anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]

this game kicks ass. some of the most fun multiplayer, and totally perfected the ‘goldeneye lineage’ of shooters of those 2 console generations to its apex. The map-maker was incredible too. Even had event flags and such, where you could make your own little campaigns. Was mad disappointed they removed that when future perfect rolled around.

(I can’t believe there’s a Malthus emoji I was going to download a picture and post it)

WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR UNCLES YOU BOER FUCK

decolonizing the country one step-stool pushed in front of grandma at a time

Mechanics are inseparable from, and an integral part of the rest of a game experience, narrative, mood, and all. And in a game like this with what it was trying to do, fixed camera angles are a significant mechanic that can and do affect specific mechanical experiences and functions on the player and how they engage with the game world which reinforce core narrative experiences and moods in ways that, though I didn’t play this remake and see how it changed things, feel and seem pretty fundamental to the experience.

Forcing you to move through the game world, and even feel claustrophobically stuck, within the confines of the oppressive clutches of fixed cameras, restricted vision, and commitment to meaningful actions and movements among the set design and especially sound design, are objectively powerful design choices which are significant in the ways they mechanically capture and reinforce the oppressive aspects of the story and environments, and of the horror, disorientation, mistrust, mental illness, trauma, repression, fear, lack of control and agency in one’s torments and constructs, etc. of the world and narrative; that I feel like would be significantly lessened and undermined with options and movement and vision being made freer and turned more into an “action hero game.”

Like I said I never played this remake and don’t keep up with modern games much so can’t speak specifically to how they managed to account for this and restructure things to reconstruct or “fill-in” some of these aspects or if they did (maybe they expertly did it), but not only do I strongly disagree that fixed camera angles are “objectively bad”— even just hearing there’s no fixed camera angles in this remake sounds actually really weird to me; like if you were to make a 007 Goldeneye remake that’s isometric view game, but much more extreme because Goldeneye isn’t a serious artistic game trying to say and do something real other than “be fun.” Or similarly if Fatal Frame didn’t make you have to use the camera to see the spirits etc. The mechanics are inseparable from the point of the game. And the more serious the game’s narrative is the more the mechanics matter in how that narrative is experienced and so the story “told” (or lived, via the player through the characters mechanically)

“offered an agreement”

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“promised territory” hmm where have I heard that before…

eat your heart out not^sch

Excellent principled praxis! When circumstances demanded a stand out of you, you were prepared with anti-imperialist understanding and the Marxist resolve to make, take, and hold it. Well done , comrade!

I prefer to listen to stand and deliver over and over

in fairness I’m pretty sure time machines already existed in generation 2 games. I remember upstairs in the pokemon centers they had some in-game “brand new time machine tech” justification for letting you trade between gen 2 and gen 1; because gen 2 also had the kanto region but in the future of gen 1, where you could battle gen 1’s player character Red as the secret boss who went into isolation after winning the pokemon league, etc. I thought that shit was so cool as a kid (battling red, the time machine was whatever)

And it’s not that farfetch’d, because there was always super high tech sci-fi aspects. Bill had the transporter and transmogrifier that Brundlefly’d his ass and then fixed him normal. and the whole “virtualization of pokemon into pokeballs and PC storage” thing itself.