You know what you can get on the Internet Archive? The 1974 K-Mart in-store music recording. There's no market for that. There's no need for it. But it's a piece of history! And if there were profit motive it simply wouldn't exist anymore.
What detractors of free online archives like the Internet Archive don't get is that it's not about getting things for free instead of having to pay for them, it's about the kinds of things that only exist if they are free.
Writers who write pirates as the good guys love to tone down the brutality of the pirates. this is not really necessary given that you can simply put the pirates next to a realistic portrayal of the British Empire to make the brutality look justified
I’d like to add that if you’ve ever heard an exec tell a painfully played out tale about “the hero’s journey” or a “wouldn’t it be cool if [insert tired trope]” you know about this phenomenon in games. One time an exec said to me “We want diversity. You know, elves with Afros”.
Gonna stay off social media for a while because I'm in a pretty bad headspace right now and I don't think I can deal with all these terrible, cruel, frightening happenings. Take care.
Friction is such a huge part of game design and making impactful experiences, yet people still treat games like spreadsheet software that always need the edges sanded out, so as long as we continue seeing games that way we’re never beating the “games aren’t art” allegations
Anyway the reason why Remakes are so requested when it comes to video games is because the vast majority judges the quality of a video game based on how frictionless the experience is to get to the finish line, not on whether or not the thing has artistic merit
@Oshamoff As someone whose first introduction to FF was FFXIV, you've hit the nail on the head. And while most of my friends are getting excited over all those references, they just go over my head because I don't know enough to recognise them and I feel locked out of the loop