Ridiculously ambitious games that you really want to be great but are probably going to be meaningless and boring

evading the FBI agents

oh yeah could you use the bushes for that, or was it just running away

pac man was a stealth game if you think about it

pac man not a stealth game, it was the first half of an interactive explanation of Borges' "Two Kings and Two Labyrinths"

unfortunately the intended sequel, "pac man starving to death in a desert," was cancelled halfway into alpha

that was E.T.'s ending
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/27/tech/gaming-gadgets/atari-et-video-game/

Funnily enough this April fools 'best game ever' preview, back from 1990, used Bullfrog and Molyneux as the development team:

https://archive.org/stream/theone-magazine-19/TheOne_19_Apr_1990#page/n7/mode/2up

that april fool seems a bit shitty in retrospect. was it really impossible for a game like that to have been made in the early 90s 16 bit era? it made a few wild claims like the fps rate but there doesn't to be any major fool flags - the fps rate thing maybe? dunno, it's not a fool on the level of spaghetti trees and i can imagine being gutted by finding out, rather than thinking 'doh, silly me'

I remember being impressed anyway. Upgraded Amigas and PC's weren't really at an affordable price for your average home gamer.

bought my first (only?) Amiga with money from a housing resettlement in about 91, don't think i'd have thought of buying one otherwise

there must be 4 or 5 Molyneux games i've desperately wanted to like only to get bored and give up trying after a few hours' gameplay

That Mountain game is like one dollar. Hardly a rip off. I could see it being like a neat ~ambient~ thing, put it on while cooking dinner or reading and look over every once in a while to see what's happening in your little world.

i bought mountain twice, and have mainly engaged with it that way. it's really quite a good thing.

it's not trying to be MEANINGFUL in ways that ppl seem to be eliding it w/? the tone is more tao lin than paolo coelho

i bought mountain twice, and have mainly engaged with it that way.

haha @ how i read this

tbf there's a lot of games i have mainly engaged with that way, largely out of forgetting to check my GOG account before looking at steam sales /:

having tried it over probably six or seven sittings, I think I'm going to have to go with Death Stranding here
for all the concerns you thought of when you realized the reason for this thread being resurrected was probably gonna be death stranding

I’ve beaten it and am still playing it. Everything is meaningless.

I bought the latest God of War because I was looking for something new to play and it was $20. It is silly and not very good so far. The father/son relationship is unintentionally pretty funny at least.

God of War gets better after you sacrifice your son to Leviathan in exchange for a bonus ability on your axe, and your son becomes the final boss

Karl ruthless about spoiling the Big Twist.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

I want to believe but...

Grand Theft Dinosaur

i could see a VR headset + No Man's Sky being a really amazing investment

it's not

waiting for star citizen to come out and fulfill its promise as hot garbage... its wild that there's an army of chris roberts stans who show up in stories critical about the game.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/11/08/an-upcoming-star-citizen-mission-will-let-you-leap-from-ship-to-ship/#comments

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