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#video games

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mirai
@mirai

Pleasure Hearts is sick as hell and you should play it

A few weeks back I saw some friends talking about the original La Mulana vs the remake, and the topic of the original's aim to replicate/parody the look and feel of the MSX came up, of course. Mind you, I have not played either La Mulana, but it did get me thinking:
What the fuck IS an MSX?
I've of course heard of it, one of those weird, probably japan-only systems. I had scrolled past it on the list of systems to potentially, but likely never, emulate, but I never really looked into it. So I casually went to youtube to get a sense for what the MSX was about. I found a nice video about the technical limits and the way they shaped how the system (or rather, the computers that fit the standard) was perceived, which also served as a bit of a historical lesson on it and the various upgrades it went through. Some interesting games to be sure, but the system was clearly primitive, even as the video lists the homebrew games that pushed it to its limits-

Pleasure Hearts' title screen, showing the title and a black and white drawing of a cute anime girl winking
In game screenshot, showing 51637500 Pts. in a big font splayed out over the screen

WAIT WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT HOLY SHIT THAT LOOKS SICK

And as it turns out, it IS sick, so fucking cool, oh my god. If at any point this catches your fancy, just go play it, its super accessible IMO, and I go over ways to emulate it at the end.

obspogon
@obspogon

neat

  • tf2 servers flooded with sniper bots that hog slots and prevent players from playing the game, spamming racial slurs
  • valve does nothing, forcing everyone to use the server browser to actually play tf2
  • now: comfig, a notable figure in the tf2 community, creates a website that replicates the classic server browser, letting you play on good community servers easily
Adell
@Adell

I'm late in catching up with the Latin American Games Showcase (through Pat Stares At stream of that day) and upon seeing the Among The Stars trailer he went "What if Indivisible had anything going for it at all" which is not untrue but someone else went "The children crave for Valkyrie Profile" and man, that one hit me way harder. I really do, I need another game that will make me realize that stories can just be relentlessly sad, while giving me some crunchy numbers and cool visuals