Damn, thanks for this. I totally forgot I used to sit at the end of our driveway by the road and hit the Demo button when cars drove by while pretending I was the one playing Wake Me Up Before You Go Go always weirdly disappointed no one stopped to compliment me
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I loved eternal darkness but it was my first experience with lovecraft horror. the combat kind of feels like throwing sponges at pillows though.
I tried replaying it recently. it has not aged well, but still better than I expected. I think it’s kind of cool as an example of an early-ish third person 3D game that had an interesting and internally consistent control scheme from a time when that just wasn’t standardized at all.
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eternal darkness sucks pretty hard overall. it does have some bold ambitions but in practice, hell no.
it would have been pretty passable at the time with a single change, a change that, having not been made, renders the game a shadow of what could have been
why did they have a “sanity meter”, i mean… what the actual fuck.
also denis dyack sucks lol
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the first level theme from the PS2 Bobobo game
3:35
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i’m pretty sure bobobo was a collective fever dream
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In a long past forum someone joined and wanted other people to check out his MUGEN game. He claimed to have put a lot of thought into the curation of characters, as an example he had “minimal alternates of Masturbating Chun-Li”.
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this two hour long video of an isolated farming settlement in age of empires 2 with relaxing music to help you sleep
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Most sincere “what the fuck” I ever did hear
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The fact that this game exists. I know it sucks and all, but wow!
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By any chance was this tournament at the ill-fated Noobie Games on Miami Beach? This video clip is so visceral I feel like I lived through it.
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getting nostalgic for playing a bunch of this when wii piracy first became a thing
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it sold fewer than 100 copies, right? (though it probably sold some more once it gained notoreity)
can’t stop thinking about “hey child, your home is cursed with shit.”
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one of my favorite character quirks in hades is how when you try to use a self-damaging ability, zagreus goes “Ah, I’m cursed” in the same kind of tone as like stepping in dog shit or something
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The Blaster Master novelization I read when I was 8 years old that reaches Evangelion levels of psychodrama when the protagonist runs into his beloved pet frog mutated into a boss that he has to kill
Some madman made a pirate audiobook of it last year so I was just able to enjoy the section again:
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I remember reading this book! And being extremely confused because the closest I’d ever come to blaster master was reading about it in a strategy guide I got from the library because I was excited about video games but didn’t have any consoles
I recall that there were game tips interspersed all throughout, too. You’d read some horror of war and then some nice advice about how to beat a boss
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