Recent content by Toxic Sniper

It's funny seeing all the drones struggle with this video; after they resigned themselves to hating Dark Souls after the Extra Punctuation and the Zero Punctuation review of Demon's Souls, now their idol said he actually likes the game. Cue shock and horror and immediate regrets. If you check...

Whenever people whine about how nerds are persecuted or belittled or whatever, I can't really sympathize because the majority of game nerds I have met weren't really pleasant people to talk to. They tend to lack perspective, knowledge outside of their subculture, or self-awareness. This comic...

I honestly don't think of Gordon Freeman as the zenith of silent protagonists. I don't really think there is a zenith. I wouldn't like to see Gordon Freeman get a voice. Not because I don't think Valve could do a great job, mind you, but because the purpose of the silent protagonist is to...

For a moment I thought this thread was about cheap "emotional companion" characters like Ellie, Elizabeth, and the Call of Duty dog Riley, to which I would reply writer laziness. For the actual name Ellie, no idea. It's probably because the name feels natural while being more distinctive...

These are my thoughts as well. The cordyceps zombie isn't a radical new concept, and they don't really go as far as they should have in making unique, interesting takes on fungus zombies. Even the Flood were more interesting, since at least they came in a wider range of forms.

The Gamecube is one of the few video game systems that looks distinctive and interesting to me. To be honest, the Wii also looked pretty good when compared to the giant curved brick and the backyard grill.

Another awful one: Robots, the game based on the 2005 Blue Skies Studios movie. How awful is it? Well, imagine playing a fairly mediocre platformer for an hour, and then being thrown into a vicious, painfully obtuse mini-game in which you roll a giant hamster ball to grab objects. The first time...

I played that game too. I'm surprised I've suppressed the memories. The worst part is that they took my favorite Toa, Pohatu, a guy with super speed and immense strength, and threw him into a mine cart. What the hell? He lives in the desert, not underground, so why did they put him in a freaking...

Is this a joke? Half Life 2 is a masterpiece of pacing and flow. It's still fun to play today thanks to incredible levels that utilize the physics and gameplay changes to great degree like We Don't Go to Ravenholm and Route Kanal. Are there issues? Yeah, there are. Nova Prospect is still kinda...

Blacksite: Area 51 is a painfully bad brown and grey FPS with obnoxious squad AI and a bullet-sponge main character. The only thing that really posed a threat were rockets, which did an obscene amount of damage; I remember one part of the game being ridiculously difficult because a guy is...

Jesus, who thought emulating Custer's Revenge was a good idea? People survive rape and might not want to be reminded of it.

Damn, now everyone in the Nexus is gone besides the Maiden in Black. At least False King Allant was hilariously easy.

Metroid: Other M has been mentioned, but I must mention it again. It's a trainwreck from start to finish. Take everything that made Super Metroid or Metroid Prime a wonderful experience and reverse it, and you've got Other M. All the subtle environmental storytelling becomes mawkish melodrama...

They also have a significant impact on the plot through their actions, which is the mark of a strong character.

I have more of a problem with the Last of Us's basic premise. It's a father fantasy, the same sort of story we've seen in movies so many times: A failing father who is emotionally distant from his family has the chance to bond with his kid not by communicating with them or working at his job or...