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I have a degree in animation and I use it to complain about vidya games and anime. Author of Moonlight Punishment, budding game designer and occasional writer.
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Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Konami is about to make a tremendous comeback! But just remember: This is the same company that thought a multiplayer mobile game Castlevania was a good idea - and that was just a few years ago. Temper your expectations, and don't be blinded by nostalgia.
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stories are unlocked as you gather new characters. This could be kind of a cool concept, but with nothing other than a really cool (and extremely Japanese myth-heavy) trailer, it's impossible to speculate.
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Konami is also well known to be MTX heavy these days. Ascension is an easy one to understand - cosmetics will be a huge money draw. But what about the others? For all we know, f could have some kind of gacha-like system, similar to NeiR: Reincarnation, where... (cont)
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Also, all of these teasers are just cinematic trailers, which tell us nothing about the games or how they'll play. This is usually an indication that the developer are hiding something, because it isn't ready, or wasn't thought through. Probably a bit of both.
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To tie this all up: it's a tremendous red flag to see Konami pushing FOUR titles, made by different studios, known for different genres, at THE SAME TIME. Almost like maybe they wanted to launch some kind of shared universe.... I feel like they've failed to do this before.
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...have James come out and say his wife died of disease three years ago. Which utterly ruins a fantastic reveal as it was more ambiguous in the original, until you hit that point. It's almost as if the people working on the project may not know what made the original games work.
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Lastly, the SH2 remake. Should be a slam dunk, right? Remakes are hit right now. Look at Capcom and the RE franchise having a second Renaissance. Or third? Eh. And yet... Something tells me they're going to find a way to fuck this up too. Partly because they outright... (Cont)
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Now we have Silent Hill Ascension. Look. It's Behavior entertainment. The language of the trailer suggests co-op survival. It's just fucking DBD again. Konami looked at the crossovers they did and asked them to make a game that's 100% Silent Hill instead. (Cont)
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which isn't exactly a ringing endorsement for me. They've recently come under fire for not wanting to pay people for the work that was done, which aligns with Konami culture pretty well, and leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
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Townfalls is the next interesting one, because the f they use in the title is exactly the same as the one in the last title I mentioned. So maybe there's some kind of tie-in here... Which raises a few red flags to say the least. Also, Annapurna is attached to the title...(cont)
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Silent Hill F actually seems like it could be interesting. It's set in '60s rural Japan, and seems to have staff on it that did things like Higurashi. But... Silent Hill isn't in Japan, nor is it known for being outright gory - which the trailer suggests is a feature here.
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Me: Boy, I sure am excited that my sinus infection is finally over! I can get back to streaming again soon, right? My sinuses:
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I unironically love Macross 7. Nekki Basara is one of the craziest dudes in the franchise - and that's saying a lot. This show is absolutely unhinged and I love it.
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On the 16th of October 1994, the 1st episode of Macross 7 aired. It ran for 49 episodes, had a few OVAs, a film & a manga spin-off. It solidified Yoshiki Fukuyama's singing career and would debut in SRW D (GBA) in 2003. Happy 28th Anniversary! 🔥💣
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Basically, this is the definition of art theft, and is THE biggest issue with AI-generated artwork. But hey, let's keep talking as though these neural networks actually know what they are doing, and not just an overly complex automated kitbashing algorithm.
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Or eyes looking in different directions. It isn't making these things out of nothing. It is literally taking other images, and putting them together into a new image. This is fine for anything Creative Commons. But when we are talking about non-photos, this is rarely the case.
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go to its database and cobble an image together based on what it already has in storage. It knows a woman with green eyes should have certain qualities. Hair (probably), a face, which has a nose, two eyes, a mouth and two ears. Maybe it will give you a face with two right eyes.
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will have images that they can pull from to reference when they need, for example, "a woman with green eyes", based on what it thinks a woman and a person with green eyes looks like. An artbot won't create a "new" image of a person. It will take what it is asked to generate, then
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People saying that AI art "learns" from artists are inaccurately describing what is actually going on, and it is really frustrating to read over and over. AI bots "learn" what an approximation of a concept is based on a massive database. So if they have 10k images of people, it
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I've been thinking about trying to do a lot of strange things, but having limited ability due to computer struggles put a damper on all that. Maybe now, I can finally just relax, and do what I wanted to do. Not bad for hardware that's 8 years old, and still keeping up.
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