Blasphemous is a Meteroidvania game themed after Dark Souls, with heavy religious themes.
From Steam: >Blasphemous is a punishing action-platformer that combines the fast-paced, skilled combat of a hack-n-slash game with a deep and evocative narrative core, delivered through exploration of a huge universe comprised of non-linear levels. store.steampowered.com/app/774361/Blasphemous/
There's literally nothing it shares with dark souls games Not even the death penalty mechanics
Kayden Lopez
I really want it to be good. It's hard to judge a game like this from only short bits of gameplay, because the overall level design is what's most important. But what we've seen looks solid. Especially that boss fight.
Henry Morris
It'll be cool if it's based on actual christianity, trailer didn't really look that way though.
Anthony Morales
It visually and tonally resembles them, on a superficial level. At least it does for me. And I think its intentional.
Well, the imagery is mostly based on the christian cults and customs from the south of Spain, they're pretty much nailing it, unsurprising since afaik the developers are from there.
How is this punk? Can't add the word randomly to terms, it has a meaning. Its a catholic themed dark fantasy.
Easton Moore
I mean in the sense that the game happens in the "real" world, even a fantasy version of it, and not for example on a completely different universe that just happens to have developed the same religion as here.
Jeremiah Martin
>christian cults and customs from the south of Spain That the part that focuses very heavily on torturing yourself to atone for sins, and bleeding for forgiveness?
Asher Butler
What's the meaning? Yes I don't feel like googling it
Ryan Gonzalez
*tips fedora*
Easton Clark
me on the right waiting for the hot new indie metroidvania game
But then you'd be murdering and destroying real things, and thats a bad marketing strategy. You want to sell to catholics, after all. Doubt may afghanis bought CoD Modern Warfare, and they don't really matter, but the "christian" group is much larger and matters.
Carter Clark
Anti-government, anti-society, anti-authority, etc rejection of established stuff. So anarchy, bandits, pirates, gangs, and such themes that are always part of *punk genres.
Austin Ward
Im already seeing the headlines
>Altright KKK propaganda disguised as a game!
Jordan Baker
Yes.
Tyler Long
You don't get to shitpost from both camps, user. Pick one.
Blake Cook
Among other things, yeh, middle ages christianity is big on suffering for your sins.
>anti religion Don't you literally play as a Spanish inquisitor that is culling blasphemors?
Noah Martin
DUDE RELIGION BAD LMAO
Brody Torres
Thinking about it, DIY is also part of it, a lot of *punk genres focus on amateurs hand crafting things, like in all post-apocalyptic scenarios, like the custom clothing and improvised weapons of gangs, like the motors and cars and flying ships of diesel/steampunk, etc. But that can be seen as rejection of industrialized standardized factory production. How would christianpunk look exactly? Anarcho-primitivist protestants that hate the church and electricity? Sounds like a dull game.
Jack Powell
The story is about the main religion being all powerful, corrupt and the world is full of paranoia and controlling people.
Nathan Hughes
There are people that will shitpost anything religious themed, unless it is an .mp3 file of an old man reading the bible. Its never too good for the cultists. Let them be.
Nicholas Campbell
dude racism is causing global warming, we have to stop it fuck drumpf and god
>indie dev pixelshit artstyle because dude retro lmao >dude darksouls is really good and really hard lmao >kickstarter >religious themes >blatant shill post on Yea Forums with links to everything going to be a hard pass from me
tags: user, Meteroidvania, game, Dark Souls, rolleyes, open mouth, tongue_out, blush, sex, tears, sweat, fucked_silly, ahegao
Jacob Bailey
>it reads like a shill post What the fuck. I literally saw it on Steam, copied the description from Steam, and took a screenshot from Steam. I then looked up trailers on Youtube and posted reveal + gameplay that I found.
Googling the game and posting results is now "shilling"? My bad for not starting the thread with cropped pornography or a Wojak edit. Fucking faggot.
They've never hidden ripping off Christian designs. They even posted the original "inspirations" sometimes. Whether that makes it right or not, that's another thing.
Anyone else really tired of the Christianity is bad meme? How about the same thing but Islam instead?
Cooper Green
There's a fucking strap on her hip. It's right there, black strap on white skin.
Andrew Bell
Because like nudity is bad bro, the blood, guts, and over all violent theme of the game is fine but.... You need to think of the children man, what if a child were to see a woman with a lot of pubic hair.....
Islam is terribly boring to base a game around because it has no iconography and videogames are a mainly visual medium.
Dylan James
You're right. Your bad. Put some original thought into your post. I can read the steam description myself.
Justin Miller
my dude you linked FOUR (4) different youtube videos of the game, AND the store page on Steam not trying to rag on the game at all but this thread is 100% shill
Adrian Ross
To pull enemy ideas from already existing mythology.
William White
You fuck off, meme loving fuck. Starting video game threads with video game imagery and links is a good thing, and facilitates actual discussion when fagtrons such as yourself stay out.
Proper islam, perhaps. But plenty of heretics, like in Persia, drew enough visual aids. Djinns entered popular culture, too. People are familiar with them.
>violence good >sex bad Watch as not a single breast is shown in game
Hunter Roberts
>my dude you linked FOUR (4) different youtube videos of the game, AND the store page on Steam
They released gameplay yesterday, there are videos. When I made the thread, the videos I posted were the first 2 results. You are a paranoid bitter cynical shit who wishes and prays for things to fail, to be broken, to be fraudulent, because you worship and celebrate failure. This game is made for you. Bleed your sins out, purify yourself by cutting off the mental rot. Make sure to preorder and buy 5 copies, so I can get my cut.
