Mastodawn

[P] Hm. I don't understand the slop aesthetic. I don't get why companies are trying really hard to make thinga look authentically like AI slop. The latest entry doing this is Guild Wars 3. Now, fair disclaimer? I'm not a Guild Wars fan. I think it has some of the most bland lore, setting, and narrative writing I've seen in a game. It's no Elder Scrolls. But what onboarded people with GW2? It certainly wasn't the writing.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #videogames #gamedev #art #guildwars3

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Weary Wulf

[P] It's a meme at this point how tremendously average and forgettable ArenaNet's writing is. It's just so utterly milquetoast and fillter, it got so bad that they tried relying on badly-written atrocity for shock value. I'd seen '80s toy advert cartoons with more heart and depth. So, it wasn't the flaccid writing. It was the ART. It had a striming visual personality with that stylised, painterly approach.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #videogames #gamedev #art #guildwars3

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