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this is still fucking hilarious
i love this so much
i looked up the soundtrack and it’s a yoko kanno joint and the whole thing is magnificient
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how aerith and vincent know everything but never say shit to anyone else.
aerith just smiles and vincent just says something vague and then the story proceeds
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i uploaded a version recorded from MiSTer’s NSF player
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in case that version is too harsh unfiltered, this one should be easier on the ears:
Major Bioshock spoiler here but…
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Every so often I just say the plot as I remember it in my head to myself and it generally goes “you play as a hyperaged 4 or 6 year old who is brainwashed to be a pawn in a power struggle between two men in a city under the sea who is sent away and then drawn back as the key cog in a massive plan to win the war between the two men; the one of them who desperately needs your assistance gets you there by brainwashing you to hijack a rather large plane and crash it into the ocean nearby; he is the sole survivor. Then when you gets there the guy who brainwashed you and knows that within this city you are a functionally immortal assassin who cannot resist his control tells you he is someone else entirely and has you spend half the time trying to rescue a wife and child that I’m pretty sure don’t actually exist rather than just sent you directly at his real target.”
I then step back and go that can’t all be right but am too lazy to go check. I assume in my memory it just gradually gets more and more ridiculous and within another decade it’ll seem just outright insane.
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That’s more or less it and I kinda love those aspects of it. The plot is completely bonkers. And the way they reveal that the protag is brainwashed delighted me the first time around. I mean, I know nowadays we’re hard on games that make you do a thing, and then call you a big dumb-dumb for just blindly following the orders, but at the time the game was released I was like “ahhhh you used my gamer conditioning against me, okay, I see what you did” and it was great fun.
Also I just love the environment of rapture, even if the Gun Vending Machines are sort of stupid. At least they leaned into it.
A shame the game drew influences from Rand without really like, doing anything with it other than just making characters spout shit that is superficially profound.
The X Harvest Y Rescue stuff was also awfully stupid. The game’s full of problems! I can’t bring myself to hate it.
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sounds like they nailed it tbh
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lmfao this is like a shreds but it is real life
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i think about this video segment (apparently for a German tv program) often. what a bizarre combination of personalities:
the person who uploaded this segment to youtube was my online friend for awhile who i used to talk to every day. they were very active on tigsource and like my real introduction to indie games world, a reality that i would shortly occupy not to soon after. they also uploaded a bunch of Jon Blow lectures and we would both like sincerely talk about how much we liked Braid. they also like basically bought me a computer when i was broke which i will feel eternally grateful for. i feel kind of weird that i ended up moving to California and getting involved with the space in person and they never really fully did at all.
anyway i feel a bizarre sense of nostalgia when i watch this video even in spite of not being interested in the people involved at all anymore (and having met Jason Rohrer and knowing he’s a Trump guy and also a bizarre person to talk to). it’s the same feeling i get with the “GET BONUS” the movie i guess. i kind of miss my naive romanticized notion of the space that mostly didn’t exist in reality (or only existed in brief glimpses). i did get to experience some little moments of idealism i guess which i am still grateful for but they were cut with other moments of terror and paranoia i would definitely like to forget. and it was also a space that held up a lot of semi-huckster people like Jason Rohrer as like new important geniuses, which is very hard to forget about in hindsight.
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definitely characteristic of remembering your twenties; the fire, excitement, the agency and amount of new knowledge and stimuli; the mistakes
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yeah i mean i don’t want to be too self-indulgent here or whatever about it i just feel kind of sad that i don’t feel that kind of hope or optimism about anything anymore.
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I definitely connect the last couple months of insomnia and fear of death with running out of plausible plans to take back creative control of my work like I had in my twenties
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