Recent content by Gradine

Would that make it more accurate to call it steampunkpunk?

Is your contention that any game mechanic that would prevent the player from deciding every single their character says and does, such as those mechanics modeling anything from morale to willpower to sanity to mind control, is inherently limiting to or a lessening of player agency? Should a game...

I am interested in how many TTRPGs (whole games or even supplements) are lost media. A recent study found that 87% of all video games created before 2010 are no longer legally available, and I imagine the ratio for TTRPGs isn't much better. I also know that because legal archiving is difficult...

Nic Cage is perfect for Noir. My favorite quote on Cage comes from Ethan Hawke: "I’m kind of obsessed with Nic Cage... He’s the only actor since Marlon Brando that’s actually done anything new with the art of acting; he’s successfully taken us away from an obsession with naturalism into a kind...

I haven't played a game on PC that isn't Phasmophobia in a very long time. My wife and I have tried playing Diablo II and III on console, and while it does make it so much more convenient to play together, it just doesn't feel right to play a Diablo game without rapidly clicking on monsters...

In other news, the latest Blue Prince with zero context, having "beaten" the game on Day 19, I'm now on Day 65 and zeroing in on I think the last few puzzles left to solve. Just put together the final piece of one late game puzzle by... walking past a lunch box. Also I'm pretty sure my mom And...

At least we're a lot more likely to be able to get a McFlurry out of a working machine now?

You are right, of course; I was conflating sales figures with actual player numbers, and the Doom shareware was very popular. Quake too; when I was looking up all this stuff I found accounts that Quake II's sales figures were much lower than you'd expect because people figured out how to easily...

I can understand not liking the art style being shown here, taste is subjective, yadda yadda. But calling it "generic"? Without a point of view? That's just straight up not true. There is a definitive sense of style and direction here. You may not like it, but it's far from generic...

Well, I can't speak for the WEG D6 Star Wars Discord I found, because it had a "no politics clause", but not like here has a "no politics clause", but like a NuTSR-esque "no politics clause". I thought I'd at least poke my head in but the final line in the "Rules Agreement" said "The only "cis"...

Birds are real! They were just driven to extinction by the CIA and replaced with look-a-like drones to surveil the American people in the 1960's.

I keep seeing WEG D6 Star Wars popping up and... that game still has a pretty active, if not incredibly large, active community. I myself am a member of two such Facebook groups, one with over 3k members, and the other is... is.... ...this group is run by Vincent Florio??? How did I not know...

Are people still playing FUDGE? Were there a significant number of FUDGE fans out there who saw FATE, said "Nah, I'm good," and are keeping the dream alive?

Like, I think it's worth noting that for every one person who has played Doom, there are at least three, maybe four who have played Goldeneye.