its a fine cowboy simulator. i’m fine with story-focused games. played kentucky route zero recently and it has literally NO gameplay at all, still a worthwhile game. i think that’s what it boils down to, if you think of games as art meant to evoke atmospheric and emotional experiences.

about crunching in the videogame industry, yeah. we should probably be undertaking such huge projects in an open-source collaborative kind of way but i don’t think society is ready for that just yet.