Also, all the eugenics.

HEY GUYS DID YOU KNOW THAT SAMUS IS A GIRL

If we're talking about Doom, wouldn't it be closer to calling Microsoft "DOS developer"?

"The more you talk about how awesome a game is, the more it's going to turn some people off from said game."

Once you know what to look for, you'll never be caught by a mimic again! (The direction of the chain on the ground next to him is the big giveaway.)

hah, I got the same impression. "Non-human super cannibal who evolves a kitchen sink of murder from his body? Well, okay. But a BLACK DUDE?"

I found Infamous equally bland, in a narrative and world-building sense.

Christ, if a guy can't curse when confronted with the full majesty of the universe and the human spirit, when CAN he?

Skyrim, for all its greatness, is extremely iterative. It's essentially a bigger, bolder Oblivion. So no, the same cannot be said of it.

Agreed, really interesting!

Like with any definition, there can be a lot of grey area. I think games like the Ball and Braid definitely have a lot of adventure game influence. But where, exactly, is the line where a game has too much action to be a proper adventure game? I'm not sure!

There doesn't strictly need to be "adventure" for it to be an adventure games. Think of Portal as a sequence of narrative-driven escape the room games.

MOST of the games in the above list heavily employ puzzles. In fact, narrative-driven puzzles is one of the hallmarks of the genre.

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Grim Fandango?

It's my pleasure! :D

Yes.

Nightmare Before Christmas was actually directed by Henry Selick. So, now you have even less reason to like Tim Burton! Awesome!

"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them" -Pauline Kael

Just to add my own little detail, it was likely the El Niño/La Niña-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that was the environmental cause of a lot of social, political, and economic upheaval in Andean antiquity. Specifically, the Humboldt current cools and warms the fisheries along the coast of Peru according to the ENSO…