Recent content by galaga4ever

Top form. Wait, weren't the Simon Says button sequences originally done in Dragon's Lair and its ilk? Shenmue stole it from them while improving it; God of War stole it from Shenmue without really improving it. Say, wasn't Simon Says popular in the early 80s? Is the video game industry just a...

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Pre-Halo 3 hype from Bungie: "Finish the fight!" "Save Earth!" "Master Chief will once and for all settle the score with the Covenant!" Post-Halo 3 hype from gamers: "Wow, they didn't fix what wasn't broken with multiplayer! No one really cares about campaign anyway!" You can understand why...

Silly me, I thought that better games were defined as being more fun. Backstory is great, but who gives a shit if it's all but ignored? Am I supposed to make the crappy singleplayer better because I've played Halo 1 and 2 and can imagine what they would have put in the game if they had tried...

It's only bear-baiting because the bears have lost all sense of perspective and reality by praising this good but not great game to the skies and hailing it as the second coming of Christ the Asskicker. In my book, such bears deserve to be baited, since they ruin it for the rest of us. Yes...

Thank God. I wrote my own review of Halo 3 wherein I ripped it apart in much the same way Yahtzee has, although his is (dur) better. But at least I'm not the only one, aside from those brave NY Times (!) and British Xbox magazines (!!), who acknowledges the following: * The singleplayer sucks...

I preordered Team Fortress 2 through Steam and got Peggle Extreme, a 10-level free version. An hour later I bought the full version. I became its *****. Only yesterday did my TF2 playtime finally surpass my Peggle time. *hangs head in shame*

Quality work as always, Yahtzee. I'm postponing the American invasion of Australia for another week. We've developed a taste for koala meat. Only thing is, after watching this, I still don't know if I want the game or not. As I've gotten older, I've lost my taste for over-the-top blood and...