Recent content by Xakk Zeliff

Fake gamers (which are not just girls, that's just the easy target) really have nothing to do with gaming itself really. It only affects the gamers themselves. They don't play games with anything like the kind of veracity that would incite the industry Jim loves to lambast to cater to their...

Well I would imagine it's just the fact that there's a depiction of sex itself in a game that's not glossed, romanticized and sugar coated. How many games do you know of that even hint at the kind of wild, animal, hungry sex that everyone wants but no one wants to talk about? There's a...

It's simple. You join up with Caesar's legion if you want to kill the most people. It makes sense from a gameplay perspective; if you want to play it like a linear video game, running through levels like a genocidal cloud of ammunition, Caesar has work for you. His missions mostly play out like...

You forgot "For Large Sums of Money". Because all men lust for bling bling.

Some of my favourite games are ones where dusting up doesn't end the game as often as it does. You want to really make the player feel their losses? Make them clean up the mess if Dr. Venereal manages to blow off the prison gates or make them live with a character who has to jump to attack every...

Sometimes I think the writer's strike - remember that? - somehow crippled every market for which we use writers. It's silly, I know, but it seems like writing has been getting more and more shit recently. Like all story departments are made of the same people who produce Fear Factor. Either...

You know what would bring around a return of standard zombie conventions? Something I have been lobbying for that has never been achieved, quite yet: A game starring the zombie outbreak. On a global level, from the macro to the micro. When your player has a few hundred or a bajillion zombies to...

You all write so copiously and poignantly I am forced to skip the majority of you or else lose motivation and all day in reading your multiple dissertations. Or something. I think you can distinctly qualify what these two mediums offer that the other does not. In video games you control the...

It wasn't till Yahtzee mentioned this in a video that I started noticing it as well. I guess I had grown accustomed to seeing elves and dwarves in my medieval fantasy, much like you expect to see the same people working at the stripclub every time you visit. I guess they've been used so much...