Why is there an ionic solution flowing all over my face?

Bumping for awareness.

Yes, I so need a hug for this one. Please Q_Q

Bump for 1 person till 100 entries.

I finished the two runs and 100% achievements in somewhat like 2-4 days/nights.
Beware of the feels.

Now, Transistor, but I was very reluctant to start playing it before I finished Bastion. Retrospectively it's a good idea, as you'd probably be disappointed by Bastion after Transistor. Not very disappointed, but somewhat - Bastion is also a good one (although I spent way too much time there trying to get one of the achievements).

Y U DO DIS?

View attached image.

Unfortunately, no train here, just the feels train, yes.

Suspend me? But why?

I feel sorry for you loss.

My hovercraft is full of both.

^this post brought to you by sleep procrastination and slow plot-planning / designwork for a thing that will likely never be fully written or coded. Don't drink and design, kids. \:3/

It's actually a thought I came up to, when trying to find out what kind of games appeal to me: the ones that resemble books in some aspects. An exquisite plot isn't enough, as the primary aspect of literature (as an art form) is not the story, but the language it is told in. It is the language that makes a "Ulysses" a fine book, not the plot. I feel the same about the games: a fine story is not enough, the storytelling medium should be exquisite enough to be appealing and while in more traditional art forms there is just a single medium not sure if "medium" is the correct word here (i.e., language in literature, material in sculpture, sound in music and so on, although "contemporary art" does a lot to challenge this), games encompass at least three artistic dimensions - visual, lexical and audial. A deeper insight might reveal more unconventional dimension, such as interactivity (i.e., how the authors deal with the fact that the game has to be interactive, how they provide character freedom or more technical aspects - how, say, the combat system is implemented). This, indeed supports the notion of games being a rising (although I thought the actual struggle for them to be considered an art form is already in the past) art form.

The only problem I see with games (compared to, say, books) is the reduced amount of imagination involved in creating the mental images of the characters. This is yet pretty much the same argument that can be applied to cinematography, yet there is hardly any doubt that cinematography is an art form. It is often hard to make the distinction between an art piece and a crafted-for-purpose piece (i.e., "Die Hard 4" is hardly an art piece, " 2001: A Space Odyssey" most probably is, but what about, say, "Interstellar"?), and the problem stands true for games too. As a person without an art degree my approach is the number of interpretations (or if you put it this way the amount of imagination freedom) of the piece, that determines its artistic value. The amount of interpretations is what allows people to relate their own experience to the piece and thus feel a bond with the character and, I guess, the same can be applied to video games - how well can you relate to the character and how many voids in character description you fill in with your own experience, that would determine if the game is an art piece and that would also determine how appealing is the game to me.