it would have been made by now but the person tasked to make it just kept saying “i would prefer not to”
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distracting the player by awarding an achievement several moments before showing them in-game that they’ve accomplished the thing
I get that it’s easier to award on the same code path as the one where you tell the UI to animate in or whatever but I will never stop complaining about this until they either stop making achievements or fix it
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Every time I think about achievements I think about the achievement you get in Double Dragon Neon that’s synced up to a song, and it pops at the same time on 360 and PS3, but the PS3 interface has an inherent delay on achievement pops, so wayforward had to time the trigger a second and a half early for the PS3 version.
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The Ravens of Thri Sahashri is this exact idea while also having absolutely nothing in common with it
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The Metal Gear Fandom Wiki Article For Yukio Mishima
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the DDR Max announcer:
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How the music for a FF7R midboss called “Crab Warden” goes harder than most games’ final boss theme
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i’m playing persona 4 golden for the first time and i’m thinking about why in the world they changed chie’s voice actress. she sounds so fucking bad it’s almost funny. i really liked her old VA and this might sound like a big ask but i would really like it if SOMEONE out there would PLEASE make a patch for her original.
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thinking about playing the pc crimson skies as a kid, and beating the first level, which unlocks a “gold doubloon” on the mission select screen. when you click on the doubloon it shows a larger picture of the doubloon. you can also click “print” to print out a picture of the doubloon. i did this, because i didn’t know what else to do with it, and then went downstairs to show the picture to my parents. i think this might have been the first time i really suspected that computer games could express values completely alien to anything i wanted or understood.
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Notice to all children, please don’t do shit like this to your parents, it’s very difficult to deal with
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the funny thing about videogames sometimes is that they only need to make a handful of right moves early on to win you over, then the next few hours could be literal drudgery but so long as it maintains a basic pace and standard of presentation as not to be distracting you won’t notice. to be honest it makes me feel stupid and i kinda hate that i’m susceptible to this. i want to stay sharp and critical!
… also, if you replace “hours” with “decades” i guess that just encapsulated most nintendo fans
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cruel but a little true
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well that’s based on my very peripheral awareness of things. i’m definitely not accusing anyone here of slavish brand loyalty
This is just generally true of all things right? First impressions and all that
mm, yeah to some extent. i feel like i tend to be more amicable with videogames than with other media, maybe because the wider possibility space leaves more room for doubt. one bad episode of a tv series i like can still sour me on it for example. though there are definitely occasional cases of something weird/experimental enough that it’s hard to figure out how to judge concretely (i still don’t know what the hell my opinion is of evangelion, lol)
this ties into a larger thing i think about which is that all art is meaningless without developing a language in which to interpret it. conventions within some formats get so deeply rooted over time that it’s easy to forget how alien and perplexing they were at their first inception, and perhaps how many different ways they could have evolved. i think the reason i’m so drawn to videogames is that they still feel relatively “open” to exploration in this sense (although trends of the late '00s regrettably pummelled some of that enthusiasm out of me)
play older games
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I think about the N64 decomp projects (like the SM64 one), and how people say its perfectly legal because they don’t include the assets and it’s a “clean room reimplementation” of the original code or whatever people say
(I don’t particularly care whether its legal or not, to be clear)
but, like, that’s not how software copyright works, buddy.
To be fair, the way software copyright works is: it doesn’t.
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