Recent content by El Camino of Rampage

I like attractive women as much as the next straight guy. But Quiet is just ridiculous - yes, even in the context of giant robots and magic. See, within the over-the-top rules of the world, those things make sense. But Quiet still doesn't make sense. She's a character who would never choose to...

No I believe it's an objective verifiable fact.

I really like Yahtzee's point about challenge. In a traditional story, the protagonist has to face some sort of conflict or the story is probably gonna be boring (I'm leaving out more abstract stuff). The issue is that, in video games, "challenge" too often means a puzzle or man-killing. I think...

There's using your brain, and then there's systematically trying every possible thing in a level, or just giving up and doing exactly what the internet says to do because I have limited game time and I don't want to spend it all on one puzzle.

I have to disagree with Yahtzee's defense of the GoT rape scene. Not because I have a problem with the scene, because I haven't seen the episode. But I don't think his argument in general holds water. There are many storytelling devices that will always get an emotional reaction out of the...

I personally think the best way to deal with games like this is to mercilessly mock them. Because this is essentially the video game equivalent of that weirdo in high school who didn't have many friends yelling "Penis!" in the back of the class to make the teachers mad and get attention. That...

Up there with movies, painting, music, and most other art forms. Video games just haven't come near that average level of artistic merit. Personally I've always thought that the reason for that isn't because games are so young, but because games are made by more STEM/right brained people...

Here's one: Movies are, on average, an order of magnitude better than video games if we're judging by artistic merit. Like, it's not even close.

This should be a rule for all future online modes: If the game is only going to fun playing with friends, you have to have split-screen. If you can't do same room split screen multiplayer, then you have to design it so that it can be played alone against randos. Not everyone has friends who all...

"It's a-me, Mario!" Also any time I smash into a wall in GTAV and the character just curses.

I never really understood what the big deal was. I thought the ending was more or less the same level of quality as the rest of the games. After a series full of "Pick the Red or Blue Choice to give you the illusion of changing the story," you got the biggest, reddest/bluest choice ever to give...

I always thought that fast travel loading screens should have a cutscene showing your character actually traveling. Like if you're playing Skyrim, you'd see a montage of your character dramatically riding their horse across the landscape while epic music plays. I remember that Metroid Prime 3...

I played GTA Online back when I was unemployed. I'd go into a heist lobby, set it up, then go do something productive for an hour while I waited for the lobby to get four people. Now that I have a full-time job, I'm not gonna waste my 2-3 hours of free time playing online when 75% of that will...

Crafting is usually something I ignore in a game. I'm not big on collecting stuff, and it usually just gives you a differently shaped gun/grenade/sword thing. It's just a busywork way to give you more of the same stuff. If it's convenient I might do it, but mostly it's unnecessary.

@necromanzer52 Thanks for the welcome! I remember there were a few sections of the game that were very square geometric layouts, and those were the only times you could really take advantage of the wall-running and crazy stunts. Most of the game was oddly designed, so it was hard to do...