Recent content by Machocruz

Sorry to the console XCom bros. Unfortunately you are a small(ish)conclave of elite gentlemen among a sea of peasants who are only drawn to flashing lights and buttons of mashing; you are sophisticated mavericks in a generation of Go Fast.

Because this is likely a defense mechanism, one that has no basis in reality. Real time combat in games predates turn-based computer RPGs. We have action-RPGs going back to the early 80s. A person can maybe make the argument that party-based real-time wasn't possible, but they would need to...

Because of my arcade and early console background, any game whose creators are going to label it an "action game" has to bring the challenge, all the better if it's fast too. I rarely waiver on this. The Order from the get go has looked slow and anemic. I've seen nothing that looks like it...

Beginners can start with simpler games instead of trying to jump into a more complicated game because everyone else is playing it. Every other hobby has products designed for varying levels of skill and/or experience, from neophyte to veteran.

I'm not familiar with the Dice selection process, so: Why are only western AAA games contenders? Why does niche matter? If a game is the better executed game, what does budget or audience have to do with it, in a legitimate awards show? I know you're talking about the conventional wisdom that...

You can tell by playing. Or not, depending on what genres you're experienced in. Big difference between a fighting game or other intense action game at 30 and one at 60+. Games are about tactile interaction. Why people keep framing this as a graphics issue, I do not know. Reminds me of...

I simply reject the OPs premise on the grounds that A.) 60fps is not foreign to consoles B.) there are PC users who are satisfied too, so there is no reason to define this as a console issue. Not to mention that even if console gamers here weren't satisfied, so what? AAA developers and hardware...

WARNING: This is all almost completely tangential to your point,which I didn't realize to the end. But I already spent time typing it, so... I had plenty of problems with the look of The Hobbit, and my gaming diet consists of PC games and twitch action games -all running at a minimum of...

The "30fps is more cinematic" argument is the new "They could only do turn-based back then because of technological limitations." Both are situations where even basic knowledge of the medium and 5 seconds of critical thought show these up for the laughably erroneous claims they are. In the...

Video RPGs in general seem to be heading towards "theme park" MMO philosophy, where it's about getting people through the content rollercoaster in an expedient and direct manner. It makes market sense considering the amount of money being spent on AAA games. The general audience do not have the...

Seems like it's always a AAA game from the same 4 or 5 publishers that I should be getting hyped about, according to the mainstream game sites. It's so generic a heading that it could apply to hundreds of games over the past generation, yet it's predictable as to which games will get such...

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I'm often tempted to call this the worst RPG I've played, or one of the worst. But the genre is full of truly awful product, so that wouldn't be fair. But I would call Oblivion one of the dumbest WRPGs I have ever played. I played deeper, more complex, and more...

Most video game goons, including those of Tomb Raider, are criminals, mercenaries, or military combatants, and men vastly outnumber women in these professions. Fiction can only stretch observed reality so far before questions of verisimilitude start nagging at the audience, or becomes childish...

Your argument was that RPGs don't need attributes anymore because the game can let us just swing the sword, shoot the gun, etc. when we want. The attributes weren't responsible for being able to perform actions, just the degree of success of those actions. I could swing a sword in Ultima...

Programming code, animation, and inputs are what allow you to perform the actions in a video game. Attributes in the CRPG sense describe the physical and mental composition of your character. They are visible information. Shit, Fallout 3 straight out ignored the attributes on your screen and...