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garyyo.bsky.social
Narrative, games, and AI researcher. This my place to scream bad takes into the void.
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I'm a simple man, I expect the following from TGA announcements: RE9, new Fromsoft game, Bloodborne remake (NOT BLUEPOINT), KH4, new Team Ico game, MHWilds trailer, Persona 6, Dark Souls 4, FF17, Dark Souls 5, Bloodborne 2,

Video game graphics peaked in 1998 with the release of Link's Awakening DX for the Gameboy Color game system.

BG3 is nice and I am loving the aesthetic of Act 2 but to quote George Bunnyhop, "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by smaller teams who are paid more to work less, and I am not kidding".

If you don't have a favorite obscure Eurojank game that almost no one else likes you aren't a real gamer™️ (mine is Hammerfight)

A petard, from the massively popular online phrase "hoisting with his own petard", is a renaissance era explosive breaching charge that is named after the french word for fart. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard

All games should have at least one fishing mini-game. There is absolutely no reason why any game developer should ever choose to not include a fishing mini-game, it is objectively one of the best things about games as a medium, their capacity to have fishing mini-games. If you disagree you are wrong

The term "tweeting" is now a perfectly valid generic term for microblog posts with Twitter's name change. This is a tweet.

Having played with your standard newtonian physics - as seen in hit games like Elite (1984) and Outer Wilds (2019) - going back to the arcadey physics of NMS and Starfield just feels wrong to me.

The easiest way to uncook an egg is to feed it to a chicken.