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Video games of the 90s were torture Driven by a wider audience thanks to an ever more diverse offering and the possibility of playing anywhere and anytime with smartphones, new forms of players have emerged over the years. “Hardcore gamers” and “casual gamers” therefore coexist in our era where we can clearly state that there are games for everyone. But not so long ago, the average difficulty of games was much higher, for several reasons that we will see together. The lifespan of games What we call in the industry “the lifespan” of a game is the time it takes to see the end of it. If today most of the big games that we call “triple A” and which correspond to cinema blockbusters (to simplify) offer a fairly substantial lifespan (open world games), this has not always been Standard. Already for an obvious reason of available space on cartridges and CDs: the games were much shorter (apart from a few larger RPGs like Final Fantasy and their 4 CDs). But if the adventure was shorter...
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The Best Female Video Game Characters Recently I asked you to be a nice person and vote for the video game girl who you like the most physically in terms of face. The battle is right there. Here are the results, and frankly I'm shocked but happy. Triss Merigold (The Witcher 3) Yesss, the most beautiful, my favorite in the world and on Earth. In The Wither 3 I sacrificed so much of my relationship with Yennefer to devote myself to Triss. Best choice of my life. Lara Croft (Tomb Raider) Lara, always this aura that makes her the most badass female character in all video games, even more so with the last two opuses. Yennefer (The Witcher 3) Certainly she is very beautiful, but the real people know that she has a shit character. I never go on a camping vacation with her. Nova Terra (Starcraft) She so deserves her own game (and kisses). Christie Monteiro (Tekken 4) Yes, she's the girl who uses capoeira like Eddy. But in fact she replaces Eddy. Personally I prefer the ...
The troubles of old gamers that young people cannot know Today, everything goes faster when you have a game console. Everything goes faster because we live in the future. That wasn't always the case. Damage your retinas because of controller wires that are too short And get rotten because you were playing too close to the TV: “You're going to damage your eyes by staying glued to your screen!” ".Gna gna gna… But it wasn't our fault if the controller wires measured less than 20 cm. All this, to force us to buy extension cords which ended up in a bag of knots in our drawers. Having to juggle between the SCART socket on the console and that of the VCR Those were the days when you had to sneak behind the set to connect the SCART of the console instead of that of the VCR, or the Canal+ decoder. With 2 times out of 3, there is the risk of forgetting to put them back in place and seeing the whole family fall on your back. And then we wonder why old people think that vide...
The classic phrases heard after one defeat (too many) on Fifa or Efootball Scenario: a friend provokes you into FIFA on your console, convinced that he will make you miserable. You take up the challenge, and against all odds you snatch a superb victory in the last minutes. You think you've done what's necessary to nail his little boastful mouth, but on the contrary you were only at the beginning. It is now time for wooden excuses, for the purest bad faith. 15 example sentences of (very) bad losers. And that we could also say, in 15 minutes, after the revenge. "You had all the cons, there was nothing to do, I'm cursed" Fifa's rather finicky game engine can lead to bad faith. To lose is to enter a sort of vicious circle of looseness which condemns the loser to thinking that all the unfavorable consequences suffered are part of a larger diabolical plan, of a “disgusting” curse falling on him which goes far beyond the scope of the console. We cannot fight ...