/games/ - Games

It seems like these platforms have been tripping up a lot in recent years. And recently Microsoft shuttered a bunch of indie studios because of cost cutting or whatever. It seems like the future of gaming now is PC, mobile and the Nintendo platforms.

Does anyone remember this gem?

>Create the Disco scenes of your dreams.
>Introducing Collage Mode: the new functionality that gives you the creative freedom to stage just about anything in-game.
lmao ZA/UM usurpers come up with worst possible choices for the franchise now that they kicked out the creators and have become just an Amazon subsidiary now, expecting to see Disco Elysium NFTs soon

Is it any good? I haven't played it myself
Also do I have to play the previous games to understand what's going on?

Chef Saltbaker the petite bourgeois, after exploiting the labor of Cuphead and co., has his bakery (private mean of production) destroyed and is put to justice. The judge, instead of encarceraring the Chef, sentences him to obligatory community service, where he is resocialized through labor. Then, after arduous work in service of his community (Isle IV), he is forgiven, rebuilds his bakery (productive force) with his own labor and becomes a respected member.

frick zodiac signs
what's your MGSV custom mixtape?

for me it's Kino, molchat doma and Musics from the Afghan-Soviet War

New Cave Story-like has dropped.
So far I am enjoying it a lot. Sound design is really good. The animals are either really cute or really uncanny. There's a spooky atmosphere. I don't know whats going on but I think the animals are ghosts because they disappear in light sources. It's really open ended and you just sort of wander around until you get stuck. Upgrades are REALLY fun so far (not in that they change much about how you traverse the world or anything just that they are fun to use and funny). The game is like looking at an animal at night and they make a growling noise and you think its a wild boar when its just a goat.

Is this the end of anti-woke? Or at least a deep wound in it?

Is it good or bad? On one hand it's such a corporate thing to do that goes against the authors' vision just so people don't turn away from something outside of their comfort zone and prevents people from experiencing the work the way the authors intended. But on the other hand the adaptation may contribute some nifty ideas in return like that funny Crash's dance.

In my opinion all countries should be allowed to contribute ideas while not substituting them, like in an open-source project. I don't think the author is some 300 IQ big brain who knows better than everyone else, death of the author still applies. Plus, it doesn't mean that the ideas contributed aren't something the author doesn't find interesting. In fact, authors listen to feedback and borrow ideas all the time.

I'm starting to think that nostalgia isn't a delusion but a form of false consciousness. Nostalgic people can point out that certain things were better in the past but they cannot figure out why. Take "Games were better back then" for example. It's clear that people say this because of modern AAA gaming but they just don't understand that the worsening of quality of AAA games is due to the gaming business becoming mainstream and "too big to fail" rather than some innate special qualities to these older games that cannot be replicated today. And when it comes to certain games that people remember fondly, it's often not because it's their childhood but rather that these are genuinely good games or at least games that had potential. Therefore using the word "nostalgia" muddies the waters, it's a term that obfuscates discourse and makes people attached to superficial brands and appearances devoid of the content they represented. Nintendo's games were and are good because their developers are talented and pixel art is charming because it looks pretty and stylish, simple as. There was no pixel art in the 80s anyway, your shitty CRT screen turned everything into a blended goop.

In conclusion, we should stop using such a word as "nostalgia" and just say that the AAA games were just simply superior back then because capitalism, deal with it, zoom-zooms. And Sonic was always good… kinda… not really.