I watched a Japanese video about the awful classic 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie since I was curious about how it was viewed from a Japanese perspective. Disney’s involvement in the movie’s production is mentioned at which point the author jokes that “if today’s Disney was in charge, Mario would probably be made into a...
You could probably make some incredibly on-the-nose game about anti-colonial transgender communist prison abolitionists but as long as there were big pairs of yabbos and large butts on screen at all times gamers would probably not notice
My first dedicated gaming system was the PS1, and in general I have no trouble going back to the sprites and chunky polygons of the mid-to-late 90s, whether on consoles or computers...
Two d-pads, one analog stick, three triggers and two face buttons? What were they smoking in Kyoto in the early 90s stalin-stressed I have only seen a Nintendo 64 in real life like twice back in the 90s so I have no clue what all these buttons do in most games....
(I mean, at least in the Metropolitan area) Earlier I waited in line at a shop in Helsinki and behind me was a large group of schoolkids, all various people of colour and all speaking American English with each other. It’s a fairly common occurrence in Eastern Helsinki and makes you feel like you’re in the US or Canada...
I don’t think it can be emphasised just how negatively some people react to JRPG storytelling, or anything too “animey” in general. I think the reason why overtly Japanese franchises like Final Fantasy achieved the massive mainstream status they still hold today is because in the PS1 days they were the only game in town, with Western devs lagging far behind in terms of cinematic story-heavy console game development.
Now that the industry is dominated by titles developed both by and for Westerners, the average gamer has no reason to bother with games where cartoon teenagers with stupid names and even stupider hair yap about nonsense for hours when they can just play whatever CD Projekt Red or Bethesda game is out. This is not to say that Japanese games don’t have a large fanbase in the West, they definitely do! They just don’t have the same kind of broad appeal
Lightning bugs (mander.xyz)
Watching a video about a game, author mentions being a little kid when the Gamecube/PS2/Xbox were relevant
pain...
It snowed even more (hexbear.net)
Last time I complained about snow it was just a light dusting of snow that melted in a few hours dean-frown...
Japanese nerds are complaining about woke Disney too (hexbear.net)
I watched a Japanese video about the awful classic 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie since I was curious about how it was viewed from a Japanese perspective. Disney’s involvement in the movie’s production is mentioned at which point the author jokes that “if today’s Disney was in charge, Mario would probably be made into a...
No please Bayo and 2b do not deserve this (hexbear.net)
twitter.com/momiji_doa/…/1775263456956121259
Command & Conquer meme (hexbear.net)
This ad for Interplay from 1999 (hexbear.net)
BY GAMERS, FOR GAMERS...
I got an air fryer
Me when I see an air fryer for cheap pog-fish...
What are the oldest video games you can enjoy?
My first dedicated gaming system was the PS1, and in general I have no trouble going back to the sprites and chunky polygons of the mid-to-late 90s, whether on consoles or computers...
Remember to thank emulator devs for their service (hexbear.net)
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How can you care enough about covid to mask after 4 years but not enough to know IT GOES OVER YOUR NOSE
Come on grandmas picard-annoyed
You may not like it, but this is what peak survival horror combat looks like (cdn.imgchest.com)
wimpy player character...
I consider myself very familiar with the Japanese culture (hexbear.net)
It’s just scientific fact that they love being slaves to corporations unlike us, the proudly independent and individualistic Westerners smuglord...
Any tips on how to map a standard modern controller to this ...thing (hexbear.net)
Two d-pads, one analog stick, three triggers and two face buttons? What were they smoking in Kyoto in the early 90s stalin-stressed I have only seen a Nintendo 64 in real life like twice back in the 90s so I have no clue what all these buttons do in most games....
These days a lot of kids just speak English
(I mean, at least in the Metropolitan area) Earlier I waited in line at a shop in Helsinki and behind me was a large group of schoolkids, all various people of colour and all speaking American English with each other. It’s a fairly common occurrence in Eastern Helsinki and makes you feel like you’re in the US or Canada...
Just look at this smoothed out PS1 T-Rex from the upcoming Tomb Raider remaster collection (hexbear.net)
He looks like a plushie michael-laugh...
Skipping the story in a JRPG to get to more combat is so backwards to me lmao (hexbear.net)
I love hearing increasingly tortured euphemisms for death, murder and suicide because people don't want to get flagged by bots looking for advertiser-unfriendly content
If I hear “unalive” as a verb one more time dean-frown
There has to be a better word for long-running established fictional universes than "intellectual property" or "franchise," right?
Why are we all talking like corporate copyright lawyers or marketing ghouls, using these explicitly commercial terms thonk...
I'm seeing a lot of Palworld discourse but no one's pointed out the obvious yet
They name their game PALWORLD and it doesn’t even run at 50hz? brow
They are after horny g@mers (hexbear.net)
www.pcgamesn.com/palworld/lovander
redditors currently discovering that the drawbacks of calling everyone left of bernie a tankie is that people just stop caring about the word tankie (hexbear.net)
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