Recent content by Frederf

The problem with functionality scores is how quickly game-breaking bugs get patched. It might CTD every 5 minutes on the reviewer's copy but be 100% stable by the time the customer can buy it. It's very perishable information. Objective scores are largely a filtering mechanism for me which is...

I bet the exact same part of the brain lights up as gambling addicts pulling a slot machine lever as completionist gamerz do unhappily but compulsively grind their numbers.

The way you act and feel toward completion of goals is similar to a significant portion of the potential user base. Thousands if not millions of gamers have been trained to "max out" a game. The idea of getting to level 30 in an MMO without hitting every single optional side quest along the way...

BIS does DLC the right way, upgrading the basic platform to keep the playerbase unified while making the individual product addons have value. It's good for customers as they don't get screwed by the expanded content and it's good for business because exposing potential customers to the product...

This entire article is so very uneducated. 1. It's NEVER nebulous who owns the copyright as the article wrongly indicates. The creator does, the licensed used does not. Do not confuse the design with the use of that design. That's kindergarten level of IP understanding. 2. The judge is an...

Yahtzee just said "disorientated" didn't he?

So if you buy this edition and everything promised doesn't work... it's OK because they took a small fraction off the price? And customers are supposed to be OK with this? I don't think that's how it works, legally or otherwise. "Since brakes are not hooked up on 1 in 10 of these Toyotas...

95% of the time anything that even raises the question "Is this legitimate?" guarantees the answer "No." Human beings have a persistent habit of desperately trying to justify their behavior. I cry foul on the concept of "The developers should tell us what's cheating." If it becomes de rigor...

Isn't it funny how the quote is "will take 100s of hours"? TAKE, steal, require, demand. That's a very different wording than "will provide" or "will allow." It just sounds wrong. Also I like Bethesda's Fallout 3. Modded, it provides a genuine feeling of depth (vanilla = cakewalk, vapid). I...

I suggest a new rating system. I believe the level of sex or violence in a video game is peanuts compared to the damage potentially wreaked upon a youth caused by games that are stupid, unimaginative, vapid, or socially destructive. Grim Fango is rated "EC for Exceptionally Creative"...

This really reminded me of The Games with John Clarke, which is the finest praise this side of a double-handed blowjob.

Then it must have been even less worthwhile to comment on! And a comment about such a comment... well you get the picture. I had a friend open a fridge and turn to his colleague to utter "Huh, someone deleted the milk." There was a long pause before the speaker realized what he had said...

If I can play Commandos 6 cooperatively with my friends on a LAN then I will buy it. Otherwise, no.

"...ditching regenerative health" Oh really? Flashpoint 1985 didn't have regenerative health. How can you ditch something you never had? Yes I realize it's not the same developers. Look at what this statement is telling us all about how they are thinking. They are starting with a arcade shooter...

There is no natural justification for separate (and esoteric) instructional modes: paper, tutorial, or otherwise. Anything that gets the information into the player's head is fine and if it can take the least amount of time and unfun as possible, so much the better. Left 4 Dead's "friend over...