Games geared toward streaming could lose context
When you think about the best video games ever made, a series of moments from your favorite titles probably come to mind. Maybe it’s the first time you saved Princess Peach from Bowser in Super Mario Bros. Maybe it was the time you took down Baldur in God of War. Or maybe it was a sordid lie at the end of the Last of Us.
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