In an effort to disassociate from all the bad stuff and exhausting discourse around gaming this month, I’m back to my usual go-to: old Nintendo games. Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct gave me a great roadmap of some games to play, and how.
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When in Doubt, Old Games
In the past few months, I’ve become pretty disillusioned with just about everything having to do with video games. From the unrelenting circular discourse (pricing! difficulty! boycotts! emulation! indie vs. AAA!) to AI everywhere, ruining everything, it seems like there’s never been a worse time to care about video games. On top of all that, I tried a bunch of well-regarded modern games, from indies to AA to AAA, and none of them did anything for me. With all this in mind, I did the only thing that made sense, which was to step away.
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