Recent content by Ross Zevenhuizen

This really comes down to an argument over style versus fidelity. Game graphics follow the same curve as any creative medium: at first the quickest way to make a beautiful piece is to expand the limits of the medium, but as innovations compound and begin to offer more options than artists are...

I've launched a similar argument before, but for different reasons. Namely: George RR Martin is a world-builder and big-picture storyteller who loves details. He is not a dramatist or character writer. His prose is the brownest I've ever read (with the exception of understatement grandmaster...

Honestly, what is there on mars to preserve? Rocks? Ice? Tiny, unthinking microbes? There's little nature to speak of, and even if there was, its benefit to us is only sentimental. Preservationism for its own sake just seems a foolish way to go here (though certainly, we could probably stand to...

I raised an eyebrow at the price myself, but weirdly enough... on examination and contrary to the usual way publishers and console manufacturers treat Canadians, we're not being screwed. It turns out that the current exchange rate for the Canadian Dollar is 75 cents US - the lowest it's been in...

Now, I wouldn't quite say that. With a friend and a few leftover characters you can create a horrifying item trade slip-n'-slide that bypasses soul memory completely and drops as many items of whatever power and upgrade level you could possibly desire right at the dazzling feet, of...

I don't think you're quite getting what I'm saying. I like Japanese VN's. They're host to some of my favourite stories in any medium. I just don't think that VN's, as a presentation format just like animation or books, have to be strictly Japanese. I'd like to also read some VN's that are...

It's pretty silly, isn't it? Who would've figured that what makes a visual novel a hit is largely the novel part? It's only natural the big companies can't output quality VN's, because they require quality writing. There's less flash and glamor to cover up the stink of sloppy writing in VN's...