Showing posts with label useless gaming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label useless gaming. Show all posts

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Pointless Games and Game Elements


Luigi Death Stare

Over at Kotaku, Chris Person  made some short comments about Mario Kart 8. He states that he likes it, but that what he likes the most is Luigi's Death Stare. This made him reflect on games, and he came to the conclusion that the best things in games are pointless. He says that Team Fortress 2's The Spycrab Walk, The Lightsaber Flourish in Knights of the Old Republic, and the jump in Ni No Kuni stand out  as some of the useless "my favorite things on a game" elements. Those are interesting examples, and while this is not a universal phenomena, I'm inclined to partially agree that this is true not only of game elements, but also of games themselves.