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Lopen posted...

I mean it sounds smart to say these were always problems and it hasn't aged poorly but aging is pretty much "when the novelty wears off"

Aging doesn't mean there weren't problems to begin with. It never means that. Games aren't people they don't develop problems as they become older.

It means that they weren't as glaring at the time because people were excited about some other thing and aren't as much, or the things wrong with it become more obvious with an increasing amount of superior examples out there etc etc.

Sure but my argument here is explicitly "a lot of these problems were just as glaring at the time".

It hasn't but people exaggerate how badly it's aged. Problems like the low FPS (especially when a lot is happening on screen) were obvious and annoying even when the game was new.

Most of these are pretty good picks, even if they're not the choices I would have gone for. In particular I'd probably have a different pick for Galaxy and its sequel, maybe more than one even.

Honestly I don't think 1-1 belongs here. Like it's clearly iconic but putting that aside I'm not sure what it does to earn it such a high placement.

Mission accomplished

DOOM (2016, Steam)

What a good shooter. I do wish there was more variety later on -- the last couple levels don't have any new enemies and by that point I was pretty much settled on my Super Shotgun / Gauss Rifle combo, so it got a little repetitive. It was fun repetition, though.

Almost done with Doom 2016 I think. I just killed the Cyberdemon. I'm still liking it a lot, especially now that I have the rune equipped and upgraded that makes glory kills faster. I wish there were a few more enemy types but oh well. Doom Eternal soon!

I don't think I ever beat it as a kid, which is when I used guides for almost everything. I did finally beat it as an older teenager though and I remember at least needing a guide to beat the Water Temple. It was for a stupid reason, too: I forgot those blue blocks could be removed with an ocarina song (Zelda's Lullaby IIRC) so I got stuck in a room where you need to do that to proceed.

tcaz2 posted...

Metroid Prime is no where even CLOSE to as scary as Outer Wilds is. Outer Wilds is legitimately terrifying at times.

I guess I just don't agree. Maybe I'm weird lol. I wouldn't call either game terrifying even in their scariest moments though.

-hotdogturtle-- posted...

Yeah this, it's becoming such a common cliche that you should instantly be able to assume what it is whenever someone says that.

I honestly fuckin hate this, it's so obnoxious to see a game's description say something like "wholesome fun for the whole family! :D" and not know if it's an accurate description or just a weird lie.

Wouldn't call Outer Wilds an example of that, though. It has spooky moments but less than e.g. Metroid Prime, just to pick another random "explore alien planets" game.

Grimlyn posted...

sometimes transphobes are just so monumentally stupid that it does open up some room to just laugh at them

This one's great, but I also liked the transphobes claiming that Daniel Radcliffe's pregnant girlfriend is a trans woman, and JKR claiming that women can die from receiving blood transfusions with "male blood".

Transphobes might just be the dumbest fucking people on the planet.

Doom 2016 was cheap on Fanatical so I picked that up, gonna try to finish that and still do Eternal before the end of April. Knocked out the first two levels and enjoying it so far, already getting kinda sick of the animations for melee kills though.

LordoftheMorons posted...

But also
https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/1644474146716352512?s=21

So who knows what its status is!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/9/8/AACm-yAAEXJm.jpg

2.5 kinda? I'd have guessed author which is correct, but I wasn't terribly confident. Voted 3 though.

Crescent-Moon posted...

I have no idea what this topic is even about.

The monorail episode

OlliOlli (Steam)

Honestly I'm not sure how I feel about counting this as beaten when all I did was beat all the amateur stages, but there's no way I'm unlocking, much less beating, all the pro stages, so I'm done here. I liked this game at first but the more demanding it got the less I found myself tolerating the control scheme, to say nothing of how unresponsive those controls felt (the plot twist is gonna be that my Steam Deck's left analog stick is just broken or something but god I hope not).

masterplum posted...

Yeah it would. Would it make me vote for fascists? No, but it would certainly make me less likely donate money or encourage people to vote because it would dampen enthusiasm if it became a core issue.

I really believe degrading womens sports is an attack on women and womens rights is a deep issue to me. It really bothers me the way some men culturally treat women as property and I get the same vibe from some people that they are treating womens sports as some ridiculous afterthought that doesnt matter because it doesnt matter to them.

But like you said, trans athletes make up a tiny proportion of athletes. I dont think its just to set the stage to torpedo the competitiveness of womens sports to accommodate a tiny fraction of women.

