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If you are into 4X games Endless Legend is super good (it's also a featured deal currently at $17.50) The people that made Bastion put out another game earlier this year called Transistor which is excellent (~$13). The guy who did the narrative design for the Swapper worked on the Talos...

Honestly I would totally buy it. I would complain, but I would still buy it.

Couple of quick thoughts on creative control and "censorship". While this is mostly about games it can apply to a lot of stuff. 1. Developers for AAA games don't actually have total creative control over their projects. The budgets for those games are so big that marketing will always get...

AGREED! I was planning on romancing her since they first showed her, she just seems cool. Oh well. I wanted to romance Aveline in DA II so I'm used to not getting my way. I suspect I will like Cassandra so it's fine. 10 WEEKS.

I actually remember a lot of people who tend to wind up on SJW lists praising the game for basically letting you be whatever you want to be. As for why it's not being praised right this instant, it's probably because everyone that was going to write a nice thing about the character creation...

Glad to hear that I mostly hit the mark. I was basing my rant off of personal experience, but I figured it was probably pretty widely applicable. As somebody who now listens music in a similar way to your friend I think a lot of the same principles are still at work but it's changed up a bit. I...

I have a theory that for many people their enjoyment of music is largely driven by associations they have built around the music. Through these associations music becomes a part of your identity, taste in music winds up being used as shorthand for that identity and enthusing about that taste...

I like how the OP progressively lost the will to be sarcastic and was just straight up positive at the end. Here's some stuff I really like. (I also enthusiastically second almost everything the OP listed. (I haven't heard a couple from his list, but I'm gonna check them out ASAP considering...

While I disagree with Harris about sales I think it's worth pointing out that Positech's most expensive game is $25. It seems like they are trying to move to a system where their games are priced reasonably from launch and then more or less hold that price, instead of the current system where...

The Etrian Odyssey games are really great, but not very plot heavy which may be a plus or minus depending on your point of view. SMT IV is really good as well. The Dragon Quest games are always a good bet. I also second Synobal's recommendation for Crusader Kings II. It's totally not the...

For this to work you would have to really carefully select the kind of game you want to make. For example, I think a game in which the player is supposed to be role-playing wouldn't really work. For the game to truly work the player would have to become deeply immersed in the main-characters...

A few years ago I played a bizarre game called Space Funeral. The music for the first area was so good I quit playing to look it up. Turns out it was White Waking by Les Rallizes Dénudés, a band which wound up reshaping my taste in music. (Space Funeral is pretty great too. You can play...

I feel like the other commentators have covered this pretty well, but I made an account entirely because I wanted to add my 2 cents, so I might as well do it. As you now know SMT has about a million spinoffs and they all play a bit differently. Since there isn't alot of continuity between...