#best part of the games are these scenes

[themagentadragon]

I will choose Cat Grill Friend every. Single. Time.

#monster Hunter #felyne #palico #best part of the games are these scenes

[dragonpropaganda]

you should talk about your thoughts on rw fanon (looking with huge eyes)

Oh god, there's a lot of major misconceptions have concreted into fanon, mostly around ancient society and ascension.

First things first! Ascension is not death! They are entirely separate things treated entirely separately by the text of the game. I can see where the interpretation is coming from, but it doesn't really align with how the text treats either subject. Five Pebbles may want to remove the self destruction taboo, but from his reaction to the rot it's clear that he doesn't want to die. Conflation of ascension and death only comes up as an offhand possibility that pebbs makes on iterator 4chan, when he's going into the possibilities of scenarios that even the other sliverists are doubtful of! (let me make clear that I am not a sliverist by any means)

Ascension is more of talked about as a form of transcendence, yeah? A Bell, Eighteen Amber Beads talks about their sitution as being "To have grasped at the boundless infinites of the cosmic void…", not as them seeking an end to life.

The beta dialogue goes into more detail, mentioning the "infinities of time and space" and the "boundless fractal planes of spirit and reality...", though this dialogue was cut and it's hard to tell how much it reflects the concept as in the released game.

As for the cultural misconceptions... there's A Lot to talk about, but the first that comes to mind is the common conflation of the five natural urges and the christian concept of sin.

It is true that the negation of urges is mentioned by moon as an alternative method of ascension, but much of what we know about the culture of the people who the fandom calls the ancients (which makes discussion of the depths a mess but that's something for another post entirely) points towards the urges not being seen as shameful.

Even the first urge does not seem to be particularly scorned! Being a warrior is presented as a cause for bragging in the Shaded Citadel pearl, being comparable with being an artist and a fashion legend. The second urge, also does not seem to be suppressed. Multiple sources attribute some level of honour to parenthood! The aforementioned pearl also mentions Seventeen Axes, Fifteen Spoked Wheel as being a "Mother, Father and Spouse" without any hint of shamefulness. Nineteen Spades, Endless Reflections expresses pride about having progeny, mentioning it alongside their owned land and esteem among their peers.

After some peer review, an esteemed friend has told me to add a section on purposed organisms as well! This is not so much my area, so I might be a bit off on some things.

As moon says, the majority of purposed organisms were tubes in boxes, and that the primal fauna of the world are almost entirely extinct. A lot of the fandom seems to ignore the first part, and i can't say I blame them, but the evolution of the creatures is so much weirder than people think.

Concept art for the creatures has this interesting quality to it, where the organic parts of the creatures have an almost... melty quality to them.

In the concept art, the flesh appears as if it's almost defying the machinery to form an animal shape. It's as if it's conquering its own artificiality the way the foliage grows over the (stone, brick and concrete, not mostly metal as some think!) ruins.

Of course, it's hard to really tell how much of this reflects the finalised concept, most of the integration is much smoother in the game, in line with a seamless kind of biomechanical design. There was always an intention of biomechanical strangeness, as shown in this screenshot of the devlog before the term "slugcat" even existed!

That said, the melty nature of the concept art shows a level of wild change inherent the biomechanical nature of the creatures, as if they truly are the result of these "tubes in boxes" almost revolting against their own boxes.

and considering centipedes... some tubes may not have had boxes in the first place!

#rain world #rain world lore #rainworld #rw spoilers #please note! my role in downpour development does not make me an authority on what is canon or not! #my domain is entirely within challenge mode and arena which aren't canon anyway #my lore analysis is just lore analysis with no looks behind the scenes of anything vanilla #downpour was made as a fan expansion and the rewrites were just done directly by james #we didn't get any disambiguation on the lore (and thank fuck for that honestly. analysis is the best part) #though the hills ARE made of bricks #this is canon not because i say so but because it is visibly true in some areas of the game. part of the text and thus canon. weep. #i could go into more detail on most of this! purposed organisms aren't my area of expertise tho so i might be a bit shaky on some of that #anyway if anyone has any fact checking to do. please do so #media analysis is a dialogue!

