Is it possible to define SOUL?

>muh soul
Literally the only thing that matters is art direction

Yes, when something looks old and familiar and not new and cool

Pic related, water has SOUL

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In most 90% of cases, it is:

-saturation
-low poly/2.5d sprites
-naturistic sound
-a feeling that the game was was made by excited optismistic or ambitious devs

and some other crucial element I can't think of

old=soul
new=soulless

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Not true.
. Mario 64 has more soul than Mario world
Mario kart 64 has more soul than SNES kart

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lolno

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/thread

Soul is a good and creative art/sound design. Unique and inspired. Doesn't have to be an old game or nostalgia either.
Modern games with soul include games like Destiny for example, which is very good in its presentation

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Soul just means nostalgia

Soul is just nostalgia, anyone who says otherwise is just trying to get their buzzword to be taken seriously

>soulless zoomer NPCs ITT have no games to think back fondly on with nostalgia NOR just good new games in general for which a soul argument could be made
>they think soul is really just a meme
To be born after 1992..

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My favorite game is the one I played just 2 years ago. There's no nostalgia in my judgement.

"thing i like, typically older than thing i don't like"

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Soul is something you like, soulless is something you dislike.

For example, getting a present is soul while having diarrhea is soulless.

No, it's not just nostalgia. Some modern soulful games are
>BotW
>Dark souls
>RE2 remake
>RDR2
>Cuphead
>Sea of Thieves
>Shovel Knight
These games all have their own lively and creative feel to them in both their art, sound, and maybe even story. You don't even have to enjoy the game from a gameplay perspective to acknowledge it is soulful, though that does probably help a lot. With these games you can just tell the devs cared about the end product and maybe had a more unified vision for it.

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Yes it means nostalgia

all of those are soulless

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Yeah, I wasn't a kid when those came out so they don't count. Soulless as fuck.

Soul? Soulless? The categories are arbitrary. My mind wanders...

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>t. person born december 1992

is it possible to define poo poo pee pee?

Soul died with James Brown.

>>RDR2
>Cuphead
>Sea of Thieves
>soul

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No. It’s a term nostalgia fags use to put the game they like most in a series on a pedestal.

>soul doesn't exis-

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>there's no such thing as sou-

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>soul doesn't exis-

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Creative direction in Sea of Thieves is pretty soulful, but I could see it up for debate.

As for cuphead, I don't know how you couldn't see that as soulful considering it is one of the most creative games ever created from an art and sound perspective. The whole game was drawn out using specific old classic methods, which is why the development took so long in the first place.

>soul is a mem-

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>DS game
Soulless
>not even a game
Soulless
>anime
PEAK soulless
>Nu-indie art style
Dangerously soulless

>only boomers think soul is a thin-

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>soul is just nostalg-

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>Mario 64 has more soul than Mario world
They have a comparable amount
>Mario kart 64 has more soul than SNES kart
This is true

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Stop posting trash, cocksucker.

fpbp

These just look ugly. Stick to low-poly.

>soul is the worst Yea Forums mem-

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Oh fuck yeah, Techromancer.

>soul is a Yea Forums psyo-

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psx as fuck

>soul? never heard of i-

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>jaggies up the ass
>janky animations

Beauty mixed with creativity and sanctity is soul.

Here's your soul.

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I swear this soul vs. soulless thing wasn't as massive of a thing until Spyro RT happened. Was there just something within the Spyro fandom that unleashed a curse upon this site when that game was revealed for the first time?

To be honest, maybe but doubtful. There are many concepts that aren’t concrete, and are one of those “you know it when you experience it” things. Maybe one day someone will come around and explain the “what” and “why”.

>no hay tal cosa como el al-

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when you notice things has nothing to do with us. OoT3D saw plenty of this shit

>Botw
>RDR
>Sea of Thieves
>RE2 Remake

>Soul

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Why?

Stop posting, trash.

