congrats about that BUT OH MY GOD YOU'RE LITTLE KURIBOH ?

 

PS2 was great! Your mate is wrong. So was the Game Cube, Xbox and Dreamcast. Plenty of awesome options back then. I will say I've never been a fan of the standard Playstation controller.

Hope your head recovers soon dude. Might be time for an eye-test?

 

Couple of punks on the warpath.

 

Yeah that’s a good point. I’ve never needed glasses, but I am getting old haha. Could very well be eye strain causing it.

The Punfisher?

 

My thoughts are as follows

Spoiler

I really don't like the fact that the Doctor can now perform Vulcan mind melds, but I have no idea how to react to the fact that the Timelords have a Matrix which is basically the same as the Autobot's one in the G1 cartoon ie, it's filled with knowlage. Er, what?

 

The Matrix was first introduced in 1976 so it's well ahead of Transformers lore

 

See, that's exactly what I would have figured, but the truth is I now had money to buy games and had always been into them, we'd finally gotten a local Game store, and it wasn't like I had any of the distractions I do now. Not even collecting.

I think it was partly because truly great games were few and far between from PS2 onwards. I went months without buying games and the licenced titles I'd have played no matter what really weren't there in the beginning.

In my head at least, even the aesthetic had changed, games seemed literally dull in comparison to the bright colours I'd gotten from earlier days.

The sequels were nobody's favourites unless they were massive jumps forward like GTA. And that's nowhere close to the top down originals. They were also a bloody long time coming.

I dunno, it maybe felt like we'd already gotten the best of whatever we were gonna see by then. Like music today. Plus there was a lack of just pick up and play, with a lot of focus on story that often had been handled better the generation before because the hardware and disc space made for creative necessity, maybe?

 

My somewhat indifferent feeling on modern games comes from a mixture of not liking to play for as long in the typical session as many of the sprawling epics seem to require, a lack of originality in the big name franchises and a feeling that the search for increasing levels of realism and immersiveness is leading to games in multiple genres having a very sterile, joyless vibe.

@Ratchet2007,
"The Deadly Assassin". One of my top 5 or 6 favourite stories.

The Master didn't have any gender based confusion at that point, he was kinda crispy looking with eyes made from ping pong balls  

 

Tenner from b&m


Damn he's good.

Think im gonna watch some rtd era doctor who for a while.

 

Didn't know that, wonder if that’s where Transformers got it from?  

 

I get that but I'm not sure if you talk about a specific time frame or nowadays. Because I can assure you that you can find right now a massive lot of diverse games like there's never been before.
If you're a fan of ARPG à la Snes, go for Crosscode. if you're a fan of 16 bit like action-aventure games, go for Iconoclasts, it not just copy those old games, it improves them, like the ideal version of them.
West RPG with wall of texts with profound narrative ? Disco Elyisum. Innovative puzzle game ? Baba is You. Treasure-like action ? Cup Head.
V11 Hall A, Red Strings Club, Persona 5, Night in the Woods, Nier Automata, Celeste, Outer Wild, Sayonara Wild Heart, A Plague Tale, Hollow Knight, Dead Cells... I'm a huge fan of back in the days but really it's never been as good as today.
(And I can assure you my Switch and Steam catalogs are super rainbow like if you want colorful ambiance   )

 

My current relationship with games

my brother won’t stop bugging me to play crosscode, I hope the switch port gets here soon lol

also can’t wait for silksong!!!!!!!!

never before has there been this much variety of great games coming out so frequently, but unfortunately that also comes with a glut of trash, luckily tho it’s not hard to find the diamonds, just ask around!

 

The Doctor has been able to communicate telepathically for a long time. I remember it quite well mainly from rewatching The Three Doctors last year and loving “The Light At The End”, a really great audio adventure with Doctors 4-8

 

It's really good, your brother is right haha.
Yeah the consoles ports take forever but that's for good reasons (the dev have to completely rewrite the source code) and rumours throught the grapevine have it that it won't be for long now.

Oh my me too.
This one and SoR4 up for most awaited games currently.

That's it !

 

Totally, they're diverse, but they're not exciting to me. They're truly good, but there's still little spark for me personally. It all feels like I've seen it before I guess. I wouldn't even mind that, but it felt like in days gone by truly good games had it all going on at once... maybe that's cos your imagination was doing more of the work? Like a good book?

Apologies, I'm terrible at explaining myself!

 

RE: Dr Who and Star Trek. I don't really have any skin in this game, I am neither Trekkie nor Whovian, but as a Star Wars fan I can certainly relate to how a franchise can be mishandled. With previous lore being ignored and it ending with the status quo pretty much as it was at the end of RotJ, my big takeaway from the Disney trilogy was "What was the point of it all?". But that's my opinion, if you enjoyed them fair shout. There's a flavour of Star Wars for everyone.

Rogue one and Solo can stay though. They're cool.

But this got me thinking how delicate a franchise can be when there's only one official canon. Thank goodness Transformers is able to reinvent itself. Current format gets tired or stale? Start again using fresh ideas and the best elements of what came before!

 

No no, don't, I really get what you're saying.
But that truely get us back to our first point, being it more about how you see them than what they actually are.
And that's cool.