Recent content by Akiada

Maybe because they wanted to get the community involved and hiring six models would probably be pretty expensive. Easier (and cheaper) to make those artists you're already paying come up with five or six possible faces to slap on the same set of armor in the same pose.

I like one and two the best. I have a thing for short-hair on women I guess. It looks neat, and is just different from the typical cascade of hair. Six is pretty awesome for looking like a sister of battle from WH40K though, haha. Of course, five is winning, because blond bombshells are...

It's not going to happen. Half-Life is set pretty firmly in the old school tropes of shooters. Percentile health, armor on top of that, being a walking armory having an independant melee weapon (instead of a melee key) and being accurate without ADS. And that's fine, because that's how HL...

Off the top of my head there's: - Killing Floor (Set in Britain with British protagonists.) - Both Modern Warfare games (Look at the track record the Brits compared to the Americans ffs - they basically do everything while America struggles to not get it's ass beaten any harder than it...

CoD isn't loved because it's for kids. Hell, they made slaes records. That means a lot of adults went and bought it. Not "parents" adults but "I'm living on my own and have discretionary income to blow on video games" adults. 20-30 year olds, college kids, people in the workforce. All that...

Your teammates are more-or-less immortal, they make good bullet sponges. Feel free to use them to scout ahead and deal with threats using a clear command at a door prior to entering a room or telling them to toss grenades. They can go down and get back up, you can't. Let them do the risky...

Why do random mooks - not crack commando units or collectors or whatever, but random mercenaries think they can tangle with shepard and win? Shepard, exemplar of humanity, Shepard, first human spectre, Shepard who stopped an entire all-out Geth assault? It baffles me. If I was a merc and...

Well, you don't have to fight the choppers in SoC. It's during the NPP run and they're taking pot shots at you as you frantically run through monolith and military troopers on the ground. If you're so inclined you can try to shoot them down - it's hard with the RPG, and long with anything less...

I liked it. For what it is (something a pair of guys and what actors and support personnel they could garner on a limited budget) it's fairly impressive IMO. It's an 8-minute short, and these guys are relatively new. I liked the SFX work and the effects, and the gunplay was better than in some...

Yeah, there were a couple times when it was flying towards the team that I honestly expecting it to get shot from nowhere or something. Rainbow pilots are just that badass that they can plot-armor their way out of the fate of normal video-game helicopters. Yeah, and in the first and...

The Rainbow Six: Vegas games kinda both do this and subvert this. You see a couple NPC choppers in the games and they get destroyed: a civvie chopper gets it's tail rotor blasted while trying to get news footage of a gun battle between Rainbow operatives and terrorists, and in the second you...

Sure I can, because that's what you did. You said outright that oldschool FPS require more skill. It's only now that you've decided to narrow it down, that's moving goalposts mate. It's only going to be easier to compensate while you've got the sights up. While oldschool FPS design...

The claim of "taking more skill" is an entirely arbitrary one. Where's the evidence to back that up? The studies that conclusively prove that claim? What areas are you measuring skill on, etc. etc. etc. I could easily say a highly-tactical realistic shooter like America's Army or ARMAII...

It's not a deal breaker but I always feel like something is missing if I can't aim down the sights. It's an immersion thing for me, I guess. It makes it feel more like "I'm looking through the character's eyes" and less "I'm a camera mounted to his head." A game without the sights feels a bit...

To compare the two, Minecraft, due to being 3-D, is a game much more about the mining, the exploration and the crafting. It's more satisfying to wandering around a 3-D (if blocky) world and build these massive mega-structures. But Minecraft really doesn't have a lot more to it than that. The...