Recent content by qlpoth

Numbers are also unnecessarily difficult. You can spend hours writing up a perfectly worded review, saying exactly what you did and didn't like about a game, and then reach the end and still not have any clue what number to give it. I ran into this a lot when I was doing movie reviews in the...

Seconded. Make all the JRPG's you want, and play them all you want... just stop trying to convince me that I'm going to like them. I'm not. That's ok with me. I don't like coffee, either. Doesn't make me wonder why they don't stop production of it. And my friends don't come over every time...

Perfect example of why discussions like this will always go nowhere. Not flaming GS, although his name makes me want to. But his opinions on what makes a game 'immersive' are clearly different than mine. And since people have differing opinions, games are going to be made to differing...

OK, now I have to throw out trollbait: how is it that "Writing" and "Realism" are completely disconnected. If the main character walks around saying "I am Sad. My mother is dead and I feel sad." That's bad writing, true. but it's bad writing because it breaks realism, isn't it? Nobody talks...

Stop a second. Take fingers from keyboard. Look someplace other than the monitor. Is what you see an immersive Grey-brown? Mine is, but I'm in a drab office, so I'd call myself the exception. The current trend of grey-brown is nice and atmospheric, but not really realistic. I'd really like...

OK here's an argument I get into all the time. Is it important? to me, yes. I like immersion, and if a game has no basis in reality, it's hard to get immersed in it. The inevitable answer I get to this is: "But you're playing in a game that has INSERT UNREALISTIC THING HERE! How can you...