"An incomplete, creatively bankrupt vacuum."
"I would start out swimmingvon (sic) land i though (sic) i was a majestic potato i loved it and i fell through the floor and clipped through every stair and rock i thought it was hilarious i love this game."The game in question is Wander, a combat-free MMO for PlayStation 4 and PC with an average user score of 2.2 on Metacritic. It is, according to a couple of YouTube Let's Players, the worst game of this generation. Search for it on the video-sharing site and you'll find a plethora of clips showcasing debilitating graphical bugs, incredibly awkward communication, and generally lamenting how entirely broken the game is.
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"I'm not pulling 18-hour days every day any more," Loki recounts. Even developers have to live, and stay sane. With ambitions to keep adding stuff "a long way into the future," one can only hope that such a maligned but, underneath all the brokenness, brave game can retain enough of a player base to blossom, like the player-controlled tree avatar, into maturity.It's clearly easy for people to turn Wander into a straw-tree argument against deconstructing the murder-craft of typical MMORPGs, but Davison's team and their debut game clearly have a spark that shines through the low-poly dirt. If they can survive and emerge stronger, who knows what this game will become or what its follow-up might accomplish. In the meantime it seems, at least, that not all who Wander are lost.Follow Danny Wadeson on Twitter.On Noisey: The 123 Worst Musicians of All Time