Recent content by UninspiringlyNamed

I liked it. Not a lot added overall gameplay-wise, but the storyline was funny in a fair few places. I think the main reason why those who hate it do so is a bit more subtle. When RA2 came out I'd hazard many of those who played it were quite young and completely missed the tongue-in-cheek...

I'm firmly in the 'I'm sure they exist but I've yet to see evidence" camp. The only two gamer girls I've ever met (in my life) were also pretty fun to be around, so I don't like generalisations that if you're a girl gamer that's all you are. I know a guy who pretends to be a girl on WoW for...

No love for any of the Unreal series? For me they've always been near the top. However, my vote is for Doom, just because.

When I was about 14, I was around halfway through the Allied campaign on Command and Conquer: Yuri's Revenge when the game locked up to the tune of a nasty grinding sound, and the disk drive wouldn't open. Got the drive out to try and save the disk, and it came out in some 30 or 40 pieces...

...Sorry, I couldn't let this go. We in the UK actually pay a similar amount as £1 UK is closer to $2 US, and (as far as I know) US dollars are roughly comparable to Australian dollars, hence our £8.20 is roughly equal to US $16 (Someone with a bit more knowledge want to correct me? I'm not...

Nice review. One point I don't agree with, though, is the 'random button mashing FTW' aspect being extended from SC4 to all fighting games. I've played my fair share of fighting games and the SC series is the only set of games in which random button mashing can give you a respectable chance of...

I think it's impressive that RTD managed to hold together a coherent story when faced with the nigh-impossible task of featuring every single character he ever created. For the most part, they were all believable and at least functional considering their individual backstories. The downside is...

Favourite gun of all time has to be the Fusion Rocket launcher (or, as we used to call it, Sun Cannon) from RF1. Honourable mention to the Devestator weapon (dual rocket machine guns=win) from Duke Nukem 3D. Another fun weapon was the Singularity Cannon from Unreal 2, if only because it was...

If you were to ask me "How hard is too hard?" I would point you to a 10(ish)-year-old PC release by the name of Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines. I picked it up several years ago as part of a multipack set and after about a week of frustration I had managed to reach halfway through the second level...

I have never played any of the MGS games, but I know a couple of fanboys of the franchise and one of them tried to 'convert' me with MGS4 and if I'm honest, it didn't really press many buttons for me. Without all of the backstory I didn't really find myself at ease with the world and as a...

I personally think that TA is the best 'retro' RTS ever made. The gameplay engine was light years ahead of anything of the same era and as a result, in that respect it blew Starcraft, AoE, and whatever else into the middle of next week. However where TA had better gameplay, SC countered with a...

I think it's something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. He's right, of course, games aimed purely at girls don't sell. Game companies are aware of this (or at least, they believe this) and as a result aren't willing to commit the sort of resources to purely girl-oriented games that they do to...

Gaming can make it worse, definitely. I don't think that, as a direct result of video-gaming an ordinary, 'normal' person can just become a socially-maladjusted recluse overnight, however, it is more to do with the person themselves. You can't communicate on the same level over a computer...

I have played the _entire_ of (Ultimate) Doom, Doom II and Final Doom (all 120-odd levels of it) three times. It won't now run on the new (Vista) PC. Can't say I miss it, strangely... I dislike FF7 (which is against the law, apparently) and actually prefer FF10. I never completed...