Recent content by greatgreybeast

I'd call that not so much a criticism of Nintendo, as a criticism of the current videogame generation. And of the whole concept of gamerscores. Still, I'm not totally opposed to achievements/trophies. I just don't see any reason for them to be global, and I don't see any reason for them to...

It's like in Dogma. Yahtzee is God, and God can never be wrong. So if Yahtzee reviews DNF, then DNF must exist. Otherwise existence itself would be destroyed.

I second "STALKER," and also suggest "Prey." Though in both cases I can understand why they aren't bigger hits. Prey's box art makes it look like a particularly obnoxious Doom3 rip-off with some weird stuff about Indians, and STALKER has always been a touch more ambitious than its budget...

I love this game! And it does actually change the course layout as he suggests. And the best part is using large explosions to actually alter the track during the race! Like any race game, I'm sure it gets repetitive once you've learned all the possible course configurations and all the...

I don't remember how much it was tied into actual gameplay, but Dark Fall: Lights Out had a cool three-time-periods mechanic similar to Day of the Tentacle.

PC gaming will never die. Because by the time consoles kill off PCs, they will have become PCs.

Well crap, I was kindof looking forward to playing this. But I haven't got a 360, and I'm not buying one for one game. Idiots. Matching a game to the right "platform" is worth nothing if its not matched to the right audience. Even among console gamers I'm sure this title would sell better...

This. Lots of people here are shrugging Yahtzee off as just a humorist, but I for one think he's not only a real critic, but an excellent critic. And part of what makes him so good and so essential to watch is that he seems to take it as his duty to counter-balance the wet-noodle reviews you...

The games are definitely worth playing if you haven't (for the gameplay and visual design - the story is mayonnaise... brutal, angry mayonnaise). The question is simply how much the graphical upgrade is worth to you, considering replay value, the size and quality of your TV, and whether your...

Far Cry 2 is a lot of good ideas couched in really awful decisions - and the insta-respawning enemy checkpoints are probably the worst. The game will be brutally annoying and repetitive unless you go out of your way to vary things up a bit. Take a boat when you can, it's scenic and there are...

GOG.com I'll say it again: GOG.com Portal is an obvious call - you MUST buy that. You sound like the target audience for Dragon Age: Origins too, and it's worth checking out anything else by Bioware while you're at it. Otherwise it's hard to come up with newer titles to recommend. I...

People are sort of dancing around the question of consoles here. The faces (and everything else) do indeed look phenomenal in Crysis - way more so than HL2. But Crysis was made to push the bleeding edge of game graphics, a goal which has turned out to be out of step with the current focus on...

Good adventure games excel at this. Riven, Myst IV and Dark Fall were the most atmospheric for me. Also Ico, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein (I admit the last one might be because it was the first shooter I'd played since Doom II. ...But the crypt...

I'm another that sees no reason to be exclusive. I have an upper-mid range PC, a PS3, and a Wii. The PC is for first-person, the PS3 is for 3rd-person, and the Wii is for... uh.... I'll get back to you on that. The interface is everything. Different genres play best with particular control...

The first is still the best. For one thing, the series has gradually moved closer to making the player a badass action hero instead of one brave soldier among many - which was originally the whole point. And the river crossing at Stalingrad practically wins it single-handedly. United...