What did he mean by this?

>>389913948
blah blah blah gaming journalism is a joke blah blah

>>389913948
Will Metroid Prime 4 be Dark Souls then?

The Dark Souls of Persona of Skyrim with Guns.

>>389913948
He means it's a mildly popular stealth action combat game.

>>389914126
Dark Souls is Metroid Prime

>>389913948
I would also like to know what the fuck that means. Do these people know how to communicate in proper English any longer?

>>389914126
Metroid will be to the Switch what Mario 64 was to Turok.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN I HAVEN'T PLAYED SKYRIM OR DISHONORED
WHY CAN'T HE JUST SPEAK ENGLISH

>>389913948
It means if you kill a lot of goombas and shit you get the bad ending.

>>389914120
fuck off dean lol

>>389913948
so a roundabout to say "Its the Dark Souls of good games"

>>389914269
>Metroid will be to the Switch what Mario 64 was to Turok.
I can't tell if this is meant to be nonsensical joke or not

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But Skyrim and Dishonored fucking suck?

>>389913948
It's repetitive and overhyped?

>>389913948
the dishonored of mario games!

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>>389913948
When skyrim releases on switch what will it be then?

>>389914437
So does BOTW and (pretty much) SMO

>>389914437
I guess if you're a contrarian.

Skyrim will be Nintendo's Skyrim...since Skyrim is coming out for the Swith later this year.

Gaming journalism is a fucking joke.

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>>389913948
I swear gamin journalism and their shitty comparisons get worse and worse every month.
It's like they're so terrible at writing, so trash at coming up with descriptions and opinions and thoughts, that they just resort to arbitrarily comparing two popular series even when it doesn't make any sense, and as a result we have stupid terms like "Souls-like"
Holy shit

>>389913948
>games are being judged with bethesda games as the standard

>>389914532
>>389914542
Please leave, Todd.

>>389913948
Please give me context, what the fuck is dishonored

>>389914510
Skyrim Remastered

>>389914510
A big game.

>>389914510
The BotW of Nintendo.

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>Literally all it takes to be a videogame journalist is knowing somebody

>comparing a turn based RPG to a stealth action game
Gaming (((Journalism)))

It's the Cuphead of 3D adventure games

The >Bethesda Game< of >genre<.

>>389914658
>what the fuck is dishonored
why are you even on this board you mongoloid

>>389913948
FINALLY! A journalist who puts it into words that I can understand and relate to.

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>>389913948
>Be Nintendo
>have to pretend that shitty Nintendo games are other games because no one will make those games for your system

>>389914721
>Turn based RPG
Are you calling Mario Odyssey a turn based RPG???

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>>389913948

>Gaming Journalism.

>>389913948
Something stupid, I'm sure. I doubt they even knew what comparison they were trying to make.

What site was this from, anyway?

>>389913948
And as we all know Dishonored is the Dark Souls of Skyrim

>>389913948
>dishonored
>you can possess rats
>odyssey
>you can possess stuff
that's literally the only little thing that's kind of similar between the two games

>>389914806
>David Houghton is nintendo
Obama stop being a retard.

>>389914754
I play mostly old games and nintendo

>>389913948
>Mario is Dishonored.

On what fucking page is Mario the same as Dishonored ?

>>389913948
Truly the Dark Souls of Mario games

>>389914826
LOL

>>389914806
wtf why is obama using /v/

If Splatoon was the WiiU's Splatoon, is Splatoon 2 the Switch's Splatoon?

SMT is the Dark Souls of Persona.

>>389913948
Is all vidya articles clickbait?

>>389914826
the fu-
JUMP ON THE CUBE AND DASH MIDAIR YOU MONGOLOID GOD FUCK DAMMIT

>>389914826

This hurts.

>>389914892
you could posses seagulls in wind waker, does that mean wind waker is the dishonored of zelda games?