I think kids sports is fine, but at the high school and college level it isnt fair.

So you're just going full mask off now huh

masterplum posted...

Except that isn't true at all?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/1/1/AANz_VAAEW6L.png

28% of voters vs 46% of voters

You have 18% of voters who oppose transgender professional sports and support joe biden

How is this a response to the message quoted...?

Also wasn't there a poll just the other day that said the majority of Americans, even Republicans, see attacks on LGBT rights as political theater? This is a losing issue for Biden. At the least it's bad optics.

AriaOfBolo posted...

and nobody cares about the trans men for Some Odd Reason,

No no, people definitely care. They just lie and say they're trans women who shouldn't be allowed to compete against cis women.

I guess that's what you mean by complain about them later but I just wanna emphasize that it's intentional

JackMan posted...

Just got back, I'd say a 5 or 6/10 is fair. Good attention to detail, bright and colourful and delightfully animated, but with terrible pacing and writing and a boring, shallow plot. Like inch deep.

You're really not selling this as a 5 or 6/10 lol

masterplum posted...

Is that not part of a normal physical for you?

No??? Not from any age I can remember, at least. My pediatrician asked one time during puberty but it was optional and I declined and we moved on.

I guess it's possible it happened and I blocked out the memory because this absolutely would have been traumatic for me as a kid??

masterplum posted...

Pediatricians inspect genitals every visit.

I'm sorry but what the fuck?

LightningStrikes posted...

B) a transgender woman whos never been through a testosterone puberty would have no advantage so the youth sport thing is nonsense

Keep in mind the source plum linked earlier said things like (paraphrasing) "male brains are inherently more competitive and violent and this cannot be changed by hormone therapy" so it's not just about puberty and effects you can actually see with these people.

masterplum posted...

Arent most youth sports mixed gender until post puberty anyways?

This has not been my experience, no. Some teams/leagues are, certainly.

masterplum posted...

Serena Williams, the greatest female tennis player of all time,

Great example of a person that is 100% cis and still called a man by racist people who think being good at a sport equates to male-ness, and whom expanded anti-trans laws could absolutely be weaponized to target.

Simoun posted...

What I really like about this game is it was made with speedrunning in mind because you can acquire 2 of the 3 main tools and bypass certain parts to finish the game anyway. I think you can also do it with just 1 but you'd have to be really smart about it.

I did think that was cool, though I got all three main tools anyway and I'm not sure I'll replay it. Nice that there are so many options for people who dive deep into it though!

masterplum posted...

gc?

This is just science

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9331831
/#:~:text=Males%20have%20much%20higher %20arterial,oxygen%20carrying%20advantage%20over%20females

Also I'm not exactly an expert in this field but this strikes me as kinda trash. Like a lot of the arguments are "there isn't much research on this but it seems like hormone treatment doesn't change [e.g., testosterone levels, muscle mass, whatever] to make trans women identical to cis women, except when it does". As a result a lot of the arguments become "well cis men are superior to cis women, and trans women are basically cis men. QED."

I'm not even saying its conclusions are necessarily wrong, just that we really don't know yet because the research isn't there. Also, this is maybe an unfair criticism but some of the language used has me giving it a big side eye. When you're writing about trans people maybe do some research into how to not sound like a TERF straight out the gate, idk.

Samurai7 posted...

I never understood why this matters anyway. Short guys have a disadvantage in basket ball. Should we have separate basketball divisions based on height? I mean really so much of someone's athletic potential is genetic. Why is that only important when it comes to gender?

Hate it when my competitors have a biological advantage in the biological advantage competition

swordz9 posted...

Seems as dumb an idea as allowing your soldiers to decide theyd rather fight for the enemy country and there being no consequences after

Fire Emblem

(Also the American Civil War but I assume that's exactly what you're referencing)

Leonhart4 posted...

The worst thing about it was popularizing all that silly "his name is Mario Mario" stuff.

tbh I think this ship set sail the instant they named the game Mario Bros.

ctesjbuvf posted...

As in, 1993 movie is so bad it's entertaining?

Kind of? It's dumb as shit but I've always found it endearing, and entertaining in ways that don't necessarily pertain to its badness.

swordz9 posted...

What an absolute loser. Man too bad we cant go back in time and convince the North to be so harsh on the South after winning these guys wouldnt be dry humping the Confederacy still today

God, learning about Reconstruction is so infuriating for this reason. It's like the scene in a slasher movie where the killer gets knocked out and the victim just runs away instead of killing him while he's down.

ctesjbuvf posted...

