Did you cringe at the title? Good, I would too. You can relax, though, thanks to the following facts.
- This is not about the video game that I personally enjoyed most as an experience.
- This is about the video game whose design ethos I hold the greatest admiration for.
- The game in the former description is not, nor was it ever, the game in the latter.
That's right, the video game I admire most as a work of design is nowhere near the one I "like best," nor was it at any time. I have of course played it now and again, and enjoyed most of my time spent on it to a reasonable degree. But, for a number of reasons I will address as well, I have stopped playing it and will likely not come back to it for months... or even years, should it exist that long! But, before I nitpick the things I find personally unlikable, let's go into what it does right.
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If you guessed a game with any of these bozos in it, you lose! |