>>389913948
I feel like we have Kovic to blame for these sort of comparisons

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>>389913948
Like Skyrim with Guns

>>389915083
the following 24 minutes of the gameplay video is him not even making it halfway through the very first level of the game.

>>389914313
"If Breath of the Wild is Nintendo's Overrated Open World RPG by a Hack Company That Hasn't Made a Good Game in Decades Which Wasn't Handled by a Subsidiary, this is its Smaller Scale Homage to A Niche-but-beloved Subgendra by One of Said Company's Newer Subsidiary".

>>389914583
>"Souls-like"
>stupid terms

Cunt off. Please don't act like this isn't a meaningful classification of a sub-genre.

>>389915160
Wind Waker is the Fallout 4 of Dark Souls

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>>389914826
>not posting the superior version

>>389913948
Can someone translate this to a food analogy for me?

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>>389915083
>>389915128
>>389914989

>>389915240
It's not, fag. Dark Souls is an Action RPG, albeit a slow one, and you know what we used to call games that were extremely like other games? Clones/inspired by, not this stupid "Souls-like" shit
No one used the term "Doom-like" when Doom clones were mad

What's Nintendo's Dark Souls?

>>389913948
Is trying to make sense of this the Dark Souls of thought experiments?

>>389915275
>>389915229

>>389915341
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

>>389915314
God damn, how can you suck at aiming on a console shooter

>>389915341
Mario is Missing

>>389915314
YOU ELITIST PRICKS! EVERYONE CAN BE A VIDEO GAME REVIEWER, PLAYING VIDEOGAMES IS SECONDARY

>>389913948
I hate game "journalism" so much.

>>389913948
It means Samus Returns is the N Same Trilogy

>>389915339
>what is rogue-like?

>>389915469
are cars reviewers required to have a driver's license?

the dark souls of mario

>>389913948
I wonder if Cappy is going to turn out to be evil.

>>389915083
You sound like an elitist :/

>>389914826
>>389915314
>>389915252

holy fucking shit. how can people be this bad at videogames? you have to be mentally retarded to suck this much

>>389915346
i believe it might be

Are video games the Family Guy of journalism?

>>389915605
But that's Mario 2 (JP)

>>389915574
A shitty way to say Rogue-lite
Also there's countless of games that would fit under such a definition while there's only a handful of games that are truly like Dark Souls not made by From if not less. Usually "Souls-like" is used to define games that aren't anything like Souls

>>389915639
It only gets worse with the source video too. 26 minutes of running head first into every enemy and only getting halfway through the first level.

>>389915619
What even is Cappy lore-wise? Some kind of Boo offshoot?

What is Nintendo's Rick and Morty?

>>389914583
They smash popular terms together for clicks abd google search results

>>389915469
The fact that that was a genuinely given argument is what convinced me to stop paying attention to games media.

>>389913948
Truly the Dark Souls of Bethesda games.

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>>389913948

>>389913948
>Journalists advertising other games at the expense of nintendo
What a shame

>>389913948
This is a horrible analogy if you're trying to sell someone a game

>>389915723
I don't care, but I'm sure it'll be used to initiate hundreds of "deepest lore" shit posting threads.

>>389915252
Beautiful

>>389915723
All I know so far is there are at least two of them. Peach is wearing one, too.

What is it about Skyrim that the media just love so much?

>>389915915
Bethesda pays them a shitload
Normies love it and easily recognize it

>>389915915
it's a very popular game among people calling themselves gamers. just putting "skyrim" in your article title guarantees a shitload of clicks.

>>389915721
The guy apparently took most of that time to realize he wasn't playing Mario Bros and jumping on enemies was just killing him faster. So for extra fun try to guess which enemies he's running into by accident and which ones he's intentionally jumping into.

>>389915819
Even just "It's a Mario game alright." would be better.

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>>389915412
good taste

>>389915713
>>389915574
>>389915339
i think there is no proper culture on the subject of properly naming genres, so people just use any popular game to try to describe another
however its pretty pathetic that a gaming journalist has to resort to game calling to try and convey a genre

>>389916029
So it's like gorillas on Silver Age comic book covers.

