Recent content by Salopian

I love all of the Assassin's Creed games, but I hope they do something radically different with the setting and characters for AC5. The Ezio/Italy thing is getting a little boring.

Well yeah, but surely some games stand out more than others as needing improvement?

The STALKER "trilogy". Talk about a rough diamond(s). There's a fantastic game locked away behind terrible and utterly frustrating combat mechanics, bugs, flat characters and some lots of unexciting and meaningless missions. I've still played them all extensively, though, I just hope the...

I liked the ending the way it was.

The Silent Hill series. The thinking person's Resident Evil. That said, any philosopher will tell you that philosophy is everywhere. It's hard to imagine something that isn't philosophically interesting or at least a gateway to deeper thought.

All of the weapons lacked any kind of satisfying "feedback" imo, except for the ones I listed. Yahtzee's latest article addresses this very issue in games. It doesn't even matter how much damage the weapon is actually doing, if it doesn't FEEL powerful and there's no indication of how much...

Welcome to the time of your life when everything you enjoy is disapproved of by your parents; any attempts to reason with them over their subjective interpretation of your tastes in things is met with little success. You could troll her by playing black and death metal at maximum volume...

No. I do the same with many games. Just because you play on the PC doesn't mean that every game has to be played with mouse & keyboard. Fighting games and racing/driving games are just as awkward that way as playing FPSs and RTSs with a joypad. On topic, I voted for PC.

The most obvious offender: Doom 3. The chainsaw, the BFG and the super shotgun in the Resurrection of Evil expansion pack were the only weapons which didn't suck. For a sequel to reboot of a game that defined the entire FPS genre as we know it, the arsenal was disappointingly pathetic.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2, on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis back in 1992. I was 10 at the time and, not having many friends who were into games and/or computers, what I knew of games up until that point seemed rather dull and uninteresting. Sonic 2 made me rethink my whole view of video gaming. It...

Personally I find it quite riling when people say that I'm a "gamer". I like games, but I also like movies and music and books and art and cooking and history and philosophy and lots of other things, but for some reason no one ever objectifies me based on any of these. Instead, I am defined by...