Life is Tumblr: EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL

[Guest]

Steam is a societal cancer on par with Netflix.

[Kugelfisch]

Steam didn't kill middleware, though. That was almost copletely dead when Steam came around. It's the publishers like EA and Zenimax that bought and killed off dozens of studios who are to blame.

[Poonoo]

Steam didn't kill middleware, though. That was almost copletely dead when Steam came around. It's the publishers like EA and Zenimax that bought and killed off dozens of studios who are to blame.

To be fair though lately middleware has made a bit of a comeback thanks to Kickstarter, despite the scamming fucks who use it. Devolver Digital and other small publishers like them aren't really AAA either, and thank fuck we have seen that since prior to this it was just shitty 8 bit platformers because without funding those games are the only ones that were viable for a small team to make.

[Kugelfisch]

Yeah, it's slowly coming back but we still don't get the experimental stuff of the era back. Nobody has the balls to try something really interesting that could become a cult classic.
I am very happy about old school FPS making a comeback. I can never have enough of those.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Why experiment if you can just go "This is basically (insert classic pc/console game here), so please buy it!" ?

[Guest]

Fuck these games. I remember playing the original briefly and realizing that it was focused on a whiny wealthy white girl teen who goes to art school and is super special because magic powers. I didnt even finish the first episode, gun nut narc step dad was probably the nail in the coffin for me.

gun nut dad is unironically the best character and hes actually super sympathetic if you go all the way through. hes a hardass but only because he cares and is a good dad.