[revrads]

“The Vessel of Alu”

Possessed!John my beloved <3

porpol version

#faith game #faith the unholy trinity #faith fanart #faith airdorf #john ward #faith alu #fanart #drawing #art #doodle #artsy ari #fake screenshot #fake scene #((Can't imagine being Lisa in this situation cause imagine yout 6'2 beefy best friend slowly walks towards you with killing intentions)) #((Personal hc is Lisa's the one telling him to fight alu when he's possessed :3)) #((Makes the part where he kills her even sadder cause that means she willingly gives herself up in her friend's hands)) #((But that's just my personal headcanon)) #((The silliest Faith duo <3 (they fucking hate each other ong))) #((Once again- he is porpol))

[sweetandglovelyart]

Knightfall in Dream Land - Page 5

Meta Knight loses a battle and his wings to Nightmare.

#Kirby #Kirby fanart #my art #comic #Meta Knight #Nightmare #merry Christmas here’s the next page #it’s after midnight now here where I live but let’s just pretend I posted this a few minutes earlier lmao #as you can see I cannot draw fighting scenes at all but I tried my best here #I tried to portray all of the attacks Nightmare can do in his orb form #this is also my explanation for why Meta Knight doesn’t have wings/doesn’t use his wings in Kirby’s Adventure #I’m not totally sure if the wings are part of him or if they’re his cape turning into wings since that seems to vary game to game #but for the purposes of the comic the wings are a part of him he loses them here but they grow back later #I noticed that Galacta Knight’s wings come off in the cutscene after you beat him in Meta Knightmare Ultra #so I thought what if something similar happened to Meta Knight #on the next page we’ll see how Meta ended up on Popstar and we might see a few familiar faces #Knightfall in Dream Land

[feytouched]

"Drink, gulp it down, wet your whistle. Tell your story."

lyra meets thisobald thorm.

#unironically i love the cinematography of this scene sm. the colour design and the compositon of the shots are just >>> #act 2 stays the best part of the game #bg3 #birdko plays bg3 #oc: lyra #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 gif #thisobald thorm #bg3 spoilers

[fujii-draws]

(opens up a new canvas) (draws dusknoir for the 67th time) yeah I like him a normal amount.

#pmd #pmd eos #pmd dusknoir #pmd art tag #I know I draw pre-betrayal dusknoir a lot because I love drawing his more softer/kinder side #but if I’m being deadass? the betrayal was the best part of the game for me. #the plot just. SKY ROCKETS from there. #like man imagine how BORING it would’ve been if Grovyle was just the bad guy and you kept having to chase a homicidal lizard #also Dusknoir’s scenes in the future just OOZE with charisma. #him laughing. explaining how he played hero and partner for absolute fools. the stoneship fight. #I’m so normal about him.

[someredfox]

dshdkshfj??

#butterfly soup 2 #ppkm #suggestive #?? #love how min and diya's future scene is them adopting a dog #and noelle and akarsha's is this #butterfly soup 2 spoilers #anyways #I finished the game #I honestly rlly loved it #Noelle and Akarsha's parts were probably the best #noelle was lowkey out of character in a few parts but it didn't rlly bother me

[slushi-chan]

I watched the god awful movie Planet Raptor solely for Ted so have some gifs from the bloopers/bts footage at the end of the movie

I love this dork

#I love Ted to death but he wasn’t good in this movie I’m sorry #I think it’s badness rubbed it on his performance #the cgi in this movie is the worst thing I’ve ever fucking scene and I’m not kidding #I’ve seen games from the 90s with 3D that looked better than the cgi in this movie #the bloopers are the best part #I love Ted he’s such a dork #ted raimi #planet raptor #my gifs #gifs

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF ATTICAN TRAVERSE: KROGAN TEAM

