i have a recollection of frequenting one of Charles Entertainment Cheese’s establishments when i was very young, and while i do remember the creepy robot band, what made an even stronger impression for some reason were these weird movie parody posters, specifically this one, that gave me incredibly bad vibes that i still can’t quite explain and i guess none of these gen Z/alpha children who play the edgy messed up kids jump scare streamer games ever will either
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i like that these things have to be VHS bc they have too many shaders and dynamic lighting effects to pass as even haunted ps2 games anymore. it’s a load-bearing analog format.
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If you’re gonna do a late-90s pastiche game about a cartoon mascot pizza place, you need to have the in-game cartoon animation time period appropriate. This game’s cartoon design and animation is deeply 2010s coded, it sorta kills the effect.
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nitroplus armored core-like has a demo out now
trailer is so hype but those minimum requirements are so beyond what i have, fuck
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I hit it off with one of my best friends when we were both hauled along with some mutual folks to Chuck e Cheese, and we bonded over a big image of Munch that was on the wall. He’s a big fuzzy purple guy with an off white chest and the way his hands were positioned on the edge of the whitish area made it look like he was ripping his skin off to reveal a nest of maggots within.
None of these five nights things do anywhere near that cool
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Everyone is using a VHS filter as short hand for aughts nostalgia because Dog Days did the miniDV aesthetic so well on their first shot that why would anyone else even bother
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dv is more the format of the 2000s, but it’s not anachronistic to use vhs. vhs video was still common up through like 2007, along with hi8. after that it’s mostly dv and digital cameras, yeah.
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Although this is true I suspect these devs didn’t put that much thought into it. Ultimately I’m just shaking my fist at the youngsters either way though
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my internal bias wants to just sort of blame this on people’s gradually degrading senses of reality and history, where it doesn’t really matter what happened when or what is true or not true.
but like every generation has their own version of this, i think
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All of history reduced to Vibes
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I am largely conditioned to believe that all historical events before the 70s happened in black and white, so I get it
hell, I was around for at least half of the 80s and thinking about what memories I can pull from then, it just looks like slightly faded Kodiak prints
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God damn it I was just about to post this
Me every time someone is wearing 15th century plate harness in a TV show that’s supposed to be about Vikings or whatever: 
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it all happens because time is a stack of plates being placed atop one another. the weight of the plates on top means that older plates, lower on the stack, get squished into each other. the longer ago a period, the further down the stack it is, and more weight has been placed on it, squishing a larger portion of time into one mass.
obviously.
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You need some new plates lokes
i’ve been eating off of chronomatter plates for an ever-changing, indeterminate amount of time, and i have no intention to change that
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yeah I like it a lot when people fuck up history
- it’s fun, not angering to see and identify inconsistencies. it’s like a hidden object game
- I already remember what happened and there are a million accurate depections of the time
- there is no valor to steal from a period of time, like there is nothing sacred about my or any generation, go wild. a piece of time isn’t some kind holy cultural artifact and it’s good to rememeber that reality. everything we experience will fade and someday be gone. if people my age are the only ones to tell a story about the time we came from it’ll fade and disappear even faster
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Yea i agree entirely. senior year of high school i decided i should watch as many high school set movies as possible since i would never again be as much an expert on high school veracity, none of them seemed at all right to me, but in the end thats kinda the point. Ppl always process things at a remove/through their current lens.
Speaking of nostalgia…and look i respect Breakout w/ the spinner & the bit trip ppl seem chill but can anyone defend Breakout without the spinner/paddle ? I cannot think of a time i ever rly enjoyed playing one of these on like computer or controller or touch screen or ipod wheel. I suspect Breakout/Arkanoid is a bad game if u dont have the doohickey.
Theres one incredibly self-evident strategy & then its just like trying 2 make that specific shot over and over again imprecisely, and otherwise its just like - see blocks change color. The arkanoid powerups add a lil fun but…not that much. Speed-up makes sense if u have the paddle but otherwise it just exacerbates the imprecision.
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I think games being played with their own peripherals is more important than how they look. ITS JUST MY OPINION but captain havok sucks without the drum, 720 has no spirit without the weighted joystick, and breakout feels empty without the paddle. marble madness is my exception because I’ve got blood blisters from that huge nasty fucking trackball in the arcade so many times I prefer to never trackball that game again
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I think Shatter was really well tuned for play with a controller. I even played it with a Dualshock 3 on the PS3 which was like one of my least favorite controllers ever
What I mean is I think this new Breakout could probably work
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