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Played FF11 for two weeks - long enough to confirm my suspicion/position that MMOs are a terrible ideas and awful in practice.

edit: specifically MMORPGs based on the common "world of warcraft" model.

Hmm in that case I am wondering what happens when you use a .ttf pixel font in there.

http://www.dafont.com/wendy.font is listed as .tff - I use this font a lot (it only works prorperly at specific px sizes, though. Due to needing to maintain proportions for the pixels)

I'm sure a whole bunch of these fonts are probably .ttf/.otf too.

I'd say the insipid need for everything to be shared and parroted and for everyone to be "in on the thing" has done a lot of damage to just about every form of media. So tangentially, yes I agree with kentona.

I remember, in my naive early teen years, going back through the catalogue of pre-7 FF games when I first discovered emulation and being blown away by the sense of discovery because frankly nobody except lame nerds gave a shit about those old-ass games anymore, at least nobody I knew of (it certainly didn't comprise any part of mainstream videogame talk in media or online), now being a lame nerd is pretty cool if you spend all your time on the internet (spending all your time on the internet is also cool now) so knowing/liking/playing classic titles is a badge of your trve nerd status and directly related to your capacity to repeat words you heard other people say in a thing some time because why not.

Nothing wrong with classics of course, in fact it's good to be aware of them, probably. But it kinda sucks how it seems like everyone kinda just went - "oh everyone loves the classics? let's cancel the future!" and proceed to re-hash the same ideas for eternity with some obvious exceptions and a generally technological improvements happening rather than any sense of the radically new.

(It seems lost on people that the reason classics are classic is because they were, for their time, in some capacity either themselves radically new or failing that - an example par excellence of a creative idiom that was fresh and wondrous at the time of its release - at least that's what I reckon? Either way you don't get that in something new by retrospective emulation/pastiche any more than you get a new Shakespeare play by chopping up his works and picking sentences out of the pile of clippings)

Of course I'd probably be defending that if I were one of those early people who helped build the tower of babel that is everything to do with videogame "culture" on the internet rather than going out and getting drunk like a teenager is supposed to.

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author=Isrieri
Will someone make a modern Ghouls n' Ghosts game, at long last? That's all I care about.

Devil May Cry was obviously the spiritual successor to the G&G franchise.