Recent content by Joccaren

In all honesty, IMO, its because they've got access to far more powerful engines that don't limit them as much, and this leads to a focus on the superfluous rather than the core of the game. You've pulled up some very different game series for your example; Star Citizen: SQ42 and Mass Effect...

I blame both Bioware and EA fairly equally. EA have obviously fucked up the management side of this equation, and lets not even try to pretend that the idea of using Frostbite - an engine Bioware knew didn't work that well for RPGs - for an RPG, didn't come from EA trying to push its...

Blame the company for releasing it those one or two months early and selling a lot of people an unfinished game, thus garnering much deserved criticism. Also, fan criticism isn't enough to kill a franchise. Look at ME3. Its poor sales. Why poor sales? Because they fucked up. More than it not...

And once again we miss the point of what I've been saying. The irony in your responses is almost funny, if it weren't so sad. The line at which you draw "Shared context" is also rather amusing. All of our 'objective measurements' are a shared context. However, because they're shared by the...

Oh, and I would say "This is hot" about warm bathwater for boiling a kettle? Yeah, seems legit. You can dish nonsense, but you can't take it. Again, I'm going to echo you, if you think that's my position you honestly haven't understood it in the slightest. Of course, that doesn't surprise me...

Untrimmed. Well. Mostly. Sometimes it gets stupidly long to an extent where it is physically uncomfortable just to have, and tangles things, and gets longer than some of my fingers. Then I trim it to a reasonable, managable level. I am highly sexually active, and neither me nor my partners...

It is indeed a useless back and forth, as you continually try to dodge the core of the discussion to argue about something barely related. I've never said preface. Not once. I've said use slightly different language when talking about them. Instead of "IS", "Feels", and things such as that...

For the definition, its from the dictionary. That IS what subjective and objective mean. As for the 'need not be accurate' - then again, "Sharp" is fine. Sharp is self evident in the object. It is capable of cutting something, or it has a fine tip, it is therefore sharp. Hot is also self...

We are talking about completely different things with water being hot, and something like lava being hot. Again, you focus on purely on possible meaning of a phrase, not at all paying attention to shorthand. When I want to tell someone that there is a sharp object ahead, and they could cut...

He complained about the voice acting and design choices there, artistic style choices. He complained about the simplistic combat, the puzzles, the minecart rides, transformations... There isn't a thing he doesn't complain about. Hell, he even directly states "Dated mechanics". If it were...

If second and third are the Glacier and Swamp respectively, yeah, they are the more empty of the stages. The swamp does have a number of obvious challenges and characters, but until you're able to jump up to the higher areas they can be difficult to find as the level blocks the view of almost...

Perhaps finish reading next time. I noted that two sticks AND Z targeting is better, but removing Z targeting, even when adding a second stick, would make the game universally worse. Additionally, you are pretending all 3D games have the same controls, pacing and goals. This is wrong and short...

When you're statement is essentially "This is a perfect 90s platformer, but that's not a good thing" - I think its fair to say you don't like 90s platformers. MAYBE you did in the past, but you don't anymore. As for modernisation, what modernisation are we talking about? Honestly up until the...

In the case of Jim's reviews, yeah, you kind of can. Sure, if its a game series he loves like Dynasty Warriors, he's going to give a bunch of info. Take the Yooka Laylee review, and of course he's going to score it badly if he doesn't like 90s platformers. MAYBE if it the exact opposite of a 90s...

Go check the definition of "Professional". It isn't just "Does this for money", but refers to a specific type of conduct related to appearing 'professional'. I'm saying the minimum that code of conduct really can be. Unless you have another way to differentiate professional reviewers from...