I always loved how completely made up and pretend this game feels
https://youtu.be/K6Z39bkAVoE
@rejj this, and the whole state of play presentation, felt like movie theater pre-roll promos that are designed to be noise to cover the silence of people shuffling in to sit
@phylaxis my god, it's the real world version of the simpsons waterworld arcade game
Someone please tell me they know what I‘m talking about: there was a CBC television series from 1998-2003 called Made in Canada—Americans might’ve known it as The Industry on probably IFC—featuring Rick Mercer, Leah Pinsent and Peter Keleghan with title music by the Tragically Hip. It was a black comedy about TV network executives.
In one episode, Dan Lett's character Victor is supposed to be doing work but dismisses it saying "I'm about to beat my high score!" before we cut to him playing the very real [*Bugdom*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmp720kBLBU) on his PowerBook.
@fivedollardare man I really need to beat Blackthorne some day
Spotted this watching through trailers that were on Official US Playstation Magazine demo discs
god i love how if it was the '90s and you were making a vampire thing you were required to use one of these two fonts:
https://www.emigre.com/Fonts/Exocet
https://www.emigre.com/Fonts/Mason
The Sniper 2 has, like, the aesthetics of a video game they would make for a sitcom episode. It looks like what you‘d get if you hired a CGI production company and were like “we need a fake video game for our sitcom husband to get invested in for an episode” and gave them a month. Extremely thin gameplay that’s kinda only there because they know that video games are interactive.
https://youtu.be/8kH1HI0Mh9c
Sengoku Turb
https://youtu.be/tL3kkOaxXdM
Played the demo of this during this month‘s Steam Next Fest. For at least half the time I was playing I kept thinking of how they’d describe this game on Law & Order SVU
I still have a hard time believing this one exists https://youtu.be/A3BPMrvLcfE?si=EnlBVIn4vVvK2izs
Even among the waves of FPSs in the 90s, Requiem: Avenging Angel always felt a bit too out there to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k42_MYxipQ
(in addition to vanilla FPS weaponry it does feature angelic powers such as "bloodboil", "locusts" and... "pentecost"?)
Dual Blades for GBA, at a glance, looks like a fake game because of its rudimentary artwork and weird spurts of violence (It‘s one of the only M-rated games on the GBA, and you can slash opponents’ bodies apart at the ends of matches). Looking deeper, it's clear that the small team of Turkish (!) devs who worked on this really appreciated stuff like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Samurai Shodown, and worked hard to make it something special for the hardware (albeit a little janky and certainly no beauty pageant winner).
Here's Epsilon Eagle showing off some of the combo possibilities of this game:
https://twitter.com/eagle_epsilon/status/1766743400026452064
And here's some general footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3wv-fqlkA
I played like 180 of warframe and everyone of them felt like I was part of a detective TV show.
https://youtu.be/1JSvebmoduQ?si=x9vzRmIbrx9WzXWC
I feel like Frog Fractions fits cause it kinda embodies the “anything could happen” expectations people who don’t know anything about how video games actually work sometimes used to have back when before they became ubiquitous.
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Holy shit I watched my 16 year old neighbor play Fortnite as Jack Skellington for an hour, and it looks sooooo fake. I have an intellectual take but everything has already been said a thousand times at this point. Crazy.
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Prototype, which being an original take on their Hulk game kind of fits. Non-IP infringing open world super anti hero game in the background of a mediocre weeknight sitcom.
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