Recent content by Gigantor

Thanks, kind people of the Escapist forum. All advice has been taken onboard and processed, and hopefully the next review will be a bit more...well, whatever. Chirpy, maybe. Certainly less frowny, if possible. It's Dragon Age next, but it's going to be a while. Hopefully I'll have some...

It's a really interesting idea to focus on sound design, altough I would say that there is a reason sound usually comes under a wider banner in reviews: people need a bit of context. However, if you really are more interested in the sound than anything else, more power to you. Just keep in mind...

It's unfortunate that there is little dialogue between the hardcore and the casual. Casual gamers, by definition (if a definition could be agreed upon, which I think we can all agree it can't), probably won't be spending their time on the forums of a gaming website. Hardcore gamers do a lot of...

I am excited, although watching the really really stiff facial acting from the characters in the trailers bothered me more deeply than seems logical. I knew that they had time to improve it, and even if they didn't it was still only a small part of the experiece, but...well, we'll just have to...

All of the options, except the last one. There's another reason, though: I find that if I don't read, I have a lot of trouble writing. They must use the same parts of the brain, or some such mumbo-jumbo. It's also a good way to pick up new words, and then use new words and pass on new words...

They are acrylic, I can't afford oils at the moment, and I prefer the instant gratification of acrylics. Thanks for the kind words! Especially the shufflebottoms!

You can hold my candle anyday. Tee-hee, hyuck-hyuck. Your reviews, while being funny, also have the added bonus of you seeming to like games, which sometimes seems to be a problem with me. Doesn't help that the last game I played was The Last Remnant, which left me in a right jaded sense. But...

It might have just been the third-person, but the review had quite an eerie feel to it. A bit like a weird figure in my dreams reviewing a game for me. Like people have said, though, more content would be good. At the moment the review feels much more for VonGentlemen's benefit than for the...

It's like just the right amounts of nervous energy and a touch of madness have come together, and the outcome is smooth, and readable, and funny. Like, "I actually laughed" funny- "allow me to pop your White Power bubble with the red-hot poker of common sense" is just right. And "If you agree or...

I've only seen a few trailers of the game, but the premise looks overpoweringly, thumpingly stupid. I kept on imagining Arnie as a doctor, cocking a shotgun and saying things like "IT'S TIME FOR YOUR LEAD INJECTION." One of the things I picked up from my last review was that you shouldn't...

Just finished an English Literature Bachelors at the University of York. Before that I was in Cambridge at Hills Road Sixth Form. Now I'm mostly at a loose end, writing and painting like some cartoon character "Hopeless Ponce Student Bastard" type. I may be many of those things, but I'm not a...

I forgot about Dragon Age! My purse-strings will be frayed to monofilament by the end of the month. Thanks everybody for the comments. I'll try and make the next review: -Shorter, obviously, because 2,600 words is pushing it a bit. -More focused on what the game is than isn't- that is...

To Diagnol Horizontality, I can see the reduction going on with Borderlands to Fallout 3, Fallout 3 to Wasteland, Wasteland to...well, something pretty old in computer game years. And I do try to judge a game on its own merits, but I feel that Borderlands uses more ideas than it generates, and...

I never realised this sort of thing went on here! Super. I've been dabbling in sketching and acrylic painting since secondary school, and it'll be nice to share some of it beyond putting it near a window and hoping passers-by might catch a glance. These are three paintings I've done since...

I did actually quite like Borderlands. Like I said, I can eat Doritos 'til there's cows all over the place, but I don't really know why- what I was trying to do was establish why I felt the same way about Borderlands. It was long-winded, but I think I sort of did. The game's got a lot of weird...