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Re: Recommended games to play
By: rp Date: November 1, 2024, 12:20 pm
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Not recommending them, but FPS games are a good training tool
for potential war. So we should probably utilize them.
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Re: Recommended games to play
By: rp Date: November 1, 2024, 9:37 pm
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[quote author=rp link=topic=410.msg28163#msg28163
date=1728346747]
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TechCynic
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1y ago
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Lots of good answers here already, but I’d like to suggest one
more: 9/11. Or, more specifically, the way it impacted the
American psyche.
There was a huge cultural shift towards darker, edgier, angrier
TV, movies, and games after that happened. Games were already
moving that way since Mortal Kombat made its big splash, but IMO
9/11 really turbocharged it. We had just come off a decades-long
tech boom and an unprecedented period of relative peace, the
Soviet Union had recently fallen, and the world had celebrated
the start of the third millennium, and then bam — huge tech
crash combined with the deadliest attack on American soil since
the Civil War. Anger and nihilism exploded across the US, and I
think the cultural zeitgeist reflected it.
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Movies, music, TV, clothing -- everything really did a 180 from
the 90's in the post 9/11 era, especially once the Iraq war
started. Look at campy Sliders, Stargate SG-1 and Star Trek
compared to the doom and gloom dark dramas like Battlestar
Galactica (not saying that's a bad thing at all). I feel like
the '08 recession reset the trend by hitting a low water mark,
and then the tide started rising.
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As I said earlier, I noticed this after moving back to the U.S.
in 2008. All of a sudden, even Nintendo games (although already
3D) were darker and edgier. For example, compare The Legend of
Zelda Twilight Princess with Wind Waker and Super Smash Bros
Brawl with Melee. The fans of these games (whom I had interacted
with at school), despite being my peer and hence children by
age, were all adulterated ADHD type Westerners whose Original
Nobility had thoroughly been crushed. Even the "kids" games such
as Mario Kart I could sense were creating a false sense of
positivity. Coupled with Zionist agent Alex Jones exacerbating
the existing culture of fear, I would say that this was when the
counterculture had thoroughly ended. What do you think?
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Re: Recommended games to play
By: rp Date: November 3, 2024, 6:04 pm
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Even though I was unable to play retro games, just reading about
the lore online and watching playthroughs on (((YouTube))) was
enjoyable. I was always a regressive at heart, preferring the
earlier generations of Nintendo consoles (N64) although 3D, to
the newer ones (GCN, Wii), only liking the latter to the extent
that the games were similar enough to the older generations. So
upon hearing that there were even older consoles (but whose
games were in 2D), the regressive in me imagined that these
games must have been even better.
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Re: Recommended games to play
By: rp Date: November 3, 2024, 6:14 pm
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[quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=410.msg20101#msg20101
date=1685853605]
Badland is worse because it has several layers of background
each of which move differently.
By the way, there was once a time when it was considered
acceptable to have no background at all, and instead just empty
space behind the foreground:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuXOSBb4hQw
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Dk arcade: I was first exposed to this through the 3D game DK64,
where you have to complete it to advance:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBHJhla8TO4
I found it a pain in the ass, but perhaps I did find it
enjoyable or else I wouldn't have kept trying.
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Re: Recommended games to play
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 3, 2024, 8:29 pm
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"I would say that this was when the counterculture had
thoroughly ended. What do you think?"
Another good example of the point I think you are trying to make
is the Final Fight series. They already had a formula that
worked well in 2D through multiple games:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z--wWuJvQrU
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haXOox99DlY
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX_knm3V7S8
Then for no good reason at all (but merely following the
Western-led trend) they switched to 3D with instantly poor
results:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnJuZ5rcbBc
But instead of realizing their mistake and returning to 2D, they
thought the way to rescue the series was to stay in 3D but put
Westerners in charge of design(!!):
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fight:_Streetwise
[quote]Designer(s)
Joe Spataro
Michael Alexander
Cecil Carthen Jr.
Eric Luther
...
Artist(s)
Writer(s)
Gerardo Enzo Sprigg
Trent Kaniuga
Composer(s)
which of course led to one of the worst abominations of all
time:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI3y-ci9RSU
Counterculture non-Western artists knew they were better than
their Western peers, and were not afraid to flaunt it with their
incomparably superior works. A sign that the Counterculture was
over was the sudden loss of this confidence and the return to
blind West-worship.
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Re: Recommended games to play
By: rp Date: November 3, 2024, 11:22 pm
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"but merely following the Western-led trend"
What non Western developers didn't realize at the time was that
they were falling into a trap set by Westerners. The same
Western game reviewers, who for example, would praise the
developers for their "innovativeness" and "revolutionizing
gaming" (for example, with Super Mario 64 being the first 3D
game with mass popularity due to its mechanics and Ocarina of
Time being the first massively popular 3D adventure game) would
later say those developers were insufficiently innovative for
not embracing the trend toward realism as graphical capabilities
progressed. What's more insulting is that as "consolation" to
the non Western developers, they would say things like "Yeah,
Mario Bros, Mario 64 and aLTTP, OOT were good for their time,
but don't hold up like they did back then. Nintendo is no longer
at the top of its game anymore because it isn't innovating like
it used to", and the non Western developers couldn't do anything
to refute this because they themselves partially conceded to
this mindset when switching from 2D to 3D. This illustrates that
the Western mindset is fundamentally a progressivist one. It is
furthermore degrading to the value of the game itself by
suggesting that its quality is temporal, i.e. there is always a
"better" game that can me made compared to the one you are
currently playing because computing power will increase (Moore's
Law) and more computing power = "better" game.
The above mindset illustrates that games journalism (e.g. IGN)
has always had an implicitly pro Western bias, which inevitably
led to things like Gamergate. The way to counter this is to say
that yes, there is an absolute way to judge game quality, unlike
what the relativistic false left claims, but that quality is
subjective, not objective.
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Re: Recommended games to play
By: rp Date: November 17, 2024, 10:24 am
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Mischief makers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRM9Y8_Is2s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOWu0y6HAjk
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Re: Recommended games to play
By: rp Date: November 20, 2024, 9:35 pm
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Mischief makers has pre rendered 3d backgrounds and character
models (which are converted to 2d sprites), so it's technically
not fully 2D, but I still like the game. I have a similar
opinion on the Donkey Kong Country series, which uses the same
graphic style.
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Re: Recommended games to play
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 21, 2024, 4:16 pm
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[quote]character models (which are converted to 2d
sprites)[/quote]
Rotoscoping again! I have always despised this:
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Re: Recommended games to play
By: rp Date: February 5, 2025, 9:23 pm
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Brave Dwarves 2, one of my favorite childhood games:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnBBzGAQ1vU
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