I enjoyed the Oracle games too, but they aren't as tidy as LA. I can sit down and replay LA and zoom through it, and it hits all these beats really smoothly that I find in few games. But yeah, nostalgia plays a huge part. I think it was the first gameboy game I really sunk my teeth into.

It's OK to have hobbies that you don't share with the world. If you are old enough for this to be a problem, aren't you old enough to not really give a shit about what others think about you anymore? If you are well rounded enough to get along with people and do other things too, rather than holing up and never…

Very valid suggestion.

I haven't. Game bored me even when it was new.

Link to the past is great, but Link's Awakening is more perfect. It might be shorter, but there are sections in LTTP where the pacing gets a little loose.

Interesting that you thought that sonic. I never spoke to anyone back then who felt that way. I remember taking my system to the family's for thanksgiving and showing it off, and having an entire room of people, gamers and non-gamers alike, just sitting there watching it, mesmerized, for hours and hours. They forgot…

Yes, the question was purposefully misleading, and the problem solving method that was allowed was misleading. That was THE POINT of the exercise. Real world data IS misleading, and the problem solving techniques we have available are not much better than "try some new numbers and see if they still fit the rule". Be…

Are you saying you thought they looked bad at release? Because back then it didn't seem like it was possible that a game could look that good. Not just in stills, but the excellent and fluid animation was way beyond anything I had ever seen. Sure, they haven't aged that great - heck it's been 20 years! Although I…

Oh come on. Sure, pokemon has just as much rights as other games - but this is a case of one game's traffic infringing on other games' rights. I don't care for LoL, but in the small 10 people or so channels I frequent, chatting has become a NIGHTMARE. This pokemon phenomenon has basically kept me off twitch, and hurt…

It really shouldn't be a channel's responsibility to make sure the rest of twitch can keep up. Twitch should be actively limiting chat in a reasonable way to spread the load. Abusive channels would have their chat nerfed rather than the channels that are struggling to keep 10 participants engaged.

What a jerk! His goal of making a smaller completely different project could have been accomplished without laying people off. Was there no one to promote into his positions? Or what about dividing the team up like other big studios have done, so that they can do multiple projects at once? Do some restructuring. Don't…

Launching ten years ago today, Steam had a relatively inauspicious beginning. The games business was in the last days of an old-fashioned era, before iOS, before Facebook, before, well, Steam. You either bought console games on a disc, or you bought PC games on CD/DVD. That was it!

My workaround - sleep mode. Never use save.

I can see your complaints. I think VLR is really good, but it does have flaws. 999, it's predecessor, was way better. Writing and set up were similar, but it just felt stronger all around. The situation in the beginning of the game was very immersive and made you really feel the oppression of the disembodied voice…

I don't see many of you actually disagreeing with his points. It's mostly "yeah but" or "this guy is a kook I'm not even going to look at what he has to say". I think in general most of his points are valid, but they are also somewhat obvious. The challenge isn't in identifying the problems but in implementing…

Did you watch the same video as I did? I saw a good mix of original enemies and homages.

At 9, sure, I was cutting grass in Zelda, building awesome lego scenes (so much better than minecraft), and playing a ton of sierra/lucas arts adventure games. But you know, I also played doom and mortal kombat and loved those as well. I think kids are always going to want to see things that are above their age level…

It has a controller instead of a flaky touchscreen device. So many good mobile games would be decent or even great if given decent controls instead of the lame digital joysticks they often stick on them. Having a unified form factor (screen+controller) also makes it VIABLE for indie devs to focus on the…