#in my eyes. even ninja gingerbreadman 2 has more artistic social and philosophical value. than a thousand hours in that new shit diablo game

[quietwingsinthesky]

but like speaking seriously. i genuinely, truly wish this was still the age of terrible shovelware games and not. whatever the fuck is happening now between the mobile gaming market, microtransactions, and. the everything of it. it’s not that shovelware is good, it’s that it’s interesting! it’s not any less corporate in its goals, but it’s less… evil? you know? you pay for shovelware game, you still get a game, as terrible as it might be. it won’t have ads in it, it won’t ask you to pay more money once you’ve bought it, it’ll just be almost innocently terrible on its disc in its entirety, entertaining to shit on with friends and an enigma as to what went into its creation. i have a genuine little place in my heart for awful tie-in games, especially when you can tell that for however bad they are, there was one person on that team that you can tell gave a shit. (and sometimes there wasn’t. but that’s still fun. the game still had to be made, someone still had to make choices about it’s creation, and those choices can be fascinating!)

#idk man sometimes i just sit and think about that guardians of gahoole video game #because like i said. its a tie-in. objectively shovelware. but its also like. weirdly detailed??? #its made to tie-in with the movie released around the same time. it mirrors the plot of the movie. #actually it fleshes out that plot and makes it even better in conjuction but thats besides the point #the point is that that game? has so many references not to the movie. but to the BOOK SERIES!!!! #you get an eagle as a follower in that game!!! an eagle!!! they dont even show up in the movie and yet you end up in the desert of kuneer #and an eagle joins your party! #the ga’hoole tree is rendered so lovingly and you can fly around and explore it. and so is the forest of tyto and kuneer! places that only #show up for a bit in the movie! #THE BEAKS!!! THE BEAKS ARE IN THE GAME!!! THE BEAKS ARE NEVER EVEN MENTIONED IN THE MOVIE AND YET!!! #HAGSFIENDS ARE IN THE GAME AND THOSE ARE BOOK ONLY TOO!!!! #SOMEONE HERE CARED!!!!! someone here cared. and they will never know that i love them for that. they will never know how much they made my #time playing that game even better because i knew all those details from the books and i appreciated every one. #and its like. thats it you know? thats the point. someone made this. in the end someone made this and whether they loved making it or hated #it. they still made a piece of art that we can dissect and understand and enjoy. #and you just. thats all gone with shit like mobile games and microtransactions and endless horse armor level dlcs and. you get it. #in my eyes. even ninja gingerbreadman 2 has more artistic social and philosophical value. than a thousand hours in that new shit diablo game