videogame things you think about a lot lot lot lot

[muaad]

The Women of Death Stranding 2 Are Stuck in a Sad Cycle

Good one.

[daphaknee]

i think about how many all black screen screenshots my ps4 took becuase id get a cheevo after the screen faded to black

[razorbeamz]

Or the games that don’t allow screenshots but still try to take one every time.

[Kilroy]

I’m sad about how many Sega console exclusives were literally perfect and then they never reused the formula. Specifically thinking of Panzer Dragoon Saga and the Sonic Adventure games. To be fair, Jet Set Radio was also perfect and I never played Jet Set Radio Future, so maybe in the counterfactual case where they made more games I would be proven a hypocrite.

[drastic_bb]

this obscure PC 2D pixel knife fighting game that i probably read about on sb years ago but never played called “don quixote” / “gommana” that seems to have basically disappeared from the internet

[aislesgrises]

i am gonna need this

[loki]

there’s some information on hg101 here, but the link to get the demo file is dead.

[aislesgrises]

i guess he never finished it, but i’m glad to see it in motion at least

gomanna

[drastic_bb]

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=11319

peter watts wrote some kind of armored core tie-in episode and named the mech CHICXULUB???

[OneSecondBefore]

WHAT? I never thought I’d actually want to watch an episode of that Secret Level show…

[tacotaskforce]

I thought I understood the threat of Roblox, but my perspective was too narrow. I was too sheltered to imagine the possibilities of children who want other children’s’ money. I could not imagine an obby game that lets you pay $1 to knock another player off the structure. I could not imagine the gardening idle game that, of course, allows you to spend money to grow vegetables faster, but also lets you spend money to steal vegetables from other players.

[razorbeamz]

A kids’ version of that Something Awful feature that lets you pay to change someone’s avatar.

[iguferon]

i think my favorite thing i’ve ever learned about something awful is that the most extremely aggressive shaming avatar purchases in modern times are usually done by deranged posters to themselves

[Rudie]

I’m suddenly there in 1-3 Demon’s Souls making my way up the bridge.

[Cerium]

[Rudie]

After surviving a surprise attack in a restaurant and killing a dozen heavily armed SWAT guys, Kane and Lynch find the wait staff and cooks tied up in the kitchen: “Who the hell are these guys?”

[shnozlak]

this implies that Raidou and Gouto are not alive

[StellaUnderscore]

that part in dark souls 2 right after you fight velstadt. god i could write an entire essay about that moment, not even kidding. it hit me in ways i didnt even think were possible.

also im being purposely vague here because i dont want to spoil anyone (i think i saw someone in games you played today saying theyre going through it for the first time) and YOU READING THIS should play dark souls 2!!! like my god!!! thats one of the best games ever made!!! you NEED to play it before you die!!! (imho )

[drastic_bb]

scrolling thru my drives when i see this blurry team ico beta magazine scan…

[loki]

that the kind of experimentation in major publishers that allowed mega man 2, street fighter 2, and ghouls and ghosts to make massive iconic hits out of okay-at-best first games doesn’t really exist anymore.

the budgets don’t allow it, and in the case of sf2, many internet weirdos would go insane with rage if you made such a divergent sequel