I adore my collections of GTA clown cars but it’s no match.
What’s better: feelies, or RULES OF NATURE?
Because some games (particularly adventure games) often included an assortment of physical objects, ‘feelies’.
I missed the golden age of feelies but do still fondly remember opening myMechWarrior 2box to find propaganda documents.
I had no idea what they meant but was enthralled and even more eager for the installation to finish.
One of the potential best things in video games is already behind us.
RULES OF NATURE
There is one moment in video games which never fails to bring me joy.
It’s a moment which is absurd yet captures so much of what I like about games.
He, of course, does not look at the explosion behind him.
It is a perfect moment of video games.
Technology and art and unreality unite in ridiculous spectacle.
I just- sorry, hang on.
Okay, back now.
I needed to stop writing to watch that video again.
“But Alice,” a cynic might think, “this is just a quick-time event.
You mashed three buttons then the game did all the work for you.
How could the best thing in video games be basically a movie?”
And it’s a game where you swordfight a robot dinosaur in the tutorial level.
Yep, that’s the third fight in the game.
But which is better?
Look, the fact that I whisper-shout “RULES OF NATURE!”
every time I read the words in this post which I myself wrote means there’s no other choice.
In the end, it has to be this way.
But what do you say, reader dear?
