Runescape
RuneScape: The Single Player MMORPG
There simply aren’t many parts of RuneScape that mechanically encourage playing with others, and in fact many that encourage the opposite.
Alexander Rinaldi
Hallowed Concepts: A Beautiful DLC
Risk of Rain 2’s DLC history is…varied to say the least. Survivors of the Void was a hit, introducing new void items, some really fun new survivors, and a final boss I generally choose to forget exists. Seekers of the Storm fell a little flat, with really cool
Control
Ahti and the Beauty of Explaining Absolutely Nothing
It lets us participate in the beauty of the world’s creation, as opposed to just its discovery.
video games
An Ode to the Grind
There’s something beautiful in it, of the relentless pursuit of something, no matter how draining or boring it may be, because the reward that will come is worth it.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Is Fire Emblem a Dating Sim?
Rather than plan out combat based on efficiency and efficacy, it was time to plan out who was going to kiss who.
Smash bros
Playing Smash when your Friends are better
We’re only on this planet for a short time, and if you only ever focus on some type of winning, it’s gonna be a shitty short time.
video games
I Don't Replay Games
If I’m spending my time replaying a game I already own, how the hell am I supposed to play a different game I’ve never played before? That math just doesn’t work out.
Expedition 33
The Superboss Problem
I just want to feel like when I do my best, the best is what will follow.
Combat
The Art of Combat
How you fight tells me who you are as a person
Risk of Rain 2
Why Does No One Copy Risk of Rain 2?
It is only in trying to imitate what we see as perfection that we can discover the next level to our art.
video games
The Reverse Difficulty Curve: When a Game becomes Tedious
If you know you’re going to win anyway, what’s the point in playing to begin with?
video games
Seeing the Blueprint: Appreciating Older Games
There’s something beautiful about being able to see the bones of the systems you know and love today in these games from the past, even if you feel their datedness all the more potently because of it.