Recent content by Kegluneq

Glad to see this getting some coverage here. One of the rather more significant problems with the original game was the (outsourced) translation, which in English was nigh on incomprehensible. That's something I'm looking forward to seeing fixed this time round! As a sidenote, the...

Oh good, the fedora brigade arrived. I only just got into Mass Effect having picked up the first two games in the January sale, playing as FemShep paragon. I've been so impressed with Jennifer Hale's performance so far that I'm just going to regard that playthrough as canon (I'll get round...

PS+ is amazingly good value. If you own just one Sony console, it's worth your money. If you have two or more, it's a complete non-brainer. Perhaps a lot of the new members already had a PS3 but hadn't yet justified the investment? At the risk of looking pedantic, the y axis isn't labelled...

I actually quite enjoyed it, although I'm glad I didn't pay full retail price for it. The combat was pretty bland and formulaic, but it was an incredibly attractive game and the story had a strong cyberpunk feel. I'd have been interested in a sequel certainly.

Hand signals are a pretty important part of those kind of missions, and would be far more realistic for giving those orders than saying them out loud. Ideally, you could hold a particular button to signal to the game that you were going to use hand signals (crouch, probably), then you could use...

...Because that's not what the phrase 'apropos of nothing' means? It's a more elegant way of saying that something was said or done with no apparent cause, and the expression would be readily recognisable to a speaker of British English. It's only pretentious if you don't know what it means. :/

I'm fairly sure this is the default storyline for anyone who accepts any storyline as they appear (my male character is flirting with characters of both sexes at the moment). But yeah, if a 'reference' of the strength in the original complaint is enough to offend you, this probably isn't the...

Aw, no love for Khad yet? His LPs of Thief and Amnesia (which can be found on his website [http://letscrosby.com/]) are brilliant. I'm also a huge fan of the Deadly Premonition LP as well. LPs are great when you want to get the full experience of the story of a game, but don't have the time...

I think one of the Police Quest games was based around the activities of a serial killer? I agree that it's a phenomenon that could be seen more in games. The problem is that the fantastical lifeview of the murderer is generally far more compelling than the squalid reality of most murderer's...

And pity is anathema to fear. The notion of getting killed by one of the beasts on the pages of The Passage may be scary, but there's nothing about them in and of themselves that leaps off the page and frightens the reader. I disagree with this. I think you missed the point of how the...

To everyone arguing that minimalist box art doesn't tell you what the game is like: DVD cases have two sides. The back of Ico has screenshots and writing telling you what the game is about, as does just about any other game, regardless of the art on the front. But anyway, the box art for Ico...

In the comics, Batman is elevated almost to superhero status just to balance out Superman. You know, world's greatest martial artist, criminologist, plans perfectly for any given situation (this last one all but is a superpower). Nolan's Batman is far from that level - he's human, with human...

Definitely. I think the subtleties of a system like this are kind of lost in recent games, since it was about more than just lampshaded binary choices. Did you neglect other characters or yourself more? Did you care enough about your wife to listen to all she had to say? Silent Hill 1 had...

Definitely. It's full of brilliant gameplay and a fantastically witty Douglas Adams-style storyline that parodies everything from Tolkienesque dwarfs to film noir private eyes, along with great voice acting and graphic design (it looks much, much better than Deus Ex). It does have its...