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Lt. James Vega, EDI, and Urdnot Grunt With: Urdnot Wrex, Dr. Mordin Solus, Primarch Adrien Victus and The Rachni Queen I don't need luck- I have ammo. Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #sophie shepard #james vega #EDI #urdnot grunt #urdnot wrex #mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #i finally finished gif’ing traverse and this set is cursed is all i will say :) #i don’t know why this one was such a pain in the ass but compressing them was a massive chore for some reason #and my dumb ass realized as i was assembling i set the frame hold wrong for like 4 of them so i had to go back and redo a few of them 🙃 #the thing that pissed me off most is that there’s usually a nice planet shot with a normandy fly in to make a header from #and traverse just doesn’t fucking get one for some reason?? so ig we get rachni queen header #i’m so sorry but this is like my least favorite mission in the game 😭 #like i do like grunt but this mission is just meh on all fronts to me at least #like the decision from ME1 to spare or destroy the rachni queen is so fucking cool?? and it has 0 consequences in ME3 LMAO #not to mention that half of this mission is just standing around with a flame thrower burning down webs lol #the only cool thing i’ll say is i ADORE the Aliens™️/xenomorph vibes that the mission has!! that is so cool the first time around #the cutscenes are alright but there’s really only some towards the front end and the back end? so you miss so much of the middle #which makes it hard to connect what’s going on to make a best of: set lol #grunt has some nice scenes if you have him here and the rachni queen quotes are cool #the enemies are also kind of interesting in concept? i just wish the rachni decision from ME1 had more weight here #james and EDI have a few nice lines towards the front in the shuttle but there’s not a ton of great dialogue like grissom has tbh #idk this mission is just okay to me i guess? like the ardat-yakshi sanctuary with samara is much more interesting to me #i feel like this one needed longer to cook and the rachni deserved more weight in the mission based on your decision in ME1 #james and EDI looked cute like always!! and soph ate it up in cleric’s guardian armors for shepard (which continues to be gorgeous ❤️‍🔥✨) #idk seeing grunt and playing fashion dress up was the best part of this mission besides the wrex cameo at the end lmao

[licorishh]

Replayed Modern Warfare 3 2011 on Veteran tonight and goooooooood night. Blood Brothers never gets any easier to watch no matter how many times you've done it and the ending really never misses huh

I apologize for the amount of yapping in the tags I reread it all on mobile and started giggling because it went on for so long but eh. Blessed are those who won't shut the freak up and all that

#call of duty #modern warfare 3 2011 #i just. wow. wow wow wow wow wow #i've played these three games so many times over the last several years and i just. #they literally. never get old. #loose ends and blood brothers will never not make me cry and endgame and dust to dust will never not make me smile so hard #ending it with price smoking the cigar like he did in the first mission in the first game wHEN HE FIRST MET SOAP JUST UGHHHHHH. #i know y'all don't care but i don't care that y'all don't care i could literally yap about this until i shrivel up and die #i have never ever ever in my LIFE seen poetic justice played out so beautifully like it is at the very end #JUST. WOW. WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW. WOW WOW. WOW #they do not frickin make games like that anymore DADGUM #i also forgot how frickin sad down the rabbit hole is?? like jeez louise they didn't have much screen time but gosh #i also have never in my life heard such gut-wrenching anguish from a grown man in my life like price in that one scene #I KNOW Y'ALL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT THAT MAN MAKES ME FULL ON S O B IN THAT PART HE HAD NO BUSINESS #anyway i'll keep cutely living in denial and pretending literally any of the main characters besides price and nikolai are fine <3 #foley and dunn and their team seemed just fine at the end of modern warfare 2 so i will accept that small mercy #at this point these games have taken everything else i love away from me so #y'all probably think i'm wild for how insane i get over these games but the nostalgia bit is a big part of it as well #like they're honestly in my opinion genuinely the greatest video games of all time #but the fact that i have that connection with my dad makes it so special #crazy cause he said he also cried in blood brothers and my dad is 54 and i have seen him cry one (1) other time in my entire life #heck infinity ward but also bless them i hope the devs live long beautiful wonderful prosperous delightful exciting fulfilling lives #Lord bless them and their entire bloodline for the contributions they have made to humanity not even joking #AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE FREAKING SOUNDTRACKS DO NOT GO THERE OAUSYDJAKAKDN #MW2 AND MW3 CREDITS. EXTRACTION POINT. COUP DE GRACE. RETREAT AND REVEILLE. CONTINGENCY. PARIS SIEGE. PRAGUE HOSTILITIES. RUSSIAN WARFARE. #UGHHHHHHHGHHHH everything about these games is so unbelievably perfect and immaculate #i have got to get over my art block NOWWWWWWWWWW #makarov is also the best villain i've ever seen idc bro he's frickin awesome #i mean obviously he's horrible and a disgustingly evil human being but as a character he's stupidly well-written

