#Tea and Video Games

[teaandgames]

Review - Fitness Boxing Feat. HATSUNE MIKU

So, I don't choose what games to review for the most part. I review what codes I'm given. Sometimes it gives me stuff I never expected to play... like this. Reviewing random games is, honestly, super fun 90% of the time.

Honestly, I found this one strangely enjoyable. It may have turned me on to Switch fitness games. Hasn't turned me on to Vocaloids, though.

[retrogamingblog2]

[seaspaghetti]

twenty year tiger webkinz

[yichi-is-a-bitch]

TWST Incorrect quote #2

MC: "I made tea."

Leona: "I don’t want tea."

MC: "I did not make tea for you. This is my tea."

Leona: *slightly annoyed* "Then why are you telling me?"

MC: *confidently says* "It is a conversation starter."

Leona: "That’s a lousy conversation starter."

MC: *smug face* "Oh, is it? We are conversing. Checkmate bitch."

Leona: *glares at them while being slightly impressed but mostly annoyed* "Oh you little shit..."

MC: *loudly sips their tea and gives him the middle finger*

[acquired-stardust]

Guilty Gear Strive PC 2021

[bakaquesauce]

Where the Hell is the Boss!?! We're Having a Tea Party!

[koyoriin]

i cleared TEA a little bit ago so i figured i'd draw a commemorative picture for it like i did for UWU! a huge thank you to the lovely friends i raided with!

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[cursed-iris]

"and i can't stand a mess. you know me, neat and orderly. that's how i like things. everything in its proper place."

charlie o'hare/hatter my beloved. ❤ y'all gotta get into habromania fr fr. all the lore and character design can be found on insta @/symphony_sonata.

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[lulublack90]

Prompt 13 - First Murder

@wolfstarmicrofic January 13, word count 160

“Sirius, what the fuck?!” Remus complained as he threw his controller down.

“What?” Sirius shot him a perplexed look as he continued to mash the buttons on his controller and swing it around in front of him at strange angles.

“What do you mean, what? You full-on just murdered me!”

“Did not!”

“Then what do you call it then?” Remus huffed.

“Casualty of war,” Sirius said before jumping off the sofa and running away, cackling as he did. 

Remus picked up Sirius’s abandoned controller and walked his avatar out into the middle of no man's land where bullets rained down on him and the words game overfilled his half of the screen. “Murderer!” Sirius yelled accusingly from the doorway. Remus threw a cushion at his retreating head. “Oww!”

“Tea?” Remus asked, ignoring Sirius’s muttering.

“Yes please,” Sirius called back, and Remus went to put the kettle on, turning the console off as he passed. They’d played on it enough today.  

[mic-check-stims]

Happy Birthday Seto Kaiba 10/25

( for @ofscalesandsnow )

X-X-X X-X X-X-X

[sleepyteamage]

Rating console/Handheld names that I remember starting with:

Family Computer or Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System or NES: Good names, famicom rolls off the tongue better but NES is clear and cut what it is 9/10

Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System or SNES: Same as above, a little more silly but hey the jump from 8 bit to 16/32 bit made it really accurate. Yeah this sure was super. 10/10

Nintendo 64: Little confusing because Nintendo existed way longer than 64 years at that point and it wasn't the 64th released item from them but 7/10 for revolutionizing gaming I suppose

Nintendo Gamecube: 11/10. The perfect name. That sure was a cube and it sure did let you play games

Nintendo Wii: I don't like that, it's dumb. I guess the premise is WE play games together but that's a stretch 5/10

Nintendo Wii U: 2/10. I will not explain further

Nintendo Switch: Perfect name again, 11/10. You switched between playing on TV or on the go on a dime. Nailed it

Nintendo Switch 2: 11/10 Yeah that sure is the successor to the Switch. I think Nintendo may have locked themselves in a box with the Switch because you can't really go a step above a hybrid console/handheld but at least the box is nice

Onto Nintendo's handheld!

The Gameboy: Well it games and boys come in all shapes and sizes 8/10

The Gameboy Pocket: Confusing because the Gameboy could already fit in a pocket 5/10

The Gameboy Color: 8/10. It had colors and was still a gameboy

The Gameboy Advance: It sure was c: 9/10

The Gameboy Advance SP: I don't know what SP standed for and at this point I am too afraid to ask 6/10

The Gameboy Micro: Fuck that was small even for my child size hands when I was a child. 10/10 for accurate name

Nintendo DS: Dual-Screens. 10/10

Nintendo DS Lite: I never had one actually, I had the original but it was lighter from the looks of it, 10/10

Nintendo DSi: I now only realize the i stood for internet. Huh. 10/10

Nintendo DSiXL: On thin fucking ice 9/10

Nintendo 3DS: Stupid gimmick and definitely not the 3rd generation in the DS line. 8/10 because it is clever name pun

Nintendo 3DS XL: sigh. 7/10

Nintendo 2DS: Removing the 3D and going backwards and naming it the 2DS? I respect the hustle, still dumb though. 6/10

