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Actually, the reason I stated that was because you were criticizing Dear Esther for not having gameplay, which was basically the equivalent of making an offensive joke and then elbowing the person it would offend while going "eh, eh, eh?" while waggling your eyebrows.

That is, instead of being witty or clever, it just made you look like you didn't actually know what you were talking about.

Hold your unique experience against the devs if you like, but I'll still stick it to you for trying to joke about how bad it is by insisting it's a terrible example of a genre it doesn't belong to.

Although I'm surprised you took offense to that and not my pointing out that your massive condemnation of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (a game you both admitted to and then bragged about having not played) was almost...no, actually, entirely incorrect.

Of course, maybe your friend just didn't like it and so gave you a tinted explanation of how it was. This is an assumption, but if he finished it in three hours, the reason was probably that he was trying to speedrun it two days after release.