[kamuro-junrenka]

Am i really the only one who thinks lost judgment chapter 7 was insane

#ive scrolled through here and twitter and even went to pixiv and im currently looking through the chinese fandom... #no one ever even mentions chapter 7 like so much stuff happens... #also ive barely seen anyone talking about akutsu at all but i think hes terrifying??? the scene were he says everyone is going to like #chop off parts of yagami with the chainsaw was crazy for rgg standards imo i was like !!!!!!! the entire time #of course at the end kaito and sugiura save the say but idk i thought it was very intense? #or the parts before/after that.. the tension w kuwana #soma using yagami as an example for the other rk thugs... yagami finding sawa and just breaking down #idk maybe its just me but i didnt expect NO ONE to mention anything at all? everyone always talks about the last chapter #and i dont blame them theyre the best the game has to offer but idk i feel crazy sometimes when i think about it #not a single fanfic or fanart or someome brainrotting about it here orz and im way too late to the party i aint gonna do it myself #rant

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

fave part of visiting gamlens/hawke's house: reading letters :)

#genuinely i really love seeing letters from the people we've met/helped before #and even from people entire outside the game! love hearing from people from hawkes past #and love the scam letters too fdjkdfkjsdf #laya plays dragon age #da2 #second best part: scenes with doggo!!

[caiusmarciuscoriolanus]

I’m convinced Roadhouse 2024 was just the director saying “hey look how hot Conor mcgregor is” and then built a plot around it.

#seriously the best part of it was the last fight scene between mcgregor and Jake’s character #the acting was actually so bad #the only person I feel even remotely brought their a game was Conor #which is crazy because he’s the actual ufc fighter and not a fucking actor #road house

[hishighnesstheprincess]

Istg people will see that one Archie panel of Sonic saying he's more important to Tails than Tails own parents and disregard the entirety of Archie because of it

#nevermind that its like. a consistent character flaw which has been building up for years at that point #and also there was behind the scenes meddling from sega which shortened the arc and made it worse #and that sonic had one of the best apologies ive ever seen #and NO explaining your actions =/= not really apologizing #theres is over five HUNDRED issues you cant say theres no good parts of archie because of one panel #its like if i didnt give x sonic a chance because of that one episode where he manipulates everybody #or disregarded game sonic because of all the multiple instances of him being ooc in a way thay makes him look like an asshole #some people dont want characters to be ACTUALLY flawed they just want perfect little angels who are occasionally sassy/sad #sth #sonic the hedgehog #tails the fox #prin posts #sonic posting

[zevranunderstander]

im not saying this is a given and that every video game needs to do this to be “good”, but i recently rewatched a bunch of hbomberguy videos and in his fallout new vegas essay he talks about the moment with caesar’s legion where you argue about actual hegelian dialectics w caesar and he also compares this moment to disco elysium in his essay and i just have to say that this is such a cool way to engage players into thinking about pretty deep philosophical and ideological questions without making it all that clear that you are *discussing philosophy* and the apporach is so unique to video games.

like, you create a character/faction who clearly is not the good guy in the story but they give you the chance to “debate” them in a sense - the way caesar talks about his motives and ideology forces you to think for yourself. like, this is *not* a moment where you are supposed to see that “oh, maybe this faction isn’t as bad as i thought they were - what a surprising twist! they are equally moral as the NCR!”, like if that is your takeaway from the moment you are actually super fucking gullible, because, yeah, ceasar is quoting smart men he read a book about and yeah, he might actually think that his approach is correct but you need to apply your own knowledge of morality to the situation.

