sweet! Wherever media you can share it, do so! Working and writing in particular is also a media of instant gratification for putting something in paper. I admire it and even despite the worringsome idea, it had an almost sweet and gentle concept of truly, and simply - just like their design, of acceptance, where they all discover that even as 'animals' these feelings are what each to be considered 'human' or closest to it. It feels.. Honestly quite sweet. Such style feels like the most gratifying visual of story, something unusual yet seen normally, but also acceptingly understandable. It looks bizarre, a bit creppy and definetly scary but it's all an aspect of life, a different perspective and regard. In any case I adore it. If possible let, me know or tell where I can find it or even know more of it! Kudos and good luck!

Exactly, it's only niche because most haven't taken the time to consider it, not because they wouldn't be interested in it. I feel like I've been introduced to a subgenre of a medium I thought I already knew all about, but it's so cool John is able to show off these cool things that just expand our horizons and appreciation for creative endeavors.

this, 100 times this,

As someone with ADHD I just like when someone is either passionate about a topic or just really invested in it because I think that's just special. I research random things regularly and for some reason have a lot of information about Vocaloid. It's neat. I think it's very neat.

Nick Nocturne clued me in on that series. And also Welcome Home, which is a pretty gorgeous unfiction project that echoes Sesame Street.

I also like the idea of the asymmetric nightime sections similar to pizza tower, where the way in is a slow and methodical stealth section, while the post-boss experience is a mad fucking dash through the area, everything inside not only knowing that you're there, but they're all absolutely *pissed* about it

And with an adult protagonist

It is actually kind of weird that we haven’t seen more games emulate Persona 5’s gameplay loop of “social sim + supernatural action”

@@TheJadedJames "Persona's". 5 isn't the only, or even the first, to do that.

@@TheJadedJames persona 5 LMAO. The sheer SuperEyePatchWolf even includes Persona 3R in this video and ppl r still attributing the gameplay to Persona 5 actually gives me pain. Just FYI, that game loop began with PERSONA 3. The one that got REMADE a few months ago. You might like it, so I recommend it as its game loop makes way more sense for the story and themes it tells than 5’s. Not that I think P3R is a good game, cuz it’s gameplay is just as boring as 5’s.

:o It Red from the intenet

Anybody else kind of tired of the same talking points being repeated over and over again whenever you go to the comment section of anything discussing video games? If I had a penny for every complaint against corporations ruining games I would have enough to become a AAA game studio that ruins video games. Like yeah fuck corporations, I think we all agreed on this point awhile ago. I think what's even funnier about this comment though is that you're just swapping one over used money grab technique for one you prefer, which is still just another money grab technique, making a souls like to appeal to a large audience. Like wtf am I missing here?

Sega only published Hinokami Chronicles, it was developed by CyberConnect2 who also made Naruto Ninja Storm, JJBA All-Star Battle and Eyes of Heaven, .hack and Asura's Wrath also, what donovanfaust said, just replacing one cash grabby genre for an anime tie-in game with another that you prefer doesn't really solve the issues. what's to say a Demon Slayer souls-like wouldn't also be cheaply made just to push the brand? corpos have never owed people a good product regardless of format or genre also bold of you to call souls-likes "niche", 2013 just called lmfao

getting real sick of capitalism

​@@donovanfaust3227 could end all the comment section at this point, you said it all

me who just bought the new hard cover editions even though I already own both volumes

For those who struggle with hallucinations, paranoid delusion or the like I’d like to clarify it’s more of an _example_ than a representation.

I remember that! Back in the day I was too much of a scaredy-cat to actually read creepypastas so I just accepted the entire video as objective truth and got completely mindblown by the big reveal. Probably not the intended effect but it was still a fun ride.

Oh god yes that video is so good!

I find it a funny coincidence that I went to save the vod explaining the meaning of hazels video to watch again, saw hbomb in the comments there and then came back here and heard him voicing a line lol

Just watched it thanks for the recommendation it’s fantastic