FMTOWNSMARTY: Archive

Are most of the games you post images from actually fun to play or are they appealing due to the visuals and weirdness rather than the game itself?

I mean, it varies a lot on a game-by-game basis. I always really liked the command-based, limited animation “adventure game” sorta game, so at the very least any given game will be “interesting” in some quality if not “fun” for me. Or maybe I find the whole process of playing them for the purpose of posting them on here sort of fun? Plenty are pretty boring/tedious eroge but will have at least a few things about them that make them worth spending the time/effort on, others because they’re extremely atypical/creative/whatever and others for aspects like, their historical/sociocultural markers and context and etc.

I mean, this game was pretty painful to play through but it’s kind of a PC-98 response to Myst which I find pretty neat (Here’s every screen in the game, btw). Oh, a lot of pc-88/98 dungeon crawlers are extremely awful to actually go through, like i’ve resorted to making maps on graph paper before (during periods of excessive, gross free time). But even then, I feel some sort of fondness towards the horrible time I had doing it? A good example being this (which i realize i over-reference but, I mean, look at it).

Oh also, sometimes games that I really liked end up being difficult to convey in tumblr form.

A thing maybe i should mention is that I’ve barely been playing any games for this blog (also, in general too I guess) this year, due to A)The main laptop I’ve been doing it on for the last 6 years is basically on life support, or broken in a way that makes doing this possible but extremely frustrating. B) The huge amount of backlog images/video footage that i’ve recorded/totally forgot about/haven’t decided whether or not is worth posting, in many cases. C) A string of temporary/ambiguous living situations. D) Political strife, at home and abroad. So it’s been hard prioritizing things here.

Is any of this answering your question? Did you learn anything from reading this? Does anyone actually have fun playing video games anymore?

Maybe the short answer here is “Yes, but for mostly stupid reasons.”

How have you been lately? Here’s your fortune, for old time’s sake?