probably is
Has gaming gotten worse or better over the years?
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You are standing in an open field, west of a large whìte house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
A rubber mat reading 'Welcome to Zork' lies by the door.
>open mailbox
Opening the mailbox reveals a leaflet.
>read leaflet
The leaflet reads as follows:
Hello, Gamer! Ever notice how modern games suck so much? It's all about the Benjamins these days, what with all the DLC scams, pay-to-win scams, and our personal favorite - buying a game but not actually owning it. Not to mention all that advertising on those online games and phone games. Well, there IS an alternative! Instead of blowing all your zorkmids on frivolous crap, how about some Interactive Fiction? Free, no ads, no wifi, and no garbage bloatware.
Check it out!
ifdb.org
There is a small mailbox here.
A rubber mat reading 'Welcome to Zork' lies by the door.
>open mailbox
Opening the mailbox reveals a leaflet.
>read leaflet
The leaflet reads as follows:
Hello, Gamer! Ever notice how modern games suck so much? It's all about the Benjamins these days, what with all the DLC scams, pay-to-win scams, and our personal favorite - buying a game but not actually owning it. Not to mention all that advertising on those online games and phone games. Well, there IS an alternative! Instead of blowing all your zorkmids on frivolous crap, how about some Interactive Fiction? Free, no ads, no wifi, and no garbage bloatware.
Check it out!
The Interactive Fiction Database - IF and Text Adventures
IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, reviews, recommendations, and more.
ifdb.org
whatever
just ban fortnite
just ban fortnite
Pizza Slut
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Japanese games released 15-20 are much better than what's being released today. I put that down in part to the declining console market and the rise of mobile gaming in Japan. It's why Nintendo went down the hybrid route with the Switch after the Wii U bombed. PS Vita had a much longer shelf life in Japan compared to overseas where it bombed too. The reason the Japanese home console market is in decline is imo largely due to the vast majority of the workforce who would be naturally inclined to play video games work much longer hours and overtime compared to overseas. So they'll play games on their mobile phones or a Switch during their daily commute and break times. There's also many Japanese game publishers unwilling to sink money and resources into developing games on the same scale you see from Western publishers with a handful of exceptions e.g. Nintendo, Square Enix & Capcom. Some Japanese game companies like Konami have almost entirely left console game development in favour of mobile development for the domestic market.
As a kid of the 1980s, I can tell you: Zork sucksYou are standing in an open field, west of a large whìte house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
A rubber mat reading 'Welcome to Zork' lies by the door.
>open mailbox
Opening the mailbox reveals a leaflet.
>read leaflet
The leaflet reads as follows:
Hello, Gamer! Ever notice how modern games suck so much? It's all about the Benjamins these days, what with all the DLC scams, pay-to-win scams, and our personal favorite - buying a game but not actually owning it. Not to mention all that advertising on those online games and phone games. Well, there IS an alternative! Instead of blowing all your zorkmids on frivolous crap, how about some Interactive Fiction? Free, no ads, no wifi, and no garbage bloatware.
Check it out!
The Interactive Fiction Database - IF and Text Adventures
IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, reviews, recommendations, and more.
So you’re a not much of a reader?
No, I just insert the knowledge of all subjects into my brain. All Asians know how to do this. The only thing you know how to insert into yourself is food
How DARE you pigeonhole Asian people as being all the same! I can tell you that each Asian person is as unique and special as the other people on this planet.
Shame On You!!
IF QUENCE WROTE A VIDEOGAME
I not laugh. Why? Because it not funny.
quence starts a game development company
many such cases
many such cases
A rather bland fantasy text game. I mean, I recognize it's historical importance... but, as it is? I'll pass.
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
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Esoteric White Boy
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Unarguably worse, The Elder Scrolls Morrowind was the most fun I had gaming in my incel life, with a little bit of weed that game is endless fun, I lost about 3 months of my life to that game and the herb, in just one fuckin playthrough.
Vidya games used to be made by autists who's hyper fixated interest was their digital passion project, nowadays it's all corporate slop carefully designed to have grindy, brainrot gameplay just barely fun enough to keep you hooked, or some shitty progression system reliant on microtransactions.
fuck this world we will never have Autist game developers again.
This is why I hate Jews so damn much, they took everything, even being a pot smoking, alcoholic loser isn't as fun as it was 15 years ago.
Vidya games used to be made by autists who's hyper fixated interest was their digital passion project, nowadays it's all corporate slop carefully designed to have grindy, brainrot gameplay just barely fun enough to keep you hooked, or some shitty progression system reliant on microtransactions.
fuck this world we will never have Autist game developers again.
This is why I hate Jews so damn much, they took everything, even being a pot smoking, alcoholic loser isn't as fun as it was 15 years ago.
spoiler: the lore for TES3 was written by a guy that went on a 5-day shroom bender and todd "it just works" howard had to personally go to his apartment to get him back into the office. or so ive been told.
Esoteric White Boy
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The fruits of that bender are implicated in the beauty of that game's world and writing; I heard his little psychedelic plight was instigated by Todd's harsh treatment during game development.
very likely. i think the guy quit after morrowind shipped.
oh yeah michael kirkbride
i think he also worked with oblivion
that sounds right, i completely forgot the guy's name. i have no idea if he worked on oblivion or not, i'd have to look it up.
you're probably right though, he probably did work on TES4
iirc he wrote some of the books but wasn't responsible for most of the lore