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One of the best games of 2017. Mechanically a bit weak, but narratively top notch. His name is Red. But even that is something of a lie. Nobody is who they appear to be, not even "you." It's completely impossible to explain this without massive spoilers. Also, there is no "penalty", aside...

HL2: Update specifically addresses many of the issues a company where employees are free to do whatever they want 24/7 were too busy/lazy to fix. Did you know Valve managed to break character smirking? Barney stopped smirking. That's just a whole new level of not caring anymore.

Half-Life 2 is pretty broken in places thanks to Valve upgrading Source multiple times and then completely abandoning HL2 after 2012 because let's not pretend anyone working there actually cares anymore. NPCs don't blink, there are HDR lighting bugs, scripting bugs, and a range of janky nonsense...

Resident Evil 6 never mentions that you can recover from knockdowns immediately by pressing BACK+DODGE. In fact, it barely explains any of its game mechanics, making it a game where 90% of its core gameplay consists of "hidden mechanics".

For some reason people forget that #1 game of 2016 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's Specialist difficulty had non-regenerating health with limb damage.

Cryostasis.

Homefront: The Revolution - Beyond the Walls

Excellent series. The original Delta Force and Black Hawk Down are especially outstanding.

The new Doom plays nothing like classic Doom. Doom 3 was more faithful to the original Doom formula than Doom 2016. It's more like the Shadow Warrior reboot than any other Doom game.

It's a little more complex than that because the KPA are at least pretending to be a peacekeeping force. It's not like they're running around murdering people for fun. They're primarily reacting to acts of terrorism and things that threaten their interests. It's something of an analogy for...

The first game had "input" from John Milius. But it's important to understand Homefront isn't really a "series". Homefront: TR is like Prey 2017. It uses the name of the old game, but has (intentionally) pretty much nothing to do with it. Dambuster hired a narrative designer during late...

Both games began development in 2011, and like FFXV or Watch_Dogs, they ended up suffering from the inevitable lack of clear design direction that long development tends to bring. Quantum Break is the love child of Max Payne and Alan Wake. It's a decent time-based shooter. To me, though, the...

I'd rank 2000 as the best year simply because the best FPS game of all time, Perfect Dark, was released in 2000. 2016 was a good year for time related games. Gemini: Heroes Reborn. Quantum Break. And of course Dishonored 2 and Titanfall 2. And 2016 was the year that the atmospheric rough...

I think it's a toss up between Mankind Divided and Homefront: The Revolution. I might have to give it to Homefront: The Revolution for having such rich, peerless atmosphere.

The first time it started raining in Homefront: The Revolution and I looked down to see the pavement under my feet turning wet drop by drop, and also my jeans gradually getting wet.