oworian @theoutrider@mastodon.social

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echoing what I said on Twitter: Serious Sam is a milestone in games as an art form for how deeply it embeds humor into its design, in a way very very few games ever do.

Serious Sam is true art, and I'll fight everyone who says otherwise

my favourite absurd fan theories are Bigger Luke and Silent Hill Circumcision Theory

Bigger Luke is the best thing

a friend of a friend offers:

Tired: diarrhea at work
Wired: enterprise lava beans

remember when Ubisoft tried to make Uplay on consoles a Thing and added functionality to draw Uplay achievement notifications over the systems' own ones

which royally shat up the 360 port of Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands with it by crashing the framerate into single digits whenever you gain an achievement

lol at glinner going into full pissbaby mode over being comprehensively owned by some nerd who's best known for getting naked on YouTube for a gag about loss.jpg

she's only about six hours into the night so hopefully she'll go back to sleep after a fresh bum and a full belly

staying up late was a mistake, he realises as just as he's about to go to bed babby starts crawling around in her bed and crying

lol that RCPS3 emulates a much higher-power platform much better than PCSX2 after less than half the time in development

I'm pretty sure this stems from the part where corporate game development requires designers to justify what they're doing ("why are you doing work on putting this into the game, barely anyone will ever see this, you're wasting time")

and so the meta-design usually can't resist the urge to point you towards all the things you can see and find and do to make sure you don't miss any of the things they put so much work into

we need more games that are super chill and gentle about progression

modern open-world game design with its absurd density of Stuff, usually advertised at you via waypoints or compass markers or pins on the map or full on text popups when you go anywhere near it, isn't a relaxing exploratory experience but actively counterproductive pressure because most modern open-world games are profoundly insecure about themselves

when Endless Ocean does have ~story progression~ stuff for you to do you can either go and bumble about as usual with no pressure to do the thing

and even when you do the thing the game then just straight up tells you "okay come back to the boat when you want but feel free to just bumble about for a while, it's cool"

is RCPS3 actually sensibly useful yet? I'd seen a video of it running Afterburner Climax and that seemed to work better PCSX2 does on basically anything...

now wondering if this PC would run RCPS3 for basically Aquanaut's Holiday 3 and Afrika

I *do* have an entire Google Photos album of screenshots from this and Aquanaut's Holiday 3, why do you ask

actually just sitting here watching the title screen and attract mode demos and fuckin just, this is such a beautiful thing

made 11 years ago on a console then and still ridiculed for being underpowered vs its competitors and yet it's nicer to look at than a lot of "system seller" titles on the 360 and PS3

pondering the kind of work that would have gone into AI scripting for the fish in Endless Ocean