$0.15 has been added to my account.
I fucking hate what mockery this board is now, and this behavior is exclusive to actual video game thread, shitposting threads are never questioned and those that question them are lynched as SJW redditors or whatever. Seek Jesus.
The naming sense in this game seems utterly atrocious.
Sebastian Bailey
you should know by now that lots of devs are trying to ride the "soulslike" train even when their games have nothing in common with dark souls.
Jack Torres
they're atheist $oyboys I bet they support trannies too
Christopher Campbell
Finally I figured out what always bothered me about their pixel art. And it's the absolute lack of dithering. Even though they're going for multiple levels of shading they never transition from one shade to another with slight dithering, it's always very flat and thick, looks a little off. Still great but heh, it does need that extra pass of dithering for greater grit.
i checked all 29 frames only frames 7 and 15 looked like possible strap this is frame 26 it looks like fucking bush we need official developer confirmation is this a fucking strap or is it fucking bush
indie games can be good, but this game is raising all of the red flags for being a bad indie game, along with all the other red flags it has >"retro" pixelart that is grating to look at. Gameplay videos show modern effects too creating a massive inconsistency that just makes it more painful to look at >"We are the dark souls of ______" >Religious imagery and themes >Excessive gore for the sake of being edgy >Gameplay looks extremely shallow early on, even for a metroidvania where the entire point is to get more toys to fuck around with as you progress through the game This game looks like it was made by somebody on Newgrounds, and it will probably follow the same "rule that posted too, which just means that the game won't have anything more than "kill these generic worshipers and/or cultists"
Christianity would be fine to use for religiousshit if not for the fact that it's ALWAYS done in the cults/preachers/modern religious people way. At best, people reference the devil and maybe a generic angel or two. It's always "dude religion bad lmao" without even touching any of the interesting mythological parts like archangels or anything that's more tame like pic related.
The only game that I've seen that even looks at the cool shit is SMT
the "straps" are red so they appear to be drips of blood, I'm a bush believer myself now, thank you for converting me.
David Evans
>I fucking hate what mockery this board is now, and this behavior is exclusive to actual video game thread, shitposting threads are never questioned and those that question them are lynched as SJW redditors or whatever. Seek Jesus. user I'm trying to kill this board so Hiro will sell the board and hopefully someone new will unfuck things. At the very least I hope the site gets shut down. When moot couldn't pay his server fees it would've been a fucking mercy if the site was kill. That being said, you literally copy pasted a steam description and linked all this stuff. The OP would be better suited to /vg/
Anthony Walker
>christcucks this seething over a game
piss off you literally cuckolds your religion is a joke.
user am telling you. THERE IS NO WAY that's a bush bro, that would be fucking RAD!!! If it was but THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY THATS A BUSH AM TELLING YOU!!
>Blasphemous is a Meteroidvania game themed after Dark Souls How veeeeery original. Next pls
Jonathan Edwards
the only guys seething itt are the fedoras
Brody Reyes
Game is definitely trying too hard and once again indie devs can't into pixel art
Nathan Thomas
>Gameplay videos show modern effects too creating a massive inconsistency that just makes it more painful to look at Yeah, too many shitty indie games suffer from this, sadly.
Oliver Turner
if it isn't bush it should be it's not too late they don't shave in spain devs if you're reading this add fucking bush
Colton Bailey
Good thing these devs are not trying to ride it.
Brandon Lewis
Wait this game STILL isn't fucking out yet?
Thomas Thomas
Because the biggest religious organisation around, the Catholic Church, has had notorious problems with corruption for a long time. To the extent that it was a cause for numerous wars in Europe. Drawing inspiration from real life is basic shit for fiction.
Aaron Robinson
>epic exclusive post-release
Xavier Anderson
Pixelshit edgy game with christian connotation put at random for easy marketing.
Adam Ross
stop talking about the church you virgins we have 69% chance of bush
Ayden Russell
Dude there are litterally 5 bosses which are bloodborne enemies combined. Since is, i think, the 10th thread in 24 hours for viral marketing you will see the webm sooner or later.
Nicholas Kelly
i like the aesthetic and i've been looking to curb my itch for a new castlevania. reminiscent of darkest dungeon.
i'd consider picking it up on my switch if it's cheap or i'll just torrent it if it's outrageous.
Adam Torres
>pixelshit trash
Adrian Walker
>anticipated game releases multiple gameplay videos within the last 24 hours >people discuss this new gameplay footage >SHILL SHILL SHILL
Dear blasphemous devs. How about you learn how to draw instead of pixelshitting everything thinking nobody knows how games were back in the days? The hollow knight dude did it alone, whats your excuse?
Lincoln Bennett
>"retro" pixelart that is grating to look at. Gameplay videos show modern effects too creating a massive inconsistency that just makes it more painful to look at It's because of what mentioned. Bad indie devs don't know the difference between pixelshit and good pixel art because they're shitty artists. If they made it in anything other than pixel art then it would be even more apparent, but they'll often resort to the "it's not bad, it's retro" argument despite old pixel art actually looking good.
>youtu.be/lTyIE3GEGiI?t=207 If the devs are going to insist on using pixel art, then they should at least try with their effects. It looks like they lazily added them in aftereffects after it became clear that they have no idea what they're doing with pixel art.
Jackson Watson
Dark souls? In base of what?
