The way he condemns over stimulation always reminds me of Ernest Hemingway's Iceberg Theory: omitting as much of a story's greater meaning in plain writing so it can shine through by what's implied. In Dear Esther, we found that the less hand-holding we did the more the experience intensified." You can’t feel rage slowly and you can’t feel loss fast. In fact, a lack of stimulation allows for other experiences to grow. "In reality, a lack of stimulation does not equate to a lack of experience. Whether measured on its own or compared to various successors, this landmark is more tattered and moss-ridden by consistently disregarding one crucial element: player involvement.
But now that the dust has settled on that topic, and as The Chinese Room ported it to 8th-gen consoles under the quasi-pompous Landmark Edition subtitle, it's interesting to consider its legacy today. So, there's also this desperate, if well-intentioned, cultural pushback from " art games" trying to earn some nebulous form of legitimacy.
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Dear Esther's timeline from hobbyist mod to full-fledged game took place during Roger Ebert's infamous "Games can never be art" article and the precipitating fallout from that. What also makes its entry unique was the fervent discourse around games as an artistic medium. Other small games had been paring back traditional mechanics too, such as Jason Rohrer's Passage or Tale of Tales' early releases, but something about Dear Esther's timing solidified the "walking sim" sub-genre to the average audience.
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A small team debuting a Source Engine mod in 2008 that's repurposed into a full release years later was still a novelty. New developers break into the industry quite often, but the circumstances surrounding this title couldn't be replicated today.
For The Chinese Room, this is exemplified by their first commercial title: Dear Esther. It's impressive how quickly an industry can change in a decade.
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