beard ひげ @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club

the fucking lost woods. the FUCKING lost woods, dude, i swear.

play breath of the wild, you have to carefully go through them in the right way without being wrapped up in the fog. this was cool, had mystique, and there was actually a method to it. this follows other zelda games that have lost woods, where it's always a little confusing but there is a way to get through it if you pay enough attention.

tears of the kingdom? nope, fuck that. it is literally impossible to get through the lost woods. you have to literally go underneath them through the depths and then that's it. stupidest shit ever. no mystique, no way to "solve" them, no looping areas or sound puzzles, just go underneath them 4head.

some autists noticed that in selen's tweet about being hospitalized due to an accident, the apostrophe she used wasn't the normal one she uses. long story short, it's likely that management made the tweet, not her.

I don't deny that Baldur's Gate 3 was an amazing game. Out of the nominees at TGA for GOTY, it probably deserved it the most.

Just take a second to think about it though... this was a game that was partly available to the public for 3 years in early access. The best game of 2023 had 3 years in the public eye to refine it to the point where the public would like it.

Something about that just rubs me in a weird way. Obviously the game is very good, but something about GOTY going to a game that had that sort of development cycle just seems... I don't know... nongenuine? Like, we can only make a game that's truly worthy of GOTY if we have constant feedback from the public for 3 years? Just strange.

Meanwhile, there's also the issue of Resident Evil 4 Remake being nominated, when it's just a remake. It's a good remake, apparently, but when something like Final Fantasy 16 gets shafted to make a spot for a game that already had a complete foundation to work off of? Not good. Also, maybe personal bias here, but I don't think Spider-Man 2 was anywhere close to the quality of FF16.

Everyone keeps saying that 2023 was a great year for gaming. There were a lot of great games that came out this year. The circumstances surrounding a lot of games though... it makes everything feel a little off. We had lots of studio closures and lay-offs, tons of really shitty games, lots of games that missed the mark they were going for in one way or another, etcetera. I don't think I can say that 2023 was a great year for games... I think it was a good year for a lot of good games coming out, and that's about it.

>doctor, i'm kinda sad
>okay, take these pills
>what side effects do they have?
>you'll feel nothing and you'll want to kill yourself
>what happens if i stop taking them?
>you'll feel nothing and you'll want to kill yourself