Lindsay Ellis has an excellent three-part YouTube documentary on the subject (A Long-Expected Autopsy, Battle of Five Studios and The Desolation of Warners), although it doesn’t quite cover all the bases and, for legal reasons, there’s a few logical conclusions that can easily be reached but she doesn’t spell out.

Holy hell, this.

Hearing the opening lick of Outer Wilds is enough to send anyone who’s played Mobius Digital’s tour de force of a spaceship-crashing sim into an existential crisis.

The art style underwent a pretty big change from the original to remake. Became a lot more lush. I think that affects the game tonally. Whether or not the emptiness in the original was an intentional decision, it added a lot to the tone of the game in my opinion. And then of course the default controls were changed to…

That was one example. I think the idea is that it’s a kind of core design constraint that - if changed - would result in a lot more feature creep than appears at first blush. Anyone can do anything, but I imagine there would be a LOT of knock on effects on systems they had no intention of (and thus hadn’t budgeted…

I’d say that depends on how dedicated you are to experiencing all things Star Trek and how sensitive you are to aging technology.

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Stop with the bullshit panhandling. If you really give a shit about women's rights, you would be fighting where it actually matters. If the developers were actually sexist and not just appealing to a demographic, because, you forget, this is a business, go for it, but your muckraking is just cheapening the struggle of…

My brother and I bought it with our meager allowances added together and instantly regretted it. As Best Buy did not accept returns on open games, and this was before eBay and Gamestop trade-in options, we hid all existing copies of the game in the store and went to "exchange" it. When they couldn't find the same…