Because this was a Sonic Adventure prototype added to Jam. Because Sonic Adventure was in works for the Saturn. Because they later realized Dreamcast would happen and had to restart the project again.

Things are so obvious you can even see Sonic's Jam model for brief seconds in one of the Tornado scenes in the Dreamcast version

This too, but today that wont happen because it is very rare for someone to even pull the hardest of that hardware like before, something that was lost during the PS360 era. Games these days looks way too samey.
Another thing in the "soul" is the passion input to the game, something like Yakuza Zero or Mania were you see the developers were having fun with making the game and adding old callbacks or just fun things into the game

More like, late PSX era games. That looks way too good for the console

Even ui can have soul

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according to Yea Forums it means cute backgrounds

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Dreamcast was a soulless attempt at making a console arcade

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Something you like

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Wrong.. I don't like dk country but I can admit it has soul

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>I don't like dk country
Post discarded.

Soul just means "game I like for nebulous reasons." They purposefully choose words like "soul" and "soulless" because they're meaningless and therefore impossible to argue against.

If you didn't have any if these, you had a soulless childhood

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>not liking a series where 2 of the big games don't allow you play as DK despite being named donkey kong country.
I can see where they're coming from.

Crystal shards is an example of a bad game with soul

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But soul has a meaning. The easy way to see it as “made with love and care” vs “made with the intention of a bottom line”.

Not the way it's used on this site with all the underage shitposters, but the actual definition was the meaning up to that point.

Nostalgia/retro

effort
attention to detail
dedication to craft

I think a big part of it is how we had to use imagination to fill in the gaps for these older games - now that highly rendered graphics are common place there's less room for imagination, and it leads to people preferring the seemingly visually inferior version as it fits their idea of how the game was.

Maybe, but I can't see where you're coming from. What a fucking dumb post.

There are two definitions of Soul

The True one
>Clearly copious amounts of effort, resources and time put into the project (be it games, books or movies), a true passion project

The Yea Forums one
>OLD THING SOUL
>NEW THING SOULLESS

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Then in that case, every game made by a studio is soulless and every single indie game has soul.

How did he go from macho to munchkin

>donkey kong country
>donkey kong gets completely shafted in 2 and 3 when the first game established him as the protagonist

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lazy meshes instead of true transparencies

wow, you're fucking stupid

>explaining a meaningless, nebulous fluff word by using more meaningless, nebulous fluff words
Fucking brilliant.

soul: the devs did the best they could with the limitations they had at the time

soulless: despite the lack of technical limitations, the devs failed to capture what made the original game special

>created by someone with a pure heart
big wrong
there's plenty of stuff with soul created by impure people

>Soul
Passion over Profit
>Soulless
Profit over Passion

the true definition is souless
the Yea Forums definition has soul

Soul is when the spiritual energy of the devs themselves is embedded deeply into the code of the game. When they put all their love and effort into it.

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DK isn't meant to be sidelined.

Soul is usually defined as "Thing I personally like" these days. Whatever meaning it used to have is long gone now.

well fucking said nigger

All those words have meaning dumbass. Pick up a dictionary some day

Yes, it's whatever you are nostalgic for. Coincidentally, soulless is anything that released when you had the cognitive ability to understand the concept of flaws.

I don't give a fuck. You're retarded

>LOD isn't a shortcut
>having texture warping isn't a shortcut
ok retard

>tfw Sonic Jam still hasn't been ported to this day despite being an important piece of history as Sega's real foray into 3D Sonic titles

No. To reduce Donkey's role is a mortal sin.

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I think a lot of it is pre-baked and hand-perfected lighting.

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Someone post the picture of classic and modern sonic skiing.

"soul" is just a meme buzzword for nostalgia.

What game? That looks really cool

I think it's getting much worse on Yea Forums. it's now boiling down to OLD CLUNKY POLYGONS AND PIXEL GRAPHICS GOOD and NEW HD GRAPHICS BAD. and even then people fight with each other on this.

