Quboid wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 08:58:
I don't get it.

Richard Garriott de Cayeux wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 3:52pm:
For the record... I have been and remain a PC game developer! I have never been in charge of a game that was not first and foremost a PC game! Sometimes we have ported the games to a variety of other platforms, but the PC remains central to my core sensibilities.

Verno wrote on Feb 22, 2013, 10:31:
Day of Defeat for awhile was getting to be a pretty big thing but Valve bought them out and did fucking NOTHING with it. There was a nice burgeoning map and clan scene going on for it, it could have easily taken off if they didn't just sit on it.

Suppa7 wrote on Feb 16, 2013, 06:41:

PHJF wrote on Feb 13, 2013, 18:52:

Perhaps it's more accurate to say that gameplay SHOULD trump everything else, because isn't that why we play games?

That's funny because I don't see too many genuinely unique games coming out these days. We have all these games that not only play roughly identically but also present the kind of writing any third grader could muster. Presentation is king.

Yeah, "back in the day" the thing I would remember most about any given game, when all was said and done, was the the gameplay. But games have moved well beyond Pong. Cheap entertainment like that is cultural junk food and ultimately isn't going to make a lasting impression on people. It takes a story with colorful, real, memorable characters to pull that off. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Portal? I'm willing to bet a lot of people, myself included, think of GLaDOS. If Portal were just about portals, would it still be fun? Yeah, sure. But it wouldn't have made a fraction of the impact it had on the community without its quirky writers.

Portal is everything that is wrong with modern videogames.