@a_cute_squirtle: It runs smoothly on my 5 year old store bought PC so you should be fine?
But yeah great list Austin, I admire you trying to bring some process to GOTY deliberations, and I've acquired Invisible Inc. at your recommendation, I cant believe I just didn't really notice what that game was all this time, maybe I kept seeing a "stealth" game or something, but damn it is this game cool
Man I really thought Flowey would get talked about more here...but I guess the group didn't seem him that much.
I've never had a character give me such violent feelings, not even a fully 3d human with voice acting.
And this was a black and white 2D fucking flower...and if you somehow put him in front of me...I would beat the living fuck out of him out of pure rage(not kill, I spared him) but damn it...that entire exchange at the ending of Undertale still keeps me up some nights...
Is there a way to turn off the dialogue sound effects? just sounds like distorted Animal Crossing "talk" to me...I can't stand that sound at all, maybe its my speakers or something, but oh dear god I don't know when the last time a sound effect just made my skin crawl like that
To answer your thoughts: I played Skyrim for a long while as a bow-user and largely used the thrid person camera while traversing, but a thing in rpgs and most games that involve equipment and everything you use(weapons, tools, clothing/armor) consistently appearing on the character model and just popping on and off as you equip said items or not even affecting appearance at all, and always kinda affected the immersion for me...maybe I'm strange.
One day I decided to start a barbarian style orc dude and kept the first person view on at all times and I stopped caring about what I was looking like or what I had equipped because in my mind, it was all there and it looked a lot better in my head. The game became massively more pleasant to me.
I kinda re-learned what it means for any medium to be immersive...
I now play games, watch TV shows and movies, and read books with an effort to pick a character that I can relate to in some way, or atleast think is cool, and put myself in those shoes.
I also got over any desire for awesome graphics and such things(although it does help), because I've re-learned to let my mind fill in the gaps of detail and just let text and images on a screen or page guide me, like we did when we were kids, cause at some point I lost that with all the distractions of everything now.
I just finished it, and my heart strings are exhausted from being pulled in every direction, and I often couldn't tell if I was still playing a game at times, but man was it an experience that I didn't know a video game could give.
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