It's like I always say. Video games being video gaming, you can't ask questions you just gotta play them all to find out. (First time I've said this and hopefully I will never say it again)
Been playing Queen's Domain and getting stuck but it's really satisfying to figure out things myself.
The Ocarina remake reminds me of this picture book I had as a kid that instead of illustrations used photos of hand made dioramas and puppet characters. There is this one photo that had a furry anthropomorphic character in this lavish victorian mansion setting. I remember thinking it looked staged-
what do you call it when you hate genAI but you also hate people being cops about stuff online
this is and always has been the essence of blueskyism
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · yesterdayit's funny that "blueskyism" is conventionally understood as "extreme leftism" when it's in fact "merciless factional infighting"
Remembered a scene from the Yu-Gi-Oh anime that I thought was cool as a kid. Look it up now and it's kind of goofy but that's some good nostalgia at least. 4Kids did a pretty good just cutting the show and the voice acting. The westernised localisation is meh but I can appreciate the overall product
I too have been compromised by a Chinese spy. His name is Mr Truffles and his coat is very thick and his whiskers are just divine. He had me at "miao"
More games should play around with the idea of having a material form and then a spectral form. Demon's Souls has you play as phantom when you die but aside from your HP and sound effects it doesn't change much.
With all the Legacy of Kain games accessible on modern platforms. (I guess Blood Omen 1 and 2 aren't on Switch) Maybe the play to revive this series is to do a Soul Reaver reboot. Rethink the whole game.
Struggling to find the fun in my Soul Reaver 1 replay. The levels are so large and there's a lot of stopping, starting and the game loves block puzzles. It betrays its PS1 origins pretty hard. You can save anywhere but you'll always restart at the abyss and need to backtrack.
Imagine if instead of getting another remake of an N64 game everyone agrees is good. What if we got a remake of game that had a lot of potential and see that potential realised in a fun exciting remake that fixes all the issues and fully realises its mechanics. What if they remade Quest 64?
I hate the remake argument of 'Well some people just aren't willing to play the original, so if they're gonna ever enjoy the game it has to be remade' because like lol no because they still haven't played the game. You didn't solve the problem, you just made a new, if similar game!!
I agree with these posts but I must say I think the legendary Roberta Williams and brilliant writer Amy Hennig and many more women in vg are on equal footing to Hideo Kojima.
danny o'dwyer@dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 6d agoas much as this is true in the modern era, from my time documenting studios old & new there is for-sure a male bias we have to push back against in our storytelling. I also think, perhaps wrongly, that most women tend to operate with less ego. And in games "auteurs" are most often a product of ego.
Last Repost: My philosophy regarding media consumption has changed to just engaging with the media I want to engage with and then making my own opinion on it first. Just ignoring what most people have to say about it. It's too easy to let others colour you perception of media-
So err... if one were to pen a book about humans surviving in a world where they are not the apex predators and also there are bio mechs. Would this be acceptable or is it too much of an Attack on Titan rip off? Asking for a friend.
