AAAAAAAGHHHHHHHH

The Darkest. Timeline.

Bad time for "Games are an art form" when the discourse of the day (again) is "Why isn't Final Fantasy an annual series so it can poll better with the schoolchildren demographic?"

My entire adult life

New video essay is up! I swear this is my final word on Love Letters and nostalgia-bait, approached from the convenient on-ramp of 1995’s Chrono Trigger, a superb game that I never want to hear anyone (including me (especially me)) talk about ever again.

mmm another consequence-free day

It'll never fail to make me guffaw how there are ppl who think incest in fiction is the gateway drug to real incest. Don't fucking kid me how influenceable are YOU?

just a shame cuz as we all know, a bad translation like this IS "good enough" for most people, who just want a way to experience the game, and that discourages efforts to create a real one--since it's likely to slide under the radar anyway--and thus is worse no translation at all

i cant imagine how bad an MTPE translation of a game like segagaga where every single line is buried in layers of deep otaku references is but im not about to self harm by playing it to check

If you feel that use of AI art assets at any stage of the process is an automatic out, but ChatGPT translations are fine if they're "checked" by people, it might be worth asking yourself why that is. Because it sounds a whole lot like valuing the work of translators less than other creatives to me.

My hubris in not catching up on the main story of Granblue in the 3+ years I've been playing it is finally backfiring on me in a real way. The 12 year anniversary event is like "You did read ALL of it, right? We're not kidding around this time" and BOY they super weren't kidding around this time.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

*Sobbing miserably* I have to hand it to Metacritic

Hey, so we got a trojan horse ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

they're talking about fujoshi like they're an exotic new kind of animal

kawaiikochan.tumblr.com/post/7162320... Hi, it's Kawaiikochans. As for previous "Maji-chan is streaming" comics, they had existed. Do you know the various elf gamesoft? It's "Comics."

I've been playing Dragon Quest 3 (HD-Remake) and I came to a point where I needed to make a merchant to send off for the main story and I just kind of made a guy called "Fat Chud" thinking this would be of no consequence. Immediately I'm faced with the consequence of my actions

BY ADDING MORE CHIPS THE MEMORY CAPACITY IS PRACTICALLY UNLIMITED 44 MEGABITS

Fun fact: Capcom achieved unlimited gaming memory in 1988

when they port old rpgs to like steam and current consoles they always add shit like "4x speed" and "turn battles off" and like hell yeah bro I love this game I sure would love to play it less so I can move on to the next thing quickly, awesome!!

okay so the evangelion studio made the new gundam anime, and the gundam studio is making a new macross anime this was already kind of odd, but yoko taro making a new evangelion complicates the situation considerably I think this means the macross studio has to make drakengard 4 now

Giant ROM archives are easier to find now than they've ever been, and it's irritating. It's not that corporations gave up, it's that they were able to stop caring because they convinced two entire generations that playing a game doesn't count unless you pay money for it. That, and tOrReNtS aRe sCaRy

Bullying works?

I found a top 10 internet videos of all time. You’re welcome

EVERY OTHER MISSION IN AC1: Raven. We have a startling report of uhhh terrorists or some shit in the windows 3d pipe maze. Go find a bomb in 3 minutes before we lock all the windows and doors and fill the whole place with mustard gas. If you fail we will replace all your organs with silly string.

when i dont know a celeb (old) in a crossword hint: these puzzles are for boomers i cant wait for them to die off so i dont have to know washed up actors from the 60s to finish these when i dont know a celeb (new) in a (etc): celeb worship is a societal disease when i do know the celeb: i am erudite

Spiritually, Snake's relationship with Otacon in Metal Gear Solid is gyaru who is kind to otaku

My criticism of the Bourgeoisie vanishing whenever i see an ojou-sama character

It's fascinating how much Destiny DNA that Arknights Endfield has in it. A lot of the environment aesthetics/design are in the same broad category, but even things like the weapons having extremely Destiny-core names and grimoire-style lore text. Like, naming a handgun "Rational Farewell"? Come on.

Thanking the lord above every day that I did not turn into someone who thinks pointing out whenever a piece of media references another piece of media counts as a load-bearing personality trait.

I am so glad I don't give a shit about Pokémon.

Nintendo JUST bought a port studio of their own because they also see the value of having in-house talent who knows how to translate games between platforms. YOUR NUMBER ONE COMPETITOR AND REASON YOU'RE IN THIS INDUSTRY IS INVESTING IN THIS FIELD AND YOU THINK *NOW* IS THE TIME TO DIVEST??? Jesus.

You cannot just pluck random programmers off the street and ask them to make video games designed for Cell or the Emotion Engine to make nice with X86! Why do you think it took Konami a decade post-Kojima to rerelease MGS4! If you don't maintain that institutional knowledge, you lose it! FAST!

Genuinely flabbergasted. Say what you will about the creative choices they've made in their releases—and I have, plenty—this is throwing away a crazy amount of institutional knowledge when of Sony's most esoteric consoles. Profound mismanagement, especially if they're paying for Jim Ryan's mistakes.

How to disappoint an NPC excited to share with you. ;o;

saw a reddit comment on the lenghth of modern dev cycles earlier that stuck with me: "The PS2 had three Grand Theft Autos, GTA5 had three Playstations"

Just saw an ad that started out "your kids won't remember their best day of screen time" and while I of course broadly agree with the sentiment that you should do activities with your children, don't tell me i don't remember beating zelda a link to the past

usually when i see a post that starts with "please play" i roll my eyes but then when the next word is "quester" it's like well that's a pretty good point actually

please play quester and quester: osaka

These Valerian panels would've killed as a reaction image back in the day

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

In Japanese, you address elder men as OG-chan and i think that's beautiful

*A retro home video game console

Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone www.eurogamer.net/discord-advi...

bully them more

Important messages from the door of the bank