wow, i really was not expecting that format reveal!
the first ever good amiga game?!
there are some good amiga games
but not many
Monkey Island got an Amiga port. So there’s at least one.
I think almost all the Gold Box games are on Amiga, too. I know for a fact the Krynn games are because I will never ever forget those stupid fucking draconians who turn to stone when you kill them so your weapons get stuck inside them
the Amiga is great overall and not just in terms of ports
(though suffice to say the very best version of Dungeon Master was on the Amiga)
Man there was a hundred new posts here and I read them all and now don’t know which one I intended to reply to.
Anyways one of the best days in my videogaming life was maybe 15 or so years ago. I distinctly remember the feeling of dread whenever starting a big jrpg of “starting from now I will literally have to go through probably thousands of these battles, probably just hammering X as fast as I can for most of them” and having the moment of clarity that there was literally nothing in the world making me bother with all of that. I have to tell you, it was so god damn freeing. I think I’ve played a single console jrpg since then and it was Dragon Quarter, which was both distinct and short enough to not be a bother. I’ve played a handful of them on my GBA or DS as well, but that’s basically doing a small bit of it once a week over the course of a large part of the year while able to split attention with something else.
Now I just played Yakuza Kiwami, my first Yakuza game, back in May. I dug it and that’s why I was excited about what came next in the series for the first time ever… and of course now would be the time it decides to take the departure into a direction I would never intend to follow in a hundred years. I’m not angry about it or anything as, you know, I just got here, but yeah I’m 100% personally writing it off and have no hesitation doing so.
Fortunately there’s like a half dozen of these that I haven’t played yet and I’d only actually play one of them once every two to three years so I’m probably good for the next decade or two regardless of what happens, so I hope it works out for everyone who is excited by it!
I started the dragon quest XI demo and it really just annoyed/bummed me out for a variety of reasons but I’ve also spent the past few months playing final fantasy games almost exclusively so maybe I’m just a little burnt out on jarpegs
Me too–same feelings, same reasons.
I’d love for you to elaborate on why; sure I loved XI in the long run but it was very pastry and excels largely as a cumulative series crown that’s (for some tastes) extremely digestible.
honestly a lot of it is political, like for whatever reason this sequel in particular seems to just be like… dripping with obnoxious heteronormativity and that is upsetting. I’m struggling to pull an example of what I mean so maybe it’s just me, but I’m not normally that sensitive to this kind of thing. I think it’s honestly partially because of the whole Koichi Sugiyama war crime denial thing, but so many aspects of the plot/setting so far seem to reflect deep conservatism and it’s hard for me to not find that ugly in 2019. but maybe I’m nuts??
I also hate that you can jump, I hate how the jumping looks and feels, I hate that you can sometimes jump on things and arbitrarily sometimes cannot, I hate that you walk around and destroy pots and vegetables and the like just by coming into contact with them, I hate the acceleration curve when you drop off of ledge, I hate that you land without any kind of bracing impact animation. just movement in general feels… weird and not good. like it feels like the worst kind of ps2 era shovelware rpg floaty movement, but dressed up with high budget AAA production values.
and all this silliness is backed up by this chirpy, saccharine soundtrack that just sounds racist
I must be insane because I play this and I’d rather be playing like, final fantasy xv, which for all its faults still feels fresh and progressive and interesting, like it feels like the future of rpgs.
this game just feels like ronald reagan was somehow closely involved with its production
aaaaaahhhgg pixel rotation
but this looks really cool, it might actually get me into roguelikes
rogue galaxy is a good example of the kind of style of game i loathe. you already have an action battle system set up, why the fuck do you need to have random battles? even in fucking towns?! so, now you have the loading associated with games with random battles, the jarring interrupt, the transition to a battle field, then you have to spend the time running around the battle field trying to kill shit, then the load out of the battle field. fuck that. i prefer action rpgs to have “free range” battling (like a quintet game, or dark cloud or something). i can deal with games with a turn-based battle system having random battles, but not action.
Interesting, FFXV felt like a British monarchy tabloid much of the time and I had to ignore it whenever it focused on their rich clothes or digs or purity and nobility of blood. It reminded me of going to a travelling “Dresses of Princess Di” exhibit and becoming furiously angry at the waste and misallocation (uh, to an extent that almost ruined it for the people that wanted to go, oops).
I mean progressive in terms of mechanics and presentation and stuff
I think like, final fantasy games are just too ridiculous in their storytelling for me to even care about their politics
(your critique is valid of course! there is literally a cutscene where you ooh ahh the princess’s wedding dress in a storefront)
an ff game where somewhere there’s an election happening off to your peripheral and one of the candidate’s platform is to end world hunger by rounding up and cooking chocobos and other monsters, and then towards the end of the game, the monster population begins to dwindle and chocobos are nowhere to be seen and instead you’re fighting poachers/monster hunters.
oh god. Oh god this changes everything
Gears 5 is out next week, Friday I think. It’ll be on gamepass. Oh and this time it’s open world so there you go.
i didn’t know it happened already! i remember having feelings about it when it was announced. for some reason … i’m compelled to listen. wasn’t that the same week people outed jblow for supporting jordan peterson on patreon?