I asked a whole bunch of videogame writers to tell me about their favorite story this year, and to also pick out a particular bit of writing to highlight: a singular story moment, or dialogue, or bit of flavor text that suck with them long after the game was over. To celebrate the best words in videogames this year, I decided to turn to the people who write them.
Words that tell you where to go and what to do, words that create characters and drama, words that bring wholly imagined worlds into being. More than anything, they're full of words. Videogames are full of many things: Guns, knives, ventilation shafts, castle sewers and mushrooms you can jump on. The game made the top 5 of our top 100 greatest PC games, and I have a feeling it'll be high on that list for many years to come. "I hope our next project won’t be that, because it’s a little hard after maybe three or four times throwing out six months of work to still feel like, 'There's still something good here'.I think if we’d had to do that one more time, I would’ve been close to giving up."Īnd how glad we are that they didn't. "It was literally years of just banging our head against the wall, trying to get something to work and be fun," said Ma. "There is an element of just an intuition that this doesn’t feel right."ĭavis and Ma talked about just how much they struggled during development-the pair were "very close to giving up on the game", they said. "We had huge research trees, repairing the cities," he said. Screw it.'"ĭavis added that the team initially envisaged the game being more like XCOM, where "you have lots of missions popping up with times and alerts, and your people get hurt, and you have to devote resources and time to fixing them or healing them". "So maybe 60 percent of the game, we just dropped it all and, 'Okay, it’s just a bunch of missions in a row. In an interview with Kotaku, Subset co-founders Matthew Davis and Justin Ma said that the "closest thing to our eureka moment" was when the team cut out 60% of what they had planned. But it wasn't always that way: it initially had city building, a tech tree and unit damage that persisted between missions, developer Subset Games has revealed. Into the Breach, our game of the year for 2018, is a masterpiece of simplicity.
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