Recent content by Dave Brohman

Of course I have DA2 on the brain right now so it's a little heavy in that area, but here goes: Leliana (DA:O) Cute as a button and kicks nine kinds of ass. Love her. Weird fact: my first DA:O character turned out, totally by accident, to be her identical twin. Jack (ME2) When I started...

What I find more perplexing is the assumption that the North American market somehow requires different, and invariably shittier, cover art. The very notion of needing to localize covers art is implicitly insulting.

Glad I'm not the only one who realizes that Hideo Kojima is twelve flavours of crazy. The George Lucas comparison is apt beyond simply representing an auteur run amok. Kojima, like Lucas, is riding his name like a surfboard on a seemingly endless wave fanboy adulation engendered by his early...

The main problem with the notion that the death of Optimus Prime is this generation's Othello is that a robot can't die. Machines don't die, they break. Optimus Prime can no more die than my toaster can take naps whenever it's not toasting something.

I'm in full agreement with Yahtzee on this one. When playing video games was a niche hobby, being a "gamer" really was something odd and unusual. That time is past now, and gaming has long since become a regular fixture of modern life. It's time to drop this archaic term and its accompanying...

Spot on, sir, once again. I absolutely *adore* exploration in games. I enjoy few things more than seeing what's around the next corner or over the next hill. One of the things that drove me bonkers while playing the original Fable was all the beautiful, expansive vistas that I wanted to...

I too can't really get on board with RTS games. I find I tend to get a sort of tunnel-vision, focusing on carefully building and crafting one small area while the rest of it goes to hell. When I get told there's a battle going on it takes me forever to find it, and by the time I do I've already...