Recent content by AK-00

What I want to know is, as someone who doesn't actually like or see the point in team Fortress 2, would I like Brink? Or, in other words, is Brink for people who don't like Team Fortress 2? Also, parkour works perfectly well from a first person perspective, provided you have even a...

That's something that always struck me as odd about Half-life. The guys a physicist, but his job consists of shoving hazardous material around on little trolleys and exposing himself to unfamiliar forms of radiation. As careers go, it's slightly less glamourous than sewage treatment. I can only...

Loved it. Small hint: Be sure to speak to *both* the elves.

Honestly, I find it quite refreshing to stand some chance of seeing the end titles of a game without having to cheat my balls off. I know a lot of you derive some perverse pleasure from adroitly jumping through arbitrary hoops in order to make it to the next cut-scene, but, frankly, if I'm made...

Final Fantasy VII. After listening to people bang on about it for years, I finally give the thing a try, and it's diabolical. Terrible, even compared to the old "Eye of The Beholder" games on the Amiga. To somebody who spent his teens playing games like Monkey Island and Daggerfall, it was out...

Whoops! Wrong thread. I thought this had something to do with the article about H-games, but it appears to be the Dr Efftee Show, instead. Seriously, though, Efftee seems to be confusing instinctive revulsion with disgust, which is a learned trait. There is no instinct preventing inbreeding...

Ugh... I *hate* subtext. It's okay to look for themes in an existent piece of work, but to actual hide them in there while you're writing... It's literary masturbation. A writer should be able to make a point without falling back on tenuous veiled metaphors.

Good one. I think my favourite part was probably "Sometimes I like to rename Link 'I say', because it makes all the other characters sound like Foghorn Leghorn".

I'm sorry if you find my perspective a little damning, but a lot of people have an unrealistic idea of what journalism involves. The simple truth is that the bulk of it is comprised of a). getting insiders to give you information, and b). sucking up to them so they'll do it again in future...

Historically, journalists have always looked to others to tell them what to print. Governments, corporations, the readers themselves... It was only in the decades immediately following Watergate that they became widely regarded as champions of truth, and even then it was mostly a misconception...

The thing that's always put me off about Nintendo is that it appears to heavily favour style, with very very little substance to back it up. It's gimmicky. Nintendo innovates for innovations sake, reinventing the wheel and expecting others to pat them on the back for it. Take the wii-mote...

... You know that portals work both ways, right? You'd end up vomiting up twice your own body-weight in bugs and decomposing garbage.

If they can make scenes from daily life interesting to play, they'll be wizards, not animators. That sort of thing isn't even interesting to *live*.

Deus Ex is *still* the best FPS ever released, I'm afraid. Never the less, I liked this article. It was... thought provoking. To me, Half-Life 2 was always most reminiscent of "The Life of Brian". Everyone in Half-Life 2, both friend and foe alike, believe that Gordon Freeman is some kind of...

I'd grab a buddy and shoplift like a mofo. Maybe even get a job as a clerk at a store, then sneak in at night and make off with the stuff too bulky to steal in broad daylight. I'd sneak myself and my friends into theme parks and concerts. I'd walk everywhere, since I could get anywhere within my...