how come the popular new releases are two genAI slop porn visual novels, some kind of piano tutoring app that requires specialized hardware, and a game about looking at an elf's clothed ass while playing a badly made dark souls fan game with no story
@piikkisika unless they changed something, Soulframe starts with a camera pointed directly at the player character's naked ass and asks you to decide the character's gender and then they throw the character out a window of a floating castle and they land face-down in a river
@ben I also never got behind this trend to put a 2/3 shot of your main characters face on the right with the name of your game in these banners. Like, you're not gonna see that for most of the game, probably, and second: at least make your character look interesting if you must do that.
@piikkisika there are some games (mostly porn games) that put your character on the HUD at all times
@piikkisika honestly I'll take "boring render of the player character" over "completely unrelated art style" any day
@ben "dark souls fan game with no story" – »Gimme A [Souls Game] With Nothin'!«
@piikkisika someone looked at dark souls and went "there is a character hitting another character with a sword" and that was their entire takeaway from it
in the trailer on steam the health bars don't even move the first two times the elf protagonist character hits the zombies with the sword
@ben You forgot to mention that the devs of the last one also felt the need to include the *exact same* shot of said ass *twice* in the trailer