That was a long watch, but worth it.

Thanks!

I missed some of the aspects discussed in the video when playing through Soma the first time, because I was expecting Amnesia like scary monsters.

Funny, I didn’t even know who the studio was until much later, so I had the opposite reaction. I found out they made Amnesia and thought “huh, okay, that explains the Proxies and other monsters”.

There’s a Safe Mode, and if you don’t like horror games or anxiety-inducing chases, it’s a good compromise. I talk about that in the intro.

Simon is the most audience surrogate of all time. Also, I think his continuous lack of understanding is partially due to his “flat” scan, being done when the technology was in its infancy.

Space Quest Historian put out a good video talking about these kinds of games. I think it’s too easy for people to get so hung up on these definitions. I know everybody has these kind of expectations of what a “computer game” is supposed to be, but story-focused “walking simulators” still have a place in an interactive medium.

You can’t put yourself in Simon’s shoes like this in a movie or TV series, because you’re controlling him in a first-person view. It just wouldn’t be the same perspective, which is critically important in a game where the POV is almost a centerpiece to the story.

It’s a different kind of game, sure, and not everybody is going to like the lack of traditional “gameplay” or whatever you want to call it. But, it’s a category of game that should be respected as just a valid a “game” as any other computer game. It’s just far more story-focused than most.

Also, also, @Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world, since you asked me to let you know when it was out, here it is!

if I remember right, so peopld using ublock don’t even count towards the creator’s views now :-/ this may be outdated now

This was a temporary problem that was discovered by a bunch of creators and eventually fixed by uBlock Origin.

I’m fine paying for YT Premium, because I watch YouTube all the time, but I don’t even understand why people try to use YouTube’s monetization. It’s pennies compared to getting subscriptions from Patreon.

I turn off ads for all of my videos, because I’d rather just have the freedom to not worry about de-monetization. If I ever end up needing the money, I’ll use Patreon to fund the channel.

If only Amazon didn’t need to waste a billion dollars on a failed LotR series.

I didn’t like how much they argued during the first season. The book crew were much more professional and acted like they already knew each other for many years. Which they did.

TV Holden and Amos still had their moments. Still some of the best characters on television.

However, while I saw some really nice updates come through, I also saw some that weren’t so great. It felt like they were making poor choices, likely because of their legal department.

Eugen Rochko: That’s exactly how I would put it. It’s like Cambridge Analytica burned them, and they didn’t want a repeat. And that really limited what they could do.

The tone of how they speak about Meta and Threads bothers me. It was incredibly obvious why it failed.

Only 5%. That seems to be a rather optimistic take.

I was on lemmy.film.

Terraria has always been $10. Stardew Valley: $15. Undertale: $10. Braid was $15 when it launched, and even then, people were bitching about the price. So, the price tag has always been in that range since the first indie game launched.

I think you’re ignoring the incredible amount of oversaturation in the industry. Games are everywhere. I could throw a thousand sticks into the wilderness and it would smack into a thousand different game studios, all working for years on their big hit that (in their eyes) would make them millions of dollars.

But, people don’t have time to even play their own Steam backlog. On average, people buy more games than they even have time to play, and that’s not even counting the sheer amount of movies, music, TV shows, YouTube videos, whatever that is competing for people’s time. If they are playing video games, then they are not watching or listening to other media.

It’s not just the gaming industry. The entire creative industry is propped up on the backing of a 98% failure rate, or sometimes even a 99.99% failure rate. The lucky few get to spout off their survivorship biases, under the bones of former companies and individuals, crunched under the weight of oversaturation.

Will do! One of my favorites as well, which is part of the reason why I’m working on this thing.

OMG, this is like the best/worst time to be working on a two-hour video about the first game. I guess I better get cracking on finishing it up.

It’s kinda of a generational issue, though, because people are borne into this new world with new habits. It’s no longer paying attention to a single piece of media on a TV, but instead, turning on something in the background, while watching or reading something else on a phone.

I don’t really understand it, even as somebody with ADD. If you don’t like what’s on TV, change it or move to a different room while you read on your phone.

