Recent content by Slings and Arrows

Any Ninja Gaiden game on the highest difficulty but especially NGII in my opinion. DMD on Devil May Cry 3, Hell or Hell and DMD on DMC4. Those are actually 2 different kinds of hard, as someone pointed out the enemy health/AIs are set to Son of Sparta levels rather than DMD so a good player can...

Assuming they fight only for me regardless of their moral context: Alex Mercer Sovereign Harbinger Commander Shepard, Liara T'Soni and Garrus Vakarian, the latter two in their ME2 incarnations And finally Yahtzee to sit around and crack jokes with me while the other six handle EVERYTHING...

Clearly Prototype has made us all much worse gamers by being designed so that the vast majority of the game consists of the player absolutely shitting all over multiple tanks, helicopters and giant beasts so much that whenever an enemy that can actually fight back shows up we consider it hard...

The Mass Effect cast actually produces a lot of winners here, because damn near every single one of them has 2 great best friend factors: a)they're smart or interesting or loyal or attractive or combinations of two or more of those and b)they ain't nothing to fuck with when the fighting starts...

Speaking as a musician, I feel like ever since the concept of marketing was invented, "popular" music has always been awful and the worst bands usually prevail in their time and then are forgotten in favor of other, much better musicians from the time. I honestly don't think that it's even ABOUT...

This. I actually agree that most console games should be able to teach you how to play them in an hour or so of gameplay or less but we are talking about a PC exclusive (until the future port) that is notoriously complex BY THE STANDARD OF PC GAMES which already might as well be controlled by...

I agree with those who say that Idiocracy is just meant to generate some thought, and not be taken literally. I really didn't find myself thinking that it was taking itself seriously, and you'd have to be retarded to think that the world is going to go totally under the water because stupid...

Bruce Lee for outstanding achievement in real-life badassery, Tony Jaa for the best, most awesomely violent martial arts movies ever made. Judging by Ong Bak and Tom Yum Goong he must have spent maybe one fifth the time on storyline that he did coming up with totally awesome places and ways to...

I actually enjoy the gameplay of DOA as far as fighters go.... one of my favorite systems of mechanics, more enjoyable for me than Tekken (clunky) or Street Fighter (a little too much in the vein of ridiculous precision and reflexes as a prerequisite to having any fun). Too bad this game looks...

Elder Scrolls music, particularly the Morrowind iteration of the melody that they riff on for EVERY Elder Scrolls theme. Shadow of the Colossus as well, completely flawless integration with the game, added a lot of atmosphere. The Mass Effect credits song, which I honestly thought should be at...

Completely agree with this. Unfortunate that people have to put a damper on their freedoms to protect themselves but that's how it is. Alternately if you're going to dress "provocatively" you should damn sure be carrying every personal protector it's legal to have in your purse (mace etc.)...

At the rate we're going, the only way to counteract the morality system morass that every RPG has been stuck in thus far is going to be somewhere along the lines of making a game out of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" ("Press X to refute traditional tables of values as set forth by religion and...

If they decide that Ezio's the man again, then I'm gonna be a little irritated, I felt like they were pretty set up to finish the story (his story and the future as well) after Brotherhood. Desmond's got Assassin skills, Lucy is (potentially) dead and Abstergo is going to be finished with his...

It wasn't realism or lack thereof that caused me to think of it this way, just my way of adding some drama (since as usual the game most certainly requires you to create some fun for yourself) and giving an explanation to placate my inner min/maxer going "WHY THE FUCK ARE THESE BANDITS SUDDENLY...

Ever since announcements detailing the changes in the leveling system of Skyrim (hell, really since the announcement of Skyrim), it seems like the debate over the level scaling system in Oblivion has reopened, with all the usual parties taking their respective stands. My question to you/2 cents...