I translated my “Videogames don’t age” article into English recently, and while reading it I remembered some personal opinions I didn’t include and some other points I should’ve gone over. It’s no surprise, I wrote it almost a year ago and in the meantime I’ve read (and watched videos) more on the subject. Some remakes of games I’ve played and enjoyed were released, too, so I also had the chance of both reviewing and reflecting upon the reaction of the community at large and the opinions of a wide variety of gamers.
Groovyarcade is a Linux distribution for using your PC as a games station. It comes with batteries included so you can use your system on a CRT display, which are famously finicky when you’re trying to hook them up to a computer.
In a discussion about the Playstation 2 the topic of the best games of the console came out, as it usually does in this kind of discussions. I said, half jokingly, half serious, that that honor belonged to King’s Field IV. One of the answers I received was: “In its time? Probably. Today? Not one bit”.
King’s Field IV is a unique game in its console catalog. A first-person dungeon crawler, with slow movement and lacking voice acting. And it is because the developers of its studio, FromSoftware, knew what kind of game they wanted to make, their influences being so niche as the game they would end up making: the logical step forward to the 4 previous dungeon crawlers they made for the Playstation.