it’s hard to choose one favorite galaxy brain moment in this game but “preventing yourself from being stabbed by a guy hiding behind a tree by traveling 500 years into the past to prevent that specific tree from being planted” is a real contender
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it’s hard to choose one favorite galaxy brain moment in this game but “preventing yourself from being stabbed by a guy hiding behind a tree by traveling 500 years into the past to prevent that specific tree from being planted” is a real contender
ever since i bought @equifax.bsky.social a ps2, she has been amassing a pile of games that sound like they do not exist and turn out to be the greatest games of all time. fuckin shadow of destiny????? incredible??????
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2018 list low key goes harder than most major sites’ year end lists any given year. time.com/5455710/best...
Coolest thing Time magazine ever did was putting it on its top 10 the year it came out.
I am team Axiom Verge, and I will give a dark horse shout to Dandara.
just me and my cat and an impossible view
News to me!!!
every day i am judged
fantasy football draft exclusively decided by gacha pulls
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Bennett Foddy and @marioprime.bsky.social went on a big walk. The result is this wonderful look at the journey to Baby Steps www.polygon.com/bennett-fodd...
ICYMI: Here's a long talk with Bennett Foddy, a white whale project I've wanted a good reason to chase ever since playing QWOP for the first time in 2010. Lots of insightful quotes about meaningful friction, the joy of failure, and GOLF.
i will do it
Even in 2022, there was no human on Earth who would think this was even a remote possibility.
he’s right, this is why cuomo is currently the frontrunner to become the mayor of nyc
like please sir, i just want to know if the cartoon golf game is good, i dont need to know your opinion on college girls
you ever stumble on an old game review from maxim and think, oh yeah, this is why there are so many creepy old dude gamers now
From QWOP to Baby Steps, Bennett Foddy has spent nearly two decades making physical comedies about the human body. Why does he keep circling back to walking? To understand his design philosophy, I asked him to take a long walk with me. www.polygon.com/bennett-fodd...
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
Pretty crazy that the Long Ladder sequence of Metal Gear Solid 3 comes directly after The End boss fight. Some people work their entire careers just to create a moment as transcendent as one of those, and the mfers are just casually back to back there.
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Bless up bud, thank you!!
Now you know why baby steps REALLY got delayed
the miracle of moving a body forward one uncertain step at a time... A thoughtful, goofy stroll becomes a meditation on why choking under pressure can be so affecting in a video game:
From QWOP to Baby Steps, Bennett Foddy has spent nearly two decades making physical comedies about the human body. Why does he keep circling back to walking? To understand his design philosophy, I asked him to take a long walk with me. www.polygon.com/bennett-fodd...
Excellent reporting from @edwinet.bsky.social for RPS. www.rockpapershotgun.com/a-culture-of...
when you are assembling a groomsman/bridesmaid party, it is important to make sure you have a mage, a healer, a knight, and a thief
I am Pro Piss Filter. It is Cool Actually
Like when I look at the original game, I can feel what temperature it is outside. I can extrapolate what time of year it is. What time of day it is. Delta feels like something produced on a sound stage by comparison.
I am not just saying this as some kind of retro purist, but I think MGS Delta straight up doesn’t look good! No grit in the environments. Sterile light. Characters look plastic. I dunno man! You don’t have to make the thing look like a PS2 game but “realism” can still have style!
OH BEHAVE
The Day Before?
whatfuckingever dude
austin powers in snake eater: shagohad? i wish i had a shag! YEAH BABY YEAH
lmfao I wish
tune in tomorrow to see if it is good
(eric adams watching people smile) this is exactly like the squid game
I’m so glad somebody caught the ref
That’s my #1
Talked to Skate creative director Deran Chung about Flick-it, the link between skateboarding and self-determination theory, and accidentally inventing tricks that stumped the pros who helped mocap the old games. www.polygon.com/skate-flick-...
plus Vance giving a weird interview where he was like “he’s fine but if it DID happen I’m ready”
no actual reason, people are just manifesting while he’s got the weird hand
tonight is basically a shitposter’s equivalent to a dress rehearsal
What is horniness if not criticism
imagine if it happens the day silksong launches
Can’t spell “bit” without “it” (but also yes)
Tetris 99, which sounds insane, but it’s got a really good flow state.
the BRUSSELS SPROUT drama
“When you found out you had lupus—“
was surprised that the most recent queer ultimatum season was somewhat tame, but the reunion is really bringing it with shit like “my grandma is DYING right now” “i don’t CARE”
Yeah it’s a little odd to get halfway through the run of layers and suddenly it’s like, hey you’re in a resort with a big blue sky I guess. (But yeah I’ve got like 800 gems at this point lol)
I love the seed bridge thing in the forest layer, and the rainbow guys in the resort layer. I’m surprised there weren’t more experiments with surfaces based on how good those are!
