News & Gossip VII: For Blood and Headlines

All these fake NES games die on level/enemy design that is impossible to determine from a trailer.

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tactical RPGs aren’t my shtick, so probably not for me, but it looks nice, indeed:

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Have any of them really nailed it?

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I liked Cursed Castilla.

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curse of the moon 1 and 2

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Went to Amazon to see about getting a cheap physical of Alan Wake 2 and then remembering they specifically said no physical: oh my own hubris!!

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Geoff Keighley has killed indie games, thank god

https://twitter.com/VGC_News/status/1729139348896158100

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indie games are dead! let us remember this date of November 27th 2023 as the day indie games died forever. now it’s time to just start calling your game a triple-A game regardless of what it is

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someone on twitter a few weeks ago suggested “creator owned”, like in comics. i think that works

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ok i haven’t played any of these maybe they’re good but at least visually, what a depressing collection of aesthetics to “rep” “indie” games

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I never pay attention to awards in video games or movies or anything. But if there were an award for games developed by people whose day job is something other than making games, I’d pay attention to that.

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sonic fangames i genuinely hold in higher regard and get more inspiration and optimism from than indie games. true freaks making a whole game for their sonic oc. beautiful

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I’ll confess that when people were making those countless games about Wario dying in Dreams, I found some of them pretty amusing.

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Yeah, this generic indie art-style screams “We can do Better than that!” … and since lead > follows, so of course i summoned my 0.5 :star: -talent and redid them myself on a whim

(cue half an hour later)
BEHOLD, artists of the world, THIS is how we do—

… :tarothink:

Guess that’s what they call a lukewarm reaction, eh.

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In response to one user that called Starfield’s story “generic” and the gameplay “boring”, one member of Bethesda’s customer support staff replied with a post highlighting everything players can experience in the game.

“You can fly, you can shoot, you can mine, you can loot!” it wrote. “Starfield is an RPG with hundreds of hours of quests to complete and characters to meet. Most quests will also vary on your character’s skills and decisions, massively changing the outcome of your playthrough.”

Something amusing about Bethesda’s PR team unintentionally highlighting why Starfield is boring and generic.

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Overwhelmingly Mixed

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Just read this. Got me interested in The Vote and her game about the Shackleton expedition.

is it wrong that I want to buy and play Starfield so I can get into an extended argument with a Bethesda employee about the nature of subjectivity

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