to be fair jagged alliance 2 also had destructible buildings
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Mick Jagger Alliance, I utter before an ICBM obliterates me and the entire neighborhood block which is “acceptable collateral damage”
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The really interesting question is whether or not the ja3 designer is a 1.13 “we took out the questionnaire and replaced it with race science because the 90s arent funny anymore” guy or a true doom every jagged alliance game should have at least one reference to courtney love or the oj trial guy
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Xuan Yuan Sword 3 coming to Steam and Switch this year, the trailer shows chinese text but apparently it is getting an english translation
Visually it’s kinda giving me SaGa Frontier vibes:
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Oh hey, I played that Phoenix Spring: Prologue thing some months back. Great presentation, the game/IU part is odd enough to quite easily trip someone up and I worry it could become a “have a walkthrough open” level problem in the full game but I am interested to see what becomes of this.
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Hell yes!!!
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Hopefully this means some other games in this series or the older Sword and Fairies might end up getting the same treatment later down the track
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xuan-yuan sword 7 also got an english release but yeah I hope all the other ones do as well
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Yeah Xuan Yuan 7 is pretty good, recommended.
6 got an English release too, but in a limited Playasia only form i think
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the physical version was limited, but the digital version goes on sale for next to nothing pretty regularly. i liked it
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Ah yeah, i meant Xuan Yuan 6: Gate of the Firmament:
As far as i can tell it’s not on the playstation store, but is probably on steam
Pretty sure i bought sword and fairy 6 thanks to your blog post lol. It’s a messy game but i loved it anyway
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pounding my desk angrily
WHY
DOESN’T
REIKA
HAVE
LONG
HAIR
how is the 80s anime more horny than the 2020s anime
Lynn is a good choice, assuming she’s the main VA.
also this is a bonus that only comes with the LE, that’s only available physically, that’s exclusive to Amazon.jp Prime Day
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The archives are worse than American silent film according to the study.
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I apprecite the VGHF’s mission, and I like Phil’s work, but this quote from his paper is bad. “Commercial availability” for video games does not come close to meaning the same thing as “survival” for silent-era films. Not being able to buy a licensed digital rerelease from a major distribution platform of some mostly forgotten Commodore 64 game that is available on the Internet Archive, C64 “complete library” torrents, and the occasional eBay cartridge just isn’t the same thing as a film that has not existed in any form for decades and will never be seen again.
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I know the VGHF works closely with industry partners and they have to be careful about their endorsement of piracy—and some games have disappeared!—but most of the 14% of surviving American silent feature films aren’t “commercially available” either.
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Yeah I guess they feel at least film has nationalised archives and those began relatively soon after the invention of film (3-4 decades). We’re in a different situation with piracy and the internet but I can see the need.
Looking forward to being interviewed in 2070 about all the games I played that only exist in my living memory.
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I think they know that and this is very practiced doublespeak on their part but like you I just can’t interpret it as credible, useful advocacy on that basis, and I wonder what a practical alternative is supposed to be
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lol
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