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>>389913948
>another paid reviewer hypes up a nintendo game that will end up being mediocre, that fanboys and children alike will claim is amazing

Call me when they stop being predictable

>>389915314
>using the numpad to aim

>>389913948
i really don't understand.
it's such a retarded comparison.
i have a very low opinion of game journalists, but they still probably have a vague idea of what popular games are even if they didn't play them.
so how could someone write something like this?

the only reason i see is that they wanted some clicks with the word skyrim.

>>389913948
>Gaming (((Journalism)))

>>389913948
I can understand Skyrim because normies love Skyrim and it was a big financial hit, but I legit don't know what Dishonored is

>>389913948
>lethal/non lethal route
>death of actual people and not monsters/goombas
>disease
>brothels
>alcohol
>choice of using an assortment of weapons, grenades, potions.
>summon rats, fuck with time, teleport.
>game is mainly about stealth unless you don't wanna use stealth.

Wow. Can't believe I didn't see the similarities.

Game-game comparisons are going way too fucking far.

>>389916607
A Zelda clone.

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>we've reached a point where even the most high profile of Japanese games are so alien to the mainstream gaming press that we have to compare literally everything to western equivalents
Why can't we go back?

>>389913948
Bethesda is the greatest publisher ever

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>>389916476
what's your problem with gaming journalism my man?
why don't you make your own reviews if you're so much better then them?

>>389915229
Huh. I guess that's a very terse way to say that then.

>>389916648
you can possess some stuff in dishonored.
you can possess some stuff in odyssey.
are you fucking blind?
literally the same gameplay.

>>389914313
what the fuck you do on this board if you don't play videogame.

Can someone tell me what Nintendo game is the Super Mario RPG of Chrono Trigger? I lost my conversion chart.

>>389915229
Odyssey is being developed by EPD themselves. What the fuck do you consider an internal Nintendo team?

Why do you read shit gaming journalism? You keep feeding this landfill fire.
Read http://www.gatheryourparty.com instead. They're pretty good.

>>389916934
Earthbound

>>389915339

No they called them Doom clones, which is practically the same shit.

>>389916934
pikmin 2

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>>389915341

>>389917037
>not even one post every month
sure seem like a good source for keeping up to date

>>389915341
AoL

>>389913948
Gaming journalism at it's finest, just compare new games with old ones because fuck explaining the actual game.

>>389917183
Keeping up to date on what? Video games? Why the fuck would you want to do that? What you should want is a curator to filter all the shit content for you.

>>389914920
>I play mostly old games and nintendo
why are you even on the board you mongoloid

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>>389915314
>tfw you can't get the game to look like that on your 1.5 year old PC without it turning into a slideshow
IT'S NOT FAIR WHY DO THESE PEOPLE GET TO HAVE MONEY?!

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>>389913948

>>389915229

Are you hurt, anon?

>>389917520
Man I feel this pain.

>>389913948
Is this game THE Dark Souls of Mario?

>>389917520
>pretty up to date pc
>keep hearing about how DOOM runs well
>play it
>have to mess with settings mid to high to get 40 fps
>after a couple of hours, notice a setting called Vulkan or some shit
>activate it
>40 fps zone suddenly turns into 140 fps zone
>bump everything to ultra
>still at over 100 fps
did you vulkanize your game my man?

>>389917556
how can one girl be so ugly?

>>389917520
Don't worry.
We're peaking out in the graphical fidelity for 1080p resolutions.
In the future computer resources will be spent on lowering wages for gamedevs because the powerful hardware will require less and less off programmers while delivering a very mediocre experience. As we see with crappy unity/Unreal engine 4 shit.
>>389917680
What? You're saying they made vulkan a graphics option? Why would they do that? I see no conceivable reason for it not to be default on platforms that support it.

>>389917817
i had no fucking clue what vulkan was, that's why i didn't touch it for a while.
i have an amd card.

