Recent content by Charleston

Are you saying his review was incorrect because he used his personal taste to critique the game? You see how you are twisting the definition of "critique" to the point where it means absolutely anything, right? Neither the audience's opinion nor the Designer's intent are in any way relevant to a...

Man, there sure is a lot of randomness in Chess uh! You do everything right and then a certain move that you have to pull of in a certain situation goes completely over your head and you lose. How am I supposed to control the things my brain unconsciously brings or doesn't bring up from my...

Did anyone mention Dark Souls yet? Technically not an exclusivity issue, but the damn thing has region lock due to the Games for Windows Live bullshit. It literally forced me to get it through "other means". Bad service at it's finest.

Careful with this. There doesn't need to be any explicit or direct act of corruption for a magazine to lose legitimacy. Very often AAA publishers can use their money to indirectly pay for news in the form of, for example, launch events. A video coverage of a game's event is essentially paid...

But then wouldn't the problem be with the term "original IP"?. Original IP is, for all I care, a financial term. 50 Shades didn't gain any value by changing the names of characters. I haven't read any of those you mentioned, but just by looking at them, fuck they're long. There's a...

From George R.R. Martin's website: "Q: I want to be a writer. Can you give me any advice? A: Write. Write every day, even if it is only a page or two. The more you write, the better you?ll get. But don?t write in my universe, or Tolkien?s, or the Marvel universe, or the Star Trek...

This game is called Mountain. Just Mountain. I love that it's not even called Mountain Simulator. Something being simulated would imply that you're getting a copy of, in this case, a mountain's experience, real as it may appear, but without its essence. Surgeon simulator is called such because...