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Fable II
The plot of this game isn't just dumb, it's actively hostile to the player. This game hates you and thinks you are stupid.
Self-Balancing Gameplay
There's a wonderful way to balance difficulty in RPGs, and designers try to prevent it. For some reason.
The Opportunity Crunch
No, brutal, soul-sucking, marriage-destroying crunch mode in game development isn't a privilege or an opportunity. It's idiocy.
Push the Button!
Scenes from Half-Life 2:Episode 2, showing Gordon Freeman being a jerk.
The Best of 2016
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2016.
“Not desperate enough to read that thing just yet“! Which means he is considering the possibility, no matter how remotely. Success!
The way Aragorn’s holding that sword, I think he’s still on the fence between reading that and beheading himself.
I seem to be a lot less patient with lore in the last ten years or so. Except for more lore in universes I already know about.
New universes though? Lore dumps are TLDR. Particularly if they read like that monologue in the original Ghostbusters. Pages of:
X (who I don’t know and don’t care about) did A to Y (likewise), which caused (unexplained phenomenon) and….
Is this not the one with the “CliffsNotes of your own biography”?