like if you see these people torturing and killing civilians and latching people to crosses and calling everyone that isn’t like them a “degenerate”, then maybe the ideology of their leader doesn’t matter. also, you have to think about if he is just misusing said ideology to *sound* like that is what he is doing, to *sound* morally right so that people join him, despite knowing it’s bullshit. like, the game doesn’t force you to come to the correct conclusion, you have to actually think about if what he says is actually meaningful and correct and the game does not chew up the right answer for you. like you can end this game working for the actual fascists because they have a compelling leader figure and maybe joining the faction makes you see it for what it is. like, if you aren’t smart enough to realize that ceasar’s legion aren’t the good guys, you have to play along with them until you yourself go “wait, are we the bad guys?”.

disco elysium also does that a lot, like it never just *tells* you if a person is morally correct in what they are saying or if they might try to decieve you by sounding big and impressive to hide their very bigoted agenda. you have to actually think for yourself a lot and realize, that even people who might have *some* correct opinions, do not have all of the correct opinions. that is why i loved that they made kim, who is probably the most beloved character in the game and someone you often look at as a moral compass, a centrist. like. he isn’t a confrontational person, or anyone who is looking to change the status quo and a lot of his morals and ideals he has otherwise don’t mean all that much if he tries to keep his head down all the time. like, you could actually look at kim in the game and say “he usually has opinions i agree with, he probably is right about that”, but to the game kim being a centrist is actually more of a moral failing and a character flaw than just a reasonably held belief.

while i have some beef with the explaination as to why the deserter *did what he did* and there is like, a billion more examples of three-dimensional characters in the game, i loved that the deserter - the only *actual* communist you meet in the game - is a massive asshole, who is incredibly sexist and racist and just a complete cunt, not so that you go “wow, so communism sucks too :/”, but to see his failings and also the failings of communism to be something you need to be mindful of when calling yourself a communist, that you still have to be a good person and also have an actual community. like this guy doesn’t exist so that you go “communism bad, actually”, but that you can see that he isn’t wrong about everything, but he still *is* wrong about things.

like, i love that, i love the way these games tell you “if you take people to be either 100% correct or 100% incorrect all of the time, you will never learn to actually find your own standpoints on topics but always just copy other people’s morality. if you don’t learn to think about your own ideology, you will copy other people’s flaws and harmful ideologies without realizing it and you will have to learn the hard way that you are wrong”.

and a lot of games that try to discuss political ideology or societal issues (cloudpunk comes to my mind rn, but they are not the only ones doing that) are so scared of “confusing” players by having bad people have good traits and good people have bad traits or have a person with a bit of a misguided ideology or have people try to convince you that their bigoted ideology is actually good, because they are scared that people will think they endorse bad ideologies or advertise fascism. and bc of that they make people really one-dimensional and always point out, who is right and who is wrong and people basically lay out their bad intentions for you, so that you don’t actually confuse them to be a good person and i think we should force players to actually use their brain sometimes

#myposts #Disco elysium #fallout new vegas #fnv #also. yeah. i didnt like cloudpunk #like it had its good parts but overall. not a really good game ghjags #also hbomberguy showed a game awards scene from DE winning best narrative where they thank marx and engels and that shit is so funny #like. at the GAME AWARDS #the awards show with the least intellctual quality in the world

[hecksupremechips]

Danganronpa udg is so funny like the most fucked up shit ever will be happening with these characters and then komaeda is just. There. With a swirly mustache and cat whiskers on his face

#danganronpa #danganronpa ultra despair girls #nagito komaeda #komaeda is the best part of that game and the best part is that hes the normal one #yeah im replaying this game for the first time in AGES and its fucking horrible in every way im having a lot of fun #last night i got to what is imo the most disturbing scene where monaca pretty much sexually assaults nagisa #and poor komaeda is just on the floor like ummm. not to intrude but this is fucked :D #he also makes some absolutely dogshit milkshakes for those kids and then he has to drink them cuz theyre so bad #he gets to be a little fucked up though. as a treat