Recent content by essexfuzz

I wish my brains werked better at remembering stuff, but I somewhat recall an interview that was done by Game Informer magazine (I think) with a designer who used to work for the now non-existant Blizzard North. He talked about how the two different Blizzard groups had completely different art...

Blame the game developer's marketing division if I don't think a game is worth buying new right away. Or blame the game for just not being good enough. All of my game purchases come after reading reviews (exception: CoD) so anytime I do buy a game used from Gamestop it's because nothing really...

I'm a resident of Baltimore County, Maryland and as much as I love games, I think this is just ridiculous. Maybe that's because I have never played any of the Civ games, maybe it's because Martin O'Malley has f'ed up every decision he's made since he was elected. Either way, this is dumb.

He pointed out everything that I hate about JRPG's. They are so annoying to me now, and I used to love the FF series.

I have Crysis, and my system can play it lag free with everything set to "High". It's a beautiful game, but I wouldn't say it's better than Heavy Rain or Uncharted 2. And I don't know how you can argue that no current gen console could play it considering Far Cry 2 which uses the same engine...

I agree. I still love both games but I was saddened with how they changed the inventory system. One of my favorite aspects of RPG's is loot. I love having 100 different weapons/armor to compare and choose from. Also I don't know why anyone complained about the MAKO. I friggin loved driving...

I have to disagree with your point about the graphics. If you take a look at the PS3's first part offerings (e.g. Heavy Rain and Uncharted 2) I think it's an easy argument that the PS3 is capable of better graphics at higher framerates than the 360 and current PC's. Of course the nature of the...

I actually got angry when I read that quote by Mr. Newell because I love my PS3 and I also love Valve games. It did leave me to wonder though, why the Playstation hardware has been historically difficult to code for. This is not a new phenomenon, it has been true of all 3 of their systems...

Such a great review, and the best line was definitely saved for last.

Erase the hud OR if the game has to have a hud make it move around at regular time intervals. This is to prevent screen burn in

Being too lazy to read through all 100+ messages I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet or not, but Ascendancy sucked away many days of my life. It is an old DOS based turn based space exploration game. Probably the first of it's genre