Why I Love (Page 4)

Opinion

The Darkness, or "How I learned to leave the Sun and Love the Nordics"

3rd Eye Studios' Gregory Louden finds inspiration in Starbreeze's first-person shooter that lets players inhabit the protagonist for quiet moments as well as firefights

Aug. 14, 2018 Gregory Louden

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Coming full circle with Halo

Why I Love: The TrailerFarm's Tony Porter shares how Bungie's shooter completed a journey he'd begun as a child playing hooky with his father

July 31, 2018 Tony Porter

Opinion

Uncharted 4's commitment to making every moment matter

Why I Love: The TrailerFarm's Dan Porter says every aspect of Naughty Dog's blockbuster is evidence of an ambitious dev team fully invested in the project

July 17, 2018 Dan Porter

Opinion

Monster Hunter redefined big game hunting

Why I Love: Infinite State Games' Charlie Scott-Skinner explains how Capcom's PS2 classic precisely targeted his personal soft spots

July 3, 2018 Charlie Scott-Skinner

Opinion

The joys of living in a Bubble (Bobble)

Why I Love: Infinite State Games' Mike Daw shares how the Taito arcade classic inspired his own career in score attack games

June 19, 2018 Mike Daw

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What makes Dark Souls work?

Why I Love: Over the Moon's John Warner examines how From Software's modern classic invites players to make themselves at home

June 5, 2018 John Warner

Opinion

Thinking outside the cube

Why I Love: Portal was a classic, but Sperasoft's Steven Thornton says Portal 2 is a fresh and brave sequel, outshining the brilliance of its predecessor

May 22, 2018 Steven Thornton

Opinion

Tenchu: No prescription needed

Why I Love: Solar Sail's Tancred Dyke-Wells finds freedom in an overshadowed PSone ninja game

May 8, 2018 Tancred Dyke-Wells

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Location, locomotion, morality, and imagination

Why I Love: Skydance devs describe what they took from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Pathologic, NetHack, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

April 10, 2018 Skydance Interactive

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Monsters, mundanity, history, and high school

Why I Love: Skydance Interactive devs on Monster Hunter: World, Every Day the Same Dream, Europa Universalis IV, and Persona 4 Golden

March 27, 2018 Skydance Interactive

News

Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game

Why I Love: Auroch Digital design director Tomas Rawlings examines what made the seminal real-time strategy game such a massively influential success

March 13, 2018 Tomas Rawlings

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Hellblade's simple twist of fate

Why I Love: Caledonia's Nels Anderson sees Senua reflected in the doomed gods of her Viking enemies

Feb. 27, 2018 Nels Anderson

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Epic story, sublime design, and controller support

Why I Love: The Ghost Story Games crew on what won them over in Dota 2, Doom, Kerbal Space Program, and Final Fantasies X and XIV

Feb. 13, 2018 Ghost Story Games

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The magic of Loom

Why I Love: Eidos Montreal's Rayna Anderson explores how LucasFilm Games bucked convention for a project that "felt like a conversation with the game's creators"

Jan. 30, 2018 Rayna Anderson

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Opinion

Ultima Underworld and the freedom to make bad choices

Why I Love: Quantum Soup's Chris Payne gets lost in the many innovations of The Stygian Abyss

Jan. 16, 2018 Chris Payne

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Opinion

Falling under Siege's spell

Why I Love: Raconteur Games' Nicholas Laborde takes aim at the many virtues of the latest entry in the Rainbow Six series

Jan. 2, 2018 Nicholas Laborde

Opinion

How ICO flipped the script

Why I Love: Last Day of June's Massimo Guarini discusses how Fumito Ueda's classic changed the way he thinks about games

Dec. 19, 2017 Massimo Guarini

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World of Warcraft, world of inspiration

Why I Love: Lightseekers senior designer Ana Steiner traces her history with the MMO that convinced her to pursue a career in games

Dec. 5, 2017 Ana Steiner

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Magic: The Gathering is Sesame Street

Why I Love: Voyageur developer Bruno Dias says that 25 years on, the collectible card game is transitioning from a popular product to a cultural fixture

Nov. 21, 2017 Bruno Dias

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Opinion

It's what's Inside that counts

Why I Love: Playdead's platformer is visually striking, but inXile's Brian Fargo was taken by its elegant and thoughtful design

Nov. 7, 2017 Brian Fargo

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ZX Spectrum: An enduring legacy

Why I Love: The Oliver Twins share how they went from nearly missing the boat on the computer to building Blitz Games off a library of 17 Spectrum games

Oct. 26, 2017 Philip and Andrew Oliver

Opinion

Make Your Own Mario Kart

Why I Love: Playtonic studio director Gavin Price explains how the Super Nintendo classic got him into game dev in the first place

Oct. 24, 2017 Gavin Price

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The BBC Micro's macro impact

Why I Love: The Oliver Twins recall the computer that inspired a generation and cemented the UK's status as an early hub of game development

Oct. 10, 2017 Philip and Andrew Oliver

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"It works on principles I really admire in games and in life"

Why I Love: Ghost Town Games' Phil Duncan writes about Storage Inc., the Xbox Live Indie Game that influenced Overcooked

Sept. 26, 2017 Phil Duncan

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Suikoden changed my life - Warren Spector

Why I Love: The System Shock 3 creative director generally doesn't go for JRPGs, but this PSone classic set itself apart in four special ways

Sept. 12, 2017 Warren Spector

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