Recent content by Noontide

I'm not a sports fan by any means but I enjoy a lot of sports games, including Madden despite the fact that I'm not American and don't give two shits about handegg. I understand that it sucks they keep rehashing the same game (though you can make this argument against a lot of series like most...

It's not a jump scare game. It's pure tension and atmosphere. The jump scare is just a game over screen. For the rest of the game you have to contend with being alone, immobile and defenseless, which is effective horror.

It's more that people other than Bethesda aren't bothering to attempt it. I really wish they would though, Bethesda games have a lot of flaws and I think the only reason they get away with it is because there are no alternatives in the free-roaming RPG genre. They need some harsh competition to...

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I'm bisexual. I've never been very interested in queer-focused fiction (like the shows you mentioned) but I appreciate it when a character shows up in another work and happens to be LGBT. This is true, but in games where romance is a big part of the game (like Bioware titles or Persona) and...

There are definitely recent games that can cause the wow reaction. Everyone I've talked to who played Dragon's Dogma took the same screenshot [http://www.herpy.net/gallery/data/media/68/1338943.jpg] at the same location during the final(ish) boss battle. That battle, and a lot of the battles in...

I like proper medieval style war hammers. They're very rare in video games though, the majority of game hammers are basically cinder blocks on a stick.

Rejoice. Franchises are used too often to excuse derivative gaming. "If it ain't broke" is a very limiting way of thinking. And a lot of people are persuaded to buy games for the brand over the content. It'd also stop people getting pissy because a sequel happens to be a massive departure for...