If the last time you touched a game controller involved a spastic blue hedgehog, Portal is a great gateway into modern gaming. Use the comments to yell at us about everything we missed. Here’s our buyers guide to perhaps lesser known but thoroughly excellent titles we think you might love and are almost entirely devoid of physical combat, whether fantastical or realistic. We figured you’ve already heard of the big sports titles like Madden and the FIFA series, music games like Guitar Hero, and movement games like Dance Dance Revolution or Wii Sports? our list focuses on immersive narratives, physics-based games (think Angry Birds but way better), and “sandbox” games that let you build your own worlds. Games can be emotionally moving, intellectually challenging, deeply political, and straight-up good quirky fun. But like any art form-and yes, video games are art-there’s as broad a range of expression in games as the space between Kill Bill and Amelie and well beyond. Despite three decades of research, we’re still far from a definitive answer on whether violent video games are linked to IRL violence, as Erik Kain has noted here before. Still from the acclaimed game Journey ThatgamecompanyĪ bunch of us here at MoJo play games, love games, and cringe at the publicity that a few shoot em’ up games like Call of Duty receive every time another terrible mass shooting hits the news.
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