it was incredibly encouraging to see tbh! i hope more games take this cue

AngelineEra tomorrow... ⚔️

literally been putting off backloggd's goty thing for this reason!!!

like every video ive been snared into watching about it says "its supposed to be emotional when the dog dies but i dont Care about the dog" as if that has more to do with its actual quality as narrative than your ability to emotionally engage with a game made by a guy who sucks

like its prob not great either but there are prob many semi-abandoned once-passionate projects on steam that r close or even lesser in quality/potential/whatever. it probably just requires a level of faith and emotional buy-in people can no longer muster cuz he sucks as a dude

also part of it is ppl getting their egos caught up in Already Being Good and theyre not ready to be challenged again. like being good at elden ring or hollow knight entitles u to not struggle at all with their followups. its a privilege to re-experience the climb!

i think just in general the thing that bugs me is that i wish we (including myself!) were more comfortable just having an intimate personal experience w/ a game without having to spew every half formed thought we have partway through to participate in The Discourse

saw this with shadow of the erdtree, saw this with silksong. the discourse around both has balanced out and it didnt even take that long, but the internet preserves all the now-absurd accusations that No One Can Beat This Its Too Hard before everyone beat it