Recent content by Alydr

Motoko Kusanagi in 2nd gig. It's a longshot but I think with the right loadout she would take Alucard, and she's also a more interesting character imo. I mean, Alucard is pure badass but with very little character exposition, while Motoko feels more like a living, thoughtful, intelligent...

Text messages were rammed down our throat by clever marketing making it appear to be "hip" and "cool, yo". Sometimes even "the shit". But the cold, sad reality is that text messages are just a way of reducing the amount of tower bandwidth used without reducing the amount the phone company is...

My favourites (that I can remember): Super Metroid, Metroid Prime trilogy Space Rangers 2 (look it up - Elite+RPG) Fallout 2 (certain themes were really, really good) Deus Ex... and it was midi music I'll probably stir up a lynchmob, but I thought Halo only had one good theme and the...

5 installs? Egads, what to do, what to do. Oh yeah, I'll crack it like every other game. DRM is such a joke. You can't "protect" something that's installed to a person's hard drive, it's totally futile. It's like telling Americans not to be fat. I can't remember a game that I wasn't able...

Big eyes, small mouth has actually been on the decline lately... not that you'd know. Also it's not 90%, it's more like 95%. Noir is too damn slow moving for my taste, and I'm pretty tolerant. Too many slow pan shots of the same thing, followed by characters looking profound and...

Have you seen it? Not to argue but you really shouldn't judge something you haven't seen. This movie has the best art of any animation ever made. That's not hyperbole or exaggeration, but I'm too tired to start posting screenshots. Besides the art though, it's also an incredibly powerful...

Watch 5 Centimeters Per Second. Ha ha, I win, it's an artform. edit: Oh and seriously someone watch School Days. I define it as a "trainwreck" genre series because, much like a trainwreck, it is horrifying to watch but you can't help but do so. You can't look away because it's so...

I would say that anime haters have probably just not seen any good anime. The same way if you go to a bad Chinese restaurant you probably think Chinese food is all bad. I love anime but I have a balanced enough brain to realize that, just as in American TV, there is perhaps 1-2 shows PER...

All the Halo and CoD players need to stop complaining about the difficulty level. You're used to playing arcade shooters, this is a completely different kind of game. All that's hard about this game is figuring out a more realistic way of fighting - besides charging in with a machine gun...

In my opinion, Halo would be an excellent game if not for: - high-pitched children in alien suits running around - horrendous level design (and then you go back and play through a bunch of levels again, in reverse) - contrasting tones of "this is serious business!" and "lol my gun's plastic"...

You missed my point about the "new color scheme" thing, it's a common expression implying something that has been cheaply refurbished for the sake of looking new while it's actually not. In short, it's something like how you'd feel after playing every EA Sports NHL game back-to-back. People...

The reason Portal is so universally loved is simple: there's nothing else like it. There are absolutely no other games that are in any way similar besides the team's original game, which isn't widely-known. The majority of people I've talked to who don't "get" Portal are ones who have only...