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This doesn't seem like a successor to the Skate series, it seems more like a reboot of the franchise away from an actual skateboarding game and towards whatever the fuck they just announced. Skateboarding Fortnite?
Nothing gold can stay.
That's already what Skate 3 was. This is just expanding and leaning into those "casual" zany aspects.
I loved how down to earth and true to skateboarding Skate 1 was. Skate 2 felt like a lazy forced sequel. Skate 3 was actually very good, but they jumped the shark a bit (as they acknowledged) to appeal to a wider audience and they also didn't finish the game (custom levels being only 20FPS? What the fuck?!). Its going to be difficult to enjoy Skate 4 fully if it doesn't get dual stick controls, but it looks like the skateboarding will still be worthwhile.
I don't know. I think Skate 4 will probably be... fine. But what I'm really bummed about is that SkaterXL was abandoned, and Session is possibly getting ruined by the publisher before it even comes out... and I don't think EA can let a game that is driven by player passion just -exist- anymore without some sort of manipulative exploitation of that passion.
I'm just so fucking sick of Capitalism. Honestly. Who at this point sees our society and goes "yeah, this is alright". Even our "bread and circuses" are going to shit these days. There is no escape from how shit Capitalism is. Even the games that once brought me a distraction from it are just saturated with microtransactions and in-game currency at every turn. I'm just so over it.
Worst of all, we won't even OWN this game. When (not if) EA shuts down the servers, the game is gone for ever. No physical copies to play. Its just gone. This economic model is not suitable for life-sustaining parts of life like healthcare, housing, food... it can't even handle making videogames in a way that isn't awful.
It's a feature, capitalism is basically flawed by design and constantly needs new markets to evade the contradiction of exponential growth (impossible). What you and I are witnessing right now is those contradictions widening so fast that capitalism entered a death loop, where it tears itself apart to keep the line going up (the whole disruptive tech bullshit is basically that). So micro transactions, DRM bullshit, licensing games and movies, streaming everything and all the stupid bullshit Silicon Valley is pumping out is a desperate move to keep the treats flowing. Unfortunately for these morons, reality doesn't give a shit about any of that and their shitty system is falling appart as I type this.
This guy dialectical materialisms.
Exactly. I hate to point to things as silly as entertainment to underscore serious issues, but man, the fact that big movies and games have been pretty creatively bankrupt for 15 years is wild to me. Mainstream music has been unlistenable for about 20 years now... It's like this stage of Capitalism is allergic to any creatively or humanity being involved in the production process anymore.
I just hope we are able to change things for the better soon.
My Fair Lady and Jefferson Starship would like a word... Not disagreeing with any of the critical points, but pop culture has always been bankrupt and catered to idiots and children. Sometimes it can be head-bobblingly enjoyable, mostly it's shit.
Absolutely. To be clear I'm not doing a "born in le wrong generation". But the late 60s/early 70s and the 90s all had way better mainstream culture than we've had post 9/11. Late 70s through the end of the 80s also had terrible mainstream culture, but it wasn't ONLY reboots/sequels and risk-adverse corporate calculations.
There is still really awesome underground/indie stuff coming out from all angles (especially in the 2020s) but its wild how just completely stripped of imagination/creativity modern mainstream culture is. The public imagination at large has to be affected by this, right? Like our ability to creatively problem solve and think of new solutions outside of art/media, right?
Wonder why you only ever see movies about the world ending in cinemas? Why every piece of mainstream media mostly ignores socio-economic parameters and societal superstructures (eg. racism, patriarchy)?
Well, Mark Fischer said it better than anyone else “It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than an end to capitalism”
Basically what I said earlier, profits are so tight these days that every single thing is cut in order to maximise the money printing. Sequels and reboots are safe, the story is already told, no need for script writers or a good story, it’s already been told a million times. No need to design new characters/costumes/sets/lighting systems etc. ABD.
Now there are gems in the sea of shit billionaire owned medias pump into our skulls. For example the series “Dark” on Netflix instantly established itself as one of the best of this century (watch it please
). Or Idk, you’ve also got artists who aren’t fooled by the wool and actively call out the bullshit like Boots Riley and the movie he acted in recently “Sorry to Bother you” or bands like Death Grips etc.
Coming back to movies, what we’re in right now is the death of mid scale budget films, movies made with a consequent budget, but not blockbuster levels of gargantuan money. A24 is pretty much the only studio taking creative risks these days and they’re winning big because they’re the only ones doing it (!!).
Opposite you have Blade Runner 2049, one of the few blockbuster movie that took incredible risks and liberties with the source material and came out even better than the original with some strong underlying messages that escaped a lot of people (If those ideas were a bit more obvious I reckon it would never have been approved). And that movie flopped too because big studios are basically incapable of handling the creation of new movies, the advertising for Blade Runner 2049 was ridiculously small and allegedly deliberate, cos the studios involved didn’t believe it would make ANY money at all.
Video Games are even worse off, honestly just watch videogamedunkey’s recent E3 video. It’s just so blatantly obvious that the entire industry was engulfed in the same dynamics every other sector of society surrendered to. I seriously think you have to be brain damaged to look at that video and think things are fine (and i have literal brain damage!
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But it makes me hopeful to see many people aren’t duped and when I discuss theory irl with people all I encounter is interest and sometimes enthusiasm. Most of my friends told me they started reading lenin because of me and ive got more examples. I really don’t think this stupid system can go on much longer, Covid+supply chain fuckery+idiotic ukraine war sanctions have brought it to its knees, we just don’t see it yet.
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