I'm not trying to downplay critics at all (except the one that says it's worse than the 1993 movie because jfc there's just no way that person actually thinks so)

...Really? Frankly I'd be shocked if this movie is better than 1993 in any way aside from being technically more impressive. 1993 movie is *wild*.

Xeybozn posted...

Maybe people just like Chris Pratt? Maybe audiences will actually end up hating the movie when they find out that Chris Pratt isn't voicing every character.

maybe the sky is made of cotton candy

Leonhart4 posted...

Another reason this movie was never going to get a 95%+ score is people being biased against it from the start because of this...!

Maybe, but the context for my post was "people just want to see Mario go Wahoo" and I think I'm theoretically someone who could be taken in by that, except this movie doesn't have Mario saying wahoo, it has Chris Pratt doing it. Like, Mario's voice is only a draw for me if it's actually Mario's voice, and I can't imagine I'm the only one.

Zigzagoon posted...

Audience is for sure going to be in the 80-100% range. They just want to see Mario say Wahoo and Bowser go Brrrr whilst having it all look pretty. And that's what they're gonna get.

Is there even any appeal to Mario saying Wahoo if it's in Chris Pratt's voice?

Fair enough!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/6/AACm-yAAEWfO.jpg

If you have an older phone you can still get it I guess.

I literally searched it on the Play store before posting that. It isn't there anymore. Trilogy and Apollo are but not 5 and 6.

It's funny, the last time someone on B8 said this they were also not believed. Speaking of confidently incorrect...!

If you haven't appealed already you could try the "I was suspended for my conservative beliefs" trick.

They're not on Android anymore. Idk about iOS.

If you're out as trans on Twitter I would assume you just got mass reported by transphobes, anecdotally it seems to happen pretty often these days

River City Girls (Steam)

Love any media about girls who are absolutely feral. The music, cutscenes, and voice acting are all great too. I just wish the actual gameplay was more interesting. The enemy variety is pretty bad and the controls are just as clunky as an actual 90s beat-'em-up, possibly more so. For instance: you have to double tap left or right to run, and you can only run left and right even though you can move in all four directions. It feels somehow much less acceptable in a game from 2019 than it did 2-3 decades ago.

I have the sequel too but I'll probably wait a bit before jumping into it. Glad to know it's better though!

Ittle Dew (Steam)

Pretty cute. It's obviously a parody of LttP, but whereas that game is a combat game with puzzles, this is much more of a puzzle game with combat. I got all three major items and did most of the bonus stuff but didn't try to finish the Master Cave. It's not amazing but it'll do.

lmao get fucked DeSantis

Kenri has beaten Princess Remedy

I've played this before so I decided to do the run on hard mode and get 101% by going for the Jealous Chest. A few battles gave me trouble but I beat the final boss first attempt, whereas the first time I played it caused me some serious issues. The power of 6/5, uh, power, I guess.

I dunno, I'm not really on board with the argument "using slurs isn't okay but using derivatives of slurs is fine". This sounds like something that doesn't merit a firing but clearly does merit a warning, and apparently she's been warned before. Not surprised they just cut her loose. *shrug*

FoolFantastic posted...

Since most of mine have been serious, here's one that always makes me laugh

I think my favorite just funny, not serious line might be:

"Tell your boyfriend if he says he's got beef,
That I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fucking scared of him" - DONTTRUSTME by 3OH!3

Shadow the hedgehog dropped

Thorn posted...

those who understand strategy are in awe

https://twitter.com/AntiToxicPeople/status/1641801339935285249

APPEALING!

Evan's Remains (Steam)

This is a puzzle platformer with gorgeous pixel art (albeit with character portraits that slightly clash) and a lot of story. It's one of those games like To the Moon and Iconoclasts that clearly had a lot of creativity and passion behind its story, but it just reads as amateurish in a lot of mostly-intangible ways (it's not nearly as bad as Iconoclasts though). The characters are kinda unlikable and while the twists and reveals weren't bad, exactly, they did leave me going "oh okay sure" instead of reacting with like... surprise, or emotion. A few lines seemed poorly translated too so that doesn't help.

The puzzles are all pretty simple and typically center around platforms that disappear as soon as you jump off them -- there's an achievement for spending longer than 15 minutes on any one puzzle, and I did not get that achievement in the process of beating the game, so that probably tells you what the difficulty level is.

I dunno, it's hard to say how I feel about this one, though I definitely don't actively dislike it.