The Minecraft UI design is ranked S tier for its infinite possibilities and as one of the greatest playground sandboxes for people to explore and adventure in, even beyond its gameplay.
The speaker ranks popular video games into tiers from S to F, with S tier games including Mass Effect, Zelda, Doom, and the Souls series, while sports games and Fortnite fall into the lower D and F tiers.
The best way to build the metaverse is to start with a successful game and then continuously release new versions that let capabilities grow and expand, such as Minecraft and Fortnite, which have over 100 million users. Meta is doing a bottoms-up capability approach with Horizon Worlds, and while it is a general-purpose platform, it is hard to compare and compete with games like Fortnite, which also has enormous amounts of creativity, even though it was not initially designed as a general-purpose sort of thing.
The speaker shares a personal experience of being potentially DDoS attacked, and walks through the events that led up to it, while asking for suggestions on possible reasons.
In this podcast transcript excerpt, the hosts talk about their favorite horror video games, including Soma and Outlast, and what makes them great. They also briefly touch on the topic of mobile games.