Recent content by hendersonl

The thing is Rowling doesn't have anything to do with the movies, other than having fleets of dump trucks roll up on her lawn and dump out mountains of pound notes. So I think she might get a pass on that. Personally, I really like most of Roman Polanski's movies, and would really like to see...

"So, if God of War is popular, it's because lots of people today are emo, selfish, self-hating, physically weak, sexist, responsibility-avoiding whiners who sympathize with Republican economic policies." That pretty much sums up most gamers I know. Wankers. L.

I agree with a point Yahtzee made in a recent Zero Punctuation, that no company is going to be able to out-World-of-Warcraft World of Warcraft. While this fictional fantasy world may very well be interesting, I don't see anything here to suggest it's anything other than standard extruded fantasy...

Computer RPGs have never been good at demonstrating a "believable" morality/ethical system, in large part because they tend to be morally simplistic (absolute good vs. absolute evil), even the non-fantasy games. In a more complex model of a believable setting (believable as opposed to...

Creepy.

Myst: I know there are lot of self-proclaimed gamers who don't like it -- it isn't a game, blah, blah, blah. Before Myst, though, I not only had never owned a computer game, I'd never even played one. They simply didn't interest me at all. Myst not only reached out and grabbed me and wouldn't...

"...as in the point where you have to make your monster sidekick vomit gelatin over a set of dominoes so they won't fall over and detonate a bomb." Odd game logic, yes, but it did feature what was quite possibly the best line from any game I've ever played -- "So, what is that stuff they...

I'm white, but my name, to some people, "sounds black." On several occasions, when people met me after just hearing my name, the first thing out of their mouths was, "I thought you were black." I was told by someone who worked at an agency where I once applied for a job that, although I was...