Mention the words "Tim Schafer" around most gamers, stand back, and let the slack-jawed reverie ensue.
Tim is a god among the hardcore. He's one of the few bona fide auteurs in our medium, a man who has done the unthinkable: He makes the kinds of games that he wants to make.
They're angsty. They're chatty. They're unafraid to deal with issues like existentialism and nihilism.
He's gaming's Woody Allen.
Critics adore him. Yet the "Call of Duty"/"Halo"-loving public, by and large, is indifferent. His games typically don't sell well. But you can't argue with the fact that, during a time of rampant focus-group testing, when games are being streamlined and dumbed-down to appeal to the maximum number of people possible, including your parents, Tim Schafer is a most welcome aberration.
Double Fine's seminal platforming adventure game still holds up after all this time.
The Humble Day of the Devs Bundle 2022 just launched. It includes sixteen items including Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Broken Age, and more.
It took us several platforming levels to go through in order to bring you this list featuring the best platformers on the original Xbox.
I may be one of the few who enjoyed blinx. I been saying this should return in modern form.
No need for an hd remaster if you have the disc put it in a xbox to play it in 4k. Or just purchase it from the store or play it thru gamepass.
In these days of remakes and remasters it is fucking criminal that the OG Xbox is the only way to play JSRF natively.
