Azouliel

Retweets a lot

[Goss Harag Enjoyer @Ethan626794543]

I fear no man, but those eyes.

It deeply unsettles me...

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

'The Lost Wild' director Gary Napper shares new details about the game 🦖

"From the outset, our goal has been to create a world where dinosaurs are not framed as monsters, but as believable animals. They exist within the world with their own instincts, behaviors, and drives. This shift in perspective fundamentally changes the player’s role. You are not the dominant force, the hero or the conqueror, you are the outsider, vulnerable and exposed, trying to navigate a food chain where you no longer sit at the top"

"We emphasize tension through vulnerability. The player is not equipped to kill these creatures, although they can find tools to defend themselves. The experience avoids gamified or arcade-like systems that would undermine that tone. There are no exaggerated weak points or predictable attack patterns designed for exploitation. Instead, survival depends on observation, learning, and reaction. When encounters happen, players evade, hide, create distractions, and use the environment to escape"

"The environments in The Lost Wild are dense, claustrophobic, and unforgiving, with abandoned buildings embedded within an overgrown wilderness. This is not a wide-open safari, it’s a place where visibility is limited, paths are unclear, and the landscape itself can disorient you. Through this, we create the feeling of being lost, both physically and psychologically"

"My experience working on 'Alien: Isolation' has inevitably shaped how I approach horror design and is definitely a lens I view this game’s design through ... In 'Alien: Isolation', the creature was terrifying not just because of what it could do, but because of what players imagined it was going to do. The sense of anticipation and fear built in the unknown. That same principle applies here in a lot of ways. By treating dinosaurs as systemic, unpredictable entities rather than scripted events, we create a more dynamic and personal form of horror. The difference here is not just that you can’t fight back, it’s that you feel like you shouldn’t. Maintaining a respect for the dinosaurs as living creatures, while trying to survive in a world with them"

More broadly, I think there’s a growing appetite for experiences that move away from the power fantasy. Horror becomes far more effective when the player feels exposed, when control is limited, and when success is uncertain. The Lost Wild leans into that approach offering an experience where survival is never guaranteed and dominance is never assumed.

"Ultimately, The Lost Wild is about placing players into a world that feels grounded, real, indifferent, and alive, and then asking them to navigate it not as a hero, but as something far more fragile but relatable. 'If I were there, what would I do?'"

Releasing in 2027

[Dotcom📟🌐 @Y2K_DOTCOM]

Bionicles (2003)

[Nostalgia @NostalgiaFolder]

LEGO Bionicle commercial (2006)

[Azouliel @Azouliel]

@DrakeVagabond That entire area was dedicated to finding out what the grievers really are, which you could explore through the various logs. Then they double down on it with a cutscene showing it to you explicitly, and then when you get back to base Myles triples down on it.
Yeah thanks, I know

[Azouliel @Azouliel]

@RehaanSiddiqie -how little thinking I got to do on my own. I would be traveling to the place that I needed to go with the upgrade I had gotten only to be told repeatedly while on the way there that I should go there. What's even the point?

[Azouliel @Azouliel]

@RehaanSiddiqie It wouldn't even be a problem to me if this was a feature exclusive to Easy mode or something you could opt out of. Instead it was forced on me and I genuinely felt that any semblance of exploration in these games were stripped away with how linear the level design is and with-

[Azouliel @Azouliel]

@Schaffrillas @RoytaMustDie I haven’t played Other M in quite a while, but MP4 has been utterly miserable as a Prime experience, this isn’t what these games normally play like.
4th entry in a series and it played like an extended tutorial.
Being told where to go was insufferable.
Price = 💀

[Ben Starr @The_Ben_Starr]

To celebrate Expedition 33 and Hades II both being up for GOTY, here is an original artwork of Verso drawn in the Hades art style by Jen Zee of Supergiant Games. #TheGameAwards

[Diego Hoyle @theonehoyle]

Happy #810nicleday
https://t.co/PFtOHnfUAo

[こず煎餅 @kozsen_810290]

#810NICLEDAY ‼️

[Brandon: Definitive Edition @_brandonbuilds_]

BIONICLE: Definitive Edition

Happy #810nicleday everyone!

Had a really great time building these. I hope you all enjoyed seeing them as much as I did building them. Hoping to move into more original works. Thanks for your continued support ♥️

#lego #bionicle #moc #レゴ

[𝙈⁷ @0mmmmm7777777]

Heolstor The Nightlord

[CannyD @CanDough1]

The scarlet forest's getting too full

#MonsterHunterWilds #MHWilds