Recent content by Danjo Olivaw

I'd feel a little better about this if the Halo 3 soundtrack wasn't 95% rehashed versions of the previous two. Playing the game I got the sense that something came up during the development process that hampered scoring the game. There's really only two new pieces of music, one of which was...

That's the largest fault I find with third person perspectives. It's terribly non-intuitive, especially when facing an opponent with the same ability. In Gears, when you're about to round a corner, there's always the good possibility that an enemy is on the other side psychically aware of...

At a resolution so low as to seem censored by today's standards. I love it. Well, the mod still leaves the female torso model, so they have boobs, and then with the guys' texture they get nipples. The end result is pornographic by WalMart standards. Honestly, I don't think the ESRB or...

I wouldn't be so quick to judge Bethesda for being irresponsible. There wasn't a hidden nude texture for the female torso on the Oblivion disc. The modder just changed a small portion of the file to point to the male torso texture instead of the female torso texture. Instant nipplage. I...

Another instance of Ubisoft correctly listening to its community was with the nextgen version of the recently released Splinter Cell. Initially the old Spy Versus Merc mode was going to be replaced with a new Spy Versus Spy mode. Then a significant portion of the message boards adopted the...

I always thought it was a Zelda clone in an interesting universe.

This corporatization of what should be camaradarie is a natural by-product of the group's expansion. Any social institution will begin to fragment at around twelve members, detrimentally so at about thirty to forty. When high level raids require forty participants and upwards there really is...

Democracy in action!

The last link on the last page (17) doesn't seem quite right.

What an unforeseen intersection, the discovery of determinism in a game where the player is only an observer. Since it was mentioned in no less than two articles I fired up Noctis to see the insanity for myself. That is the loneliest game I've ever played.

Careful, "svelt" is Icelandic for locked down.