Even with places like YouTube, where LUFS level is strictly defined, there’s sooo many creators who have no earthly idea what LUFS is, which levels YouTube enforces, and how it corrects for it. They post their videos with quiet narration and wonder why viewers get annoyed at all of the turning up and turning down of volume on each video.

See, YouTube enforces LUFS on videos by reducing volume on loud videos down to -14 LUFS. But, it doesn’t do anything to quiet videos. If you ever bring up the “Stats for Nerds” and look at the “Volume / Normalized” value, you might see something like “content loudness -5.9dB”. That means it’s -5.9dB quieter than it should be, and the creator should have amplified the video to normalize the volume levels before uploading it to YouTube.

So, you end up with a video that’s about -6dB quieter, and you have to turn up the volume to actually hear the narration. Then your TV or whatever device you’re watching will get blasted by the next video, which is properly normalized at around 0dB, and you’re forced to turn the damn volume back down.

YouTube has finally started to acknowledge the problem by introducing the Stable Volume feature. But, really, creators should educate themselves on how to properly mix their audio. I know editing is hard and there’s so many moving parts to deal with for YouTube uploads. But, audio quality is everything in a YouTube video. Nobody cares about whatever random B-roll video game footage, or PowerPoint slide presentation, or watermarked stock images, or videos of you presenting the narration with a lapel mic tied to a tree branch you’re using on the video side. It’s all about narration and audio quality.

Does any of this include improving the front page to actually serve content that people want? Because PeerTube has a serious problem with advertising what people want to watch on the Home and Discovery pages. PeerTube isn’t going to work as a replacement for YouTube until people will be able to find new channels that they like.

Is there even an algorithm behind any of this mess, or does it just push random channels?

Sparse gameplay, tied together with lots and lots of implied worldbuilding in a lore book that contains most of the story. The gameplay was okay when you got to it, but there was far too much written story locked up, instead of “show, don’t tell”.

Also, the game wants you to finish six tournaments before you get any sort of decent ending.

It’s a bit funny. The short story is only 20 pages, and they allocated 17 minutes to the episode. Most of these short stories are within the 20 page mark with around 17 minutes an episode, but they run into this plot length problem all the time.

Beyond the Aquila Rift was also kind of all over the place with a rather dissonant ending, despite being my favorite episode of the season. The Very Pulse of the Machine cut out some important details. Swarm cut out the factions, but it was a Shaper-focused story, and the core story was still told well enough. Zima Blue actually managed to tell most of the short story in 10 minutes, though.

Don’t get me wrong. I really liked these episodes. But, it still boggles the mind that it’s so hard to cover a mere 20 pages in 15ish minutes. Some of these are dense concepts to express on a video medium, though.

I really liked the first season, and they had a lot of episodes in that one. I feel like that was the most explicit season because they were really trying to sell the whole Love, Death, and Robots angles. Kind of wished they didn’t temper that down with the rest of the seasons.

The second season was kinda meh, but there were some good ones here and there (Pop Squad, Snow in the Desert). I was disappointed at how few episodes there were. I still plan on doing a video on those two episodes, though.

Third season seemed to ramp back up with good episodes again (Bad Travelling, The Very Pulse of the Machine, Swarm, Jibaro).

All of the studios shifted to the Secret Levels (on Amazon) for video game related animation stories, and most of those were really good. Warhammer episode was fucking epic.

LD+R S4 isn’t bad so far. Spider Rose and 400 Boys were pretty good. I had to do a double-take when I recognized the Investor race in Spider Rose, which was another Bruce Sterling short story in the Schismatrix universe (same one as Swarm), and they actually reference the Shaper/Mechanist factions this time.

I think it needed more episodes, though. It feels like S2 again, and they are wasting their time on these goofy episodes (the mini claymation stuff, anything related to Three Robots). Golgotha felt like cheating, considering most of it was real acting and light on animation. And that Red Hot Chili Peppers music video was cringe AF.

Also, including Mr (Pedophile-Enabler) Beast in one of the episodes was not a good move.