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Yahtzee: If you are remembering the "Everything's Out To Kill You" days fondly, you need to go play a little freeware game called "I Wanna Be The Guy." It's a reality check for that kind of thinking, if I ever saw one.

A wonderful review. Yahtzee shows that he can't stand others horning in on his style, and that he has a certain...flair for disaster in regards to Google Image Search.

How is it the song goes? "Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people"? There's great truth in that. Another turn on it is that it's trying to make the art of game design accessible to everyone with a minimum of training, disregarding that people to a one are stupid. (And yes...

Some of us, on the other end of the spectrum, enjoy that kind of thing. I did, anyways, but I'm a little off kilter by gamer standards. While it doesn't belong in every FPS- despite what the baboons that man most the industry seem to think- it works well in some games. The Deus Ex series is...

Well. So much for a good time travel game. I will now admit I'd kill for a new Journeyman Project game...

Feeling a little bitter, Yahtzee? Guess I am a little lucky, living in the US, where the censors stopped caring what got through the gates. Yeah, we have the whole government outcry against game violence on occasion, but it's finally sinking that the gamers they uniformly pissed off as...

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Unless you've got Vista with Direct3D 9, in which case it's touch-and-go to see if either game will actually run. That snipe aside, there's also Tachyon: The Fringe, which makes some pretense at being a "mercenary" game (It's really a choose-a-side deal) and has Bruce Campbell as your...

Actually, it occurs to me to bring this up right about now: Yahtzee, in case you didn't notice: Yes. There was a franchise apocalypse where both Friday the 13th and Star Trek were concerned. (Final Destination never actually had one, it was just that lousy to begin with.) So the studios...

Poor camera angles. Spam attacks that kill you in one or two hits. Cheapass bosses (Are you listening, SNK/Playmore?). AI whose main programming dictates that they should always get in front of me in a dogfight. Poorly designed controls.

Ordinarily, I'm inclined to take ZP with more than a few grains of salt. But in this case, I make an exception. Yahtzee, you magnificant bastard, that was absolutely wonderful.

Putting a little more thought into this, part of what can cause damage to a sequel is the developer needing to tweak or change a system that really doesn't need it. Tales of Monkey Island is one such case; play ToMI and then go and play Sam & Max or SBCG4AP and notice that TellTale well and...

Both the Elite Force games are okay, though the first is arguably better than the second. Another good one to find is Star Trek: Bridge Commander. While playing captain might seem boring, it's not (There's an option to fly the ship in combat yourself, if that's your cup o' tea). The...

Depends on my mood. Lately, it's been Coheed and Cambria's Welcome Home, and by extension the entire soundtrack to the upcoming movie 9.

That's an old fashioned view if I've ever seen one. Just 'cause you don't see girls playing what you consider "hardcore" games doesn't mean they aren't there. Most of the gamers I hate playing against are women. They are a demographic nowadays, and they deserve a little respect for it...