gamers love to drag bethesda games but i've never heard anyone refer to one as "amerijank" and i demand to know why
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When it comes to most media, America is just Default. Everything else is described by comparison to it. Its distinct traits don't feel like regional quirks, they just feel like the state of the industry.
I think I saw a british guy suggest that people should refer to it as yankjank instead of amerijank.
(yank as in yankee, not yank as in pull)
it's appealing, and yet... i'm not even sure if americans know what "yank" means??
So, then, that also implied wankjank, like that screenshots account covers a bit of.
Bethesda games are often jank in ways that are very specific to them being Bethesda games. Cyberpunk 2077 and [insert Ubisoft game here] might have some jank to them, but they don't have "pack brahmin will try to follow their owners up stairs and into motel rooms" kinds of jank.
wasn't cyberpunk 2077 made in like, iceland? and a lot of ubisoft is in canada i thought? honestly part of the thing here is that i couldn't think of many studios that i knew offhand were definitively american (especially in the glorious future of Microsoft Actiblethezzion)
CDProjekt are pretty much entirely Poland based, I think? Though glancing at Wikipedia, they have acquired and set up a couple of US based studios lately, with an announced sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 being made by a new Boston studio, CDProjekt Red North America.
I believe Maxis are US based?
The Sims tends to be pretty janky (though in ways very specific to The Sims, though between Paralives and Life By You, I suspect we're about to find out how much of that is endemic to the 'deep' or 'doll house' life sim genre and how much of that is The Sims specifically)
I thought Bethesda was... Canadian??
... wait I might be mixing it up with the other AAA western dev of big sandbox RPGs, Eidos Montreal.
I'd imagine because the industry media's spent so much time with its tongue embedded in Todd Howard's scrawny little ass even now people are starting to be open to reassessing Bethesda releases, people aren't yet ready to acknowledge them as just as janky as the open worlds mid-sized studios from Eastern Europe release to the cries of 'Eurojank' which I presume is what you're comparing them to.