One of the things I hate most about the evolution of game design in the last ten years or so isn’t microtransactions, or making games accessible, though those can both be done badly, it’s the wide movement toward thinking that scarcity is, fundamentally, a bad design concept. “Players want to <do the thing that…

So many games over so many years. Hard to pick a favorite. So I’ll go for the most recent one that comes to mind. Hitman: The First Season. Tempting to pick any of my Santa Costume related assassinations, most definitely.

So I know I wrote about this before, but there’s just so much you can make from the two endings to Inside. All the different gameplay clues and interactions with the malformed humanoid beings and mindless drones can point in a number of different directions. But the one my mind keeps coming back to is that the…

I am going to be pedantic, despite my better inclinations, but it’s still a fascinating differentiation:

I am not a gamer and play virtually no games — but I love Limbo. It’s so eerie and creepy (especially when played at night in an empty house, as I had the bright idea to do) I had to play parts of it with the sound off.

Me and a friend tried that in New Vegas. Killed everyone, and ate their corpses. Fun times. It seems like it would be hard, but you get so many powerful weapons and items that eventually you’re just an unstoppable force of murder.

We are all kinds of games! Folks regularly post on their tabletop experience, some do little but describe their D&D group. There are also feature articles and mentions referring to tabletop gaming on a regular basis, using the term Gameological Unplugged.

Lol this...between the property taxes, house insurance, yard work, general repairs i long for the halcyon days of calling my cool landlord to come and change light bulbs.

I’ll be playing the game of COVETING. No Switch so no Mario, no Wolfenstein cus i’m gonna wait a month til it goes to half off like every other bethesda fps and i still have Prey and Titanfall 2 to get through, no friends to play Destiny 2 with so there is no point in rushing to get that. I’m mostly playing overwatch…

Every Friday I look forward to reading these comments, and every Friday I am amazed at how good a community Gameological is. It’s just so pleasant. Why isn’t everyone bitter like most of the rest of the AV Club? Anyway, you guys have such a nice community I want to join! (And that’s post Kinjapocalypse, so that’s…

Oh, we bring up Stick all of the time, and HackMaster is very much a piss take, as well. It’s part of why I was super comfortable laying waste to a gobo nursery. In fact, we got a story XP escalator for my actions!

Please excuse me while I pretend this is the first time I typed this out:

Reposted from Avocado:

I’ll be playing the new Wolfenstein, which I’ve been looking forward to for ages and am glad to see looking like it’ll live up to the first. Seeing the trailers for the original led me to think it was going to be uninspired, lazy trash- ‘Robot Nazis’ being second only to ‘Magic Nazis’ on the ‘Lazy Ways to Make Nazis…

Working nights makes a midnight release for a game like Super Mario Odyssey make sense for me. Stop by after work, why not? Well, I abused Prime Day and with a gift card managed to knock it down to just $5. Getting a candidate for Game of the Year for a Lincoln is a nice thing.

My big thing with open world games is I walk EVERYWHERE. No sprinting, no fast travel... just a light jog at best. Digital tourism at its finest.

The answer to your question about VII’s legacy: nostalgia, pure and simple. For a lot of people, it was their first Final Fantasy (or even their first JRPG). It is imprinted on them as any other pivotal childhood memory.

That’s pretty darn superb analysis on one of my favorite FF characters. Given it’s possible for him to die earlier if people don’t stick around long enough and wait for him prior to the World of Ruin change, we could initially infer this is just to back up either occurrence (Telltale style pre-Telltale, if you will).…

Man, I know that feeling. I’ll be going back to Gravity Rush Remastered next year after 10 months of not having played it, and I’m sure all my muscle memory will be gone by then. (Not that I had any in the first place, since I was terrible at the game.)

Silverfish? They are super creepy.