i think people should go back and play decade old rpg’s and reset their expectations. remember from whence we came. hell, revisit 20+ year old turn-based rpg’s where the greatest interaction you could have with a lil sprite chicken was having a text box that popped up and said “cluck”.
this isn’t even about “be thankful about what game studios can do today”, it’s about how titles are being expected to cram in more and more Stuff to even be looked at. it’s about development still being pushed on a two to five year cycle but they’re expected to make double the content of the last game only for people to then be upset that the game that promised them 1000 hours of Stuff is full of repeat quests.
it’s me seeing people demand mechanics that make up whole games of their own to be added on top, everything has gotta have roguelike randomized dungeon generation, expansive crafting systems, an entire farming sim, and also the base game needs to have movie-budget cutscenes and 4k resolution rtx lighting and a map that takes a full three hours to run across (which you won’t even do because a teleport system has been added to every landmark).
triple A studios crunching their employees to dust to rush out buggy unfinished massive messes that eat up your hard drive. indie developers having swathes of early players demand they add this, and this, and that because it was so cool in other game and c'mon they paid 15$ they “deserve” a bigger game.
sure we still have hits come out that are sweet and straightforward examples of just a well-done fun game, but the trend of expecting every rpg that comes out to be More and Bigger is wrecking the genre.
The demands of the gamer have changed from “tell me a story” to many, many iterations of “tell me a better one or I’ll be very disappointed”.
Guys I’m dying here. I was playing dnd earlier and scrolling through the tag and saw this awesome fic description, something that had been written twice, once where Ford bottomed and another time where Stan did… I can’t really remember the other details, but I forgot to like it and now I can’t find it! Please, if you know where it is, let me know!
I’M SO HAPPY TO SEE FAMILIAR NAMES IN MY NOTESSSS. It’s been so long I’m not even sure how to address replies any more aksjdfhksjdf TIME TO WING IT
@theriu replied to your chat “Me: Hmm…” HEEEEEEEY I’M STILL HERE! :D Welcome back! I was just thinking about you the other day, hope you’re well!
AAAH??? HELLO AGAIN AKDFKHDF Oh man, time away from Tumblr or not, a part of me still has a mini heart attack seeing you pop up in my activity feed?? I DO NOT DESERVE SUCH A NICE ARTISTIC ROLE MODEL. ; w; I’m so glad you’re still here though!! Now I can resume following your exploits! And your amazing taste in reblogs! :D And weeping as I try to catch up to your level of art mastery because I’m gonna get there one day.
Aggressive hugging Eevee still has a score to settle with you.
@datarsiah-noodles replied to your chat “Me: Hmm…” Hi! You’re back! I was thinking about you! I was hoping you were doing OK!
SIAAAH. SIAAAAAH. FOR SOME REASON I DIDN’T EXPECT YOU TO BE AROUND AND NOW I AM SMILING LIKE AN IDIOT. IT’S BEEN SO LONG. OH MY GOSH AKHSFKSKFH I’M STILL TRUCKING ALONG BUT HOW HAVE YOU BEEN??
@borrowedmediocrefiction replied to your chat “Me: Hmm…” I’m still here, and it’s always good to hear from you!
FELICITY. I’M GONNA CRY I NEED TO SEND YOU A MESSAGE OR SOMETHING TO CATCH UP AKJSKF I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO RESPOND BECAUSE I AM EMOTIONAL NOW GOSH DANG IT. ;A;
@rejnka replied to your chat “Me: Hmm…” hi person i followed just because you posted about glitch pokemon can you post about glitch pokemon thanks
Hello back, person I don’t know!! To be honest I totally do want to post about glitch Pokemon again, I just gotta find my muse for it! I probably should go poking around the list of glitch Pokemon and their various effects for inspiration; I still absolutely love the little glitchy babies and they have a ton of potential that’s gone surprisingly untapped by the Pokemon fandom~
okay last thing before i go but my patience is getting increasingly thin with people both within and outside of the fandom acting like what happened in 2016 was some mild internet backlash and not, idk, people painting murals celebrating her death
SCP-6462-C-1: My cage may have left me sightless, but I am not entirely without sense. When this place was alive, the wind would skim along the curves and ridges of the spawning fields and make such beautiful music. It was as though the sky was singing. Now, there is only the silence of a mausoleum, of a world scoured.
SCP-6462-C-1: There is naught but dust. Not even blood remains.
Read this scip folks (and their other one’s too.) It’s super good and he’s out here feeding us SK content.
we don’t talk abt how stressful buying new glasses frames is. ur shopping for your whole personality there. life on the line. do or die. all for two pieces of glass and some sticks
i love that post thats like “never trust how you feel about your life after 9pm” that shit changed my life. every time i feel bad i look at the clock and i’m like Aha It’s 10:26 PM You Cannot Fucking Fool Me
The Librarian: The Quest for the Spear (2004), first movie
*months after fighting the serpent brotherhood* Nicole: The Deadly Scorpion League has found H.G.Wells’ time machine. We’re the only ones who can get it back. Flynn: The Scorpion League. What is it with these bad guys and their insect names for their cults?
Me:Oh my god Flynn Carsen you’re fighting a serpentbrotherhood and the scorpionleague and fucking neither of themare insects considering serpents are REPTILES (hence the scales) and scorpions are ARACHNIDS (with like, you know EIGHT LEGS INSTEAD OF SIX) you have literally never met an evil cult with an insect name jfc how the flying crap do you even call yourself The Librarian
