car accidents, hospital admissions and student drop out rates are at historic lows!
this homm3 mod that makes it like homm2 rules and i’m actually engaging with the game in a way i was always too…nervous???..to before
oh it does have one racist unit though so that’s no good. dang russians
God, all the wisdom I missed by almost never subjecting myself to NPC dialogue in Ys 9
unsurpassed
#1 Uru stan reporting for duty
Morrowind and Uru both have immaculate PC 3D atmosphere that I don’t get from modern 3D with real-time lighting etc.
Also, Big Mushroom
This is very moody and good.
oh this explains my journey with this post going “Is this Myst?? Hmmmmmmm…Oh, it must be Morrowind!!”
I got an Uru code if this peaks anyone’s interest.
You could make an essay out of the assertion “Uru is the post-Morrowind Myst” and probably make it mean something coherent
I think of it as the last gasp of the late-90s, early-00s teal and purple, stone and daub, ‘tribal’ and ‘primitivist’ style, next to Shadow Tower: Abyss.
Planescape Torment energy
Global Village Coffeehouse, but twisted
Exactly
I don’t have the best name for it but I love it. Kicked off in games by Panzer Dragoon?
you’d think you’d see more nostalgia for this considering it’s the aesthetic of Interactive Multimedia CD-Rom Experiences and corporate websites on the untamed frontier of 90s internet, but instead the 90s have been made into an eternal 1989 in the collective consciousness
I have noticed the actual aesthetics of the 90s are almost entirely untapped, although sometimes the analogue horror types kinda poke at it a bit