As our third game, the Vintage Game Club chose Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. Which has the distinction of being the most actively annoying game that I’ve played in several years.
For one thing, it’s a really difficult game: it’s not unusual to find areas that you’ll have to play through dozens of times before succeeding, and [...]
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oddworld: abe’s oddysee
puzzles in narrative games
Over in the Vintage Game Club forum, Michael posted an interesting question, “Do modern gamers still want puzzles?”:
I’m working on a blog post focused on this, but I wonder if puzzles in narrative games are a relic of a bygone era of gaming – or are they a necessary ludic element? Has shooting replaced puzzle-solving [...]
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