Recent content by About To Crash

I like these insights into some aspects of nerd and geek culture I never seek out on my own, and I usually agree with most of the points made. But there is nothing I've yet seen that will convince me that gaming was better in the days of absolute wackiness. I loved that time, I did, it was...

I enjoy the show, now. I didn't so much at its beginning, because it didn't seem to be about anything important, which is the same problem I had with Lisa Foiles. His more recent contributions, such as "Weird is not Enough" entice me, and bring up points in gaming I don't see many other people...

It's a good, thoughtful article, and I'm glad to have read it, though I do wish there was some more focus on the morality systems more blatantly in play. New Vegas with its Karma meter and Red Dead with its honour. I think it's important to note the game's own opinion on the morality of the...

Flips in the air just seems like it would only serve to disorient the player, and I don't know that there would be any practical application for it. I think in a game like Mirror's Edge, you really have to think about how the players will be seeing things first, and how cool it is second. That...

Are you kidding me? The knowledge that I'm going to die in a month? A month is a long time, I could consume an ungodly amount of food and play so many video games in that time frame. Definitely the month.

I... don't want it. I've bought Zelda games my whole gaming career, but now it's come to me realizing that I really don't want to just play more of it. I wasn't even that big of a fan of Twilight princess. I'll probably play it, but on a friend's console. I want to see Zelda go in a new...

The Anti-hero greatness that is Black Adam.

I'll play, it, but more from an educational standpoint. I don't think I want to play it for actual fun, but instead to study the kind of game it is and how the various systems work, and analyzing how they tried to improve on Oblivion (which I thought needed a lot of improvement).

While I think Laura was overdue for an update to her looks, this new character design just isn't going to leave anything memorable. She's an interchangeable action girl we've seen a dozen times. Lara's face, while in recent years becoming a bit scary, was always so well known, as was her...

I notice a distinct lack of IV. What if I want them to make IV forever. C'mon, this only marks the what, third time they've released that game? Fourth? But seriously, none. No remakes, and preferably quite a few steps away from XIII.

How is Portal 2 losing to anything on this list? C'mon people, it's Valve, and their beautiful, beautifully designed masterpiece, now with co-op. Don't get me wrong, Skyrim and Mass Effect 3 are all well and good, but if I had to pick Bethesda, Bioware, or Valve to survive the apocalypse, it'd...

Really is an amazing piece of technology. Makes me wish I has any idea how it worked. Someone teach me some advanced math.

I don't know if I like it. When I saw MovieBob was doing a new series, I was happy, because I really enjoy Escape to the Movies, but this actually felt more like a watered-down version of what he covers so succinctly in Escape to the Movies. I like the stuff MovieBob talks about, because it's...

Here's the problem I've got: Zac Effron is Zac Effron. When I look at a screen he's on, there's Zac Effron. I don't necessarily think he's a bad actor, but his image is so invasive in everyday life that I can't see a character he plays, regardless of his talent or lack thereof...

"The Platforming is linear to the point of being prohibitive." That's all I needed to hear. The only thing about Enslaved that had me interested from the beginning was the chance to really explore this massive apocalypse/nature re-imagining, and I suspected from gameplay videos that it wasn't...