Phantasy Star II had such an effect on me as a kid, and on a friend who played aswell ... Everything was simple, efficient, story was not in-your-face like most RPGs (even like PS4, if you ask me).

btw thank you for your professionalism Jason, awesome article as always.
Maybe it could be updated with Ythisens reaction on Twitter (WoW CM), as it’s filled with honesty :

I’m no morphopsychologist (the job of guessing a set of psychological traits based on manners, gesture behaviours, or physical marks over time). But that photo of Bobby Kotick insanely illustrates the article.

“In the Playstation 1 port of Doom, the ouch face commonly occurs when the player takes damage from behind. “

This was a very good discussion. I was surprised to recognize my own thoughts as a long-time game consumer in most of the points. I hope they’ll listen :)

Gameplay (at least for me) felt way more different once ingame than while just watching vids. There’s something to feel.

Played 5 hours straight today after watching a twitcher and say to myself “why not”. All I can say is I’m super satisfied and hyped af. Movement is awesome, gameplay is dynamic, available customizations promised very different tactics, scenery is huge and beautiful, and there’s this sense of freedom overall that makes…

Awesome, honest, concise writing as always Cecilia.
I was talking with a friend of mine about this serious lack of “third places” like we used to have “before”. There’s just none of that now. Most games prefer to capitalize either on 1 ) a casual adrenaline rush 2) a grinding scheme. Where did the passion go ? this…

What’s funny is that as a westerner, I’ll suggest (or naturally position myself as) all examples mentionned in the article. They have not even been taught to me, it all comes, I don’t know, as natural. I don’t know if I would do them as gladly if they were kinda “forced” to me tho ...

underrated.

With graphics getting more and more photorealistic as years go by, do we still want that level of gore ? I’m wondering.

Which means ... Blizzard now has a highway for Overwatch’s adding PvE.
(and not conflict with Destiny)

yes. yes !

Hate on latest mobile trend being put apart (although it’s legit hate tbh), I’m wondering : is this trend being caused by “big screen” development costs hitting a plateau ?

“Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines”

This once again proves the problem of online communication : too many opinions eventually leads to a zero-sum. Let the creator decide, and adapt. It’s impossible to satisfy everyone, it’s been proven with politics for litteraly centuries.

Don’t worry I’m also just an idiot on the internet :) And what you write is true, I think. Maybe the limit is when this love starts to be unconditional ? Lack of education about the outside world, in short ?

Notice how I talked about “parents” in a further post, which includes the precise situation you describe.

I agree, whatever the root reason is, it all comes down to how we educate children about flirting.

You’re right but, why wanting more from *this* woman, rather than just respecting her choice and move onto another one ?
Which draws a connection to chancyrendezvous’s post.