Recent content by maninblue

Dear Jim, Are we not missing out on a serious positive note here? After all, in the course of the spat the Dwarf character was outed as being gay. Surely that is a positive example of a gay character in gaming: the character is not defined by his sexuality, nor is his gameplay dependent...

I played a really awesome "Aliens" game once. It was called "Incubation" and had nothing to do with the Alien franchise, barring inspiration. It had pre-X-Com turn based squad combat (everyone gets one move, then one shoot), with RPG elements (need Heavy 4 to use that rocket launcher) and...

I kinda love the intro to UFO: Enemy Unknown. Even after all these years (and the full horror of the game's difficulty curve), the propaganda-cartoony action with popping music just gets me het up to go kick alien butt.

How has this gotten to four pages without anyone mentioning the Axe and Sword Twins from Prince of Persia: Two Thrones? Is it the fact that there are two of them? That one of them automatically parries everything you do and the other one parries every time unless he's powering up for an...