Recent content by Lavaeolus

Both can work depending on how you do them. There's a lot of focus on choice, recently, and while I don't have anything against choosing, I don't think it's inherently important to a game. I think the important thing is, if you're going linear, you do not just have a painfully long unskippable...

Missy wasn't killed by her deathray, though. She was killed by the Brigadier-Cyberman, saving the Doctor the relief of having her death on his soul (just like the Doctor took it to stop Clara from being a murderer). If your interpretation of the dilemna holds out, then that whole pay-off doesn't...

I think we all knew that Missy was not killed off, because of course they're going to come back. It's the bleeding Master. As far as revivals come, though, this is pretty immediate, and there's no real addressing of how she came back, not from the story or from its characters. I don't think...

I remember fairly distinctly when I decided Booker would be Comstock. I picked up an audio log and I think it said something about him aging rapidly, or maybe it was the sterile thing. I had the advantage in that I was really expecting there to be "a twist", though. If I hadn't picked up the...

Depends on the game. Some games make me want to replay them immediately, some make me want to play through again later, and others I'll wait ages until I semi-forget playing through it. Depends how dynamic the game is, choices, if it has different playstyles, if I can see new content, so on...

While the gameplay in "Final Nights" is drastically changed, even without the replacement of all the clans with wholly new ones (and not just reskins), as far as I know the general plot main missions remain the same. Occasionally bosses might be switched out -- the monster at Gallery Noir was...

It's hard to decide where to draw the lines of "fantasy", and more importantly where to draw the lines of "medieval". Star Wars is essentially space fantasy, and your own definition of fantasy seems pretty broad itself, but RPGs tend to be very Tolkienesque -- half the earlier ones were directly...

Speaking of course in aggregates, a generic minority from one specific country is probably going to be very different from someone who's the dominant ethnicity in some other country. Their culture could be, probably would be, completely different. If you wanted to have a game to represent you...

I don't know if it's worth focusing so much on visuals, here. They're are other ways to be iconic. You're bound to notice someone walking 'round in a giant GLaDOS suit (not the most practical cosplay, I'm sure), but ultimately it's less her look that's iconic and more her voice. Not sure if...

So obviously he's no Mario, and his visual design isn't much to look at (it's not just that it's simple -- overcomplicate a design and it'll be less "iconic", because I won't remember half of it -- but it's been done before). Still, he's fairly well-known as a good example of characterization...