Recent content by Elyxard

As somewhat of a designer/artist, I agree tenfold. There is a place for those over-designed, overcomplicated costumes, and it's on a runway fashion show, not in a story-driven videogame. A lot of recent Final Fantasy costume designs betray the characters that are wearing them or the universe...

Anytime a seemingly important piece of content is partitioned off for pre-order or day one DLC content, I realize how little the developers care about the cohesion or completeness of their own narrative. EA, of course, is the worst offender with this. How can you sell a fantasy RPG with...

The solution to a vast majority of their problems is to give all of their developers another year of dev time, but they're clearly not going to do that with The Sims 4 launching without a number of basic staples of the franchise. I've lost track on how many times EA has had to apologize over the...

What some people don't understand is that the reason it's wrong for Tomadachi to not have gay marriages while it being okay for other games to not have it is the fact that you're inserting yourself into Tomadachi as your Mii. It's not a designed character you're playing, it's literally yourself...

I was worried about this becoming a trend. If GTAV shipped with its broken multiplayer on release, it most assuredly would have tanked all of its review scores. I'm not saying this was a conscious decision on Rockstar's part, but it seems like they've inspired the industry to hold off on bad...

Great episode, definitely capstones my frustrations with the industry over the last decade. The notion that entire genres can "die" was the most ridiculous thing to come from these big publishers, and every single time.. every single time they tried to re-invent a franchise for mass appeal...

Everything I hear about these sequels tells me that there is absolutely no good reason for them to be tied to the FFXIII universe. If anything, that connection is the chain around their necks.

It's really crazy that these companies are getting away with selling literally nothing with these micro-transactions (remember folks, DLC is content, micro-transactions are time skips at most). I will not buy an Xbox One if this is how they're designing their first party games. If you're ever...

Ugh, I totally forgot about that whole "solar flare" thing. I remember playing AC3 and wondering where the hell that plot line came from despite playing every other game in the series; and of course they had to tie the Mayan calendar thing in with it. What a lazy way to ratchet up the tension...

As much as I agree with all sentiments, I do feel like it's silly to indict the XBox for being unable to render 1080p because of.. Call of Duty of all things. The people assigned to the task of making an even two year turnaround of on their annual Michael Bay Military Shooter shouldn't be held...

I'd love it if you guys would drop the half-stars entirely if that were ever an option, as I don't feel they're particularly useful (nor is the 0/10 scale in general). That's just my preference though, I understand the situation is more complex than that. Either way, good luck going forward, Jim!

Bioware definitely got it right back in Baldur's Gate 2 as far as romance goes. Sex was merely a small part of the relationship, not the end goal by any means. It was kinda sad that the relationship progression.. pretty much stopped once sex occurred in all the Mass Effect games I've played...

My basic thought on this topic, owning guns for self defense is irrational in the same way that having a fear of flying (while having no problem getting into a car) is irrational. That gun is infinitely, statistically more likely to get you or your family killed than actually defend you from...

It's really crazy how much of a premium they charge for DLC across the board; it's becoming clear that they're banking on that cash much more than the actual games themselves nowadays. Even the announcement of games come with un-ironic promotions of day one DLC all the time now. It's...

I "love" the constantly brought up point that you get "points" for killing in GTA. I would like to remind these people that it's the exact opposite; in GTA you are punished for harming innocent bystanders by means of a police force. It is not a good idea to cause mayhem if you want to actually...