Recent content by Mutak

Speaking of using meta-game knowledge to deduce plot points...didn't everyone who played Deus Ex intuitively know that Adam's ex was still alive as soon as they saw that there were no romance-ish dialogue options with the pilot?

"because obviously we're assuming this is a zombie game, what the hell else would it be" A survival/brawler game along the lines of Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games". Some other dystopian crumbling world where scavenging for raw materials is important.

Good production can't rescue bad writing and bad acting. That's three strikes for this series. Escapist should put it out of its misery.

I always refer to them as "completionists" and imo it's just a sign of latent OCD. A good game doesn't have to resort to cheap psychological tricks to get you to play it.

DRM hurts legitimate customers way more than it hurts pirates. Incidents like this turns customers into pirates. How many more incidents like this do we need before publishers get this through their thick skulls.

I don't like morality systems because it turns moral choices into just another game mechanic - a new set of points to score. Just SHOW the effects of my choices on the characters around me and on the game world/plot. On the other hand, on a purely utilitarian level, morality systems do at...

Very meh. The smexy queen gave me a chuckle because i wasn't expecting it, but even that wasn't very original.

This is a deeply pointless and off-topic argument, but for the sake of trying to get it over with... Speaking from something close to 30 years of experience, PC is a very common term in the larger PnP RPG community. If your primary interaction is as a casual player, i can sort of understand...

They have said that it's not going to be World of Starcraft, but doesn't that seem like a terrible waste of well-established and well-liked IP? An MMOFPS based on Starcraft seems like it would be a no-brainer smash hit if it were well done. Steal the best parts of TF2 for PvP, add an open...

I can totally understand that. If you're really into shooters then the echo/anarchy mode probably isn't going to give you a lot replay value because those aspects of the game are actually strategy games with a veneer of shooter on top. They're really all about resource management. What do you...

Calling this game stupid fun is both accurate and a disservice to the game itself. Yes, it is stupid fun, but it's also more than that. Bulletstorm is a crass and gory symphony of mayhem. It's ridiculous and over the top and it knows it - revels in it. It allows you to run and gun without much...

"White Wolf's drama-free World of Darkness" First time that phrase has ever seen the light of day. White Wolf's tragically romantic (or maybe just tragic) vamp fans have been cutting themselves since before most Twi-hards were even born. (Full disclosure: I played in a large, long-running VtM...

We always assumed that they were copying AD&D and had to rename their stuff just to avoid getting sued.

The agency issue was really just an aside anyway, so i'll concede it. Alignment can be used like a club to dictate players' actions but it is not necessarily and unavoidably so. The real argument is that alignment is a weak, fuzzy mechanic, and brings no substantive benefit to the game. The...

That's really splitting some hairs. "I am the champion of free choice. Yay freedom. You're free to do anything you want, but if you do this or this or this or this i'm going to hit you with this club. But hey - you're still free to do those things." With a definition like yours, just about...