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just use PGXP then

Right looks infinitely better. What kind of contrarian fucknugget do you have to be to actually think left looks better?

No, because the soul is, at best, a loose concept that philosophers theorize on but have no tangible idea what it is

>HD era GTA
>Soul
Good one, user.

WOW THAT WAS HARD

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Not really. Some big producers are really lax with certain teams because they always turn a profit, and some indie teams are doing it for the bottom line.

Honestly my definition is a little weak, let me try again.

Soul happens when something is created with talent and luck. Soulless happens when a something is created with out any passion or talent. Not everything falls into the soul or soulless. Take star wars.

Episodes 4 & 5 has passion, talent, and luck. Everything from opening to credits is about as well crafted as one can expect from imperfect beings. Solid 8s.

Episode 6 has less soul because of things like “ewoks would sell to children well”. Something soulless was added.

Episodes 1, 2, 3, all have passion, but lacked talent in many aspects, so certain parts have soul but nothing really feels soulless.

Episodes 7 & 8 all lack passion and talent and were created in all aspects for a bottomline. The entire thing feels soulless.

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that is exactly opposite of soul. still better than mario level design.

>Stick to low-poly.
t. 25 year old zoomer who's first console was the PS1

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>so certain parts have soul but nothing really feels soulless
What the fuck are you talking about? The prequels feel "soulless" in the most literal sense. In that it was written, directed, and starring things that are clearly not human.

False. DK Tropical Freeze has a metric fuckton of effort put into it, yet very few of the stages have soul comparable to even one DKC2 stage.

Wow it's almost like vibrant art styles lend themselves to pixels over generic 3 billion polygon human models

You know, my only issue to this day with Sonic Adventure 2 is the lack of an explorable world like SA1 had.
Both are still among my favorite games to this day.

are you implying that passionate people don't make bad games, or that disinterested people can't make good games? do you think the code monkies who worked on your nostalgia bait were actually passionate about it? no, they were just wage slaves.

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Pic related crushes the "y-you just say old games are more soulful!" argument

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One of these days I'm going to finally get back into this game

I agree, I just picked this up and I haven't appreciated a game on so many levels as much as I have with this. It's challenging, tonally consistent, and beautifully drawn. Such a step above Awakening and Fates.

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No because the adjective was recently not one meaning that its definition is still blurry. Some people mean it as being a fruit of passion, others mean it as somethingthat goes against the flow of cirrently used tropes, it's just not universally defined. Should the meme remain it will someday be but I doubt it, memes are short-lived.

I once saw a webm for a game like that where it was some red robot guy that did a bunch of weird movements then went at like a 45 degree angle floating in the air and drilled into his opponent
Looked like a ps1 game, still cant find it

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This?

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Soul

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>ia
That's a 20 year old game, so I don't know what your image is supposed to fucking prove.

basically this.

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Pic related is a screenshot of the Lego Movie, it's a 3D animated cartoon, yet you can see fingerprints, plastic mold lines, scuff marks, imperfectly printed colors, worn down edges, dust, dirt etc on the models. Those were added meticulously and intentionally in order to imitate soul, as humans inherently find imperfect things more believable and relatable. Games which had to work around limitations are inherently more appealing, like underdogs, than ones that just have everything already established and at their disposal.

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Oh shit yeah what the fuck is that game

it's not about humanoid models. it's just with retarded anons who see a low poly model or pixelated graphics on a video game and act like it's soul. when in reality it was most likely the opposite.

developers have to work with the limitations of the given hardware. and just because low poly models or pixel graphics are appealing to you doesn't mean it automatically has soul. it was most likely made for profit in mind. gameplay is what matters for the most part anyways.

Man the first movie was so enjoyable, shame the franchise is dead now.

