The Ups And Downs of Gaming In 2017
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-Link (The Legend of Zelda)
Before you continue reading, I must remind you that this is not my list of best moments in gaming, in case you think that way, but more of things that happened outside of video game. Enjoy your time reading my post, and thank you!
With 2017 coming to its end, 2018 is ready to greet us gamers with lots of video games everyone been anticipating. But before that, let's take a look back at whatever happened in gaming industry in 2017. I wonder what kind of joy and hilarious disaster will happen in 2018..
Blocktober Trend
Blocktober is a new trend similar to inktober where artists all over the world would post their drawings each day on October. The different is blocktober is gamedevs newly-made trend where they would showcase the look of their games when in early stages, or to be precise known as "blockouts", a development stage where there's still little to no detail applied to the game such as textures, lighting, vegetations, eye candies whatsoever.
It was first started by Michael Barclay, Naughty Dog's designer, with his tweet on 1 October 2017. You can read about it more on my ancient post here.
Leaked Bully 2 Concept Arts
I really hope that this is not going to be one of those dead exciting news forgotten in time, or worse, fake. A twitter account @Bully2Info shared a bunch of what appeared to be concept arts that suggesting Bully 2 is possibly in development, or planned by Rockstar Games. I hope the silence of this we got from Rockstar is because they wanted to keep it a secret, not because it's fake.
Mass Effect: Andromedat animation tho
Old meme, I know.
This was among my most anticipated games list. I played Mass Effect 3 long ago but didn't finish it, when I was about to get Mass Effect 3 to play again I found about the next series of the game that looked amazing... in static screenshot images. Although I'm not among those who are disappointed by the game because I didn't purchase it right away, I think I know how, uhh... laughable the animation and physics was.
Sure games have their flaws, and some have so many like Skyrim and Fallout 4 where glitches is the feature in it. But still, somehow Mass Effect: Andromeda beat them to it. Well at least we could enjoyed it as a meme, right?
Game Developers Reveal Hidden Mechanics of Their Games
This was also gamedev-made trend like blocktober, but it was only trending at that time. Started by Jennifer Scheurle, lead designer at Opaque Space on 1 September with her tweet;
And many other gamedevs follow suit, revealing their hidden mechanics and apparently some of them are "holding your hands" without you realizing, like that example Ms. Scheurle written. Another example is from one of the maker of System Shock, revealed that in System Shock the player's last bullet do double damage.
Here's some of the other revealed hidden mechanichs form gamedevs..
And BioShock creators, including Ken Levine jumped into the thread too!
Many people don't like this and disappointed by these developers methods, and Jennifer Scheurle explained why gamedevs do that secret tricks to gamers..
Now I wonder if Dark Souls have that hidden hand-holding mechanics too..
PUBG VS Fortnite Battle Royale
When Fortnite Battle Royale announced, many gamers excited about it and one of the reasons was because it's free to play, a free to play alternative to PUBG. And then shortly after it was released, PUBG developer, Bluehole Studio joined the crowd but not cheering of excitement because they were unhappy with it. Bluehole concerned that Epic Games copying PUBG experience.
A title, you can own that as a patent, but this controversy raised a question in gaming. Can you own a genre?
The world is grim enough can't we just all get along? (Guess where that line from).
Hideo Kojima's Mind Twisting Death Stranding Trailers
If you've been following Kojima-sensei's Death Stranding trailers since the first two ones, you know how it twist your mind in high quality. I missed a couple of them but I've watched the last one and it was as astounding as it was disturbing. I still can't figure out or having a guess to what's going on in this upcoming Death Stranding. What was started with an explosion? Is it about alien invasion? And what's with the baby? He's everywhere. Do you see riddles put in a set of trailers everyday? I don't.
Heck, I even starting to wonder if what I watched was really a video game trailer. And they said video game IS NOT AN ART. Ah well..
Nintendo Switch
If I remember correctly, the release of Nintendo Switch and its early games had some boo! in it. But as it kept going, it now become so successful that it has sold over 10 million units under a year. I'm guessing the biggest reason was (or is still) Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey, especially because...
Mario Showed His Nipples For the First Time And Everyone Loses Their Minds
On 13 September Nintento of America announced (or it was teased?) Super Mario Odyssey on Twitter. Who would have guessed that shirtless Mario became so groundbreaking it might as well became one of the reason for people to get their hands on Mario's nipp-- I mean, on Super Mario Odyssey.
Star Wars Battlefront II: Microtransactions Awakens
What's the most memorable moment/things that ever happen Star Wars franchise? The "I am your father" scene? The Anakin vs Obi Wan duel? The Rogue One movie? Or Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic? Apparently in 2017, this controversial attack of the microtransactions would be remembered in one of those "moments" in Star Wars, thanks to EA Games. You don't like it? I find your lack of funds disturbing!
CD PROJEKT RED's Cyberpunk 2077 Files Stolen by Hackers
On 8 June, CD PROJEKT RED announced on Twitter stating that their files have been stolen, including the files for Cyberpunk 2077, and of course, the thieves demands ransom for the files or it will be published otherwise, which is... pathethic. I mean, seriously, is this jealousy to a successful game company or what? Or are they just some excited script kiddies after watching Who Am I?
Thankfully, the stolen files are "old and largely unrepresentative” of the current stage of Cyberpunk 2077 development.
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Great art of game ...like your post and thanks for sharing
Liked the bit about Developers revealing their games secrets, though I wished these secrets remain so until few players discover them. Fans are smart!!
Yes, as long as it's in the game (files), sooner or later fans will figure out whatever secret it is hidden in the game. And we've seen this a couple of times already, although I haven't seen one that discovered the hidden mechanics.
pubg! it had so much potential but it's on its way to self destruction. the publisher/investor completely ruined a great game. what a shame.
The game "on its way to self destruction", aaaand they are currently working on another game, an MMO, that was also failing their fans on its first teaser. I don't know what they are trying to do here lol
who's they? because i have respect for brendan green but it's bluehole and kakao that are complete idiots. i remember the very day they took over and put up a shoddy poster that was so unoriginal and even looked fake because the quality was so bad. then it only took 3 months for fortnite to start winning.
i'm guessing that mmo is being done by bluehole :)
I was referring to Bluehole, and the MMO they are currently making is that steampunk arship battle MMO called Ascend: Infinite Realms which is also going to be published by Kakao (for the western release).
And the failure I mentioned was on their first teaser trailer, they showed the game's gameplay, features and stuff, but also some FPS drop here and there. And people mock it already. Not that I'm saying the game failed already, I mean it was failing the fans. Wait, isn't it the same thing? ._.
I was really wanted to play PUBG but now I'm starting to doubt it.
haha yes it's a constant pattern i see by most korean developers. here people don't care much about frame drops or performance, and kakao has zero experience in releasing a pc game.
their only experience is ripping off people with microtransactions.
but they do make a lot of money locally because even though it's a small fanbase they're very loyal and will spend literally thousands of dollars on their mobile games.
#funny
I can not help but laugh when I see something strange, what about you