@“copySave”#p115874 yeah they‘re very interesting games (2 especially). Just pay attention to the content warnings, they’re not overselling them!
@“yeso”#p115875 I'm curious to suffer vicariously in fictitious scenarios, rather than experience it first hand.
Helps me appreciate things. Also, always impressed when something is made well enough to give a real gut reaction.
Related heady Alan Watts quote to extrapolate the idea:
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See, these are the two ways, the two paths: the people who say the whole point of life is to enjoy it, to get the most out of it, you see? And the other people who tried that and then they found it was sour grapes or something, you know, or they burned their fingers in the pursuit of pleasure. The girl that was so beautiful eventually fell apart, or just turned into a shrew and whatever it was. So they said instead: let us torment ourselves.
A lot of people enjoy this or get something special out of it. I was in Mexico this summer, and what I went there for was to study Mexican Catholicism, where they make a great cult of suffering. And I was very puzzled about this and wanted to understand it. And everywhere, you know, they have these ghastly tormented Christs, all drooling with blood, hanging on crosses in very contorted positions. And I realized there are certain people who find that sitting on the tip of a spike is the realest place in the world. Because when you’re on the tip of a spike, you know you’re there. There’s no doubt about it. And also, you know that you’re expiating for everything. Somehow, by sitting on the spike, you are paying for your guilt. And so long as you hurt, you’re alright. See?
@“copySave”#p115889 I‘m cautious recommending them bc they are pretty gruesome, and much more so than any horror game I’ve ever played. Really cool in terms of atmosphere, mechanics, ideas, etc though
@“copySave”#p115874 Yeah, as yeso already said, the content is pretty extreme, it‘s classified as adult only on Steam (so depending on which filters you have activated in may not show up via search) and in fact I don’t think you can buy it from Germany lol
It's sufficiently well done and very coherent with the themes, atmosphere and ideas the game wants to communicate though. Violence and grittiness are means to an end here and they are 100% in service of the broader design and intent behind the game. That doesn't mean it strikes as less extreme and there is some content that is bound to cross the boundary for some people. I find it that the list of status effects works as the best warning of what some of the content may touch upon.
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All the sexual stuff is usually concealed to an extent and generally depicted using a show don't tell approach, so it doesn't strike as weird fetishes by the author or anything like that. But your mileage may vary!
Also @yeso just out of curiosity is there any reason why you seem to be dismissive of the first game? It's kind of derivative in some regards but I find it has a very genuine vibe to it with how it remixes and presents all its different influences.
@“JoJoestar”#p115898 I don‘t mean to dismiss the first game, it’s more that Termina is such a leap in quality that I wouldn't want people put off by some of the clumsier aspects of the first to miss out on it.
The ending of the Xenoblade 3 DLC contains extremely clear references to both Xenosaga and Xenoblade X (enough that the credits, which bring back the theme song vocalist from Xenogears, give a special thank you to Bandai Namco) just ambiguous enough that they could be interpreted either as graceful meta-statements about Tetsuya Takahashi’s career or as announcements of the most terrifying Marvelesque crossover continuity in video game history. Either way, Takahashi is very certainly an auteur.
@“JoJoestar”#p115898 All sounds palatable to me. Hard to explore any quasi-religious, cultish, or government type of fiction without some bizarre fetishistic implications, since the subject matter is often rife with it.
Not that I'm looking for "how low can you go" trash, but if it's use of uncomfortable themes help drive a narrative then I'm all for it.
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It does have an itch page so you can preview without Steam
https://mirohaver.itch.io/fear-hunger-termina
And itch gives a more generous cut to the developers, so probably the place to buy it!
The weirdness that is totk release and discourse kind of has me feeling like dropping it all, tuning out, and turning on my mega drive and finishing up Shining Force finally. I‘m also thinking, now that I have more space, it could be a great time to tackle the restoration of the three original xbox systems I’ve had laying around…
I’m playing D2. Having a blast. It’s full of small, endearing eccentricities like an in-game encyclopedia that’s fixated on invented product manufacturers and record labels, and also goes to the trouble of defining concepts literally everyone already knows such as “poetry,” “outer space,” and “Christmas.” Another odd thing: every mundane character action has a unique cutscene. Picking up a box of shotgun shells, opening a door, etc all jump to a real-time cutscene for some reason
I‘m playing Fortnite to bond with my son. I’m like Adam Driver in that SNL skit.
It's... okay. I don't find this type of game fun, but there are a bunch of modes to play, some of which you just chill and do stupid stuff.
i finished catlateral damage yesterday, i would have done so in the same day but i had to leave to do other stuff and forgot to pick it back up
it's fine, cute lil game, fun to swat at things and knock them to the floor. all the cats in the collectible pictures are beautiful and i want to sniff them
@“treefroggy”#p115925
Sorry I sound like a broken record regarding my kid, but we have a video game thing going on right now. We were going to play the totk together, but he broke his arm last week. So, we won‘t be firing it for at least six weeks. In the meantime, we’re getting our gaming fix by busting out the 8bitdo arcade stick and playing coin-op games.
Tinkle Pit here we come!
@“donrumata”#p105139 Nintendo need to get weird again. They probably will when the Switch 2 is a flop or something. The original AC is the only one I really got into. It was weird and super focussed on what it was. Beautiful oddball game.
1st ballot hall of fame cutscene (NSFW)
https://youtu.be/TUgIJCQICV4?t=9551
@“yeso”#p116122 some extremely good and self-indulgent stuff there! The music is also top notch. Gotta love D2.
@“yeso”#p116079 D2 is one of the absolute coolest games I‘ve ever played.
I’m sure there‘s someone out there that talks about it more than me, but I haven’t met them.
A game full just so chock-full of mechanics, and vibes for days.
Whenever I think about my top whatever games of all time I never even mention it, but thinking now about how much I love it, it‘s absolutely up there.
My only complaint is that Laura doesn’t gasp enough.
God, Humanity is really good. Only a few levels in but already in love.
@“Punzai”#p116120 @“donrumata”#229 I‘ve said this a lot, unfortunately it’s not likely to happen, at least not the way we want it to, because:
R&D1 is gone
Genyo Takeda is retired (AC scriptwriter)
Nowadays it's mainly expressed in their sound design, which is still fun and detailed, and practically *the only thing* I get from newer games like kirby, pikmin, mario maker, bowser's fury etc.
@donrumata wait, there's a *complete* translation for one of the 3DS games? link me dude! Yeah I used to flip my spit over how that game should have blown up like Fantasy Life did over here, it was just 10 years too early. I've written at length about Animal Crossing's trajectory and without rewriting all that, I can boil it down to this: it started with a focus on "returning to your hometown" as a theme, but by 2005 had found it's audience and catered to it, becoming mainly about consumption. The slow-life sim that it started as is *what those types of consumers need*, but it's not what they want. I've seen comments online about people wishing animal crossing would *let you rent an apartment in the big city*.... No, dude...
i started playing deus ex and already got told off for entering the ladies‘ bathroom and talking to the press. i also bragged about killing everyone to the quartermaster and he didn’t give me ammo which i probably already had plenty of anyway.
fun!!