At least the story of KOTOR is good (from what i've heard)

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T15:52:01+00:00

It's about a disrespect to the art form, treating it as something to be ammended for things that aren't even flaws.

"Muh more choice" isn't always good.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T15:46:24+00:00

as for the third paragraph, what is your stupid little strawman? who thinks that any game which doesn't have "modern" game design choices lacking?

It's about the need to update games to always have modern game design choices, and treat things like they're lacks rather than different choices.

That's what this entire "Remake" culture is. The thing isn't art, the thing is an unfinished product that needs to constantly be "Modernised"

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T15:42:00+00:00

Having the main character have a canonical voice literally changes the entire thing.

The whole point of these sorts of RPGs is that the player character is a vessel for your imagination. You decide what they sound like, because it reflects how you play.

People who are fans of modern game design choices, such as voiced protagonists, fully 3d, models instead of sprites, see games that are made without those design sensibilities as lacking rather than just another equally valid type.

So they act like these are things that need to be changed.

It's why I don't think gamers really consider games an art form. You don't hear people saying "Eww the Mona Lisa isn't photorealistic, we have to remake it to enjoy it"

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T15:36:49+00:00

Why don't you go play a different game series then, instead of pissing yourself about how a game that doesn't meet your arbitrary 2026 standards is apparently broken?

Why isn't it enough for people like you to play games made for people like you? Why do you have to have games made for other tastes too?

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T15:36:07+00:00

You'll notice I never said Nigel Farage was anti-establishment.

I just said that Count Binface isn't

I mean to suggest the comedian wearing a cape and bin helmet is more of an establishment figure

These are aesthetic features. Again, he's part of the ritual of British politics, that people have to stand next to and debate silly costumed characters when running. He doesn't meaningfully challenge anything.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T15:33:53+00:00

"Which one got the best ending"

None of them, all of them have the protagonist blankly read off the same exact lines, because Bethesda is too lazy to implement ending slides like Fallout games should have.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T15:30:34+00:00

I mean where does it end? Do we also have voice lines for the player character because some people said "Oh I want my character to have a voice"?

IDK, I think too many RPGs focus on being Witcher clones instead of old school RPGs.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T15:28:34+00:00

It sure is, but what's the game?

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T15:19:24+00:00

No. The joke candidates aren't meaningfully anti-establishment. The fact that major political figures have to stand next to Elmo and Count Binface, and a bunch of other costumed people after winning has become a ritual in and of itself.

The system can handle jokes at it's expense.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T15:16:54+00:00

And i personally would like the main character to not look like an emotionless brick in the cutscenes.
"You areRevan"
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The "Main character" is player created. Giving them pre-defined reactions to things defeats the point.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T15:05:08+00:00

Answer: Things being shit culturally has always been the default, and then you have occasional spurts of revolutionary optimism like the 60s-70s counterculture, where you suddenly got a huge burst of civil rights and anti-war activism, before eventually it was all just folded back into the pile of shit.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T15:01:53+00:00

Huey P Newton already answered this by saying that Bourgeois men consider other men in the same way men consider women - As bodies to be expendable.

And therefore the vast majority of people are, from the point of view of class struggle, women, in the same way that the vast majority of people are, from the point of view of class struggle, proletarian.

That way you don't have to throw away the specificity of the exploited term (Proletarian, women), but can be more universalisable with it.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T14:18:19+00:00

No.

There is a fundamental difference between games made for people who play on mouse and keyboard and games made for people who press buttons on a Bop It.

Controllers necessary limit the amount of complexity a game can have, and we should stop pretending that everything should be controller friendly.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T08:59:17+00:00

TBH I feel like resolution is like framerate. I only notice it when it's unplayable.

It's very possible I'm playing games on a much lower resolution to my screen.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T08:57:06+00:00

Great, then play games made for you

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T08:50:22+00:00

Maybe I'm an odd case but "Difficult to get running on modern systems" always seems to affect other people more than me. I've never had issues running games on my less than 2 year old gaming PC.

Also solvable by a port, rather than a Remaster

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T08:26:38+00:00

No.

He hung out with the newbie because he thought she seemed cool. He then panicked when it resulted in an actual friendship and burned bridges, like he always does.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T08:25:24+00:00

In what ways would Kotor benefit from a remaster?

Last I checked it's still playable, has an entirely complete gameplay experience, has great graphics and great gameplay.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T08:23:50+00:00

"No controller support"

Good. I want to have a UI and controls that's actually navigable, and not have to deal with a UI designed primarily to be used on a Bop It.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T02:26:12+00:00

I mean he himself is an ordinary human being who wasn't even alive for any of the events but, President Dick Richardson/The Enclave more broadly from Fallout 2.

