#to talk lore or play around with

[bitsbug]

iterator puppets but they’re puppets

[ganondoodle]

even if i didnt love botw as much as i do, totk drives me nuts bc, similarly to pokemon, this series is so SO SO full of potential, they have so many games they can pull from, theres so many themes, characters and worldbuilding thats just left to rot, you dont need to connect anything with a chain to old titles, you dont need to bring back any things that already had their ending, but PLEASE harness at least a fraction of all this!!!! and they just refuse to do it beyond shallow references

totk jsut drives it all home to me, bc this isnt just the next game in the franchise, but a DIRECT SEQUEL no 10 years apart from botw, yet they cant even, they REFUSE to even keep the continuity with its OWN lore it established in botw together, and that, i think, is what truly makes me so insane (derogatory) about totk

it PROVES they do not care, they dont care to build on anything of the lore of old titles beyond references in form of amiibos or whatever, they dont even care to make a sequel to their most successful game in the franchise coherent with its own lore

botw established a captivating detailed world full of potential, while lacking in active storytelling, it had environmental storytelling, characters and ideas that were the perfect ground to build on-

and then they do away with it bc idk .. they want you to build mechs and make videos of it that go viral and thats all they care about or something

shiekah tech? forget that existed character being the character you know? act as if you are seeing them for the first time just like they are lame story? dont think about that just be distracted by the epic presentation of it lore the previous title established? forget that, all that matters is what is here and now beloved character from old games beign brought back? hes a new guy and has no background and no lore and just sits waiting for you at the end to have a flashy fight with references from old titles and their lore? just here for nostalgie bait, dont you remember? you LOVE this series, now give me 70 bucks for a glorified DLC that ruins what you loved about the series and makes you realize that nothign matters and nothing is interesting anymore

you are supposed to take it all at face value, to not think about anything, to see a character say something and just go with it, and forget it the second its over, be distracted by good music and pretty visuals, but dont think about, dont think about anything but what is directly said to you like you have no critical thinking skills, forget there was a game before this one, only the one you play matters, empty your skull and dont let yourself feel anything but what the game tells you to feel

if they dont even care to make the sequel to their most successful game actually build on the previous title, dont even care to keep their continuity of two games supposedly directly happening one after the other in tact- maybe they never cared, and all the meaning we thought we saw them build into their games was all accidental and meaningless

and that is absolutely soul crushing for fans like me to discover

its a game. its not a story, its not a world, its not themes, its not characters, its not lore. its a product made to make you pay money, not to make you think about anything.

[lily-ohfally]

WoL QotD: Do you relate/associate any flower any flower with your WoL and if so, what does it symbolize if anything?

Follow up: What made you pick the flower?

[sealrock]

would you let yves show you unimaginable horrors that will melt you into a puddle of aether soup, y/n? 🥺👉👈

[puppyeared]

what if i snapped and made an oc carrd

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Okay Girlies I need you all to answer this one question for me. I haven't played through Karamelle or Novus yet and I've only seen and heard snippets of Dasein so I don't know all that much ahout him. Reblog/tag why y'all want to fuck him- I mean marry him (or just something you really like about him)

[babyblueetbaemonster]

What is the city of Blacklight?

Me choosing Dunmer because I think they're cool V.S. Me finished Morrowind and realized we can't visit Blacklight

[fragmentedblade]

Boothill's presentation being entirely on the twitter post makes me think he will be irrelevant in the story in the long(ish) run, and that the game itself won't dwell on him almost at all

[illdothehotvoice]

Replaying Mario the Music Box with my roommates and.. yeah...hm

[enypneon]

speedrunning through elden ring until i get to miquella's haligtree

[happyk44]

Love the idea of Zelda studying Link like he's a little creature she found. Just imagining her admiring the new guards begin their training. She's a little lost because she thought there was supposed to be ten trainees this year, but she can only count nine.

Before she can call over their teacher though, Link comes sailing down from the sky and tackles his partner to the ground. Later she watches as he blows himself up on his own bomb by accident, but dashes through the fire he caused on the course anyway, and still come in first before all the others. During lunch he eats a pile of raw meat he packed for himself.

She is utterly fascinated by whatever is going on with this guy. She doesn't know what it is yet but she will figure it out.

[vilelittlecritter]

Playing terraria calamity and everything's cool and all.

But the best part is

They got the ultrakill marksman.

You can use your spare change in terraria now.

10/10 best mod ever

[gender-euphowrya]

wouldn't it be nice. if people made sure they knew what the fuck they're talking about before talking about it

[oodlesofd00dles]

Apologises in advance to everyone who primarily follows me for Kotor/Kotor-related content, you're gonna see a lot of The Blackout Club posting for a bit

[sso-montana]

that one trend except i cant animate ft. the most horrible flower i have ever drawn

[bellshazes]

there's probably a really compelling piece/essay/some kind of formatted thing about the intersection of "glitch" (heavy emphasis on broken games loved by people who love them for their brokenness) and games whose narratives are totally mechanical, as explained by noah caldwell-gervais in his souls inheritors video like it's fucking nothing even though i've been angling at that exact narrative-mechanical alignment for, well, years now. i think this is the unifying factor in my bullshit about game-narrative and player-narrative alignment - when you break a game or a game breaks beneath you, and you rise to meet its broken narrative with one of your own - what then? actually, that's a miserable question. the question is why then, and then what?