Usually the games with the most soul are using their respective machines to the ultimate level,I think Soul is just a colateral effect of pushing a machine to the edge ,it probably can be achieved by other ways but this is definetely the most common one

Bullshit. The soundtrack, location design, and creature design are amazing. Everything else felt soulless, so the entire thing balances in that weird phantom zone between soulless and soulful. You can play the prequel music and get people nostalgic, but you can’t get them to sit and watch the dialogue.

>implying the only two choices are Rothko or Pollock-tier trash or "boring" photorealism

not to mention this doesn't even apply to sculpture, in which near-perfect realism is prized above all else, or the fact that some real women are so beautiful we refer to their physical existence itself as art.

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>Velocity X
Probably the weirdest racing game of all time

Good art =\= Soul
Also nature isnt art

Hot Wheels in general were weird, but that's the beauty of them.

The only thing that means is that John Williams wrote a good score to a terrible film. It means fuck all about "soul," fucknuts.

Fighter Maker

low effort

B-beautiful

See, this lack of focus on the Saturn was what killed Sega. But they were trying to develop a shittier Sonic for the console, why not just use this one and then make Adventure for the Dreamcast anyway?

Similar to how they still ended up porting the first games to the Master System

You could have just said "old thing good, new thing bad" and saved quite a bit of writing. And kept your head out of your ass.

The best explanation for it I've heard here is that it's when developers make the most of what they can with limited hardware. Once games became a race to have the most realistic graphics and the most polygons, it attracted all the 'oooh shiny' normalfags. And now we have a bunch of soulless cinematic shit.

I was refering specifically to the GBA version
it was amazing but also weird as shit, pic related

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Both of those have soul though.

Totaly not a Virtual On rip off

The definition is when you can tell that the people making the game put effort into it and loved their product. That's what it is.

If you don't think there's art everywhere in nature, you're completely devoid of taste and wouldn't know "soul" if it fucked you in your mouth.

so "soul" is the successful misdirection of the viewer from the mechanical and graphical shortcuts and cut corners of the developers due to technical limitations?

For me, Soul is defined as when you can tell a dev poured a lot of his heart into the game vs a dev that is just making a product to sell.

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>bad game
Take that back

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youtube.com/watch?v=FwUztKstRP4

do you have any idea how many passionately made games are out there that are complete garbage because the developer had terrible art direction or poor programming skills that no amount of effort could salvage?

"soul" is just the subjective definition any given person gives to a certain baseline of artistic and technical competence in a video game that they personally enjoyed.

Give me ONE (1) game that's universally considered to have SOUL and I'll give you a definition.

here's your SOUL provided by playstation.

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More or less, yeah. I mean, look at something like Chrono Trigger. Anyone with any appreciation for pixel art will be blown away the first time they see it. You just don't get that same reaction anymore with games that are basically just real life now.

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Its mediocre at best. Sorry. Physics are choppy and slow as molassas. Level design is beyond boring and predictsble. Thank god for the mixing of abilities and charming style or else it would be a total dud

Sea of Thieves is LITERALLY (literally) the most Soulless corporate product ever conceived.

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>Mario 64
>not soulful

youtube.com/watch?v=cTl0ky4DcHA

I love me some Spyro but your argument is bullshit.

>LOD isnt a shortcut
it was actually a brand new thing that changed the way games were designed and make them look better despite hardware limitations

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>You just don't get that same reaction anymore with games that are basically just real life now.
are you kidding? first of all there are still countless "fantasy" games being made. secondly people are still constantly blown away by increasingly realistic graphics, especially younger people just getting into gaming today. it's not video games that have lost their soul, user. it's you.

But normalfags don't care about graphics

The intention doesn't matter. Polygons on old hardware look different than modern polygons. Just by that alone it may contain soul whether the developer intended to make it so or not. How MUCH soul is the differentiation.
Is somewhere along the right idea. Even a shit game like glover managed to pull some soul out of its ass. Audio can play a part in harmonizing with the visuals, or lack thereof. The right amount of fog can be beneficial.

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Demon's souls

>it's not video games that have lost their soul, user. it's you.
Fuck.

