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― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Novosibirsk (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link
When I first played Earthbound (at age 9, I think), I named Ness after me, and Paula after my brother (just to insult him). It got awkward when I realized that they fell in love in the game.
-- C('ing on)urt1sss (curtis.stephens@gmail.com), February 2nd, 2005 5:12 PM. (Curtis Stephens)
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― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link
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― c7n (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― c7n (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― radio pyongyang and the pytlik sisters (Cozen), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. (laurah), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish cold slither (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. (laurah), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link
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― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Which brings the question = is there a sense of vitality in heavily pixelated, limited-palette video games that fades away as the graphics and sound become more and more polished (expensive-looking)?
Also if someone would like to delete that post from last weekend when I was tanked out of my skull and somehow still typing, that would be heaven. Gah.
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 12 November 2005 05:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 12 November 2005 05:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Saturday, 12 November 2005 06:01 (eighteen years ago) link
With simpler hardware & graphics, you have to focus more on the abstract. you have to put more emphasis on the gameplay & design-within-limitations since you can't as easily wow the crowds with a bloom-lit, fog-surrounded, realtime fully-rendered drow elf chick with big gazoombas. (etc)
Maybe that's what they're aiming for in the Revolution; Emphasis on gameplay & design over getting a slightly shinier sheen projected on a lump of shit on the floor of Doom 4.
We'll see.
― kingfish cold slither (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 12 November 2005 06:32 (eighteen years ago) link
It ties in maybe a little bit with whatever "rogueism" shapes up to be, in my mind - there's this identification with the character borne not just out of empathy built via "mistakes translate 100%"* but just because "this generic-looking avatar could be ME" (more interesting and complicated, when you consider Dan's & Laura's input about character naming and design)
(then you think about how Spinktor, cozen, et al. all really seem to dig Earthbound above and beyond all else - hmmmm)
Whether the Revo actually goes in this direction, we'll see. I tend to figure Nintendo has a better grasp of the whole masking effect concept better than a lot of other folks by and large, though on the face of it Master Chief is probably easier to imagine as an extension of self (faceless warrior) than Mario (mustachioed plumber)
*which I can tell is a big factor for our Jdubz
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Who wants to bring "Hero with a Thousand Faces" into this?
― kingfish cold slither (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 12 November 2005 08:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. (laurah), Saturday, 12 November 2005 08:35 (eighteen years ago) link
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― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Hmm.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
I didn't know where else to put this. INTERESTING!!! Also SCOTT MCCLOUD REFERENCE = AWESOME THANK YOU
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― BUTT IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER (Adrian Langston), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
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― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
CONFLICTED EMOTIONS (anyone played it?)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
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― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 18 May 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurah (laurah), Saturday, 20 May 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link
fire emblem for gc is kind of a weird proposition for me, for some reason these games work much better in my head as portable things.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 20 May 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link