Recent content by Gypsyssilver

Depends on the game. If I'm buying it when it's in Alpha or Beta, then it needs to have enough gameplay that I can jump in and start playing it. I don't want to feel like I've purchased a demo. I want to feel like I've purchased a full game - that still has room for improvement. Like...

Holy crap. You're totally right about Bleach. I never even realized (as I'd kinda stopped paying attention by then). I was continuing to watch it - but more out of apathy than anything else. It never occurred to me that the Orihime kidnapping thing was pretty much exactly the same as the...

I stopped reading that series after a while as well. I really liked books 1 - 3. The series really seemed like it had potential. Book 4 was a bit off, but still readable. After that... not so much. And what was with the constant AmnesiaPlot! Sometimes she had amnesia. Sometimes he had...

I gotta agree with Vault here. All of your arguments seem almost rational on the surface. But when you read between the lines of what you're saying - it's just putting women down. It's subtle, but it's still negative. Let's translate, shall we? "most [men] understand [objectification]...

Morrigan from Dragon Age. She spent most of the game in very little clothing. But damn, she was a badass...

Speaking as a woman, it's a bit of a combination of the two. It all comes down to how safe the woman feels. Does she feel like the guy is actually a nice guy? Or does she feel threatened by him in some way (either by his physical characteristics, the way he dresses, their surroundings, or his...

It really depends on the individual anime. I generally prefer the subs. The quality seems to be higher overall, and it has the side benefit of helping me practice my Japanese listening skills. I'm a lot warier when it comes to the dubs - most of the time they're just not quite there. Or...

I think for me it came down to expectations versus reality. If the original movies had never existed, then I would have gone to see episode 1, thought it was terrible and then gone about my life, never thinking about it ever again. But the original movies DID exist. I remember watching...

85% of them are pure garbage. They tend to be poorly written, with atrocious grammar and spelling. There is little character development (they're barely even one-dimensional). The execrable 'plot' is often the worst part - you can actually feel your IQ decreasing point-by-point with each...

I love it when they get away from the bog-standard settings in favour of something a bit different. I mostly see it in fantasy games - but it's always neat when you see completely out-there plant/terrain/creature designs - ones that show a bit of imagination. Other than that, I usually prefer...

I always hated FPS games. I avoided them like the plague for years. Then one of my friends whined at me to try Borderlands. I put him off for months, then gave it a go just to shut him up. I loved it. Now I don't just flick past the FPS genre in favour of something else - I'll actually...

Hmmm. Only retrospectively. I'm always willing to give new things a chance - especially if they're based on something I love. But if they fail to live up to what has come before... I just pretend they don't exist. I pretend a lot of things don't exist: -There was only one Matrix...

Posted in error - ignore. What a fail. Also didn't notice I'd already posted on this one. One of those days.

I'd get: Final Fantasy X (amazing storyline, beautiful cutscenes, definitely my favourite on that console). Star Ocean: Till the end of time. Another RPG - interesting story, if slightly more one-dimensional than the above game. Great crafting system added a lot of depth. Dark...

Exactly! That's what gets me - why bother lying? If it really was just due to their 'vision' for how the game should be - they should have been upfront about it. "This is what we wanted to make, you can choose to play it or not". I'd have to respect that (though I'd still be disappointed of...