>The player assumes the role of an "Enforcer" for the fictional company Merchantsoft—creator of Hypnospace—and seeks to police illegal content, copyright violations, viruses, and cyberbullying by users on the service. >polices cyberbullying
Sounds like a bona-fide troony game.
Literally what part of that sentence suggests anything about trannies, you schizo? It was written by a white Christian male. The religious themes in the game are subtle but they're there
It takes place in an alternate year 1999 and the one real case of cyberbullying you deal with centers on two twelve year olds, each with a fake girlfriend, having a slap fight.
zoomers are going to fall in love with this series when dreamsettlers (the sequel set in the early 2000s) presses all their nostalgia buttons like hypnospace did for millennials
Gen Z starts in 1997, the oldest zoomer would be 6 by the year this game is modeled after. And the average would be even younger. How many kids do you know that were properly internet-savvy that young? The people who're gonna be nostalgic over this would have to have been like, 9-12 in 2003.
>How many kids do you know that were properly internet-savvy that young?
well i was born in 98 and was using the internet a lot when i was that age but i was a weird fricking kid so i'm probably an outlier
From the game and dev commentary you can tell that this dude clearly loves the old wild west internet. He wanted someone to make a game about it and he ended up making it himself.
It's interesting to think that his Christian views actually improved his writing. On the commentary stream he said that he didn't want any of the characters to be one dimensional one-off jokes since if everyone's made in the image of god then every person would be infinitely complex and have more sides to them. One of the great feats of the game is that you can feel like there's an actual person behind each website and it makes the simulation just that much better.
Yeah, I'd say it's worth twenty bucks. There's no game like it, and if you have the curiosity to explore, there's loads of content. Lots of great music, too.
It’s a great nostalgia trip as people already mentioned it. I don’t know if it holds value if you were too young to remember Web 1.0, though.
Game is kinda small too, I really wish there were more random pages to discover.
it aint the best representation of old internet but its good. the story is meh but the mechanics of the game are kinda fun. for 20 bucks, its up to you. dont get it for switch tho, mine kept crashing. i can also imagine most kids having a hard time working the game because it does play like an old browser and website should
No. It will never be.
Ignore it and never look back.
Unless you want Granny's Cream
Yes.
It's really cool.
It's so much fun.
Genuinely one of my favorite games in the past few years, can’t wait for the sequel.
if you want a web-browsing sim sure
Yes. It's unironically one of the best-written games of all time
YOU ARE A WINNER, YOU WIN
>The player assumes the role of an "Enforcer" for the fictional company Merchantsoft—creator of Hypnospace—and seeks to police illegal content, copyright violations, viruses, and cyberbullying by users on the service.
>polices cyberbullying
Sounds like a bona-fide troony game.
Literally what part of that sentence suggests anything about trannies, you schizo? It was written by a white Christian male. The religious themes in the game are subtle but they're there
A troony game doesn't have to have trannies in it. It just a game that troonys obviously will play and be drawn to.
It takes place in an alternate year 1999 and the one real case of cyberbullying you deal with centers on two twelve year olds, each with a fake girlfriend, having a slap fight.
It's actually prety pro-conservative game
poor attempt at falseflagging
>you literally play as a janny in an alternate 1999 forum
when did trannies come in, you schizobuck?
No, because it's old and has been on sale for $10.
Can't wait to play Zane's game
The only good cristian game
It's more of a 10-15 dollar game if you ask me, but still worth your time.
Do you miss the late 90s early 2000s internet?
Then yes.
I love this game. If you grew up with the internet in the late 90's, it's a total trip. Every character in this game I either knew, or was.
zoomers are going to fall in love with this series when dreamsettlers (the sequel set in the early 2000s) presses all their nostalgia buttons like hypnospace did for millennials
I used Windows XP a lot, so I'm excited to see where they go with it.
Gen Z starts in 1997, the oldest zoomer would be 6 by the year this game is modeled after. And the average would be even younger. How many kids do you know that were properly internet-savvy that young? The people who're gonna be nostalgic over this would have to have been like, 9-12 in 2003.
>How many kids do you know that were properly internet-savvy that young?
well i was born in 98 and was using the internet a lot when i was that age but i was a weird fricking kid so i'm probably an outlier
I mean, same. I'm just saying that the assessment that zoomers in general are going to be hit by nostalgia here is odd to me.
From the game and dev commentary you can tell that this dude clearly loves the old wild west internet. He wanted someone to make a game about it and he ended up making it himself.
It's interesting to think that his Christian views actually improved his writing. On the commentary stream he said that he didn't want any of the characters to be one dimensional one-off jokes since if everyone's made in the image of god then every person would be infinitely complex and have more sides to them. One of the great feats of the game is that you can feel like there's an actual person behind each website and it makes the simulation just that much better.
Can't wait for Dreamsettler.
Neat idea, comfy aesthetic. It's kinda boring and aimless though
Good. Give me a chance to wander around on the version of the internet that was run by human beings and not algorithms.
Yeah, I'd say it's worth twenty bucks. There's no game like it, and if you have the curiosity to explore, there's loads of content. Lots of great music, too.
It’s a great nostalgia trip as people already mentioned it. I don’t know if it holds value if you were too young to remember Web 1.0, though.
Game is kinda small too, I really wish there were more random pages to discover.
it aint the best representation of old internet but its good. the story is meh but the mechanics of the game are kinda fun. for 20 bucks, its up to you. dont get it for switch tho, mine kept crashing. i can also imagine most kids having a hard time working the game because it does play like an old browser and website should
Y2k-lookin-ass
no. maybe worth 5
Just to be clear, I don't really think it's worth twenty bucks if you have to use a gamepad for whatever reason. KBM or nothing.
I still need play the DLC for it
But base game was great, easily one of my favorite games of that year