Recent content by Howling Din

I know Yahtzee hails from the miserable cesspool of narrow-mindedness and defeatism that is Britain, but that's no excuse to carry those traits into his thirties. The game can't be about futility, because in the end, after a million timeloops, you win, you triumph, you avert the disaster...

Grandia has an amazing set of expressions for each character. It's a stylized game, but I'm not sure why I even brought that up as a negative. Realism can go gratify itself in private where I don't have to see.

You could have done the Wikipedia article instead.

I watch advertisements, they're tolerable enough. But if the ads around here start seriously asking me to update my software in order to see them, I'm drawing the line.

You mean that 'respect bar' thing Saint's Row 2 did? You know, the one that everybody complained about, including Yahtzee?

I believe that Yahtzee has truly gone soft Praising and padding and pissing aloft Where there once was flare With the strength of a bear All I see now is cowardly croft

Yahtzee didn't write this. Look it's fine if he didn't have time this week but don't lie to my face by leaving his name up.

There /is/ a single word to describe what they're doing. It's become a little shop, but still. The word for it is racketeering.

Well the Grandia series re-invented the wheel then.

I hear Mister Yahtzee's description of Twilight Princess Link, and I think: So if Twilight Princess was first-person, and you never saw his face, he'd be just like Gordon Freeman! Same destiny to save the world, same silent compliance to do so, and same iconic getup! Do you see the common...

Haven't played Saints Row IV. But the involvement of aliens actually sounds like the next logical step in the whole identity theme. Once you've reached the peak of fame among humans, then the biggest limit to your identity is the identity of humanity as a whole. Which your own identity is still...

Here's what I've got in mind: Do the Bioware format, and whenever a character is about to uncharacteristically spout exposition, pause time and have text appear in the corner of the screen, explaining things to you. You'll have an abstract dialogue tree tree in this abstract information booth...

It's only bad if you factor in the arrogant fools who don't know that when you interpret things, it's about the authors thoughts, not yours. it's amazing the idiotic things you hear asserted in the name of 'deeper interpretation' but you should really just ignore it, and not bring it up in a...

But let's not mince things. Nintendo is a stagnating, irrational despot who's losing his war against the entire rest of the world, and at the rate it's going it's not going to have anything left worth a crap. It has two roads ahead of it: 1, Road of Icarus: It keeps its head right where it...

Another problem with a huge launch library is that even if there are good games among them, they will be like trees in a very dense forest.