Recent content by Woe Is You

You see a "boring game that makes itself hard for its own sake". I see it like this: the basic mechanics of the games work so that without the things making it hard, it'd still be a boring game to you. To be really honest... Based on how the game works, to make an easier game would mean a...

Do you feel that it does offer anything outside of it? As someone who has played it, I feel like I made a compelling case that it really doesn't. I'd imagine the whole design document has been crafted by someone who really wants to screw with the player. From the way it obscures cause and effect...

Come on... Did you even read what a lot of people are posting here? The thing is that none of the qualities exist in the Souls games that someone who'd be in it just for the experience would like. There's no epic, crazy and/or well-written plot to enjoy, no combat system that makes you feel...

I'd say you're right but not in those words. What many (me included) have said in this thread, though, is that neither Demon's Souls nor Dark Souls do anything spectacularly well compared to other games. The world and the atmosphere flat out lose to something like Skyrim, Fable 2 and 3, Dragon...

Pardon the double post but I do want to clarify what I mean: when I say that there's no actual appeal to Souls games outside of the difficulty. I mean that if they do tone down the difficulty, you're pretty much left with a mediocre hack and slash that does everything outside of combat (which it...

The thing is, though, that there's truthfully no actual appeal to Souls games outside of the difficulty. Same goes for games like Super Meat Boy, really. The "fun" is pretty much like figuring out a really really hard puzzle. But to be fair (am saying this not with the intention to troll)...

Am I the only one who has to point out that there are plenty of other ways they could've done this game instead of going for a direct clone of Smash Bros? And I don't mean that they should've done a serious fighting game either, which is what a lot of the proponents seem to argue. What about...

Being able to release a game however you want it whenever you want is a good enough reason. Releasing on console means you have to follow a ton of guidelines just to make the game work in a similar manner to every other game on that platform. On the PC, a platform where nobody is really telling...

On one hand, I find it puzzling that people don't believe that a multi-faceted multinational company that a) has knowingly installed security holes in their customer's hard drives, b) had all the PS3 keys generated with a "random" number that turned out to be constant and c) had outdated...

Half-assing their job lead to this crisis to begin with. That it's taking so long is merely a sign that it was so badly done originally that it has to be redone from the specs level.

Yup, but here's the thing: there were several failures on Sony's part here that, if they weren't there, would've at least made the hack less severe. For example: I sure as hell wouldn't keep the information of 77 million accounts in one concentrated place. Instead, I'd have the information split...

This, rather.

A prequel set in Planet Zeist? I'd watch it. I loves me some trainwrecks.

Yeah but that has nothing to do with balance and has all to do with people being scared of trying new things. That's exactly the reason we're playing the ninth iteration of Mortal Kombat instead of getting new games or sequels to games like... I don't know, Cyberbots?

That's about as valid as me complaining that MK is just Liu Kang and Kung Lao vs the rest. Because those characters are the only ones I'm seeing online. Just because shotos are popular doesn't mean they are the best characters in the game. Sure, your average shoto is a good character but the...