In the sense that nothing about the architecture or art really evokes Japan at all other than that it looks vaguely Asian. (Some bits feel more Chinese than anything.) This is a big budget 2020 game with art done by contracted artists from all over the world, you'd think they'd be able to get a little closer than this, especially with how overexposed Japanese culture has been for a long while now

Control and Resident Evil 2 Remake still look incredible and run well on fairly inexpensive hardware today. We don't need globally illuminated Unreal Engine 5 games with individually modeled nostril hairs on each character that require graphics cards with prices in the three digit range

Graphics should just be kept at late PS4 level for the foreseeable future to keep games as accessible as possible

The woke left is trying to destroy that pillar of traditional Western femininity, the cartoon bimbo

"The game's over. There's nothing more to see. Just go ahead and turn the console off."

As a kid I assumed no one knew how old these two were because they were mysterious ninjas, but it turns out Tecmo just redacted their ages in the English translation for obvious reasons. It's funny they went with this route instead of just bumping both characters up to 18 years old. I guess Tomonobu Itagaki refused to tamper with the sanctity of his precious DOA canon

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I'm sad to report the PS2 version of DOA2 seems to be one of those early PS2 games that's interlaced to hell and back and will look like a jagged mess no matter how much you upscale it in PCSX2

Kinda wish there'd been clearer weather when I took the second photo

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Actually, thinking out loud, I could probably key out the sky in the second photo and replace it with the sky from one of the non-adjacent photos, then try to match the colours on the greenery to the other photos

I also kinda wish there was a generic photo comm

Eww

In the end, Activision cancelled all Crash and Spyro projects and sent both Toys for Bob and Vicarious Visions into the Call of Duty mines, but Toys for Bob at least became independent afterwards

Edit: I'm currently watching the video this screenshot originated from and it's really depressing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHwPNPW2VM

At one point Activision got rid of Toys for Bob's dedicated art department since they figured they could just outsource art to contractors who they wouldn't need to give benefits to

...then that also means it's been about 8 years since I first stumbled upon the chapo sub in the run-up to the election

That's a lot of twitter screenshots

In terms of gameplay mechanics, old school zoom aiming achieves the same thing as ADS. Is getting to press your nose against virtual firearms really that important in a game about shooting werevolves and vampires?

I blame this on the proliferation of Call of Duty over traditional scifi and fantasy shooter franchises. You can fucking ADS on an assault rifle in Halo now

What a pain in the ass to pump tires with these things

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