I think you're missing the bigger issues. It's okay, you're not the only one.
Here they are.
1) The Path, as a game, sucks. I know they wanted to focus on the
art and all, but if they're using games as their medium it needs to be entertaining whilst being interactive. I don't want to hear arguments about how adding fun would have ruined their artistic vision. Braid was a fantastic little artsy-fartsy game and it was entertaining being able to manipulate time in various ways.
2) The developers of this game treat the whole thing like it's the second coming of Christ, Buddha, J. Smith, Allah and Satan all at once. We're
lucky to be able to play their stunning work of art that is certainly nothing like we've ever experienced before nor will we experience henceforth. In reality, the game is a collectathon/find the encounter where you are ambiguously "ravaged" and then you press the forward arrow key until you die 10 minutes later. Not exactly revolutionary and their
pretentiousness (making unjustified claims), to quote Yahtzee, seems scientifically designed to get on my tits.
3) They have a
fucking manifesto. If you don't get why this is ridiculous and insane, we need to stop talking about this right now because we're not on even footing, if you get what I mean.
Yeah, I get you, finally.
And yes, I know that people above their 40s can appear as crazy and egotistical (another reason why Duke Nukem is not out yet), but atleast they're not Tim Buckley or John Romero.
So yeah, I'm glad that we all agree that the game is not 'great', but I still would like to keep it in my steam games for (untill summer)(yes, I'm an FPS whore).
I recently saw an 'I wanna be that guy' video so I'm thinking about downloading it. Judging by the boss fights (especially the one with 'the chosen one'), I'm guessing it's going to be extremely hard.
Any advise?
And no, I didn't pay £3.5 to watch an old lady die. I watched it for free on jewtube.