Recent content by Abriael

What about allowing an artist some artistic freedom instead of asking him to cave to other people's taste? If one abstains from playing a game just for some revealed skin and satirical proportions, he or she has all my sympathy and pity.

Unfortunately no, it's a rather big-ass article, or I'd just post it here lol.

Isn't it? We're simply turning into what we fought against for years, because it gets more clicks. It's sad, very sad. And you know what is even more sad? That there's no real way to push against it. By how writing on the internet works that kind of article WILL get a ton of clicks, and...

The point is very simple. Art is most certainly open to critique, but when people make it into a "problem", you go beyond critique, and you're infringing artistic freedom, and should probably review your priorities in gauging problems. Or you're just whoring for clicks, like the Kotaku...

Figured I'd share my own response to this whole debacle. http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/04/29/the-art-of-dragons-crown-is-perfectly-fine-please-stop-being-paranoid/ Mind you, it isn't a debacle for the developer. It's a debacle for the press.

Yahtzee. Please. Do learn to play games before "reviewing" them. Your "review" is full of inaccuracies as usual. In group conversations if the roll winner choses light side and you chose dark side, the only effect on you is that his option is what happens, but you still get dark side points...

Looks like some of the anti SWTOR trolls are already panicking because they know that very few will unsubscribe at the end of the first month, and are resorting to cheap lies in order to feel less lonely in their crusade. There's no indication anywhere that Bioware is in support of SOPA. EA...

Hey, lookie! Yahtzee knows nothing about gaming, and he doesn't feel good if he doesn't remind us every week :D Mildly entertaining as usual, inaccurate, unfair and simply an insult to human intelligence as usual.

The relevant detail you missed is that reviews aren't and shouldn't be just a personal affair. A reviewer is not writing for himself, but for his readers, and needs to give a fair assessment of the quality of a game (which for the most part isn't a matter of opinion), which is something Greg set...

@sindremaster: subjectivity will bring you only so far when taking the responsibility to professionally review a game. Reviews (good ones) are opinion pieces only in part. And not even the biggest part.

Oh sure, I know it happens all the time. This doesn't mean that it's ok to leave it be, or that obviously bad "journalism" (quotes intended and mandatory) should be left alone and shouldn't be criticized and exposed. It offers an obvious disservice to the readers, and as such it should be...

Using one's brain has to do with understanding the (quite intuitive in the end) combat system *without* the manual. You're getting hit everywhere? There must be a way to dodge and defend. Oh there it is! You're not managing to drop that shielded knight's defense? There must be a way to stun...

Eh i know,i know, when one bashes people's hard work for a living, it's hard to be on the receiving end :D It's actually a good thing for a reviewer to learn how it feels, once in a while, especially when he pulls out a stunt like this one. Aside from the ridiculous statement by the...

There's a LOT of difference between thinking that "the curve could use some improvement", and basing a whole review (or better a whole rant, because this is a rant, and doesn't really get near to qualifying as a review) on that, completely ignoring the *many* great features of the game, that...

And you, sir, completely fail as a reviewer, but most importantly as a gamer. This (and others of course) review is just another piece of proof that the Escapist should stick to the lulz and leave reviewing to more qualified writers. Since when has being hand-led and spoon-fed become a...