Dragon Quest VII Reimagined! Yes! Yes!!

Man, the Dragon Quest VII Reimagined demo is actively charming me in a way that is unusual for games these days. Very quickly went from "buying eventually to put on the pile of Dragon Quests I'll never muster the patience to play" to a day 1 purchase.

many games have "little guys" but i want us to make the distinction between little guys and "fuckers"

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

tl;dr The narrative team at Funcom is absolutely killing it, and if you haven't played the Fremen questlines, you're missing out on some of the best writing our industry has right now. Don't sleep on it.

when i was single-digit years old i read the phrase "political assassination" in nintendo power's killer7 feature and i asked my dad what it meant. he said "what the hell is that gamecube teaching you man." first time i'd ever heard him curse. happy 20th to the greatest video game of all time

Dune: Awakening releases today. I've been on the project for three and a half years. Video games, somehow, just keep getting harder and harder to make. But I think we landed this one. There has never been a game quite like it before.

On the one hand, congrats, on the other hand, 100k is criminally low for one of the best narrative games ever created, so I hope for a continued tail on this one. Literally every thread about it is people saying they didn't know of it and were blown away. Play it!

GHOST IN THE SHELL - INNOCENCE (2004): Two depressed middle-aged cops distract themselves from grief and existential ennui by quoting 101-level philosophy at each other, getting in gunfights with Yakuza, solving Myst puzzles in abandoned arcology-cathedrals. Might be the sickest shit ever

Unigiri at the bar? （Uni sometimes looks like an onigiri, so I call him Unigiri）

holy fuck clair obscur

The vet said 〝He's not overweight at all, but he has a round and big head.‘’

god that first episode of GQuuuuuuX was so good. Hadn't realized how much I've missed studio khara.

Anyone want a copy of Dune?

Done with the main+extended story in Xenoblade X after 107 hours, time to unmute a bunch of keywords. Easily the worst game in the franchise, which means it's still a very strong 8/10 and potential GotY contender.

Gene Hackman sounds like a character Hideo Kojima would have in a game about cloning

Let's go

Not even going to tease you here. 1000xRESIST, by Sunset Visitor recieved a Metacritic review score of 98. You read that right. Now read @Matt Aukamp’s review at the Hotspot. adventuregamehotspot.com/review/3628/... #metacritic #adventuregame #indiegame #switchgame #pcgame

whos up stranding their deaths

Credits rolling on Avowed. Overall I enjoyed it! Some will find that its CRPG roots and superficial similarities to TES hurt it—it deliberately opts out of any pseudo immersive sim aspects in favor of a more streamlined questing experience. It is a *good* experience, with the right expectations.

This is like an optical illusion. Out of the corner of my eye I can catch "soul" but when I actually look at it it goes back to rarohire.

So true, NiGHTS.

this website is on another level

Sometimes you get an outside perspective on the game you're working on and are forced to concede that it looks pretty cool youtu.be/gJm4anBGZGM?...

look, I’m not saying there aren’t horrors. just that you can have a little treat along with the horrors too.

I don't think it's discussed nearly as much as it should be that when Mega64's transfarring promo was dubbed into Japanese, Konami got Mr. Japanese Solid Snake himself, Akio Otsuka, to dub Rocco and it'll never not be the funniest thing to hear a voice I now associate with car ads coming out of him.

Heartbreaking: 36-year-old man needs a good cry but refuses to watch episode six of Aim for the Top! GunBuster

one of the best pieces of key art it’s so good

“I didn’t go, not after what he said” is an example of RESUMPTIVE NEGATION—the use of one negative statement immediately after another to emphasise the negation of the whole. The second clause here could just be “after what he said”, but the extra ‘not’ works to reinforce the first.

Sudden, chilling realization that my inclinations re: game design and narrative—hell, my entire creative identity—can probably be boiled down to "read House of Leaves when he was 14"

I am once again rewatching the climax of Umineko EP 5. This is really the best game of all time.

Credits finally rolling on Metaphor ReFantazio. A fantastic game, as expected, and I remain fascinated by its development cycle. A very direct sequel to Persona 5 left to cook for the better part of a decade, it feels simultaneously sprawling and constrained, polished and rushed. Craft, not product.

Jesus voice:

It occurs to me, after reading posts getting it spectacularly wrong, that there are a lot of misconceptions over how game studios organize and, in particular, who makes the actual decisions about what ends up in your game. Much of it is by folks who don't *try* to get it... but not all, surely. 1/🧵

WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME ABOUT TUPI

Not enough excitement for Soul Reaver Remastered here

great week if you’re interested in emergent narrative

many stories throughout the ages have been about the end of the age of heroes and the beginning of the age of men. the illiad placed this occurence sometime in the mycenaean era. mgs3 places it in the 1960s.

Wrapped up my Zero Time Dilemma re-play, and it cemented my belief that the game being the weakest in the trilogy is a mercy. The death of the franchise would have been incredibly painful if the last entry had been on par with Virtue's Last Reward, but it being plagued by misfires softens the blow.

New Mononoke movie on Netflix kicked the shit out of me. Absolutely floored. It demands your undivided attention and rewards you every second of its 85-minute runtime.

machine translation post editing, or as I like to call it, "translating the text from scratch"

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes coming to PS5, PS4 on December 3 Publisher Annapurna Interactive and developer Simogo will release puzzle game Lorelei and the Laser Eyes for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on December 3, the companies announced.

The key to surviving online is innoculating yourself with the correct amount of anime. Too little, and you will feel endlessly lost. Too much, and you will lose yourself to endlessness.

Born to play Slitterhead, forced to clear the new FF14 raid before the weekly reset

Rise of the Golden Idol cleared. It's pretty exactly what I wanted—more point-and-click Obra Dinn but with a reset complexity progression, a new setting, and some mechanical tweaks. The interpretive dance segment was a highlight. Excited for the DLC!

Surprise delays in parts of the world and minimal marketing still conspire to bury "SLITTERHEAD" but having played a couple of missions I need you to buy it. Keiichiro Toyama's Silent Hill / Forbidden Siren / Gravity Rush design genealogy is on full display. A PS2-ass experience for gamer freaks.

hey dude, I noticed you attempting to carve a small space for joy in the face of overwhelming sadness. kind of problematic considering all the horrors