~I trust you implicitly doctor nothing bad has happened to me under your care

[zarla]

UMO recording! It goes

Liam "The Lemming" Hesse - Super Acid Block Attack - Tearing Up Space Time
Electric Concerto - Super Metroid - My Minute
TheWingless - Super Metroid - Edenal

The person before me ran late, so this one's a bit shorter than usual. :O

Anyway, last night or so I played an HL2 mod called Dear Esther, "award-winning, critically

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[bbot_org]

BUT DID YOU SEE THE RPS WRITEUP

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/05/15/touched-by-the-hand-of-mod-dear-esther/

Dear Esther rejects pretty much every notion of what videogames should do, and instead presents a profound look at what they /could/ be doing. They could be telling stories that, while unforgiving and upsetting, exist within a format that no novel or film could ever reproduce. Stories that take clever audiovisual amalgamation for granted and go the extra mile, allowing the player to explore a tangible world that they would never otherwise be able to visit. In a sense, Dear Esther is pretty much non-interactive: nothing you do changes the course of the fiction, and there’s no element of challenge to speak of. But in another, far more accurate sense, the interaction is totally key. It’s your journey - whoever “you” are - and the intimacy heightens every emotion censor in your poor, overloaded brain. After

[veloxyll]

SURPRISE CANNIBALISM IS THE BEST CANNIBALISM!

[bbot_org]

Oh my god, it looks like the pretentious writing is contagious! (The reviewers, I mean, not yours.)

[bbot_org]

lol inorite? "No words arrived. None mattered." My god, I just wanted to reach through the computer screen and punch whoever thought that was even a remotely decent phrase.