Recent content by Apophenia Overload

I can't get upset too much because we are blessed to live in a world where Paradox Entertainment exists and are making Cartel, their own Syndicate spiritual successor. And X-COM is getting a true turn-based strategy remake as well. As far as '90s dead genres go, 2012 has been kind to this one.

And we see the natural overreaction by angry gamers once again reaps its head. The media loves to sensationalize. They love to sensationalize both violence allegedly committed by video games, and alleged censorship whenever someone non-gamer critiques video games (even though in this case...

It seems like a lot of people don't quite understand why those who have read the spoilers are so unhappy about them. The spoilers seem to show that Bioware has lost its head and gives plot twists that are completely dumb, fuck over a bunch of choices from previous games, and kills off a lot...

His recap of the ending makes it sound like Fallout 3.

I'm pretty tired that whenever someone points out something in a game is tasteless, or questionable, or appalling, there's legions of reflexively anti-political correctness players who shout it down with "it's just a game, it's no big deal." Yet they're probably the ones qq-ing the most whenever...

This is the sort of mass, unwieldy prohibition that will get overturned in years, if not months. In the meantime, it's worth it just for all of the delicious weeaboo tears.

I think people have to take into account what this class is based off of. It's clearly inspired by witch hunter or monster slayer characters from say Van Helsing or Warhammer Fantasy. It almost looks like a generic one, really. In that respect it's not too bad, though the heels are dumb and...

The fact that Yahtzee may have enjoyed AP shows how far off modern day reviewers are. If the original Deus Ex or V:tM Bloodlines came out tomorrow, the American gaming press would rip them to shreds for subpar graphics (even compared to other games at the time), bad A.I., wonky controls, and...

Most of the cast is forgettable, but you better not be forgetting about Steven Heck! Or Brayko. Conrad Marburg is cool too but not as much as he was made to be in the trailer. Omen Deng was underused.

Yahtzee is a contrarian. He tears down sacred cows and he raises up pariahs. Alpha Protocol does have a lot of issues, but it also had ambition and creativity and tried to be different from most Splinter Cell/MGS-derived stealth/action games, and from paint-the-numbers Bioware RPGs. So he's...

The game is very well a successor to action games with RPG elements such as Deus Ex, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, System Shock 2, etc. Even if it failed with many unpolished elements, it gets point for trying to be a whole lot deeper than most action games of the modern day. Yahtzee...

Why did Jay Cee get probated for his post on the first page?