Recent content by MichaelH

Bought it, played it, and I was genuinely creeped out in the beginning, especially from the ambient noise. But the chills wear off quickly. I would have bet money that Yahtzee would have come down on the sheer ease of the game, though. Ammo is everywhere, so much so that you end up selling...

Not that I could do any better, but that's possibly the worst voice acting since Resident Evil 1.

I'm actually going to have to back the developers on this one. From the shots I've seen, I don't know that I would describe it to people as "cel-shaded" but more along the lines of what developer Ben Mattes said: "a playable illustration." (Maybe even "stylized," but when I think "cel-shaded," I...

Without reviews, I wouldn't have much of an idea what's being released. I tend not to read previews for games because, in 20 years of gaming, I've come to learn that game previews are all made of gay, either overhyped, oversexed PR pap or speculative nonsense. I don't remember the last time I...

Nintendo started out as a playing-card company.

What is it about the "Disembodied Hands Grabbing Things" photographs that The Escapist's art directors find so damn compelling? http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/media/images/articles/folder/107/cover.png http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/media/images/articles/folder/88/cover.png

Wow I feel old. Some sort of Atari 2600 game whose name has been lost to the mists of time. It had...spaceships?

I nominate "Laser Dolphin" for Most Incongruous Title.

1) "Its." 2) Recent?

I saw the bootleg Spore vids two years ago and have been waiting for it since. It's definitely going to require a PC upgrade, I fear.

Broderbund. They had Carmen Sandiego, Lode Runner, and Myst. And now they have pink slips. There ain't no justice.

I need to point out in the interests of full disclosure that I had nothing to do with creating the mess of awesome in that picture. Maddoctorscat seems to believe that I am some sort of soldering whiz, but my participation in that project involved: a) stumbling across it on the Interwebs b)...

I believe my thinking was along the lines of, "That vagina will be there in the morning, but my Sim needs to use the bathroom NOW!"

There's a handy formula that works with alarming frequency in deciphering the quality of video games from its advertisements. If they show *gasp* actual in-game play, it just might be worth checking out. If they show a lot of of beautifully rendered cut scenes with a gravely voiced actor...

Okay, um...that one actually sounds kind of fun. Better than most of the games on Popcap, anyway.