feel free to imagine the thread as a freshly remodeled Dave & Busters with the so-bad-it's-kinda-great logo on the front
It's a thread about video games. (Particularly, either the ones that aren't discussed enough to warrant their own threads OR the ones that just haven't spawned said threads just yet.)
Naturally, I'll start off with an old fave that likely won't be particularly relatable to anyone but means a lot to me all the same: Tiny & Big in Grandpa's Leftovers, a 2012 3D platformer about a dude just trying to get his magic underwear back from some meanie. It's been a while since I replayed it, but I've been in a nostalgic mood recently and this place wouldn't have the mark of my presence without me mentioning the damn thing somewhere on here, so.
I think what's gotten this one to stick around so well for me is that there honestly just isn't much out there like it -- the grindhouse and indie comic-style visuals, the off-kilter soundtrack with chiptunes slotted in alongside sludgy stoner rock and breezy psychedelica, Tiny and the Radio's shared sense of humor that isn't afraid to reference the weird conventions of the video game they're the main characters of, and the sheer power you've got over the environment you're in at almost any given moment... one of the chief public criticisms of T&B is that there simply isn't more of it, and while there's absolutely a part of me that craves a return to the whole thing, I also just find myself thankful that the experience we got doesn't overstay its welcome and instead chooses to leave a killer impression worth remembering fondly.
aight there's that. I guess I could talk about Destiny here too or smthn but I wanna hear what y'all like
It's a thread about video games. (Particularly, either the ones that aren't discussed enough to warrant their own threads OR the ones that just haven't spawned said threads just yet.)
Naturally, I'll start off with an old fave that likely won't be particularly relatable to anyone but means a lot to me all the same: Tiny & Big in Grandpa's Leftovers, a 2012 3D platformer about a dude just trying to get his magic underwear back from some meanie. It's been a while since I replayed it, but I've been in a nostalgic mood recently and this place wouldn't have the mark of my presence without me mentioning the damn thing somewhere on here, so.
I think what's gotten this one to stick around so well for me is that there honestly just isn't much out there like it -- the grindhouse and indie comic-style visuals, the off-kilter soundtrack with chiptunes slotted in alongside sludgy stoner rock and breezy psychedelica, Tiny and the Radio's shared sense of humor that isn't afraid to reference the weird conventions of the video game they're the main characters of, and the sheer power you've got over the environment you're in at almost any given moment... one of the chief public criticisms of T&B is that there simply isn't more of it, and while there's absolutely a part of me that craves a return to the whole thing, I also just find myself thankful that the experience we got doesn't overstay its welcome and instead chooses to leave a killer impression worth remembering fondly.
aight there's that. I guess I could talk about Destiny here too or smthn but I wanna hear what y'all like
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