#peggle discourse

[captn3]

blocking out the url but my god. this is. this is fuckikng. how could you. you told us you were THE biggest peggle deluxe fan. and you dont even know bjorn's name. ghow could you. i trusted you. you were a hero to me an idol i looked up to you. you dont even know his name. sorry i cant take this

[sonicunleash]

peggle beat 1 is gaining notes from strangers and im just sitting here like. my god they dont know.

[digitalisnarcissus]

The big problem with the cozy games/Stardew colonialism discourse is that while it fits very nicely into a social justice lens it doesn't really understand the games industry at all.

Why are cozy games all like this? Well firstly they're not. It's dominant right now, I'll give you that, but there are certainly cozy games outside of the farming and job sim bracket, and plenty of job sim games outside of the cozy market.

But ultimately they're like that because Stardew Valley is like that, and Stardew Valley is like that because Harvest Moon is like that, and Harvest Moon is like that because uh, idk, WWII probably. The Japanese pastoral idealism that carries different overtones than when it's viewed and copied by a western audience. You can get it back to politics if you want, but at that point you're talking about an individual game and you can't make a scolding smug buzzword text post from that, that's actually interesting.

Games are immensely iterative, which is the polite way of saying there's been few substantial new ideas in the medium for several decades. 

You could easily make the same argument about the whole mass of base defense mobile games, aimed squarely at men, but if you'll step across this pink line here you'll find just as many match three games. It's industry churn, it's 100000 brand new identical romance novels every month. People want the familiar. Perhaps it says something deeper, but perhaps it's just that a Bejeweled clone is easier to make than a Peggle clone, and one guy really really liked Harvest Moon.

[captn3]

only a peggle 3 announcement could fix me after this