James Jones
>anticipated game Seen a couple of thread in the entire year maybe and read a couple of "controversial articles" of a game created only to create controversial cause "muh edgy christian themes". People forgot quickly about this. >discuss this new gameplay footage There were already a gameplay footage and it was the same as i see now. >>SHILL SHILL SHILL Marketer discovered tries to damage control.
Justin James
Can a shill thread be more obvious?
Aiden Perez
i don't give a shit about shilling i want one thing man
Brandon Ortiz
0 indie metroidvanias have come out good. And I mean games that invoke the strengths of super metroid or castlevania sotn. You can like Hollow Knight just fine but it's more Zelda 2 than Metroid or Castlevania. The devs even say this.
Ironically the two indie games that do invoke these series and did come out good were Axiom Verge and Bloodstained Curse of The Moon and they were aiming even further back to original metroid and castlevania than most were.
Jackson Scott
Every time some indie dev tries to copy the souls style vague and cryptic dialogues except with their bad copy-cat indie writing i cringe. This makes pretty much every single souls-rip off difficult to play. It's cringy in hollow knight, it's cringy in Unworthy, it's cringy in Salt and Sanctuary, it's cringy in this one. And then they just tack on titles to everything, also blatantly copying souls. "Vashira, Mask of Thousand Faces" Fucking CRINGE CRINGE CRINGE CRINGE Give your games their OWN identity you fucking retards.
Does it have a release date yet? Also, kind of bummed you only ever get one kind of weapon. What kind of character customization does it offer? Why is it taking so long to finihs?
so christianity? There are lots of eastern religions that no one ever mentions that were bad, only abrahamic religions that get a bad rap, doesn't mean all religions are bad.
Justin Diaz
All religions are glorified cults anyway. Their sole purpose is to steal money from the naive people who fall for their lies.
Austin Richardson
Most devs are from christian backgrounds, they show what they know. Most consumers are from christian backgrounds, they buy what they know.
When China starts buying indie platformers, the buddhist version of this game will be made.
Jason Nguyen
wrong
Brody Campbell
The cult is part of the religion, but there is more to a religion than is cult.
Luis King
stop arguing about christianity you virgins we have a shot at pixel bush game ffs think of what's important gdi think of the fucking bush where the fuck are the devs
Jace Campbell
Borrowing whatever, it's not a bad thing. catholics have some rad imagery.
Elijah Mitchell
Do you kill enemies ? Is there bosses ? Is it somewhat hard ? Are you cultivating a bleak / dark / gloomy / spooky atmosphere ? Can your character heal while fighting ?
Congratulation, you are now playing the Dark Souls of your genre
Eat shit with your worthless lazy pixelshit games. I fucking hate this pixelshit trend so much, it just shows how lazy devs are that they settle for it instead of making a real game.
Anthony Long
that's blood and lighting ffs i believe in the fucking bush man only 2 frames out of 29 frames 7 and 15 might be strap the rest are clearly bush
Thomas Stewart
>themed after darksouls
okay ill bite does it have many different weapons? do you have multiple paths you can take right from the start, some much harder but rewarding you with stronger weps/items early? is there nudity if not are there mod for nudes? can you play as a girl? can you invade?
It depends on the artistry. I'm not gonna like shit work, simply because it's pixel art -- especially if it's from a huge company.
Jackson Perry
are you a dev
Isaiah Gomez
>themed after Dark Souls Looks like Bloodborne to me
Carter Cooper
its clearly a bikini bottom, one piece of a two peice bikini, if you will
Kayden Campbell
Nah, I'm just stuck in this shithole.
Ian Ward
not to mention that proper sprites are actually harder and more time consuming to make when compared with 3d models, so it wouldn't really be lazy to make good pixelart.
Although I agree some indie devs do bad pixel art with one pixel width noodle characters and shit.
Game looks good, but the 'cutscenes' look like shit Like a worse Another World or something
Mason Edwards
Dark souls isnt themed after Heavy Spanish Catholicism you worthless media cocksuckers
Evan Williams
Who /torrijas/ here?
Jack Rivera
but how does she put on the bikini if her hands are strapped to the statue it makes sense she can't shave it should be bush if that's bikini bottom it's dirty full of her piss and shit she can't take it off bush is better
Austin Robinson
Begone christian, this is pagan land. Our hats are taller and funnier than yours!
ngl man thinking about it stained panties is hot too ffs how long she been wearing it damn
Evan Brown
why would anyone strip a woman down and basically cross her in a statue but make sure to leave a loincloth in?
Matthew Parker
do you have a source on how long she was stuck there? also, full bush depends on the woman, pubes dont just grow forever they would reach a limit and on her, it looks much more likely its not pubes but rather underwear
i saw the image you found the frame where you cant see the strap, but i believe the strap has been briefly hidden between the folds of her flesh as she was bending
Zachary Nelson
They look so fluffly
Joseph Cox
that's what i'm saying but i can see both sides tbf it looks like bush in frame 1 and 26 loincloth in 7 and 15 if it's a loincloth it's stained tho
Levi Phillips
Full nudity may be sin in the game, who knows?
Lincoln Turner
consider what she was wearing prior, likely a ragged dress with no bra, yet panties the dress would get in the way of them strapping her to the statue but the panties wouldnt, so they would cut away the dress but if they are not brap sniffers, and i see no evidence of such, then they would have no reason to remove her panties
Aaron Myers
you know what mr shill? this actually looks kinda cool, I'll add it to my wish list
Jacob Taylor
how thick her thighs and waist to hide the strap what's her measurements nice titties not too big or too small
Jordan Ramirez
say that to my face fucker not online and see what happens
not having a bush in this game is a sin irl, them devs need to get right on it.