New Nintendo 3DS/3DS XL: hate. All of my hate. 3/10 (I have one but the name is stupid, I'm sorry)

New Nintendo 2DS XL: HATE. 2/10

Onto to Sony Console/Handhelds:

Playstation: 10/10. You stationed it by your TV and played games. Good name c:

Playstation 2: 10/10. That sure is the sequel to the Playstation 1

Playstation 3: 10/10. That sure is the sequel to the Playstation 2

Playstation 4: 10/10. That sure is the sequel to the Playstation 3

Playstation 5: 10/10. That sure is the sequel to the Playstation 4

Playstation Portable: 10/10. That sure is Sony's Playstation you can take with you on the go

PSP Go: 3/10. It was already on the go, come on

Playstation Vita: 5/10. I don't know what vita means

Playstation Q: 1/10. It's not a 0/10 because the Q is accurate. It stands for QuestionMark.

Onto Microsoft consoles! (They have no handhelds, Game Pass doesn't count)

Xbox: 9/10. It had an X on it, it was like the dark estranged sibling that showed up one day. Being it's first it had to be accurate and it definitely was

Xbox 360: uhhhhhh 7/10? I think the 360 was something Xbox around the globe because of Xbox Live or something. I'll be generous

Xbox One: Not for this little shit though. 2/10. I understand the premise. Xbox all in One. But it's a stupid name

Xbox Series S: You're killing me Smalls, 2/10

Xbox Series X: YOU'RE KILLING ME SMALLS, 2/10

[teaandgames]

Review - Sniper Elite: Resistance

Sniping is pretty wonderful. The X-ray shots do get a bit grating after a while, but I like the immediate feedback. You line up a tricky shot, pull the trigger and if it jumps to a cutscene then you can sit there and drink your tea as smugly as you can.

Unfortunately, the OP (and boring) protagonist and thick AI mean that getting spotted no longer feels scary. I very rarely felt the need to run and hide, and when I did my hiding spot was about 6 feet away.

[retrogamingblog2]

Eevee Tea Pins made by Xhilyn

[des0deso]

[gowerhardcastle]

Fun with Achievements

Achievements create this really interesting tempo you can play with.  You read the text, and then, you hit an achievement, and it pops up there at the bottom.  It hits with this ba-dump! tempo. 

It’s like when you read a post here, and then you look down and you see some clever tag at the bottom, it hits you with a one-two punch.  The post, the tag.  That’s what an achievement can you.  You read the text, you read the achievement.

It creates a really fun dynamic.

The very presence of an achievement tells the reader “there is a path here that you might never have considered.  Try it.  There’s rewards there for you.”  You Explored the Dark Cavern without a Light.  You might not even have realized that there was something interesting about going without a light, or that it was even possible.

An achievement, because of that ba-dump! tempo (I need a better way to describe that) can act like a punchline. You make a choice, see the result, and then the achievement pops up like a little snarky editorial or authorial comment at the bottom. It's a moment where I, the author, talk to you, the player in a very direct way. If you take the "Mysterious Benefactor" Sponsor in Jolly Good, the achievement says the following:

An unmissable, or very very easy achievement towards the start of the game gives a nice connection between author and player.  It says, “there are achievements here.  Some will be easy to find, and some, you’ll have to range abroad.  Here’s an easy first one.”

What I don't love is achievements for romantic paths. That always makes me feel like the game is treating the love interests like paths to be achieved and it takes me right out of the feeling of romance.

When something bad happens to the character, awarding an achievement tells the player, you didn't do something wrong. Quite the contrary. You played and experienced a unique path. It tells the player, well explored. It briefly distinguishes the player and the character in this way.

An achievement demonstrates what's important for a player: in Tea and Scones there is going to be scene where a character cannot be saved from a terrible fate. The achievement will note that the player has successfully completed that storyline. The important point is not that it was done successfully, but that the player pursued that storyline to its natural conclusion.

Achievements can acknowledge or laugh at weird little edge cases in which a player tries to do something bizarre, like "sit in a chair for entire cocktail party without getting up" or "get bonked in the head more than twenty times over the course of the game." These are not things you would do if you wanted the best possible outcome, but things that you can do, so why not reward them with a little thumb's up from the writer?

I love achievements that create a whole new game. This one from Choice of Robots is so much fun, because it makes the achievements themselves into a sort of obstacle course that you have to set out to avoid, and chart your course--it's strikingly difficult. It's the rarest achievement in this game!

Consider an achievement that rewards something perplexing. 

You get this achievement if nothing blows up in Chapter Six's ending, which, if you get it makes you wonder what could blow up, and then when you replay, you will start looking around to see what you can blow up. This is my idea of a good use of an achievement.

Come visit the Noble Gases Club here for loads and loads more discussion of game design and musings on the elements of interactive literature.

[acquired-stardust]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories Gameboy Color 1999