"Brilliant polish devs: CD ProjectRed, Techland, BlooberTeam, 11BitStudios, FlyingWildHog, PeopleCanFly, TheFarm51, CI-Games.

Crappy polish devs: PlayWay and its many pseudo names: CreativeForgeGames, G-DEVS, GamingFactory, GamePlanet, GameParic, GameHunters, GamesIncubator, GameFormatic, GameOps, PyramidGames, MadneticGames, DualityGames, SeptarianGames, UltimateGames, RockGame, BakedGames, ImagePower, LiveMotion, FreeMind, AtomicJelly."

"Bland, dull & above all sluggish - attrition gameplay.

Band of Attrition: Day of Defeat, Red Orchestra, Rising Storm, Verdun, Tannenberg, Isonzo, Post Scriptum, Squad, Beyond The Wire, Hell Let Loose, Enlisted… what did I miss?

Thumbs down for firing John Gibson<3"

"Left4Dead spawned the asymmetric horror genre: Killing Floor, Evolve, Back4Blood, Friday the 13th, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, EvilDead, Dead by Daylight, Hood, Predator, AliensFireteam, VHS & the best of em Vermintide / Darktide."

"One of the better Souls-like around...
Miyazaki would approve this message."

All the best in 2024 my friend. I wish for you prosperity, happiness, good health & love in the coming new year.

"A nonsensical mumbo-jumbo story that tries to muddy the water, to make it seem deep."

"My gaming method: wait a year, a year 'n' a half (dont mind the wait since my backlog is l000ng) then get the ''Definitive game of the year master deluxe complete master season legendary what ever edition'' of the game on sale for 70% off. That way not only do you get (just like the good ol'days) all the content, DLCs whatnot in one package for a bargain, but the game is almost bug-free having been beta-tested by other MFs 🥳"

⭐⭐ ⭐16bit ⭐⭐⭐⭐
⭐SNES ❤️ MegaDrive ⭐
⭐ ⭐⭐16bit⭐⭐ ⭐⭐

"Its an ok PC MarioKart clone, although Team SonicRacing is far better!"

"Rust-in-XXXXX"

"Sino-Tarkov with more currency than gameplay."

"Crude and vulgar humor for the sake of it rather than because it's witty..."

"The best TDs:

1-Kingdom Rush series
2-Kingdom series
3-Defense Grid series"

"When a game is more chore-ish and cumbersome than actual life (eg. spoilage / decay) then I rather do my chores here at home. Rust will go medieval on your ♥♥♥♥. No thank you."

"If I want pure space-sim Il play Elite - If want arcade space-sim Il play Wing Commander.
If I want massive space-sim Il play Eve - If I want explore space-sim Il play No Mans Sky.
Not this..."

"If u want to play TD, play any of Ironhide or Signal studios titles..."

"If u want this type of game, get Subnautica or Journey to the Savage Planet!"

"Lately alot of RetroRacers has been released - but there is only one worth getting: Horizon Chase Turbo!!"

"HOPA - Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure games are one of the most asinine genres out there - they are nothing more than spam-click slideshows"

"Ian Bogost created this cancerous idle / clicker games genre as a parody of the “abused mechanics of games”. Now peeps want to play this as an actual game??"

"Puzzle platformer ala Portal - no thanks!"
"Mario puzzler - no thanks!"

"Metroidvania - buy it if have a fetish for backtracking"

"If only it was not Roguelike...
F the Berlin Interpretation!"

"This whole genre is BS"

"4x turn-based...
/yawn"

"You enter a bar...some1 hits u...hit back? L no! Its not ur turn!!
/yawn"

"Stardock-creators of the worst genres in gaming: Turn-based, 4x, CardGames."

"Sinonite with more currency than gameplay."

"3DO - CDi - SegaCD
FMV FTW!"

"To dev: When ur easiest achievement has a global pop rate of 0,1% then u know ur design philosophy is broken."

Miyazaki-san is the next Miyamoto... even greater.

Thank you for thinking of me Joseph. That means so much to me. I hope things are well on your end and your family is happy and healthy too. Sending light your way

The Smithsonian Institute & US Supreme Court sees video games as Art. Play the games like Flower / Journey / Abzu and you will agree…

"Like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas -- and even social messages -- through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot, and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as the player's interaction with the virtual world). That suffices to confer First Amendment protection."

Source:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/06/27/supreme.court.video.game.art/index.html

Journey:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2012/mar/15/journey-game-or-interactive-art

Interview with dev:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/my-dream-is-to-make-everyone-love-games-says-journey-dev/1100-6419056/

"A mobile-style management game with no depth...and oh yea its not Alpha its a demo..."

"Im not a indie fan, but this one is an example of a job well done. Original, intimate and easy to grasp."

Happy Holidays Joseph, I hope they are good ones! All the best in 2022 to you and your family!

Thank you for the feedback on my My Child Lebensborn review. That game is pretty emotional. I am always pleasantly surprised when a game can reach across the medium to touch people in more meaningful ways. Does not happen very often.

Have an awesome weekend!

Thank you kindly for the awards, I am happy you enjoy my dragon collection!

"A poor man's CS:GO."

"How on earth did this trash get famous? hmm I guess Justin Bieber is famous aswell..."

"Doom gave FPS life, SystemShock gave it meaning, HalfLife gave it direction and DeusEx gave it immortality."

1/2 First there were Wolf3D & Doom, then came Quake!

FPP - First Person Perspective
FPS - First Person Shooter
Doom clone - term that was used from '92 to '96 (release of Quake) that means the same as FPS, just doom was so groundbreaking that every other fps game was compared to it.

All of FPS are FPP, but not all FPP are FPS. The alternative being third-person perspective -- or TPP -- which, technically speaking, should include any game where you're looking at the character you're controlling from the outside, but which, in practice, is usually used to describe games with an over-the-shoulder "follow cam" (as opposed to "isometric", top-down, side-view, and probably others).

2/2 The FPS term wasn't widely used before release of Quake. Before that they were all called "Doom Clones" or FPP. Doom was actually the first game that brought recognition to the FPS genre as something distinct (even though there are games that fit FPS description and predate doom about 19 years, Id themselves released at least 3 FPS games before doom - Hovertank 3D, Catacomb 3-D and Wolfenstein 3D)

So if you want to be specific use FPS, if for example you want to talk about System Shock or Deus Ex use FPP as they're mix of FPS and RPG. And all games that came after doom and before quake can be called doom clones (heretic, hexen, duke nukem 3d, shadow warrior e.t.c.)

There's also a subgenre of FPP that contains vehicular combat (i.e. descent series) that some consider to be FPS and some do not so in this case it's safer to use FPP.

"First there were asian maily korean MMOs trying to copy WoW, not good but OK. Now Russian MMOs? This one just sucks in every aspect, design, gfx, UI/UX....all of it. Avoid!"

"It is one the better korean MMOs (along with Tera), but that does not say much..."

"Like all Korean MMOs its a mediocre ride with excellent gfx and soulless gameplay..."

"One hyper-instanced, grind-galore, by the numbers MMO."

"More dated than the Ottoman empire..."

"One of greatest digital adventures ever told, XXXXX!"