Recent content by cynicalsaint1

Glad to have you back Shamus - I've always dug your columns!

Glad you're back!

I just wanted to pop in to say, as someone who used to think of The Escapist as the best gaming site on the internet, I super excited to hear all this. This site was amazing under you, Steve Butts, and Susan. I remember something started feeling off about things after Susan left, and then it...

Because the main thing you think when you think about Shelob is "Giant spider monster, sure ... but I sure wish I could @#$! her"

Does this mean I can finally stop hearing morons going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about...

Will Smith would be a terrible fit. He doesn't have near the energy to play Genie. He's way too much the straight man. Honestly though - even though I'm sure there's someone out there who could pull off a good Genie, there's always going to be a part of me that isn't going to accept it not...

Had to go see this with my wife, was honestly disappointed that it wasn't as bad as the first. The first one was so bad that the theater was constantly laughing out loud at it, and I was able to enjoy it on a "I can't believe someone actually wrote this dialog" kind of level. This one was...

Mostly I'd like to see her lose the ability to one-shot anyone with a body-shot. Picking her makes Zenyatta utterly useless, even against average level players. Maybe up her charge time a little bit, and nerf uncharged damage a little bit, but I don't know, I feel a little less strongly...

You forgot China

You know. I have a REALLY hard time believing that absolutely no one at EA in general or especially at Maxis specifically didn't see the fiasco with SimCity coming. I just doubt the execs cared to listen.

You know ... I don't know why Assassin's Creed as a franchise even needs to stick to one genre of gameplay. The way the franchise is put together you could probably set just about any kind of game in the Assassin's Creed universe. I mean Black Flag pretty much proved that - the "Assassin's...

Damn. Well that pretty much kills it for me. I had so much music in my 360 library, but I have no desire to get an X1, nor do I want to have to spend all the money it would take to rebuild my library on my PS4. So I guess no Rock Band 4 for me :(

A-@#$!ing-men! Man just reading this article makes me sad about it all over again. Curse you Shamus - those wounds had all but healed! There were so many interesting ideas in Spore, and none of the individual parts were outright terrible - they just lacked depth and should have been tied...

Really I think Jim Sterling leaving was the first hint that things were going wrong - it wasn't too much longer after that they fired Greg Tito and Movie Bob and its basically been a nosedive ever since. Really I only ever come here for Yahtzee and Critical Miss these days. Experieced Points...

Kicking over a sandcastle? Really? Listen if I pay you $60 for a sandcastle, and you just dump a bucket of sand on the ground and call it done, I will kick it in any way I please. Ugh ... and the analogy still barely works ...