Recent content by Katana314

This is why I will never drink beer.

Arkham Asylum's challenge rooms can be a nice stress reliever if you're pretty good at them.

I could go without voice acting. Some of my favorite characters are in games with voice-acting only used for tiny signature moments of dialog. Examples: Phoenix Wright: "OBJECTION!" Agent Kahn, EBA: "Agents are.....GO!!!!" Derek Stiles: "I WILL save this patient!" See, for me, voice...

They just need to provide more hard-counters, like Bad Company 2 did by having flares completely negate the tracer dart. For instance. Have a certain type of body armor that makes you take double damage from low-caliber guns (pistols, SMGs), but completely invulnerable to assault rifle...

To be perfectly honest, I'm somewhat surprised that anyone still plays Mass Effect for its gameplay. It never settled on a good formula for its combat, can't decide what to do with its RPG system, and the AI squadmates are idiots. On the plus side, it has had some very notable storyline, so I...

Put the credit card away and get Team Fortress 2. It's free. http://store.steampowered.com/app/440

Another text from PC: He says... "If you don't like paying for games, you could always get them for free. And I don't mean piracy. [http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/06/free-steam-games/]" I'm sorry that the waiters serving you (Microsoft, Sony) are slow to that bandwagon.

LA Noire. I'm not saying the game was wholly horrible, but if someone's playing through the ending, chances are they're not satisfied. You don't see many threads saying "(SPOILERS) LA Noire's ending was amazing!!!"

Watching the combat trailer, I sort of wonder about the usefulness of range combat. I don't see any issues in my mind, but then again I had no high expectations of the game yet. Like anything, I'll wait for a demo.

I understand what you're assuming, but I think you've fallen into a misconception. Mainly, that a complex and multilayered story is more valuable. You know how on the TVTropes main page, it says how tropes are not a bad thing? It's not like as long as something falls into a pattern or fails...

I'm hoping Origin does something to get me interested. It WON'T, of course, but I can hope. I've always been pissed that the PC gaming world seems governed by one commercial entity, though the whole point of the platform is meant to be that it's "open".

The only big issue I see is that video games are always the equivalent of CGI in a movie; it's all by a computer. When we see nudity on the movie screen, it's a more natural representation.

Ivy was my best character in Soul Calibur 2, but I could only stand playing as her with the formal-looking blue attire. Seriously, I would rather see a scantily-clad GUY than that shit. In the later games when all her outfits are really sexual, I stopped playing.

I wasn't sure about the idea at first. Then, I saw their manga; they manage to get the logic and trick elements MUCH deeper than they could ever get in a game. Phoenix Wright determines conclusively that someone could not have heard a wind chime over a cell phone because they can't transmit...

Arrrgh, I kinda thought I had played all games you'd be referencing, but I hadn't. Now one of them's spoiled for me. It does kind of frustrate me, and the game needs to be sure that its positive-quality emotional impact is stronger than that frustration, especially since logically, the fact...