– The vertigo finally subsided, just in time for me to injure myself moving boxes and boxes of Modest Medusa books! Thankfully it was just a little bit of back and shoulder strain, and I’m fine now. But I decided to do a shorter strip to wrap up this game shop adventure.
– Some of you commented on the last strip saying that you remember playing games as a kid and loving them, then as an adult discovering they were awful. I think that’s super common (with everything. Books, shows, movies, comics). As kids we’re experiencing things for the first time and we’re easily entertained. Controlling a flying machine is so much fun, even if the graphics are awful and the story is poor! Its easy to get lost in a new experience and spend hours on a small joy. We also don’t have a lot of context yet. We don’t know that better games are out there! We don’t know how much worse this game is than it should be! This is teh first time we’ve experienced this kind of thing, and we have nothing to compare it to.
– In a recent comment someone asked why I haven’t changed the “Updates every Monday, Weds and Friday” graphic on the site, since I’ve only updated on Mondays and Fridays for the last few years. I know some of you already know this, but I currently can’t. Several years ago I migrated the site to a new host. The process was messy, and the host changed some backend stuff that locked me out of being able to make any changes at all to the site. That doesn’t mean that changes CAN’T be made, of course. But it does mean that the interface I had for making changes no longer exists, and I don’t have the knowealge to overcome that. I’ve had some helpful friends and readers look at the back end for me and they’ve each suggested that I should re-migrate to a different host and pay someone to basically put my site back together again so I’m able to make changes again. Unfortunately I just haven’t had the time or resources to do that. Its always on my list, but its never at the top. However, I think its finally time to try to tackle this. So next month I’ll be looking for someone to help me with this project, and help me make a few other site changes. hopefully I can finally get this sorted out by the end of the year. I know it confuses a lot of people, and its been a source of frustration and anxiety for me as well!
If anyone is curious about this game, there’s a pretty good review on the “My Life In Gaming” YouTube channel.
I’ll watch that.
I’m being a little hard on the game. Its really pretty fun for an afternoon, and I’ve come back to it a few times. Theres just not that much to it. Overall I’d say its about 5/10, or 7/10 if you just want a short experience. the thing is, I was having trouble thinking of a genuinely bad game I’d played that Modest would actually want to pick up based on the box art.
Superman 64 could be a good pick for that, depending on how big a fan she is of DC comic characters.
She strikes me as more of a Marvel girl though.
IDK if she’d even know what DC is. Like, she knows who batman and Wonder Woman are, but I don’t think she realizes that they’re not made by teh same company as Spider-Man. Or even that companies make comics and movies and shows. A lot of adults don’t understand that stuff gets made by people, so I’m sure many kids have never even thought about it.
She’s the kind of kid that loves all kinds of games, even the bad ones. xD
It’s the simple pleasures that are the best.
I have a feeling the game’s title starts with an S and ends with an UPERMAN 64.
Oh man, I forgot about that game. My brother had it, and it was not good!
Except that it’s a PS2 game, as per the last comic.
Its specifically Skygunners for the PS2.
Aw, but how am I supposed to mock a game I don’t know anything about? 😛
I mean, you can make stuff up. Who would know?
Fellow vertigo sufferer here. Search for and read up on the “Epley maneuver”. If you’ve got the crystals in your ears like I do, it usually helps.
My mom was telling me about that. I need to look into it more.
That was a rather insightful look at the change in perspective of a child vs the same person as an adult
This makes me wonder:
How good is Modest at games in general? Mashing buttons with wonder? Or a natural prodigy with a controller?
Mediocre. We know her hair is very good at fighting games.