It's a great show... whenever one particular character isn't onscreen.
missingno
joined 1 year ago
Loved the first four games, but I skipped 5 after hearing nothing but bad things. Glad to hear this is a return to form.
Them's Fightin' Herds has one of the best tutorials in the fighting game genre, but on top of that it also has a story mode cleverly designed to act as a second tutorial. Enemies and bosses are designed you on specific concepts like anti-airing or getting past zoning. It even has platforming segments to get you used to fighting game movement.
Sadly, the published pulled the plug so chapter 1 is all we'll ever get. But that chapter 1 is still better than any other fighting game singleplayer.
The Atari crash was just Atari. In North America - and only North America, things were quite different elsewhere in the world - Atari was virtually the entire game industry at the time, but that isn't the case today.
We already do see individual developers and publishers crash the way Atari did. All the time. But for every flop, there are a dozen hits. The industry is big, and it is not a monolith. And the audience is far far far larger. People will always be buying games. It's not possible for the entire industry to crash the way Atari did.
It'd be like expecting the entire music industry, movie industry, or book industry to crash.
Right monitor is 16:9 and VRR, left is a 16:10 monitor my work gave me during covid. So games go on the right.
First try. I did make a few mistakes, but the 2600 made more.
It's the beginner difficulty on very weak hardware. It's designed to be easily beatable even if you don't know much about chess.
I would expect anyone claiming to be intelligent to be able to beat an Atari 2600 set to its very lowest difficulty. This is a task on par with counting the number of Rs in the word 'strawberry', something the intelligent ChatGPT also famously cannot do.
Bear in mind that ActivityPub is so much more than just Lemmy. Mbin and Piefed both exist as alternatives.
A worthy opponent for all of my favorite niche games that I'll never convince my IRL friends to play.
They said the quiet part out loud, and they said it in three part harmony.
But none of those are entire industries crashing. Audiences change, media changes how it targets audiences, business models change, but the medium still lives.