Maan, I didn’t even know you could doublepost in this. Whoops.

But it’s also the game we need in 2016 :(

But it’s also the game we need in 2016 :(

I’ll admit I’m paying pretty close attention in this case and pulling worthwhile posts out of the grays. There’s been actually quite a few!

Just want to say, absolute maximum respect. I honestly don’t have much of meaning to contribute, but you deserve praise for what you’ve done.

There’s a fair amount of garbage in the grays. Thankfully not much of it has floated up to visibility.

Don’t forget that it released right when PSN was down for a month, cutting out any launch hype for an entire console.

I had a chance to buy Clayfighter Sculptor’s Cut for $50 years and years ago. Passed on it. Many regrets.

It actually was way more popular in 2003 since action-oriented roguelikes weren’t really a thing then - I very vividly remember it making the rounds very strongly.

Not really, but it has had an active fan community which has enjoyed creating fanworks for over 20 years, and those fanworks are what has kept Doom so active and well loved for all this time. This is a blow to trust, especially as DoomRL is quite original by the standards of Doom fanwork.

My favorite game ever is La-Mulana, and introducing it to friends tends to be a harrowing experience. For those not initiated, actually starting the game and understanding what to do is an extremely complicated task to the point where the devs have their own tutorial for it on youtube. The game generally is really…

It seems like the position of nazis in our popular culture has left them so far removed from humanity to the point of being like invaders from mars. Monsters to shoot at. As long as they’re not wearing red armbands they’re not nazis. As long as they’re not goosestepping they’re not nazis. Nevermind they pin the…

Yeah, it was an unusually creepy moment, which is perfect for a ghost type challenge. Especially given Mimikyu is behind you.

Yikes. So in other words, the player is being attacked by a pokemon. It’s a good thing the totem pokemon are watched over and trained by their captains, ensuring we’re not in real harm in this case.

Not to mention the room didn’t actually exist, implying that either Mimikyu directly, psychologically/spiritually attacks the player (and your pokemon are representative psychological constructs of yourself in this case), or that it’s actually capable of creating spacial distortions and fights you in one.

I’ve always been a fan of ghost pokemon due to them being somewhat of a darker underbelly of something generally adorable, so I was fond of Mimikyu from the get-go, but now I’m even more fond of it. I do think this is a similar enough interpretation (Mimikyu does seem to hold some distaste to Pikachu due to its…

Upgrade your botnet early. The first, cheapest Botnet upgrade is absolutely essential, and the size of your botnet is the filter through which all the really cool hacks go through. Stuff like getting police to arrest a particularly well-placed guard is useful, but you need botnet to access that, not to mention being…

In the case of Gone Home, it does actually have some interesting mechanics, and there’s some puzzles to unravel. It has a lot of similarity to Myst, but less cryptic and obtuse and more just physically logical (in that it’s a normal people house for the most part).

In fairness it isn’t just the engine, it’s how it’s used

Honestly, for as much garbage as he made, Postal was at least watchable - Likely because of how easy it is to hit the major marks of the game and leave plenty of room for the central theme of “be excessively lowbrow”.