Heck, even "The Slammer" sounds more like a cool local club that plays host lots of goth, industrial, and chiptune acts...
So it's sort of special when instead of making you want to play more video games, one makes you want to turn all the screens off, go for a walk alone with your thoughts at 3am, and unplug for a good while.
Video games are a bit hung up on the idea of being "fun!" and "addictive!" as a medium. That's totally fine, most commercial art frankly needs to be. This just means it's important to signal boost the experiences that are more... interesting. And potentially challenging.
-It leads with "I Hope This Hurts" ...and it will. It did. -More nonlinear narratives. -More games that play in a single-sitting and sit with you. -More visuals that use a lack of fidelity to increase artistic impact. -More like this. store.steampowered.com/app/2475490/...
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
The actual adoption rate or cultural impact is secondary to the pitch; "Crop tops are popular fashion right now" -read- "Crop tops are what you'll see on models this year and in advertising, but most people will NOT be wearing them"
This question scratches at something I struggle with; I feel like "popular" and "pop" were terms coined to describe things as being appreciated and adopted by the majority of people, but I suspect the definition is now capitalist not populist: "Designed or INTENDED to appeal to the broadest market"
Aha, but is this a "Yahoo Anime Rules" situation where if too many people start using it, it'll change or get taken away?
"I'm reaching a bit here, but it's fun to compare the various elements between titles; both the ones that make the games feel like part of a larger whole, and the parts making them feel distinct." www.xeneth.design/2024/10/fift...
Frustrated at my inability to make any meaningful headway in the unconventional deckbuilder Party House , I blew the digital dust and p...
"Gold-ing and cherry-ing cartridges is always going to be appealing thanks to my completionist nature, but there are still plenty of games I absolutely should have dusted off by now and haven't." www.xeneth.design/2024/10/fift...
[The hour grows late. Too late for blogging. You've got to post something.] Time for a somewhat painful progression check-in. I continue to ...