I've made peace with the thought that I will always be part of the dinosaurs who just never will get Let's Plays. Still, the idea that people can declare a game their favourite of the year without having played it… well, at first I thought it was irritating, no I have to admit that it's kind of fascinating, especially…

I read the first four four books when I was just getting out of YA territory, then somehow never bothered to read the rest… so I'm definitely not a die-hard fan. That said, this year, we visited some of the places where the movies were shot, and the missus got interested enough in the books to download them. So I read…

And they're so compact! Thanks, I'll try to add "geram" to my vocabulary, and "geram" things (can you use it as an adjective?) to my life.

It's on Steam, so… Windows and Mac, I guess? If you want to read more, Girard does a sort of mini-review further down the thread.

That's the one I was talking about!

I completely get where you are coming from, but I think part of the problem is that you are looking to games that are the closest to older form of storytelling, and thus risk looking a bit… lackluster in the contrast.

I'm a native German speaker who willed himself into the rank of Gameological Keyboard Genius — that most noble and elusive title the English language does award —, mostly because I enjoy writing so much in a language with such a huge vocabulary. Therefore, the "There surely is a German word for…"-meme (if you can call…

I finished UnderTale this week, and… well, it's difficult to shut up about it. I dearly hope that the Society will review it, because I think that a lot of people around here would love it. The thing is, though, it does not really look like much at first glance.
That impression is deceiving… I mean, in a fit of…

The only… thing ever to give my partner and me parallel nightmares was the Twin Peaks finale. Both of us dreamt independently that we were visited by Bob that very night.
That Lynch found such an absolutey instant channel to our subconscious is not really surprising, but it still is awe-inspiring.

When I was watching Frances Ha, I couldn't get over the fact that Gerwig's character was, in appearance and behaviour, basically a twin to a girl I used to share a flat with as a student.

There is a fair bit of walking around in the earlier games, too, but I didn't mind at all.

Untertale is indeed what I have been playing this week, too, and it's indeed so very lovely.

Uh, that track!

As far as ridiculously low-budget gerne spoofs that are played completely straight and have so much heart that they become secretly awesome go, you could do much worse than watching Norwegian Ninja, too.

It sounds pretty similar to the way Kickstarter developed for video games. There were smaller projects that fit the description of "otherwise ignored designers"— Kentucky Route Zero comes to mind — before what could be considered the Big Bang of the Doublefine Adventure, and now we have 1000 nostalgia-fuelled rehashes…

Oh what the heck, you convinced me.
I just took the plunge and bought it. I mean, I have heard that the Fox engine works wonders, but I let myself scare away by one of those "Will Your Hardware Run It"-online tests. Of course, they work with the listed requirements, so… what do they know, right? My PC is significantly…

Thanks to you and Sillstaw for replying. I was hoping that in the depths of the North American PSN, there might be more games (the European one is even worse). But yeah, streaming is really a poor option.
Oh well, I'll clear the PS3 backlog then and wait a bit to play Metal Gear. The sweet rush of being part of the…

Now that you mention PSN:
I'd really, really like to play Metal Gear. Which is funny, because I have not played any of the other games in the series. But then along came the Burches book on the first game, which made me interested, and then this paragraph by Alec Meer: "Metal Gear Solid V is a videogame in which I…

Considering that the biggest bunch of earlier reviews were done by people in conditions that are de facto the game press review of a chicken factory, I actually respect all outlets who refused to play along and wait until they could review the game properly. (If not, you end up with ridiculous things like gametrailers…

Pah! Those meddling kids had it easy!
If David had had those extra-polygons the PS4 offers, he could have done REAL emotions, I tell you! REAL emotions, and life-like people, and… all those extra-polygons!