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Oblivion's stealth was painfully simplistic, and not even up to the standard of "part-time" sneakers, like Summoner, Soldier of Fortune 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, System Shock 2, Arx Fatalis, Dark Messiah, Deus Ex, NOLF, Terra Nova, Pirates! etc. Precious few scripted encounters -...

I have to jump on this. What was revolutionary about Black Isle? They made a Fallout sequel, two "Baldur's Gate-lite" games plus expansions, and Planescape Torment. I guess you could loosely consider Torment to be revolutionary since it basically marries interactive fiction to Bioware's shitty...

Good and evil is all about perspective, since it's basically a measure of a person's morality - but it's being measured subjectively against a particular set of morals. It's completely relevant, because good and evil are all about perspective and information. There's an awful lot of stories...

The Dead Flag Blues by Godspeed You Black Emperor evokes so much more <s>post</s>-apocalyptic imagery than the entirety of Fallout 3 content we've seen. It's also not a bad little ditty if you have sixteen and half minutes to spare. It may even have a more "powerful" story than "go find your...

Megaton is a horrible mashup of "wild west" and "sneaky heist" music. The harmonica, banjo and guitar and the western vibe they give, I could deal with, since Fallout has quite a lot of a western vibe to it. But the bass line belongs in a movie scene where the "good guys" are sneaking around and...

Complexity in the sense of how Bethesda use the word isn't really daunting, because you never need to understand it or make anything of it. If it mattered what skills you chose or what stats you invest in then that complexity becomes daunting. As it stands, every character in Oblivion and...

Without having played GTA4, i could make a pretty safe assumption that's it's very good. The previous games in the series have deserved every whisper of praise they've gotten, and the biggest reason not to get GTA4 would be if you're somehow burned out on GTA as a whole. They do so much, and do...

The Australian localisation was the worst of all.

Sign me up to the "hope it fails" list. It is a bit mean spirited, but Bethesda are like the petulant child that just won't listen, even though you've told them dozens, maybe hundreds of times. To me the only reasonable response to that is "Well, if they won't listen to me, then I guess it's up...

But Oblivion is like P&P! Just buy a fuckload of unrelated sourcebooks from random settings, create a gameworld and ignore any kind of core rules, just let your players say what they want and give it to them without challenge. That's fun isn't it? Michael Bay may be a douchebag who turns out...

Whee, more from the "RPGs = Madlibs" school of thought. Tell me more.

Let me guess, in the following issues, a game published by Eidos was given a glaringly positive review though it may or may not have deserved it? ;)

Yeah, I can't see FPS fans or RPG fans being particularly blown away by it, though many will buy it, proclaim it best game ever for a month or so and then flip-flop, but that's another story. The fact is, Bethesda seem to have found their niche with players who don't actually care about gameplay...

I have very fond memories of Nintendo's "Climber" Game-and-Watch and Bandai's "Frankenstein", which actually ha two LCDs layer on top each other for "scene changes". Pretty nifty. Mind you, I wouldn't trade my DS for them. ;)

The way that's worded makes it sound like "Earthworm Jim 2, Earthworm Jim 3D, and Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 the Galaxy" are "computer and video game platforms". I'd take an Earthworm Jim over a PS3 any day.

Sounds promising, but it'll take a lot of convincing for me to believe that's any more than something like: Shady Sands: Evil Ending Junktown: Evil Ending Hub: Good Ending Necropolis: Good Ending Etc: Good Ending.

The Fallout demo was fantastic. I played the shit out of it, trying to find every little variation and different little thing I could do, and it culminated in what was my first "wait-outside-the-store-before-it-opened-on-release-day" effort. That demo made me want the game like nothing else...

Yep, played it and loved it, though mainly for the gameplay beyond just combat. The dialogue in particular, but also the density of non-combat interactions. It seemed that just about everywhere there were locks to pick, computers to hack, shadows to hide in, and so forth. The magic was pretty...

It sounds good, but then again, so do a lot of Bethesda's empty promises. I'll believe it when I see it.

Shadows? ;) As a shooter veteran, I'm fucking insulted by this. So we're all supposed to "sit up and take notice" because something looks nice? As a shooter veteran the last thing I want is some system kludged over the top of the shooting mechanic that makes me artificially miss based on a...