Recent content by Was Du Feelyat

I'm about to celebrate (yay.) my 36th birthday, and I find myself slipping more intro retrogaming. I dug out old issues of PC Gamer recently to read reviews of stuff that came out Back In The Day. And recently, as I played through Fallout 1 and 2 and then 3, I found myself remembering snippets...

Oooh yeah. That was nice. I will say, however, the branching wasn't as detailed as the branching in Deus Ex or DX2, but DX2 was un-fun. It was where fun went to die. Someone mentioned Tron 2.0 - it had its fun parts, yeah, and it was gorgeous! But not as good as some other Monolith games...

The SNES game Earthbound (Mother 2 in Japan) uses small samples in its music, as well as regular SNES midi-or-whatever music. For example, the song that plays when a player starts a game and enters names and favorite foods and stuff? That includes a tiny sample of the Liberty Bell March by John...

I don't think it's desensitizing. I've played video games since ... let me think... late 1970s'... first game I played was Sea Wolf? or Battlezone? I was playing Hitman the night before 9/11, and I couldn't go back to it, the idea of killing civilians in a game even, just horrified me...

Statue of Liberty, Deus Ex. I'll spend hours on that level alone.

I was bored by Halo. I tried to play Marathon recently (that source release thing), hated the FECK out of it. I recently tried Icewind Dale, and bought Baldur's Gate 2, because I love Planescape Torment and loved it more on a replay. I HATED HATED HATED it after THREE MINUTES. I once...