I JUST KILLED A GAME STUDIO WITH MY FREAKING RHYMES

your shilled game flopped, died and it's hilarious how you're suffering from the drama you started and have to cope swallowing your own words coping for a dead studio

attaching pictures of characters looking smug does not hide the fact that you're foaming at the mouth writing walls of seethe because karma hit you in the face

>I've been in the threads last year and I explicitly saw barry trying to falseflag fanbase wars using Hi fi rush in the same way he used it against other games that he hates, he did the same thing with KH3 and DMC.
>People laughed at forspoken because it was AAA woke joke of a game while Hi Fi Rush was a lot more AA feeling and memorable.
>This is why the media overall is more sad about Tango gameworks shutting down compared to Luminous Productions which didn't get much news and was laughed at by all here.
>This is objectively the truth. Barry will try to lie like he always does because he is incapable of telling the truth completely especially when it involves him personally shitposting and knowingly spamming and seething over a game people like compared to the trash that he likes.

>you're suffering from the drama you started
Schizo argument and again trying to gaslight other people by ignoring the reality of what happened.
I'm sorry that people still don't care about forspoken while people continue to care more about Hi Fi Rush even after the studio shut down.
In the future more people are going to recommend Hi-Fi Rush and nobody will even remember forspoken and think back on it as " that weird woke square enix game that they wasted money on"

>you're suffering from the drama you started
>Schizo argument and again trying to gaslight other people by ignoring the reality of what happened.
>I'm sorry that people still don't care about forspoken while people continue to care more about Hi Fi Rush even after the studio shut down.
>In the future more people are going to recommend Hi-Fi Rush and nobody will even remember forspoken and think back on it as " that weird woke square enix game that they wasted money on"
You weren't around here at the time. The real fight was between Harry Potter and Forspoken after resetera banned talking about HP, but then it turned out that they had actually been playing Harry Potter in the closet and didn't realize that after their steam account went back online it would report them playing it.
Hi-Fi rush in comparison was just the same inorganic marketing spam that died after whoever was paying for exposure stopped. No one cares about it.

>The real fight was between Harry Potter and Forspoken
no, it wasn't
but now that you've exposed yourself as a resetera homosexual, it all makes sense
you're just another gay political activist
boring

>zoom zoom thinks marvel invented the action comedy genre

>Marvel invented self-aware humor
Zoomers are a plague.

No it's bad because marvel invented puns.

Bad Puns are funny, moron. Kid Icarus did the same gag of "main character likes bad puns, other main character hates them" and it was great there too. That's not Marvel bullshit, that's classic.

>>when it's even worse and full of unfunny anime shit

not that i'm going to blame you for never watching big bang theory, but as someone who had to suffer through episodes of that shit for years, it doesn't even have puns. the majority of jokes in that shitheap of a show are
>sheldon acts autistic
>[LAUGH TRACK]
or
>character references nerd shit
>white woman is confused
>[LAUGH TRACK]
and who could forget
>israelite hates his mom
>[LAUGH TRACK]

>You could put this joke in a big bang theory episode and it would fit perfectly
you literally could not because there's no 15 second long pause for a laugh track

there are no mid-cutscene QTEs in hifi rush

this, funny faces are the epitome of humor

kids these days will never understand this classic humor

>Peppino can get through a whole game without constantly firing off snarky one liners
>infact he barely speaks at all

See, that's how you do a video game protag right.

if pizza tower was made by tango it would have at least one cheese character saying cheesed to meat you

at the end they even stare in silence awkwardly like giving time for the laugh track to play

That would require BBT writers to know what a screensaver is.

>character makes a joke
>"it's self aware humor because he did something on purpose"

>This is a video game, not a visual novel.
So skip it, mute the game, or just keep playing since after the first few stages it tends not to actually interrupt gameplay.

>everything I don't like is shit
You can dislike something and acknowledge it's just not for you instead of being a homosexual about it.

>everyone of being a forspoken shill, if they didn't like HFR
I've been in plenty of threads where people voiced reasonable criticism with the game and were met with reasonable response, though I know you're going to hit me with the "LOL DIDN'T HAPPEN". People accuse blatant shitposters of being Forspoken shills because blatant shitposters do not deserve legitimate responses.

