RadixNegative2

The "Greg Responds to Fable Criticism" video is the best :D

@iphone_tyler: It's a reference to Bioshock (the developers of Gone Home worked on the Minerva's Den dlc for Bioshock 2)

@crid: I think so. It's a happy ending in relation to the immediate context of the situation. At the end of the day there are no ghosts or suicides, just two lovers who ran away. The "impossible position" that you mentioned turns out to be irrelevant at that moment because ultimately all that matters is that everyone is ok.

The game ends with your family alive and well when the situation could have been much, much worse. In that sense it's a happy ending.

I imagined that Sam and/or Lonnie went through the house looking for those stuff and didn't bother putting them back or didn't have time. Their notes to each other explained how they wanted to explore the house and whatnot while Sam's parents were away. That and the relatively recent move in explains the messy house in general.

It's incredible how this game transitioned the fear of ghosts into fearing for the well being of Sam. How you come home to an empty house on a rainy day and feel the way you would in reality. First you're scared of supernatural things and fear the dark. As you search the house and learn about your family, primitive fears turn into real fears and you realize how unimportant or even stupid those primitive fears are in comparison.

And man, running to the attic and up those stairs, fulling expecting to see Sam having committed suicide. Then finding out that she ran away and the sense of relief that brings. Fucking brilliant.

For anyone interested in getting a sense of what Carmack could possibly do at Oculus, I suggest reading the work of MIcheal Abrash at Valve:

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/down-the-vr-rabbit-hole-fixing-judder/

Cool! I can't wait to see what we get out of this.

What I really want is a new expansion for the PC with controller support (oh how I hate RSI).

I would serve as a minion under General Davis any day.

I can't believe this. I literally can't process this.

This has to be a joke.