Outside of aesthetics, though—which I agree are important! And can define a game—what did any of these busier/cool-looking/etc HUDs really bring to the game in terms of gameplay/the game as an experience?
Knowing how many people wanted Supernatural to keep going, this will either last 2-3 seasons or eight billion
...Just...turn off the soundtrack? Holy shit this is a petty reason to not like a game.
@VagueDreams
As someone that has seen Voltage come up from nothing, and personally knows some of its most prolific writers: I can safely say the entire company would be nothing without the talented writers behind its many visual novellas.
Thing is, some people don’t have that time because of how much and how often they work. There are more people living close or treading the poverty line in the US, for example, than there are people with time and energy enough to take an hour out of their day to do even some basic cardio.
I mean, maybe? But that’s also a very cynical view of Hollywood and being actor. (Which I don’t disagree with, but I also wasn’t trying to be too negative in my original post.)
It has to be both. People on the ground and in their communities need to step up; but we also need to have positive representation of marginalized groups and relationships in the media to demonstrate, on a national and worldwide level, that our pop culture consumption can be more than just terrible tragedy after…
there’s a satisfaction in being told that America’s most aggressively smile-y talk show host is a lot less pleasant in person than she is when she’s busy dancing around the studio or catching a ball game with her ol’ pal George.
Man from U.N.C.L.E. was fantastic.
I mean, yes? Demonstrably. It’s wealth that brings unhappiness.
Small victories!
I know there’s going to be a lot of self-pitying “joke-y” comments about how us lowly nerds will never be as handsome are fit as Cavil is, and he puts all of us to shame, blah blah whatever; but just remember folks
The man’s entire career revolves around being in peak physical condition, memorizing lines, eating healthy, and dehydrating his body to look Aesthetically Pleasing In Films. He has hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars invested in personal trainers, his own fitness equipment, diet and lifestyle coaches,…
It’s more that they weren’t requesting unsolicited advice, which the internet is rife to give even with something as innocuous as “This is my personal preference,”.
I mean, MUDs are the first MMOs, so I guess?
Man, did they suddenly stop teaching Occam’s razor in highschool or something?
Not really my point, though I get where you’re coming from. I know books like Snowcrash and Ready Player One focus on the idea of “getting trapped in a digital world”; but I’m more specifically talking about the concepts of “being stuck inside an MMO,” and “a videogame that is an MMO RPG simulator.”
That’s because dotHack, arguably, was the first videogame series/RPG franchise to actually fully commit to the conceit. The closest game to dotHack to come out before it was—I guess??—Digimon: World.