>>9235 I finally got around to watch Final Fantasy Advent Children, which I've had on a DVD lying around for years. Or so I thought: dropped after 20 min.
It's from 2013 or something, and this was way after I stopped caring about modern games because I never liked the full real time 3D that came with consoles like PS2. It destroyed all artistic expression because it became dogma to always make everything in horrible real time rendered 3D rather than putting some time into decent pre-renderings. Just because the technology to use real time rendering with anti-aliasing on surfaces now existed, it had to be used no matter what. This is when they made the new Metal Gear, Idk which one in the order, but I watched the trailer for it and it looked like something made by an annoying 10 year old with an Iphone, I could smell disgusting boy sweat coming out from the screen.
To note here that I really liked the Metal Gear games for Nintendo 8-bit, I can't keep them apart in memory anymore because it's been too long, but I did play two of them from start to finish. Those were good, serious games with a plot, it really felt like you were a secret agent and had government contacts.
The 00s onwards when they revived it, first for PlayStation, even if the game was decent playwise, it didn't feel right. The opening scene had a nude NPC dude running around in some locker room, and his butt was pixelized. Already there I felt something was wrong.
1) This game doesn't need nudity, why put a nude guy there in the first place? 2) It's a man's ass, why pixelate it? There's nothing to see unless you're gay, so did gays make this game? 3) If you put a man's nude butt in the game because you think it's sexy, why pixelate it? Duke Nukem had nude tits and strippers and they weren't censored, if that's what you're after.
It all felt like they trapped themselves in some kind of cringe from the very beginning.
This is what was present in FF: Advent Children, to the extreme, and it's still nowhere near recent year's online cringe culture.
