Massive social upheaval

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I like this, I’m happy to see pushback against that kind of “get out of my way” mentality so often taken as gospel in game design now. I do think reiterating on levels and sequences really did make a lot of game experiences more memorable for me, at least when done well

But also I don’t understand why people need to justify their nostalgia almost exclusively through the lens of some objective historical canon. It feels uncommon to find people online sometimes who speak about their actual personal experiences with these things

I remember seeing this tweet and thinking it was pretty obnoxious, too. A lot of missing context — 3m players isn’t necessarily 3m fans, a love of Banjo might’ve come from and led to a connecting thread of other Nintendo and Rare games whereas Croc was maybe a dead end in that sense

Seems obvious, but also never bothered me one bit. Kind of has an interesting almost stop-mo look to it, even; I really don’t mind visual quirks like that

Here come the N. Korea experts, with no genuine curiosity about the actual country or how it got there beyond the thrill of cultural dogpiling

I think even if you managed to win any of those last three you’d be messed up for life

With Daffy you’d really have to know who’s directing today

It makes them feel less like music boxes and more like those really bad bootleg plug ‘n’ play games

They saw Edward Sharpe, Arcade Fire and MGMT bubbling under and artificially boosted Of Monsters and Men, Fun., and Foster the People in their place. It’s like blaming Pearl Jam for Nickelback

They look like 3D models… sometimes? I think they have 2D features drawn on to the models — like kind of a Big Top Burger thing — but maybe some shots are just all or mostly 2D

I couldn’t get rid of the mushpea texture, but I hope it’s ugliness can add to the charm or whatever