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The Toy Pop room theme was always one of my favorites.
youtu.be/DHxuK2K7avI

Younger people today are being bombarded constantly, from birth, by increasingly complex CGI movies and shows. It's utterly retarded to claim that they are any more visually impressed by an objective lesser artform.
Technically, they do. Normalfags wouldn't have touched games with a ten foot pole if we were still running around as little pixel men.

Maybe that is why everyone on Yea Forums fell in love with Dark Souls, user. It's because it's a game where you collect souls to regain your own humanity and not be hollow anymore.

Why are boomers so autistic?
Imagine desperately pretending shitty outdated graphics look good just to be a contrarian. Everyone else moved on, why haven't you?

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the link's awakening remake looks pretty good.

>contrarian
You need to go back.

BOTW is soulless as fuck. Can't speak to RDR but it looks pretty soulless which is why I've never played it. RE2 Remake is definitely soulful though. It's relatively grounded and has well thought out levels and likeable characters.
Sea of Thieves might not be a GOOD game, but it's more soulful than most AAA games. It seems like Microsoft said "make whatever you want" and the devs fucked it up of their own accord by spending 90% of the time on the engine/physics and rushed the actual content. Still better than a cookie cutter open world game like Horizon Zero Dawn or Days Gone though.

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That's not a remake.

The reason so many older games have soul is because older practices /technological limitations allowed them to garner more charm/authenticity over time. See

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

imagine actually, unironically believing OoT is a better game than BoTW under any circumstances.
"people" like this deserve to be bitch slapped.

>because it only reproduces nature
We're so far beyond the limits of our technical skill being photo-realistic still life drawings that this doesn't even remotely apply to video games. The end result of gaming and interactive escapism in general is not to reproduce nature. it's is to become a part of infinite, immersive, hyper-realistic fantasies that aren't attainable in nature in the first place.

>why would anyone go to a movie when they can have the real thing?
Renoir was such a pretentious, uncreative brainlet lmao.

It is though. BoTW is so painfully average that it's boring.

How people don't see this is beyond me. BOTW is nothing more than a Ubisoft game with a Zelda skin and above average physics system bolted on.

Oh shit, that's a good one. Who's saying this?

Imagine believing BOTW is good at all. I'm guessing you also enjoy Ubisoft games and tripe like Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone.

>How people don't see this is beyond me.
Probably because they actually played the game.

>CGI movies exist therefore nobody gets hyped for video games anymore

can you tell the class what the biggest entertainment opening in the history of mankind was recently?

>le Ubisoft buzzword
Like clockwork.
Hating BoTW is the surest sign of a contrarian reddit cuck.

Nice joke. Crystal Shards has an insane amount of soul, more than any Kirby except maybe Dream Land 3.

Delete this

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imagine being this dumb

But he says it has soul just that its fucking boring. Like pretty much every Kirby to be fair though.

Based.
Which dungeon in BoTW is your favorite?
For me is Sheikah Shrine #96.

sticker star has the most soul.

>Who's saying this?
a mediocre, forgotten director who made a bunch of shitty war dramas that pretentious retards swallow their own cum over.

>CGI movies exist therefore nobody gets hyped for video games anymore
I didn't say that, you illiterate fucking mongoloid. Children still get hyped to play games, but the graphical improvements are so incremental at this point, that it's hard for anyone to get excited. Shit is practically photorealistic at this point.
>cites fucking RDR of all things to counter me
That's because it was a movie, you unbelievable dipshit. Just fuck off already, preferably to whichever normalfag shithole you crawled out of.

I've played every mainline Zelda game from Zelda 1 up through BOTW and BOTW is by far the worst, no contest.
Is it a buzzword if it's true? Ubisoft's game design has infected the AAA space to such a drastic degree that it's hard to find an open world game that isn't influenced by them. The only recent one I know of is Nier: Automata

>assuming we're the same person

If anything hating OoT is being contrarian. Calling OoT a bad game is like calling The Great Gatsby a bad book... You just look like a stupid zoomer doing it.

