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Another interesting thing to consider: AAAs often cut corners in other ways to make up the difference. Dummies like to highlight when Ghost of Yotei or Mafia TOC don’t have the same impressive physics/animations as some older games, but most people don’t care and don’t even notice

I said this a couple years ago, but the smartest thing Nintendo ever did was opt out of chasing the graphical unicorn. The average person *does not care.*

Everybody else made everything else about horsepower, and all that has done is skyrocket development costs and make games take forever to make.

Hamentaschen? Mayor knows the vibes

being dumb as hell must whip so much ass

Amanda Tien, Author at The Punished Backlog

since a bunch of ppl here are liking this post: check out Amanda's other work (and mine) at @punishedbacklog.bsky.social as well! punishedbacklog.com/author/atien/

I know she's not On Here but big shout out to Amanda for her Mothership debut!

Managing hostesses in Yakuza 0's cabaret club is a surprisingly feminist mini-game Club Sunshine, it seems, can change the lives of all who enter

Amanda Tien analyzes a fan-favorite Like a Dragon mini-game in her first story for Mothership: "At Club Sunshine, I can make sure that women are taken care of."
www.mothership.blog/yakuza-0-cab...

i have no personal involvement here but i have been working on a theory as i observe discourse around marathon and all other live service shooters and it can be summed up as this: everyone just wants to play team deathmatch

A zombie from Resident Evil 1.

Back in 2017, while visiting Capcom for our Mega Man 11 cover story, we learned that the original Resident Evil, code named simply 'horror game' at the time, was originally in development for Super Nintendo before moving over to PlayStation. gameinformer.com/b/news/archi...

It would be cool to wake up on a Saturday morning and not see news that the US is doing more war crimes

I was shocked at how good it was

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

Even Tony Kushner Warned Steven Spielberg About Making ‘Munich’ Kushner—who cowrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s controversial, eerily prescient film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—recalls telling the director, “You do understand that we’re going to get ...

a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich

Demon Tides Review: Great Waves, Choppy Waters - The Punished Backlog In our Demon Tides review, learn why Fabraz's open-world platformer is worth the journey, bugs and performance issues be damned.

Demon Tides, out now from @fabraz.bsky.social, melds the terrific platforming of its predecessor with an admirable open world -- even if some technical issues get in the way.

Our review:
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#DemonTides #DemonTurf #indiegames #platformers #gamereview

Ocarina of Time
A Link to the Past
Tears of the Kingdom
Honorable mention: Minish Cap

...or more DQ7

TROS by a wide country mile

I'd play the hell out of this

Hi Sony Santa Monica. If you want me to write the god of war sequel Goddess of War chronicling Calliope's journey as a guardian and protector of the Underworld, with Helios (still a head) as her mouthy guide, I'm available.

don't you dare speak ill of chumbawumba

Bloodlines is also underrated!

My take of unknown popularity is Portrait of Ruin is a top 3 Castlevania game at worst (and honestly might be my overall favorite)

Do I have to see “In The Heights” to be able to understand “Wuthering Heights”?

So, I started the new year with a new blog idea: to write about running and gaming, because I like both. (And, honestly, because the url onemorerun.blog was entirely too good to pass up lol.) The more I write, though, the more I realize that I think games share more with athletics than we think.

There’s a sentiment among some locals that eyes on Minnesota are waning. The situation has NOT changed here.

Local resistance is tired, but of course never giving up. Please stay plugged into the news of the Minneapolis ICE occupation and donate where able.

We need endurance in this moment.

Hey bb I just finished bronze but was reminded how I didn’t even put you on the podium, I know you were pissed off when I went off-piste but I’m a biathlete I gotta shoot my shot again for the gold with you

I definitely focus more on having fun with DQ7 battles than my running form, probably fine no need to look into it

this is the good stuff