Recent content by FarmerMonkey

Sounds kind of like FarCry 2, from what I remember of it.

Thankfully the $60 model is already shifting. Check on Amazon for game prices sometime if you haven't recently. $60 might be the ENTRY price, but for those of us that don't have the free time to keep up to date anyway, there's plenty of great deals to be had on high-rated games that are less...

Nah, I wish she did. Love my wife more than anything, and it's a shame I can't share my hobby with her. She really doesn't like any kinds of games, video or otherwise. Doesn't like to play cards, etc, either. She's fun with a good sense of humor, though, not to mention being one of the most...

Am I wrong, or does Yahtzee chastise Brutal Legend for mixing RTS/direct control, and then at the end of the article propose the same concept as one side of a new multiplayer game? Or maybe his point was that half of Brutal Legend's single-player campaign was a standard action-adventure game...

You might be right. I played Jade Empire so long ago, it might just be that those scenes you mentioned (the slave girl in particular) were the ones that stood out in my memory. At any rate, to (mis)quote Doug Stanhope, being the game with the most interesting moral choice system "is sort of...

So I'm stuck with the Red Dead Redemption bounty outlaw that tries to make a pass at you while have him strapped to the back of your horse. "Surely two lonely guys like us out in the wilderness can work something out?" "Let me go and I'll...I'll...give you a kiss." Great. I don't watch...

As long as I can PAUSE the cutscenes, I'm game. It's such a simple, useful UI decision, I can't believe more developers don't do it. Nothing worse than trying to get the gist of the story and pay attention to your wife trying to tell you something at the same time.

+1 Seriously. I was going to make a pretty much identical post on every point. I've been with my wife for almost ten years, since college. Sure, we used to have 30 minute+ sessions every time, but these days we know what the hell we're doing and how to push each others' buttons. :-P My...

Calling RDR a "bad" game is trolling or a cry for attention. You may have liked another game better, but any rational gamer can acknowledge the high quality of the graphics, design, voice-acting, etc. It's just not your genre preference. Get a grip. Jury's still out for me. I'm too busy to...

Personally, I'd love it if 30-40% of FPS players were female. I've long since given up on anything but couch co-op or deathmatches, because I don't want to spend my limited gaming time with the rabid apes that inhabit those environments. I think if the percentage was that high, maybe the...

Sadly for trailblazing female gamers, I think Gearbox probably made the financial decision that they can afford to alienate female gamers with the game. Having no statistics in front of me, I can't say it authoritatively, but I'm guessing that 90%+ FPS buyers are 14-35 year-old men. The "id" in...

That is the best response to a PR problem that I've ever heard in my life. If only the rest of the world had a sense of humor.

The magnet gun sounds like it was inspired partially by the superfun grappling hook of Just Cause 2. Did anyone else think that the villain from the first Red Faction looked kind of like an evil Prof. Farnsworth?

I remember in high school gym class we threw javelins one time, and the brand name was "Dick Held", which was hysterical.

Furthermore, if this elephantine gentleman has enough mass to stop the speeding locomotive, how in bloody hell am I going to push him onto the tracks to save the five people of ambiguous size, age, and race? I exercise regularly, but I'm not taking HGH or anything. Do I use a bulldozer? Or...