Games

Meanwhile, I'm content with my Batocera machine of pirated ROMs and GOG games

VVVVVV is sick

Slightly shorter games would be so welcome! I like the open maps and all, but it becomes a little overwhelming at some point if you want to experience a few of them.

its so bad that i know someone who i show cute, amazing little indy games to and they are almost always like "eh, i dont like the graphics" and never give it a try these people fucking exist

The modern game development model is just to make a game people never stop playing and keep spending money on; a landlord model of sorts sold with the pr branding of "live service game". Playing diablo 4 (which is total dogshit) really made me appreciate single player campaign based games, which I think are the pinnacle of gaming and it's not even close.

Right now I'm really enjoying octopath traveler 2. And before that I went super retro and played digital devil saga 1&2. Graphics are not the biggest draw for me anymore. Gameplay, music and plot (including characters) are what I want in a game. For me good graphics only really help when the other bases are covered.

The trend for a good game is this: more gameplay for less money. The more bloated the game, the cheaper the $s per hour of gameplay.

Using this I can prove that Nethack is the best game of all time because it's free and varied enough to have fun playing it frequently for over a decade.

I wish devs were allowed to just make the games they want and take as much time they want making them.

There is no better feeling then enjoying a piece of media that you can feel the creators passion from. There is something perverse about the way capitalism strips out the soul from art.

Colecovision was the height of the art IMHO.

Nooo, you can't just play a sequel to a 36 year old arcade game over all the ~~70~~80 dollar TrIpLe A games!!

Me playing Night Striker Gear:

I dunno what you’re talking about, we need to make the animators work overtime so that each of Joel’s pubic hairs have accurate physics in The Last of Us: Remastered Remake Remastered Edition

Especially the "worse" graphics part. If you can't make your game look good while running at 144hz on my 3080TI, you're just bad at art. They were making amazing looking games in the 90s that I can run on my fucking phone. No amount of "technological advancement" is going to make up for being artistically incompetent.

I've been told gaming "has never been better." Well, suit yourself, I've got a thousand-game PS2 library to go through.

Minecraft makes a shit ton of money but they make in a year what a passonate mod dev makes in two weeks

No we should stop all games being made. We have enough games all the games already exist there will be no more games.

Except light no fire I will allow hello games to continue indefinitely

I'm making a vidyagame with this exact ethos rn, I hope you all will enjoy it when it comes out

I know a major reason for it is nostalgia, but I just keep going back to my PS2 games over and over. It's unbelievable how good some of those games look on 25 year old hardware limitations. And they still managed to develop games in like a maximum of 2 years.

Literally BrutalMoosePosting

Except for Gamefreak and Pokémon

I keep posting this whenever people ask for recommendations: Iji is a freeware, 17-year-old solo-dev passion project with low res pixel art graphics that still knocks the socks off games being released today. It has a banger soundtrack, well developed characters, and a plot that engages with and pushes the medium.