Recent content by boiled_elephant

The games that drew my mother and sister respectively into gaming were Portal and Trine. Small, cutesy games with a nice graphical veneer and a simple core gameplay mechanic are best (and no fucking cutscenes or cinematic pretention).

A brilliant article - this is PRECISELY the intangible difference in quality of storytelling and sobreity that I've been trying to explain to some of my non-GTA4-playing friends. It makes it so much a different kind of game despite containing all the same material elements and mechanics. The...

Dawn of War was a mixed bag. On the one hand, the units all recite the exact same barks every single time you click on them (which you have to do about 50 times a mission). But on the other hand, those bits of dialogue were so fantastic and funny that they still make me grin, even after hearing...

"More than one" is most definitely an understatement :) I think it would be misguided to see this as the Church backing down on the grounds of the award being passed. It seems more likely to me that they just decided nobody cared, least of all their followers, that it wasn't important, and...