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Best Walking Simulator?

Dear Esther 3 2.94%
 
A Machine for Pigs 1 0.98%
 
The Stanley Parable 27 26.47%
 
Gone Home 3 2.94%
 
Everybody´s gone to the rapture 17 16.67%
 
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter 8 7.84%
 
Among the Sleep 0 0%
 
Beyond Eyes 1 0.98%
 
Slenderman 3 2.94%
 
They are all trash! 39 38.24%
 
Total:102
Madword on 17 August 2015
Goodnightmoon said:
Madword said:

Animal Crossing is definately not a videogame... it's more a Real Life Mayor Simulator.

Animal Crossing IS a videogame, there is no debate about it, the fail state DON´T define a videogame, interactivity does it. 

Walking simulators ARE videogames, and that´s why they should be judged as videogames, for good or for bad.

You are obviously missing the joke.... i.e I'm not being serious.



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Goodnightmoon on 17 August 2015
Madword said:
Goodnightmoon said:

Animal Crossing IS a videogame, there is no debate about it, the fail state DON´T define a videogame, interactivity does it. 

Walking simulators ARE videogames, and that´s why they should be judged as videogames, for good or for bad.

You are obviously missing the joke.... i.e I'm not being serious.

Oh not again! I miss the sarcasm on a lot of posts sorry xD



JRPGfan on 17 August 2015
Arlo said:
I absolutely HATE the term "walking simulator". It seems like it started as a tongue-in-cheek way to poke fun at these types of games that are basically free-movement adventure games with a heavier emphasis on story. Then everyone started using it seriously, and whenever I see it used in a game's official tags it makes me a little sad. Something about it just grates on me. Maybe because it's so belittling.

Basically this.



HBninjaX on 17 August 2015

you have to be high to enjoy walking simulators and since I don't smoke weed I prefer games with intense gameplay and high levels of difficulty otherwise I'll just do something else with my time



sundin13 on 17 August 2015
Goodnightmoon said:

So Animal Crossing is nothing, it´s on a limbo right? No

There is no "my definition" here, a chair is a chair, a videogame is a videogame:

"A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor." 

Walking simulators are inside that definition.


I had a discussion once about how to define a video game and what I boiled it down to was something like this:

If it is a piece of interactive software that is created with the intent of being a game, it is a game.

That is a purposefully loose definition, but I feel that it is the only way to include everything that you think of when you use the phrase "video game" and exclude everything that falls outside of that.



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Azuren on 17 August 2015

No Journey?



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SvennoJ on 17 August 2015
melbye said:
I don't hate them, but some people are way to fond of these kinds of games. Didn't really have the reaction to for example Journey that everybody else seem to have. Usually i find them severly overprized, $20 for that Rapture-thing is ridiculous

The price is a bit steep, it's $16 though with ps+.

Everybody has gone to the rapture gave me what other games seldom can. Pure relaxation while exploring the world at my leisure, accompanied by some great musical pieces. It's nice to slow down once in a while and focus on the surroundings and story, instead of have your finger hovering over the skip cutscene button to get back to collecting xp and loot.

Now I'm in the mood to play The vanishing of Ethan Carter. I hesitated since that one is the full $20, no discount, and even more on Steam in CAD. But whatever, at least I can finish these games instead of get bored of them halfway through.



Faust on 17 August 2015

a bad game is a bad game regardless the genre.



Wright on 17 August 2015
ClassicGamingWizzz said:
Good ps4 have games for everyone, that is why so many people buys it. You want a walking simulator? There it is !!! You want weird jrpg game? We have it too. You dont like these genres ? Someone likes them.
Deal with it !!!


But I want Gears of War on Ps4.



Samus Aran on 17 August 2015

Well, everyone seems to love Journey even though that game barely has any real gameplay.