Recent content by Casca_O

Something I wish more people understood. So very true

*points at the 18 story monster every one seems to ignore* Xenosaga had a 2 hour introduction. Not tutorial like Kingdom Hearts but introduction. I timed it. Worse than action sequences you should control or excessive dialogue which moves the plot forward, it meanders around talking about this...

More in the sense of the OP however, a moral message doesn't exclude it from being a game. It does however make it more than a game. I believe that games can be art. And I believe art can be art without good artistic value. If someone shoehorns a pseudo-philosophical meaning into a game you...

Who decided that? People can and have died playing football. Is that no longer a game? Is freeform roleplaying no longer a game? What about Calvinball? (I freekin played that don't judge me) And anything in which stakes or gambling is involved it is a game according to Oxford, Webster and...

That's how I live my entire life! XD Aimless point: I think pretentiousness is a poor reason for anything unless someone is actually talking down to you or purposefully trying to talk over your head.

I love the White Wolf's tabletop "Vampire" games (Both of them. I know: I'm a freak) And I found this game to be thoroughly enjoyable. I will admit it was plagued with glitches but the 36 hours (not counting failed attempts, restarts, crashes and the like) I spent were worthwhile. The so...

I honestly would just make my life more convenient. Take the bus one way and that manner of behaviour. I'd think about crime though. Maybe get up the courage to rearrange someone's house and never have to break in.

I find people, myself included, (is it self righteous of me to think that I have to qualify my statements by including myself in everything negative?)tend to latch onto a game and wail on it as hard as they can as the "wurst gaem evar". Even people who tend to just play everything and not...

I think you're taking it a little too personal. You have a valid point but you've chosen the wrong target. Yes there's the tolerant and almost hippy-ish response of "everything helps lead forward" but the point we're making a series of disjointed cathartic comments about games we thought were...

Crash Bandicoot. If it werent for him I would not have to suffer the dross of my otherwise precious gameboy advance. Then again maybe not. I just hated that game with such a passion.

Starcraft for the N64 and Command and Conquer for the PlayStation. Those were just miserable. The interface for a console RTS is just so unintuitive that it makes me tears of sorrow and pain.

I simply meant coarse in the way that says you cursed. (No a particularly bad thing just not my aesthetic) And yes I admit I don't know enough about ballistic weaponry to make an accurate analogy but there being larger calibre handguns adds to my point. If you've developed to that point the...

A paradigm shift in allegiance. Though I haven't played Haze that's the only one that comes to mind at the moment. Actually Beatrix from Final Fantasy's Ninth numbered installment would fit. But it can be easily done very naturally, a character who had been in the sights of the protagonist...

Then forgive me for mistaking your point

Even a multiplayer game is not solely about social interaction. Maybe have emphasised the word "multiplayer" as if it justifies mediocre gameplay. It's a game. Games are meant to be played. Even if you're not only playing the game with the bloody fervour of Ninja Gaiden masters who miraculously...