Joseph Rogers
if the strap isnt too thick, when she bends she wouldnt need to be that thicc
Nathan Nelson
Catholic gothic
William Harris
Make the shilling less frequent and less evident, friend. There was a lot of excitement for the game when the first trailer came out. However, people here detest being advertised to.
but we still dont have a source on how long she has been strapped up, so its a moot point
Connor Garcia
>people complaining about "dark soulslike" >people arguing about bush vs loincloth (bush guys are the good guys and loincloth guys need to be lynched) >people arguing whether religion is bad or not
i know i'm waiting on the devs where the fuck are they this is important
John Barnes
tbf i'm starting to see the pov of loincloth it's not as hot as bush but imagine how soiled she is that's hot too
Ryder Ortiz
and no one is talking about the game as a game kek
Julian Thompson
i was originally thinking its a bush but its looking more and more like a loincloth or some kind of bikini, perhaps they change it frequently to harvest the smell/taste?
hmm
Alexander Myers
i'd buy it for the bush we need confirmation
Leo Sanchez
You can get good outcomes from a religion but the foundation on which it does those outcomes can just as well lead to bad outcomes.
Jackson Martin
imagine the conehead guy he can take one off after killing her and hotbox his helmet with her stinky loincloth
Fuck off yourself. No one asked you to come here if you feel so oppressed about all this "advertising". Once for a lifetime, there's actually a thread about video games here on Yea Forums and shitheads like you have to come shouting your buzz words like fucking retards. Piss off and go fuck your dog or something.
Christopher Myers
Now that’s a good shill thread.
John Walker
are the devs reading this feedback
Hudson Hall
The creator says himself that its influenced by souls
Andrew Fisher
>Once for a lifetime, there's actually a thread about video games here on Yea Forums Are we reading the same thread right now?
Jacob Brown
Nah, not really. You're were fooled into thinking every organized religion (especially Christianity) is a Scientology-like organization. That's not how it works, church doesn't actually expect shit from you. My grandma is a devoted Christian but my grandad is greedy, so they never gave a single penny to the church. My roommate was an orphan and his local priest kept giving him small amounts of money until he was an adult. He received like 8000$ and he'a not even remotely christian, fuck he isn't even baptized. He was just a kid in need, and that guy was a priest with church money.
James Jones
OP might very be a shill but it's still a video games thread, and not a smash thread, which puts it in the top 5% of threads in terms of quality
Christian imagery is just easier because its already so familiar to Western audiences. Hindu religious imagery would be cool to see though
Aiden Gray
>That's not how it works, church doesn't actually expect shit from you. The church literally tortured and murdered people who didn't do what was expected of them.
Charles Thomas
>You want to sell to catholics BRs don't buy shit.
Charles James
do hindu women shave bush
Jonathan Lee
This is nothing but an example of how it can generate good outcomes. These things happen, I even acknowledged it. It's still not a good source to base your reality on. A ton of really bad stuff has been in the name of religion but if we go down that path then I bet we'll just divulge into a no-true-scotsman fallacy.
Jeremiah Davis
I hate side scrollers.
Noah Clark
>Chatholic symblosim is totally bloodborne! Man, you are such a retard
I mean, if you say that men are deprived of sex and masturbation in the name of religion, and they are put in charge of prepubescent boys in the name of religion, and something occurs, he can't really no-true-scottsman you. The church does in fact forbid these men from having sex, and does in fact put them near young boys.
Isaac Murphy
Yes, because a bush is a hindurance.
Caleb Edwards
>check trailer >looks pretty good >check recent gameplay videos
Y I K E S what happened?!
Jose Powell
gdi what cultures have most bush
Connor Clark
Are wheel skeletons original to Berserk? How many RPGs have ripped off wheel skeletons at this point?
Muslims, because the women there don't show their bodies, so there is no vanity hair removal.
Robert Johnson
You would know if you werent such a blatant newfag
Xavier Scott
>themed after Dark Souls Dude, it's themed after some spaniard festivity, not everything is dark souls
Eli Reed
Or maybe I am a principled person and refuse to start a thread about X video game with an OP saying WHOA LOOK HOW SHIT X GAME IS ITS SO SHIT LETS TALK ABOUT HOW SHIT IT IS HAHA RESETERA TRANNIES SEETHING smug_frog.jpg
So did everybody with power, good thing we aren't living in the Middle Ages retard
Dominic Price
>this edgy trash again
Luis Hughes
>american devs ? What?
Aaron Jackson
Retard
Hudson Sullivan
Obviously, that's why the manga has a panel featuring this torture and execution method, which explains the presence of the animated undead who are bound by the wheel that killed them.
I'm not asking if the execution method is original to Berserk, I'm asking if living dead humans who roll around in the wheel are original to Berserk.
Damn. I never expected so many people here complaining about negative religious imagery. Can't even have a good thread about one of the most based indie games coming out. This website sucks.
I will, it looks great. When Yea Forums says that your game is shit, then you are making a great work.
Gabriel Brooks
But when does it release?
Ryan Davis
>retropixelshit with modern effects >the dark souls of metroidvanias >religion themed aka the most lazy theme to pick >growth trees and rpg mechanics only crafting left for full lazy dev bingo
Blake Jenkins
A normal, mentally stable guy just doesn't start fucking kids simply because he can't have sex with girls. They masturbate, sometimes they find a prostitute. The church also has a history of priest fucking nuns and everyone knowing it.
