Recent content by chrisjames

Love the game, and love the review. It's every bit exactly right. Yes, it does get better later, but in this case, it takes a special (like special bus) kind of gamer to actually get that far without being ruined by loathing for everything it puts you through. Yes, I'm that kind of special...

Oh, really what hasn't been a disappointment? I can think of a few, out of my many games rented and purchased, that I don't regret paying money for: - Okami: rented for Wii. It was fun, and I'm glad I only rented it. I did the same with Mario Galaxy, which I also enjoyed, but I also...

Spoilers here, though it's already been spoiled above: Audiences delude themselves so much. It's just easier to pass off the aliens as a cheap plot, but that's probably because nowadays, such things are much less mystical to us. We've been so awash in alien fiction, especially at the...

I don't know about samey, since every large real-world area that's roughly equal in size to the Oblivion environment is pretty much rubber-stamped for a few square km, whereas Oblivion has variety. I guess it seems samey locally, but running from meadows, to redwood forests, to forest glades...

It was probably Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, which I played religiously, but I don't remember it as well as my second: Police Quest. I learned console and PC gaming simultaneously, but nothing stuck with me quite like learning to type furiously to accomplish tedious tasks at the age of four...