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Other => Off Topic => Topic started by: wwwhhattt on March 10, 2015, 06:09:37 am

Title: Thumper - rhythm violence game
Post by: wwwhhattt on March 10, 2015, 06:09:37 am
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Judging from the trailer 'Rhythm violence' seems to be a pretty good description.
I just read about this on RPS (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/09/how-thumper-made-a-lot-of-people-very-uncomfortable/), who say that it made the audience at the GDC feel very uncomfortable. There seems to be no actual violence in the game - just a car going down a fixed track, with standard rhythm game design -  but all the actions, visuals and sounds manage to bring up a sense of... violence (I want to put in a synonym, but can't think of any).

I was just thinking the other day that it would be cool to see more unpleasant games. Not games that deal with unpleasant issues, stories or whatever - we're doing ok there - but games that just feel horrible to play, the game equivalent of the harsher ends of noise, jazz & modern classical (speaking of which, one of the devs is the bassist from Lightning Bolt). Hopefully this is a start :D
Title: Re: Thumper - rhythm violence game
Post by: Shrugging Khan on March 12, 2015, 07:59:44 am
I never got into the whole business of


and I still don't get it.

Also, people seem to be playing up the violent aspect of Thumper a bit too much. Seems to be more clever presentation and mass hysteria than actual qualities of the game itself.