Recent content by JackShandy

Yes, thank you, I'm aware that my chosen career path will likely bring me nothing but despair, frustration and a soul-less existence scrabbling day to day just to make the money I need to feed my pathetic skeletal form. Ugh. I wish people would stop telling me this. Is there actually a...

I think we all know that, in order to have an opinion on Starcraft 2, you must have played every RTS created in the last hundred years and spend your entire budget each year on honing your PC into a finely-developed leviathan beast. Stop using stupid ad hominem "You aren't a cultured enough...

Innovation's not the be-all and end-all. Trashing a perfectly great game just 'cause it's not new enough is idiotic. We shouldn't just kill and bury perfectly good game styles just as soon as they stop being in vogue. Hell, I'm playing Hydorah at the moment. Space-shooters are dead as a...

As far as showing newbies that games are toally art nyah nyah nyah, I'd have to reccomend those ol' lucasarts point-N-click adventures. They require no technical ability whatsoever, it's impossible to die, and they're about as close to movies as games have gotten. They're easily understandable...

I'm sorry, but "Upgrades were necessary in bioshock because the combat was harsh and unforgiving"? That's the biggest bullshit I've ever heard, yahtzee. Have you got short term memory disorder? Maybe you're thinking of system shock- bioshock was the game where it was literally impossible to die...

PSYCHONAUTS: THE SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON.

Man, I hate reading articles like this. Because I can remember reading articles like this years ago, and thinking; "Man, I'm sure Games and Gamers will finally be given widespread recognition as a valid art form in the far-off future of Two-Thousand and Ten!"

Well, now I feel smart for understanding the jokes in Zero Punctuation. How is this all calculated? Does just knowing what a Dystopian Future is really put me at grade 14? Hm. Well, the little red line under "Dystopian" seems to show that even spellcheck doesn't understand the word. Maybe I...

I not it's a futile hope, but I'd really like to see Yahtzee review crazy russian Art Game "The Void" one of these days. It's almost on the fourth peg of the triangle- almost. You play in this strange afterlife where everything is desolate and barren. You're told that "Color", a type of...

Wait... you mean Shattered Memories never started to combine the dangerous world with the safe one? That's like rule number one for horror! If there's a safe place, it should slowly but surely become invaded and dangerous, eroding the one place the player felt they could relax. Didn't they...

Alright, favorite non-featured comics! Who's got some? I laughed at this, from NerdMental: and thought this was pretty cool, even though it obviously had nothing to do with video games or, in fact, anything at all, from Video Noir: Also, longyear! I frigging love your thing! More!

I would love to contribute to the collab if it got going. Giving each comic-maker their own seperate contained section of the site wouldn't work, though- not only because many wouldn't have the time/inclination to keep a full comic running, but also because it'd all be separate! Cold and alone...

I personally like Mass Effect 1, but I agree that it isn't too hot as a game. Gameplay-wise, the shooting is annoying, the vehical sections likewise, the inventory is suffocating, and the sidequests are bland and useless. Plot/pacing wise, you spend an eternity jogging around the citadel...

Man, it's been march 8 in australia for AAAAAAGES now. I've been on the edge of my seat so long I'm starting to get friction burns. THE TENSION. lolz and roflz will be in order if they declare that no comic was good enough and no-one gets to be published.

Oh man... 24 pages of replies, and only 1 winner! A lot of people are going to have to be very disappointed... My hope is that The Escapist will be flooded by so many incredible fantasic entries that they won't be able to choose, and will be forced to take the only concievable course of...