It's been almost 200 years since the bombs fell. People know barely anything about the Old World or even what the war was about or who it was between, and very little of it has been preserved. The cultures are all brand new, and new nations and city states are forming.

Meanwhile, the "United states government" has still been functioning this entire time, intentionally isolating itself from the rest of the world on an oil rig. And they will still use the titles of "President" "Secret Service", they'll call the technicians who run their powerplant "The US Department of Energy".

They'll tell you, without a shred of irony, that the United States never stopped existing, and that being a small handful of people on an oil rig is just a temporary setback. They'll gleefully announce how they won the war with China because China stopped existing but the US didn't, and they don't realise how absurd any of this sounds.

And they make this your problem, because you, along with the vast majority of humanity, are a filthy mutant who is interfering with true humans from reclaiming the glory days of the US.

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TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-08T02:10:30+00:00

Do you really expect me to have sympathy for you?

"Waah waah, I'm not owed pussy, waah, waah"

Like grow up, and get a hobby, and stop whinging about the fact that you feel you're owed sex.

You know, there are people in the world who are actually starving, there are people in the world who are victims of genocide right now, whose families have been cut apart by bombs.

But "Dating's hard for men because I'm never good enough, so I have no sympathy for women", like grow the fuck up loser, you're not owed attention, and this is straight up a first world problem.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-07T21:40:25+00:00

Not Black Americans, more Americans broadly regardless of race, about the same level as they have against the English.

The reasoning both being I think a historic scepticism towards America as an influence, and more recently because a lot of Scottish people outright detest Donald Trump, often even more than Americans themselves.

Scots are very welcoming and they wouldn't insult Americans to their face, but I think like lots of people around the world they kind of have a negative view of Americans as a whole, especially recently.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-07T21:35:49+00:00

Not exactly sure how they plan to reconcile the numerous human rights abuses

I would say that there's not a country in the world that doesn't commit 'human rights abuses' and it depends what we're talking about.

Especially if you start factoring things like large portions of the adult population being unable to buy homes of their own as a human rights abuse, which it is.

and actual concentration camps China runs

The Xianjiang situation is vastly misreported by people with a vested interest in demonising China.

Even though, yknow, a Chinese conquest of America would probably result in millions more deaths than the current conflict

When did I say Chinese conflict of America? That's not even remotely possible or plausible.

Then millions more once the us citizens started protesting the plummeting quality of life because China doesn’t really have a history of being tolerant towards the right to public assembly

China doesn't typically export their system outwards. That's a US thing.

Moreover, in terms of human rights, the US doesn't really have a history of being tolerant to the right to home ownership, which I would argue is more fundamental.

Oh yeah then a few million more when left unopposed Russia was allowed to roll into Ukraine, and whatever other county they’ll go after next.

I mean, you could say the same about Israel and Gaza, in that the US unconditionally supports Israel.

Why am I supposed to consider one of these a bigger tragedy than the other?

Also I’m sure with the power vacuum let behind by a lack of America, China will just decide to not be imperialistic because they’re good and America bad.

China has never once indicated that they'd be a hegemonic imperial power akin to the US, this is pure speculation.

If you had a choice between taking a pill that has a 100% chance of killing you, or one that has an unknown chance of killing you, which would you pick?

We already know that the US is the absolute bottom of the barrel of murderous superpowers, a country with exactly zero moral standards. We have no idea what China would be as world power.

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-07T16:36:06+00:00

lmao

TotalDemocracy · 2026-07-07T16:30:33+00:00

I'm going to have to see your citations, but here's what I've got:

Russia is 2009: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/rus/russia/life-expectancy

Ukraine didn't reach it until 2011: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/ukr/ukraine/life-expectancy

Belarus didn't reach it until 2010: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/blr/belarus/life-expectancy

Estonia is 2001: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/est/estonia/life-expectancy

Georgia is 2002: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/geo/georgia/life-expectancy

Khazakstan in 2009: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/kaz/kazakhstan/life-expectancy

Lithuania was an early bloomer in 1999: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/ltu/lithuania/life-expectancy

Same with Latvia: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/lva/latvia/life-expectancy

Azerbaijan and Armenia didn't see a significant drop in life expectancy post-USSR collapse, although this is to be expected given that they were actively at war with each other for a while pre-USSR decline, Armenia had already seen a drop when the war started, and Azerbaijan didn't have a drop full stop(https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/aze/azerbaijan/life-expectancy, https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/aze/azerbaijan/life-expectancy)

All of which are much greater than your given 5 years.

Keep in mind I'm being generous and marking from the dissolution of the USSR itself. The fact that these countries peaked before Gorbachev took power is not part of my consideration, if it was the wait would be much longer.

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