God that brings me back. I think I remember using the Xbox skin but there was one more that I don’t remember the name of.

EDIT: managed to somehow find it after some web searching, but it’s not in the museum. It’s this one.

I was just about to say this would be a great post for !webrevival@lemm.ee but… yeah :/

Shame it hasn’t been revived at another instance as far as I know.

Man, I love relics of the old internet. I know it’s hard to believe for the younger generations but… this place used to be good.

Man, old Nokias were just peak. The E70 is still my favourite phone I’ve ever had, and I’m so sad about their downfall in general. At this point I’ve probably fully gotten used to a touchscreen, but I still miss that full QWERTY physical keyboard. Typed faster on that than I ever seem to be able to on a touch keyboard, even with autocorrect.

That was actually very interesting. The dedication of these lost media hunters is incredible. I unfortunately don’t think I have any old PCs left lying around to scan the cache of, though.

“I think that the idea that the MMO crowd doesn’t exist is belied by the number of players who are still in World of Warcraft”

I’m not saying the MMO crowd doesn’t exist (though I do hold the opinion that trying to launch a new MMO in this day and age is a fool’s errand - so, actually maybe I am saying that!). But this argument is really weak - WoW players aren’t playing because they want “an MMO”, they are playing because they want to play WoW. Either because they’re already so deeply entrenched in it, or because they want to recapture the nostalgia of ages past (see the success of WoW Classic and various pirate servers). There is absolutely no reason to think all these WoW players have any interest in a random new and different MMO.

There are upcoming MMOs? I thought we all accepted this genre is dead?

The gameplay looks pretty smooth, I have to give it that. Looks like it has potential to be fun to play. The rest of it I don’t know… I guess I haven’t seen enough of it to call it but for me it kind of feels like it is caught in between the random meme-game vibe and the played-straight action game? I need to see more I guess.

2->240 FPS Frame Generation, the future is here 🤯

Yikes!

I love the vibes, big STALKER energy which is a personal weakness. But ho boy, those Steam reviews tell me to just wishlist an wait for a year or two.

May I ask what terms you would prefer for these genres?

God I wish the IP didn’t belong to EA. It has so much potential, I always wanted Alice 3 to be a Soulslike personally but I know American McGee himself had some ideas already for Alice: Asylum to be the next installment. Shame EA doesn’t give two fucks about the franchise.

I forgot that since I usually just check 6 months/1y/3y but they do huh. Even better!

https://isthereanydeal.com/ has 3 years of price history and tracks valid 3rd party stores too (not greymarket sites like G2A).

The upcoming I Have No Change has a certain Papers-esque feel to it. You’re stuck in a kiosk doing mundane things, and narratives are told through the characters that visit your kiosk.

Pope also said he was more wary of releasing a major new game now because he enjoyed such critical success with Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn that he doesn’t want to let players down.

“There’s also the sense that I was pretty happy with Obra Din and Papers, Please and I don’t… you know, maybe I can’t do it again, kind of thing. Do I really want to maybe just go out on a high note? Why drag my myself down with the next thing that people may not like?

You know, I feel him there. I can’t even imagine how to make a successful follow-up after two games that were not just smash hits, but brilliant and unconventional too. Everyone is basically expecting a piece of genius (me included). Not to mention the step up from Papers to Obra Dinn was so huge in terms of production and scope that it’s easy to expect another escalation.

Same thing happened with music too, music piracy cratered with the success of Spotify.

I mean, I don’t know about that personally. It’s definitely not a game that glorifies the police, but I also wouldn’t call it an ACAB propaganda machine by any stretch of the imagination. If anything it’s completely neutral on the matter. It contains both examples of police being absolute scumbags and police being just good people trying their best to help others (such as Kim, Judit and even to an extent Jean - as well as others I’m sure).

Even beyond characters I feel like it is pretty even-handed, and multiple times goes into detail about the hardships and emotional toll of policework in a sympathetic manner, such as during the death notification.

Ah, gotcha! Yeah that makes more sense. BG3 is very impressive from a systems perspective and how flexible many of the encounters are for sure.