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birdsite, video game politics - 

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

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?

(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.

reasons you might buy games from the early 90s 

* 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

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

re: twitter meme 

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?

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twitter meme 

Didn't want to post this in a searchable way, but: for me it would be Anton LaVey and the script spooks write themselves.

(Satanic Temple >>> Church of Satan, by the way)

SSBU training stage lookin' like a sega master system box art

I have another unproductive obsession with tabletop rpgs.

LR armor comparison +/- 

It's still so weird to me how there are tons of cool armor sets in this game mixed in with bizarre bikini mails.

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LR isn't quite gripping me; I guess it will just be another one of those games I never play through.

gamer joke 

The Epic game store has a free game every two weeks...

They really are the Fortnight company.

re: revisiting Lightning Returns 

the same area will have goons you can take out in one combo and a terrifying behemoth that takes 10 minutes to kill

and you're punished for running away, so...

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revisiting Lightning Returns 

ugh. I had forgotten that the encounter balance in this game is totally abysmal

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