Cohost Archive

It felt like a lot of closure to me and the perfect time to make an appearance after years of misgivings between me and the fangame community.

Those misgivings were over nothing. Early in the life of fangames I took issue with the design choices of a few new fangames, which had no sense for humor or how and when to use traps. Eventually, a few years in, they clearly became their own thing. Like at a certain point a game isn't "Doing IWBTG wrong", it's just a heckin' needle game.

Some people...

Okay time to do the thing where I tweet about something and then chost about it more. Obviously, this clip stuck in my head a bit and it made me thi...

I did this on twitter and ended up getting long winded about it and realized hey wait this is the type of thing that'd work well on cohost. SO, a list of not my favorite 10 games, but 10 games that reflect me and my tastes, WITH DETAILS. An extended version of my twitter thread.

• ➕Akumajou Densetsu (ya know, Castlevania 3 but with the good soundtrack)
• ⚙️Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R
• 🪖Bionic Commando (NES)
• ⚔️King's Field 1 (US) (Or Shadow Tower, if you prefer)
• 🐟EVO: A Theory...

Every time I see 'Look how much better games look on CRT posts, this is what your childhood looked like' showing closeups taken by phone camera of PVMs with crisp scanlines and shit I wanna die like no that's not what games looked like when you were a kid, that's what cameras see also you didn't have a fucking PVM in your house come on and even if you did you weren't cranking down the brightness to get crisp scanlines as a kid or using RGB lol come on

like CRTs are cool and it's almost a shame...

Some of the kids were grousing about a recent Rev2 Intermediate tournament and the cutoff point for 'intermediate' is and how it's discouraging to get bopped by experienced players in a lower skill setting.

The problem is, this is unavoidable. It's almost impossible to make a clear, good cutoff and players only a little better than someone can give a beating just as discouraging as the best player in the world. Sometimes even a worse beating! So what do you do for a tournament designed to give...