About bloody time. I couldn’t believe what a cesspit Xbox Live was back in 2006 or so, if you’d told me then that it’d be 15 years later before we’d see baby steps towards effective moderation of hate speech in online games that would’ve depressed the fuck out of me. Still does, actually.

Black-asian, apparently.

It can be pretty disheartening to watch intersectional progressive politics play out in discussions online. It so readily devolves into a negative one-upmanship that winds up serving nobody for the better.

past experience means nothing.

I wasn’t talking about completion (I did specifically say “even if that experience is as little as an hour or so of play”, in fact).

I’m definitely snobbish about mobile gaming... Every once in a while I catch myself and think, “hmm, that’s probably not fair, let’s have a look what mobile gaming is like these days” but it always seems to be getting worse.

I take issue with Ash’s point about not having played many seminal games, not because I think that specifically she should, but because I think a professional games journalist who hasn’t played Halo, Mario etc is basically shirking their duty. You’re paid to have opinions on this stuff, and it’s not like there’s…

I think most “art games” are only quality art if you’re completely ignorant of art in other media

I don’t think anyone is advocating using tiny, knackered CRTs with RF, though. RGB on a decent CRT is a world apart, either way.

See also: big companies spending millions to implement “blockchain technology” and then keeping their blockchain locked away. A centralized blockchain is just an awkward-to-use database, the technology literally only makes any kind of sense if it’s decentralized. It’s bizarre to watch.

Bet you taste the Everclear again the next morning.

For me it’s all been downhill since the original. Even back in the day I didn’t like Doom II as much, the levels seemed to shift towards the conceptual which robs it of atmosphere, and I never felt that was a good fit for the game.

I don’t know, the main source of ire does seem to be the “women: they’re all sluts and whores” incel crowd.

The Lynx games are, for me at least, easily the most interesting part of the package (there’s a system that sank without trace, eh). But neither the resolution nor the aspect ratio of the Evercade screen is correct, nor is there any neatly scaled alternative, and these problems are not unique to just the Lynx games.…

Yeah, pretty much. I thought it was mediocre on release but scarcely worth complaining about (though I understand base consoles were/are pretty bad - I was playing on a decent gaming PC). But rather than have a nuanced debate it’s come down to the usual internet dichotomy of “the thing is so good it is beyond…

Right? I’ve never wondered what kind of game selection comes out the other end of a protracted business trip through Licencing Negotiation Hell, but I think now I know.

Clock Tower is often described as the progenitor of the survival horror genre

There’d need to be someone at Square making the case, doing it skunkworks style or whatever. It’s not that surprising that we’re not seeing any evidence of that.

For anyone playing for the first time in 2021, though? Jesus, why would you even want to get 120 stars?

if anyone is looking to use pre-LCD panel era consumer goods as replacements then all bets are off of course. :P