Recent content by Michael Collett

I guess my point about the Walking Dead was that if you had no prior foreknowledge of the game and how it works than you were not aware that all the choices were just smoke and mirrors. When I tried to save Duck in Chapter 1, Kenny basically runs in and does a much better job of it and the...

A game can still be awesome by giving you an illusion of choice. Just look at the Walking Dead - the ending is the same no matter what you do. However in that game they managed to give the player a sense of agency at all times, you always felt like you could have changed the outcome for the...

I'm not big on sandbox games - I keep buying them and getting bored as soon as the game finally lets you explore on your own. That didn't happen with Sleeping Dogs. I did every mission in the game and it was over in 20 hours. I didn't get every collectible, just the ones I drove past. The...

I agree that splitting the player base can be a problem for those who play a lot of MP. However, I think that if they increased the social tools (or even reverted to the simple D2 system) and we would have infinitely more power to find people we actually want to play with. Most of my MP in D3...

It's not just the AH that ruined D3 though. Its that the items are boring. When the best items are just the same as what you have with bigger numbers then how exciting can be it. I don't feel excited by 'Sick now I do 20k more DPS!' as much as +1 to all skills. The way to fix the game for me...

I really wanted to love D3. I still hope they can turn it around, but a LOT of work needs to be done. The key mistakes of the game in my opinion were fueled by ideas stolen from MMOs - but without understanding why they work so well in MMOs and why they might not work in a ARPG. Social...

I had a terrible saving issue recently. I was playing Lotr:War in the North on couch coop with my girlfriend and on our second session it said saving for her character was disabled because I was further in the quest then her (which I wasn't)... I figured it would still save her character in my...

I've recently got into the CBs with Tropico 4 and loved it. I was really looking forward to Simcity - but I didn't buy it on launch as soon as I heard the Always Online and Multiplayer aspects. CB's are not, or ever had been good for multiplayer. Particularly not this 'Farmville'-esque...

I use my Dualshocks3 on my PC. Google Motion In Joys DS3 tool. It lets you use a wired DS3 control as an XBOX360. Games will still tell you to press the xbox buttons, but if you're familiar with an xbox control you can figure it out.

You were walking down the street You were just across the street So I had to cross the street To get your side of the street -Dark Angel- Electric Six

As with every sane person: Simplifying mechanics - Mechanics should be as complicated as needed to provide a compelling experience. Not an ounce more. Making Easier - No! A lot of the fun of old RPGs seems to be the learning of a games mechanics through experimentation. Well, nowadays we...

In Australia, 120 new AAA titles is standard. Hell I still haven't seen Mario Galaxy 2 for under 90 bucks. The whole 'you have double minimum wage you need to pay double argument is balls'. Obviously domestic goods will be more expensive, because suppliers of those goods have higher costs...