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"So, there's your answer, comedy action game makers: just create enough one-liners and silly animations to attach to every copy-pasted combat encounter in the entire game with no repeats. Hop to it." You mean like they did with No One Lives Forever? Alright, so it wasn't animation, but the...

I'm a little surprised that no-one's pointed out the obvious flaw in Yahtzee's argument yet. The best adventure games make it *fun to fail*. With fun exploration, adventure games are far different from a "story with pauses". Space Quest was genius at this (as long as you saved often). On...

Dr. Mark, I was wondering -- you say: Do you feel that this applies as much to girls and boys these days? Or is gaming still a "boy" thing to obsess about?