Recent content by valleyshrew

I prefer the trichotomy of videogame interactivity: Narrative, gameplay, setting. These are the things that seperate gaming from other mediums and the perfect game will be one that is great in all 3 layers. I dont think any game has come close yet sadly. There are a few that have had great...

Absolutely it is worth $10. It's worth $100! I played it on ps3 at release and only got a few crashes and some slow downs in 100 hours. They have a bad reputation along with bethesda for releasing buggy games, but it's only because they're so much more complex than other developers make. If they...

It already took 7 years to make and cost $100m, to make it really interactive and deep would have been extremely impractical and probably would alienate the casual audience who want their hands held. Plus it made sense for it to be linear since you are a cop reacting to other people's crimes and...

Yes! I'm sick of people citing portal or sotc/ico or alan wake or zelda as having good story telling. These are all extremely minimalistic games where the storytelling is hugely second place to the gameplay. Except maybe alan wake but the story in horror games is always laughable and alan wake...

It was a long game that took a lot of effort to make, but realistically it was not a good one. I got a platinum trophy in it and almost got another but gave up getting all the equipment in japanese, so it was a bit of a love hate relationship... but when you really analyse why FFVII-XII were...

Famitsu awarded FFXIII-2 a 40/40 [http://gamingeverything.com/12567/famitsu-review-scores-126/] It was inevitable because they awarded a 39/40 to FFXIII which was an awful game more deserving of 25/40, so any slighty improvement would take it up to 40/40. From what I've read, they've done...

You underestimate technical issues. A skyrim save file would be hundreds of megabytes, if not gigabytes, if you could deform the environment permanently... It would add nothing good to the gameplay either. People who want to blow the world to rubble aren't the people who should be playing...

Yoshinori Kitase - Research between FFVI and VII that Squaresoft did showed players liked to be more interactively involved in games (sakaguchi talked about it). As a result FFVII is hugely interactive, particularly with the Gold Saucer area, but every stage of the story has a new interactivity...

Male because long hair graphics are awful in every single game i've ever played and females with short hair are weird. It's no wonder most protagonists are nearly always bald in graphically realistic games, hair is the main thing that games have yet to portray adequately. Even if I was female I...

I remember being amazed at this when it was patched into the original counter-strike a long long time ago and I suddenly noticed people talking on mic's character's lips were moving with what they were saying... It's pretty awful graphics by today's standards (e.g. heavy rain, la noire), and...

Because games are realistic looking now, graphics are more important than they used to be where every game was pixelart or cartoony. Most games have realistic graphics. How can you compare fifa on wii to fifa on ps3/360 without mentioning how much worse the graphics are? It's what you look at...

This is literally the single worst idea I've ever seen from the gaming community. We generally only play good games, unlike reviewers. So you'd end up having to give 1/10 to a game that got 8/10 simply because you're not going to play 7/10 and below games as there isn't enough time to waste on...

Game criticism is terrible because game reviewers need no qualifications and there's lack of insight and discussion into game design decisions. They're more consumer reviewers than critics. You're being really ignorant for criticising just the scores, and it shows that's all you look at. You...

The biggest flaw in MW3 is how it's become an even more casual game because of the experience system. If you are a low level and your opponent is the top level in experience, you are fucked. Prestiging is now a big disadvantage. It shouldn't be this way and it never was in any other call of...

My 3 favourite games of all time in order are GTAIV, RDR and LA Noire. But I agree with you. They could do more with role playing elements. They're strongly influenced by film, tv and music and haven't explored the mediums potential for narrative interactions very deeply yet. But, it's an unfair...