Recent content by miawallace

I had a demo of Zoo Tycoon, and would have endless fun building the zoo properly until the point where a lot of punters would come in, then demolish the fences around the lion enclosure.

The worst example of this I've encountered is in GTA4, where they've assigned the same button for 'get in a taxi' and 'hijack a car'. Did it not occur to the developers that this might cause a few problems??? Another one is games which have been ported to the PC from consoles and seem to...

What are the most aggravating flaws in games? Not the annoying stuff, but the things which will actually ruin a game, or at least your enjoyment of it? For me, the worst thing is problem-solving games in which the solutions don't make any sense. When I've spent three days driving myself...

Basically all the gameplay stuff that got changed from how it was in Morrowind needs to be changed back again.

In WoW, all mobs can see out the backs of their heads if you are behind them, but can't see you if you are a couple of metres away right in front of their face, killing their colleague. Also, if they get hit with a distance weapon, rather than alerting all their many, many nearby friends, they...

Is it just me or has the 80s revival now been going longer than the actual 80s? Seriously, I distinctly remember dancing to Wham, Rick Astley etc in 1998, and now the shops are full of nothing but sweater dresses and skinny leg pants. Perhaps *that's* the identity of the 2000s.

This is the most intelligent internet discussion I've ever seen.

I've played quite a few games which haven't had any moral 'take' on the subject matter when they probably should have. Like in Age of Empires and similar games, on random map games you actually have to commit genocide to win. You have to hunt down and kill every last unarmed civilian, plus...

Has anyone else noticed that people normally refer to Yahtzee in the 3rd person, then as soon as he shows his face everyone suddenly starts speaking to him directly (especially on the first page of the thread)? Also, that was obviously a seriously unflattering photo on the travelogue...

Possible reasons for women not being into gaming... 1) Gaming lends itself better to things which men tend to be into, like violence, highly competitive anything, car racing, sports etc. If you look at the non-computer games little boys play there are usually about a million computer games...

Is it just me or is there a massive time management problem in the game industry? It's gotten to the point where repeated delays on a game's release are seen as a good thing, because it suggests that it won't be released full of bugs. How hard is it to accurately estimate the time it will...

Whenever a game has a good/evil plot fork, I always feel guilty doing the evil stuff, don't do it properly, and then end up still going down the good path even though I was only doing evil things to see what happens down the evil path. I feel bad about killing peasants, even though they don't...

Most people here would probably be too young to remember this, but... Head over Heels. The most awesome puzzle solving game ever to come out of the 1980s. And it involved a doughnut gun. When I found out someone had remade it for the PC screen for screen I was so happy. Also, any of the...

People are intentionally funny sometimes. The funniest thing I've ever heard was when a group of us were in Dire Maul in WoW, and our warlock/mage (whichever one does mind control) mind controlled one of those satyr things. He'd done mind control before but the thing he'd been controlling had...

I've often thought how great it would be if life was like the original Wolfenstein, and you could recover from a terrible injury by stepping in a plate of food.