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Quote: PiratePooAndHisBattleship : No, no, I meant the Molotov Dwarfs in Myth. There are dwarfs in that game that throw bottled explosives. Ok...well that still sounds like bliss.

At $10 on Steam today, it was too hard for me to pass up. I just sunk two hours into it, and it's really sweet. I didn't expect it to make me chuckle either, so consider that a pleasant surprise. I don't know if I'd recommend it for the $40 regular price, but damn am I happy I jumped on that deal.

Quote: Randall Theil : Just snagged Knights of the Old Republic from the Steam deal and loaded it up- Were the characters really this fat and blocky back then? Does it have widescreen resolutions by default? I have a feeling it doesn't, which may account for their "fatness"?

Quote: miffy495 : I dunno. Majesty 2 looked really cool a couple of months back when it was released. For $10, I got it. Have you got a chance to play it? I was actually looking at that for a little bit earlier.

Only played it for a short while. But it looks like it's really Serious Sam First Encounter with better textures, and improved models for the monsters. The levels appear mostly untouched. The bobbing is still as extreme as before (really looks weird now). But there is one thing which sucks, 5.1 support. The sound positioning is really shit. I bought it for 10 pounds from Get Games , which is a better price for this game than the $20...

Quote: Erkki : But isn't 'interactive story' a subform of game basically? For what it's worth, I do not think that it is. I don't even think of it as a game. In my mind, storytelling like that has amazing potential and calling it a sub-form of gaming would be doing it a big disservice. That's a whole 'nother can o' worms, though.

"Damn it, Fisher!"

Passage wasn't really an example of that quote, it was a more general example where I think a message through a game can be more effective than through other medium. Quote: OssK : but I don't see how it's [Little Girl Who Nobody Liked] in any way a message from the game desinger. The Pigeons game was a better example I think, though the gameplay was still only making dialogue choices. Do you mean you don't see it as having...

Mario Kart maybe?

Quote: But I think in games the designer can also talk by forcing a choice on the player where the choice itself is a message, or choosing either path might reveal a different message or show a different perspective of the same overarching message. So if this is the quote these games are exemplifying, I would have to object that Passage does not really propose any choice, it just builds a world in which you live an experience and then you...