True Left

LIMBO:

Limbo is a 2D platformer where you play as a boy trying to find his sister while avoiding some hostiles and traps. This game meets nearly every criteria expressed through various postings on this website:

- Zero textures. Everything is black and white.
- Zero text (except in the menu).
- Zero dialogue.
- Directional pad and two buttons only (action and jump).
- Runs on a potato.
- Runs on Linux (and other major platforms).

This game is the true definition of accessible where anybody can play it. It's not the crappy "accessible" version where the game handholds you.

It's available on all major platforms. Check it out.

New Zelda game "Breath of The Wild" is dripping with Turanian blood memory:

I was pretty excited for the game, but when playing it, something just didn't sit right with me. Perhaps it was the hunting, which is required to obtain food in the game? The horseback riding in the grassy steppes was also unsettling because I knew the non-Aryans (who called themsleves "Aryan") who did this practice in prehistoric times were very violent. Then after reading Aryan Diffusion, I realized that this was indeed a glorification of Turanism.

The only reason why I played the game was because of its story, which itself was lackluster.

This illustrates how even non-Western developers are now creating games that appeal primarily to the sensiblites of Westerners. This game is part of the broader "open-world" trend in video games overall, which seeks to create more and more expansive worlds for Westerners to "explore".

"Ah, yes. While everyone else was focused on the Prime series, I ignored it completely and only played Fusion and Zero Mission."
New 2D Metroid game announced!:


It is the sequel to Metroid fusion that was announced 20 years ago!
Although the graphics are 3D in contrast to the 2D graphics of the GBA, I appreciate the revival of the retro 2D gameplay perspective.

The film is a typical ZC wet dream that shows Brad Pitt, the archetypal Westerner with a mesomorphic build subduing Bruce Lee's character with ease due to his ectomorphic build and smaller stature, despite the obvious disparity in combat skill.

I remember thinking "WTF' Bruce Lee should have kicked his ass!" when watching that scene.

"Prince of Persia Trilogy"

The 90's 2-d versions were very frustrating to play because of controls and you couldn't react to the traps fast enough because you couldn't see what was on the next screen!

I thought The Sands of Time was pretty good. I liked walking into a giant room and figuring out how to get to the next location. The game was well paced and didn't drag on. The combat was kind of boring though.

Ah, yes. While everyone else was focused on the Prime series, I ignored it completely and only played Fusion and Zero Mission. Did you play these two?

I only play the original Legend of Zelda (NES) and A Link to the Past (SNES).

There are plenty of examples of classic franchises that have transitioned to 3-d and have epically failed (Castlevania, Mega Man, Earthworm Jim, Busy, Contra, Monkey Island...) Nintendo has somehow made theirs work.

New 2D Metroid game announced!

Looks good! I hope for a remake of Zelda Oracle of Seasons/Ages like they did with Link's Awakening!

I recall my peers would often ridicule Nintendo games for being "childish" compared to most of the games that were popular in the post-9/11 era, so I take it as a compliment from them that I was a fan of "childish" games.

Indeed. There are a few reasons for that. In the early to mid 90's, Nintendo and Sega's marketing focused on different age demographics. If you look at Sonic, you'll notice his shoes and "attitude" that catered to the adolescent "hip" crowd.

Nintendo's biggest blunder was to censor the blood in the SNES port of Mortal Kombat to please members of Congress. Like the game or not, Mortal Kombat was definitely a counter culture game at the time.

The other reasons for Nintendo's "kiddie" image are more benign: No first person shooters, more colorful palette, the "purple lunchbox" GameCube, just a lack of graphic violence in general.

I feel like most of these moves by Nintendo were not done to please the kids but to please the adult parents. They didn't have to make violent games themselves, but they could have allowed other developers to publish violent games on their platform.

"I feel like most of these moves by Nintendo were not done to please the kids but to please the adult parents."

This is why I have to agree with rp, that Mortal Kombat is more of a symptom of the false left. It's rebellious, but for the wrong reasons. As for fighting games in general, I love the concept of them, but I feel like I either have to get really good at them, or just not play at all. The skill ceiling for fighting games is so high, that it doesn't feel nearly satisfying enough to just know the basics. And if I choose to get good at a fighting game, then that's gonna take a huge chunk of my time, and obviously I would still have to maintain whatever skill I acquire by practicing. Smash Bros is marketed as more of a party game, so it sort of escapes this by giving off the illusion that it has a low skill ceiling (even though the competitive tournaments say otherwise). Smash Bros was one of my favorite game series growing up

Touché about digitized sprites; A point I forgot to mention. Street Fighter the movie the game is another example of those sprites and it sucks. Another point is that the Mortal Kombat controls do feel very stiff compared to regular Street Fighter.

For the record: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is the fighting game I have enjoyed the most.

"Even its graphical style gives it away as aesthetically Western:"

Yes. Westerners prefer more realistic art styles because it is more mature, and in their minds, only that which is more mature is more "serious". In contrast, non-realistic art styles are "cartoonish" (I agree) and therefore childish (I agree!), and things which are childish are not "serious".

Basically, in Westerners' minds, people who prefer cartoonish video games are just childish people who are not interested in "serious real world" (materialistic) things. I agree! What do you think?