Simon Vickers

Oh hey it’s the first signs of spring.

I enjoyed Tsushima but found it a standard OW checklist of activities wrapped in an appealing and earnest setting.
Yotei’s structure and framing feels so organic in the way it reveals content that everything feels discovered.

Baffled by how little Ghost of Yotei has been celebrated for its order of magnitudes improvement it made over its predecessor and its open world peers when it comes to its fluid blending of storytelling and exploration

Forza Horizon hitting the same ‘in case of emergency: Japan’ button as Ass Creed

This absolutely diabolical Texas switch

Whenever my code doesn’t compile I hear Eric idle’s ’that doesn’t work’

The Boyfriend (also on Netflix) is the cutest

Game execs looking at the tech sector reporting zero returns from AI initiatives

Duolingo’s decision to fully skin their conversation practice as a random phone call baffles me (a social anxiety riddled mess)

I feel this is the way with all ass creed features. Nothing ever feels expanded on in subsequent iterations. Only streamlined to the point of insignificance. Parkour, stealth, combat etc.

My dog out here FaceTiming like me mum n dad

VickersOfDibley’s profile VickersOfDibley uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 54 films watched. Favorites: Porco Rosso (1992), In the Mood for Love (2000), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).

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Eat your heart out Peter Molyneux

I wondered why I was getting full page gambling ads every paragraph all of a sudden…

The TEXTURE of it all

They also having spinning yellow lights and go MAWP MAWP MAWP MAWP

Crescent County - a witch-tech delivery adventure Underground motorbroom street racing. Chaotic deliveries. Kissing on the mouth. A painterly, witch-tech, open world game.

GOOD MORNING BLUESKY

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I have absolutely zero regrets for this impulse purchase

I wish I could say that I was, but I DO have some very good friends over there :)

Space is not a wall: toward a less architectural level design Maybe video game level design theory needs less focus on architecture? And maybe I'm part of the problem? My bad.

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I often think about how one of the GBA Castlevanias had an amazing synergistic magic system where you combined cards to modify your moveset and one of the end game combinations is just… Gun

Xor.

Scripting jokes!

I am outraged by how right you are

Specifically I'm now wondering if they are always at full mast or the unicock needs to keep emo-fringe flipping it out of their eyes

New Mission Impossible movie or new Dumb and Dumber?

Scenes of a Molly #4

As much as I love a good Mario it’s always exciting to see one of the rest of the cast get a shot. Feels like the team really gets to shake off some of Mario stylistic baggage and go wild. DK Bonanza is giving me Warioland energy and I am eating it up

“We continue to prevent generations in the style of individual living artists, but we do permit broader studio styles…”

Meanwhile that particular studio’s broader style: