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Those Old Man Murray pieces on Roberta Williams and Gabriel Knight sum up my feelings on PnC games quite nicely. I'm disappointed that we can't let that genre die the ignoble death it so richly deserves. Seriously, that genre is like a contest among developers on who can make the most inane...

You want to see a truly absurd disparity in game boxart: Here's the American version: Then there's the Japanese version:

Metro: Last Light looks interesting for me, and now that GSC is gone, 4A is probably going to be my fix for Eastern European, atmospheric post-apocalypse first person games. And if this is to be believed, whatever is the next Company of Heroes game. Then the next Dawn of War game. Looking...

Exactly. Nary a scantily clad woman in sight in Falcon 4.0 or the like. Save for the occasional nose art:

Top five in ascending order: Battlefield 3 (for its multiplayer, obv), Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dawn of War II: Retribution, Dark Souls, and the winner is: Digital Combat Simulator: A-10C http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUu4SV3GjVw&feature=channel_video_title And people think Dark Souls...

But the unfortunate truth is that Shepard will, despite all the praise for the handling of the character as a female, remain a male character in marketing and in the popular conscious of gamers. It seems as if the devs are nudging players towards that default Shepard when you go into that...

1. The Homeworld games 2. Company of Heroes 3. Fallout 2 4. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games 5. Jane's F/A-18 6. Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines 7. Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield 8. The MechWarrior games 9. Jane's Longbow 2 10. The Dawn of War games As you can probably tell, huge Relic...

Studio Art major here: Chainmail bikinis I don't really mind. I'd say most of the girl gamers I know who see that trope in effect in MMOs or what have you don't really give it a second thought, though granted they would make a crack about it. The issue runs deeper than our particular...

Occasionally you'll see a Thalmor group escorting a Nord prisoner on the roads of the overworld. If you're not too far into the main quest, you'll have an opportunity to kill plenty of them in the embassy infiltration quest.. A special quest for the Thieve's Guild in Windhelm (which you get...

The level scaling of monsters still bugs the hell out of me. I'm at level 42, closing in on what is presumably the end of the Thieve's Guild quests and I'm in a dungeon that's fucking lousy with Falmer Shadowlurker (taking on 4-5 at a time). Focusing on Archery, Conjuration, and Alchemy means...

Shared some words on Josh Sawyer's Formspring on the bullet crafting mechanics, and it seems he felt that quite a few people didn't respond that positively to it. I personally thought it was a really fucking cool mechanic, and I'd be disappointed if that many people thought it was too "detailed"...

Well I've got good news for you my friend, MTV brought Mike Judge back to do some more! And while they're not riffing on quite as many music videos anymore, they do that to shows like Jersey Shore and 16 and Pregnant (somehow in these segments, Beavis and Butthead sound *smarter* than all these...

Yeah, kids these days like South Park and Family Guy... Let's face it, none of those shows are as good as Aqua Teen Hunger Force: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqnNURx3Y6Q&feature=relmfu ...or Archer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx_iVmBejdg ...or Beavis and Butthead...

Yep, yep, yup. I agree that the leveling in TES is just fucked. For instance, in order to level up persuasion, you have to pass persuasion checks, some of which require a certain amount of points in persuasion, and you can see the problem in that. In fact, one of the quests the game hands to...

This. I'm not a terribly huge fan of the PC as the "Chosen One" trope when it comes to games of this form. In a sense I think Oblivion was a bit better in that regard in that the PC is just your ordinary guy/gal who gets placed in extraordinary circumstances and wins out by skill and...

I agree with you on that. NWN1 I think was more of a toy than an actual game with the editor, whereas NWN2 had a good enough single-player with the OC and MotB campaigns (to the point that about the time Dragon Age 2 came out, I played more NWN2 than DA2 because I was so disgusted by the wave...

Got my hands on my own copy. Game certainly looks pretty and I do see that the game has quite some scope, however... The leveling. is. FUCKED. My god. Even though I abhorred the karma system and storytelling in Fallout 3 with all my being (more so with the former), I thought they did a...

I mean improve the AI in time for Fallout 4 so that enemies do "FPSey" things like take cover and flank. Even with an animation system that was barely better than anything using the Gamebryo engine, the combat AI for the STALKER game is still head and shoulders above that of modern FPSes with...

Well from what I've seen of my friend playing it (my local Best Buy was out of stock and won't be replenishing until Tuesday. Shitty, considering that I have a $20 gift card), running didn't seem quite as floaty as it was in past Gamebryo games. Don't seem to recall if I saw that there was...

On the plus side, Bethesda did see fit to put in an enemy that presents and actual challenge (see 27:30): http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/17-5234/ The giants appear to be to Skyrim what the Deathclaws were to New Vegas. I did however sort of kind of groan...