Recent content by saganaw

Alpha001, I'm personally hoping that the next Splinter Cell is the defibrillator shock the series needs. The idea of a game that simulates a movie like The Fugitive is tremendously exciting to me, even if it's a clean break from the ideas of the older games in the series.

Don't worry, Jagdedge. One time, I couldn't bring myself to play a Silent Hill 3 demo past the first room. The atmosphere alone convinced me to play something else instead.

Why am I not surprised that a guy named Alphavillain likes Jean-Luc Godard :)? Can you recommend a good movie to watch to get into Ozu's work? I've read about him and it seems like his movies would be kind of dull and difficult to watch.

The scariest game I've ever played, bar none, is System Shock 2, followed by Floor 13. I've only ever played SS2 on Easy Mode. That's all I intend to play. The whole thing forces you to realize that your character is just some insignificant monkey wrench that will soon be snapped between the...

Why isn't this in the "gaming discussion" section of the forum? That aside, tigsource.com has a list of 50 good independent games that tend to break some mold or other if they're not glorious homages to old-school gaming such as Cave Story. Check it out.

Jean-Pierre Melville, just for his sense of style. I've only seen Le Cercle Rouge yet, but all it does is hit plot point after plot point without ever increasing or decreasing its intensity. It sounds like it'd make for a really dull movie, but it's oddly hypnotic. I'll be trying to see Le...

FurryMIG--I can't agree with you more about Burnout 3's soundtrack. I never played Burnout 2, but what it did with sound sounds pretty awesome from your account. Burnout 3's soundtrack had two or three good songs on it, tops. The rest was horrible, and its awfulness was only increased by its...

Honestly, I don't remember much music from modern games. Defcon and Half-Life 2 come to mind, particularly the airy sounds from the bridge level. In Half-Life, I turned the music off because it was annoying. The music and ambient sound in Half-Life 2 prevented me from doing that in that game...

My recent favorite is killing the War Minister in a text adventure game called Varicella. I'll try not to spoil too much, because the game is very, very, short, but the object of the game is to kill all of the other ministers in the palace so you can become the new regent. The War Minister is...

Good idea, mediocre game: Tropico I liked the game, believe me, but I thought that the idea of running your own third-world country could have been much better executed. Of course, it's an absurd and cartoonish game in the first place (which is a strange stance to take on the third world)...

One of the reasons I'm wary of voting for Hillary is exactly that: I have to ask myself if I really want to contribute to the construction of a two-family dynasty. On the other hand, I've yet to do as much research as I should on the candidates, so I tend to take my own opinion with a grain of...

I was going to say that the "Wright brothers" idea seemed awfully familiar; playing Devil's advocate is a pretty common rhetorical device, as far as I know, but generally one does so just before shooting down that argument, while doing a "Wright brothers argument" seems to require one to ignore...