>>but saying anything even slightly negative makes you a shitposter
No, posting the same moronic shitpost images and making the same moronic arguments and being a moron who treats any group on Ganker like a hivemind makes you a shitposter.
There are ways to voice criticism that don't make you look like a complete fricking sperg, you know.

that you don't like the story makes you a shitposter
No, spamming every thread about how it's objectively shit and makes the game a "visual novel" does.
that you don't like the inclusion of denuvo makes you a shitposter
I have literally never heard anyone say this. Denuvo is annoying as frick, it made installing the DualShock button mod pre-update a huge pain in the ass.
that you didn't like the combat and you're not a fan of overly heavy QTE games makes you a shitposter
Again, this is a matter of communication. There's a difference between voicing complaints with the system and going "THIS GAME SUX PURE QTEs 0/10". I myself have a fair few complaints with the combat system, though I personally wouldn't consider the combat "QTE Heavy".

Hi ACkun I was wondering when you'd show up.

Do the thing where you post yourself willingly hitting the button to start a QTE attack and then complain that game tricked you into hitting the button that you willingly pressed.

>It's possible to like both.
Not when you show violent anger towards people who opt to just skip the story. It sounds like you don't care about the gameplay if someone skipping the story is such a big deal.

>You know you can just ignore morons on Ganker, right?
They still exist, even if ignored. That's the point.

>QTEs are fine in HFR because they're optional
I'm gonna stop you right there. Whether they're optional or not, they're crutches for bad gamers who want to watch pretty cinematics play out. To defend them as if they were absolutely vital to the game's design completely defeats the point of you defending them under the guise of being optional. If players don't have to use them, then why include them?

>it's a rhythm game!
You know a rhythm game can exist without QTEs, right?

>you press a button during a 15 second cutscene, haha dark souls eat your heart out!

>If you skipped the story I would wonder about your tastes,
My taste is that I prefer video games. I hate when characters talk because that's time spent NOT playing the game.

>French Canadians still exist but I have a much better time on this earth if I ignore them.
That doesn't make them good. Being able to skip them is just a bandaid on a bigger problem.

>HiFi Rush explicitly uses its optional QTEs as a choice between safety and score, in most cases.
Why do you need a QTE for that? You could accomplish that just as easily without. Like Pizza Tower's P rank system rewards you for being daring and going for lap 2, and messing up even once ruins it. You don't need a lengthy QTE for that.

>What I am saying is that the QTEs in HiFi Rush are explicit timing challenges, and timing challenges synced to music are the fundamental concept of a rhythm game.
There's no challenge to it though. It's as blatant as any Uncharted QTE.

>b-b-but I don't like it
looking at the abysmal failure that lead to closing the studio we can be sure the vast majority of people did not like it

That's really cool dude, now go write about it on your personal blog and quit shitting up HFR threads just because you are upset that you knowingly purchased a video game which contains things you do not personally like.

Timing isn't the issue, and neither is difficulty. It's all about the shoddy presentation. Same reason why I dropped Xenoblade, why I disliked BOTW and TOTK, and why I dislike all snoy games. There's no challenge, and no depth. Definitely not enough to keep me invested.

[...]
No it doesn't. Chai is an unapologetic cheese ball and this helps his dynamic with the 2 female characters become more charming.
and these are just little interactions that flesh out the characters. the best jokes are in the main game.
The writing has full self awareness, like old ratchet and clank games.
most games have no self awareness.

Go on and tell me what recent game you like that has better humour & wiring then.

>Go on and tell me what recent game you like that has better humour & wiring then.
I prefer games like Armored Core 6, Pizza tower and Terraria for the following reasons.

