Recent content by vhailorx

It was obvious that a yearly schedule was crushing the franchise way back with ACIII (or even the third ezio game, legacy?, birthright?, revelations?, the fact I can't remember it is indicative of the problem). AC IV's success gave ubisoft an undeserved sense of security (but, in reality...

So the release delay is no surprise at all. 18 months is an insanely short production time (yes, they undoubtedly have done some pre-production over the past year, but the schedule is still incredibly short), especially for moves like these that need to look very good. I think the relative...

I strongly suspect that the best RPG of the past five years is some tiny indie game made for iphone/android that was completely lost in the overwhelming number of titles on those platforms, and has consequently never been played by anyone but the devs. So that would make this list 'the top 25...

Not a big deal, but Nod32 is made by ESET. I am pretty sure they are slovak, not russian.

This is a very fun article, but I can't see leaving the piercer off of any 'dumbest d&d monsters' list.

Yahtzee is correct that the game controller has been more or less standardized since the dualshock 2. And the drag factor of a standardized layout has definitely stifled innovation for cross-platform games. But standardized is not the same thing as perfected (see beta-max v. vhs). It...

Over all, a pretty interesting read for those of us who want a slightly more editorial take on the console releases. However, I do disagree with some of the statements in this article. 1) The Controllers. I have held a dual shock 4, but have not yet tried out the XOne controller. The DS4...

This doesn't seem like a a particularly surprising statement. It basically just boils down to: "Movie-maker says movies are better than games!" It seems like exactly the sort of silly thing that Roger Ebert was always saying, and for exactly the same reason: Spielberg and Ebert were...

This is the classic contrast between tangible and intellectual property. Physical items are "rivalrous," if I am using an apple or a ferrari or any other object, then no one else can use it at the same time. That's not true of intellectual property, and its especially not true of digital...

Agreed, ever since this game was revealed I have thought it would have been a much bolder decision for naughty dog to make Ellie the PC and Joel the NPC. It definitely would have required some careful game design and good AI for Joel. But it really would have made the game stand out from the...

This is, as usual, a solid article from Shamus, but I think he abused mirror's edge by 1) saying that it was bad and 2) lumping it in with Wet and probably Velvet Assassin though i haven't played must of the VA. Mirror's Edge was undeniably a commercial failure. But I think it would be a...

It seems to me that this conversation is pointless without context. 93-95% of what? Is the guy from Ubisoft suggesting that everyone who pirates a game would purchase it at full retail price if they couldn't pirate it? That's absurd. Even if it is true that 19 illegal copies of a game are...