#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]

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.

[citadelofswords]

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

[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.

[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 .

[existing-is-bothersome]

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

[milkywayes]

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

[honeycove-crossing]

— Studio Ghibli Island songs —

[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]

So like, i dunno if you like rollercoaster tycoon or what

But if you do

Play parkitect, it’s basically rollercoaster tycoon 1 and 2 but new, it’s a pretty good spiritual successor

I've never played Rollercoaster tycoon myself. I'm not sure if I'd like it or not honestly.

[devsgames]

I'm sorry but for people who cheer on mass game industry layoffs because they think it's some kind of upheaval that is going to "topple the AAA industry" or "teach them a lesson": I hate to break it to you but AAA studios have a metric shitload of money and despite what their press releases say, they really aren't hurting as much as they'd have you think right now. Thousands of jobs lost is a temporary setback to them; if it was actually a last resort move they wouldn't have all simultaneously put themselves in a position where they had to do it in the first place. These studios have been around for decades and will continue to be around, and they will continue to operate just as they have for the last thirty years because they have huge vaults and no morals. They aren't learning a lesson from this because most of them saw it coming but would never admit that.

Know who is being permanently impacted by games layoffs?

It's the indie studio making sick ass games you'll never get to play because they laid everyone off when a publisher tried to save money by pulling all their funding. The hundreds of workers who woke up one morning and found out they suddenly have no job to put food on the table for their children. The international workers who were let go from the job that supplies their visa that helps them stay in the country. The thousands of students who now have to compete over a pool of a dozen job openings, who will work in studios where all the senior staff and leadership who would normally be there to help mentor them into their roles were fired. The disabled workers who now no longer have health or insurance coverage for their survival. The workers who didn't get laid off but survived to see all their friends and coworkers lose their livelihoods for completely arbitrary reasons and whose morale has all but been completely obliterated. The workers in the Global South working for outsourcing companies who were relying on cancelled projects from AAA studios to put food on their tables.

So whenever you're inclined to assume that the suffering of workers is somehow teaching rich people a lesson, remember that no, it doesn't actually and almost never will. All it does is teach thousands of talented workers in the video game industry that games were never - and will never - be worth it.

[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".