Minimalist isn't lazy. It's sort of like Valve with Gordon Freeman. The graphics/sounds aren't missing because the developers are lazy, it's so that the player's mind can fill in the gaps.

Even if it was, I prefer the name GabeCube.

If it's effective, has good controls, and good games, it doesn't matter how it looks.

FPSs aren't always raging killfests. There will be zombie fighting in ANY walking dead game, but it doesn't automatically become the focus when it's an FPS. That's a sort of video game racism, just saying that an FPS cannot have proper interactions and survival elements instead of murdering everything. What about…

DOOM was never distasteful. It was just different.

I quite prefer it like this, actually.

Scratches was pretty terrible, but I haven't heard of Dark Fall.

Yeah, I can see where you're coming from on this one, but the makers of Slender didn't make Slenderman. Slendy was around for quite a while before that, a primary example being MarbleHornets. They can't claim all rights to a character made by someone else, and Slender: Source would therefore just be another game…

Not Dark Souls. Amnesia. A version of Amnesia with the vitality sensor restricting running, and making you visible to the enemy if your heartrate is too high. I doubt many people would beat it.

Slender: Source is actually quite a bit different. It will have 4-player co-op, so that adds an entire new mechanic. If someone screams in a room, you look at the door and just think "No, I don't want to go in there." Also, they might release the Source files, so custom levels could be easily made. It will have more…

I daresay that even the Wii is better than the XBox.

PC is far better than XBox. On the PC, we have Steam and the Humble Bundle, along with any other retail or online games we want. There are even -gasp- free online flash games. Good ones too, such as Submachine or Portal: TFV (Oh yes, the original Portal was good too.) On Steam, there has not been one recorded instance…

A few days of secrecy from Bethesda isn't bad, though. Valve has had 6 years of secrecy, aside from a recent faked store page for April Fool's Day, about Half-Life 2: Episode 3, which would supposedly have been released within 6 months of Episode 2. Even if they are cancelling the episodic and moving on to Half-Life…