Define SOUL in 4 words or less

SOVL

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creator's vision, no executives

>comparing prerendered artwork to ingame footage
>the so-called “soulless” game is actually one of the greatest and most soulful modern games in a long time
What did autists and redditors mean by this?

>Jew hand
Soulless
>no Jew hand
Soul

Good attention to detail.

It's heart, love, care and life.

It's like McDonald's vs a home cooked meal.

Flawed but passionate

>NPCs need it defined
that is the definition of soul, you either get it or you don't, if you're a robot or a bugman you won't ever understand what SOUL is. there are lots of ways to describe it
>when passion shines through
>dreams brought to life
>you feel it inside
>someone dreamed of this
>the dev/s had fun

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Soul: "Speaks to your nostalgia"
In most cases its nothing more than that.

don't like new thing

Neither of those have it.

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scene composition
The reason why left is better than right is because theres a clear and distinct background and foreground and two distinct elements the image guides your eyes to. Right is too open and has no visual clarity
same with that guys donkey kong pic

4 words: Soul MORE WITH LESS
Soul is doing more with less.
You can see that they have gone above and beyond with what limitations they have had blocking their way and produced something that will stand out and look good forever forward.

HK, Rain World, Kenshi, Katana Zero, Rayman Origins and more, these all have soul and are post-2010

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Literally everything in DKC for the snes was prerendered art too you absolute fucking zoomer.

I like big booby

This as well.

Labor of love.

most games before 2010

Artistic Vision Given Form

Rough but still appealing

this is a good one
TimeSplitters 2 has SOULVERLOAD, you can tell the devs had an absolute blast making it

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Soul just means nostalgia

Anything you don't like!

I’ll give Rare credit for experimenting with each new DKC and adding new mechanics to the sequels while trimming the fat.
The new games felt like regurgitating 1 with a new coat of paint.

casual gamers ruin games

ebf5

>WHAT. IS. SOUL? BEEP BOOP. DOES NOT COMPUTE.
>CANNOT MEASURE SOUL. CANNOT SEE SOUL. CANNOT HOLD SOUL.
>ERROR. SOUL DOES NOT EXIST.

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Not necessarily. KotOR2's production was notoriously nightmarish but it's full of sovl.

>Define SOUL
Not touched by westoid hands

passion work

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not made for money

there are many Western games with soul, you're just unashamedly ignorant
Abe's Oddysee is an obvious pick, one of the only games in history where the publisher was actually not allowed to enter the dev's headquarters without permission

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with limitation breeds creativity

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For what's essentially Retro doing an official fangame/tribute of DKC, Returns and Tropic Freeze were pretty damn good

The Entire SaGa series

Zoomers dont know shit

>publisher was actually not allowed to enter the dev's headquarters without permission
imagine funding the game and being told to fuck off

Games developed by gamers. I think that's the big difference, games used to be developed by people who liked games and made games they themselves wanted to play or see made. Now it's an industry and is full of teams of people showing up to do the minimum amount of work and get paid. Just compare something like Rareware, where the stamper bros would work 12-18 hour days and only ever take Christmas morning off, to today where everyone wants union benefits and 6 hour days and four day workweeks. People don't like making games, they don't like seeing games get made, they want to clock in and clock out like stocking shelves at the grocery store.

Marketing buzzword on Yea Forums

More like excessive bloom

Humanity shining through corporatism

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I hate how sterile and corporate everything has become

Yeah, you'd never hear of something like that happening in the modern industry. That's why it's shit.

the new mario strikers kept the edgy artstyle, how did that happen? I have no idea

Skill limited by hardware.

Palpable amounts of passion.

heart, substance, no wokeshit

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Passionate Attention To Detail

>the butchered remake
>the butchered reboot made by one on the series creators but he went full retatd
>we'll never get good oddworld content ever againggak2

What's the likelihood of BDSP getting an expansion that gives us a new experience.

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Based