Nah, you don't become a pedo by not having sex. It's the other way around. It's pedos that keep looking for jobs where they'll be left alone with/put in charge of kids. Turns out "the priest" is classified the among the possible dream jobs of such individuals
Alexander Thomas
is it actually the laziest theme or are you exaggerating
Nathan Turner
It´s already made. It´s called Asura´s Wrath.
Samuel Williams
Fucking retard faggot
Kayden Ward
id be more interested if it was full of naked women and not just naked dudes
Ayden Martinez
>anticipated game said no one ever
Luis Wilson
fuck off shill
Wyatt Adams
Fuck off, we've been bombarded with literal decades of negative depictions of the church.
Luke Martinez
Young Muslim women are notoriously self-absorbed. They're borderland Korean-tier when it comes to self-care products and makeup. >tfw no qt demure muslim gf with heart-shaped pube bush and pristine brown skin
Yea Forums as a whole has been co-opted by the religious right. It's a combination of 'ironic' retards and legit redditors who migrated in from r/thedonald It'd be a lot funnier if they weren't thin-skinned crybabies who constantly throw tantrums whenever someone says something mean about religion
Easton Allen
This is false and anyone past high school can shit in your face for thinking this. The church also allowed science to progress by funding a lot of different ventures. Without the church we very well might be back dozens if not hundreds of years in science.
Thomas Diaz
Guess Gone Home, Battlefield V or Marvel vs Capcom Infinite are the best games ever, fucking retard.
Gabriel Reyes
fucking retard faggot nigger
Kevin White
The church is the only reason g*rmans don't perform human sacrifice to a transvestite anymore
Lincoln Smith
for now
Bentley Anderson
Starting a religion or a cult sounds pretty fun, i mean you can write down some bullshit and then people will do as their told, obviously if you execute all the right steps perfectly. Maybe i should start a religion, it just sounds fun.
it's also the only reason they would start doing that again in the future
William Johnson
I suggest adding to the work of the Latter Day Saints because that seems like a particularly gullible population
Brandon Campbell
Back when they used to do that, they did it for religious rituals. So you aren't making an argument for religion or anything.
Nathaniel Hall
How new are you? This place is always the opposite of what's considered mainstream.
Soccer moms and religious zealots were the norm in 2006, and we hated them and their shitty religion with passion. Because they were "limiting our freedom" and yada yada. Today, it's mainstream to generally hate religion, the church and so on. ...And this place started cautiously supporting Catholicism and traditional moral values.
Cameron Morgan
You can make a lot of money that way too, and it's free pussy
Brody Mitchell
I’m gonna buy it just for the gord
Gabriel Phillips
Except it wasn't oldfags that turned coat, rather newfags are supporting it. The old core is still holding to the old values, and fuck you.
Noah Powell
We aren't boomers, the blasphemous shock value just isn't enough anymore
John Reed
HAHAHAHAH > In the early 1600s, a certain Italian astronomer came into conflict with the Catholic Church over his support of the Copernican view that the Earth revolves around the sun. Galileo, himself a Catholic, was tried for heresy in 1633 by the Roman Inquisition, which forced him to recant his views and live out his days under house arrest. It wasn't until 2000 that former pope John Paul II issued a formal apology for the church's treatment of Galileo.
HAHAHAHAHA
BRIGHT EU MINDS HAD TO STUDY MATHEMATICS FROM ARABS AND INDIANS BECAUSE IT WAS COMPLETELY DEAD THANKS TO THE CHURCH POPE SCUM, UNTIL AT LEAST 17TH CENTURY.
Brandon Davis
For the last time.
Pixel art is not necessarily trying to be retro. The game is not trying to have retro art, it is just art using pixels.
Literally, have sex.
Samuel Carter
Atheists are the ones who keep fag-enabling
Ian Sullivan
At least it looks a bit better than Death's Gambit.
Jonathan Sullivan
FUCKING FIBONACCI STUDIED CALCULUS FROM ARABS AND THEIR NUMERIC SYSTEM WAS PROCLAIMED AS HERETIC BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN A JEWISH GOD
Arabs believe in the same god that catholics believe in, user. They disagree on other things.
Alexander Richardson
Fucking retard faggot double nigger
Blake Bailey
>church improves society >Yeah well some people from a different religion did bad stuff checkmate xtians xd!!
Gavin Johnson
The old core either fucked off elsewhere or started shifting as well.
Jace Martin
ooh no so scary some people put their dick in places wow i am literally shaking
Kayden Williams
No one still think/support the crap we were parading 15 years ago. If someone does, he probably needs genuine help
Asher Carter
Don't worry user. Some of us like to discuss videogames.
Asher Hall
The best thing to come out from this board
Gavin Watson
I feel it kinda shy with religious themes, which is sad because spanish religious imaginery is fucking powerful. I'd like if for once a game explored the religious feeling.
It's all fun and games until your secretary gets a bit too power hungry and/or deranged and starts poisoning nearby communities and militarizing your followers.
Hunter Lopez
>"religion is great guys" >actually >"well my SPECIFIC PARTICULAR RELIGION is great guy" >actually...
I've read plenty of books, it's you, fucking uneducated retarded cretins studied some ALTERNATIVE HISTORY for zoomers, probably ameriturd subhumans.
Mason Rogers
Isn't there an enemy in the game that fucking flagelates himself?
Nathaniel James
Fucking hell you are one ignorant cunt to history.
Lincoln Ramirez
You shouldn't quote pop history. Galileo was a dickhead who alienated all of his peers, and couldn't even provide any proof for his theory. He got in trouble with the church for interpreting scripture and saying he was correct and the church was wrong. When the the church told him to knock off this shit, he kept doing it anyway. Even though they explicitly warned him not to.
