Recent content by FaceInTheSand

Metalheads are really indie. "Band y aren't as trve or kvlt as band x!" Seriously, who cares? Listen to the music you want to, and sod what the boring single-genre elitists think. Put your ipod on random, and listen to Disney's The Lion King soundtrack followed by Emperor's 'Anthems To...

I'll finish games when developers assure me I'll stop being disappointed by... ...pointless escalations of story or difficulty (Farenheit/Indigo Prophecy, Bioshock, Neverwinter Nights, Assassins Creed, Icewind Dale 2) ...complete shifts in learned gameplay mechanics (Bioshock, Assassin's...

While I can agree that the levelling system feels unrealistic - even if I can understand it for accessibility purposes - the fact that the fast travel system broke your immersion and awe was a fault with you, the player, having no self control. If you had truly wanted to wander Oblivion's...

I'd take Oblivion any day. Don't get me wrong, I loved Morrowind at the time and still think it's beautiful, but having gone back and played it after Oblivion, there's no contest. Nothing compares to the first time you walked off the boat in Seyda Neen and took your first few tentative steps...

Recently, I did take Baldurs Gate, out again; casually meeting up for some coffee and reliving the past like I was in some CRPG version of High Fidelity. She'd actually ended the relationship, by refusing to work with my new graphics card, but I didn't hold it against her and we did patch...

Baldur's Gate is your secondary school girlfriend. You hold her in high regard because she opened your eyes. She exemplified all a girl should be. Never mind the fact that she was acne-ridden, and not as smart or funny as you remember. Trying to explain to someone who wasn't in that...

When I pick up a Guitar Hero controller and play along with songs that I've already learned on electric - or even not - everything breaks my head. The rhythm of the guitar line you hear, never quite matches up with what they ask you to play. The way the solos are the same 5 buttons as the verse...

While I heartily disagree with her assessment that growing up entails just getting a family and home, and working in some dead-end factory job where you can build up a sweat and get an honest days' pay, I like the idea that there is a difference between perceived maturity levels. I am...

Firstly, I thank you for your thoughtful and beautifully phrased post, which I'm tempted to call a "treatise", in the vein of old essays written by Enlightenment philosophers, as it is such a refreshing change from the "lol Morrowidn r0x oblivion sux!!1!11" posts I so often see. I think that...

From the massively underrated French game Outcast- Talan (Paraphrased): Ulukai, when a young Talan reaches a certain age, they stand on the essence stone, it decides their essence and they become an adult. Cutter Slade : I had an experience like that, but mine was in the backseat of a...

I took the Bioshock soundtrack (y'know, like "How Much is That Doggy In The Window?") and played it over the Conan demo. It was amazing, listening to Noel Coward while cleaving people from nape to knave is one of the most sinisterly dark things you can do.

Raging bull in Vegas, or any similar weapon (Halo3 Mauler, HL2 Magnum, the pistol in Bioshock, Desert Eagles, GoW Locust Pistol, the P-11 Aqua Pistol in the later Delta-Force games). Powerful revolvers and pistols make you feel like a cowboy, the limited ammo and rate of fire improves...