Recent content by briantw

Another entertaining review. I find myself looking forward to Wednesdays at work because I can take five minutes to watch a Yahtzee review and escape the tedium. I also loved the inclusion of the Electric Six song at the end. Amazing band, especially live.

Well, you made it sound as if GameStop had something to do with the outcomes of the awards, which is not true. All they did was advertise on a site that a lot of people would see. I'm sure they could care less who wins what, especially since they sell all of the products mentioned. Well...

There's a difference between criticizing and being a dick. You were the former. The TC was the latter. Plus, he honestly doesn't even sound like he played the game. He sounded like he watched a few low-resolution videos and wrote a shitty review based on that. Yeah, you do get lives very...

You do realize that GameSpot and GameStop are separate companies, right? GameSpot's GotY awards are presented by GameStop, which basically means that GameStop sent in a check so that their logo could be plastered all over the awards page. That's all there is to it...

I whole-heartedly agree with this. Halo's storyline could have been very interesting and edgy, but because they wanted to market the game for mass consumption by all the idiot frat boys out there, they needed to over-simplify the story and take away anything that might have been perceived as...

There is a distinct difference between Gordon Freeman and the Master Chief. You never see Gordon Freeman. Never. He never talks. Never. There are no cut-scenes in Half-Life. Essentially, you are Gordon Freeman. The Chief is different. You see him plenty of times. He's just really...

Zombies Ate My Neighbors is a classic. I've still got a copy of it on my Genesis. Not sure how good a sequel would be these days, though. The game might be tough to emulate without the top-down perspective. Aside from that, LucasArts doesn't seem to care about non-Star Wars games these days...

That's pretty slick. When I inevitably get my PS3, I think I may have to download that.

How can anyone think the story in Halo is well-written, especially in the latter two games? The dialogue is awful. It sounds like it was written by a five-year-old who only had the previous experience of watching Predator on his resume. The dialogue is disgustingly cliche, particularly when...

Let's recap. KOTOR: Evil villain is trying to utilize the Star Forge to create a massive army and destroy the universe. Meanwhile, a rogue hero (who also happens to be an elite warrior known as a Jedi) and his group of rag-tag friends must band together and put a stop to this. Mass...

I think they generally receive great reviews because they are pinnacles of excellent game design and, more importantly, are incredibly fun to play. Does anyone remember back in the day when games could just be fun? When they didn't have to rely on marketing budgets to convince us that...

Well, I agree with the Oblivion stuff to some extent, but I still don't see what it has to do with the argument at hand. I acknowledged above that some sequels do actually raise the bar and change quite a bit, but for every game like that there are at least three Halo 3's that barely change a...

No, it didn't, and people really need to stop claiming this like it's a fact. Both TimeSplitters and Red Faction had the same control scheme about a year earlier than Halo, and I believe there were at least a few PSX games that also had the same control scheme once the Dual Shock controller...

You are wrong. TimeSplitters and Red Faction both had the control scheme first, and I believe even one of the Medal of Honor games on the original PSX used it as well. There may have been another few PSX games that used it as well.

System Shock 2 was only like eight years ago. That's not really that long, especially when you compare it to each Nintendo sequel, most of which take about five years to release (an example is the transition from Mario Sunshine to Mario Galaxy, which was just over five). Also, we generally...