Recent content by Biran53

If System Shock 2 was released today (looking like a modern release and without the context of its release in '99) it would be panned. I love it to bits, but games like this can only exist in a vacuum, and there is absolutely no way for modern developers to PERFECTLY (and it would have to be...

Hear, Hear! Encourage change and discourage complacency! A life without challenge is a fucking tedious one. I think I can explain the difference between a terrific sequel and a passable one: Mad Max Fury Road is a creative, challenging, and standalone blockbuster that doesn't require its...

I love it. A dire scenario on a foreign planet with the odds stacked against the crew? Sounds like an episode of Classic Star Trek, if you ask me. And now the action will actually be GOOD. I have more faith in this than I ever would under Abrahms

Liked the finale. Thought it brought the whole season into focus. Political correctness is fine as long as it checks itself and its limits and everybody remembers who the true enemy is within American culture: unfettered, disembodied capitalism. The stuff with the guns was also very, very...

Honestly, I don't see the issue. I have encountered several transgender folks in my travels, and I have never been "shamed" for "offence", 'cause common courtesy and decency is NOT a hard thing to do. Why the hell would you go up to random people and go "ohhh you MALE", "ohhh you FEMALE"...

Best idea if they use SHODAN again: Have the game start in a situation where she has already one. She rules the galaxy with an iron fist. Or: Just don't use SHODAN. Sure, the nostalgia factor is strong and it would be a major selling point, but there's no reason the game couldn't work as...

Moffat finales are always small scale affairs revolving around emotional conflicts regarding the Doctor's "destiny" as opposed to a large scale invasion. This sometimes works (see: this episode and "The Big Bang") or fails spectacularly ("The Name of the Doctor"). But even when the script...

It would be fine if Fallout 4 were a more classic RPG and not a sandbox. But it is a sandbox, and this ALWAYS happens when you have a voiced protagonist in a sandbox game.

Implying that apparent consequences are necessary in making choices meaningful. Sometimes the act of choosing (however illusionary) is all that is needed to get an emotional response. And many choices never have consequences. Or, consequences that make a meaningful difference.

I really liked SOMA, but Yahtzee is fucking spot on when he says the monsters hardly fit into the story at all, and the premise of the games AI is barely touched upon. We don't even really get to SEE what it's done to the underwater facility. The story of SOMA definitely struggles with balancing...

Eh. Fallout 3 practically kept the mechanics in name only. They were so inconsequential to the game itself. Now they're just being honest with what they removed years ago.

It's already happened. The Legend of Zelda (1986) is a story and a game. And it's pretty damn good on both fronts. A story doesn't have to be complicated to be great or timeless. Of course, we have a ways to go before we reach gaming's full potential (and it's possible that games have...

The sensible, pragmatic side of me would say letting myself go a bit academically in my final years of public school (and losing focus on writing). The insufferable, mopey, heartbroken side of me would say willingly allowing her to slip through my fingers like it was nothing.

"*This is an obvious exaggeration and should be neither quoted nor taken seriously." Then why make the metaphor?

I think both are interesting interpretations of the character, but I have recently found that I actually might prefer Maguire's Spider-Man, despite me preferring Garfield for a brief period of time. I honestly don't care how Parker is presented in the comics. Dorky, socially inept Spidey is...