support good games

To echo a post made recently by my friend Adam Rixey, you have to support good games.

We're getting to the point where damn near every platform game is a shooter or a sports game, with a handful of "collect lots of coins" games thrown in. I made a post about this recently, the lack of good games in the last decade or so.

Well, there was a fantastic game that came out recently called Psychonauts, by Tim Schafer. This guy did Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, and Secret of Monkey Island. The man is my freaking hero, and everything he touches is gold. It's amazing. It's a romp through people's brains as a psychic cadet, with more creativity than I've seen in the last few years, by far. Every minute of it is amazingly fun and laugh out loud funny.

But it's not selling. You don't kill anyone, or score touchdowns. It's not the kind of game that sells well these days. It's not a sequel or a franchise. But if it doesn't sell, we're not going to get any more of them. They cancelled the sequel to Beyond Good and Evil because of lack of sales, and that was one of the only other games that showed any creativity at all in the last few years.

So I beg of you. Go buy this game. It's out on Xbox, Playstation, and PC. Just give it a shot. If you like it, tell your friends to buy it. Spread the word, like I'm trying to do. Doublefine is one of the last bastions of creative non-mainstream games left out there, and if they go out of business because of lack of sales, I'm going to start beating gamers over the head with heavy objects.

Please, give it a try. Support good games.