I’ve been writing a blog regularly for the past year or two, so I thought maybe I’d share my posts here for those who are into that sort of thing.
I tend to write about video games, art, writing, internet culture stuff, and autobio life stuff.
Homepage: https://blueberrylemonade.pika.page/
Wrote about why I find constant and obsessive Silksong memeing to be off-putting.
Christ Jesus ify here. when people say Silksong is vaporware I want to shake them.
we don’t need silksong nine sols is right there /j
agree with most of this although i don’t mind bloodborne talk. sony is a billion dollar company and it’s embarrassing to watch them pour money down the drain when they could be using it on a game that really needs some TLC. couple that with the fact that there are tons of people who have successfully gotten the game to work on PC or at 60FPS or whatever, AND the fact that they blocked bloodborne kart like a week before it dropped and i find myself not very sympathetic to them.
mother 3 is never coming to America
Yeah I think the vibes are different for an indie dev versus a billion dollar corp for sure. For the Bloodborne thing I guess the memes are still “not funny” for me comedy-wise but I don’t really care about Sony’s feelings on it.
And same for Mother 3, kind of just repetitive/boring/unfunny thing for people to spam on social media, but I don’t really care about Nintendo’s feelings about it.
With Bloodborne I feel like at some point you gotta just accept that the only way you’re getting it is if Bluepoint is involved.
e: and also it’s not coming to PC if that happens
The Fans™ are going to No Man’s Sky Silksong.
Talking about the mix-and-match JRPG job system, partially inspired by Metaphor.
I was hoping you’d bring it over here so I can talk about it! Yeah this is EXACTLY why the class system in Valiant Horizon is what it is (which is to say, you have your class but learn bits and pieces by growing in relationships with other charaters) - this aspect bugged the fuck out of me when playing Xenoblade 3, which I played like a few months before starting to design the game.
this seems like a crazy thing to say to the Valiant Horizon guy but damn I really gotta give my copy a proper deep read (rather than a skim) soon.
It’s pretty short! Like 24/68 pages are just class spreads.
I think you were right to make it what it was!
Also I think TTRPGs in particular have a unique opportunity to experiment with different character progressions faster than video games can. I bet if I looked into more TTRPGs I’d probably find a lot of alternative class systems that really speak to me.
Wrote about feeling overwhelmed by the amount of images, even artwork, that I see on a day-to-day basis.
Two new blog posts. One about why I dont think a Pokemon MMO would be a good idea, one about Sonic x Shadow Generations
The Pokemon MMO one was good. Even playing something like the pixelmon minecraft mod brings up some issues that you run into with a Pokemon MMO, with regard to progression and the multiplayer stuff.
Yeah it’s interesting because there’s some fangames and mods that try to do the Pokemon MMO type of thing but i havent heard of any of them really resonating with people
I wrote some casual predictions about the future of Xbox and what “consoles” will be popular.
This is all fair but honestly, I don’t even know how much Playstation matters going forward either. This whole generation feels like it basically got skipped.
yeah this is something my partner and I speculated over somewhat recently and I felt pretty similarly. I think MS will, at some point in the future, leave the dedicated machine behind in favor of an all-in-one with subscription services for each element–work, gaming, whatever. They’ll still want to control the hardware construction vertical as much as possible, too, but separate machines probably isn’t the future.
Mostly I’m curious to see how long Sony holds out before they also give up on the gaming hardware business and shift to accessories and publishing all their releases on Steam only.
Yeah, I think this will inevitably happen for Playstation too, but I think they’ll hold out at least one more generation than Xbox. I feel like they have so much more momentum, nostalgia, and (timed) exclusives than Xbox. Even if it’s fun to dunk on the PS5.