What about Path of Exile? Once it launches in a month or two, it'll be completely free save for cosmetic stuff. Though PoE is really the exception rather than the rule, as you can't even find /browser/ games these days that don't have some revenue generating gimmick.
@SkarpHedin *it's the players with Activision!Blizzard taking a substantial cut off the top
FTFY. But really, I don't see the logic behind it. *Maybe* if they had a league based online mode with the option to play offline or in free play online with local/player hosted servers. That would still solve the damn problem, and everybody would win. But no, apparently the integrity of the game is based solely on... DRM. Frankly, I don't see much difference between this and Ubisoft's crud about losing infinity dollars to piracy. Blizzard has even less of an excuse due to the real money auction house, which would still more than mitigate any losses to piracy due to the number of people using it regardless. I'm not buying it.
I honestly think it's a bit... Not sure what the word is, really, but let's go with stupid - to put up a review without mentioning the multiplayer/co-op.
@Gh05t_ Braid wasn't really about an everyman, either. You were basically trying to kill a princess. Average people don't kill princesses. Moot point anyway, as Braid was about metaphorical interpretations so the "everyman" you're playing as is just a vehicle for those notions. I'm not sure how games like the ones you listed are killing your argument about games as art. (personally, especially Prototype 2, which is basically a revenge-thriller popcorn movie) Ever heard of Sturgeon's Law? It applies here, too. You can disregard 90% of games in general to focus on the 10% that are good at being art - unless you think other mediums are treated wholly as art, in which case Wikipedia has a list of films considered the worst ever. You could go mad trying to think up why any given film on that list has artistic merits, and it's acknowledged by everyone with halfway developed common sense that literature, music, film, videogames... Some are art, some aren't. Most aren't. That's that.
So... comic books are the reason we like superpowered people? Huh. I'm glad, y'know, mythology and theatre and literature never happened. 'Cause none of those focused on super powered heroes or children of gods, royal families, or anything like that. All of those stories always had a simple blacksmith as the protagonist, back in the golden age before comics introduced gods and godlike powers and such.
...did I just heart Puscifer in a trailer for Transformers? The first game was pretty awesome, especially for a Steam sale buy - this one is now going to be day one purchase.
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