Recent content by jazzmansam

You can put an end to your search and answer your question by getting Dead Space. Outstanding game. Play it with headphones, the sound design is damn fine. Or, if you've got a PC, I can't recommend the Penumbra games enough. I've never experienced such a feeling of creeping dread as when...

Penumbra was a weird little game - awkward, ugly, and confusing. I loved it.

Brian Aldiss! Non-Stop blew my mind.

The album "A Love Supreme", by John Coltrane. The overwhelming force of the music, the intense soulfulness and beauty and raw force of the whole thing - it never diminishes. Every time I listen to it, I hear something new. Damn it's incredible. You just can't duplicate these things in a game.

The best RTS I've ever played is a nearly forgotten gem called Sid Meier's Gettysburg. It was beautifully designed, beautifully executed. The AI is better than most big-budget strategy games now. Eleven years hasn't done much to diminish its win factor.

I'll never let go of my ancient copy of Sid Meier's Gettysburg. What a classic.

Myst, anybody? After 10+ hours of running around those islands and solving puzzles, and saving Atrus' ass at the end, he simply rewards you by telling you that you're free to explore. Damn that sucked.

This is really a core question for game developers. If the genre is going to progress at all, we need to start steering away from games that center around mindless entertainment. The obsession with graphical splendor and fun comes all too often at the price of robbing the game of emotional and...