Jayden Sanders
Seems neat but the art style comes off as a little 'rough' to me. Even for pixelart. Maybe it's a lack of outlines?
What about it? Firstly, I don't know if its true, considering the author and the times antisemitism. Second, if it were true, it isn't the desired result of a society without religion. Secular laws prevent pedophilia, while catholic church and islamic texts enable it.
William Moore
>SAME GENERIC ANIME GAME WITH SHITTY MECHANICS GOOD >INDIE BAD
bought dark devotion because I thought it's this game
Cooper Baker
Jesus and anime titties above all else. A good christian only masturbates to Bible Black, which is made by angelic japanese samurai, not sinful 3D porn, probably made by jews.
Elijah Johnson
Humans are thinking animals with no intrinsic moral code. Religion is simply a unified moral code. It worked through history because it came from a perceived higher authority than men, and it was specifically conceived to make society work at a basic level of decency.
It's not rocket science
Austin Stewart
I never said anything about rel8gion in general you retard.
Angel Morales
>oh hey this game looks pretty slick, the art is amazing and the gameplay looks solid aside from the overly long execution moves, I hope they aren't too overbearing >I wonder what Yea Forums has to say about this ga- Fucking hell you faggots can't find enjoyment or appreciation in anything, can you?
We're talking about a wide range of subjects, which have nothing to do with video games. Seems par for the course.
Andrew Bailey
I studied Barzini nigger, he was a normal journalist, not a fucking nazi. The antisemitism you're referring to also started later (unless you're acknowledging how pre-nazi antisemitism was a constant through history)
Ethan Myers
Berserk is a Darksouls clone!
Christian Cook
>using "antisemitism" unironically
Mason Morris
Yes
Jose Taylor
>mlp hat
Jackson Robinson
How can anybody actually believe in Religion when it's all written by the hand of man, and thus a farce to the celestial bodies above?
Luke Turner
Pope Francis said that 2% of clergy in the Catholic Church are paedophiles, as per their internal investigation. This is more than the general population. You are the baddies.
Colton Myers
Ok I gotta shill my game soon, what are the best baitposts I can use so the thread stays up for 300 replies?
Hudson Carter
>Pope Francis said that 2% of clergy in the Catholic Church are paedophiles wew
Thomas Harris
whats your game?
Aaron Bailey
2% is the papal official number, other investigations show a higher percentage.
The John Jay College study says 4.2%. Dr. Michael Seto with the Royal Ottawa Healthcare group says 2% for prepubescent children only, higher total. Richard Sipe is a psychotherapist and former priest,says 6% of priests abuse, 4% abuse teens aged 13 to 17, and 2% abuse pre-pubertal children.
Xavier Gray
this is what bloodstained should have looked like
Ethan Evans
Can't say or you'd be able to tell when I shill pretending to be someone else like these devs. Now answer the question
>in Australia 7% of priests nationally have been accused of sex abuse >in the Diocese of Sale, it is twice as many, with 15.1% >in the St John of God its a whopping 40% of the order being accused
>4,444 — number of people who alleged incidents of child sexual abuse, >1,000 — The number of separate institutions the claims related to, >78 percent male, 22 percent female — gender of the person making the claim, >97 percent male — people who made claims of child sexual abuse received by religious orders, with only religious brother members, >11.5 for boys, 10.5 for girls — the average age of people who made claims of child sexual abuse at the time of the alleged abuse, >33 years —the average time between the alleged abuse and the date the claim was made, >1880 — number alleged perpetrators were identified in claims, >597 or 32 percent were religious brothers, >572 or 30 percent were priests, >543 or 29 percent were lay people, >96 or 5 percent were religious sisters, >90 percent male, 10 percent female — age [??] of the allege perpetrators, >500+ — number of unknown people were identified as alleged perpetrators.
Catholic pedos fuck off from my board.
Parker King
I honestly don't know if pixel art CAN do better than Metal Slug, bro
Asher Lee
>he thinks the dark ages was a thing Oh no no no
Ryder Perez
>its another game with worse looking graphics than metal slug That's pretty much every game released after Metal Slug 3.
Chase Lopez
The kickstarter for this game existed before DS3 was a thing user.
Jace Myers
If the dark ages weren't dark, why were they called the dark ages then? Atheists: 1 Christcucks: -789 gorillion
Ryan Rivera
>Galileo accused of heresy >literally entire decades after he wrote the fucking incriminated thesis, because nobody could be bothered to give a shit about his theories (before the political shitstorm the church went through when Galielo was old at fuck) >Church repeatedly told him to fuck off with his bullshit, it wasn't the right time >he kept revolting like a teen standing up to their teacher >goes to the pope, he tells him to do whatever he wants, even gives some money to Galileo's son to make him go away >keep shitting up all over the place, eventually get tried by the inquisition >denies everything he discovered multiple times >get sentenced to take a 5 month vacation in Tuscany >meet a young nerd girl, start fucking her way into his 60s >dies peacefully in his bed
I can't believe the church could be so cruel
Mason Watson
the collapse of the roman empire did happen this did result in a collapse of trade, money, arts, etc this is called the dark age stop being a triggered tumblr fairy
Evan Bailey
The other way around bruhs
Cameron Russell
Wow, proxy Stockholm syndrome. Fascinating.
Ayden Gonzalez
Chicken and egg question isn't relevant, when whats being discussed is >Priests are less likely to diddle than secular teachers
This is a statistical claim, that is statistically wrong.