>AC6 not only doesn't care about its own story, but it gives you an ending where you violently slaughter everyone because you find it funny. Plus your main character never talks, that's a plus. AND you can kill the obnoxious blatant waifubait. double plus
>Pizza Tower has even less tory, to the extent that you can count the cutscenes on one hand. The gameplay is all about execution and timing. You don't get QTEs to save you from mistakes, you have to live with them. P-ranks also test your mastery of the level, including thinking on the fly, recovering from a mistake, and escaping pizza face if you're slow enough
>Terraria has ZERO story whatsoever, the best kind of story in a video game. You just exist and you kill Cthulu because.... reasons

You know what all three of these games have in common? A silent protagonist. The most you hear is a grunt or a yell, but that's it. All of these games would be lessened if the main character never shut up and just had to keep interjecting at a moment's notice.

>Lists 3 games that really have no story and no dialogue
Yes. Problem? Less is more.

>the question was about games with humour and writing you think is good.
And all the games I listed have good writing and humor, simply because they understand that storytelling and "characterization" are nothing but filler that can't take the place of solid gameplay. A funny and memorable video game moment won't be told at you like a storybook. It'll happen in real time. In other words, the player is the writer.

>be playing Terraria
>fighting Skeletron with gravitation potion to escape him constantly charging into me
>forget that I don't have featherfall or a horseshoe equipped
>land on the ground
>SPLAT

that makes me crack up. A little more hilarious than Chai talking about his favorite episode of Rick and Morty.

It has everything to do with writing and executing jokes. The point is that they know when to shut up, so the player has time to let a moment sink in. Their minimalist approach is what allows them to function so well.

>>they never opened their mouths

Then explain this.

>shitty MS paint character makes you feel more sympathy for him than multi-million dollar XBOX premiere franchise with the latest fancy cell shaded graphics

Man, stop being moronic and falling for bait. Pizza Tower is a nice looking game and the dumbass trying to start fandom wars over it is also a homosexual.

>reddit tower shill is easily triggered
kek

>reddit tower shill has an opinion
kek

Pizza tower fans are mentally ill. It doesn't make you feel anything other than that the 'artist' lacks talent.

>so called "gameplay enthusiasts" when a game doesn't spend a kajillion dollars on the graphics budget

You get used to it, he always invents some random high number and attaches it to an elements thinks is superfluous, usually graphics, voice acting and/or soundtrack.

>Pizza Tower is bad because it doesn't have 50 hours of cutscenes and constant snarky marvel quips
Okay pal.

gottem

But enough about Hi Fi Rush.

you made him mad mad

Man and stumpy

>I hate when characters talk because that's time spent NOT playing the game.
Most of the dialog towards the back half of the game occurs during active gameplay; they don't tend to interrupt the game for it unless it's a full-on cutscene, and full on cutscenes can be skipped. It IS a little annoying how often they break the flow for it in the early chapters, though. I fully agree on that, makes replaying a pain. Kind of the same issue I have with Sly Cooper, actually. (fricking carmelita levels god damn)
>Being able to skip them is just a bandaid on a bigger problem.
Shitposters shitpost because it gets replies. If you ignore them and don't let them taint discussion, you deny them what they want.
>Why do you need a QTE for that?
You don't, but in a Rhythm Game it's fun to have the choice between safety and score be a choice between a choreographed, more lenient input and getting to attempt your own style. It's actually weirdly comparable to Parappa in that regard; you can either take the easy laid-out inputs or string together your own for more score at more of a risk.
>There's no challenge to it though
I don't know if I'd wholly agree. The early ones like QA-1MIL are piss easy, yeah, but I see people complain about the Samurai and KEM-0N0's rage attack all the time.

>I don't need the characters and their ugly mugs taking up screenspace if I'm trying to play.
I think having subtitles is nice and I do appreciate the stylization to it, but yeah the frickhuge PNGtuber portraits that animate based on audio waveform are a swing and a miss. There's definitely some more elegant solutions to that, but that's the kind of thing that might be in a sequel we'll never see now.
>I'm not gonna pretend they don't exist.
I'm not pretending they don't exist, either. I also don't pretend Ganker is one person, and that everyone here speaks for eachother; isolated nutcases like the dude trying fervently to shill Forespoken aren't worth considering as anything but outliers.
>Having a "safe" option just neuters the game, however, since you're catering to the lowest common denominator.
I disagree, fundamentally. Safe options are more interesting than no options, especially when the risk/reward is properly balanced. Shmups would be far less interesting without Bombs functioning in many games as both a safe option and a scoring tool, for example. If I do have one complaint about the way HiFi Rush handles it, it's that the whole Score/Safety choice never actually comes into play outside of side modes like Power Up/BPM Rush/Rhythm Tower. The score requirements during the main game are so comically lenient that you can pretty much always take the safe option and still end up with an S so long as you're hovering above 85% on-beat and varying your combos a little, which is a bit disappointing.

