Recent content by lepito

Nobody here mentioned Radiant Historia?

Interesting that you would bring up the networking model of the series' multiplayer, because I'm fairly certain that dedicated server functionality was promised and then not delivered for Advanced Warfare on Steam. As a result, the game is unplayable and seems to barely be populated these days...

What was important to me about the WWII Call of Duty games sans World at War wasn't just about the setting. It was in how they played and the experience those games tried to portray. The first two games by IW were unabashedly WWII movie-ripoffs, and while CoD did go farther than even games like...

Quake. Always Quake. Fast-paced shooters (both single and multi-player) always give me an adrenaline rush, and for whatever reason they're one of the few genres in which I can actually get excited or feel competitive. Sadly, I don't play as much anymore but maybe I should change that.

Having been both a PC and console gamer for the entirety of the time I've bought and played games, I gotta say I never understood the sentiment that you should have to choose between console OR PC, or that being a PC gamer requires an "investment" of money. Of course, without investment you're...

Soul Calibur probably has the most fully-featured single-player. I think when fighting games consider single-player they should concentrate on a wider variety of modes for casual play instead of attempting to adapt the competitive versus format into a story. Like, Blazblue and Guilty Gear Xrd...

In most games, conversations between characters are binary. That is, characters only talk to each other one at a time and when the player strikes up a conversation the context is almost always completely abandoned. Do not fret. This is a natural consequence of the innate hive-mind telepathy...

I remember an episode of CSI name-dropping Playstation here or there. Whenever you see games depicted in other media it's more often than not shoehorned it, and its very presence apparently needs some sort of introduction. People in the States know Microsoft and they've heard of Xbox even if...

I don't know if there are any games that I continue to play just to listen to the soundtrack, but hearing the music first definitely has a big influence on whether I check out a game I've never heard of. Mostly RPG battle themes and sometimes stage music. You find a lot of really cool old...

I'm not so upset that "retro" might mean something different today than what I used to think when I saw the word. I do think that these days it's a cop-out for a developer to use as a self-descriptor of their game. The thing that game developers never seem to understand is that you only need...