Comments on Hit Self-Destruct: Graduation Day

1998 was really a hell of a year, certainly for PC...

2009-01-19T13:00:00.000+13:00

1998 was really a hell of a year, certainly for PC gaming: Starcraft, Half-Life, Thief, Grim Fandango, Fallout 2, just off the top of my head. Ocarina of Time, also.

I remember when 2007 ended people were saying that the year that gave us Bioshock, Portal, Rock Band, CoD4 et al was going to be nothing compared to 2008. In retrospect, I think 2007 has held up incredibly well. 2008 felt to me like the year of games not being as good as they could be.

You should do a game of the year award for obscure...

2009-01-18T21:22:00.000+13:00

You should do a game of the year award for obscure years, like 1998 or 1999 - that 10 years on thing could be cool. Just dig it all up again and see what's done the distance. I imagine if we do the same in another ten poor droopy old 2008 won't far quite as well as 1998 would (Starcraft!!!).

You could call it "2008's game of the year from 1998" or something much cleverer. Yeah you can have that one for free.

To be fair, people are really into Burnout Paradis...

2009-01-18T20:12:00.000+13:00

To be fair, people are really into Burnout Paradise and Rock Band DLC. I think the primary hostility towards DLC relates more to suspicion of it as a business model, which is fair enough.

Ha, yes. Which is also why there's a faint feeling...

2009-01-18T10:21:00.000+13:00

Ha, yes. Which is also why there's a faint feeling of irritation when new DLC pops up - what's this, some new stuff for Fallout 3? Didn't we process you already? Maybe someone should review this DLC, we'd rather not, why bother.