Porkies have to spent billions of dollar in researching psychology to create an insane emotion manipulation system in their games to even reach the level of addiction Tetris reached decades ago. Something Tetris achieved by pure good gameplay.
Imagine if the USSR still exist today (:ussr-cry:), we would've seen a game so good we would just straight up fucking dies.
edit: Considering that games from post-eastern bloc countries continues to blow away western and Japanese in the terms of creativity means that this isn't really a joke. :lt-dbyf-dubois: made in the Estonian SSR would send you writhing on the floor speaking in tongues.
decades later, the tetris-induced common expectation that neatly stacked lines of goods would just dissolve once completed has finally snowballed into the present supply chain crisis, the last act of revenge of the USSR.
The crew of the Ever Given was trying to slot their 4-long block ship into a gap that should have resulted in a tetris, but alas, there was a gap that blended in with the shitty LCD monochrome Game Boy screen.
if the USSR still existed today, we would’ve seen a game so good we would just straight up fucking die.
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The CIA tried Polybius but it only caused some mild epilepsia and terrorist attacks.
Stalker and ARMA/Operation Flashpoint both came out of post-soviet states, and both are nearly unique in their class, without any serious competitors for what they do.
If it wasn't for the awful technical issues where no matter what you get 20fps, and having a better computer just makes the freezes shorter, the Arms games would be a lot more popular. They really are incredible in what they do.
Or Pathologic? Pathologic 2 would exist in its entirety and would be responsible for the emergence of whole new areas of philosophical enquiry.
Pathologic is proof that the common ideas about "good game design" are bullshit. At the end of the day, games attempt to create an emotional state in the player, and the path to that end is as varied as any other artistic medium.
we would’ve seen a game so good we would just straight up fucking dies.
just imagine the Plotlines they would allow over there .... the Spacerevolution game were you waste Oligarch Space Yachts ... and Skyscrapers... while revolutonary music plays..
4X games except instead of explore exploit expand exterminate it's focused on building peaceful and mutually beneficial relationships with alien cultures.
I'm excited for Terra Nil, which is a reverse city builder where you restore the environment. It's being made by Free Lives, the studio that did Gorn, Broforce, and Genital Jousting.
Call of Duty, but it's only the best part, the Soviet campaign from the second game
Wait, they let you do that? Shit, is it any good? Might need to :programming-communism: it.
As an aside, why do we have no clear piracy emoji?
Yeah, it's still the very best part of any Call of Duty game. I don't know if it has aged particularly well, but it was a blast, sniping the shit out of Nazis in Stalingrad, and eventually capturing Berlin in the final mission. Shit was awesome.
I’ve never liked or finished a cod campaign. Looking back I can see why.
Nah, the whole part with Enemy of the Gate gommie no rifle shit was cringe.
The Soviet campaign in World at War however is pure badass, marred only by the lack of women and minority representation in the Soviet army.
On the fuhrer's birthday, a barrage of katyusha rockets will tear Berlin to pieces!
That was the first game. Second game was Defense of Moscow and then the Assault on Stalingrad city hall, not the boat scene
My mom has only played one video game in her life and it was Tetris. My parents would argue over who got to play my Gameboy at night. I've probably seen them argue like two times ever. Tetris addiction was fucking real, man.
I've always considered WoW to be a good game because people ruin their lives+straight up die playing it.
I remember playing the original Tetris in black and white on a Mac in 1989.
It was obvious the game was a winner, but what I remember the most about that version was the art and music. There were these backgrounds of the Soviet space program and such, and traditional Russian folk music. Not that stupid "Tetris theme" that most people associate with the arcade version and Gameboy version. No, real music.
The “Type A” theme from the Game Boy that everyone associates with Tetris is a folk song though.
https://youtu.be/umEDct4BoGc
Which version was that? The original original Tetris looked like this
we would’ve seen a game so good we would just straight up fucking dies.
Infinite Jest intensifies
