Recent content by Gul

Yahtzee sounds almost emotional towards the end.

I wish nobody cared, but given the current gun controversy, this shit is clearly still relevant. Personally I'm just not giving a shit about them. They're like flat-earthers: obviously wrong, but unwilling to admit it, so what the hell are you supposed to do at this point? Just let them...

The first couple Tomb Raiders are what first comes to mind when I think of this subject. Maybe they'd make a return: more of exploration and climbing and block puzzles rather than quick-time events and creepy misogyny.

Actually, in the first Commander Keen trilogy, you're using a lethal gun. Yes, this was the most important thing I could say about this topic.

The first game I ever played was Super Mario 3 (technically Super Mario All Stars, but close enough) on my friend's (S)NES. The first game I got on a computer was Commander Keen. By your logic classic platformers should be closest to my heart, and I'll have to admit it's fairly close to truth...

Would Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy count? It came as a book series, a radio show, TV show, and a movie - all of them different enough that I might give them a pass.

But by that time you've already bought the game, so might as well keep going.

There's also the whole diplomacy thing and being able to go through the entire game without killing anyone. There are plenty of games that have done the latter, sure, but the only one that's done the former is Shin Megami Tensei, and it was kind of mashed-together and not very well done back...

It turns out Undertale is actually kind of a different thing from Earthbound, but that doesn't become apparent until after the fact, so your point is perfectly valid and agreeable. That being said, it might instead count as a sort of an antithesis to the utterly safe and bland new Star Wars...

I'm not really sure if you need all that much innovating in the first place. Movie industry has gone on just fine without innovating itself every five years or so. All you'd need to do would be to create good games with nice story and gameplay in them. Which AAA has completely failed to do as...

Ah, Eye of the Beholder 2. Horrible combat system, restrictive tile-based 90-degree-turning mechanics, still has one of the best ending videos ever. Come to think of it, I believe I haven't played through that one this year.

That doesn't make it a bad thing. Why should we adhere to tradition merely because we always have? There is no progress in that way, no advancement, just stagnation and ruin - indeed, like you yourself say, RPGs are an evolution of tabletop wargames, so why should they not evolve further...

Why? It's still the exact same thing mechanically speaking. The only difference is that it doesn't necessarily end with killing everything that comes across. If you think murdering is to RPGs what football is to football, then you may have some issues.

I wouldn't call two hundred thousand sold games in a month and a half "only OK". Sure, it's not much by AAA standards, but it's still a pretty good number for an indie game.

Again, you might wish to give the demo a try. It's where most of us got the first impression from - and a far better one, for that matter.