Recent content by crackfool

You make some good points, Shamus. Far better than Jim Sterling ragging on straw men. But I think the main reason is that Mass Effect 3 simply was not a good game, whatsoever. Mass Effect 2 did streamline a lot of elements, but it still felt like it belonged in the same franchise as the first...

PC Gamer's top 25 looks so much better than this. Severely underrating modern classics like Alpha Protocol, Fallout New Vegas, Path of Exile, while overrating factory-made "AAA" games like Mass Effect 3, Skyrim, Kingdoms of Amalur, and Dragon Age 2. Did Jim Sterling make this list or something?

The problem is that the other 99% of Mass Effect 3 was factory-assembled by EA, so it's disingenuous for the Bioware writers to cry out "auteur" when it's a clear case of them having to rush out an ending to beat a deadline. While I do appreciate fiction in the hands of an auteur, there are very...

Sounds like it'll be a cheap cash in to wring money from the hands of people who thought Uncharted was anything more than a glorified YouTube video.

This video makes me sad. I remember back around 2008-2010, when The Escapist had truly interesting content. They had some great writers and editors (Russ Pitts, Susan Arendt), and some great (and regular) weekly columns from people who actually understand the gaming industry, like Shamus Young...

Ugh, I know Jim Sterling brings in a lot of Mountain Dew ad revenue, but can we get a more competent writer? Preferably someone who doesn't come out with such a shallow reading, and bashed Bastion for not being a AAA zombie QTE game?

Even if they're taken off the GOG market, GOG still has to host the games for download, right?

Glitches are usually the fault of the publisher, rather than the developer.

Kiefer Sutherland is definitely an improvement over Hayter. Yes, Hayter is "iconic" and all, since he voiced Solid Snake on the PS1, but he has no range to his voice. His one-note gruff really hurt some of the more recent MGS games. Sutherland is a far more accomplish and capable actor. His...

Also, this is a different team working on this game.

For all the outrage on Xbox One games being "services, not products", there is very little when it comes to Steam, a retailer that has been selling "services" that exist only at the whim of a single company for the past few years. Most will say that the reason Steam gets very little backlash is...

This was perfect. Too bad it's more than 140 characters.