That pretty much nails it - if you are having fun then the game (experience) is a success. My preference is for games that you do have to work at, that reward you for persistence, and where playing o… (View Post)

The reason I level up on normal difficulty (prefer the Max HP option, need to check if that is easily accessible now) is that it simply removes my biggest temptation for a non-critical reload. So muc… (View Post)

Hopefully, games evolve to be more fun :) I remember playing the classic text adventures of the 1980s. These are the precursors to RPGs, all story, no stats, and any wrong move is punished with 'you … (View Post)

Some of the most fun I have had playing games came from accepting this - I had not played 1st person shooters for a long time when Mass Effect came out, so dialed the difficulty right down to the eas… (View Post)

Heading off topic, but the math of special relativity is really not that hard, it is the ideas behind the math that seem counter-intuitive. General relativity, on the other hand, has crazy math... (View Post)