>>389913948
Will this be the most Darksoulsian Cuphead of Witcherlikes?

>>389917556
CABBAGE PATCH FACE HAVING

Makes me wonder, when people were calling TLOU "Citizen Kane of video games", did any one of them actually watch, let alone enjoy, Citizen Kane? Did anyone even understand the contributions Citizen Kane made to the film art form/industry that makes it so lauded? Or were they just parroting the comparison because "some film snobs say it's the best, so I guess it's the best" without understanding the context?

>>389917037
>Open this
>First article has "vidya" in the title
Dont shill your shitty site here.

dr pavel im cia

>>389918056
you shouldn't even have to ask, it's the latter.

>>389917210
Thats the dark souls of action rpgs.

>>389918086
It's made from people who went to /v/ back in 2010-2010 I believe. And it's sadly one of the best sites I've found.
I'm surprised you haven't heard of it anon.

>>389914583
When's the last time you've actually read an article instead of dismissing it immediately?

>>389918056
The answer is no.

>>389918193
>people who went to /v/ back in 2010-2010
that's a pretty specific time window

>>389918193
I dont doubt its probably better than sites like IGN but thats simply because the bar for video games journalism fell so low it buried through earth and is now a few light years away in space. The real solution is to not visit any sites of the sort at all.

>>389913948

>bethesda games are a comparable barometer for other video games
I fucking hate this with a passion. The only time i've ever played a Bethesda game and mildly enjoyed it was New Vegas, and it sure as hell wasn't because the game played well.

TeS and Dishonored are shit and feel like shit to play. Are people so inept and tasteless that they actually get enjoyment out of games like Skyrim?

The simple actions of walking around, moving, combat, the basics the games are built on just feel clunky, unpolished and gross to me and I just don't see how others can put so much time in to these games, much less use them as some sort of quality indicator for the medium.

Am I crazy? Do I just have strange tastes? I just think Elder Scrolls is hot shit that sells people on its premise too easily

>>389917680
I had to turn on Vulkan just to get anti-aliaising. It literally wouldn't show up on the screen no matter what the fuck I set it to in OpenGL.
Is it one of those situations where it turns off automatically if it drops past a certain framerate?

>>389918537
>new vegas
>bethesda game
that's why you enjoyed it my man

>>389913948
That's very much not a compliment right? I'm not even shit posting.

>>389918537
How do game mechanics feel gross to you?

>>389918537
>The only time i've ever played a Bethesda game and mildly enjoyed it was New Vegas

>>389918537
>dishonored feels like shit
? moving around in dishonored felt great.

>>389913948
SMO will be the Mario 64 of Switch Mario games.

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>>389918537
>Am I crazy? Do I just have strange tastes?
No, you're just educated and experienced and have a greater frame of reference.
People like these games because they literally don't know any better. I guarantee 99% of the people who have more than 10 hours in Skyrim have never touched a Japanese game in their lives.

>>389918537

>skyrim sucks
>muh new vegas

You're not crazy, you're a contrarian tryhard faggot trying to win the hearts of /v/

>>389918301
I meant 11.
>>389918458
If people aren't given better options they will always turn to the bad old sources.
You attempting to kill game journalism doesn't work. You'll only make it a smaller thing. Which may be good but it won't solve the problems. They'll still make their money from click baiting you and catering to the lowest common denominator.
If you instead hold up something that's good or even just decent you're gonna change more.

Glanced through the article that op forgot to link to. Basically the author justifies the claim by listing the numerous ways mario can interact with the environment through the use of the new cap morphing ability. He says that odyssey is a combination platformer/immersive sim.
>While Super Mario Odyssey is an authentic, robust, finely crafted, and ludicrously-honed 3D Mario game in its heart, with all the tactile, polished, instinctive and rewarding jump-based traversal that entails, Cappy builds that framework into so much more. Cappy offers a freedom to manipulate, reinterpret, and ‘cheat’ your way through environments that, with no exaggeration of facetiousness, makes it feel like Nintendo has developed its first Immersive Sim. If The Breath of the Wild is Nintendo’s Skyrim, Super Mario Odyssey is its Dishonored or Prey.

