As someone that works in software, what he does to turn running code inside out, is kinda sexy. The guy is like a bloodhound for bugs and poorly-built software.
Game developers: Yeah, buy our game and play it however you want. It's all for fun!
Josh: ::proceeds to out-QA the publisher's QA department, breaking the game in the most egregious ways imaginable::
Game developers: No, not like that!
Speedrunners:: ::furious note-taking sounds::
The only "streaming" I can watch are Game Grumps, but I get that's not live, and it's by and for a completely different demographic.
I've tried, but I find a lot of Twitch play-throughs to be low-stimulation, low-information, and low-entertainment. I think they're better suited to a dual-screen kind of situation, but then I'd rather be doing far more engaging things like playing games myself.
You can never really go home.
Fuck.
I'm just as mystified as you.
The only time I interact with the service is when I'm sent a link to a cool band/song and I wind up on the site. "Oh, this again." I really have zero concept of fandom for something like this.
IIRC, there were human survivors and hold-outs, but not many. Consequently, the vampire's numbers were also rather small in turn. It was all a slow-moving apocalypse.
Really, it's only just good enough of a backdrop for some really solid gameplay, set-pieces, and great voice-acting (well, for Soul Reaver anyway).
also the Empire had a space program
Easily one of the best unintentional "easter eggs" I've seen in a video game.
Meanwhile, in Legacy of Kain:
Vampires: Uh, boss? You corrupted the pillars of Nosgoth - which is great and all - but now the sun kinda/sorta doesn't work anymore. It's always dusk.
Kain: So what you're saying is that we vampires can move around freely. All the time. Excellent.
Vampires: Won't that eventually kill all the humans? Yanno, with no food and all?
Kain: ::shrugs:: Fuck 'em.
Of course not. You can't monetize nature all that directly, so clearly it's not "better". /s
advertisers prove that they are absolute scumbags
I honestly didn't believe that until, one day, a scumbag came calling with a 'brilliant IT idea' that only myself and my colleagues could build. I'll put it this way: we realized that this guy would literally not stop until he covered the entire world with advertising, as though we were supposed to live in an environment modeled after a college dorm corkboard. No thanks.
On the home-gamer gameplay side, this is a solid list. On the technology side, I think there's even more that makes sense for a curated museum tour. There were big leaps made in arcade tech through the 80's and 90's that were pushing all manner of graphics and sound, head-and-shoulders above the previous generation.
Sega's "super scaler" boards come to mind, allowing for games like Hang-on, Outrun, and After Burner. Digitized sound samples started with Sinistar and Tempest. Dragon's Lair amazed everyone with an interactive LaserDisc experience. There were also notable forays into AR with Time Traveler, and VR with Virutality. Lastly, we have the fully-enclosed and immersive cockpit of early Battletech simulators.
This, right here. It's like Nixon's "war on drugs" that went on, and on, and on... The goal was not drugs, per-se, but to use drugs as a pretense to police people of color.
I miss it too. If I had to guess, Arin sees a day with wall-to-wall recording sessions and meetings, and misses those chaotic early days.
I look at it this way: it's a lot less home-grown now that it's grown up. In exchange, they employ people, make Starbomb tours actually possible, and fund wildly off-the-wall games. Along the way, Dan was propelled into modest stardom, a lot of other folks from their camp got a boost for their endeavors, and they got to make some memorable moments with a few celebs. They're not at "Liquid Game Grumps" levels yet, but it's amazing to watch unfold. Maybe that's worth it.