tank controls really are the funniest thing for people to get stuck on. they invented this control scheme because they were scared 3D would be too complicated so they made it as easy as possible. you press forward to go forward. come on now.

WE HAVE A RELEASE DATE! LURRUNA drops on Steam & Itch.io on July 31st for $9.99. It's a Classicvania, y'know? store.steampowered.com/app/4315900/...

her: i consent him: i consent the voiceover intro from ninja gaiden: the evil dark dragon blade. a legendary sword. said to have been carved out of the bones of a black dragon

average gaming thinkpiece: “i played a video game, and i thought it was boring. is perhaps Gameplay an outdated concept?”

- big focus on eggs the whole game - chapter 5 introduces platforming segments - gaster is the royal scientist i have figured out the chapter 6 boss #deltarune

Maybe this matters, maybe this doesn't, all I know is that if Playstation taking away discs was more boycott worthy than Microsoft enabling a genocide, you've got some soul searching to do

there is. something deeply *actually* wrong with the nintendo brain types that renders them permanently unable to hold onto information that contradicts their preferred reality. i cannot emphasise enough how crazy you all look to me. i do not find this merely annoying, I regard you as unwell.

video games are a series of interesting decisions

///NEW GAME RELEASE: [TOTAL CHAOS AGAINST APATHY] After 3 very long years since I released TraumaCore Violence, my new action game is finally out on steam!!! (link below!) store.steampowered.com/app/3613690/...

they're uploading full venture bros eps on youtube every saturday and this, truly, is a reason to feel deep and inimitable pride www.youtube.com/@VentureBros...

have I gotta do everything for you slop spewing motherfuckers

Patriot Tears Up While Pretending Washington Monument Is His Penis

I can't take this anymore! *raises hand to snap fingers that activates sKill 3 which drops a meteor on your dumb ass that lands one stun and two burn debuffs that does devastating damage on your next turn, killing you violently on your turn*

That Friend that I hate

i appreciate the sentiment of "well modern gaming sucks ass so I'll play old games" but also yeah you could just play old games because they're good, y'know? i have not been doing all this ps1 bollocks this whole time as some sort of kneejerk reaction to the trends, I just like them.

i will never have to get into an argument with a person who is anti-piracy because they all already blocked me for making fun of nintendo

Arts copyright and ownership piracy has pretty much always been a force for good. Countless works of literature, cinema, music, and video games have only endured because people wilfully flouted what legal rightsholders said people were allowed to do.

Like no part of me is going "In a perfect world, we'd bring back physical media!" it's "in a perfect world, we'd kill DRM"

#deltarune chapter 6 leak

Good Evening, “video games” was a 45 year sociological study conducted by hardware development industries. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

#deltarune #deltarunespoiler

it takes so much effort whenever people are like can you believe they’re doing pre-orders for GTA6 without any gameplay to be like don’t worry there won’t be any gameplay when you install it either!

i don’t think there’s anything better on this earth than playing the drums

what the fuck how

It's funny seeing people experiencing an arcade structure through star fox and having a reaction like this:

Kickassia if it was written by Gooseworx

Summer Sales have begun! Naturally, it means the game that was already in a permanent sales state will be sold at an even lower price. You like insane combo action games that unapologetically throw chaotic combat encounters at you? You are the right target. store.steampowered.com/app/2109060/...

do you guys think this might be a little on the nose. about where things are at, generally. just checking.

he was a great racer and a family man. he didn’t deserve to go out like this

Got some Gunbot mobility going

RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

the idea of the performative fan predates the internet and videogames by 150 years

Outside perspectives are great, but like you obviously need the insider part as well. Not sure to the extent Itoi does this, but there is that narrative of outsider artists coming to games like 'we're gonna revolutionize things'... then making work that of course utilizes gaming language

cant even jack off anymore without having to pick 1 power up from 3 options

toby posting this and 1000 teens scrambling to figure out What It Means in the replies is exactly what i needed to see tonight lmao

i think "ludonarrative" is a real thing but i also think it's overwhelmingly used to work backwards from the pre-baked conclusion that the thing which makes a game valuable is its narrative elements. really smacks of "well there's gotta be a story in here somewhere or else why would i like it?"

i know I'm preaching to the choir here but it confuses me that I sometimes encounter people ok with games using AI for coding such that it frees up developers for "more creative tasks" coding *is* part of the creative process? like what are you going on about, that's a creative skill!

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

there are so many posters online these days who are like "ugh, there are no True Artists left, people only know how to make derivative slop... anyway subscribe to my substack"

average youtuber: "old games were all just crazy happy accidents, they had no idea what they were doing, i mean come on you really think that was intentional?" actual old game developers:

birdpost

i've been crying laughing at this for the past 10 minutes

its crazy playing old games cuz you spend years hearing people say it looks and plays like shit and then you actually play it and it looks more expressive and interesting than new games and has deeply intuitive and great feeling controls

The Super Mario 64 Whomp's Fortress Fish Fountain saga has once again reached a new development! Every few years, new information surfaces about a mysterious object that has no code in the finished game but has slowly been discovered to have been a bountiful fountain of fish.

Sorry, “tattoo artist” is outdated and a bit offensive. I prefer the term “mark applier”

Man we really are cousins of gorillas that is the look of a divorced man about to buy a motorbike right there

“well they have to remake it, kids today won’t play it unless it has modern graphi—“ no, that’s you. you’re the one who won’t do that. you don’t have to invent imaginary children to launder your opinion through. you can just say your dogshit opinion with your own mouth, it’s fine.