The thing is that it's never suggested as a way to protest the decisions made by these companies, but rather it is brought up as a smarmy, defeatist sentiment of "well everything sucks now, might as well only play new shit". It always has an elitist "new bad old good" undertone to it.

Saw a few oomfs talk about it, and I agree with the take that it's weird as hell actually that the immediate reaction to bad news in the gaming space is just "play older games", as if the only reason to engage with older games is the state of the modern industry rather than the quality of old games.

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you are morally obligated to buy muramasa on PC so vanillaware puts their other shit there and stops almost dying every game

Given the state of things, if you want to protect your own free expression and that of people you actually care about you are straight up gonna have to defend shit that deeply morally offends you, grosses you out, or even possibly induces trauma depending on your life experiences.

Immersive sim irl

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

This is also why he put Pekora in

Amazing vending machine found while wandering around Shibuya Station.

grabbing my doordash

I can’t believe Cygames turned @wooliewoolz.bsky.social into an Umamusume.

I had a lovecraftian sanity dip seeing this in a store.

tfw your workplace is destroyed

That time of year again!

New games weren't scarce in the 90s, but you could've easily played most of the hits. Now there's so many masterpieces that everyone has their personal endless backlog of amazing content. AI slop shouldn't be able to thrive in a market bursting with so many human-made, genuine banger pieces of art.

Okay, so like, as someone who has played Capcom's Dungeons and Dragons beat em ups, Dragon's Crown, Fight n Rage, Double Dragon Gaiden, and Streets of Rage 4 including the Mr. X DLC, Absolum isn't as groundbreaking and revolutionary as many people talked it up to be, but it's every bit as stellar.

Sting announces BAROQUE-YA for Switch Sting has announced BAROQUE-YA, a collection of four BARAOQUE games for Switch. It will launch on December 18 in Japan.

Castle of Shikigami 3 coming to Switch in late April 2026 in Japan Cosmo Machia will release Alfa System-developed shoot 'em up Castle of Shikigami 3 for Switch in late April 2026 in Japan, the company announced.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2021)

Memories: the opening of "Aoi Honoo" (Blue Blazes) live-action series (2014), featuring numerous sakuga references.

A gorgeous promo for the Super Famicom 1993 release of R-Type III: The Third Lightning. I love the mix of black lines and filled sections and the pale, almost eldritch teal. Goes so well with intricate ship artwork.

Racing Lagoon now has a full set of Retro Achievements, courtesy of DoctorV. There's never been a better time to experience the wildest game Squaresoft has ever produced.

I'm not putting this one in the Isekai thread cause 1. I'm not caught up and 2. Cause it's operating at a way higher level than basically any of those. Albus Changes The World This is great. Speedruns a reincar/timeloop story in like 3 chapters and then starts the actual character focused story

Hey, Tokusatsu freaks! Are these your guys?

Going to become the Chillin' By the Fire guy just to be irritating.

People have been desperately sharing private information because they feel they need to air their marginalized traits as credentials in order to have social permission to do normal things like yearn and be annoyed and have opinions about television. That whole paradigm has to end.

Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out

I kinda like how that "Aiba sweating" thumbnail came out, so here's a larger size of it.

everytime I look at a webtoon I weep for the lost art of paneling

Overwrought & unhelpful shitlib nonsense. You could run AC all thru your house for decades & the climate impact would be a fraction of any number of irresponsible corporate uses of energy that this article for some reason doesn't want to talk about

The Faye Wong cover of Dreams by The Cranberries (as heard in Chungking Express) blasting from the radio is the cherry on top of this video. youtu.be/vUz9xCTOPRw?...

jesus christ man

grips your liver aggressively #hndr_fa

Vaka Game Magazine released the indie roguelite Drapline on PC via Steam Early Access. This game has you raise a dragon girl who can grow by eating literally everything: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/17836-indie-roguelite-character-raising-game-drapline-launches-on-pc-via-steam-early-access

Bitches will be like "we made a dating sim" and then have the same level of character interaction as game of the year 2019 visual novel masterpiece 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (currently on sale for US PSN today for $15 www.playstation.com/en-us/games/...) and the worst writing you've ever seen.

I beat the Nioh 3 Alpha demo. This is a game for sickos and now feel like I'm destined for an early grave. It's pretty cool.

Not only did Walmart deliver this at like 5:30am but they also gave me a can of Pringles and a coke.

In case anyone needs to hear this:

Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

nightreign fextralife users are also kinda funny (around all the typical soulsbro stuff)

Kojima adding Usada Pekora 🥕 (Vtuber) as a Prepper to Death Stranding 2 is so badass. Love that if he's a fan of something, he goes above and beyond to express it.

Jobs suck ass. I am against any politician who threatens to create more.