Recent content by ephesus64

Looks fun. I think "inspired by" Miyazaki might be an understatement though. Judging from the story trailer on YouTube, it feels like a modern open-world game based on the first third of Princess Mononoke, with special diversity sauce. Did they even get the same voice actor from Mononoke to...

I do remember experiencing awe at the atmosphere and the character design as I played it for the first time years ago. "Okay, I'm barely alive, but I think I'll make it thr-AHHHH IT'S SOME KIND OF ELECTRIC POLAR BEAR BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE A FACE IT'S JUST A BLOODY MOUTH". And then I died...

My understanding of "meme" from when I first heard of it in the late 90s is that it's something like an idea that becomes complex enough to be sorta alive, as though it had an identity and an existence larger than any individual person thinking about it. If that's still true, then every...

Nice work on the timing and delivery this time around, Yahtzee, that was enjoyable. I have some nostalgic feelings for the old Nintendo stuff, so I wanted to like a new Starfox game. I had a feeling it would probably be modernized to death by the time it actually came out, though. Kind...

There's a counterpoint here about Nietzche's thoughts eventually, please give me a moment. The Christian traditions as sourced in the Bible were intended as statements of fact about reality. Taken as fact, Scripture posits that humans as a whole tend toward (what a surprise) self-interest, and...

I read a few pages into the first book as a teenager (and a member of a denomination which went in for a lot of the shaky theology in the books), and I remember being totally underwhelmed by the writing. "Disaster porn" for Christians about sums it up. I'd like to thank the author and the...

I appreciate the weigh-in from at least one person who liked Dear Esther and AMFP. I liked Dear Esther, and I want to encourage more developers to aspire to a literary quality in gaming, even though it's very hard to do well. I was thrilled that the wobblyvision "sanity meter" was going away...

A 64 gigabyte class 10 SDHC card costs 50 bucks, yet a 64gb ipoon is $200 more than the 8 gig. It's industry standard pricing, there are different levels of customer need, it's marketing, they are a business, blah blah blah. I still call BS on the pricing.

Good show, Yahtzee. Not that the recent ZPs were bad, mind, it just seemed like a bit of the joy had gone out of them. Perhaps it was the Christmas season, or the bevy of shooter sequels, or perhaps I just made it up. Whatever the case, you seem to have enjoyed making that one, and I'm...

With respect to the editors, I am donating another page-view to this sad and disgusting story. I hope Escapist staff will show some discretion in their choices for news stories in the future. I work with emotionally unstable youth, many of whom have been sexually and physically abused, and...

I see the clips and think "mediocre action-horror fps". I see the clips and think about the person whose job it was to design the texture and physics behavior of the mutant's vomit. It's morally equivalent to "Barbie Swan Lake" to me--just pixels on a screen. That's just me, after being...

I actually had a VIC-20 before I had a Commodore 64. I only had a couple of games for it--one was Asteroids and Meteoroids, and I was scared of the black holes that appeared if I lived long enough. I had an IBM PS/2 for a while, the old white 386 ones with the proprietary system...

This is one of those times when being well-informed can be like a curse. I'm glad the wheels are rolling, but now that I know about it, I want it NOW! A video game by Guillermo del Toro, wow. The possibility of a game with *true* horror and dread driven by a great story is pretty exciting...

If the game sells okay but immediately turns up in droves on the used market, doesn't that tell the developer something? Perhaps putting out a game based solely on punching people in the face isn't going to capture the hearts and souls of the players forever. If a game has a year in its title...