Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider landscape paintings from “The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter” by gamedevs The Astronauts: 3916×2236 .jpg In which you gave up playing the game shortly after entering the graveyard, since you could not find a piece of missing crow (or whatever the hell it was) and didn’t feel like slowly back-tracking over the entire … Read more
RND/ An existential enquiry; in which players carefully consider the immense collective waste of time disturbingly large sections of humanity have spend grinding away at Halo – an All Amerikan militaristic science fiction media franchise managed and developed by 343 Industries and published by Xbox Game Studios: 3840 x 2160 .jpg, via Steam Community This … Read more
RND/ To consider a critique of Dune (2021, Dir. Denis Villeneuve): – Quick capsule review; “One big, laughably embarrassing deadpan ‘Meh’. Blame Canada.” – To turn the usual toxic internet language around on itself, much like a worm that eats its own sad tale: ‘these fragments of critique are not for everyone.’ – Violently unmemorable, … Read more
RND/ To consider widescreen virtual photography screenshots of Sable videogame 3440 x 1440 .jpg (PC) A perfectly serviceable and beautiful looking game, offset by painfully slow desert hoverbike travel and a lack of genuine threats – other than rapidly increasing terminal boredom. A sterile nonplace of fetch questy repetition, despite its rich worldbuilding. While impressive … Read more
RND/ To consider Serious Sam noclip virtual photography screenshots: 3440 x 1440, max settings, .jpg This somewhat boring, repetitive yet perfectly serviceable game seems perfectly suited to remaining in the ancient era which spawned it. Most likely to elicit the response “Gee, they don’t make em’ like this anymore.” Just wait till the next Steam … Read more