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Serephina posted:I enjoyed Braid when it was released, no qualifiers on that. It was a good game, even if I feel no need to go back to it. A quick google for the ending's meaning told me that the creator was upset that people figured it out (WW2 nuke quotes), but I thought nothing of it and merrily went on my way. The ending being "Actually you're a creepy stalker" was trying to be clever but felt totally unearned. Like a shyamalan twist, but without any foreshadowing. Other than that, you're right, a play through of braid when it came out was fun.
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Feb 22, 2021 15:40
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It's always loving hilarious when an author is actively upset that people figured out what they were going for, like that one writer who changed his story because people on reddit guessed it so he made it something no one guessed (because it was too stupid for anyone to guess), I think they were right about Blow the first time.
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Feb 22, 2021 15:51
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Gaius Marius posted:That was the genesis version, Prolly not the best example but my point still stands games looked better than we display them now and it's ruining a generation who now think retro games were pixel filled nightmares An entire generation, ruined! I don't know, I grew up with 8 and 16 bit consoles on CRTs and when I load up an emulator it better have some 4x filter so I can enjoy those graphics in an almost-remastered fashion, regardless of "authenticity".  Ruined!
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Feb 22, 2021 15:57
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i explained to my wife what the bang & olufsen mx6000 was there for. she was like "alright" and we played some puyo puyo sun for saturn
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Feb 22, 2021 16:13
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i like the look of big fat pixels 
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Feb 22, 2021 16:17
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Bronze Fonz posted:An entire generation, ruined! What game is the little fire guy from I like that little fire guy.
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Feb 22, 2021 16:19
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Bronze Fonz posted:An entire generation, ruined! those wobbly lines look just awful, blechhhh.
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Feb 22, 2021 16:19
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Rutibex posted:i like the look of big fat pixels There's nothing wrong with enjoying big fat pixels nor is there with enjoying filter-cajoled pixels. No generation has been ruined by any of this.
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Feb 22, 2021 16:19
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pixel art almost always looks fine on CRTs and filters are built into everything that kinda sorta almost makes them CRT-esque if you really want to experience things more like they really were without dragging out an old Trinitron where crts really actually shine is old psx era 3d graphics, which often look fine (albeit obviously primitive) on a CRT but turn into jaggy aliased messes on modern displays
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Feb 22, 2021 16:26
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giogadi posted:That reminds me - YouTube keeps trying to recommend some video called “The Witness is an amazing game you should never play” and the title is so excruciatingly clickbait-y that I refuse to click it on principle. So wtf is it even about? It's actually pretty reasonable and not terribly surprising as I remember: The Witness is full of good ideas and interesting puzzles, but built in such a way that it doesn't value your time and gets bogged down in the execution. Edit: Joseph Anderson is known for having some really weird takes though, so YMMV. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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Feb 22, 2021 16:30
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John Murdoch posted:The Witness is full of good ideas and interesting puzzles, but built in such a way that it doesn't value your time and gets bogged down in the execution. This is a fair take on it. The premise, setting, and puzzle progression was really captivating. And then halfway through a tiny bit of poo starts to trickle in...
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Feb 22, 2021 16:39
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I like the wobbly lines better
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Feb 22, 2021 16:41
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The wobbly lines look really bad blown up like that imo but I don't think it would detract that much from the videogame while playing it
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Feb 22, 2021 16:53
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:What game is the little fire guy from I like that little fire guy. Secret of Mana (and the mana series). The recently remade Trials of Mana is really great!
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Feb 22, 2021 16:55
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Bronze Fonz posted:An entire generation, ruined! The 4x looks like when I get KY Jelly on my glasses incase I want to insert them into my anus so I can see things that look like poo poo.
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Feb 22, 2021 16:57
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John Murdoch posted:It's actually pretty reasonable and not terribly surprising as I remember: The Witness is full of good ideas and interesting puzzles, but built in such a way that it doesn't value your time and gets bogged down in the execution. Where does one learn about opinions on gaming youtubers? I only ever seem to see them discussed when they've done something horrible.
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Feb 22, 2021 17:02
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Sort of 'Disagree' on "The Witness" is obtuse part, very much disagree about any similarity to Myst. All the stuff that I found "obtuse" I actually came across the 'instructions' for later. Like, the game is essentially "about" how we can learn anything from first principles, it adheres to that FANATICALLY and literally everything in the game is explained to you. It's just that, actually finding the stuff in the right order sometimes doesn't happen. I think it's such a good game that I'm totally fine with it having a fart huffing section, because that whole bit is entirely extra to the 'Vidya Gaming' part, and it's only there if you want to look at it. Maybe I've just got a taste for farts, but I think it's good stuff. /edit poo poo I went bananays again and wrote too much. !Klams fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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Feb 22, 2021 17:06
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:What game is the little fire guy from I like that little fire guy. As noted by someone else, that's Salamander from Secret of Mana, and Trials of Mana is great. The Mana series has tons of personality and I love what they did with it. The dwarfs for example instead of being weird burly scottish accent types they are old prospector types and the Gnome spirit is rootin' tootin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9dfsz-rPlc
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Feb 22, 2021 17:16
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Emulator filters are disgusting, I rather much prefer crisp clean pixels.
