Recent content by Cycloneman

Why is this thread bumped? Whatever. If I had to put what I posted last time in a better way, it would be as follows: the characters have no positivist beliefs. They are called rebels but believe in nothing except a regime change. To what? Never said. This is basically a completely...

No, the problem is that none of the characters are given motivations. I can tell why the Combine are bad, thanks, you can try re-reading my post and discover that I (gasp) played the game and noticed their "subtle" clues (such as outright saying "the Combine are eating the oceans" and showing...

Except, as far as I recall, this is never stated or voiced in any fashion. Nor is the counter-argument voiced by the "bad guy" humans, such as Breen. Does he actually believe what he says on the radio? It certainly doesn't seem like that. It's, like I said, assumed that if you put in...

TV Tropes is atrocious and this page excellently illustrates why. Theater is a trope now. So is literally anything in fiction. Ever. Having a hero is a trope. So is scenery. And words. If you want to examine fiction in the fairly low-brow way of dissecting it and locating common elements...

Mirror's Edge, Dead Space, Alpha Protocol, Dark Void, Infamous, Left 4 Dead, Spore, et cetera.

I figured it went without saying that it looks nothing like a Final Fantasy game, since you would have to have never seen a Final Fantasy game before for the idea to even cross your mind. "There is a fantastic setting and the main character covers his face? FF Clone!" Come on. Ignoring that...

Wow, pretty contradictory, Yahtzee. "Oh no, there are no new games, they're all sequels, unoriginal crap!" "Waah, the new Prince of Persia is different from the last one, oh noes!"