why?

there's a lot of cool ideas and good analysis in here. i definitely think that counterstrike was the first time i realized there was a massive split between what i wanted from a multiplayer FPS and what a lot of other people wanted. i don't even really consider the arena shooter subgenre i love so much to really be an FPS in anything but a technical sense anymore, because the market and culture surrounding FPS games as a whole has been so dominated by demands for more immersion, realism, simulation, and of course a whole lot of bootlicking military propaganda.

i don't necessarily agree with his conclusions though. i think all the reasons he cites are good reason to discard the idea of FPS games representing a genre of game altogether. the way i see it, it's not that the genre has fallen out of favor or popularity, it's that it expanded to the point where so many different design choices and priorities have made talking about it as a unified category not really make sense anymore. Arma, Quake Champions, Gone Home, Serious Sam, Overwatch, and Portal are all very different kinds of games. they just happen to share a control scheme and camera perspective.

love yang

i love that people are still talking about stalker

lol that might be the only way

I’m pretty decent but I feel like it’s specifically thanks to being a musician with pretty decent music theory knowledge lol

I hate this

lol are you any good at that? It's so hard

I was also like, "yo spirits sounds like a good direction for challenges I am into this"

I went to the disco afterward

that is progress

it's so good. i stayed up til 3am finishing it and working on a fan remix of one of the BGMs and i think today i'm gonna replay it

We're almost at the point where The Algorithm knows not to recommend much of it if you only watch quality content.

i mean there's still plenty of that but yeah it's nice it's not the only thing

i) so good ii) I am so glad that there's the gaming videos have been diversifying lately. I still remember the dark days of angry nerds yelling quite a lot...

I think about this so often

Like, the water in Sea of Thieves. EVERY game could have water like that, if people would just SHARE instead of forcing each other to do redundant work!

I love Brian David Gilbert so MUCH

more like brian david gil-books am i right

i dont know skyrim at all but omg this guy is so good

You'd be surprised. I think because their front legs and hind legs bend in opposite directions it gives them a lot of flexibility and stability. Granted I do think it's still getting up a bit unrealistically fast, but not toooo badly... more just a bit video game handwavy fast

god imagine if all the technology they're putting into this game was open source

fuckin' capitalism man

I thought that the horse imprint was the thing people were impressed by, the horse falling down is just a means to get that cool environmental effect.

that horse got up really quick. i feel like horses are the kind of creature where if they fall over its not easy to get back up

honestly i love the sand effects. is there a button to make, like, a sand angel?

As a sim nerd I’m all over stuff like this... except maybe not the horse nuts thing

that looks fun tbh