Recent content by Domus

Oh great, another shiny "re-imagining" with bland unrecognizable wastes of geometry for enemies and stereotypical MW style soldiers, with plastic-looking attack dog training outfits in a rave party, as an excuse for a "sci-fi theme". Just a few hours ago I played another game of X-COM, where...

Back in the day, there was this woman named Anne Rice. You might remember her, she wrote a few books. There was also this movie Interview With A Vampire. In case you don't remember, because you either were too busy playing with your Nintendo (or SEGA), the books were kinda popular, the movie...

Energy swords? Jetpacks? Transformation? Mecha skates? The only thing you ever need is guns, armor and more guns! Like this guy: http://the-junkyard.net/vehicles-starsiege.php?action=viewvehicle&game=starsiege&id=16 On the other hand, a couple of ATs walking beside my big ass HERC would...

Note that I haven't mentioned anything about hardware sales, nor have I argued on that point. As far as the games themselves are concerned, the hard data simply appears nonexistent. If you have access to statistics comparing the sales and playerbases of various games by genre, including FPSes in...

You know, the difference in overall preference of genre and gameplay style between western and Japanese gamers has existed for far longer than the current console generation. So if it's not the complexity of the control scheme...

It's the complexity of the control scheme. The average JRPG uses menus navigated through with directional controls and two buttons (confirm and back/cancel). The average modern FPS uses 5 buttons for movement, jumping and crouching, the mouse for aiming and shooting, additional buttons for...

Trying to forget about Voyager and thinking of asteroids as mere expansion spots doesn't serve me as well as I thought it did. Ah well...