It was very easy for me to imagine more going on in Final Fantasy VI. There’s the overworld you wander around and then when you go into battle the pixel art on the backgrounds is really great and gives you a lot of fuel for your imagination. I wrote a story from an imagined scene from FFVI.
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To piggy back off this, I can see PC gaming as a whole as the Radiohead of video games.
I had a little bit of a headspin listening to this episode:
Merritt brought up Blondie and I thought at first she was taking about Hitler’s dog, and low and behold Jaffe made a reference to Hitler’s dog later in the episode.
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I think the Radiohead of games has to hit a couple of criteria:
Most people I talk to that know of Radiohead agree that OK Computer is a pretty good album, but they’re apathetic about the rest.
Radiohead seem to take themselves just a bit too seriously. Maybe way too seriously.
Bioshock is a game that is and was fairly universally praised. Most people don’t seem to care about Bioshock 2. These games also take themselves a bit too seriously and that detracts from their “2deep4u” writing. Infinite was also well received and took itself too seriously.
Ken Levine is Thom Yorke.
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That’s Marshall. He is very silly but very nice and helps people. He is a firepup. He falls every time he goes to help.
That explanation was provided by my three year old. I had to ask him about it as I’m still learning about it. Sadly.
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this goes for everyone: don’t hesitate to make and send in as many buzzers as you like (to show@insertcredit.com, with the subject ‘Horrible Buzzer’ ideally).
I can’t promise I’ll use them all, and we certainly have a backlog, but we’re doing this indefinitely and I’m gonna need as many as I can get
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I feel like the Radiohead of games has to be FromSoftware. When it comes to the songs of Radiohead or the lore of FromSoft the detractors just think it’s some guy dicking around, while the obsessives read way too much into everything and think everything is deep.
FromSoft’s Early Stuff/Pablo Honey - Only the diehards are into this one.
Demon Souls/The Bends - The one that set the tone for things to come
Dark Souls/OK Computer - The one that had a meteoric impact that got them labeled as geniuses. Their first masterpiece.
Bloodborne/Kid A - The one the self-proclaimed “real ones” say is the best.
Dark Souls 2/Amnesiac - The one the “real, real ones” say is the best.
Dark Souls 3/Hail to the Thief - The one that was okay, but felt sorta stale.
Elden Ring/In Rainbows - The one that’s generally held in the same regard as their first masterpiece.
Unfortunately FromSoft fans, at this trajectory it’s going downhill from here on. This is the downswing and we’re at the point where a groundswell of folks start chiming in that “FromSoft is overrated” and “actually, FromSoft was never good.”
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Not a big Radiohead fan but great comparisons
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An earnest ‘The Cake is a Lie’ reference at my place of work just now made me wonder: Is Portal the Radiohead of videogames?
Narbacular Drop is Pablo Honey, containing all the unfiltered charm of the good idea at the core of the thing that will in the future be a hundred-fold more popular.
The Cake is a Lie is Creep (CD single)
Portal and Portal 2 are The Bends and OK Computer, genuinely good pieces of work in the shadow of the memetic power of the above …
ok, now I’m running out of steam as I personally lose interest in Radiohead. I guess The Smile is Half-Life: Alyx?
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Good ep!
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I am embarrassed to admit that I used to be a huge radiohead fan and amnesiac is their best album, but also I don’t care because it’s five zionist rich boys who met in private school.
Valve was founded with Microsoft money and became massively famous off their alright output and is run by libertarian nazi enablers and yacht collectors, so I think that matches up pretty well. I think @Kiki’s got it.
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I’m recommending Fledgling Manor to my kid because they like visual novels and they like that style, and now that they are officially an adult i can recommend them interesting stuff from Steam. I’ll see how that goes.
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im still thinking about how accurate this is
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