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The HG101 Top 47k games podcast this week has a great candidate, Liberal Crime Squad. The other great Bay12 game and the game Austin Walker doesn't want you to know about.@sparky_buzzsaw said: Wadjet'...

There's a series of choices in Lisa: The Painful that are at first implictly framed as "noble self-sacrifice to protect others" vs "Others are harmed/killed to maintain your (Brad's) power level". But...

@unclejam23 said:Yeah, I probably should've mentioned at some point that the gameplay isn't the strongest part of Perfect Tides. The interface didn't bother me because, honestly, it made me nostalgic ...

I need to go back to Perfect Tides (probably to restart the game over at this point tbh.) I really enjoyed what I played, but it got lost in the shuffle at the time. The writing and art are incredible...

The Longest Journey is one of my favourite games ever, and is considered a classic for a reason. But it's always been built on rickety foundations.I also had planned to write a lengthy blog about the ...

NoIt's an A.S.S.It's closer to a Shmup or dual joystick shooter without the second joystick. Influenced by roguelikes (actual) and separately it also takes the meta-progression of so called "roguelite...

Excellent write up.I love Last Call BBS and 20th Century Food Court in particular. Zachtronics have (had?) a real knack for tricking the player into doing extremely difficult (low-level and/or memory...

before: "meh, it's fine"after: "meh, it's fine"some time since: "meh, it's fi... *notices notification for premium autorenewing*... better make sure that never happens again without me knowing *disabl...

@valorianendymion: The stuff you're talking about definitely happened though. Old Man Murray (run by Chet and Erik who worked on Psychonauts and Portal, etc) is considered a pioneer of this sort of hu...

@valorianendymion: The "Adventure games are dead" sentiment predates that style of writing.The Myst backlash started almost immediately on release. There's a lot of people who blame the combo of Myst/...

Well written. My brain is too fried from staying up for World Cup matches to write a proper response.And let me tell you, whenever I see people say these things, I want to fucking puke. The fucking d...

@zombiepie said:I'm going to press you to clarify what you mean. D2 is great. But it definitely received more praise after the fact than it did at release.It was the Nier (original) of its day.

OP is being overdramatic and seems to be looking for a fight. But this sucks and is a terrible idea.The defenses here are even worse. They're random and incoherent. And the core feature of them seems ...

D2 is a proto-open world survival game that few people enjoyed at the time, but had a critical re-evalutation later on due to it being a huge influence on later games.It's unrelated to D's narrative b...

My Playdate arrived recently. Right on time for the Late 2021 shipping date. I've messed around with it a bit and started to look into development a bit Today.My conclusion. It sucks. I didn't expect ...

@shindig: PES had the title sewn up and then willingly gave it up on multiple occasions over the last 15 years

In the same way that Aliens is an all-time great movie, but also completely missed the point of the first film and pretty much ruined the series...Lucasarts games were the worst thing to happen to adv...

@buzzard said: GB is so niche that I sincerely doubt that was much of a factor.Agree that GB is extremely niche in the scheme of things. This should be obvious if it's being sold as part of a fire sal...