Komma @KommaChameleon@awoo.space

I have this curse where I kinda hate Ken Levine but also kinda love every game he’s ever worked on (except for one).

I hope I’m not alone in thinking of it as feeling totally separate from the other Bioshock experiences. (and hey, Infinite would have been a great walking simulator...)

I started thinking about this game again and it makes me so angry. You could fairly critique it as an immaculately constructed game where every detail fits together to tell one Bad story. I just don’t like it as sci-fi.

But maaaan, the racism-as-worldbuilding, the endless combat, and the way excessive gore make me never wanna give it another shot.

https://www.twitch.tv/commachameleon I'm playing Jak 3 and fighting off pizza hypnosis

MASTER OF PUPPERS

Shout-outs to animals with rigid exoskeletons. They've really got it hard out there

@tahajin This bugs the heck out of me. Trinity dynamics don't work when there's undue creative weight put into a single part of the trinity!

(and somehow, at the high levels whole teams are just tanks and medics so the already-undervalued parts of the trinity will get nerfed in the name of esports...)

I guess THQ Nordic is going into the same forbidden basket as Stardock!

@snailerotica When I said "buy" I meant services like GOG that provide convenient downloads and tech support for old computer games. (I didn't provide this context in my post; it was a comment on a PC gaming website that provoked this.) I'm happy to pay a couple of bucks for convenient access to downloads, manuals, and technical support to keep old computer games running in Windows. And I'd love it if they did that for Amiga games too!

@snailerotica This is a reasonable thing to consider! I definitely have no problem with pirating games that have been abandoned or that are only available in some weird format or price structure. Ideally we'd have a legal structure for stuff falling into the public domain after 20 years, and it's good to keep something like an NES rom fullset available and accessible to less-technical people.

Hmmm. Maybe I shouldn't use such old artwork for my live streams when the artist who created it vanished off the net 3 years ago? What is your opinion?

how the flip do you map out an interior?

(Having said all this, I would still pay Nintendo money if I could somehow run Majora's Mask at 60 frames per second. The old tech has been a real barrier to me enjoying that game.)

Of course I don't think that the best games that will ever exist have already been made.1 But to willfully ignore decades of artistic endeavor seems narrow-minded.

1: Slay The Spire is a good example here; it would be technologically possible to create a version of that game in DOS but we hadn't really explored the idea of deck-building games until Dominion in 2008. Breath of the Wild is a great example of a style of gameplay newer tech made possible.

@Thaminga I discovered Wizardry in, like, 2017!

* you like pixel art
* you like chip tunes
* you have interest in the history of the medium
* you're sick of modern games for a little bit, with complicated pre-order schemes, microtransactions, and State Farm Insurance sponsorships
* you have a computer that's also a potato
* you appreciate that time has faded out a lot of the less-notable games
* you like game design trends that are not profitable in the current game market
* you know that good design is not a matter of technological obsolesce

I read another take on "why would anybody buy a game from the 90s if not nostalgia" and I am boiling inside.

@ShugoWah@snouts.online Have fun with whatever the opposite of horror camp is

Help! I'm Trapped In The Haunted Woods With a Demon and a Man Who Either Practices Occult Rituals or Shitty Centrism and Both of Those Are Bad?