Showing posts with label cooperation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooperation. Show all posts

Thursday, March 22, 2012

My Favorite Video Game...

Did you cringe at the title? Good, I would too. You can relax, though, thanks to the following facts.

  1. This is not about the video game that I personally enjoyed most as an experience.
  2. This is about the video game whose design ethos I hold the greatest admiration for.
  3. 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.

If you guessed a game with any of these bozos in it, you lose!