#Video Game Blogging

[spacecravat]

wildly swinging back and forth between "okay maybe i get what people see in astarion" and "what is WRONG with this man" with every line of dialogue i get from him

[venndaai]

can anyone recommend more low energy games, since i'm on a kick now. walking simulators, or anything similar where you don't need to focus or grind to get through them. something i can play in an exhaustion/depression haze. would rather no really scary or depressing horror. beautiful environment a plus

[electricprincess96]

I relate to your tomb raider reboot posts because i have a game where i have similar feelings to it’s reboot

I love bioshock 1 and adore bioshock 2 but infinite is a joke in terms of writing and it’s not even a funny one

The story has more holes than a block of cheese

And to say nothing of how much burial at sea retcons the other two games

Valid.

Like as I tried to explain to those people who were arguing with me on Reddit. I like the Tomb Raider reboots as games. They're fun, skip the cutscenes and just go full Rambo and gun down hoards of enemies. I'm replaying the second game right now and I'm once again enjoying myself, these games and fun games. They are not good story heavy games.

The issue is the writing is just bad, the plots want me to feel sorry for Lara when she's crying in pain one minute and single handedly taking on a battalion of men the next. The character is unlikeable and I don't really think she develops as much as some people claim she does, I mean it's plain to see she can't be developing that much since it looks like the Netflix anime is just rehashing the plot of Shadow of the Tomb Raider for her "character conflict" like 3 full game and an anime of the same thing is hardly good development.

Reboots rarely work with established franchises. Sometimes they do, but you will always risk alienating established fans and you won't always succeed in bringing in enough new ones to replace them. Tomb Raider is in a unique position that they are now claiming it's not a reboot but a prequel and that ALL versions of Lara are going to be canon in a unified timeline.... good luck with that since these games contradict things from the older games all over the place so trying to fit them into the same continuity is a logistical nightmare. Also considering the developers of the Reboot Trilogy have talked at length about their distaste for OG Lara and they are the ones who own the IP, I hardly expect to see too much variation from the Reboot Lara persona going forward. Maybe they'll give her an outfit change but they have no real desire to switch up the formula they've had for the last 3 games by the looks of things.

But hey we have the Remastered Trilogy which means I can play the first 3 games on modern consoles and that alone makes me happy.... TR4, Chronicles and Angel of Darkness when please?

And yes I kinda like Angel of Darkness, it has its issues absolutely, the games an unfinished mess but the chafacter of Lara is still foundational there and the side characters, despite being on screen a fraction of the time most of the side characters are in the Reboot Trilogy, are significantly more memorable and likeable. You talk to a Janice the French Prostitute ONCE if you talk to her at all, and yet she's left much more of an impression on me than any of Lara's friends from the Reboots except Jonah since he's in more than one game thus I remember his name unlike the rest.

[citadelofswords]

i’m on act iii of inscryption and oh my god this game is so fuckin good

[vmpyrgal]

Animal crossing cds and dvds ~ 🤍

[prokopetz]

Half the people on my dash think it's homophobic if anything bad happens to a gay character in media ever, and the other half exclusively play existentialist survival horror games about lesbian cyborgs who die in a fire at the end, which makes for some stark juxtapositions in the old scrolling experience, let me tell you.

[milkywayes]

there's only room for one on the door normandy float. [prints]

[sailorgl0om]

𝔄𝔩𝔦𝔠𝔢: 𝔐𝔞𝔡𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 ℜ𝔢𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔰

[theslimeologist]

Its viscerally upsetting that our preferences are apparently respected but we’re all automatically opted in for tumblr’s AI 3rd party “partners” to supposedly scrape our posts and content? L O L

BLOG SETTINGS -> VISIBILITY -> ENABLE “PREVENT 3RD PARTY SHARING”

If you’re on mobile *you must first update the tumblr app*

THIS MUST BE DONE FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL PUBLIC BLOG YOU HAVE

[the-cosmic-arcade]

Pokémon Scarlet & Violet are the best games in the series. I am not taking any questions .

[rlmartian]

Saw something like this but couldn’t find it again so I made it myself

[spacecravat]

the problem with playing hades 2 early access is now i have to wait so long for the rest of it 😔 would’ve waited for the full release but alas. spoilers.

the other problem with playing hades 2 is seeing what they did to chaos’ design. chaos my beloved…WHAT a downgrade

[venndaai]

I'm not done with Tacoma yet but it is really good and I'm mad at myself for not playing this six years ago when it came out.

[electricprincess96]

The ending of Arkham Knight leaves me feeling so sad because that series is one of the best depictions of Batman I've ever seen (alongside Batman the Animated Series). Like sure it's not my favourite depiction of Jason Todd or Tim Drake but it was clearly made by people who loved Batman, who understood Bruce's ideology and they clearly were fans of much of the source material. The little references in the environments and in the various goon dialogue littered throughout the series just proves they love Batman and Batman material.

And Arkham Knight is so clearly an ending that I don't care what anyone says the Suicide Squad game did not need to exist in the Arkham universe they only did that to try and piggy back off Arkhams success.

[vmpyrgal]

Animal crossing summer ~ ☆彡

[prokopetz]

It's always fun to see people manage to turn niche interests into serious undertakings, particularly if you've been passingly familiar with their work for a long time. Like, I'll see a post with a username I recognise cross my dash and think "hey, that's the person who used to draw pictures of Patchouli Knowledge with a dick the size of her forearm like a decade ago – I should go see what they're up to these days", and it turns out the answer is "their solo-developed bullet hell shooter about cute android girls is trending 100% positive on Steam".