Yeah I could have done away with some of those late long ones that aren’t really introducing any new ideas.
Yeah to be clear, I also get grumpy about takes all the time lol
(feeling a surge of overconfidence after offering a very light DK critique) so the problem with this sabrina carpenter album
A little surprised to see this as a response when I wasn’t reading the thread as saying devs should comment on controversial things. Had a talk with a dev recently who said “I know we’re not supposed to talk about other games” when just name dropping something, and I was like wait why?
I kind of theorize that part of it on the review side was that codes didn’t go out early for it, so everyone was kind of inhaling it in a week and that mode just isn’t at its best in that context. I liked it more when I could just play for 20 minutes and do a few things while watching Netflix.
I love this piece.
I think these are valid things to critique in writing but fwiw, I don’t really feel that tone in this. I just think it’s a piece that has a strong opinion and isn’t couching it in the way your standard review might. I think it’s fine to call it content if that’s the way you see it, ya know.
As with all things Nintendo, I just hope whatever they’re doing is built from its own weird playbook and not someone else’s.
Interesting! I found that I hit a peak with that, but then there were like 10 layers after and none really tested my knowledge in new ways. Just more places to find gems, which wore on me eventually.
I get what people don’t love about Free Roam because I wasn’t crazy about it initially either, but I think the charm of it reveals itself the more you take it as a chill out experience.
I think it’s legit criticism, and that’s coming from someone who does still quite like the game. Been hoping someone would dissect where its design differs from Odyssey despite having very similar pieces.
This is also why Chibi-Robo is The Truth.
Probably explains why I ended up clicking with Mario Kart World more long-term. As flawed as Free Roam is, I really came to love just casually riding around the world and studying the internal logic of it. Just a specific thing I’m learning I value in games this year, idk!!
I get it! I’m just offering my take on it, not saying other folks are wrong!
Bananza really benefits from having a central gameplay hook that’s just immediately satisfying. It covers for a lot of the little nuances it lacks. If you play like 6 layers and leave it there, I can see where one would adore it. But I don’t think the hook carries the long run of layers.
The best Nintendo games are really great at creating a coherent world out of platforming gimmicks. Kirby and the Forgotten Land nails this! You feel like there’s a logic to the place, even when you go from an amusement park to a desert. Bananza just deals you a random playground every layer.
Really glad to finally see some strong crit on this one. I enjoy Bananza a good deal, but it’s a little odd to me that it’s been elevated to an instant classic. I find its flow of levels to be kind of incoherent, which is a little surprising for a capital-N Nintendo game!
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KC IS OUT NOW WE WORKED SO HARD ON THIS!! Spotify and music video links below, would love to know what people think!
In a just world, it would be as much as frontrunner as DK.
i don't know what a gun is
I think there's really only 4 games I would go to war for this year in the battlefield of year-end podcast debates. And you bet your ass that The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is on the list, baby.
hey i'm so sorry i'm late, i was compiling shaders
Had a dream that there were Overwatch Oreos, but there was an actual competitive scene tied to them, and I was ranting about how they kept fucking up the meta for casual eaters.
I’m not saying it’s not a good idea to move the games. I’m not even saying that it’s not a big deal. I’m just shitposting about how peak is huge
I know. I’m saying that it’s funny that games are moving out of its way as if it’s going to be a unique behemoth rather than a really good zeitgeist indie in a time where those crop up regularly in places you don’t really expect.
Oh no doubt that people will love it.
Oh yeah I’m very much not banking on the thing being a breadwinner. You probably stand a better chance just putting together borderlands best weapons guides
when you ask your nephew if he has played silksong this thanksgiving, he will look at you with dead eyes and say “i don’t have time for that, i am playing glorp corps every day with my friend zilch”
I’ve heard it! And I do get it on paper! It’s def gonna be big!
the real gta6 of indie games is some game you never heard of that was made for $300 that will debut to 10 million copies sold because MrTowelz streamed it for 30 minutes and did a funny voice at some point
the hype about silksong being indie gaming’s gta6 will be kinda funny if it ends up making like half of peak’s sales
for too many years, we have had to not win the super bowl anymore. this cannot stand
I think it’s a really good bet
yeah agree, if it doesn't happen, you owe me 200
basically already won imo
hey where's your qb on this list? my eyes can't look down that far
we've got tommy devito on the bench, we can do anything now
if i am wrong, then you can send me a screenshot of this post come february and i promise that i will say "yeah pats won" no matter what the outcome was, even if they weren't in the game
the new england patriots WILL win the super bowl
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The Switch 2 edition of ‘Kirby and the Forgotten Land’ is using one particular character to highlight the console’s graphical capabilities. paletteswap.site/dif...
