Recent content by Demiath

Very effective summary...although the worldview ascribed (with what appears to be good reason) to Nolan seems rather repugnant and archaic. Break free of that tired 19th century reason/emotion dichotomy, mr Nolan!

A Dragon Age MMO; is he joking or just insane? Everyone please stop buying any DA:O-related stuff whatsoever until they stop so much as flirting with the idea of WOWing an old school RPG into complete genericness.

Tali and Zaeed. Tali's mission offered really tense close quarters combat (on Insanity, at any rate) which included lots of opportunities for flanking and being completely overrun by Geth Hunters. Add to that a poignant character-related story development (I wasn't a Talihugger at all before...

Some may worry that the success of ME2 means the final victory of shooters and the death of hardcore RPGs, but I actually think it's the other way around. Heavily stats-based RPGs like Dragon Age, Demon's Souls, Strange Journey or Drakensang (to take four very different examples on various...

I need better categories, please. Rather than using hopelessly vague and historically questionable regional stereotypes, try coming up with a poll that reflects actual gameplay mechanics - with options such as dungeon crawler, action RPG, sandbox, roguelike, linear/story-driven, turn-based...

Not that Demon's Souls plays anything like Ninja Gaiden Black, but if you weren't too frustrated by the difficulty level in NGB I'd say you probably won't mind being repeatedly crushed in this game either (assuming you're not a vastly superior NGB player compared to me and coasted through...

Actually, there is a demo. It can be found here: http://www.mysteriousislandgame.com/2/en/demo.html Other than, thanks for an interesting review. Hadn't heard of this series before, and it looks promising.

As a general principle, the most moving parts of a movie are the movie frames themselves, which succeed each other fairly rapidly.

Maybe Flower didn't need to be more "fun" but it could really have benefited from, y'know, more actual gameplay. Flower makes an excellent first impression, but the novelty wears off quickly and the yawn-inducing shallowness of the whole experience becomes all too apparent long before you reach...

From a psychological perspective, it makes perfect sense to assume that not having to live in agonizing uncertainty anymore ("when is it going to break? today, tomorrow or in two years?") would produce a feeling of relief. I've had my 360 since early 2006 so I expect it to crash anytime...

Now, it's a bit hard to tell if you're being ironic but, just for the sake of clarity, the name of the game is pronounced "Blaze-Blue"; the game's title being just the most obvious of the game's many (hopefully intentional) Engrish-style misspellings. For those who want independent...

I've never bought a fighting game in my entire life and never watch anime but despite that I recently ordered a copy of BlazBlue. The insane 2D graphics are just too amazing to pass up on and the apparently finely tuned combination of initial accessibility and bewildering complexity sounds very...

I buy almost all my games cheap on principle, even when I'm not forced to do so for financial reasons. Games are just way too expensive these days (console titles more so than PC ones, admittedly). It seems the only games I buy at full price are the ones I really hate, such as Fallout 3...

I was thinking about buying SO4, but the Escapist review and this discussion has convinced me that there's still no point in paying any attention at all to X360/PS3 JRPGs (with the notable exception of Sega's Valkyria Chronicles, of course). Good thing I have lots of great Atlus PS2 games...

As bad as a lot of the aforementioned lines are, I think the gold medal in this category should always go to these immortal sentences from "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night": "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk...Have at you!" Granted, the Castlevania...