Jeremiah Gray
I think the reason people want more female nudity in this game is because the dark ages of the catholic religion were full of it. it feels censored thematically.
Nolan Hall
What kind of fucking retarded history classes did you take?
Are you amerimutt with the infamous amerimutt educashion?
Dylan Ward
So, let's talk about the fucking gameplay youtube.com/watch?v=lTyIE3GEGiI >drone tier tutorial >lots of unneseary custscenes >shitty voice-acting >first maps are basically corridors >boring combat The game seems nice, but i'm not buying the game just to see pretty pixel art
Lucas Gutierrez
Only retards use the term dark ages anymore.
Andrew Walker
It's only an issue with English. "Dark Ages" isn't a term you can find in many other languages, they mostly use something along the lines of "Middle Ages"
Joshua Hill
Are all history teachers retards?
Logan Ramirez
I'm more interested in this than in both castle Vania and dead souls but it'll probably suck
Tyler Reyes
English speaking countries are the smartest and best though.
Carson Parker
Spanish speaker here, yes, we also have the "dark ages" term in spain
Nicholas Carter
The real question is, would they still be history teachers if they weren't that retarded in the first place?
Matthew James
>Mens Hair Club
Kayden Long
Marketer thread, right on time.
Colton Mitchell
bad bait
cringy retard
is this all what the thread is about?
Asher Powell
Agreed, this looks just as uninspired as Order of Ecclesia.
Ian Edwards
Metal slug looks really bad on modern resolution monitors like 1440p. Its either extremly blocky or blurry (depends on which scaling you use). We have 2019 where there are algorithms which use neural networks trained on photos and high rest texture pacl to upscale old textures to full HD and it looks good.
Stop enabling shitty looking "2D oldschool" sprites when they look worse than games from NES. Pic related is a game from 1993 and it looks miles better than this shit.
STOP VOTING WITH YOUR WALLET FOR LOW EFFORT GAMES reeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Italy here, we literally created the term but we never fucking use it. We say "middle ages", Medioevo.
Xavier Sullivan
Why is every first world country English speaking then.
Gavin Martinez
Translating from my language's Wikipedia article on Dark Ages >Dark centuries (or dark ages) is a period of time, for which there are little primary sources and archeological finds, which makes studying it difficult. >In Europe this is used for periods between the early middle ages 6-8th century, the 10th century, and the time during the great migration into Europe, and during the withdrawal of Romans from Britain.
So not a particular period necessarily, but includes the period during which the Catholic Church, the successor institution to the Roman Empire, failed to maintain centralization, order, and political and social networks across the land in Western Europe, and took literally centuries to make up the lost ground.
Angel Kelly
bush is gross
Dominic Perez
what are you a virgin hairy fucking bush is the best it's rare tho
Zachary Stewart
bush bro I love me a big hairy crotch too but it looks like a loin cloth to me.
First, that's wrong, check the list, second, that's mainly because you created the term
Levi Diaz
no its not
Dylan Walker
Not him but I prefer trimmed or shave.
Hudson Harris
Yeah, it's shit, but let's talk about religion instead
Noah Harris
And what gave us that sort of power? Our massive influence attained through superior IQ.
Ian Watson
YOU ARE ONLY ALLOW TO TALK ABOUT SMASH BROTHERS ROOSTERFAGGOTRY, FINAL FANTASY 14 FANSERVICE, CAPCOM SHILLING, ANIME ONLY TANGENTIALLY RELATED TO VIDEOGAMES AND IF WE ARE FEELING GENEROUS TWITTER SCREENCAPS.
LEARN THE FUCKING RULES.
Ethan Wood
where you from that it's common
Ryder Wright
Have sex
Nicholas Myers
Goddamn you're stupid
Leo Williams
Dipshit zoomers like yourself is why we have garbage looking games like Bloostained: Ritual of the Night. Fun fact: non-shitty pixel art (i.e., the art in games like this one, or Timespinner, or Owl Boy, etc) is much more expensive and time consuming to make than 3D assets. That's why there are no more high budget pixel art games anymore, just indie stuff -- because it costs more to make pixel art, and it's not worthwhile because retards like you complain that they're being "lazy". Just fuck off.
Its a good thing that someone set things straight otherwise Germany would have become a country of sick fuck perverts known internationally for degenerate pornography. Though its strange that such a thing would even start in Germany since the country wasn't full of enough degenerate perverts to create a bustling market for that sort of thing.
Very oldschool how they are doing it all sprit work but with today tech, rigged bones, special effects and dynamic lighting makes pixelart much better.
thanks user i was about to suport this shit on kickstarter? just saved me 200 bucks
Anthony Gray
Okay but serious talk I watched the livestream the devs did when the trailer came out and this is what I gleamed from it:
Art is Goya-inspired. Probably not a metroidvania but definitely non-linear or at the very least it seems like it's going to loop into itself a lot with multiple expanding forks but there might be actual movement upgrades later on. Definitely inspired by Dark Souls' mechanics. Combat is just okay. Seemed a bit shallow but has potential. Spends "souls" to unlock other moves for your main weapon. I don't remember if it has multiple weapons or maybe sub-weapons. You have equipable spells. You can augment equip system. 15-20 hours long on average. New Game+. Made in Unity. All that jazz.
And then there's these kickstarter goals that spoil more of the features it might have. Also they never confirmed if it was a bush or not.
