Hmm, I kinda guessed that the Keyboard Geniuses would all be No Man's Sky related!
As usual, the discussion (and the review) brought to my attention a lot of interesting thoughts about the way games are put together.
Also helpful was this piece here: http://www.eurogamer.net/ar…
I think a lot of people at the moment are…

What about Proteus? I'm sure there are other things like it, but it's so blissfully free of objectives, HUD, and most importantly, free of achievements. I could agree with someone if they wanted to say it was not a game. (Mostly if people say that they are disparaging it, though, which I don't agree with).

Finished To Be or Not To Be - enjoyed it, but as ever when nearing the end of a multiple choice, multiple ending game, finding the last bits I missed ends up becoming a chore rather than fun. I need to learn to not obsessively go for 100% in every game. But that's never gonna happen…
Also playing No Man's Sky. Finally…

As a programmer, I have quite a lot of sympathy for Hello Games here.
In somewhat-uncharted waters like generating quintillions of planets, it's certain that seemingly simple tasks would prove more difficult than expected, affect other things, and become exponentially more complex. As anyone who looks at The Cutting…

I get what you're saying, but one key thing about both hiking and other procedurally generated games that I think this misses is the moment when you finally reach the top of the hill and go "wow, there's a jungle there!" (well okay, replace jungle with moor for my hiking). Likewise, flying over the planet, I don't…

I like to have podcasts on in the background. It's like having a Space Radio on while I fly around. :)

I guess I do have different priorities to you - I feel like trading (or "space taxes" as mentioned on Rock Paper Shotgun) has been well enough covered by many other games.
But I think this is definitely something No Man's Sky is doing - people are looking over it, finding a favourite aspect they enjoy, but if only it…

"No one who plays Minecraft ever compliments the environment."
Unless I am the only person in the world to feel this way, I do actually appreciate Minecraft's procedurally generated landscapes. The moments where when sailing on the ocean, you find an island covered in flowers of all kinds. Finding a giant tower of…

Actually, I find Minecraft's landscapes much more interesting than No Man's Sky. There's a lot more variety - mostly due to the biomes. Mountains stand out more when not everything is also mountains. In Minecraft, you can navigate by the landscape fairly well - "after that lava flow, follow the valley right, then…

Wait… you can reverse engines?!

Yes - my only problem is how little they affect or are affected by the world. It can be incongruous to run across a trader who desperately needs isotopes when there are massive plutonium deposits right outside. Or I report a guy for stealing and then talk to them again right afterwards as though it never happened.…

I was gonna post that thing about Farage. I thought that, even despite the Brexit thing, everyone here would rather not have Trump. Of course, I was wrong. I retrospect, I don't know why a racist, sexist, faux populist supporting a man exactly like himself would surprise me.

Despite that I'm still playing and somewhat enjoying the game, I agree with you here - the procedural generation produces very samey results. I think procedural landscapes can be done much much better. And the space fights really are the worst.

That was really excellent, definitely worth the wait… your mysterious player character does make a lot of sense as a pilgrim rather than an explorer.
I think that actually gets to the heart of some of my dissatisfactions with the game - there is no "exploring" as such. There are no maps, there are settlers everywhere.…

Finished To Be or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure. It's pretty decent. I had fun. But by the end, having to repeat text to get a different ending was getting really annoying. And as always with games with multiple paths and endings, I had to look up the last few to get 100%.
I just found out there's a sequel (well,…

I agree. I don't want to have to put effort into reading comments only to find out I don't get the reference!

So annoyed that no one had Princess Kaguya on their list! Scrolling through the lists, the amount of "Spirited Away" began to get on my nerves. I mean, it's good, but Princess Kaguya is amazing. I feel a lot of people just watched Spirited Away because it won the Oscar, and didn't bother to watch any other Ghibli…

Quite a few critics had AI in their top 10s - I guess not enough to get it in the 100?

I have heard people here and elsewhere on the internet say how rubbish it is. It seems like the new 2 Pints Of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, which I also haven't seen - hated by critics, loved by audiences. Though some of the criticism was of the movie, and Britcom movies are traditionally not great even if the…

Wow, someone had This Is The End on their top 10? I hope they only watched 10 movies since the millennium. I wouldn't put that in my top 10 movies past the millennium, and I'm not even sure I've watched 10 post-millennium movies.
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted??? I mean, I've not seen that, I guess it could…