Fraeon
@fraeon.info
Programmer by day, FGC TO/Commentator by night. Games writer for 20 years. Cofounder of @biiruken.bsky.social
Activision and EA essentially ran the guitar game to the ground by releasing one almost every 6 months at one point.
headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · last wk.what's everyone else's fab examples of once massively popular and influential landmark titles in especially western games from back in the day that have just been forgotten and abandoned completely now. mine is black and white
I forgot MKA has Scorpion's most iconic line in the entire series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmp4...
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation SUCKERS!
YouTube video by skooma
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Giving Tokon a go this weekend but the last beta was what I would call an anti ad, I don't think I'd been as bored with a fighting game for at least a decade.
Not as outwardly impressive as, say, Brutalist Jam 3, but Tremor just launched - a 'Quake like Id did' full campaign, filtering modern design through roughly the same software limits the original developers did. Some top talent from across the Quake scene involved in this one.
Tremor
A 32 level excursion through a parallel version of Quake, an attempt to evoke the Quake atmospheres of old through the vessel of modern design tools and philosophies. Featuring the mapping efforts of ...
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bro they laid off the Doom 2016 developers. that's like if you laid off the studio that made arguably one of the best first-person shooters of all time, like Doom 2016
Am I the only one who has a pet peeve with EWC because the shit I see is just so transparently corporate? Like dudes are playing Tekken and the only thing you can come up with as a slogan is "every frame counts"?
VSAV, +R, & BBCF represent different ends of pushing the genre to its max in the same direction. Natural culminations of the genre. True sicko games from the devs. Asuka 120% is an unnatural culmination pushed to its max. Hinokakera is the enthusiast maximalist game. CVS2 is SF pushed to its end.
The invention of the level 3 super has been detrimental to society
I'll bet my mortgage on him announcing he's at VS with Harada by August.
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2mo agoKohei Ikeda (Tekken 8 game director) has left Bandai Namco
I'd buy SNK and turn them into a yearly SNK Heroines shop.
doc@docseuss.bsky.social · 2mo agoTHE WIZARD IS BACK! You have been cursed with a lot of money! You are going to become not just permanently brain damaged, but SUPER evil, incapable of doing good, if you use the money for anything that isn't ridiculous. To break the curse, you must spend it on something ridiculous. What say you?
We're really just getting to the point where Japanese is just English written in Katakana? This post was brought to you by Mandalorian And Grogu (or マンダロリアン・アンド・グローグー as they call it)
If any creators out there havent watched my game balance video yet and want to do a react to it, you have my blessing. Tag a creator if you like. youtu.be/uCPQGncOx-Q?...
Game Balance Isn't Real
YouTube video by GameDesignDirect
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Föffölö Ja miksipä ei vähän möötä päälle
So when's the Finnish branch of KFC finally gonna stsrt selling us the gravy?
Been a while since my last Machinae gig. Turns out they got a pretty different sound from the last time I listened to them, which was admittedly around the time Redeemer was released.
We therefore learn from this learned commentary made by a Babylonian scribe over 2000 years ago, that in the Akkadian language, the word shitti means "shit"
I've been eyeing Erra Exordium for a while now and now that it's on sale...
