now i'm sad
best girl Ivy is back
i like aqua's aquas
i think i took part in one of those
y-you don't hear me say?
Mish is my official KHV Valentine.
This is actually why I support game emulation. Who knows what will happen to all these discs and cartridges in the next 50+ years. I know most people use emulating for piracy but a really great aspect of game emulation is being able to preserve these games digitally for as long as the internet exists.
when are we getting rid of the rainbow tho. like for real.
I actually did something similar! When I got my PS3 I gave my PS2 and all the games I had away to a friend who wasn't as well off as I was. I regret it now because one of my hobbies is collecting games and game merch and like you said buying back some titles isn't exactly cheap.
I can go back all the way back to the 8 bit era. However, I have a hard time going back to pre-NES. Most of the games I enjoyed on those pre-NES systems are arcade ports, not originals. While Pitfall was novel, I cannot play it with any enjoyment today. But, I can have tons of fun with many NES and Master System games to this day and I'm still exploring those libraries.
Interesting study. Even in a world where there were no ethnic inequality or negative stereotypes I think a lot of people would still wind up with ethnic preferences. Black woman brushes past you as a child and from then on you find curly dark hair hot forever. Definitely the big trends are shaped by ethnic inequalities, but there are a lot of people who are exceptions to the big trends and still have this fetish or that. It’s all a crap shoot what experiences with various ethnicity (or just various physical traits) that we have in our sexual imprinting phase.
With the release of Monster Hunter World, I am yet again reminded that most of my favorite games are developed in Japan. The question as to why has been at the back of my mind for a long time, but I think it comes down to one simple concept; prioritizing gameplay over everything else. As PCs and consoles get more powerful, it seems that the goal of having fun gameplay has mysteriously eluded some Western developers. Take Horizon Zero Dawn for instance. I love sci-fi and fantasy, and my favorite genre of video games is Action RPG. I should have loved it, but I bounced off after a dozen or so hours due to one very specific reason. I wasn't having fun with the combat. At least, not compared to Dark Souls, Monster Hunter, or Yakuza. While Horizon Zero Dawn looks beautiful, has good voice acting, and tells a compelling story, it lacked the combat to tie it all together. By all rights, it should have been one of my favorite games of last year. I'm sad that it wasn't. One of the more egregious examples is the Uncharted series. While I marveled at Uncharted 2 when it released, the spell wore off after shooting the millionth bad guy with the most 'by the numbers' gameplay imaginable. It wasn't bad, not at all, but the combat played second fiddle to presentation. The pretty graphics, voice acting, and a story that wasn't terrible (sounds familiar, right?). When Uncharted 4 came out, I didn't even play it. I had zero interest. I was done with the series. It's pure spectacle. There are many other games that suffer from the same issue. Assassin's Creed, The Order: 1886, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Quantum Break. This isn't to say that Japanese games are always better. They get a lot wrong. Some games don't have the level of polish you may have come to expect from modern games, and it seems like some developers really don't understand how the internet works (I'm looking at you Nintendo). I'm also not a fan of the uninspired designs and tropey characters that plague a lot of JRPGs, but what I love about Japanese developers is that they aren't afraid to let a game be a game! I love having an armored cat battle monsters with me in Monster Hunter. I love swinging comically large weapons at even larger and amazingly designed bosses in FROM's games. I love running around in a cardboard box as Snake and laying down adult magazines as traps for the enemies. I love jumping on fang toothed mushrooms as a plumber. It's ridiculous and fantastical, but most importantly, fun! They don't take themselves as seriously as their Western counterparts. I'm sure there are reasons behind why that is, but I'm just so glad I live in a time where I can enjoy the products of another country so far away as much as I do. So, thanks Japan.
I mean both have: A protagonist with some type of ancient power (be it demon or ability to control all elements) that bestows an expectation and social stigma around them An angsty character who steals half the showtime and switches alliances constantly while following their "dark path" thanks to a dark past with their family Said angsty character having rivalry with their siblings Elemental based powers Council of those who rule the land Badass quiet kids who have highly unnaturally high skill controlling the Earth elements Everyone gets paired off at the end Spin-off shows about new generations exploring new timeline in the settings that fans constantly cannot agree if they have any worth There has to be something to this.
why are you like this
