Recent content by Archaic Thought

As an American, the day it happened was terrible. But the constant attention that usually starts a week before the 11th every year is a bit much. Every decade would be good, every year...not so much. It's kind of lost significance as a day of mourning, it's more of a day to make politicians look...

Reread this sentence. Find any problems with it? You wouldn't expect an English FPS, or a German one to make themselves the bad guy, would you? Why should it be an exception for American developers? Not just the FPS genre, generally the devs make their nationality, well, the protagonists...

The same way you kill the T1000, full body immersion in molten metal until his brain cooks in his adamantium skull.

The Ultrasmurfs, just to laugh as Rowboat Girlyman completely fails as a commander. Failing that, the Agents from the Crackdown series. An unlimited number of clones that evolve the more they kill using unique methods. You'd only need one, because one Agent is, as noted, one x ∞ clone...

I really don't see a problem with this. That's like saying I refuse to play WWII shooters because I'm of German decent, or refusing to play any game where some Englishman is the big bad. It's fiction, well, historical fiction in this case. No matter how disturbing it is, one has to realize...

Well, in recent history FPS games have become cookie cutter "COD at heart" games, what with the same gameplay, mechanics, etc. Last good recent FPS was the COD 4, because it was fresh, at the time, and it actually needed a coherent story that didn't rely on explosions or a built in fan base to...

My only gripe(s) with ME 2 was that they cut out the inventory and armor mods, forced ammo on the weapons, and reduced it to RPG-lite status, and made you feel incredibly weak by having your shields and health go down in a snap outside of cover, and side quests were a bit lacking i n terms of...

Gotta agree there. Invisible war, as a standalone game, would have been great. As a successor to Deus Ex, it was seriously lackluster. About it's only shining point was it's endings and how, no matter whether you view the Illuminati or Helios endings as good, both had a sense of being more...

Metroid, I have to say. Everything before Other M portrayed Samus as *the* most badass woman in existence, with two emotions, mild surprise, and a near genocidal hatred for anything related to Space Pirates/RandomEvilThing. With Other M, it turned her into a whining, doubting, extremely...

I'd have to say Deus Ex. Although that was before a lot of gamers times, it seems. Failing that, I'd say the half Lifes, followed by Bioshock. COD4 is a runner up, it was quite the thriller. MW 2 went the Michael Bay route, so, screw that, and Halo doesn't deserve a place. CE had the...