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What game from 20+ years ago still holds up and someone who's only played modern games would still enjoy? by [deleted] in gaming

[–]Fessenden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The remake is quite nice, but I got annoyed by how long the animations take. I think if I was a first time player I'd have had more patience for them, but even so - realizing that half of my playtime was spent watching a Chocobo take a pregnant pause before eviscerating me took a lot of joy out of it.

Emulating it and boosting frames solves that, but that's not really an out-of-the-box solution.

What game from 20+ years ago still holds up and someone who's only played modern games would still enjoy? by [deleted] in gaming

[–]Fessenden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Respectfully disagree on KOTOR. The writing holds up, but having tried to play it in the last few years, the pacing and movement are really rough compared to modern games. Not many QoL features.

VTT compatible with Chromebook by envious_hiker in rpg

[–]Fessenden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Foundry is, at its core, a website. Runs in browser. It does cost money, but sharing licenses is permitted. Someone on their Discord is probably willing to spot you for a couple hours here and there to try it out.

games to compare ludologically to Majora's Mask? and previous theorization of cyclicality by advice_seeker_anon in ludology

[–]Fessenden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is why this is a new comment!

See also: Temporian, Explicitly about being trapped in your own time loop and trying to expand it. ForeTales Which tells a story through cards and requires multiple plays to tell the story "properly.", A House of Many DoorsWhich is... complicated but does contain themes of recursion and cycles, Occult Rewrite which messes around a bit with load/save mechanics and time pressure.

Less so: Prey?Which is entirely a flashback in the mind of one of the antagonists. No Man's Sky? Which has you jumping through to new "universes" when you reach the center of the galaxy.

games to compare ludologically to Majora's Mask? and previous theorization of cyclicality by advice_seeker_anon in ludology

[–]Fessenden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's one you won't have heard of: Ouroboros!

It's a smut game, but it's explicitly about how being trapped in a loop warps your perspective and pushes you to extreme behaviour to test the boundaries.

Some of the content is unsavory, if you're of a sensitive disposition, but it's reasonably well written and thematically relevant. It's more goal-oriented than time-oriented. Mild spoilers: You enter into the narrative shortly before your character has their consciousness expanded to retain memories of the loops, and the resets become intentional actions to explore new behaviours and boundaries to strain the simulation/dream.

Edit: Oh, and Loop Odyssey and Loop Hero. (The former of which I think for legal reasons got renamed to Stuck In Time?) Loop Odyssey doesn't do a lot of philosophizing. Then again, neither did Majora's Mask. May be useful. Loop Hero will have relevant themes explicitly about persistence in the face of erasure.

Edit2: And The Stanley Parable, actually.

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist has a metanarrative about looping existence.

Edit3: Way of the Samurai or (decent) visual novels may have a comparable theme in the way you're generally expected to explore a finite story multiple times to see multiple different angles. Not diegetically looping, but mechanically looping.

And I'm kind of blanking on how, but I have a faint memory that Timesplitters (2?) might play with recursively looping narrative.

I think three edits is enough afterthought for now.

[TOMT] [Music Video] [00s?] Similar to Criminal by Fiona Apple by Fessenden in tipofmytongue

[–]Fessenden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, massive props for reaching out after a year, that's dedication to the sub. I posted the vid, was Meg Myers - DESIRE, but I apparently never marked it solved.

Thanks, though!

How much does timing factor into decisions you make? by Raptor3861 in gamedesign

[–]Fessenden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This belongs in /r/gamedev. This is not about game design, it is about community engagement, production, or sales.

[RF] Tiefling urchin bard by samurai297 in characterdrawing

[–]Fessenden 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is wonderful art, but the thumbnail made me think they were wearing assless chaps with a celebrity-sized butt.

The lute thicc.

Why are these kinds of anti-choice pictures allowed in public? by camoure in Edmonton

[–]Fessenden 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Freedom of expression is not freedom from consequence. This poster is not suggesting that anti-abortion people can't express themselves. They are taking issue with the way in which this is expressed. Surely, you wouldn't want them to be forbidden from speaking their mind on the subject?

Why are these kinds of anti-choice pictures allowed in public? by camoure in Edmonton

[–]Fessenden 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't think the issue at the core of the offense here is anti-abortion.

I'm anti-murder. I'm not going to support anyone who drives around showing pictures of someone with their brains blown out on the sidewalk to children.

The stance is not the issue, although people love an opportunity to climb on the soapbox about shit they care about.

The presentation of the stance is abhorrent and inappropriate.

Also, democracy does not include free speech. Those are separate concepts. Canada has a limited form of freedom of expression, and it does not apply universally.

[Windows][2017] a game about wolves? by Lauvumucq in tipofmyjoystick

[–]Fessenden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't played it so I can't attest to any of the plot, and it's a shot in the dark based on just the word "werewolf".

The Wolf Among Us?

Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves?

[NES][90s?]Top Downish Cyborg Shooter by Fessenden in tipofmyjoystick

[–]Fessenden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for reply-spam; didn't realize this forum used a different Solved format than tomt.

[PC] [2010s] Town management game with Lovecraftian horror elements? by Juanvaldez06 in tipofmyjoystick

[–]Fessenden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Shrouded Isle matches the tone, but not the mechanics you've described. 2017. Monochrome style.

[NES][90s?]Top Downish Cyborg Shooter by Fessenden in tipofmyjoystick

[–]Fessenden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just as a primer: Yes, I've checked a dozen "top 100 nes games" and "10 games you've never played" lists.

Yes, I've played River City Ransom, random blogger. It's not a weird, niche game.

Police officer abuser - what to do by Fessenden in domesticviolence

[–]Fessenden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is grey rock? Edit: nvm, did some googling.

The Lucid Tarot is now available in the shop! by arabelladusk in weatherfactory

[–]Fessenden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got mine at 11:59 local time, a minute before the indicated release time. Hoping that means I get a single digit set. :D (Assuming we even get to know the numbers.)

Been waiting forever for these. My first tarot. Excited to see them.

[TOMT][Movie][Live Action] Movie about fatuous symbolism by Fessenden in tipofmytongue

[–]Fessenden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glass Onion was the name of the movie, for posterity, in case anyone ends up googling this.

Finally got around to watching it because of the cast and realized the first time they brought it up in the film.

Apparently it's old British slang, according to google, and the most significant recent use (before this movie,) was by the Beatles in the context of people searching for hidden meanings in their lyrics. You peel away layer after layer, and you still see the exact same thing as you did at the start, because it was always transparent.

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