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As a swede I find that statement amusing. Don't believe everything you read.

"Rather than artificially altering the video games industry to fit a pre-supposed ideal, we can let it organically represent the interests of everyone willing to get involved."

This. Exactly...

@Majestic12: Agreed on all counts. You have summed up my view on all this quite nicely. I highly suspect that much of the silent majority of RPS readers share similar views -- balanced and patient...

It's been three years since I gave up trying to learn to play "that horrible game" but hearing it discussed among friends has caused a fey mood to overtake me and I have withdrawn from society.

I...

Still slogging away at my first game in my first rouge-like TOME4. The experience is alot more accessible and fun than I assumed it would be. I created a joke character to test things out expecting...

Wikipedia or Wickedpedia?

You decide.

I really wish I hadn't seen this thread yesterday evening so I wouldn't be so tired this morning.

Started the Adventures of Angry Pants the Halfling Beserker and he's doing just fine so far. Left...

Favorite platformers by far are VVVVVV and the Commander Keen series.

Am the only one who finds SMB to be far harder then VVVVVV? I can't seem to make much progress in SMB whenever I pick it up...

As far as strategy games go I'd say Disciples 2 was easily the most relaxing. It pretends to be strategy game but really all you do is walk around a map leveling a single stack of 5 or so units. Not...

Calming, relaxing, soothing, lulling, introspective, whimsical and mind numbing:

Bastion
Trine 2
Puzzle Quest 2
Walking Mars
Cthulhu Saves the World
Machinarium
Terraria
Botanicula

Thanks for the great suggestions!

I'll definitely pick up the Darksider series and Guardian of Light.

Was happy to see that an Onimusha game was ported to PC since I played the first one ages...

Just got through Dark Souls and am looking for some more controller friendly action on the PC. Nice to have something where you can occasionally sit on the couch and game without having to go and buy...

Free really limits the options here but:


Risk! board games can be played with 2 to 8 people at sites like conquerclub.com There's a horde of maps and features as well as the classic variant....

Crusader Kings II has got ahold of me as well. It's just a shame how every game has me inevitably plotting how to assassinate the superfluous children to prevent a break-up of the hard-earned realm. ...

Simplicity. That's the key, at least for 4x and TBS games. The less options and complex tactics you give an AI to mess around with the tighter and smarter it's focus will be which results in game...

I've remembered I never got the chance to complete Hitman: Blood Money when it came out. Picked it up cheap and I think I'll work my backwards in a replay of the series, excluding Hitman 1. Next up...

I've stumbled upon a link and rediscovered a classic gem of TBS, Chaos Overlords - it's free at http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/339/Chaos+Overlords.html The AI is simple and brutal and dangerously...

No, I noticed the door was open at one point but couldn't muster up the courage to do more than stick my head in the door. Not after what the blacksmith said about the place anyway.

I'm think I'm...

I laughed. It all makes sense now.

The thing about that first boss and almost all of the other things to kill is that once you get the hang of dodging and striking around their attack patterns...

There is little about the end-game that isn't overpowered. Even on "Classic" difficulty.

So I've picked up my first playthrough of Dark Souls: Prepare To Die again after the novelty of the new XCOM wore off.

Dark Souls spoilers ahead:

I'm blundering and cursing my way through The...

Your description of XCOM is exactly correct. I see the points you've made yet there are many reasons for "casual" to have become almost synonymous with "modern" in gaming.

Oh, and Kotaku really...

It's horrible, I know. This is a grand game but there can be no doubt it suffers severely and needlessly from consolitis. But at least it exists.
It often helps to rotate the map (Q and E keys I...

Currently playing my first game in Classic Ironman.. I lost four countries to panic in the first three months and I was sure it was game over. But things seem to have stabilized now, I have Europe...

Stared playing Dark Souls: Prepare to Die and the game tells me I've put in 35 hours into it yet unfortunately all I have learned from this time is that ghosts are jerks.

Seems to me the only game...