Recent content by Hides His Eyes

The problem with this kind of thread is that you get a lot of people whose opinions are completely irrelevant to you because they simply have totally different values and expect different things from a game. There has to be a certain amount of agreement between my views and yours before it's...

I will bookmark this thread. I'm not necessarily looking for light-hearted silly fun games, just games with locations that are more natural, varied and colourful and less based around corridors and concrete. Some of these suggestions look like just the ticket though, so thanks everyone!

Can anyone recommend any recentish games with vibrant colour schemes and beautiful settings? This is connected to the old brown-and-grey complaint, I suppose, but I'm also getting sick of the amount of man-made stuff in game locations nowadays. I've just finished Human Revolution and although I...

I think you're right, but I'm pretty sure EA have no interest in a stable fanbase. What they want is as many people willing to spend money on their stuff as possible, in other words the lowest common denominator. And that demographic is constantly changing but not diminishing; as you say, when...

I really miss the days when a game being released meant it was finished. I seem to be almost alone in this but personally, quite aside from the money side of things, I don't want games to be these never-ending "services" that you can keep indefinitely spending more money on to expand the content...

"I have yet to see an online game with a smooth launch though." But Diablo 3 is not an online game. Like its predecessor, it has a single player option and a multiplayer option. But in D3 the single player option depends on an internet connection too. You're right in saying that server...

Again, there is no "nostalgia" in sight here. Things have changed and many of us think that change has been for the worse. This is a perfectly reasonable position to take, it has nothing to do with being blinded by nostalgia. But your opinion of FFXIII suggests that you and I have radically...

Ok, maybe I do like working the system a little. But it's definitely secondary to the choices thing. I am always out to create MY character, not necessarily the BEST character. And yes, there are some big RPGs that still do the choices thing pretty well. Amalur is a good example, based on...

I agree they can't currently have both. As I said, character options and depth are (partially) at odds with fast-paced action gameplay. My point is that there is no reason to always pick one over the other, when there is clearly still a huge market for games that sacrifice the latter for the...

"That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it, and your poetry will now be written with blood." Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch... At least I think this is original to the film, a lot of the lines in it are actually from William Blake poems. "Well, that's just like...

You should read it again if that's the only part you liked! It is full of great quotes. "And this, too, has been one of the dark places of the earth."

This post has a lot of pictures and very little substance. We're not luddites. Of course I'm not against better graphics and more advanced gameplay. What people like myself and the OP dislike in many modern RPGs is the stripping away of complexity in order to make gameplay more accessible for...

Yeah I see your point. But fidelity to real-world physics is not the most important thing. Also, I don't find maths fun at all, I just loooove building my own characters, and if a little maths is required for that then so be it. I do get tired of explaining to people that it's about choices...

I don't own the game, but maybe I'll give it another go some time. One thing I did like about it was the move from 3rd edition to 3.5. Rangers don't suck anymore! Thanks for the pointers.