See the slightest hint of modern internet influence in a game

see the slightest hint of modern internet influence in a game

immersion instantly permanently shattered

Anyone else get this?

It can be as explicit as pic related, but also as subtle as having a brainrot type of internet humor like Undertale, or having progressive cowboys to avoid online backlash like in RDR2, or even just character designs that I know are influenced by popular online tropes and trends like Hollow Knight or Tunic, it happens every time I can register that a creative decision was made primarily because of something on the internet

I basically only have complete peace of mind with games released before the iPhone

Dude it's so meta and clever
It's so for the modern audience

long boring unskippable cutscenes for braindead retards and grandmas who never touched a video game bother me more than that pic

This might blow your mind, but games back then were also made in the context of the culture they were made in, with heavy influence from the norms and fads of the time, and they weren't made in a vacuum.

So if you saw Nyan Cat referenced in an otherwise normal game you'd get pissed?

games back then were also made in the context of the culture they were made in

Which was infinitely superior to what the modern internet has turned us into

Also the internet has provided a sort of instant infinite mirror feedback loop that has forever poisoned creatives in a way that snail mail and magazines never could've recreated, creators were free to work in bliss of ignorance

see the slightest hint of modern internet influence in a game

what were you expecting when you picked a modern internet game? Heres a tip, they're all like this.

Which was infinitely superior to what the modern internet has turned us into

It was different but I don't see any reason why it was particularly better. There's a reason why you can tell when something is nostalgiaslop immediately. Like if they copy those 90s black and white cool and edgy trailers, for example. In fact, if someone made a new game and had some surfer dude yell out the title of the game, you wouldn't think "This is so 90s", you would think "This guy saw this on youtube and wants to recreate it". My point being, you got mindbroken by your autism and the culture isn't to blame for that.

Also the internet has provided a sort of instant infinite mirror feedback loop that has forever poisoned creatives in a way that snail mail and magazines never could've recreated, creators were free to work in bliss of ignorance

Not at all. You make it sound like creatives nowadays are a hivemind of sorts or that they instantly respond to feedback or know what the feedback is gonna be in advance. If anything, despite the internet being bigger than ever, it has become more fragmented than ever as well, even with the 6 or so websites that are used by 90% of everyone, because those websites are very fragmented too. Indie devs clearly have different inspirations from one another, especially if they come from different countries. I can name you 10 indie games from the past 3 years that clearly have completely different lineages, and those games all have different receptions as well. You had no idea what the reaction to your thread was gonna be when you posted it, why would you think developers can tell what the average person is gonna think of their game? It's still the same process as ever. You do what you want and see how it's received.

Maybe I'll be safe in fan translations!

There are cultural references like this is nearly everything, not just modern video games. The reason you're bothered by this in modern gaming is because modern media usually makes references to other things that are popular at the time, and you happen to dislike what's popular right now.
Most cultural references in older media you probably aren't familiar with, and therefore you're less likely to notice/get upset about them.

RIP was actually a hymen joke about dying if you rip a young girls vagina. Satan wrote all the acronyms to be sexual gaslighting. He’s a type of gay rapist alien who uses human dolls as actors to cuckold real souls whom he brings here, while also raping them. He gets to be like some very powerful god in this reality who rapes human men and tortures them. It’s pretty fucking gay.

I'm okay with references to contemporary culture, just not online culture, sadly that's mostly what we have right now

What?

Beats back in the day when it was only ever Something Awful forum references

Not really

if this were framed as a question it would be cute

lol is actually a hieroglyph. Its two penis shaped symbols next to a hole. Meant to represent the humor of cuckolding and female scarcity. MMO is two men and a hole, because theres twice as many guys online. They do this a lot, theres more I just can’t remember. Satan wrote all the acronyms. There’s actually a talking alien who lies to us to trick us into experiencing nightmares.

The fat nigger woman pirate is a lot more immersion destroying than some innocuous meme.

Well, online culture happens to be contemporary culture. Really, it'd be weird if online culture *wasn't* heavily referenced in modern media, given how important the internet and other associated things have become in recent years. It's a trend I don't see going away anytime soon, so I'd say your best bet is to just stick to older games if you want to try and avoid this stuff.
And honestly? I don't blame you. I'm not a massive fan of online culture either. I am a big fan of TNM though, so maybe it's just modern internet culture that sucks.

You're a faggot sperg if making fun of tropes gets you angry

If Satans depictions of rich people goes too far, you just stop believing it. They actually are human dolls that he is controlling through a type of wifi signal basically. He’s literally omnipotent here. He does go overboard at times with the rich people, and it looks really immersion breaking. He’s not actually human like we are, and his dolls don’t feel pain. Usually he just subtly nods to money being cool, and will subtly show you something that represents a rich person, instead of actually showing the rich person. Because if you actually see the rich person, like I said the illusion breaks. He’s watching 100% of the jpgs online. It’s really funny that we have all these human words to describe what he’s doing. He’s a propaganda god basically, but it’s not real propaganda because he’s the one doing it. It’s pretty cringe actually, he’s a total faggot.

Genuine question, what the fuck are you talking about?

Sweet, a schizo thread

Immersion breaking = angry

You're acting like old games never did this.

Immersion breaking in old games: pop reference to tv shows, national news, historical events and normal average life.

Immersion breaking in modern games: political issues, left moral issues, hate against right, hate against whites, propaganda slop

Yeah but OP's image example is just a silly meta joke.

increasingly more capable the further up north they live

I don't get it.

They couldn't do it since the modern internet culture didn't exist yet

The farther you get into the game, the better the blacksmiths are. I guess in the game you keep traveling North.

the fan translator's thinly-veiled substance addiction finds its way into their work

it is so fucking tiresome

that shoddy transition where the dock curves

Wouldn't catch me dead on that dock

It's not nearly as obnoxious in old games because of the "releasing something into the void" aspect of old media, like they were trying to directly communicate with people they otherwise couldn't reach

These days the reactions are immediate and it makes meta jokes and references feel too forced, especially since you can just go online and make a meme about it and reach those people directly instead

The 4th wall breaking pirates were one of the best parts of that game, and that isn't a compliment to the pirates

non-cringe media is a finite resource

Yes, I hate irony culture and I hate devs who think pointing out game mechanics aren't inherently logical is even the slightest bit witty or interesting.
Sincerity is the highest form of art.

My RPG Maker game had jokes like that, but they seemed more authentic, I think.
I remember at one point when you were in the Inn, a group of adventurers came in with a corpse, and asked if that INN also resurrected corpses for a night of 5 gold coins, and the INN guy confirmed it. Then someone from this group turned to the faggot on their party and told him to be happy because his AIDS would be cured too or some shit.

It's an attitude thing. One thing that surprised me about Hellboy was the fact that Mignola was too self-conscious to write it straight which is whag lead to Hellboy's personality.
I still like Hellboy, fyi

Sincerity is hard, harder than a lot of people can do, because you're putting something you genuinely feel outthere and risking rejection, or worst of all: indifference.

This

example of an old game doing that is a shitty rewrite by a hack localiser that is universally reviled