Opinion: The last thing we need is a trend towards episodic gaming

Episodic gaming trendsGame developers love a good trend. These design tropes, from radio towers to open-worlds brimming with pointless collectible ephemera, have informed the themes, styles and phases of each gaming generation. And - for better or for worse - have defined the trends of the generations that followed. Since games development is osmotic by nature, with ideas bleeding from one franchise to another, it should be no surprise to see the populist ideas of today creeping across the franc