Extra Credits: Comedy relies on timing, but video games can go beyond the scripted scenes of films or television to create interactive "comedy by choice" that lets each player discover humor on their own.
Jack writes: "Yet again browsing the latest offers in the Steam Spring Sale has led us to track down the very best. In terms of price to quality, we don’t think that it gets much better than this. Portal 2 is now less than a dollar, and if you haven’t got it already, now is the time to pick it up."
Portal deserves to be one of steams highest rated games... It's almost tetris levels of perfect game design.
Gotta love Steam. Just got Portal 2 for .97 cents CAD. Should have been $1.29, selected the bundle with Portal 1 and 2, which gets a 25% discount, already have Portal 1, so it removes the cost of that, and still applies the full 25% bundle discount to Portal 2. 90% + 25% discount.
Given the medium's wild diversity, this primer of the essential video games everyone should try is a good place to start.
I can't fk with this list. They missed on alot of games probably before the writers times. Also I know people loved some portal but I was never a fan.
Tomb Raider 1
Driver 1
Abe’s Odyssey
FF6
King of Fighters 94
Mortal Kombat OG
LINK 2 the past
Street Fighter 2
Resident Evil 1
Infinite but not the first two games? Witcher 3 but not the first two games?? GTA V but not literally any of the games before it??? Portal 2 but not the first? Also if you're going to play Shadow of The Colossus play the remaster and not the remake. Can't say I disagree with the list but my man it's all over the place.
Awesome list! Hot take on Fear (and it's hard af expansion Persaus Mandate!) Bioshock Infinite is stellar, so is the Witcher 3 and you nailed it by having Ocarina of Time. So many fantastic games! Gotta play 'em all! Next one on my list is Prey after I beat Dead Space 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction.
Chris Brandrick, writing for overkill, speaks to Stefan Heinz, the lead developer on Portal: Revolution, a new fan-made campaign prequel to Portal 2.
valve suck so much at making games now, opting just to smaug on top of an enormous pile of money,
that fans got so desperate that they have to make their own games.
this industry is fucking over.
There are so many reasons why humor doesn't work in games.
Chief among them is that most humor relies on timing, and games lack the authorial power to enforce comedic timing. That's arguably the greatest strength of gaming, but a terrible weakness for humor.
In Japan, pun-based humor is very prevalent owing to the... slipperiness of the language (sorry: I couldn't think of a more appropriate adjective there). These puns generally add a great dimension of humor to games like Dragon Quest or Phoenix Wright, particularly when they're well translated (which is difficult).
To this day I can't see a Cruelcumber or a Hell Pepper without cracking a smile.
i feel like point and click games have some of the best humor in any games like in Sam and Max series
and speaking of hilarious point and clicks you should go and play
"The Best Game Ever Made"
on newgrounds. especially because it's totally free game
and it'll run on a rock that's running W95.
i remember playing it when it came out and laughing my ass off
http://www.newgrounds.com/p...