Mind if I hijack this thread? There is one thing I wanted to ask someone (anyone!) for a while, but didn't know where. And since this is a fine place for fine people with fine taste and knowledge, I'll just go and ask:

To be honest, I only played through the tutorials so far and started a correspondence chess-style game against a friend.

Yeah, I read about that today, too.

I found that slightly disturbing, too. It's like Steam finally found out about that strange place with its people who are bizarrely proud of their quasi-insular state and decided that NO! No longer shall they hide their true identity behind other people's currencies! No longer! Mwuahahaha!

Yes, that makes sense. I wonder if the problem with the series is not how much of a heavyweight they are in the industry, forming to this day a certain kind of image that a certain kind of person wants to have of what "videogames" are like. If you could ignore that, you could almost feel sympathy for this unashamedly…

Nothing against Ryan and the review, which was interesting and fun to read, but… does using what is, hot on the heels of the same man's "God is dead", maybe the most overused philosophical quote in popular culture, really qualify as "clever"? I guess it's a matter of context. Still better that they hired somebody who…

Jedi Knight and its add-on (which these days would probably be a full-on sequel) are interesting to this day. While I probably couldn't spend days and days playing the multiplayer in the cloud city against my cousin — you could throw him into the eternal abyss by using the force, see —, the level design was impressive…

Who needs arms with legs like this?!
Seriously, that's impressive, and lovely.

Hooray for more Undertale love!
Really, all the excitement surrounding Fallout has just made me realize its strenghts more… as somebody who routinely got lost in huge, sprawling RPGs for decades (the first ones being early Might&Magic games), I somehow regret that I realize just too well that games like The Witcher 3…

Also, the versions of the Grimm fairytales most of us are familiar with are already a "safer" version of the original folk tales collected by them. There was even more blood and mutilation in the original tales. (Which is frankly astonishing considering that the "toned-down" versions still has cut-off fingers used as…

Yeah, they certainly did not pull any punches. I realized just how much more willing they were to scare people recently by getting my hands on a DVD box of the original stop-motion Moomins TV series. The animation was done in Poland (with direct involvement by Tove Janson), but if I'm not mistaken, it was co-produced…

I hope it's ok if I put this here, even though it's not a huge contripution to the topic… but, well, I think that some people here might really enjoy reading Duncan Fyfe's "Survival Horror" .

I've heard that the Japanese stop motion anthology The Dunwhich Horror and Other Stories is interesting as well, but I haven't seen it yet… even though, as I just found out, you can easily find it in its entirety as a stream. Anybody seen it? Is it worth the time? (I'm a sucker for good stop motion, so I should…

Oh, there are a lot of qualities to the movie. The central premise, which shows its strenghts in the early scenes — not the STD angle, which is indeed a bit boring (and really riled up the missus), but, as is written above, that tapping into something which a lot of people experience in actual nightmares. Then you…

Same here… well, I'm not sure that "liked" is the right word, but I actually planned on replaying old-school horror games this Halloween for an article, and the C64 version of Friday the 13th certainly is on the list. (Btw, Gamelogoerians, anyone want to join in? Didn't you always want to play long forgotten pearls of…

I'm not sure that this is a case of "looking back fondly on shit game". The article tries to point out that there was the seed of an interesting game, which unfortunately bloomed into a piece of garbage. Being able to do such things and not paint everything with those two giant brushes labelled "shit" and "GOTY!" is…

You! You with the mushroom hat (or head).

Why not play UnderTale? It's the closest thing to a sprititual successor to the Mother series you will get any time soon, and genuinely great.

Yeah. I feel like I'm too old for having grown into it, and now I feel like I do lack the ability to focus long enough on this format. Like, my brain is telling me constantly that I could be doing something else instead: "You know you could be playing that game, don't you?" "You know that you could be watching…

…chances are high that you won't regret it. (I still hope for an AV Club review.)
And I mean, there's always plenty of time for dying miserably after having come back from the depths of UnderTale. At the very least, it will probably make you laugh more than Bloodborne.