Recent content by Azahul

Huh, you're right. The beard is still awesome. I had a vague memory of having heard him with this deep, booming voice, but that clearly isn't him. Weird.

I'm with CrimsonBlack on this one. The writing is perfectly good, the actual prose is great, but I did not find the books an interesting read. The main character's impossibly perfect set of skills and the absurd amount of love and affection he receives for them is frustrating enough to read...

For good or for ill, that's down to the game trying to use its story as a metaphor for games. In the same way that the first game used its plot twist as a metaphorical barb against the idea of agency in video games, Infinite uses its ending to make a deliberate statement about the meaning of...

Personally, I had enough fun with the characters to put up with the sketchier parts of the story, and enjoyed the ending a great deal. Still, I totally understand it not being something that would appeal to everyone. That's not exactly outside the norm for things I like.

Some things are constant. The Baptism is one of them. This is explicitly stated many, many times throughout the game. "Infinite" universes doesn't work the same in the game world as it does in the real world. That's fine, the game writers are going for a metaphor and are free to make up...

A lot of people got confused at the same point. The game does actually explain this, the details of its "infinite universes" theory, and the way in which Elizabeth interacts with it in quite copious detail. It's nowhere near the plot hole it's often accused of being.

While I'm not sure I would phrase my opinion quite as strongly as you, I do agree. I ended up playing Dragon Age because my friends and a lot of reviews compared it favourably to Baldur's Gate. By the time the game finished, I was still wondering why it was taking so long to get out of the...

The original Guild Wars had a really interesting take on it. So there's a secret race of invisible floating psychic monsters called the Mursaat that can inflict a state called Spectral Agony that is basically an instant-win against just about any mortal creature. And they've been manipulating...

There's also this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyacm2FNSO4 I was wondering the same thing. Seems like self-determining robots are the new zombies, or something. Edit: And then you have the whole Avengers 2 thing...

I could not be more excited. The Witcher series are my favourite RPGs, rivalling (with the second game actually beating) even Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate. Bases would be good, but the preparation element of the second game made me feel a whole lot more like the Witchers in the books...

As others have said, and as a big fan of Tolkein, I absolutely agree with everything you said. In theme and in execution, the story is terrible. I can't defend it. It's something I play through long enough to reach the point where you can really dig into the Nemesis system, and at that point I...

I remember a year when something similar happened, except the clocks were all set to go off at midday. There were a dozen in the library, one in nearly every bin, that kind of thing. The best bit was that the librarians were talking about how those seniors thought they were so clever with...

I remember being pretty impressed with Rachael Townsend from Binary Domain. The team's resident shotgun and rocket launcher specialist. She looked more or less like what you'd expect for an elite soldier in that kind of role. Big, clearly capable of taking on the more physically demanding roles...

My first ever RPG was a great little game called Unhallowed Metropolis. You basically play in a post-apocalyptic neo-Victorian world where a zombie apocalypse hit in 1905 and humanity has spent 200 years climbing back to be about on par with pre-apocalypse levels. Vampires, ghouls, psychics...