Recent content by MBurdock

Nope. From the review, "the subject matter or the protagonist's morals are skewed too far from the norm to be comfortably witnessed." He names a bunch of violent films that he thinks work because the audience can somewhat relate to the person causing the violence, and then argues that GTA V...

Regarding the hypothetical HL3 review. Yep, totally fine with that. Why would I care about a CoD fanboy's opinion on gaming? Imagine that Martha Stewart had a game review publication... would I give a crap? Nope. Same deal. The interests of the reviewer determine whether their scoring is of any...

So you're suggesting that game reviews should only be written with an audience in mind of people who would like the game? To paraphrase Jim Sterling, "If you like this game, then you'll find it enjoyable. If you don't like this game, you won't." Seems to me that rather demand some ridiculous...

You're conflating two issues. 1. Whether the considerations of the reviewer are considerations for the audience. 2. Whether the considerations of the reviewer should be considerations for any review. Most of the criticism here has been about point 2, and the defense of the review has...

The one thing missing from all the reviews that I have read so far is that a lot of the value of the game is going to be found online. That was true for RDR for me at least. So even if the narrative is garbage... that's arguably only for half of the game (depending on how you play.)

Violent characters are clearly part of the intended design, so you could assess them on how well they carried it off. However, Rockstar probably had additional goals than effectively conveying that characters are violent. They wanted the game to be an enjoyable experience. The argument being...

Milanezi, if you're looking for objectivity in reviews, what would you expect reviews to cover? Presumably, graphics, controls, framerates, glitches, etc. Those are generally pretty objective. What about the aesthetic visual appeal of the game? What about the appeal of the story? What about...

You're incorrect. Validity of an argument is a function of the structure of the argument rather than the truth value of the statements. For example, the following argument is valid. 1. If A then B. 2. A. 3. Therefore, B. The truth of 1 or 2 has no bearing on validity. The following...

I see video games to need to have at least one of the following to be decent: gameplay, story, or spectacle. I can do with crap graphics if the gameplay is great (see FTL). I can do with crap gameplay and spectacle if the story is great (Eternal Darkness is still interesting to play despite...

The thing I don't understand is that it is bricking if power is lost while downloading. I understand installing, but isn't the WiiU caching the download for installation later? Why would it do it at the same time? It seems to unnecessarily double the window for something to go wrong.

I can think of a few. No checkpoints, clunkier controls, but all content on the damn disc.

Diablo 2. One or two Baal runs was fun, but if I started to get bored, I was compelled to keep going or run Mephisto until I got a somewhat interesting drop. That can take a while.

Motion controls? Outside of the basic sysaxis stuff, they ruin immersion. Besides, if I want to play sports, I will play sports. DLC is here to stay and there is nothing to do about that. As far as realism goes, I'm against it. It costs too much. It's clear that many gamers see day 1...

Post it as a Google document and share it with those who PM you.

Siren or Assassin. I like point and shooty a little less point and shooty.