The Endless Ocean games on Wii!
Endless Ocean 1 and 2 are an awesome duology of Wii games where you scuba dive, learn about fish, and collect treasure. The main gameplay loop consists of exploring vast underwater environments, find hidden treasure, and interact with fish to fill up a fish-dex. Playing it as a kid even encouraged me to try scuba diving!
They look fantastic too, it's like, still the PS2 era graphics, but it's on Wii so it is like, the peak of that. It has that charming low poly look I have seen a lot of people craving.
Most of your time in the game is just exploring and taking in the environment, but there is always something to find. When you interact with fish, you fill up a fish-dex, and you can learn real world facts about them. If you play it, you'll have so many fish facts to share with people. (When they're accurate, the games are old)
They even have a story with pretty good human characters. The environments are fantastical, you visit ancient ruins, ship graveyards, even sunken castles, but the human characters means it always stays grounded and has some pathos.
If you are into older games and you're looking for a shorter length game with low-fi graphics, gameplay that doesn't really resemble anything before or since, and to learn a bunch of cool fish facts, I can't recommend Endless Ocean enough. I think they might be kind of rare these days, but they work great, and are thematically appropriate, on Dolphin, and should work fine with a normal controller, especially Endless Ocean 2 as it had Classic Controller support.
1K notes
·
View notes
Londonian Gothics: Labyrinth of Lolita (2005)
237 notes
·
View notes
I think on thing that kills me is when some companies *coughnintendocough* won’t embrace things and instead punish those who make it possible.
I’ll be honest, I would probably pay $20 for a name brand gameboy emulator, and $2 or so per game.
Yet Nintendo will not offer it. Fine. I don’t like it but fine.
But THEN to punish people to make emulators of consoles they don’t make, giving away games they don’t make, AND to have the law on their side is disgusting to me. Why not let people have joy if you no longer provide it?
Fuck you Nintendo and every company that does not allow/encourage emulation
453 notes
·
View notes
Hell, if I don't praise myself for every action I take - I'll cease to exist.
I'm having some difficulty drawing Harry Mason's face, so I'm practicing.
127 notes
·
View notes
Simmers of Old! We need you!
Maxis has announced that the official Sims forums are moving — the forums we've been using for most of Sims 3 and all of Sims 4 years. It seems like Maxis has had enough of using an outside source for forums. EA is designing their own new forums, to be opened in July, and migrating threads over to them.
But there's a catch.
All the threads started after Sims 4 base game became free in October 2022 will be migrated. But not all the OLD threads. Those need to be nominated.
But that's not the only catch, and here's where we need YOU.
Older threads can be migrated only if the person who started them has an active AHQ account matching their forums email address.
If you think you might EVER have started a Sims Forums thread that someone might want to preserve, please see EA_Cade's post on how to make it possible for your old threads to be migrated. And please do it by March 7!
Many thanks,
a fellow old Simmer.
170 notes
·
View notes