Bulk Slash 2?

youtube.com/watch?v=6qmzuLxjwJw

what?

Cuphead has no fucking soul you dolt. That's the whole point. Cuphead's visual identity is based on the ideas and creations of others. It's impressive from a sheer workload perspective, but the effort was not in making something new and unique, it was copy-pasting the bygone rubber hose style. It is exhibit A when it comes to highlighting the creative bankruptcy of the industry.

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I still remember the first time I got to Star World

Fuck bros I still remember the Mario World Guide book I got and found the secret to Donut plains ghost house.
I wanna go back.

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Yes, but you will need to find modern examples, because otherwise people will confuse it with "OLD GOOD NEW BAD"

>OoT drones think The Great Gatsby is a good book
Holy shit, this is too rich. Only makes sense that someone who actually praises OoT would also pretend that steaming pretentious shitpile of a "book" is even passable let alone good.

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>Shit is practically photorealistic at this point.
and the best games today are massively, objectively better than the best nostalgia bait from the 1990s. "soul" is literally just nostalgia

>RDR was a movie
it's clear that you don't even play video games in the first place, and that you're just a brain dead shitposter. not that I expected anything more from Yea Forums.

*Oras your shit taste and fake news*

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no one will agree with you user but I do

>and the best games today are massively, objectively better than the best nostalgia bait from the 1990s
By what metric?
>"soul" is literally just nostalgia
I disagree. I believe it involves skillfully obfuscating the limits of your platform.

>contrarian shitposter calling anything else pretentious
wew

Don't bother replying
There's no hope for people who believe N64 Zelda games are masterpieces

>By what metric?
by literally every objectively measurable metric you want to throw at them. your subjective, nostalgia-fueled personal opinion is irrelevant.

Ah, so I see you have literally zero examples or substantiation to your argument. I accept your concession.

i agree with cuphead and darksouls
but man these are some really shitty picks

so much soul

Yeah, I know.
It just pisses me off when someone writes off an amazing game and immediately turns around to blindly circlejerk over an objectively mediocre game from decades ago for no reason other than it being old. OoT is literally obsolete, completely outdone by BoTW in every way.

Read his post you retard. For what it's worth I don't mind the slow pace, because 64 feels like a soul-ride. And in that regard its well paced, but its a piss easy lame kirby game, and I only excuse it because of the soul whereas I will absolutely trash run of the mill souless shit like triple d and squeak squad.

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> It's like this pre-existing thing so it's creative!
Think about that for just a second user.

Soul Reaver

SOUL

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All art is derivative.
That doesn't automatically make it unoriginal.

test

Soul is just a buzzword that fags that don't play videogames use to describe anything prior to the PS3/360/Wii era, but mostly stuff from the gen prior to that. It has no meaning because people just use it to justify the fact that they haven't played videogames since the mid 00s. Hit me with that seethe.

The Sonic on the left is the one in the games I like. The Sonic on the right is the one you faggots draw sucking prolapsed anus.

Nigga thats not how art works

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woke and redpilled

SOULESS*

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>we refer to their physical existence itself as art.
lmao maybe if you're an incel
have sex

install gentoo

Soul is for losers. Heart is what we really need.

Gross and soulless

I rest my case.

BoTW is a shit game , generic dungeons, shit story, duck even the music sucks. Keep seething zoomie

t. Zoomer

Sorry you had to grow up with mediocre Zeldas.

>that lightning and color palette
god i fucking hate the 3Ds graphics

In older vidya, graphics were unclear or ambiguous, and your imagination filled the gaps. Now an HD remake comes out and you find out that the part you imagined wasn't really quite like you imagined. Then you get butthurt and say the new version lacks "soul".

i thank god every day i wasn't one of those fuckin spyro kids

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["soul"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the video game involved in this case is not that.

