Recent content by RavenDrake

Mmmmm... Sally Acorn. Sorry, Sonic TV series flashbacks.

Having never gotten around to playing any of the Assassin's Creed games yet, I'd just like to say that the "dragging their feet like a leper with length of rope" line is officially replacing the "breaks flow" line from Burnout Paradise as my favourite Yahtzee metaphor.

Perhaps, in going with the triangle graph (where each side is represented as a length based on score) it would be more fitting, rather than just giving a 1-10 Sucks/Awesome rating, that you give it a balance rating instead... ie, on Challenge, a good score is 5(representing an excellent balance...

Every ES game I've played my first character has been a female Khajiit acrobat/thief calling all the way back to Daggerfall where I made one with the red-haired bob haircut, went into the inventory to put on her ebony dagger I got from the emperor, took off her shirt by accident and spent the...

Agreed... while I understand it, it would be nice to see the game take that sort of thing into account as you move forward and let your abilities in the puzzle/detective side guide your final ending... Ie: If you do really well with those aspects, you'll get better information giving you a...

I'm curious... why is the "someone gets off on it" thing so bothersome to people when it comes to gore? I mean, I know there are people with high-heels fetishes, but I don't squick out every time a Payless shoes commercial comes on. Is it just because having graphic violence/gore is already...

Maybe it's just me, but the improvements they've made to the combat engine for this release tell me they're actually taking it seriously over and above just "peddling gore" (well, relatively seriously). I'm well aware that the fatalities and blood are selling points for the niche the series...

Or it could be because, despite its obsessive cult of fan's beliefs, the game did have some legitimate flaws. It was a fairly linear string of puzzles jacketed in a game-like veneer of travel consisting of a progression of (for the period good) CGI stills. Despite the puzzles themselves...

All of the command input weapons were insane... Marsil, Sword of Dawn, the named Katanas, two heaven swords... And the Shield Rod/Mablung combos. Frankly, the only actually challenge in the game is reaching 100%+ completion (finding all the items and exploring the 240% or something of...

Oh god, the Nether... The rest of the Minecraft world is nervewracking at times, but not exactly "scary"... but the damn Nether is just... built, literally, from nightmare fuel. You can tell, cause most of it will CATCH FIRE.

I'm taking this opportunity to vent, so yeah... I take exceptions to steampunk and its followups for one thing... they're almost always a purely visual aesthetic. Cyberpunk got it's name from combining the futuristic science fiction element with the conceits of the Punk movement (power of...

The more I read up on this game, the more my spirit spirals into the dirt like a WWII bomber with 1 engine.... I was actually quite literally just playing Max Payne 2 recently wondering if anyone could come up with a good way to segue into a new game... I'm sad the answer so far is "No...

My first real victory was beating Bionic Commando on NES. I still remember taking the swing over the spikes and dropping a super rocket right in Not-Hitler's face through the chopper windscreen. One of my favourite childhood games....

I think perhaps "staring at" is the wrong choice of words... more like "constantly see". Sure you fight, and you jostle, you and loot, and then you glance at your warrior's ass and say "Oh, look, two flabby shanks of ham in a tincan". It's the same reason people take to modifying thier GUI...

Bushido Blade 1 and 2 A PSX versus fighting game franchise by Squaresoft, the Bushido Blade series combined an excellent skill based combat mechanic with the visceral, flash of the blade, sudden death of old-school samurai movies. Using a body damage system to track hits meant if your arm is...