Recent content by ExistentialCrisis

I fully sympathize with the "larval form of classic rock snob". I annoy the hell out of my friends all the time with my constant references to bands that were "modern" well before our birth years. Heck, I even wow my folks sometimes and they grew up listening to the stuff! Come to think of...

No. Personally, I always saw them as a good "dramatic" element at first but they can quickly dissolve into an exercise in frustration. I liked how it as handled in the submarine escape sequence of Lost Odyssey (ample time to hit the right key, not too much punishment if you failed a key or two)...

Personally, I like Hush and feel like he's been downplayed a bit much in the comic. He's the near-perfect "karmatic" opposite of Batman and I find that really cool for some reason.

And the pot stirs, bubbling forth once again... Need I remind everyone that the only thing really happening here is just that the distributors they brought the movie to turned it down based on the distributors' own judgment calls - and, arguably, biased views of the U.S. - and nothing more. I...

Unless someone's already said it: "End quote."

A couple of gripes/comments: - they picked the most overrated Smashing Pumpkins song ever (how about "Tales From A Scorched Earth", perhaps?) - they picked the most underwhelming King Crimson song ("Frame By Frame" is superior) - they picked the best Rush song; Rush should be in every single...

Koyaanisqatsi (Controls: Press A when you realize the subtlety of the human existence) Donnie Darko (An Artifact has nearly killed you and now it's up to you to save the Tangent Universe! Become the Living Receiver and wield awesome powers over fire and water! Seek guidance from the...

MMOs are WAY too easy to find stupid people in; Left 4 Dead too as I've had more than a fair share of people who start "horde" events before we're ready, jump on cars with alarms, get puked on by every single Boomer, startle every Witch, and die every thirty seconds or so - basically the...

Save As Desktop Wallpaper You could change your appearance at will with that, I imagine. Just picture the possibilities... ...even though sometimes you might accidentally click it on a .gif and you end up Tiled with a repeating animation loop...or on a tiny 45x60 image and it gets all...

"It'd be like if Mr. Bean were a mass murderer." I lol'd. Quite a lot, actually. ZP needs more of that referential/topical humor; also more mentioning of the built-in silliness of most games (like way back in the Halo Wars review when Yahtzee went off on the "We lost contact!" absurdity).

I'd contend your point about the females in the show being "strong" since I honestly feel like the female side of the cast was customized to be "[character stereotype] + boobs". Roberta and the two from the Church of Violence stuck out like sore thumbs when it came to this; I sat back and said...

Political Correction isn't so much a necessary element of society as it is a smart suggestion. The fact is that there are just some individuals in the world who hear these words and lose their friggin' minds despite intent and/or irony, so all Political Correction does is give anyone trying...

Trailers are 90% of the reason I buy a game, strangely enough. I saw that trailer for Fallout 3 with the advertisement for Vaultech and the accompanying brief taste of gameplay and was like "I gotta play this". I guess I'm in it more for the presentation than the hype; I tend to ignore all other...

Are you talking about a particular period of gaming, gaming in general, or a select few games that you hand-picked? I'm a little confused because this post reeks of over-generalizing and baseless cynicism. I mean, don't get me wrong, I thought Super Mario Brothers for the NES has the most...

...and I was wondering if anyone knew how to recreate his approach (still images set to a rambling soundtrack created in Audacity, I assume). I wanted to do this for a project to show how comics can be presented like animation can, given how Yahtzee uses stills ("panels") in a sequence...