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Jam was released in 97 and the Dreamcast was released in 98 in Japan, so there was no point, they fucked up hard with Saturn's lifespan.
Shenmue had to be remade to the Dreamcast and Virtua Fighter 3's Saturn version was never released but Dreamcast got another version

it can have soul and still be a poor game.

spbp

>mario 64 better than mario world
bait. get the fuck out you n64 nigger.

>implying cuphead doesnt have soul
nigger.

literally one of those "LIKE IF YOU REMEMBER THIS FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD" posts on twitter and facebook by normalfags

>Erafaggotry
You have to be 18 to post here.

>realism is completely bad
would like to have a word with you.

How can you even type that with a straight face when BoTW has easily the worst dungeons and music of any Zelda. Hell, there's NO music. While iconic songs like Saria's song, Zelda's lullaby, and Serenade of Water stay lingering, BoTW is nothing but fucking bird sounds. The only thing BoTW does better is open world, and that's not even necessarily a good thing when its map is stretched out to oblivion to the point where just getting around to important stuff is a snoozefest. Don't even get me started on the atmosphere. OoT runs circles around BoTW when it comes to subtlety.

>objectively

Opinions can't be objective, you stupid brainlet

It's actually quite simple to define. Soul is effort vs limitation. When you can see that a Dev wanted to do more, but was limited by time, circumstance or hardware, the game appears soulful as a result of those efforts. Soulless is either made without effort OR it's too polished and isn't pushing limits. Soul wants to think outside the box, soulless is content to stay in it.

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I believe it would be a mix of that plus a certain type of graphics that requires one's imaginations to fill the holes and make it complete.

Just as a scene in a book is usually better than its movie's rendition, a game that leaves place to the player's imagination creates a much more important impact hence why it's so often confused with nostalgia.

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>lazy meshes
>for a Sega Saturn game
>a console made for 2d games
low effort b8

S O U L
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>>a console made for 2d games
Stop spreading this fake news.

>widely colorful, saturated palette
>rough, non-standardized effects and sprites
>lack of realism, tends more toward stylistic or impressionistic qualities
>simple music designed around a theme instead of ambient background noise
>gameplay unique or involved enough to be fun without feeling like a chore
>textures, characters, items, and objects that are not over-designed or cluttered, making what details that do get added stand out more
There.

I'd say that it is a good game plus the soul, but Kirby's slow speed kinda kills it. The level design, power combination, bosses, and music were top notch for a Kirby game though.

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peak soul coming through

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used to spend hours as a kid just fucking around in the carnival stage in this, I envy how easily amused I was back then by this type of thing. Now a day I'd just go for all the objectives and rush to the exit. Even if I tried to fuck around I'd get bored quick. The true Soul was the childhood fun I had that is lost forever

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SOULyoutube.com/watch?v=Hj0VqBa60Sg

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Fucked up the link
youtube.com/watch?v=Hj0VqBa60Sg

Dark Souls, Cuphead and Shovel Knight, sure
The rest are a big nah from me.

And to be a faggot I'll say Undertale/Deltarune is full of soul. Toby Fox is amazing with music and making music match the tone and feel of the story. The guy's a great musician and understands emotions in music.

Post which games you think have "soul"

>pretend that steaming pretentious shitpile of a "book" is even passable let alone good.

Yeah I'm sure Game of Thrones or whatever pulp trash you read is the real great American novel

persona in general is soulful as fuck

That's not even the same game

Anyone have a screen of an n64 game with rainbow lights reflecting off snow? I think it was banjo but I can't find it

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You might be thinking of this

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If not its this

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It would take 10 hours to make the image on the right, maybe 5 for the image on the right.

Yes, it's a meme

That might be it. Soul overdose
Soulful

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Roman is top soul fool.

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>Bulk Slash

I dont think that. But in terms of dungeons, yes. BOTW suffered greatly by not also having cool dungeons to explore along with the big cool overworld. Shrines got so boring.

