Just replayed Bastion and it did exactly that. I remember 5- to 20-hour games (Bastion, Papo y Yo, Braid, Hollow Knight, Undertale) more fondly and more clearly than I do most games I’ve sunk 100+ hours into. More Arkham Asylum, less Arkham Everything After!

There’s a reason that no “choose your own adventure” books are literary classics. :)

trust your players

That sounds like 90% of my steam library. 

No amount of “open-worldness” will ever be able to compete with a well- and DELIBERATELY-constructed, FOCUSED world in which a very specific series of events is designed to take place. To me, “open-worldness” always comes across as just a lazy cop-out to avoid having to do any real world building. BotW avoids this…

I guess I have that pressure to some degree among my friends. It takes me an average of 3 months to finish a new release by which time most of my friends have moved on.

Every game’s trying to be the only game you play. Even annual franchises like Assasin’s Creed. It’s just not sustainable.

Game makers have completely forgotten the “always leave them wanting more” axiom, and have gotten into the “how many hours can we pack into this game” arms race instead.

I’ve had similar experiences, but at least with Breath of the Wild, the endgame was right there, ready and waiting for me whenever I wanted to hit it. So when I got to that point of starting to feel bored with the game, having done everything I wanted to do, I pointed myself at the castle and finished it off. Which is…

Is this sarcasm?

Fortnite, Splatoon, Mario Tennis, Mario Kart, NBA, Doom, Minecraft, Rocket League are all frequently played online. 

And honestly, there’s nothing bad about that. Look at how gorgeous the games we have today are on hardware that’s pretty damned modest. By and large we have good framerates, vibrant colors, high details and surround sound capabilities. As long as the gameplay is as good as the visuals already are, I’d say we’re set :P

Offline play or no sale for me.  I want to be able to play regardless of internet status.  If all consoles becomes streaming machines I may just have to settle for my older consoles.

yeah and not only will we no longer own our hardware, we will not own a physical copy of our games too! we wont even have the game files themselves like when we digitally purchase them! sounds great! /s oh and lets not forget they just fucked net neutrality, so our gaming needs will be stuck over in the slow lane…

I feel console gaming is something you do as a commitment for entertainment. When gaming on a phone it could be just a one off form of playing while waiting in a line or at a family member’s home.

more good deals in this twitter thread, courtesy of kotaku’s own heather alexandra!

WOW that’s a blast from the past. Do Americans even know about Terence Hill? His movies with Bud Spencer were to European (pre)teens in the 80s and 90s what Saturday morning cartoons were to Americans.

Terence Hill 2015 (76 years old)