Recent content by Shujen

To go the CoD way of doing it, everybody is viable from the outset: Yeah, you may have basic equipment and whatnot, but you're still human and your skill still accounts for the vast majority of your abilities in-game. What differentiates you, the hardcore veteran who's done this for years...

Simple solution: Get rid of leveling. The idea that the wolves in THIS forest are ten times as deadly as the wolves in THAT forest is ridiculous. The idea that Villager #4 in Town #2 can beat up everybody in Town #1 one-handed, including the huge bully you needed a group to tackle, is...

Seriously, this needs to die. This needs to be shot in the back of the head and buried in a shallow grave right next to quicktime events and minigames. Yes, in other "role-playing" games I spent 80% of my time in the character creation screen tweaking the eyebrows of my elf while...

If the best option you have - considering your painfully slim pickings - is a Dan Brown potboiler in the form of ACII, then perhaps you really should not be offering these awards. Shamus Young is right: It's either a troll or a joke. That said, my bet is on this being a shameful publicity...

Monopolies are bad, yes, but what he's arguing isn't so much that Valve wins so much that Microsoft loses. Steam used to be clunky and restrictive - annoying updates, bad host servers, resource hogging, DRM - but now it feels like the only clunkiness in it are the third-party restrictions...

It kinda makes you wonder what the point of having a paladin's creed is if its paragons are itching to break everything it stands for at their first opportunity. I know it's Blizzard's attempt at making it darker and edgier by making paladins succumb to the 'well-intentioned extremist' trope...

Because it's about as jam-packed with as much self-effacing narm as Rocky Horror. While the whole "darker and edgier" noir-ness is dialed up to eleven and your protagonist runs around with a permanent constipated grimace on his face while internal-monologuing his way through a New York...

You must not have heard of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Serious Sam doesn't take himself seriously. That's why it's fun.

Dan Brown's novels can be viewed as a triumph of marketing over substance. But then, so can a lot of things. Which reminds me: Modern Warfare 2. There's Tom Clancy, and then there's Tom Clancy's wet dream. At least Duke Nukem never took himself too seriously.

Fallout 3. Considering how much Fallouts 1 and 2 were rather wholly dependent on their plot and dialogue, it makes you wonder why Bethesda would completely fail on so many fronts in that game - from the "we really don't know how radioactivity works but we're gonna take it seriously" to the...

Yeah, all console ports of classic PC games aren't oversimplified - they're 'cleansed' of 'excess' verbiage/mechanics/options that detract from the playing experience. The console ports and sequels are 'streamlined' and thus 'better' versions of said classics. Excuse me while I wretch. No...