I loved the exploration in BOTW, but playing the shrines and divine beasts, while some DB were cool... they were just... not enough.

>Choro Q
Ayyy.

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of course nothing beats LTTP, but LBW is really fucking good, and the graphics aren't bad or anything, just a little more generic.

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>that spoiler
I agree but I still dont really think undertale is a great game.
deltarune is looking good though

This is going in my soul folder

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>the night time music

pure soul

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so much fucking this
I would clear the enemies in every level and just fuck around like they were my own private little resorts
also the vore level was kino af

is that darius?

That's what happens when you cut

based

Think how much closer to death you are now.

Soul = Honesty and Passion
It's that easy to understand, cheaply made garbage, cash grabs, carbon copies, etc have no soul.

You bet

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While Echoes has a lot of flaws in its gameplay and overly faithful map design (primarily Celica's respawning monster hell, Alm's maps are relatively less frustrating.), Echoes has so much love and care put into it's presentation, world, and music it's really hard to not appreciate it for the clear passion project it was for IS.
youtube.com/watch?v=u55JMw5bRiI
youtu.be/oHojJsGlZ-s
youtu.be/NPlfAVCCKIs
I'm really hoping the remakes that follow get the same care and attention that breathes a new life into them.

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Soul is anything from the 128 bits gen and below.

>The True one
>Clearly copious amounts of effort, resources and time put into the project (be it games, books or movies), a true passion project
more like the reddit answer.
any AAA on this generation had way more effort and time put than any game posted in this thread, yet nobody cares.
the correct answer.

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The sun once smiled on this village more than any other. But one day, their crystal's blessing faded. The villagers eagerly awaited their caravan's return; but for them, the crystal would never shine again. It is said that not a single one of them tried to escape. All stood fast waiting for the caravan, hoping to the very end. After hearing that tale, I felt the weight of my burden like never before.

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No. Anything before nes lacks soul

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3d sonics were a mistake, same with 3d castlevanias

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The Spyro screenshot is all wrong.

youtube.com/watch?v=EHkwdvfXHJc

This game fucking BLEEDS soul and is a clear example of why the dirty gaijins RAREly get SOUL right, look at how FFCC or any other first party or exclusive for the GC, now look at most exclusive X Box games, most of those are full of ugly WOW-like designs, colors are vomit-inducing and are a clustefuck that always try and use some licensed garbage music on the OST, obviously most of that shit is gaijin garbage, although, there are SOME exception, Halo 1 being one of them, would say 2 but those weird 3D model pop-ups during cut scenes looked like SHIT back then and even more so now.

Don´t get me started on the PS2, Shadow of the Colossus, Godhand, Ookami, DMC, soulful as fuck.

Why is everything on the 3DS version green? Is he in the Matrix?

You could have just said I disagree

brighter colors so is easier to see in a smaller screen.

OK that might have some soul

Did someone say Glover

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middle finger

I fucking love the sonic jam art.

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Yeah Walter Benjamin talked about that on technical reproductivity era or something like that, I read in spanish so I am translating the best I can but go read about "aura" and have fun

The sonic Jam art really made you think about the world where Sonic lived.
Where its super futuristic, retro and present all at the same time.
Where Sonic is a celebrity in this fun video game world thats different from the sonic world you were in in the actual first 3 games.

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cringe and pseudo-intellect opinions

I like this style of art. Its like Lisa franK

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No the saturn was objectively built for 3D retard.

fake news

kek

Recap

What makes a game "soulful"
>Designers who get really involved in the project
>Unique/recognizable art style
>Some kind of universe you could get sucked into
>Not obvious cashgrab features
>Developers convincing you that they want you to have fun

What doesn't make a game "soulful"
>Nostalgia
>Game mechanics
>Single artistic feats
>Personal taste

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Soul: Something made out of love
Soulless: Something made out of Greed

Fucking. This.

my
fucking
EYES

Not objectively, no.

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