Post a fav game that got a 75 or less on Metacritic. I still don't know exactly what it is that makes me want to do EVERYTHING in a video game, but whatever it is BRC has it. Art, sound, and setting appeal to me of course, but I just like controlling this game. I like the simplicity and speed.

Game & Watch screens when you first put the batteries in:

New Samurai Gunn 2 update's menus, sound, and presentation are downright transcendent

I heard Marikplier is going to adapt Black Hammer's "I Spy Spooky Mansion Deluxe" next. Just wanted to say I'm available to read for Skelly.

It has snowed on me a lot lately and I gotta say working from home has kinda nerfed snow days hard

Rereading some of my posts and I found a "it isnt just X; it's Y" phrase Is that structure just forever poisoned by LLMs to me now? I winced when I read that.

Games I beat in 2026 🧵

The one time I dont bring my 3DS on a flight and the guy next to me has one. I'm never streetpassing another soul again am I?

If you told me the Kirby DLC would feature bosses with raid mechanics and DPS checks I would not have believed you but here we are (this was awesome)

i think i've gotta learn more about gambling so I can better articulate why I don't wanna when did so much gambling happen

azhdarchid.com/against-metr... I really do hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think so do many of you. Let's nip it in the bud before it becomes something people are financially invested in.

“When I got to the title it was a sad pikachu and over pikachu it read: ’Pokemon Yellow: Depressed Version’.”

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

dragon quest 1 is in the air lately, so please enjoy this old blog exploring the development of one of my favorite relationships with a jrpg world map tunditur-unda.neocities.org/posts/2020-0...

Hey wait I did do this maybe I am epic

I tried very very very hard to keep my mood from dipping during this year's solar banishment ritual and it did not work

Good news though they do still make games like this but even better now and they is Freehold and the game is Caves of Qud

Hilarious that in the new Pokemon you are told to stalk and jump other trainers at night - this is great.

Some photos of my childhood shopping mall I saw on FB today. This was ~10 years before I ever went but this is how I remember it. That massive glass ceiling is still around, but most of the grenery and decor is long gone.

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

I actually think it’s good when deeply offputting users have horrible AI avatars. its the 2025 version of this

*Jeff Bridges voice* The Grid

Taking the Friday before Labor Day off has proven to be one of the best decisions of my life. And the weather was sub-80f this weekend too I am happy to be alive

🙏 may I never use more than three thesaurus-worthy words in a reply to a reddit thread 🙏 may I never reply to a reddit thread 🙏 may I never open reddit

While I'm procrastinating sleep and talking games - SMT IV'S smirk merchanic is so funny. Press Turn is already so swingy and every now and then it can EXTRA swing, which feels euphoric when it happens to you. When it happens to an enemy, heaven forbid a boss, you might as well reload lol. Amazing.

Tonight in Death Stranding I finished a road system over the mountains. To fund this construction I had to raid a lot of raider camps, where I learned that the speed external prosthetics let Sam perform Olympic-surpassing insta-KO dropkicks. I cannot put this game down.

The word selfie was invented in 2002, but in 1999, Final Fantasy gave us the RPG character most likely to take/post selfies in the history of video games, and her name was Selphie. And yet somehow some people still don’t think that the world is a beautiful miracle

Hadn't seen this in a few years. It's still great.

AI weirdos can pry em dashes and sparkle emojis from my cold, dead hands

had an intense craving for a blue powerade slushie from sonic in the middle of the night and had to explain to my wife that that is my equivalent of getting boba as a little treat

I know a lot of people have been waiting for this one… Metaphor: ReFantazio has been added to the Game UI Database! One of the most eye-catching interfaces of recent times. www.gameuidatabase.com/gameData.php... This also marks another huge milestone for the site: 1500 Games! 2k by Xmas? Lets gooo!

More reasons to play Kirby and the Forgotten Land is a proposition I'll happily take any day of the week.

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer. As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free. Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

Death Stranding really has its hooks in me right now. I saw an Amazon truck on a walk and felt wistful.

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.” Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

looking at the "this is not a placr of honor" sign and realizing with growing dread that wasps can't read

2 types of fortnite writers

Another 30 hours in and this is a game for the ages - excessive in a way I've never personally encountered before. The wide spectrum of emotions this game has made me feel...

This week I’m delighted to announce Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 1: Re-raptored… and that’s it’s not made by Strange Scaffold. Follow @pedalboard.games, wishlist it on Steam, and check out Project Share, our next foray into exploring methods of sustainability!! store.steampowered.com/app/3830150

“AI will help with pointless interactions like item descriptions and NPC barks” if it’s pointless it shouldn’t be in the game. If there’s nothing interesting about something, cut it

I've only beaten Normal Episode 1 so far with a buddy but this game is so great. Feels like all of my reservations/frustrations with MMOs dont apply to PSO. This game does so much with comparatively very little.

I just fundamentally don’t get it. Why even bother with becoming a writer, a lovely hobby but a very difficult career, if you don’t actually want to do or even enjoy doing the very-technical labor that is writing??? Like our social capital isn’t even that good these days!!!

I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.

Didnt really know anything about DK Bonanza when I bought it. Was not expecting Deep Rock Galactic. This rules.

ICYMI: "Clunky and awkward though they may be and undeniably are, there’s just . . . something about these older first-person FromSoft games that hit different." @robsteinone.bsky.social yearns for the FromSoftware classics:

Just played my first game of Culdcept. I am probably going to be playing many more.