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Feb 22, 2021 17:19
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crisp clean pixels with a nice layer of LCD ghosting
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Feb 22, 2021 17:20
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Bronze Fonz posted:An entire generation, ruined! Finally a truly unpopular opinion! Those filters are horrible.
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Feb 22, 2021 17:34
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lobsterminator posted:Finally a truly unpopular opinion! Those filters are horrible. 
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Feb 22, 2021 17:53
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Bronze Fonz posted:An entire generation, ruined! It's nice to meet the man in charge of the final fantasy mobile games
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Feb 22, 2021 17:55
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!Klams posted:Sort of 'Disagree' on "The Witness" is obtuse part, very much disagree about any similarity to Myst.
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Feb 22, 2021 17:56
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Really who gives a poo poo if it makes a shirt look like someone left it wrinkling in a gym bag and smoothed it out with PVA, at least it's not pixelated
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Feb 22, 2021 18:10
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getting a crt is worth it imo if you are even slightly into retro stuff. they're heavy i guess but i had no real trouble getting mine set up and it was free. i guess in the us it's more of a hassle with "component" (?? ive never even seen one of these i only know the name) cables instead of scart
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Feb 22, 2021 18:11
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a crt doesnt look any worse in a room than the average gaming pc and doesn't take up much more space
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Feb 22, 2021 18:11
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I like the 4xBRZ one the most. Pixelation is dumb because back in the day that was a technical limitation, not a design choice.
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Feb 22, 2021 18:19
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Rutibex posted:this is very noticeable if you try to play PS3 on a CRT. lots of the text is just unreadable One of my friends in college had an HDTV at home but his parents sent him to school with an old CRT. Seeing him try to play Dead Rising on the CRT was hilarious, he was constantly infuriated with trying to read the text. IIRC Dead Rising was above and beyond the usual legibility problems with CRTs.
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Feb 22, 2021 18:20
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jokes posted:I like the 4xBRZ one the most. Pixelation is dumb because back in the day that was a technical limitation, not a design choice. But the art was made using that limitation. Blurring the outlines and removing all sharp edges is not circumventing those limitations, it's just blurring.
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Feb 22, 2021 18:21
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jokes posted:I like the 4xBRZ one the most. Pixelation is dumb because back in the day that was a technical limitation, not a design choice. Yeah, not sure how one can look at 4xBRZ and go "this looks worse". Imagine telling these developers in the 80's that one day, people will have monitors with millions of pixels on 'em and use them to try and recreate the look of an old piece of poo poo CRT. lobsterminator posted:But the art was made using that limitation. Blurring the outlines and removing all sharp edges is not circumventing those limitations, it's just blurring. Come on, you don't have to like it but saying a filter like 4xBRZ "just blurs the image" is bad faith.
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Feb 22, 2021 18:23
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lobsterminator posted:But the art was made using that limitation. Blurring the outlines and removing all sharp edges is not circumventing those limitations, it's just blurring. Right, but monitors are a billion times better and now the pixelation looks like poo poo because of it. Like, look at Salamander's baton or whatever-- it's just a diagonal line and it's horrible
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Feb 22, 2021 18:25
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jokes posted:Right, but monitors are a billion times better and now the pixelation looks like poo poo because of it. Even 4k monitors get blown outta the water by a 16 year old trinitron. https://youtu.be/V8BVTHxc4LM
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Feb 22, 2021 18:35
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Almost feels cheating given the Trinitron line is the highest end of the lot. But should be a fun fad since you can basically get the things for free if you're willing and able to actually move it.
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Feb 22, 2021 18:46
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This doesn't hold nearly as true nowadays, it took me months to get my last trinitron and it's only a 10incher. Less and less people are doing repairs, spare parts are running out, and a lot of people unfortunately just dump em in the trash. If you can get a crt get it, they're running out and nobody seems to wanna start building new ones.
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Feb 22, 2021 18:49
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I used to have so many half-assembled CRTs in storage because I would scrap ones I found on the street for parts. You can still probably make decent money doing that as replacement parts get rarer and rarer.
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Feb 22, 2021 18:56
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lobsterminator posted:But the art was made using that limitation. Blurring the outlines and removing all sharp edges is not circumventing those limitations, it's just blurring. Actually, I'm pretty sure all the art was probably hand drawn first before being put into the game
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Feb 22, 2021 18:57
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fridge corn posted:Actually, I'm pretty sure all the art was probably hand drawn first before being put into the game you would hand draw it by making little pixels on graph paper
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Thread posters today.
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