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A multiplayer classic as well. I spent almost as much time with this as I did Goldeneye

I think all the players between Schroder and Sabonis are more or less interchangable depending on matchup. I look at the list of players in rotation, and I see 1 guard, 1 big, and 6 wings in the rotation. If I were trying to make this team competitive (and I am not advocating for that course...

This was such a phenomenon when it came out. For one week, on every lunch break, everybody on the street in SOMA was clearly catching Pokemon.

For my next pick, another with the theme of economics and industrialization, but this time in SPACE! X4: Foundations -- 2018 -- PC I'm struggling with how to describe this game. Egosoft, the developers, also seem to have trouble doing so. Their YouTube page has several tries at a "What is...

There's a lot of interesting posts on here, I could write a reply to every game one of the hundreds of game recommendations. I understand it's frustrating to not get engagement after putting effort into something. But I'm not a very prolific poster, so I have to prioritize. Just keeping up...

I don't think Ebert was against active audience engagement, he was a film critic after all, that's basically all he did. And an artist's perspective being necessary does not imply an artist's interpretation is supreme. I am glad it's clear that that is what I'm attempting to do. I am normally a...

Satisfactory -- 2004 -- PC I have been provoked into adding yet another factory game to my list! The setup of Satisfactory is very similar to Factorio. You take on the role of a "Pioneer" sent down all by yourself to industrialize a remote planet. The Pioneer accomplishes this task by...

Ebert's conclusion (the headline) was paired with a weaker argument than his own, that's a strawman. The article you linked is a rebuttal; to a criticism; of his argument, it doesn't actually contain his original point of view. One ought to work a bit to understand someone's point of view in...

The answer lies one sentence behind before the one you bolded. My treasure and attention are finite resources, I need to justify the investment to myself.

Ebert's argument is commonly interpreted as him being casually dismissive of video games, but the reason he's still referenced years later, is because his criticism was incisive and salient. Straw-manning his argument leaves us all the more foolish. What Ebert originally said, was that games...

Fair question; what I meant was the prominence among people who weren't into gaming. From the outside looking in, if you got your takes on video games from legacy media, GTA 3 (et al) was the ultimate video game, and a symbol of the decadence of modern popular culture amongst the next...

News media often amplified the prominence of the GTA series in the era before the Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011) decision. No doubt, the games were provocative, well-made, and popular, but the attention given to them was somewhat artificial.

Challenge is sort of inherent to games, it's most of what is appealing about them as a diversion. Where people get turned off by games, is usually "frustration" where it isn't clear what steps are needed to surmount the challenge, or the effort to meet the challenge is more than someone is...

Dwarf Fortress - PC - 2006 Dwarf Fortress has the player managing a colony of dwarfs as they dig a new city out of the hull of a mountain. Players direct the dwarfs in where to dig, how to forage/farm for food, how to keep up morale, how to defend their city, among many other choices. It's...

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