Recent content by AugustSchmidt

  1. AugustSchmidt

    Dante's Inferno

    Huzzah Yahtzee! Machinarium rejuvenated my belief that a small team can make a wonderfully entertaining game that holds up against the gigantor developers. and may I suggest more like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_%281990_computer_game%29 less like this...
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    Scariest Moments in a Video Game

    +1 For Silent Hill 2. The lead up to the first encounter with Pyramid Head is a lesson in pants-wetting terror( I believe the first time you see him he's standing motionless behind bars in a hallway; when you go into a nearby room and come back out he's gone).What that game did better than most...
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    Zero Punctuation: Mass Effect 2

    Excellent review. I liked this game quite a bit, but there were some glaring issues. The mining was just an afterthought. All those descriptions of planets and yet nothing really to actually *do* on them (mostly)? And with all these space pirates and such where are the frakkin' SPACE battles...
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    Review: Machinarium

    Completely disagree with this review. Perhaps the best game I played last year. The puzzles weren't easy or intuitive but maybe I'm a masochist. I enjoyed it greatly. It hearkens back to the days of the Golden Age of Adventure games (most of you weren't even born I wager). The atmosphere and...
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    Role-Playing Games

    I tried my hand at borderlands just yesterday. I just couldn't get into it. I've played this game 100 times before--that's what I kept thinking whilst killing random mutant dog/bandit and collecting random ammo/health kit from random debris pile/corpse. Where's the fun bit? Non sequitir, and...