Recent content by Kompi

The Thief series definitely is one of my favourite series of games - I even quite liked the third, in spite of its issues. I understand why it had to do things differently and I think they had a good idea with it, they were just a little too limited, and could've executed some of their ideas a...

What, no mention of the Cradle? ;( I'm disappointed, the Cradle was one of the more epic moments in PC gaming! (though the Haunted Cathedral is a decent enough substitute)

I've gotten this a few times, though it's generally rare and doesn't seem to have any particular pattern to when it happens. I tend to label it some permutation of "zen" since for me it tends to represent a state of unnatural calm (I'm the nervous and excitable sort otherwise) where everything...

I'd agree with Thunderhorse - a series or franchise that never updates or changes becomes stagnant, releasing the same product with minor changes ever and ever. On the other hand, when you change things, there's always a risk that the end result isn't necessarily better. While I defenately...

"Small accurate automatics" Is the world imploding from the contradiction yet? I generally have a tendency towards high fire rates, quite possibly out of a simple quantity versus quality mindset as my general accuracy is, shall we say, not entirely satisfactory. So in the average game I...

I don't think I can quantify evil in a sense of "ammount of evil" since let's face it: a vast majority of the games available have some evil force or person that seeks to destroy/enslave/control/conquer/whatever the masses or at the very least "you". Only a few of them evoke much emotional...

Hands down, MechWarrior 5. Microsoft, whyyyyyyyyy have you forsaken us? ;_; Then again, I fear it'd end up a gutted, consolified version. MechWarrior needs a keyboard for all kinds of not-vital-but-useful functions, okay? For second places, I'd nominate FreeSpace 3 and this:

In my own experience with the HALO series.. I actually found playing at anything harder than easiest highly immersion breaking as it turned Master Chief from a highly trained, genetically superior super soldier of awesome to a fragile little infant trying to play with the grownups. Not quite...

I believe it was Seanbaby who put it something along the lines of that the chance of him being randomly shot when meeting a gamer on the street was less than the chance of him driving around a Batmobile made out of winning lottery tickets. And to Mr. J (a.k.a. tiredinnuendo): xD

Why not grab on to even older, similar buffoonery? Let's all yell in a loud voice "It wasn't the games, it was the Rock 'n Roll, man!" Or perhaps not. According to Wiki (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIU_Shooting ) and associated links, the general idea is that the shooter had started...

No enemy in any game has ever unsettled me as much a the Haunts in Thief 1 and 2. (Though there's that level in Thief: Deadly Shadows..) Following on ReepNeep's statement however, that's not really the only case or type. On pure singleplayer excitement, I know I had this moment after the last...

I'd say this is far more one of the core issues of the problem rather than a symptom of it. In my mind it makes perfect sense that the average game is only average, just like the average movie is only average or the average TV show is only average. If people watch the average movie and the...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that talking about what you like in a game can actually be a fair bit harder (and often quite a bit less interesting) than going over what you don't like. Now I don't know about you, but whenever I'm having fun I generally just enjoy myself rather...