Recent content by Alphavillain

No, I dont particularly like JRPGs. They are slaves to convention even more than Western games, and are symptomatic of the malaise in the Japanese game industry. JRPs are content to be fan service rather than try to convert new gamers. And that way only leads to the death of a genre.

Looks wildly amusing. Tasteless? Yes. Do I think that's a bad thing? Nope. I may have to watch it just for those satirical TV shows at the beginning of the trailer.

I'm still waiting for them to discover the cancer of cancer. On topic, I'm more liable to believe in the harmful properties of a sweet, fizzy drink than most other things -but causing cancer is the least of them.

I'm old enough to remember all the hoopla about VR in the early 1990s, when it was meant to be the Next Big thing ("Lawnmower Man", and all that). I don't know what happened to it. I suppose people settled for shooting people in the face in HD. Also your point about graphics is very well...

Very good point. I can't help thinking that the whole explosion of multiplayer in gaming has helped delay or even curtail the development of advanced AI by developers. MP has very cynical applications for lazy devs (although not all of them, of course).

For console games to look even half as good as PC games! But I think seriously that MammothBlade above has made a great point. AI in games is still shockingly bad, even in games that most people love (Deux Ex, for example). I'd love to see FPSs where you shoot an enemy and his friend standing...

As a Brit, I think Americans associate British accents with "class", or being classy. I don't see it myself. But I have the idea that ex-colonial people continue to have an elevated view of their Old World ex-masters: witness Africans vis-a-vis the French. It's a pretty silly view.

The word "ironic". Somehow nearly always used by smug twats who think they're more clever than anyone else and who invariably don't understand irony. WANKERS.

I play games to get away from the real world, so why would I play a game that constantly reminds me of the real world? BTW, I always play as black men in games wherver possible even though I'm not black. I always put it down to my man-crush on Marvin Gaye. Go figure.

The ad's second-worst crime is to make shooting guns and blowing stuff up seem boring. The worst crime is having Sam Worthington in it.

I play games 99% for single-player. So if a game has a short campaign (like most FPSs), it's not going to be sucking on my fat and dirty dollar. Expanding MP and giving us short single-player campaigns is a clear way of saving money by making gamers essentially generate their own content. It's...

"L.A. Noire" was an irritating misfire for me. Irritating because it is somehow seen as a noble failure to make an ambitious game that doesn't succeed very well at doing what it aimed to do. Everything else this year was ace, it's just I don't like playing games any more...which probably means I...

Salvador Allende.

"Plainclothes Man" by Heatmiser. It's an Elliott Smith song in all but name.

I'm exactly the same. Well done, by the way :)