Recent content by Festus Moonbear

Don't worry, once you do it in the tutorial you don't actually have to do it again when using the farts in combat. Sort of pointless, really. But I agree, the prompts in that game are sometimes mystifying. I have no idea what they want from me!

I played them simultaneously (no, not with two controllers at the same time) and found it very interesting to learn the mechanics of both games at the same time so that I wasn't overprepared for either one, and could note the subtle differences. But if you have to choose one or the other I'd say...

The DS2 director Tanimura said in an interview way back in September, "There are many players who do not like invasions. We can't just tell them 'then don't play the game!' We have actually paid very close attention to this view and have included a method besides being hollow to prevent...

Everyone is "allowed" to be offended, and everyone is also "allowed" to not give a fuck if someone else is offended. The whole concept of "being offended" is meaningless and useless. So yes, go ahead and be offended by whatever you like. Or you could do something more useful with your time, like...

See, this is why PC gaming sucks. Most of the consumers are thieves, and the few paying customers that do exist are way too accepting of half-finished games being released because they know they'll get an unofficial patch for free from some poor genius who might get a couple of paypal donations...

Not lame at all, most BL2 fans use Shift codes. They can really help you out of a tight spot sometimes when you can't find a good gun for your level. One of my best-loved guns in the game, cherished and passed from character to character, came out of the golden chest.

The Assassin's action skill shows its worth in playthrough 2 and onwards. In playthrough 1 I didn't use it at all, but once I got him to the higher levels I found it indispensable and really noticed its absence when playing other characters. His melee spec is also devastating, although I don't...

Salvadore is by far the most overpowered character when you get into the higher levels, say UVHM onwards, with Krieg probably second although he's better for mobbing than bosses - he can literally handle mobs with no gear equipped at all. For playthrough 1, I found Gaige to be the easiest. They...

It's a good narrative... for a game. In the wider scope of art/entertainment, it's about on par with the average Young Adult novella, or episode of My So Called Life (if you're old enough to know what that is). This pretty much makes it one of the best narrative games ever, but maybe that's not...

If you hated FC2 for the same reasons most FC2 haters do, you might well like FC3 as they obviously tried their best to listen to criticisms and fix those things. Possibly the reason FC2 fans hate it is that they didn't think it was broken to begin with, but that's another story. It's not like...

I was excited about it as a Far Cry 2 fan. After the initial horror at the overcrowded HUD and general hand-holding, I got into it a bit, especially the free-roaming parts as I found 90% of the story missions to be awfully restrictive. Had some good random moments with predatory animals and...

Mordecai is a great class once you get him leveled up enough that Bloodwing gets useful, which doesn't take long (the leveling is pretty fast in Borderlands 1). His sniper skill tree is mostly worthless, though. You can play him as a gunslinger instead of a sniper (focus on pistols and...

The fallen tree at the start of Silent Hill Downpour. "Well, I'm not going that way. It's almost as high as my knee."

Actually, Greg's review did a lot to sway me on this, so I'm grateful for it. I was under the impression that in previous GTA games, your character is of the "thief with a heart of gold" type and tries to get out of the bad life, even if he does a lot of bad things along the way. But from Greg's...

I won't be any time soon. I still have too many games to finish up before looking at it. The series never really appealed to me, to be honest. I love sandbox games so I'd probably enjoy it, but I don't ever force myself to play something until it really calls to me, and GTA has never called to...