I get that. To me the novelty of a rhythm action game with tight enough design to play well is worth it, and the style helps make the act of pressing buttons feel good, even if the depth of some other action games isn't quite there. If the aesthetic of it and the gimmick it's put front and center just don't gel with you, it's not going to work, and that's fine. I personally think it's the kind of thing that really deserved a sequel to expand upon it, but we're not getting that now.
I'm glad to have had a decent discussion on this board for once, though.

>criticism met with a reasonable response
all you autists do is screech and call everyone barry for not liking an objectively mediocre game that sold so bad it killed a studio

>we can take criticism
>we just happen to consider everything we don't like shitposting, so it's not criticism
how weak and pathetic do you have to be to have to live like this? have to cope with everything, can't ever accept the truth when you don't like it

Yeah, if it was Marvel than that heart-to-heart with Peppermint towards the end of the game would have been undercut with a joke.

How'd the XV DLC train go? Get all the way to the station alright?

can't really expect reading comprehension from a zoomer defending this failed reddit garbage

>that literal shill claiming the game is a success
They have never been afraid of saying a game didn't meet expectations before. What reason do we have to believe they are lying? Even people and Tango Gameworks were surprised by the news, so even they must be under the notion that their game did well saleswise, otherwise it wouldn't be such a surprise.

What I don't understand is that even if HFR were the best game ever and loved by way more people, how the hell would it have made money, when it was a day 1 gamepass release. Even when it released, people were very obviously suggesting it was sent out to die with a decision like that.

it's not a story thing, she's only present for the first two stages to deliver a couple jokey wrestling lines and then chai literally kills her
the game lets the visual comedy of "lol what if hulk hogan was a QA manager" run its course and then she explodes

I swear this has happened so many times in the past
>shitposter makes shitpost thread
>somehow people actually end up discussing something.
>shitposter gets mad and spams porn to delete the thread.
Literally everytime. At least Barry isnt going FULL MAD mode where he spammed CP.

I don't think a shitposter would save all possible Chai pictures. Maybe, JUST maybe, I genuinely love Chai and just wanted to spread my love with everyone else? I am more surprised no one lusts for him, he is such a sexy twink.

Target acquired, start operation "Grape".

They are probably mentally ill. I am just in a mood for baiting people to start boylusting and saying how much they want to destroy male characters' boypussy.

The outlines of his lower part of body is actually insane, it's like he invites me to do unspeakable things to him.

I can hear him saying "I will never lose to some third-rate villain!" (loses anal virginity)

I like this one, he is my bride~ How cute. I wonder how honeymoon sex will go.

It's bad because it's troony speed runner bait.

>HFR fans claim that they can take criticism
>accuse other games of being troony games over the slightest critique

>troony Tower fan assumes I'm an HRT Rush fan
Swing and a miss.

>"No stop using the medium to do new things you can only progress as far as pong"
That's really nice AC-kun and I look forward to reading the rest of your blog.

>"You aren't allowed to tell stories within a unique medium or add reasons to get emotionally invested in gameplay because some games are bloated movies"
Very cool my dude that's gonna make an excellent blog post how about you go post the rest there?

Druckmann took over a studio that once pretended to care about gameplay, and made their new slogan "we don't use the word 'fun' around here". He wants to be the next James Cameron and innovate the medium because fun is now bad.

>"if you put any story in your game at all you're literally Neil Druckmann"
That's so great but I'm worried that you're posting too much here and not leaving enough incentive for people to go and read the rest of your blog.

If you're going to invoke Druckman with soemthing that isn't even close to anything he's ever say, at least post a Druckman game.
I get that your point is "cutscene bad, VA bad", but I never understand why you underline your posts with nonsense for the sake of exaggeration.