What is the acid bath of vidya?
What is the acid bath of vidya?
Hunter Sanders
Camden Diaz
Holy shit this brings me back
Julian Torres
Can't think of anything as raw and sincere as acid bath.
All video games are pop entertainment products, you can't have a game that talks about serial killers, heroin addiction, mental illness, etc. beyond surface level. It'd scare the normies away. A medium of art is distinguished from entertainment by virtue of being able to disturb, not only please.
Also, favorite lyric?
>I HAVE FALLEN DEEP IN LOVE WITH THE SKY (SKY)
>FRAGMENTS OF A SUNBEAM GLARING ON A KITCHEN KNIFE
Adam Walker
>Yea Forums talks about music
please don't. it's somehow worse than when Yea Forums talks about music.
Hudson Gonzalez
How do I get to Nazareth?
I get lost in the desert every time.
Nolan King
Acid Bath is obscure kino though
Havent heard this band since I used to lurk this metal forum called Extreme Metal Scene (doesnt exist anymore) way back in the day
James Thompson
idk man i was going to argue that it is neither obscure nor kino but i realized that my autistic experience with music is in no way reflective of the average person's relationship with finding new stuff
metal is gay unless it's boris / merzbow splits or early black sabbath
John Jackson
New metal is pretty gay yea but oldschool death and black metal will always be cool
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Carter Gray
what are Grief, Eyehategod, Buzzov*en, Neurosis, Dystopia, Harvey Milk, Crowbar, and Bongzilla of videogames?
Nathan Hall
They were known by like all metalheads at my school
My choice is
A good metal album is this.
Very underated
Brody Sanchez
>neurosis
tribes of neurot > neurosis
en.wikipedia.org
Oliver Martin
Crowbar is just pantera sad with spiritual overtones
Leo Richardson
Christopher Moore
hi chilo
Hudson Sanders
Fuck you, there wasn't a single power metal thread that wasn't great.
Nathan Cook
what are Ministry and Skinny Puppy of videogames?
what is Front Line Assembly of video games?
what is Velvet Acid Christ of vydia?
Thomas Ramirez
what game is that pic from?
Elijah Roberts
>All video games are pop entertainment products, you can't have a game that talks about serial killers, heroin addiction, mental illness, etc. beyond surface level.
imagine actually fucking thinking this.
Charles Wright
harvester
Wyatt Allen
wew just read the plot synopsis on wikipedia. would be great if someone did a remake of it.
Jose Cooper
Name one game that delves into dark subjects in any degree of verisimilitude.
People here were freaking out over a cartoony portrayal of suicide in DDLC lmao. A game with balls would portray suicide in the most realistic way possible, with skin discoloration, blood swelling of extremities, excrement running down legs, etc.
Video games only use dark subjects as tokens for the overarching story / aesthetic, rather than exploring those subjects on their own. There are films, for example, that are fundamentally about heroin addiction, which depict the lives of junkies without obscuring anything, down to rotting limbs, prostitution, underage hobos, etc. Video games don't do that.
Michael Green
>A game with balls would portray suicide in the most realistic way possible, with skin discoloration, blood swelling of extremities, excrement running down legs, etc.
so you aren't actually looking for anything to be handled with any sort of care or tact, rather the most edgy, shocking shit you can get just for the sake of being edgy and shocking?
i can think of any number of games that handle serial killers and mental illness, to use two of your examples, in respectable fashion. Silent Hill 1-4, nearly every Suda 51 game, freeware like Space Funeral and OFF. either your standards are inexplicably high, or you're so used to having AAA shit shoved down your throat that you can't fathom anything of higher quality.
Logan Jones
>remember some youtube channel that did weird 3d animations with velvet acid christ in the background
>can't find it
reeee
Anthony Reed
Neato. Didn't know them.
Blake Butler
So sludge/stoner thread?
Noah Russell
>Video games only use dark subjects as tokens for the overarching story / aesthetic
because they're video games. people would play a game where the main character is a heroin addict but nobody wants to play a game where all you do is heroin.
Lucas Martinez
>DREAM SEA HAS BEEN POISONED!
>STOPLIGHT FLASHES ME RED!
>INNOCENCE SUFFOCATED IN ITS SLEEP!
>DR SEUSS IS DEAD!
Easton Gonzalez
BROKEN GLASS AND DIRTY NEEDLES SOUL EROSION TRUTH
ELECTRIC GOD OUR SUPERMAN FOUND DEAD IN A TELEPHONE BOOTH
Ryder Cox
follow the smoke
Jack Jenkins
Who's the Gacy of video games?
Liam Williams
Postal 2
Jaxson Perry
>tfw we'll never get an Eyehategod record with Randy Blythe on vocals
Mike just hasn't been the same since his surgery, plus years of smoking, drinking, and screaming have fucked his voice over for good
Jason Harris
Portraying the subjects you use in your story with accuracy is not edginess, it's paying due to the source of your inspiration. Making the audience feel the way a person in a nightmarish situation might feel, rather than simply evoking those themes for aesthetics.
>silent hill
Lmao. Silent hill is literally pop horror on the level of Steven king novels.
The difference between entertainment and art is that art isn't afraid to make you feel genuinely like shit, if the author deems it important that people must experience this. No video game makes you feel the way you do after reading a celine novel, or listening to a truly harrowing album.
Colton Ross
Yep, that's the difference between art and entertainment.
Entertainment doesn't aim to make you experience anything on an intimate level. It simply uses themes and aesthetics as window dressing.
Gabriel Lee
What's the Cattle Decapitation of video games?
Christian Moore
You people all have terrible taste in music and these threads always remind me
Connor Hughes
I'd say romanticizing and watering down a dark subject to the point where it becomes meaningless is, I'd say, more disrespectful than portraying it honestly.
Death is not a romantic experience. Walking in on a hanging corpse is not "sad". It should be a gut wrenching mix of despair, disgust, and shock. The realization that someone you know has transitioned from a person to object, that something you cherished is now something acutely disgusting, their appearance now wrapped around dead meat and shit, that's the kind of thing I want to see from the portrayal of death in art.
Gabriel Williams
>a sleeper hit game ahead of its time that could go on to be a great franchise had it no been killed by outside factors
God Hand