Yeah, that bit of the interview confused me too, because the utopia project/culture victory is what I usually do in Civ 5, without expansions.

This may be a dumb comment, but did you know you can lock on to someone by clicking the middle mouse button? I put quite a few hours in before I realized that and it made a big difference for me.

I'm with you; I enjoyed the village-building mechanics in games like Breath of Fire II and Suikoden but I have no friends, so I'm really hoping the friendless village building isn't too annoying.

Me too! I put my 100 hours into the game some time ago, eventually stopped playing it, even uninstalled it from most of my computers… but I've been inexplicably playing it all week. Just last night *KIND OF SPOILERS* I beat Isaac for the first time!
I think it's so irresistible because, even though it's stressful and…

My life would be greatly improved if you could tag Steam games with multiple categories instead of having to choose only one for each game.

Ugh, racing minigames are the worst! And it seems like they always pop up in games that require a completely different set of skills for the rest of the game, making them especially incongruous. The [foot]races in Assassin's Creed II were part of what put me off that game as well.

When I finish a game I then switch to something really different from what I just played. I'm playing Skyrim now, and when I'm done, which will be maybe never, I'll play Monkey Island 2 or The Walking Dead or something. This seems to keep things fresh and keeps me burning through my backlog. But realistically…

As a grown-ass man, I have no problem admitting that I will never be as badass as Princess Bubblegum in "Lady & Peebles".

Please don't use "rape" to describe musical theft. Thank you.

Proteus!

(Full disclosure: I may have the flu and my ramblings may not make sense.)

Me too! I had the most incredible RL run last night. I was in NG+1, I attempted the 4th boss with just a run of the mill Paladin, expecting to die but it was pretty easy after spamming Conflux everywhere. So then I took a shot at the final boss, again expecting to die and wanting to spend my $50,000 … and beat it…

Yessss. I play BoI pretty much every day. Even though I'm pretty terrible at it still, it's my most-played Steam game! Maybe I'll do a quick runthrough right now instead of working…

Great interview/conversation! I spend a lot of time playing video games, and it can be hard to communicate to "outsiders" exactly what is so compelling about it. It requires a baseline video-game literacy. And I guess it's even more difficult because people have no idea of the complexity and variety of games today. So…

Ha, my FF7 story is pretty convoluted too. I had a birthday in the spring and saved all my money, then bought FF7 in September when it came out, then rented a Playstation for one glorious weekend… then was out of money. My parents got me a Playstation for Christmas that year, and that was the world's longest autumn in…

Nice topic. I was a super-Christian kid who went to (and performed at) the suburban-strip-mall-Christian-punk shows like those in the article all the damn time. Yada yada yada, now I am an atheist, etc., but it's really interesting to rediscover some of the Christian music of my youth. Some of it is obviously pure…

Oh and this weekend: I beat Rogue Legacy last night, after 34 hours, ahem, so I will now proceed to continue playing it until the day I die.

Christmas of… 1995 maybe? I got my first gaming system, a SNES with Super Metroid. My little sister and I had gotten up at like 3 AM, as kids are wont to do on Christmas, and we played the game in the dark, quiet house until the middle of the day. Super Metroid is surprisingly terrifying when you're playing it in the…

Possibly the greatest problem in my whole life, ever, is having to use voice commands when I call some corporation's customer service. I get really irrationally infuriated, frightening the neighbors, the whole bit. It's like, I had to press buttons on my button-device to get this far, my ability to press buttons is…

Ha ha ha ho!