Recent content by kimiyoribaka

I think the assessment of the movie history regarding blockbusters was interesting, but I think it's unlikely to parallel the game industry. There's two elements that I think were missing, one on each side: television and the decade or so between AAA and the 80's. I think the nearly but not...

Eh? The christian God isn't the sun? I wonder if the guy who made "sunday" holy knew that... Just kidding, but I have heard that scholars think the roman emperor who decreed sunday as a day of rest did actually believe that christians were worshipping Apollo.

I find it interesting that Yahtzee's explanation for why 3D platformers such as mario 64 didn't work applies far more to crash bandicoot than to mario 64 or any of the other examples given, precisely for the reason that crash bandicoot focused on 2 dimensions so often.

Valve already has people paid to check the games that get on greenlight. Valve made a point to show them to Jim Sterling and Totalbiscuit during that consulting session a while back. The problem is they're insufficient for the goal Valve is aiming for. That's exactly why Valve wants to try...

It's worse than that: the game takes place on a reservation. The moment anyone noticed they were there at all, they would've been forcibly removed. And yet somehow they were there for decades. Plus, the opening name-drops a reservation that, according to wikipedia, is completely surrounded...

Yeah....there's a reason text parsers stopped being a common game interface. It's not just player annoyance either. It may seem like a nice idea to just process everything dynamically, but the narrative effects are usually disastrous. I don't know about that. In my experience, table-top...

That mario comparison doesn't work at all. Remember, the main progression of the mario franchise was donkey kong, mario bros. (different gameplay), super mario bros. (innovated gameplay), smb 2 (stagnated), smb 3 (blew up the scale), super mario world (toned it back and streamlined), super...

Read the wall of text that is the story for the second part of the original trilogy again. It states that Keen grabbed a standard galactic pistol once he boarded the vorticon ship. Also, in the ending for the third part there's a line mentioning the vorticons Keen slaughtered. That's also...

vic 20 (or so I'm told) 486 pentium 2 something with vista ps2 an intergrated graphics card running 7 I feel like my geneology is particularly sparse and cryptic. Regarding the games, I had a bunch of demo discs and shareware discs, and my parents didn't seem to mind me playing things I...

I'm disappointed in you Yahtzee. As a coder you should know that that's "Titanfall bitwise OR 2". Clearly they're setting a flag of some sort on this "titanfall" variable.

I seem to be in minority on this opinion, but I think the idea that the player has an inherent investment of any kind in a game is one of the notions that is plaguing the art of games. I have seen so many games that don't give me a reason to care but still try to spout off paragraphs of...

That wouldn't so much be the real, true DOOM experience as it would be the real, true Duke Nukem 3d experience or the real, true Heretic/Hexen experience. The original Doom didn't have vertical looking at all because that would have complicated the rendering process. That said, the person in...

Firstly, I'd like to say that if there is anything serious to this, then this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If there isn't, then the joke has become a monster that is abusing those poor imps worse than Yahtzee does in his actual videos containing them. That said, curiosity got...

I think the fundamental problem with all 3 of those ideas is the premise that they'd feel different from existing games. While it's true that the mario franchise hasn't done so well in recent iterations, most games that nintendo has developed over the decades has at least attempted significant...

The examples McAfee gave of how a phone could be misused make me laugh. From what I've heard, there is a current problem with people having pictures taken unknowingly through cameras connected to the internet, but that's mainly webcams (as in, upright cameras on a desktop setup). For a phone...