Recent content by Luis Magalhaes

There's this conversation piece by the good folks at Rockpapershotgun.com [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/04/john-and-kieron-argue-about-limbo/] on different takes on Limbo. It's a nice read and it illustrates how the game mechanics and design combine to let the developer make a point...

Perhaps. I would say that most games have a hidden richness to them. They are made of so many parts and by so many people that even mediocre games have interesting stories to be told, if you look hard enough. The worst game I played in recent memory was Daggerdale, and still I can think of a...

I hear you, I have a stupid emotional attachment to even crap games, just because their on my shelf. We're addicted to stuff. But I'm not so sure the console market is to blame. I think the problem is with the culture of the internet, of how it makes everything come and go that much faster. I...

We have a pathological obsession with the new. This is true for most people in regard to most things; from here come the trends: the teen vampire trend, the fashion trends, the anti-carb diet trends... We humans like new stuff, and we have a tendency to think new is better than old. But...

Pig-faced monsters jump at you, you shoot them on the face with a shotgun, and they fly across the room. It's not cerebral, it's not original and it's not even very pretty, but it's fun (to me). Rather that than mow down another nazi / eastern Europe terrorist. But again, that's just me.

I'd say it's not about gamers getting dumber, it's actually about gamers growing up and having less time to play games. Actually, make that less time to learn how to play a game. While I enjoyed a lot of complex titles on my old Amiga 600 and DOS / Windows 95 PC, I never happened to try...

Phantasy Star IV was the one for me. Allis's death early in the game was shocking, maybe it was due to my age but I felt very attached to the character. That was a big turning point for me. I guess I had seen game characters die before, but the visual presentation gave it an enlarged sense...