GOTY 2014: Best evidence that we should go full communism Im back, baby! You thought Steven Hansens Destructoids 2014 GOTY awards were done at three, come sambuca con la mosca? That we want health, happiness, and prosperity, rather than four (death)? Were up all night to get unlucky my friends. And to drink a bottle of Chartreuse so that our New Years Eve vomit looks like Ecto Cooler Hi-C and the Streets of San Francisco run green with ghost spume. I believe it was communist philosophers Groucho Marx and John Lennon who said, The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, and thats, like, so true! A distanced citizenry treated as targets (consumers) versus an engaged citizenry treated as co-conspirators and friendos can lead to anti-consumer practices. Thats why the open nature of crowd funding and early access development has been big this year, as invested fans have helped bear titles that did not need mass market appeal. Sometimes you can use a little help from your friendos, because were all in this together, man. Invisible Inc. is das kapital example of Early Access success and the winner of the Steven Hansens Destructoids 2014 GOTY award for Best evidence that we should go full communism. It is, by a wide margin, the game I have played most this year, and its not even finished. And, hey, maybe it sits on the wrong side of its tekno-Cold War-era aesthetic (the English-speaking side), but that angular 2D art and XCOM-like turn-based stealth are fresher than you might think given I just used a 20-year-old game as a reference point. Seriously, though. Turn-based stealth. Its amazing. Read more...
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 23:11:22 +0000
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