I did the same thing when it first went on super-sale
Outer Wilds/Worlds is something I can’t even type straight when I know what I want to say
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just wanna post here to say it’s been shown that the ion fury / ion maiden devs are hardcore anti social justice transphobes
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now that’s some spelling
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Fucking figures.
They’re doubling down on the “you’re taking things out of context” angle.
Good time to reread this.
In reality, you can’t just get up and walk out of the chair and conquer the aliens that control our world all by yourself. For the vast majority of human beings on this earth, when the state says you’re dead, you’re dead. You stay on the chair and you die. State power wins.
This is the power of the fantasy Duke Nukem as a cultural figure represents: that through raw machismo, the series of oppressive neoliberal forces that form the framework of our society can be conquered and transcended. Duke cannot exist in a rational world. He can only exist in a one filled with internal contradictions, crossed wires, and broken down buildings.
His world is never stable. It can only ever be dominated by irrational fears of the unknown and one-dimensional, cartoonish archetypes. His world never resolves any of its cognitive dissonances, and sometimes even seems to be aware of its own self-destructiveness.
But Duke Nukem 3D only reveals this briefly before quickly moving on. The fantasy can only hold so much injection of reality before it completely topples in on itself. This world must continue on, as if nothing had ever happened, in order to sustain itself. That world is still our reality.
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my decade-ish-long interest in modern board games has really boomeranged all the way back to video games in the past few years
I feel like the space has just gotten so crowded and no one is doing anything new since like 2017
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This is to be expected behavior from guys who’ve been working with the Build engine for 20 years.
Remember the charming name of the sound effect when you shoot a stripper in Duke3d
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Ah yes. What everyone remembers about System Shock: The Multiplayer.
I’m going to take a moment now to remind everyone that Deus Ex has a deathmatch mode too.
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I love when games are the size that somebody can just decide to build multiplayer in a few extra weekends a month even though it’s not a good idea
Larger than 30 people and Meetings Are Convened and everything has to be done for, like, good reasons
I had some fun running through SS2 multiplayer – it works when the pair splits and the laggard gets ambushed by a spawn closet monster
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Everything had a death match at one point. I mean I kinda wish there was a way to have a Star Trek Voyager: Elite Forces death match still for no other reason than to have Tuvok, The Doctor, Neelix, and B’lana murdering each other with space rocket launchers for example.
Things were so much better when games were more half assed.
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Looseness is so important to creative work – the ability to riff, to bounce off each other – and games are the absolute hardest to put thought into work, it makes me so sad
On the flip side, the game object is only a portion of the game experience. The game between the object and the player can be free and playful in a way that only theatre can get close to, I suppose.
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Yeah I also feel lately like I’ve already played “all of the board games” and entirely lost interest. The design space is limited relative to videogames because they can’t make the rulebook too large or make the players run too many calculations each round. There’s probably a few more undiscovered concepts but they’re few and far between
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Paging @DJ
Oh! I had forgotten!
If I remember correctly it wasn’t very good, but it was pretty weird.
I only played it a few times though.
Yeah Goldeneye multiplayer is said to be the side project of one guy and the directors didn’t like it.
*I’m sure many people here know that. But it seemed worth mentioning.
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I will confess to being the person who did not know that.
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I played Deus Ex multiplayer for a while, some servers are vanilla and it’s just fun setting traps and trying to out-aug people, but then you have servers that have weird mods like one where the jumping mod sends you 50 feet in the air, or that town map where people role play and shit, it was fun
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