We’re working right now trying to find a way to get one done :)

Not a single word about GOG? :(

I’m glad you’re calling this out. As someone who often goes back to old articles to research facts, it’s sad how much misinformation floats around. You see FFXV’s press release saying it SHIPPED 6M copies at launch, then someone reports it as SOLD 6M at launch and that becomes the “truth”, that several websites repeat…

Witcher 1 was a very different game... worse than Witcher 3 in some aspects, but much better in others.

Thanks for writing about this, it’s an issue that needs to be discussed.

I’m not an archivist per se, but I’m writing a book on CRPG history, so my research often depends on what archivist (and, sadly, pirates) provide. Thankfully GOG and Steam made it easier to get legal access to many games, but if you go just a…

Tales of Maj’Eyal has over 16,000 and it’s actually a good game.

In fact, probably my favorite RPG in the past 5 years.

Oh, but there is a huge stereotype about Brazilians (and all “latinos” in general) being lazy. Instead of seeing the glass half-empty I see it half-full and take it as “people who know how to enjoy life”.

So instead of automatically assuming autistic means “obsessive” or “introverted”, can’t it mean “dedicated” or…

Honest question: at what point using the word becomes harmful?

Of course people aggressively shouting that online intend to offend others, but someone spending like 50 hours on a block-perfect Minecraft castle and saying “I feel kinda autistic” is really offensive to anyone?

For example, someone saying “I’m going to…

Operation Abyss has some amusing “armor”:

The presentation is cool, but I don’t see what else there is... plenty of old Windows 3.0 games had this kind of layout, and later we still had stuff like Mordor, Sengoku Rance, Castle of the Winds, Lunatic Dawn:

I’m always happy for more efforts in preserving game history, it just bothers me that it’s ALWAYS the goddamn NES where they focus.

I.e., look at Kotaku: just this week there were 3 articles around the NES. Meanwhile, in the past TWO YEARS the only article talking about the Amiga was a Luke Plunkett post sharing a…

Vlambeer are basically the Apple of indies. I find their games mediocre and overrated as hell, but their marketing and branding work are second to none.

More like a PDF version of HG101, Wikipedia, MobyGames, Abandonia and the RPG Codex combined. ;)

Thanks for writing this, it’s a really important subject to me.

Not to turn this into self-promotion, but I began writing a book on CRPG History three years ago precisely because of this feeling of vanishing consciousness & context: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/

Why people always forget about Alone in the Dark?

Only consoles? Son, if you ever seen any of the manuals for PC games like Falcon 4.0, Baldur’s Gate II, Civilization II or any of the Ultima series you know that even NES & SNES manuals were minuscule in comparison.

And now thy are all gone...

Meh, I hate this trend of portraying old games as unplayable crap. We had several great 3D action-games back then... In 3rd-person melee combat alone we had games like Nightmare Creatures (1997), Die by the Sword (1998), Soul Reaver (1999), Tenchu (1998), Rune (2000) and Severance: Blade of Darkness (2001) - which is…

I’m extremely disappointed in this piece, it’s pure history revisionism for marketing purposes, and shows how our industry in truth has gone backwards. What a shame.