Recent content by Axle_Gear

I also agree that you may have your definition of 'brain waves' wrong. As far as I can imagine, they only call them 'waves' because that's the graphical appearance of brain activity after reading it through medical devices. However, I've always wondered about the idea of people being...

How's about Transformers 2? I went with a friend, he thought it was hilarious. I couldn't help but ask myself "didn't I come into this expecting to see fighting robots?" And those two littles dudes... God, I thought they were hideously annoying even before I had time to mull it over and hear...

I've seen that a few people have already mentioned Gitaroo man in this thread, but no one has really elaborated on it and how it comes close to the idea Yahtzee presented. So, a helpful link to those of you who have never heard of this game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8-4K5Q0Zc8 Now...

Another Sonic game? Ooooooh SNAP! But in all seriousness, I would point towards some of the "Nintendo-hard" games of olden days. Some of them required such exacting timing and skill just to get past some certain points, and some parts could FORCE you to take damage through some...

Aha! Time to pull out my extremely obscure reference! Those of you who brushed up on your bungie history might have heard of a little-known game called the Marathon series. Those of you who are lame like me know that there is an unofficial 'fourth' game to the trilogy called Marathon: Evil...

That's kind of an overly generalized question to ask. It's like saying 'Are TV shows derogatory? Are movies offensive?" The subject is so broad that you can't just pass one answer and say 'yes, videogames are derogatory,' or 'no, they are not.' It's all a matter of which game you have in...

I remember watching a couple of guys play through all of Sonic 06 (some little thing called 'Let's Play...'). It's kind of amusing that the whole thing became a little documentary about a slow and steady descent into madness. At first they were laughing at the horrible elements of the game and...

From what I recall of the history of Final Fantasy, back in the old NES days, Square believed the first FF was going to be their last game before they went bankrupt and thusly out of business. But when the game turned out to be a big hit they cranked out more of the same since they never...

There's a good reason they don't just outright ban smoking when so many people are decrying how horrible it seems. American government makes a lot of money on tobacco taxes, and they've found it's a lot easier to raise taxes on something that is regularly demonized, giving people the impression...

I've been pretty iffy on 4.0. Maybe I need to look into everything a little more, but I only got through most of the rogue and cleric classes before I got frustrated over the complete lack of variety. Almost every single one of the abilities a rogue has is based on dexterity, which...