keimevo

@keimevo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally know two JRPG gamers that played it (recommended by me) and didn’t like it, because they never advanced beyond the underworld. And some other people online with a similar experience. Of course, that was in the '90s, when I played it for the first time.

  In the 30 years since, the game has become a lot more popular and gained a cult following, but at release time it wasn’t like that (not helped by the fact that the 2 previous games in the trilogy were kind of obscure too).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if it’s my favorite, but Prototype (and its sequel) comes to my mind. It wasn’t that badly received, but most people liked Infamous more, in the same generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the first game you ever bought ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A cassette tape for my MSX with 2 games by Konami: Hyper Rally and Antarctic Adventure. That was in 1988.

  I’ve been gaming ever since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics'⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This really needs an Elder Scrolls Oblivion-style remake. Use the original engine for everything except graphics, and remake only the graphics part (and the contact surface between the visual and original engines).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was born in the same year, 1976, and I really don’t feel the same way. Pretty much every era has bangers and also really bad games.

  I have really good memories from the '80s (games like Pitfall II or the MSX Konami games), the '90s (playing MUDs with my college pals, the classic SNES JRPGs like Chrono Trigger or the classic PC CRPGs like Baldur’s Gate and its ilk), the '00s (games like Silent Hill 2, Morrowind or GTA: San Andreas), the '10s (pretty much every FromSoft game from that decade, NieR:Automata or the Rocksteady Batman games) and the '20s (games like Elden Ring, Hades, etc.). And many more games I didn’t mention.

  Some decades have been better than others, but there are incredible games in all of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually when the word “original” is used in the context of media, it means it’s a new idea/concept/story, in opposition to an “'adaptation” from another media (like a movie to a videogame, or a book to a movie). This movie is an adaptation.

  I’m not criticizing your opinion, as I really like the movie too (including pacing and direction). Only the terminology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not original, though it expands on Ted Chiang’s short story “Story of Your Life”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Though they’re a mix of sandstorm/thunderstorm (like in the movie), the Mad Max game from Avalanche.