Amazing.. even though he used "you know.." in every sentence he still managed to keep me interested, i guess apart from that he was pretty good at talking. He even made the interviewer start saying it in the end.

Oh and the game looked good as well i guess

@bikskit @Freedomination @loriathan83 It was a comment on the video. The last sentence in it is along the lines of "Whatever consensus used to be in gaming is long gone..".

Anyway i don't see the problem. If i wanted to prove there was a consensus i'd need the large communities. But my point was that there wasn't a consensus even then. You don't need that many people to prove the absence of a consensus

@bikskit @Freedomination @loriathan83 As an enthusiastic reader of gaming magazines there wasn't much problem getting the different opinions on it. As well as discussions with friends of course.

Some people loved Myst for being a unique and beautiful game, while others saw it as a slideshow of pretty pictures containing random puzzles and not much gameplay. Of course it was also part of a wider discussion about the evils of the CD-ROM technology and how it was destroying real games.

Times change, people stay the same.

@loriathan83 Funny you should mention Myst. As far as i remember the opinion on that one was very divided. So it wasn't all consensus back then either

Aging eh? I'm not dead yet!

@raoul_duke_2020 Those two small paragraphs at the end was enough to make you cry for censorship? You rebels nowadays are so fragile...

@ExtremePhobia Hard to say. I know if you played the wildlife friendly role in Alpha Centauri you could get away with never producing a unit in the entire game. You just needed to get the ball rolling on capturing aliens that captured aliens and got them to do all the fighting for you.

It might have been a bit unbalanced as your alien army started growing almost exponentially without you ever using resources on it, but i can see the Harmony techs having the aliens help you out. And the Purity techs might make stuff like your city defences stronger.

All speculation of course, but i can't see them letting a game where your only option is rushing out military units go through testing.

@freedomzealot First of all you didn't need to play the multiplayer to get the best ending. Second i think your overestimating how much development resources where used on the multiplayer. It was a fun little game, but as you said it felt a bit tacked on. In the sense that someone lifted a bunch of assets from singleplayer and tried their best to make small coop shooter. As far as i can remember the sidequests from earlier ME games where plenty generic as well

@freedomzealot How did it ruin the game again?

@HuSSaR83 Drone riots!