There are a couple of reasons.

OK, now we’re getting somewhere. They key aspect is a game-logic reactive reset to a player action. That is what you believe, in this case, separates games from puzzles.

I have said nothing sarcastically. I am actually interested in your definition of a game, so I am probing it so I can understand it better.

And Gone Home resets you so dynamically you don’t even see it happen. If you find the clue, you advance. If you don’t, you have another chance to look.

So, is Prince of Persia (the 2008 version) a game? It has no fail state (if you don’t recall, you can never die, just get reset to a slightly earlier point in the level with time magic) so is it excluded from your definition?

I’ve seen one for boats that works like this: The seller will eventually explain that they have their vehicle stored at a third party sales/escrow service, and to buy it, you need to pay them. You can’t visit to see it because they have it stored, but delivery is free and there is a 7-day inspection period during…

That’s assuming the game will have you portraying Guardians protecting the Last City. Maybe Destiny 2 will have a timeskip, and the Traveler will leave/die, and you’ll be doing something else equally heroic under very different circumstances. Still the game and universe, but a different power source and different…

Is this news? I mean, I remember that everyone pretty much guessed that this happened at the time. Did I make that up?

And yet, we expect professional reviewers to spend 20 hours, 30 hours, or whatever it takes to finish a game, or we don’t trust their opinions.

So...

When you alt-tab out of the game, you can get back in (in Windows 10, anyway) by opening the Task Manager, right clicking on No Man’s Sky, and selecting ‘Switch to’. No idea why you have to do it that way...

It’s a different class of crime, with different (harsher) sentencing guidelines.

If you could get one ‘do-over’ and go back an edit, or rewrite, or never publish, or publish when you chose not to, one article that caused excitement or controversy, what would it be?

This was talked about a lot on the LoL subreddit. One of the points that people brought up there who know more about the Korean PC Bang scene than I do was this.

There are dozens of variants of Chinese, but Mandarin is by far the most common. Cantonese isn’t even in the top 3 or 4 by native speaker count, but it is common overseas because of emigration from Hong Kong.

If you left Planescape: Torment open for long enough, all of the NPCs in a town would eventually congregate in the upper-left corner and get stuck there. I think it had something to do with their random walking patterns having a slight bias.

Well, the article title says that the opinion is from a European, and the article mentions how the author is sad to see the cars in Hungary, so if you don’t know where the author is from, you aren’t paying attention.

So, help me out here. I’m not sure what your motivations are and what your actions are.

I think the phenomenon started in Mass Effect, where the short choices let you pick dialog fast enough that the conversation played like a cutscene, with no pauses.

It has come to all XBox Ones in the limited form of the games in the Rare Collection. Thus the “Yes, but”.