emeraldheart

joined 1 year ago
[–] emeraldheart 4 points 1 year ago

Look into Skywind and rejoice 😊

[–] emeraldheart 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kind of like the way "reducles" sounds in my head. "Rih-duck-uls"

reducles reducles reducles

[–] emeraldheart 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Always satisfying to see Luffy just grabbing enemies like they're nothing. He's so fun :)

Can anyone help me remember what the robot thing is at the very last panel?

[–] emeraldheart 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I don't trust like that.

[–] emeraldheart 1 points 1 year ago

"Stray Gods" is an incredibly beautiful game. I was turned off by the playstyle at first, but then I embraced it and got really invested in the characters and the story. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys Greek mythology and/or fantastic stories about interpersonal drama and enjoys games with tough dialogue choices.

The soundtrack also!!! It's a musical game and the songs are all SO BEAUTIFUL. I teared up a few times.

[–] emeraldheart 1 points 1 year ago

"Stray Gods" is an incredibly beautiful game. I was turned off by the playstyle at first, but then I embraced it and got really invested in the characters and the story. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys Greek mythology and/or fantastic stories about interpersonal drama and enjoys games with tough dialogue choices.

The soundtrack also!!! It's a musical game and the songs are all SO BEAUTIFUL. I teared up a few times.

[–] emeraldheart 4 points 1 year ago

I'm playing through Dragon Quest 11 when I have time! I'm really enjoying the characters and the art! The story is... Okay. Nothing to write home about. The music was good, but then after having it repeat over and over and over and over it has kind of started making me grit my teeth. I also kind of wish the game was a little shorter? It feels extremely long, but I think that's a side-effect of me hearing the same songs over and over and the plot not really clicking with me as well as some other stories have.

Critiques aside, I really love Sylvando; I think he's the best character I've seen in a long time! So flamboyant, yet so caring and complex. And the art is really pretty and pleasant to look at at times.

I'm still gonna stick it out to the end, because I feel like I'm close to the end now anyway and maybe it'll leave on a really high note :)

[–] emeraldheart 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, of course. I don't think I'm doing some major thing by pirating a game, I promise. Though, to be entirely honest, there are so many games out there and so little time to play them all, I might as well just focus on the games that don't make me feel dirty.

[–] emeraldheart 3 points 1 year ago

I should clarify I'm not calling for a boycott; thinking realistically, I believe the gaming community is way too large/relatively uninformed for something like that to work. I'm simply trying to be mindful about how I spend my money.

For WotC, it's a combination of their OGL licensing controversy and them sending the Pinkertons to someone's house to threaten them over Magic cards.

[–] emeraldheart 2 points 1 year ago

It sounds like you're struggling with the same ethical dilemmas that I am, and you're doing the best you can to consider your purchases as you make them. I think donating to the Trevor Project is an incredible way to spend your money.

As you seem like someone that aligns with me in some ways, do you have any game recommendations that don't cause either of us to "feel the ick," so to speak?

[–] emeraldheart 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Haha, this is a fair response. I'm considering it for the companies that make me feel more icky, but whose games seem really fun.

[–] emeraldheart 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your comfort. I think I'm trying to hold myself to realistic standards. When I can choose, and the options are many - such as with media - I feel I can cut out the options which don't align with my values. As I stated elsewhere, I cannot hold myself to this standard with food and clothing. The ethically-pure options are too limited to result in a realistic and affordable lifestyle for me.

 

Hi, everybody! Sorry for the rant! I'm Cross-Posting this from my other account on Beehaw, because I'd love to hear others' thoughts on this. I don't see much discussion about this and I'm really curious if maybe I'm viewing this all wrong.

I'm just posting this as a combination of question and vent. Does anyone else here feel frustrated by the current ethical dilemmas of purchasing games from certain companies? My partner is very tuned into the various ethical mishaps happening in the world and keeps me apprised of which companies are doing shitty stuff and which people/companies I should stop supporting. This is important to remember, but it is also frustrating to see how many companies out there are doing bad things.

This is a very "first world problem," but it's frustrating just how many games out there look cool, but I can't play them because it'd be giving those companies/people money. The biggest examples are Activision Blizzard, J.K. Rowling, and Wizards of the Coast. I think Baldurs Gate 3, for example, looks so awesome, but I don't feel comfortable playing it because my partner has alerted me that some of that money would go to Wizards. I feel somewhat frustrated that the discussion around these issues has evaporated when the games are released; it's as though people stopped caring about the bad things these companies/people did. To be entirely honest, I'm not sure if I myself would be able to keep myself accountable if my partner doesn't remind me of it; I think I may have bought the games like everyone else because of how fun they look, and how much they remind me of games I grew up on.

On a similar note, as my partner is working on becoming a game developer, he follows the state of game development and tells me about it, which seems bleak. I mourn the old studios that I used to have a lot of enjoyment for, like BioWare and the others that EA ate up.

Thanks for reading all of this. :) I wish things were more hopeful, I suppose. My partner urges me to support indie developers, so I'm trying to move in that direction. Does anyone have any recommendations on staying hopeful, given the current state of entertainment?

TL;DR: I'm frustrated by the current largely-unethical state of the games industry and want to know how I can regain some hope about it.

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