Recent content by esserius

This will not be taken well, but I'm afraid I'm not going to praise The Escapist. What we've seen here is perhaps the largest conglomeration of the videogame community that is, for all its bluster, much ado about nothing. I've respect for what the site intends, but I generally cringe when I...

Flower for the PS3. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJam5Auwj1E] Alternatively... Blade and Soul for the PC. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orpk82YyWoA]

Casual gamers give a place for indie gamers to shine. World of Goo, all the tower defense games, castle crashers, etc. They purchase a lot of those five dollar games and God love them for it. But if you want to appeal to someone "ruining" games, you should probably direct your ire towards the...

There are already indie games where you can put kids in meat grinders. There's also a reason as to why they're indie games. Senseless violence is all well and good, but you cannot expect a self-respecting conglomerate like EA or Activision to touch Nazis or children or other politically "bad"...

Knights in the Nightmare. I would buy Demon Souls but I do not own a PS3.

Loved the 3.2 jokes. WoW consumes my life way too much to get that joke.

And ultimately there's also no right answer as to how to fix this in any case. You can't ask players to not take advantage of the systems they're given. It'd be like asking a person to not use the queen in a game of chess.

Now if you could drink that wine bottle, get intoxicated and seduce the men, sleep with them and then slit their throats, that would be awesome. Also slightly deranged, but then again this is a game filled with Nazis. Or play the harmonica to get guards to come to you, or use the telescope to...

While I would certainly agree that Resident Evil 4 was the best of the series and continues to be as such, I still wouldn't consider it revolutionary in the survival horror genre and realistically few games have really come along that have "wowed" me in this genre. Personally I would look more...

Name a game that allows you to perform "neutral" actions? Or even better, name a game that rewards you for being neutral?

It's not that I have a problem with good and evil systems in their entirety, it's that the way in which they go about them is far too simplistic. It would be nice if there was at least an intention of there being some gray zone or feeling of remorse or hatred for the system, but seemingly...

I suppose what I'm most interested in is just this simple question. But I think that more than this, what I want to know is why you feel that they're boring, or why you feel that they're more exciting now than they have been in the past. I've been a gamer for decades now and I must say...

Well, glad someone's taking debate class. I'd trust Tim's definition over mine.

Even if an argument is based on a lie, it does not mean the argument cannot be sound. For example, not telling a friend the truth in order to spare their feelings can be a good thing. This is the concept behind what we perceive as a white lie.