Well, the irony is that Blow himself talked about how the game's about the journey, not the destination - and yet his entire story's told through specifically located exposition dumps. I mean, the "story" really only occurs in about three different places in a given world, instead of being integrated into the world…

Finally picked up and played through most of Braid.

Very much. They're kinda all the tensions and fears of postmodern art all rolled up into a single shambling horde. Considering that it's hard not to share those tensions, the whole horror of the thing's all the better.

Yeah. That thing's the stuff of development dreams. Horrifying, dangerous, and intentionally obscure. I kinda wish it weren't just a story.

That's the face that launched a thousand creepypastas. Creepypastas like that damn Morrowind one.

Just finished Datura, and I'll be honest: I'm slightly confused.

I always knew you had the makings of a KGB man.

That sonnabitch is OP. Drastically OP.

Sour with the blood of the proletariat...

After playing With Sword and Fire, Skyrim needs guns too. Lots of guns. And a whole band of thanes... with guns.

What bourgeois excess you live in!

Hey, if there's anything in the Western world that's top-notch, it's marketing. The U.S. in particular, actually. (I feel comfortable, working for a marketing company, to say that.)

And marketing budgets are pretty high these days.

9s and 8s have practically lost their meaning any more.

As they always say: a doctor who drinks is worth two in the on-call room.

Ah - yes! Of course. The Romero interpretation - and a really good one, at that.

I never "got" why people were quite so obsessed with Tali either. She didn't have a particularly interesting personality, and it's not like the dialogue Bioware wrote for her was an inspiration from the heavens.

They speak to our techno-obsessive paranoia of being obliterated (nukes, biological warfare - all these fears coming from 20th/21st century technological developments) as well as our immense fear of losing our freedoms and individuality (speaks a bit to the notions of "rugged individualism" and our Enlightenment-era…

" But if I understand what you're saying, Scalzi's article failed because it pointed something out clumsily, and offered no solution; so it doesn't contribute nearly as much to the development of action as do the works of other, more eloquent authors."

Everyone gives me weird looks when I say this, but: