Recent content by Ludological Outlaw

Max Payne 2 is indeed an underappreciated masterpiece of the highest order. The writing and storytelling are leagues better than the original, which was strictly amateur-hour. It's notsomuch the story itself, which on paper seems kind of dull and cliche, but the way the game so skillfully puts...

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Rockstar is, to a certain degree, a group of satirists and provocateurs, but they're making extremely successful products, which means that they really aren't goint too far out on a limb to be provocative to the gaming community. The one game in which they really pushed it, Manhunt, sold poorly...

I think this is giving Bungie too much credit. Halo is an above average game to be sure, but I don't find the story to be very interesting. It plays too much into game cliches of the lone space marine saving the universe from evil. I'm not saying this couldn't be interesting, if it did something...

I'd like to refer any interested parties to my five-week old blog, Ludological Outlaw Scribblings, wherein I look at gaming from my fairly pretentious perspective, though I like to think I try to keep my tongue somewhere in the vicinity of my cheek most of the time...

My favorite games of last year were SotC, Killer 7, and Resident Evil 4 in distant third. Despite being probably the best "game" there, Resident Evil 4 is quality of design over actual substance. It doesn't provoke thoughts, except "How in this day and age can a game made for adults be written...