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I was ready to be done, or maybe jump to the divisive Thief 3, but the more I played, the more people tried to tempt me to try stuff in the FM or 'Fan mission' community. Thief has a series falls in the same place as Doom, with a little bit of Bethesda Game energy. These are games that are kept alive by their communities. The history of these games is inseparable from the history of the people who keep them alive, not only with new content, but even working at all. Like Doom, the Thief...

At the end of my Perfect Dark revisit, I mused about the difference between US/European and Japanese game design in regards to realism in the 80s and 90s. To summarize, the trend I noticed is that Western games often tried to simulate reality. Fall damage, ledge grabbing, a particular fondness for momentum, and the much hated limited ammo. Strategy games tend to be military tactics simulators. You see the stealth game born in the wonderfully archaic Castle Wolfenstein for the Apple II...

Hey Mobygames I'm posting this as proof that it's me submitting. It's pretty much the website all my other stuff links to. Between this and the bsky post, I imagine that should be enough.

The Bluesky Post (Sorry I forgot to put this in the submission form)

I love hating on Rare. I love hating on pre-2000s UK games. I love hating on basically every euro-whatever genre you can think of. Half of this is joking. It was a very different gaming culture over there, with different social pressures(Though can we trust the social pressures that makes Dizzy the Egg make sense?) due to a focus on cheap PC gaming. Half of this isn't even fair(I'll take an c64 or amiga euro-platformer over any DOS platformer, even Dizzy the Egg, don't @ me)!

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