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  • 🎀 Seryph (She/Her)@lemmygrad.ml
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    I mean you already know Tactics Ogre for one, Xenoblade 1 is my actual favourite game ever though.

    If I called any other games perfect it'd probably be... Void Stranger, Deus Ex, Ocarina of Time, Mario Galaxy, Divinity Original Sin 2, Disco Elysium, Diablo 1 (not 2, Diablo peaked at 1), House of the Dying Sun, Kid Icarus Uprising, Zeroranger, Touhou Imperishable Night, Armored Core 1, Berwick Saga (still need to play this one tbh but I guarantee you it'll be here when I do), Starcraft Brood War (I like 2 more, but I feel 1 is the one that's actually perfect), Pyre, Metal Gear Solid 1, and Pathologic. Probably a few more but I forgor

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      xi-clap That is a nice fuckin variety of bestgaems, very good tbh! I have never met a Pyre fan, I loved Bastion and Transistor was rad, but Pyre was like makima-huh uh pls explain how it is good...

      • 🎀 Seryph (She/Her)@lemmygrad.ml
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        Pyre is an incredible visual novel sports game with what I would consider to be Supergiant's best narrative. The characters are all super compelling and personable so that you end out attached to them and genuinely care about whether they ascend, which then creates these lovely emergent narratives as you succeed and fail throughout the rites. And then it devastates you with its ending harder than anything else. It's genuinely one of the only 7 pieces of fiction to ever get me to ugly cry, the others being Xenoblade 1, Bastion, My Broken Mariko, The House in Fata Morgana, The Wheel of Time (don't ask how), and Umineko When They Cry.

        In general a lot of my favourite games have these sorts of emerging narratives, I think it's what bideo games are best suited towards and imo any game that lacks one is working at a severe disadvantage as an example of perfection, the ones in my list which don't have it are just so good at what they do that I love them regardless.

        Also I genuinely enjoy the sport gameplay it hits the weird sportsgame itch that Mario Strikers Charged put in me as a kid.

        • ashinadash [she/her]
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          Okay but why is Pyre also fuckin, Mutant League Football, though? blob-no-thoughts Where did the funny isometric real-time-with-pause thing from Transistor go? Why is this fictional sport so weird?

          I will say I sincerely appreciate your tastes and standards, prioritising emotional impact and emergent narrative sorta. I dig that, I kinda feel it albeit almost no game has managed to put me in an emotionally-impacted state.

          Weird sportsgame sunny-breakdown

          • 🎀 Seryph (She/Her)@lemmygrad.ml
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            If you want my joke not real reason it's that Pyre is criticising televised sports as culty. The actual reason is that sports games lowkey rule and the sorts of weird asinine rules that sports use are actually kinda like how weird and asinine occult rituals can be. Hence why it's so weird, it reinforces the main occult parts of the narrative which otherwise take a back seat for the revolution narrative.

            Plus the spirit field murder sports gameplay is peak I'm afraid.

            I'm flattered you appreciate my weirdo taste in things. It does kinda hit the mark on how I engage with these, I do have some games that are on there for pure fun reasons (Actually just Touhou really), but all the others had some genuine emotional or intellectual impact on me, and not just in the crying way. And that's part of why I like emergent narratives so much, they inherently get me to emotionally engage with the work more fully, to put myself into it a little. My first playthrough of Pyre was my first playthrough, I chose to constantly reload since I was a little baby and I chose who would ascend first. So when the game responded at the end with the song it genuinely fucked me up with how touching it was. My playthrough was seen, for once. In other games I roleplay so heavily because it's another way to create these narratives, I create elaborate characters to flesh out the experience of the playing the game. And some games create an emergent narrative purely through emotional manipulation. Armored Core 1 is a game about falling into debt because you suck and the controls are weird and then clawing yourself out as you become a hardened mercenary, or else get so in debt that you're sold to become a human experiment and try again. And that whole time you feel that desperation to stay afloat, to not fall further into your debt spiral. It's all just incredible, really, and I deeply love anything that pushes me in these ways.

            • ashinadash [she/her]
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              5 months ago

              makima-huh Yeah I guess, I dunno.... been a long time since I picked up a game and was more or less unable to play it. Wife and I preloaded it, excited for the new Supergiant game, and uh neither of us put more than five hours in I think.

              Woah what the fuck, I am genuinely kind of blown away by this second paragraph. Granted my brain is slurry atm, but... I'm not really an rp person I guess, it sure as hell doesn't pop up for me in games, maybe it's an autism thing but that level of participation and creation in the narrative that you describe is entirely new to me, what the fuck.

              Also I'm drunk from gabapentin and Idk if I like it pls help.

              • 🎀 Seryph (She/Her)@lemmygrad.ml
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                5 months ago

                Yeah I get that, it's so different from the rest of their catalog I can understand the disappointment. I fell in love with it hard though.

                It's not just rp all the time, sometimes it's just paying attention to the things that happen and creating memories from it. In my Fire Emblem replays I always do ironmans because they create stories about that unit who cheated death or how my favourite got absolutely curbstomped early or how that one unit I usually don't think about became the best one on my team. My rp just fills in the blanks between those and the written narrative. It also seems like something a bit particular to me, maybe because I'm just inherently very creative-minded.

                Oh I'm sorry to hear that! I can't really think of anything that would help other than just continuing to message you so you stay engaged and don't feel more ill if that might help.

                • ashinadash [she/her]
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                  5 months ago

                  I could maybe have liked it, I just couldn't play it Idk. Loved Transistor and bounced off Pyre...

                  Well yeah of course, and that's cool as well, I do that one a lil. Ironman tactics game runs are cool... I guess this kind of goes into why I seem to relate weirdly to media, I guess? I have never filled in the blanks, or rarely. If something has too many stupid blanks I consider it utterly inadequate, which is the loser critic thing to do but wow, I really lost the creative flame altogether. This kinda sucks. That's why it stuck out to me I guess, as early as your AC1 posting.

                  It's okay, thanks and sorry for dumping that, just a thing I guess, finna go find wifey.

                  • 🎀 Seryph (She/Her)@lemmygrad.ml
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                    Don't worry about it, I hope you feel better soon 💜

                    And I don't think that sucks or is weird, it's just a different way of engaging with stuff. It's really cool how thoroughly into the reeds you often get with your interests, like the big Tactics Ogre post you had made. I can do a bit of that but to nowhere near the same extent and depth and so it's cool to know someone who can sometimes. We're just valuing different things in different ways in our art.