Bethesda Softworks Inside the Vault Q&A
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What would you say is your personal favorite game of all time?
There are so, so many games I love that it's really hard to choose. The first to come to mind is Out of This World (known outside the US as Another World), an odd, hyper-stylized little platformer from Delphine Software circa 1991. One of the unique things about it is that, with its simple, clean vector graphics, it still holds up visually even today. Its creator, Eric Chahi, currently sells a high-res Windows XP version of the game on his website, so you can check it out pretty easily. (And oh, for the days when one person could make an entire game!)
The remarkable thing about the game is the way it tells its story you play a physicist whose experiment goes horrible wrong, stranding him on an alien planet. However, there's no dialogue in the game, no text past the brief intro movie, no intelligible speech. There's no HUD or other on-screen information, and no tutorial. Nothing but the game's stark, angular world. It's purely visual, and it forces you to figure everything out completely on your own. (Not coincidentally, it's also a brutally hard game, but very rewarding.)
