#video game impressions

[filipmagnuswrites]

In the Oven: Death Must Die is A Love Letter to Your Favourite Games...

A game that wears its inspirations on its sleeve, our Death Must Die. And it draws plenty of inspirations: I’ll give you a quick run-down of them. Three immediately come to mind – one is Vampire Survivor, the second Diablo, and the third Hades. From the moment you start your first run, you’ll find yourself on familiar ground if you’ve spent any amount time with 2022’s breakout indie game,…

[arsuf]

"You might have made me what I am, but I can be so much more than what you created me to be." 🧛

[falled-over]

its true he just comes to you in your moment of need

[rambles-about-minecraft-ocs]

one of my favorite things about zedaph is that on a server full of people that find strange and oft-overlooked minecraft mechanics or rare events and then see just how far they can push them in the name of spectacle or efficiency or world-breaking, zed is over here finding these mechanics in order to do the weirdest things he can think of in as entertaining a manner as possible

like i 100% have faith in zedaph's theoretical ability to be just as efficient or spectacular or world-breaking. if he wanted to do that stuff, i trust that he absolutely could. but thats so far from being his priority. instead, hes going to spend around a week of irl time focused entirely on eventually having the good luck to spawn in something insanely rare so that he can convert it into something even rarer, the result of which being something that 99% of the server reacts with complete and utter shock that it even exists in the first place, just because its zany and funny and he wanted to. and i love that

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

last of us tv adaption decided to make a Gay Romance For The Ages out of a Gay Pettiness Subplot and i respect that sm 💘but PLEASE recognize both r valid

[jaubaius]

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The comedic timing on this response was pretty good.

Source

[artemispanthar]

The Silent Hill games were really onto something when they started the games with a dope music video (either immediately or after waiting on the title screen for a minute). Really sets the tone and gets you hyped and showcases the awesome original music. More games should do that.

[h0riz0nstuff]

I don't usually plug stuff on this blog, but I've been on a binge of this series and it's hands down the best commentary on the Horizon series I've ever seen, from an angle I really never expected to see. I highly recommend it to Horizon fans who have the time and are interested in an in depth very thoughtful commentary on a really wide variety of things in the game. Here is the YT playlist for HZD (dlc included).

Here is the first vid of that series

And he also recently finished HFW and is currently doing Burning Shores.

I really didn't expect to be bingeing this, but here I am. I tore through the HZD playthrough and I'm halfway through the HFW one. T_T

[soiwatchthestars]

actually gave myself chills i have never been more attracted to myself

[wrenhavenriver]

the way that a P who’s gained a significant amount of humanity will actually physically change to look like a young man old enough to have graduated rather than the more childish waif-like appearance he has at the start of the game makes me think that Geppetto, whether consciously or not, modeled him after Carlo when he was an age before their family relationship had been irreparably soured.

like, comparing the flashbacks we see of Carlo’s life, when he’s left at the Monad House as a young child he’s upset and anxious to know when Geppetto will return, but by the time we jump ahead several years to him telling Romeo that Geppetto missed his graduation he’s undeniably hurt but also much more bitter and (at least putting up a front of being) callous about it, remarking that he wouldn’t even care if Geppetto had kicked the bucket while he was away. i think P’s early game appearance probably comes from how Carlo looked during those years somewhere in between—a time when Carlo was less “difficult” about Geppetto’s neglect, perhaps, because Geppetto’s urge to bring Carlo back seems to be much less about him missing who Carlo was and more about trying to avoid/rewrite the truth of his own failures as a father.

maybe while Carlo was alive Geppetto had thought that he’d have time to fix things between them or that Carlo would eventually grow up to “understand” why Geppetto was always away—but then Carlo died tragically young, and he died resenting him. for Geppetto the only thing worse than this grievous loss would be acknowledging that Carlo was right to resent him. much easier to model this temporary replacement vessel after the Carlo from a time before he had given up on Geppetto as a father; much easier than confronting the fact that Geppetto was a father worth giving up on.

it’s fitting that the “Carlo” we see in the “Real Boy” ending seems far less human than P ever does, because he was never meant to be an accurate portrayal/resurrection of the young man Carlo was—rather, he’s compliant, and happy to see Geppetto, and ever so much more convenient than the real son who’d been so disappointed by his father.

[lacefuneral]

"ACAB except kim kitsuragi"

no hope for you even at all.

[oroontheheels]

I’ve been depressed lately and then stressed out after emergency night visit to the vet (my cat is doing fine atm) that when i saw this ⬇️ I didn’t even flinch. I didn’t even have the energy to be like “why they make my OTP problematic ?? why everything have to be about family-like dynamics in MK1?? Where is the gays?? ” (as I usually do because I’m a whiny person)

I was like “wait I feel like this is a reference to something”. And sure enough it was.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Sword of Kaigen

standalone fantasy set in a rural mountain village at the edge of an empire that still holds traditional values, with families of powerful water/ice magic warriors

follows a powerful young heir who begins to question his beliefs about the empire when a new boy comes to his village from the city

and his mother, a housewife who has tried to forget her youth as a warrior and vigilante in the city since she moved back home to a loveless marriage

when there’s a violent attack on their village that they’re unprepared for, everything changes, and she has to embrace her old skills to protect her family and people

[solarg0blin]

THE NEW AMAZON FALLOUT SHOW: MY THOUGHTS ON THAT HOT CORPO MESS!!

Do forgive my little ramble, but does anyone remember when Paladin Danse said this?

Poignant, isn't it? The whole point about corporations pushing humanity to its limits with its greed? Now, I'm not saying that Bethesda were saints in 2015, but they were just a game studio. This line felt genuine.

Then, 9 years later, Amazon produces this.

The same Amazon that commits human rights violations with regularity. The very same Amazon that's a corpo cancer on this earth. Doesn't it feel like a mockery? A mockery of everything Fallout's ever stood for?

C'mon, guys. Really? You would be the fuckers to cause the war in the first place! Bunch of self-serving, foul, greedy pigs, making a show about what such corporate greed leads to?

Fuck that noise.

[theyre-gay-because-i-say-so]

Today's LGBT+ Headcanon is;

Eric Cartman from South Park-Intersex, Ipsogender Gay Boy

Requested by @trans-dwightschrute

Status: Alive

[wavebiders]

Been trying to figure out what age Shadowheart was supposed to be in the wolf flashbacks, and turns out Viconia really did just kidnap a whole 8 year old huh?