DARKEN'S PROFILE

Sidewinder
Again, I'm not really finding a source for that.

I mean it's not hard to find glancing around wikipedia. But also ideologies aren't a clear cut objective thing, more just observations of a prominent belief system held by many people at certain contexts. Which also tends to evolve overtime.

Italian Fascists identified their ideology as being connected to the legacy of ancient Rome and particularly the Roman Empire: they idolized Julius Caesar and Augustus. Italian Fascism viewed the modern state of Italy as the heir of the Roman Empire and emphasized the need for renovation of Italian culture to "return to Roman values".

Alt right tubers like Prager U and Paul Joseph Watson talk about society and culture being degraded all the time and Make America Great Again is a call back to tradition, vague enough to seem innocent enough but it allows radicalizing people into agreeing to weird stuff like the "family unit" and religious formalities. Gamers are especially ripe for this because you can talk about how games used to be good before "those darn SJWs took over" and pivot talking points from there. Take advantage of nostalgia and distort history a little and you got a narrative that disenfranchised youth can latch onto.

Rather than focusing on originality it's also worth thinking about functionality. Especially in the case of video game mook enemies, like nazis in Wolfenstein and demons and Doom were picked just because no one can really object to the morality of mass murdering them. Demons I think were more flexible in terms of coming up with different ideas for designs and there was a plethora of biblical things to go off of.

What can you do with vampires that solve some narrative problems or create interesting scenarios? The first thing that comes to mind is that vampires aren't often disposable enemies like zombies (nothing is stopping you from doing that). Like vampires often have familiars or servants or can possess people, so maybe vampires could be like ring leaders and such. Maybe they possess humans that shouldn't be killed? So some kind of non-lethal objective for certain enemy groups? They also often have a very ritualistic way of being killed so maybe that can also be a gameplay mechanic, need a stake item or do some kind of hexagram spell to make them vulnerable in boss fights. These aren't actual suggestions but just examples of how I would approach this. I mean it's all in execution but to me a good idea is something that can easily springboarded into a bunch of other ideas.

back in the day you'd be shown the door for calling someone kefka

author=Irog
I always do my best to credit the artists when I use art. If I use AI, how should I credit the art source ?

enter a prompt here https://haveibeentrained.com/ and then credit every single person that pops up. have fun

Switching to completely different games on my list. Been playing:

Gotham Knights About ten hours in, was expecting a generic shopping list open world but it has a strange Night system, where the side objectives are just for getting loot but also contributing to unlocking the next main story line? There's only so much you can do before forwarding to the next day. I don't know if it full works as it feels like it's trying to be a weird Dead Rising schedule thing (except not at all) it feels like they scaled back the idea in development to make it more streamlined thus losing the point of it. The game is pretty mid? But I keep playing it for some reason, I guess it's a batman game where you play as people other than batman and I'm vaguely aware of these characters from the animated series. So there's a weird curiosity about "something I was exposed to but didn't get super into enough from my childhood" osmosis sort of thing.

Psychonauts 2 I watched the 22 hour documentary on and off during work last week and figured I should play this game, I think I got a good chunk of the first game done but missed out on the ending. I just... wanted to play the sequel to get the freshness and see how the game turned out based on its development. So far the game is impressive on a setpiece/environment art direction level but the gameplay is... very simple so far. It's really hard to say what doesn't work about it. I think maybe it introduces the concepts too slowy and the concepts it does introduce feel somewhat dated or basic. The movement system just lacks momentum or chaining together moves. Not that you NEED that but it's missing something.