>a hard pass from a mentally ill incel from 4chins they're never gonna recover from this one
Asher Lee
These are 30 year old reborn catholics sperging, user, not redditor YOutube atheists. It happens all the time now, due to the ongoing "culture war".
Caleb Wilson
man don't play like that tell us bush ask the devs for bush
Parker Sullivan
So french toast.
Aiden Miller
>e. To the extent that it was a cause for numerous wars in Europe. such as?
Mason Clark
After how shitty Dark Devotion turned out (refunded in 10min) I'm not too excited for this one.
Benjamin Hill
>Alexa play exposito
Hunter Stewart
>Combat is just okay. Seemed a bit shallow but has potential.
fug every god damn time
John Evans
your post look like total faggotry to me
Anthony Cruz
Medieval Total War is the Dark souls of the Dark Souls
Sebastian Morgan
>From Steam Not for long, thanks for the free advertising and message boards. Once there's a release date/preorder they will also announce Epic exclusivity. The publisher Team17 already has an EGS exclusive that was also supposed to release on Steam until it didn't (Genesis Alpha One).
Zachary Thompson
Goddammit go watch actual porn or have sex, why do you care about a fucking sprite?
Brayden Nguyen
Metal Slug is not as great looking as everyone makes it out to be.
Pros
It has really good animation It has a nice consistent color palette
Cons
It's very busy, lots of shit everywhere The pixels aren't tight, a lot of things look like shrunk normal images, like your gif.
Minish Cap as an example for the most part has a much better consistent style.
Joseph Moore
pixel bush is fucking rare man
Brody Wilson
The mental gymnastics you faggots go through to justify the imprisonment of Galileo is fascinating.
It would be like me putting you in jail for not agreeing with how I feel about Galileo, and justifying it by telling you I gave you a chance to shut the fuck up and agree with me.
Brandon Morgan
I remember seeing a trailer for this months ago, I really hope it doesn't turn out to be shit
Michael Kelly
let the bodies hit the floor let the bodies hit the floor let the bodies hit the floor
Nathan Clark
>Religion is a single reason we've lost about 700 years There are actually people who still think the dark ages were a thing and development just stopped. Lmao, retards.
The developers are Spanish Roman Catholics. This is an homage, and usage of Catholic aestheticism.
Jace Flores
>Meteroidvania game themed after Dark Souls,
Andrew Cox
the aesthetics are pretty similar
Jack Williams
The people that are trying to be outraged itt are Protestants with no culture or aesthetics. The game is offensive to them because it doesn’t portray Christianity as some hippie cult and they have no connection to the things portrayed.
Jose James
>the aesthetics are pretty similar >Dark Souls invented everything once again
If you think you can avoid the shilling by leaving Yea Forums or having someone fix it you haven't been paying attention. This is the present and future anywhere online and it's only going to get worse. I fully expect them to use AI to masquerade as people and send them out to make friends with people and surreptitiously shill products to them. At least once the neural network AI is good enough to do that.
>duhhhrrr Imma gonna make some shit up and hope u all believe me! Humans have an intrinsic moral code. You've just been looking too deep in your asshole for philosophy that you've lost sight of it. My 4 year old recognizes how good it feels to do something nice for someone else and see them happy. Her brain releases endorphins into her system when she does something constructive that makes another person happy. That proves that humans have an intrinsic morality. We are cooperative, social creatures and such things simply don't exist without some intrinsic system of ethics that the majority shares to keep the community from dissolving completely. You've done everything you can to hollow out your soul, though, so you have reverted back to a beast that can only be morally instructed by laws, unable to grasp that laws are only meant to shield the innocent from the evil and not dictate morality as a whole. Hypocrite that you are, with that philosophy in hand, you attempt to simultaneously preach that there is no morality while forcing your degenerated morality through legislature.
>m-m-my kike on a stick is good >b-b-but not the sand-dwelling bomber man one that's not how that fucking works, you pozz you take the sum total of something not just pick and fucking choose religion is a plague that has easily done more harm than good your own God has killed literally millions stfu
Luke Bell
Christianity build our western civilisation. What has atheism created, exactly?
Sebastian Ortiz
so nothing compared to any WW.
Lincoln Evans
resetera
Daniel Morgan
>so nothing compared to any WW. i meant directly, literally explicitly himself has killed millions you can fuck right off the idea that religion is good when almost all of them even just beginning has these great destroyers is fucking insane
Jonathan Turner
>i meant directly, literally explicitly himself has killed millions are you having a stroke? You should dilate
Christian Perez
have sex and while you're at it, stop worship dead kikes on sticks
Benjamin Gomez
>no release >kickstarter i do not care
Benjamin Murphy
>kikes on sticks ?
Thomas Bell
>religion is a plague that has easily done more harm than good Religion is literally the foundation for human civilization. The godless create nothing. They do nothing but simper, consume, and whine until the day they die and are forced to meet the God they denied. Religion, on the other hand, glues unrelated people together in a way that no other characteristic or behavior does, allowing for humans to effectively cooperate in societies larger than an extended family. Without religion, those societies lack the "glue" and they crumble into infighting at the first stress. The more punitive the God/Religion, the stronger and larger the society can grow.
Jacob Barnes
It's a saying that Jews have taught pagans to bark on command. Pagans, as they are wont, have begun corrupting the saying into something without meaning.
Daniel Young
Don't insult the atheists please, TrannyEra is more virtue signalling than the pope and holds more pedos than the whole catholic church
Josiah Jones
>tfw everyone but you has murderous tendencies they want to act out on
Dylan Hernandez
funnily enough, since they hate Catholics with all their guts