so how do we all feel about mark Hamill being billed to appear in the single player version of Star Citizen that is going to apparently feature ground combat and the best performances in a videogame this side of wing commander
Naoto wasnât trans, though, she just thought she had to present as male to be taken seriously as a Kid Detective. She still identified as female.
We all feel great about it
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Precisely my point. Even the trans kids seeing their personal experiences finally portrayed in a game are subsequently told itâs not their narrative.
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DUSK goes into Early Access on January 11th, 2018 and it includes:
- Episode 1
- Episode 2
- Endless Arena 1
- Endless Arena 2
- DuskWorld Multiplayer Open Beta
If you already own DUSK?! Youâll be getting the Collectorâs Edition for free.If you donât yet own DUSK?! This will all cost you $20, same as always.
If you just want to wait for the full game to be out? Thatâs cool, we love you anyway.
Merry DUSKmas, Weâll see you all in 2018!
me when the arc of the opinion universe bends towards persona sucking
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In other news in Japan Fatal Frame series is called Project Rei except on the OXBox releases it is called Fatal Frame.
oh I love fatal freime
I know. But isnât kind of thematically relevant to these games, that there is a trade off between advancement and maturity? In a mechanical sense you are using people to your benefit, and in a narrative sense you are using that advancement to work toward a greater good. It doesnât go unquestioned, I donât think. Both P3 and P4 get darker the further you advance. In P3 the protagonist dies and all the angst of the relative hollowness of the teamâs victories is foisted on aigisâ character, who becomes more and more prominent as things become more and more murky in a way that I found reasonably interesting. In P4 everything shuts off in the end game and whole town is covered in fog. The player is allowed to supremely fuck up the ending in a way that questions their motives. Too often both games write everything off in an anime-ish band-together-to-save-the-world-against-nihilism style that does, yes, clash with what is easily readable as the nihlistic progress-at-all-costs method of the social links, especially given the duty-bound trappings of the velvet room mysticism that brackets their plots, but I do think these games have enough doubt in them to at least invite readings. They push against the idea of societies that would necessitate the approach that the social links represent. I wish they were better at it, because youâre not wrong, the linearity and inambiguity of the social links was always my biggest criticism.
They do walk it all back, Iâm just more amenable to the idea that it wouldnât be there in the first place â and so prominently â if they werenât interested in criticizing what ends up being their own conclusions. Both characters are still ambiguous in P4 itself even after their âresolutions,â and a part of me thinks that ambiguity is more interesting than if you just beat the bath house and kanji ended up with his coming out scene or naoto swapped pronouns. I wouldnât blame anyone for telling me Iâm wrong on that. It is unquestionably true that the other characters all come to fundamental understandings of certain aspects of themselves after their dungeons are cleared or certain plot conditions are met, while the ostensibly queer characters are mysteriously not allowed this same clarity. Thatâs not a great look. It easily reads as these characters going through some adolescent dalliance that theyâll âgrow out of,â but I think maybe the idea that these two teenage characters are allowed to question sexuality and sexual expression in a social setting with peer support isâŚnot bad? I guess what Iâm saying is I wish it were handled better, but it is handled rather than dismissed or judged or entirely wiped out, and because that is true I find it more criticizable from an aesthetic perspective than a moral one.
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I wonder how much control this Azusa Kido person had over the social links in P3P
prolly because itâs Directorâs Cut
but yes Fatal Frame is a fantastic series.
3 is my favorite.
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The arbitrary nature of using the English titles is fascinating.
Also it is probably because it was on the xbox.
god i canât believe i forgot about the fucking ethnic cleansing sidequest in SMT4
That game pissed me off so much
Older SMT could make a claim to being actually punk and provocative but now they just pay lip service to that while really just being depressingly pro status quo
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So many things in my life are this exact narrative, it sucks
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Jazzpunk is Ready Player One: The Unofficial Game of the Movie of the Book: Electric Boogaloo of the Knights that say Ni.
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The difference is Jazzpunk doesnât take itself seriously like Ready Player One. I had a really fun time with it.
This isnât the games you played today thread.
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Also, youâre in the wrong thread.
I saw you playing that and I immediately thought âgod you poor bastardâ
I think I played that for an hour before I started to feel greasy
Jazzpunk is âHow to misread Blendo Gamesâ
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Look here folks, itâs just an explore and click things to make stuff happen game like Cosmic Osmo and The Manhole, itâs just a silly chill time and there arenât enough games like that okay, GOSH.
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