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This one's a bit unstructured, but I've really been playing Rockstar's Bully (2006) recently. I picked it up for like 6 bones on Steam and even though it was a pain to setup and make playable on modern hardware, it's fun! It's going to turn 20 years in October this year and honestly it still holds up surprisingly really well. The writing is very sharp, witty and serves as a satirical critique of the schooling system and social and structural hierarchies within. It also had a lot of negative media coverage back during release, where it generated a lot of moral panic for potentially influencing kids for the worse, which I find hilarious because most of the game is based on what kids already do in school anyway.
Anyhow If you haven't played it give it a shot it's pretty cool. Now if you excuse me, I have some bullies to stuff into lockers...XD
Why is it so that walking by Vespucci beach, in Los Santos, the most common NPC character is a white woman? Skinny, petite and wait, all of them are the same? The outfits are different, sure, okay maybe there are some skin variations too but how is it so in such a densely populated city there is a critical lack of body diversity?
Body diversity wasn't really that important in gaming until recent years where movements towards body acceptance and diversity in the real world.
When 3D gaming was primitive it made sense why NPC diversity didn't exist. You practically had polygons, very limited hardware specs, and programmers had to use tricks up their sleeves to use up all the juice of the hardware. It was difficult to even consider focusing on body types alone, and much easier to copy paste different heads on the same body. Games like the original GTA were entirely top down and relied on swapped textures, but GTA III is known for having repetitive pedestrians. The "same hat different pedestrian" problem was just getting normalized.
Animating 3D bodies early on was nightmarish. They would look horrifying if they got too detailed, which is why developers would default to stylized, slim proportions because they were easier to work with without getting them wrong. Less math to calculate and less room for error. Fat, curves and muscles, on the other hand require a lot more calculations for the polygons to not look like melting wax.
But then in the 2000s it gets even more uncomfortable. By this stage games now can do decent 3D character models, but games like dead or alive still choose feature petite, anime style, big breasted women while having the hardware capacity to make and show body diversity and instead represent a very specific ideology about which bodies get detail and which don't.
There's a well documented thing in game development where the default placeholder model used during development is almost always a slim white male, sometimes literally called "the mannequin." That default has a way of persisting into shipped games.
What does it mean now? Well, rest assured gaming has been taking some positive strides.
The most diversity in NPC types I saw was in Cyberpunk 2077, more specifically there is an NPC who you need to have a boxing match with, his wife is also there but interestingly she's pregnant. You can see her body mesh is clearly made for a pregnant woman, and it amazed me, a shook me a little because it probably was the first time I've seen a pregnant woman in a videogame.
On the other hand I know I started this with a complaint about GTA V NPC diversity, but the recent GTA VI trailer showed us a snippet of the beach and we can see multiple different feminine body styles which definitely makes me much more hopeful about the future, as some games have begun to treat NPC and bodies as people, rather than background texture.
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About P3 Reload's more "Organic" less "Digitized" OST
Hey everywon,
Let's talk about the Persona 3 Reload soundtrack today. I just had the urge to yap about it and to finally share my THOUGHTS. And it's not just about good or bad songs but about the shift in vibe.
Sure the new songs like 'Full moon full life', 'color your night', 'It's going down now' are absolute bangers, and the sound mixing and design is polished without a doubt, the remixes of the older tracks fall a little short in my opinion. And I'll be completely honest, the Burn my Dread remix is horrible. I'm sorry I HAD to say it. It's bad.
I feel like Reload in its attempts to create a modern production loses the distinct digitized-future pop aesthetic and feel that made the original P3 OST raw and messy. The new remixes have great arrangement and the bass and percussion are organic, and have this punchy feel to them which makes it more prominent.
However, with P3 as I stated it's more digitized. Think electronic drums, edited baselines, unapologetically artificial, but almost perfect and thematic. It's raw, messy, and it works.
See for yourself. You can compare the tracks Joy in both the original and reload to compare and see how the original's drums are electronic, hip-hop infused and are completely lost and replaced.
I know I'm literally bitching about something so insignificant, but I swear it bothers me a lot when I'm listening to P3R, but I don't think it's bad! I just feel like it gives off a different vibe, rather than the artificial urban sound it was originally intended as. That being said, some remixes like 'Iwatodai dorm' and 'Changing Seasons' are treated better here given new lyrics but again lack the vibe I was talking about. Anyhow, it's still a banger OST even though it's definitely flawed.
And oh, before I end this, I believe this change might have also been an intentional change in direction. While Shoji Meguro composed the original P3 soundtrack, the lead composer for Reload Atsushi Kitajoh is known for working on various Persona-related spinoffs which often featured a more modern pop-rock jazz-infused mix – something you definitely hear in Persona 5. This compositional shift may explain why tracks like 'Color Your Night' fit so well in the new soundtrack, as it aligns with his established style.
~Toodles
(PS: Can't believe I came back to Tumblr just to give another yap session lmfao)
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yes- very brave statements, exclusive to yours truly-
But seriously, Persona 4 Golden completely changed the look and feel of the original game, going for vibrancy over the mysterious fog shrouded look of Inaba in the original.
To be completely fair, this probably also has something to do because of PS2s limitations for rendering, and the foggy atmosphere probably hides the imperfections of the game back then.
That being said, there is a mod that is currently being worked on for Golden's PC port, that intends to bring back the atmosphere of the original game:
So far only some of the dungeons have added fog effects in them, but in the long term this project hopes to bring all the fog effects from the original ps2 release. Fun!!
Definitely keeping this project on a look out. I didn't mind Golden on the Vita, but on PC with the higher resolution the vibrancy is a little more annoying.
Happy birthday to the original Persona 4!
It released on July, 10 2008...in Japan lol Americans got it on December, 9 2008
Such a good game, the atmosphere, the location, the story and the characters you meet, it's hard not to mention the impact of this game had on the series that point on, and on its fans.
(I know im late PLS just imagine its July 10 today for a min)
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