>>389919041

Cringe

>>389919582
Fuck off retard
Can't believe nobody bothered pointing out this shit is fake and has no source

>>389919582
>forgot to link to
I think it was a conscious decision to not give them hits.

Regardless of content. These sites article contents are purely motivations for having the title to the article be what they are.

They're like horror movies that are made for trailers. They make no sense internally but they have short clips in them that make for good trailers. That's what's happening here.
Over and over.

>>389919641
>truth is cringe now
LMAOing at your life.

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What did he mean by this?

>>389915275
Someone should also translate it into an anal sex/ futa analogy

>>389915341
Zelda 2

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>>389913948
What is the cawadoody of switch?

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This is the only gaming journalism site that you should be reading:
https://www.christcenteredgamer.com/index.php

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What did he mean by this?

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wait, so what's the mario party of action rpgs?

>>389919582
>that op forgot to link to
fuck off

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>>389916906
Beautiful.

>>389919831
The comparison of a platformer to what we think of immersive sims isn't completely baseless.

>>389920132
Based

>>389913948
click bait

>>389915229
only that both skyrim and dishonored are shit.

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>>389913948
is mario odyssey the dark souls of dishonored games?

>>389913948
>if w is x, then y is z

i'm beginning to see why these people got so scared by the takahashi thing. if there were any real spotlight cast on any of these retards it would quickly become obvious how totally unqualified they actually are to be journalists

>>389914261
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

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How does it feel to know that gaming journalism will be completely dead and buried within 5 years?

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>>389919641

>>389920728
What is going on in the lower half of that gif?

>>389920787
>i bet 99% of people who have more than 10 hours in skyrim have never touched a japanese game in their lives
Such an unfounded, and ridiculous claim doesn't deserve any response other than adhominem.

>>389920301
i don't get it.

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>>389920569
>dishonored
>shit

>>389920917
butter making proccess

>>389914120
you type like a woman

single mother?

>>389922214
Ah, nice and wholesome
Weird that she's making those faces tho

>>389922335
they say it's a tiring activity

>>389915341
Melee?

>>389920728
>implying it won't just get shittier and shittier as time goes on

>>389913948
Are these people literally fucking incapable of discussing a game in terms that don't require naming another game?

>>389920196
Hand over the source and ill tell you

>>389914120
fpbp

>>389913948

At the end of the day at least i'll be useful where it counts

Nobody wants some paid shitposter in the coming apocalypse.

>>389926163
This is the assassin's creed of imageboard posts

>>389926163
these people are the cupheads of journalists

>>389915727
pokemon black and white

>>389920104
Splatoon

>>389919041
>glourious JAPANESE games are epic because I'm a weeaboo
cool story my man

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>>389914120

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>>389914583
every now and then gaymen journalism websites use clickbait titles to get views
it's sad because it works

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>>389913948
>This is the X of video games

>>389917520
>buy a mid-range computer for 700 bucks
>get constant 60fps on 1080p and high settings on every game
>most games even run at 4K 60fps without a hassle
I don't know what the fuck you guys are talking about, you must have gotten borked hardware or something

>>389915314
Before the cuphead incident, I'd have given this guy the benefit of the doubt and just assume he's strictly a PC gamer and was forced to review a console version of the game having never held a controller in his life
But now, I just have no faith in these clowns

>>389919041
>tfw you will never be stuck in an endless fleshy nightmare

>>389913948
That Nintendo is becoming Bethesda?

>>389914583
They're worse at comparisons than /v/.

>>389920728
One can only hope, gaming journalism is literally cancer

>>389920728
I can only hope.

They are a special kind of cancer that deserve to be exterminated.

>>389926163
They'd rather be discussing politics in the Philippines than discussing vidya.