What exactly separates soulful games from soulless games?

What exactly separates soulful games from soulless games?

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LISA is superior to earthbound in every conceivable way.

Shitty graphics.

soul
>traditional tea ceremony
soulless
>starbucks takeaway

I can't say it's effort or even execution. Illbleed is a piece of shit game and so is Deadly Premonition but they're both so fucking weird and insane I can't help but love them. I'd have to say passion and vision.

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>tea
>takeaway
Die britbong

Nostalgia

The shittier the graphics the more soul it has.

It's all about the art and inspiration behind it, ask yourself this, do you see the ost of the game being sung by an old blind black man in the 60s? If the answer is yes, it is soul.

Do you see the old blind black man of the 60s feeling inspired by the setting to make a song about it? If the answer is yes, again, it is soul.

Are the characters so good that the old blind man from the 60s has fallen for them more than he did for the white blondie that went to one of his concerts, he discovered that she is the heir to a family that had the family of that old black man as slaves but he did not care because his love was too powerful and not even the cries of his angry black brethren could sway him to stop singing about her? THEN AGAIN, it is soul.

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soul
>nothing about the game feels pushed or forced on you
>no thousands of image filtres and washed up color pallets
>wholesome story
>no over the top realism
>good setting
>artistic vision is one of the most important things and the game doesn't sacrifice anything for it
soulless
>agendas being pushed left and right
>developers tried to make the game look as good as possible at the highest resolution possible, sacrificing good imagery for realism
>story is either very forgetable or the main character is a mary sue
>setting is some generic bullshit
>artistic vision is nonexistent to pander to the masses, a lot of things are sacrificed for everyone to play the game as they want instead of how the creator intended it

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>What exactly separates soulful games from soulless games?

It is a distinction that is not always apparent to those who aren't willing to see it.

But "soul" invokes a quality that it's creator was lovingly invested into it, while Soulless implies that a project was systematically thrown together by test groups and has less personality than it's counterpart. "Soulful" material often provides a nostalgic aura, even when you share no past with the material, and most often times provides an air of "comfort" and distinction. Soul also invokes imagery of a world you want to live in, it causes your imagination to picture a place where you could see yourself, even in a fantasy form. Soulless material makes you feel nothing, if not a bit of distaste.

sad white boy post

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Soul

>What exactly separates soulful games from soulless games?
nostalgia

>I like games because they have strong minorities that remind me of my father who went to buy cigaretes and came back 20 years later
fuck off negroid

Dragon's Dogma?

According to Yea Forums, time.
Meaning that in about 10 or 15 years we will see people calling fortnite soulful and whatever third person shooter the kids of that era are playing would be soulless

>drinking tea
Either a Bong or a gay Burger (which may as well be a Bong).

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Nostalgia by proxy
>it reminds me of X game from back in the day so it is good
and to be honest some contrarians here would claim that Dragon's Dogma is soulless anyways so in the end it is a subjective matter

people are already making nostalgia threads for mw2. which is a soulless shit game and I doubt people deny it. you can feel nostalgia to soulless games as well.

Everything can have soul, people just don't like it when a game is altered in a remaster or a patch and it loses the ambiance/atmosphere it originally had. It's kind of the reason why you never see anyone call an original game with no tie-ins soulless, because there is no standard of "soul" to compare it to, it exists on its own merits.

How can people not understand the meaning of the word 'soul'? I get that it's been turned into a meme but it takes 2 seconds to look up.