machinya

this was not my idea of gender abolition but sure as hell I would welcome it

1. RE2 (1998) - hard to beat. great in every aspect. having 2 scenarios that affect each other is sooo good that i want more games doing that. extra modes are quite challenging and fun to play.
2. REmake (2002 GC) - perfect in almost every way. I'm very sad that there were no more games in that style since for me it's probably the perfect survival horror experience. I still like the original but the remake improved almost every single aspect of it.
3. RE3 (1999) - it has a bunch of problems but is probably the funnier one to play. making up challenges to finish the game gives it an arcade-like feeling. nemesis keeps being scary even when i have every place he can appear memorized

honorable mention to outbreak. i only played it in single player mode but i'm sure it would probably enter the list if i had the chance to play multiplayer. between it and REmake were two very good ways of moving the franchise forward and keeping the formula interesting. sadly, they went the action route so we got okay-ish games (4 is great although it still ranks way below the classics for me) instead of hypotetical masterpieces.

Peace Walker has some very good things but the game is either hit or miss. it's very short missions oriented that are meant to be replayed multiple times. it has a couple of mobile-game-like minigames that are fun and weird to play. it totally feels like a portable game even on the remaster versions. it's recommended to play it with multiple players if possible.

story is enjoyable even if it's a mess. it has some questionable points but overall it's okay. it also replaces the codec calls with tapes that are literally meant to be heard on the go

That is literally eco-facist rethoric. Stop trying to shift the blame away from capitalism when it's obviously the problem

can someone explain how does these beds are supposed to avoid people having sex? I cannot see a single thing that woud even be a problem for it.

also, is not that beds are a requirement for sex, but that is a different discussion

are they finally adding professional sex at the olimpics?

how does it still holds up to these days?

i recently rewatched tamers (my favourite childhood digimon series) and while i liked the overal series, a big part of it was a slog to watch and almost dropped it a couple of times.

i have been wanting to rewatch the whole adventure saga, but the experience with tamers made it a bit scary to revisit

I am not watching too many anime this season, since there were barely any interesting new shows for me so now that I have some free time I might try starting something older soon

Anime

Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction(2024) - The premise looks interesting and I'm enjoying the character interactions a lot so I have big expectations, but after 6 eps, I am still very confused about the end goal of the story. It looks like something big is cooking behind scenes but it is still not visible. I have enjoyed other works by the author so I expect this one to be good.

Senpai wa Otokonoko(2024) - is this good trans representation or transmisoginy? cannot say yet. The main character acts a lot like a person with gender disphoria and the show depicts well a lot of common trans experiences like experimenting gender and euphoria. it appears to be going in a possitive direction. but at the same time, it has some... questionable scenes and the show empatizing that "he is a boy" in both the english subtitle and in some scenes so it give weird negative vibes. I remember having a bunch of problems with the manga back in the day, but I cannot remember almost anything of it.

Tasogare Outfocus(2024) - it feels a lot like old school yaoi, with a bunch of questionable tropes and a very simple and predictable romance progress. Characters are okay and not anoying and there are not many queer anime recently so it's tolerable. hoping it improves soon or I might drop this one

Serial Experiments Lain(1998) - started it a couple of months ago but it's not really hooking me in. idea is interesting and we really like the weird world that it depicts, but somehow i have a hard time continuing it often. I'm halfway and it looks like the story is finally connecting so this might change soon.

i think is more likely to be a "mainstream gamers do not like this" line of thought, like with motion controllers. DS and 3DS did really well, but they had always the "casual" label (analogue to the wii and motion controllers) so "mainstream gamers" stayed away from them. even with the wiiu, that had native dual screens, nintendo tried to cater to a "mainstream gamers" audience and there are too few games that actually uses the dual screen effectively.

there might be more to this, like casual audiences moving to mobile games and only "gamers" buying consoles, but i'm not educated enough in the topic to make a judgement there.

tangentially, but

loading minigames patent

what the fuck is this??? how did someone actually accepted this?? how did I not hear about it before? this is silly on so many levels. like, patentings characters jumping or so (don't doubt something like this exist, but also don't want to know)

the sp was clearly superior to the gba in almost anything, but it was a pain to play with (for me at least). i could have long sessions on a gba without any problem, but playing with the sp for long time was painful and uncomfortable. it was okay for rpg or games that did not require high reflexes or button mashing

I have been saying for years that dual screen (or asymetric screens. can't really remember the name) was one of the best ideas in gaming that got fully abandonned no clue why. there are just a few games outside the ds line that actually did that and they were great (GZ did great. wiiu having two screens by default did not use it as much as it should). the DS games having usualy the map or sometimes inventory management on the secondary screen was simply great. many games would totally benefit from that