Recent content by zaiggs

This is a great topic, though I agree with the many others in this thread that one can like both, especially depending on what game is being played. I love strategy and RTS games that require prior thinking and planning or the ability to pause in the middle of action and think a plan through...

By "not remotely like them" do you mean in terms of looks or behavior" When only looks are different, the player is still "themself". Though the character may look different, it's still personal to the player. Even if the player were to change thier mindset and behavior for the game, the...

I recently had a discussion with a few of my friends about how more and more games now are letting the player create the character. This is all well and good as I enjoy these types of games, however after discussing this with more people I've found that many have become more than just enamored...

Though it may seem like this is the case: Try this: Pull a random 500 people off the street to do voice acting and I can guarantee less than half (and that's being generous) will sound any good if you gave them only an hour to record lines. Voice actors get paid what they are paid...

Personally, if a character is written well and has depth, they appearance doesn't really play into whether I like them or not. There are plenty of character that may look cool or "bad-ass" or at least the general interpretation of such, but have little to no depth at all. A character can be...

I actually had a discussion about this in a Liberal Studies class. It seemed that the people that were embarrassed about being called a gamer didn't want to be grouped with the stereotypical image of a "gamer" but they had the same interests in games as most people who perceive themselves as...

I definitely agree for certain games. I recently picked up Tekken 6 for cheap and I felt that many of the characters were filler. Maybe it's because I haven't followed the franchise for very long and there's some story behind all of these characters that I don't know. Super Street Fighter 4 I...

Seriously. You'd think Activision could have made a better ending. It was decent till that last little bit. One of the characters at the end of Black Ops should have just said "Fuck yeah... America". It didn't need that and the game was more about the characters than the country. I think if...

Huge inventories that get filled with mostly crap items. I love games like Diablo and Resident Evil with smaller inventories that force you to make decisions about what you wanted to carry. Games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age give you huge inventories that end up getting filled with nearly...

Shenmue and Shenmue 2 were flippin' awesome games. Controls weren't always ideal, but the story was more than intriguing enough to keep me playing it to the end. I would definitely play a sequel. I too wonder about another Time Splitters game. I've only played the second and third, but the...

Wow! Same thing here! I must have tried to run-and-gun that mission at least half a dozen times before realizing that option!

Any of my Legend of Zelda games. Lots of nostalgia with those games. I wouldn't ever want to give those up.

Legend. Of. Zelda. I eat that stuff like candy. Because like candy, I first got it at an early age and try to get it as often as possible because it is delicious... I mean fun to play. The metaphor broke down in there somewhere.

I loved the trailer. Not to say that I love seeing people die (specifically not children). However, when viewed for what it is, the trailer shows a family's reaction to a zombie outbreak. If something like a zombie outbreak were to actually happen, it's not like children would somehow be exempt...

I friend of mine let my borrow his copy of FFXIII like three months ago and I never beat it. Now I'm trying to finish it before he remembers that I have it and asks for it back. That and New Vegas.