I know someone who plays the Ace Attorney games and long text based RPG games actively and this is a very targeted post.

Oooh. I appreciate that. It’s been a long time since I’ve watched that series. I mostly stick to Ross’s game dungeon now.

They literally already are. The Crew is a Singleplayer racing game that sold 12 million copies, many of them physical, and none of those copies are functional anymore.

Bastion was definitely indie when it was made so it counts

It looks like that’s intentional. It’s trying to capture the vibe of games from the original Half Life era and seems to be doing a fine job from what I can see.

For peak realism

P5 and P5R are both bad examples of games in general with P5R being slightly better since they toned down the anti-UX aspects of the UI.

This looks good! I wishlisted it and I’m excited to try it out! I love media with sarcastic narrators in all forms.

Mary and Max, Doom Patrol s1, The Stanley Parable obviously… I’m excited to hopefully add this to my list

Ayy that’s awesome! Great job getting your game on steam and getting the attention from a big creator!

They never went away. They just aren’t advertised as much.

Persona 1 is notoriously incredibly stupid difficult so watch a let’s play instead for that one.

As for P4 it’s on Game Pass right now and P3 is getting a remaster that’s coming out really soon and looks really good. So now would be a fantastic time to play through P4 before P3R comes out.

The most obvious criticism to make is towards the story, is blatantly dumbed down vs previous games. I will ignore that and judge it simply on its own merits. A quick disclaimer here though is that since I hate turn based combat, my bf was actually the one playing and I was just watching and talking about it.

However, I can’t talk about bad things P5R does without discussing this first…

The game actively continues the dangerous notion that it’s okay for adult women to prey on teen boys and it’s disgusting. There is no justification for why they are constantly sexualizing the teacher in front of the kid and allowing you to date her. This genuinely needs the least amount of explanation, it’s just gross.

Now onto the main issue I have.

The game is extremely inaccessible with its design and gives me and my bf massive headaches to look at for too long.

Before I delve deep into this it’s worth noting that P5R did fix a lot of these issues actually. However, P5R is also an extremely overpriced DLC which is an entirely different matter.

The game has an extreme over reliance on movement in its UI making everything extremely hard to read or focus on. When you select a dialogue option, the background behind the text is moving. Characters names are obscured like a captcha in dialogue boxes (which move). When standing still in the overworld every icon on the screen is moving (most notably the weather icon is moving the most) Even when the game is paused the background is constantly moving. The worst offender for this is the dungeons which have a terrible warping effect on the side of the screen that cause really bad tunnel vision.

I spend a lot of my time when I do UX/UI design (I’m a front end developer) making sure my design is as accessible as possible. I am a big believer that video games can be art and are fantastic at it… but P5 felt like it was constantly fighting against having anyone play it by being the single most headache-inducing game I’ve ever experienced.

Anyway that’s my big rant about how perpetuating harmful notions about allowing boys to be r*ped is bad and also a giant wall of text on how the UI is terrible and actively harms a portion of it’s player base.

Anyway, I don’t hate persona at all, just this one entry. I plan to watch the bf play P3R when it comes out cuz Persona 3 was fantastic and the remake looks like it’s going to be good.

Lol you’re all good. I do enjoy a good read.

Admittedly, I don’t have much to add but if you’d like to keep talking I have a LOT of opinions on Persona 5 because it’s probably my least favorite game to come out in the last 10 years.

Something about turn based combat always makes me immediately turn a game off. I can do a turn based strategy with an entire board like BG3 but what Pokemon or most JRPGs do is simply unplayable to me.

I understand I’m not in the majority here but I just genuinely don’t understand the appeal.

Microsoft is one of the worst companies at naming things. Only second to how Sony names their headphones.

It’s a full engine! It specializes in 2D games but their 3D support is growing rapidly, just not up to what Unity and Unreal offer right now. Here’s a showreal they did for games released using Godot last year: https://youtu.be/UAS_pUTFA7o?si=QuPq6hByt-lve-vg

Godot is great at 2D and would be a great replacement for those games but lacks a lot of 3D stuff Unity users would miss. If someone is doing a 2D game tho… Godot is a fantastic option to go with.

Unrelated to video games but Taylor Swift has a song where she threatens to tell the friends of her Ex that he’s gay for breaking up with her. This has since been replaced entirely with a new line and can’t be found on anything but the original 2006 release.

Personally I just got a big SD card for my steam deck and now I can duel boot super easily between windows and SteamOS. Probably the best idea I’ve ever had.