I'm curious why positioning-heavy action games (some aspects of Mina/AngEra/Castlevania/shmups/classic arcade) tend to be framed more as "janky/unfair", while memorization/animation-reaction types (mega man zero, souls, hollow knight) tend to be perceived as "tough but fair"
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But also this
To explain megascancore: aiming for realism opens up the opportunity of store-bought assets easily, since anything made with realism in mind is visually compatible with anything else based on realism
Styles require making everything in house; with realism you can buy rocks and trees.
HYDLIDE, HYDLIDE II and HYDLIDE 3 are all on Steam now in their original unaltered PC-8801 original selves, in case you want to check out a piece of important JRPG history.
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this discourse may have reached its narrative peak
Ugh, some Gothic 1 Remake reviews really bother me... they're so passive-aggressive & snarky, like they can't respect people still liking Gothic in 2026.
This and the edgy journo rants against Crimson Desert's design paint such a bad image... it's a very narrow view of what video games should be.
Sega posted actual gameplay footage of Crazy Taxi World Tour so there's something to go off of instead of the trailer, which didn't show anything.
This looks bad. Like, very bad. The physics look weightless and I'm watching the gear shift and seeing it not move at all is appalling.
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Indeed. And while the "anti-woke Left" — for whom Platner is a test case for "appealing to Trump voters" — often complained that gender politics and antiracism are co-opted, Platner illustrates how talk of class (or "oligarchs") is mimicked by all manner of creepazoids.
