Throughout the years, I’ve sat in front of literally hundreds of games. Platform games, puzzle games, some games which have defied genres and many, many more. As hard as I try to look at the good parts of a game, and let the game stand on its own two feet, sometimes a game will use its two feet to kick bad gameness into my face. And that makes me mad.

Well, it doesn’t actually make me mad, it just confuses me. If a game has no original qualities, features, or gameplay, why bother? If the game just doesn’t work right, why do you release it? Take for example .com a game which could be about computers. It isn’t.

.com is a game about a really ugly stick figure with a weight problem. He needs to go around collecting floating colourful logs off platforms before the time runs out. He also needs to avoid falling objects… which only seemed to be in the first level. There is no story, except that the “fast way” is the only way. The story is accurate as the timer counts down way too fast, there is only one physical way to finish the level within said time limit.

The enemies are random and if you get knocked by one, say, mere pixels from the last bar as I was, they return you to the start of the level. There is no physical possibility of ever finishing the level if you get hurt even once at any point during that level.

It just really bugs me that a game which is so uninspired and derivative, a game which has no outstanding qualities, gives you no motivation to play, no reason to want to get to the next level – let alone finish it, a game which just has no point to it… Why release it and expect people to play it? There are loads of games out there… Why give me a game which is less than every single thing available on the market today? Why, why, why?