Recent content by KarlMonster

Why is Truth stranger than Fiction? It is because Fiction has *got* to make sense! A fictional/alternative world is typically a reflection of, or an interpretation of, the real world that we live in. We live in a world that is completely coherent, complementary, and where everything is normal...

"... draw on your face with my pretty knife I want you to know what love is." - What Love Is, Rocket from the Tombs "Evil" is like "Punk rock". A label that is vague, poorly understood, and ultimately illusory. Both are seldom portrayed honestly; we are generally shown only the extreme...

Quite the opposite, actually. Machine was a very modest concept at the beginning, and its highly likely that Frictional urged them to expand on the original concept. [Possibly adding the journey back into the machine?] Machine actually missed an original deadline - with Frictional's blessing -...

Right! Forget this "another terrible shooter" stuff! Is there, or isn't there a hendeca-pizza sandwich/loaf/melange/mashup/whatever, and in what way did Pizza Hut charge for it? Can an order like that be re-stated as a femto-(plus one)-vertical integration pizza-pizza deal? Did they refuse...

Hear! Hear! Well spoken Bruce! I came here to opine about the tantalizing possibility of seeing an enormous scrotum in a video game, and not to witness a tenacious argument regarding a sexually themed joke. In closing; see scrotum, avoid angst, (and also check out "Sir, You are Being Hunted").

I'll give you a hint. I bought 'Wasteland' at Electronics Boutique (I think) and played it on my Commodore 64. Many. Many. Times. I have no knowledge of W2. In 'Wasteland', there is even a secret area that strongly implies that 'Wasteland 2' is coming soon... some 20-odd years ago? And...

Previously... [I'm not going to quote you all] (Saints Row series was funny) (Bulletstorm was funny) (ArmA II could have funny moments) To some extent it depends on how receptive the player is. Saints Row can be played straight, if the player just goes for the full gansta experience...

OK, I get that it's bad, but for [insert your deity here]'s sake don't buy it for that reason. And if you have to, just to keep the International Standard Crappy Game in your own private quarantine, please don't pay full price. Instead, go out and buy an overlooked, but much better game...

Valve did that first in a more subtle way. The crates in HL2 were context-sensitive. They dropped what you needed when you broke them open. If you didn't need anything then they reverted to some common health or ammo stuff. If you were hurting and a kind of boss was coming up, then its health...

"Remember Me Trailer Deletes The Bad and Replicates the Good" Hmmm ... ... Nope. No it doesn't. The trailer just kind of plays. And there's this (young!) male voice-over and stringed instrument accompaniment that we hear over a chaotic montage that could possibly be giving some...

Welp, I guess I'm going to annoy the Metro 2033 fan club. Stop reading if you liked it. I heard mixed reviews about 2033, even from STALKER-nuts like me. I picked it up cheap on Steam, and I really did try to like it. But it's not a game, its the novel 'Metro 2033'. Oh its certainly true that...

Eh, ES:Oblivion was a decent open world, since you could always jump into a large body of water to run away from nasty things. I think that FO3 really clinched what was possible to do in an open world game, since it had storyline, random explorables that you could visit, but also a bleak...

Here's where I'm stuck. Regardless of the heat source, he's saying that its a government-owned facility that sends hot water through pipes to local businesses and homes. Can this be real? Whoops, don't mind me. That actually happened per this Wiki article. "This was based on Tymoshenko's...

Perhaps I'm being selectively critical here, but... Right, so LEGO Underwear (now that I mention it, Yahtzee didn't twist the game's name!) managed to pad itself out somewhat by forcing you to collect things, AND made you wait to unlock some game mechanics in order to access some of the...

Steam is a platform for delivering digital content, and doesn't so much displace/replace other publishers as give developers a direct line to a market/existing consumer base. And Valve has grown more and more developer friendly of late. So definitely yes, thank Gabe for Valve. Also on my A...