Recent content by innocent42

COD4 is probably the only "realistic" style action game I have played that had great graphics, an good storyline, a very nice variety of missions, and decent multiplayer. The first person shooting mechanics were great, but they were broken up nicely by interesting missions like the AC-130...

I hadn't even really heard of Dean until I started shopping around for my first instrument, but my dad has an Ibanez steel string acoustic he got in the early '80s that's really a very nice guitar. It's in a lot better condition than my Gibson too. :p Dean lovers: what do you like about that...

I'm planning to purchase a PRS (just an SE) in the next few months. Every review I've read says great value for the money for the SE Singlecut or Custom. I love the nice fat clear humbucker tone that they get on clean settings and they don't sound bad with a little fuzz or distortion either...

@Warpzone: I'd love to see that game made. There are a lot of possibilities for moral decisions there. Perhaps the player could be put in a situation where after intimidating people with the gun for a while they would have to actually shoot someone. Then we could tell if the buildup really...

TF2 is without a doubt the best game I have ever played online. Of the ones listed, COD4 probably, but it's merely good, as opposed to being genera-defining. I don't like Counter-Strike much, but I'm just as surprised as it's absence. Between the original and the Source engine remake, it's...

Is the problem really that parents don't pay attention to the games kids play, or is the problem that once they realize what's going they immidiately jump to the conclusion that the game will turn their kids into bloodthirsty killers? The comment about "seeing worse on the news" suggests to me...

Hardcore gamers are the evolution of the arcade junkies of the past. They play for the most kills, the highest scores, the most obscure achievements. They don't play games to enjoy the game, they play to win. The fun they get from games doesn't come from enjoying the pretty graphics, the...

Manliest of men. 11 girls to 101 guys, huh? That's way more than I expected.

More physics and interactivity. Huge, procedural environments. True open-worlds. Total destructibility. AI needs improvement even more than physics. I want characters I can relate to on a human level. Pure simulations, games where there is just a world and you can have power over it. No...

Atheist. There's no evidence of God's existence and I feel no spiritual need for there to be a god, so I don't believe in one. Most of the time I don't think about it, but when I do, it seems rather silly to me. Then again, I know that some people just need the comfort of spirituality and I...

Everyone says this, but the first time you see the Citadel in HL2. You step out of those double doors into the courtyard and there it is, dwarfing the tower with the screen on it, the setting sun burning behind it... such a beautiful game.

Great article. I used to hate running for school, doing 10 minute miles all the time (I never did a 30 minute mile. I mean, I can walk faster than that. :P) More recently I've begun to appreciate the feeling of satisfaction I get from running, doing well, and getting better. I recently...

I think if some hippy artistic game developer wanted to make an anti-war statement with a game, a WWI game would work quite well. I actually have a few concepts for one. You have to survive on the front in a trench. You're just a grunt, you're ordered to do stupid things like charge an enemy...

Jakub- You forgot Quake and Doom as defining FPSs, though modern FPS games don't have a whole lot in common with them. I personally think that AC looks totally awesome. I've never played it, but I like a game that doesn't drive you forward all the time. I see a lot of complaining about the...

I actually wouldn't mind a Half-Life movie, so long as it didn't reuse stuff covered in any of the games. The Seven Hour War springs to mind as a fertile place to make the film. Gordon is in stasis, so we don't have to deal with a crowbar-swinging mute, and the actual events of the war could...