Recent content by flamezlord

Hmm... if the developers always opted to have the intense music playing, wouldn't the threat of a hidden enemy eventually lose its charm? It could possibly be better to let us know when a hidden enemy is about so we know we have something to fear. just my opinion, anyways.

It does seem strange to me that a man as respected as Ebert would merely watch clips of video games and declare them not art. It's like if I watched people play a board game and declare it not fun without ever trying to play it. If he had played a game like bioshock and gotten to the end, he...

I agree with Yahtzee's opinion of what a character in fiction should act like. Rorschach's one of my favorite characters ever to be published in written form, but it's certainly not because he thinks killing people is more important than preventing Armageddon. As his therapist put it, he's...

I'm not very far into Bioshock 2 yet, but I think Yahtzee's being a bit unfair. I played the first Bioshock solely for the storyline, but I've been playing Bioshock 2 for the gameplay. I like that the plasmids actually change their use after you upgrade them instead of just being a more powerful...

I've had my issues with this RPG label, too. Growing up on an unhealthy amount of JRPGs, I saw it as something with turnbased action and different characters with different stats, an unnecessary amount of dialogue, etc, but a lot of this doesn't hold up any more. Many Western RPGs use real-time...

Sent Michael Atkinson an e-mail. I was polite relative to how I normally react to such a situation. But I probably came off as a jerk anyways :P On to Yahtzee's article, I agree with his point about difficulty settings. Whenever a game doesn't have one, I get confused. It doesn't have to be...

In point three, Yahtzee gives a reason why people would spend hours on end game content (to challenge themselves/prove skill), yet says he can't understand why they would do it. Forgive me if I overlooked some small argument, but that seems a bit... stupid. Regardless, even though I am one of...