1. The Chrono Trigger soundtrack isn't all that great and its most annoying tracks are generally the ones that occur most frequently (e.g., the battle themes, Burn! Bobonga, A Shot of Crises)
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2. When people talk about how great the SNES or even the NES was, they're typically referring to how great Nintendo's exclusivity requirements were Lbr, the SNES wasn't THAT great—it's just that Capcom, Konami and Squaresoft were that great
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3. Phantasy Star Online was a groundbreaking game but it pretty much devastated Phantasy Star as a franchise and for me the tradeoff wasn't really worth it—there's NEVER been a viable replacement for/successor to the original series
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4. Silent protagonists are boring and lazy, particularly when they don't even have a novel conceit (like the protagonist of Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight). Link isn't a good "character" or a CHARACTER, at all, and he's the single most boring thing about the Zelda series
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5. The move to 3D games—because of the challenges in rendering long hair without clipping—unintentionally reified a misogynistic (and transmisogynistic) trope that true heroes only have short hair, something that has only marginally improved with heightened graphical capacity
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6 If the technology/manpower to effectively moderate communication over games like League of Legends to limit and meaningfully sanction harassment does not exist, then maybe those games should never have existed until it did. Sorry!
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7) Kefka isn't really the perfectly sublime villain everyone says he is, and the reason so many people obsessively lionize FF6 in comparison to FF7 is because FF7 made them feel like their childhood turned a corner and that is nothing if not completely unforgivable
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8) If you are looking for another reason to hate Tolkien, western-style high fantasy completely screwed RPG aesthetics by overtaking the much cooler cyberpunk-esque design that Japanese designers in the 80s had BEEN incorporating into gaming purely from their own imaginationspic.twitter.com/9sZpm1foD7
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9. Skyrim has possibly THE single worst take on racism ever seen in a AAA video game and the fact that the major political divide in the game is between imperialism and creepy "blood and soil" motherfuckers makes it nearly intolerable from a literary perspective
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10. Phantasy Star 3 is an objectively bad game but it's a dozen times more important than a lot of "good" games (including some games in its own series) by virtue of doing incredibly innovative things that literally no game designers, ever, have been brave enough to reattempt
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11. Fallout 3 is only a "bad" game because it doesn't have survival mode, and if you actually go to the trouble of downloading A Tale of Two Wastelands and play Fallout 3 as a mod for New Vegas, it becomes a fantastic game because food and potable water is FRIGHTENINGLY uncommon
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12. If you cannot write a Fire Emblem-style game without glorifying monarchical systems by having the principal character be some brave prince defiantly fighting to reclaim his birthright, you are being intellectually lazy This entire genre of games needs to come to Jesus
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13. Most Game Over screens are narratively lazy because they're a way of copping out of the narrative question of how the consequences of losing in different ways might differ E.g., if Cloud dies in Disc One, Sephiroth probably doesn't ever get the black materia
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14. Competitive games—most notably, fighting games and MOBAs/arena fighters— are depressing because they invariably have some of the slickest, most compelling, most artistically successful character designs around, but then those characters do nothing of any real interest
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15. I would not go so far as to say smartphones have RUINED gaming, but smartphone gaming will never be as haptically or ergonomically satisfying as non-touchscreen gaming and its games will therefore never be as accessible. They're also almost impossible to properly archive
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16. I love Bowsette memes more than I love many of my internal organs, but I also would have been completely emotionally content if the entire gaming community reacted to Emuparadise's shutdown by locking the entirety of Nintendo in a bunker and forgetting any of its IP existed
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17. Poison from the Final Fight games is not merely a trans woman; she is bar none the best trans woman in video game history However, Samus is also a trans woman and people who disagree with this should be locked in the Nintendo bunker with their hands encased in concrete
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18. The take above this is wrong, if you count Cloud Strife as a trans woman
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19. Games like Shadowgate—which are, effectively, I Wanna Be The Guy as a Myst game—should be rewarding you for finding every possible way to die. If you're going to make dying in video games unpredictable and exciting, there is literally no reason not to make it collectable
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20. VNs should count as games for the sake of this thread 20a. VNs that center around an inherently risible concept—like Hatoful Boyfriend and My Horse Prince—just spike the genre for MOGAI developers seeking to be taken seriously and put quality representation out there
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21. It is very bad that somebody wrote an entire essay about how Phantasy Star II "is a warning of communism's evil", which it goes without saying is excruciatingly wrong Also: it was funny of me to inform you of that essay's existence in this tweet https://web.archive.org/web/20120906204437/http://www.ripplinger.us:80/camineet/theories/true-message-ps2.asp …
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22. If Henry Darger were alive today, he would be making amateur VNs with graphical assets ripped from commercially produced hentai VNs And I would not apologize for this tweet even with so many sniper rifles pointed at my face I couldn't see the sun in the sky
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23. Persona games that don't allow you to play as a female protagonist are a waste In those games, there's a lot of unique social engagement powered specifically by the fact that the protagonist is a bishonen guy and to be uninterested in investigating alternatives is silly
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24. Video games like Mass Effect 3 that specifically require that the protagonist die in their moment of absolute triumph are the hypermasculine backlash against the kind of repressive Gen-X fever dreams that resulted in the epilogue to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (1/2)
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(2/2) and are fundamentally predicated in the idea that to show the protagonist retiring from a life of AWESOME KILLWAR and pursuing a life of productive leisure with a loved one fundamentally constitutes a "devolution" of the character and thereby an unsatisfying ending
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25. SPIDER-MAN on the original Xbox is the only decent thing to come out of Raimi's involvement in the franchise, not merely because whoever directed the game actually forced Tobey Maguire to act like Spider-Man, but because you can play as MJ and then make her kiss herselfpic.twitter.com/jXsoQGtsaG
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26. The bogus cyberpunk Zelda from like fifteen years ago would have been considerably more interesting and provocative than any Zelda game that's actually been made in my lifetime, and it should have turned out that the Triforce was a supercomputerhttps://youtu.be/lcvdT2C31oc
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27. Dragon Age 2 is probably a great work of art because of how deeply debatable it is, but I just don't feel great about it, partially because of all the little hardcoded things in it Like, mage Hawke disagreeing with mage Bethany, or elf Hawkes, would have been fun but NOPE.
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28. Dragon Age in general is really bad for its sudden and completely unnecessary pivot toward aggrandizing messianic monotheistic patriarchal penance religions and honestly that's probably the main reason I haven't completed Inquisition, along with resurrecting chars I killed
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29. The correct way to play DA:O is to roleplay a mage who breaks bad after being unjustly consigned to the Grey Wardens and then proceeds to get revenge by killing every party member in the game except the Mabari This is very possible and very satisfying, Highly recommend
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