Recent content by LaoJim

Actually it seems like a sensible choice to me. Sure Top Gear is doomed without Clarkson whatever happens, but if you have to replace him, Chris Evans is a known car-nut who can do knock-about light entertainment and can also manage the whole Richard Hammond 'bit of a tit' angel at the same time.

For them to have some kind of interesting working Food system. I mean in 3/NV you had all these great descriptive names for foods - cripsy squirrel bits, brahmin wellington, grilled mantis ,but at the end of the day you just press a button and they're turned into (more or fewer) HP. I'd like...

If you are trying to write a sequel and you find you can't think of anything surprising to do with the set-up as it is - I don't really think a reboot is going to help you that much. The big issue is that, after rebooting the series are you really going to take all those big narrative risks that...

Yeah, its kind of strange, yesterday I was on a thread where the OP was pissed that there were too many remastered versions of games, Dishonoured having got his goat. Now we hearing that companies are evil if they don't remaster their games. To be honest, I can't see much of a need for a...

I'm ambivalent about this: On the one hand, shooting obviously wasn't a core or even necessary part of Mirror's Edge. On the other hand, I quite like the idea of having the choice not to shoot someone - to chose pacifism rather than to have it forced upon me. On a third hand, it seems the...

Ok, so in rough order. 1. Matt Smith - very convincing as an old alien in a young body, managed the manic dialogue of the new series better than anyone else 2. Tom Baker - I'm surprised he made number 2 as I often think of him as overrated, but still obviously larger than life character...

Okay, all together now - if you don't like it, don't buy it. Not everyone had a previous gen console and not everyone bought the games in question. As its probably not a huge effort to port the game from PC to next-gen consoles, why not let the developers do it? - Tomb Raider, DMC, GTA 5...

Sounds like there's very little that could make you not buy the game. In that kind of circumstance its tempting not to read anything at all; when it's released check the scores, but don't read the reviews and as long as it's say 7+ go for it....

Exactly, games depreciate all the time, but digital marketplaces tend to be a bit funny about how and when the price goes down. If there's a game that I want to buy for say £10 pounds and its on sale today, it might be advertised as being 80% off because it was still being sold at its original...

Actually I've only just started to play Black Flag - I was going to get it for next gen consoles, which I don't yet have, but it was given away free for the 360 a couple of months ago. I've only played a couple of hours so far, so you may well be right that it is ultimately lacking in some way...

This whole statement seems very bizarre to me. Why would it being a 'sequel' be a bad thing. Wasn't this game greenlit after constant badgering from fans who wanted a sequel? Sure we're what 6/7 years down the road from the first one so, yeah, innovate a bit, but that wouldn't stop it from being...

What I particularly liked about Red Dead was that it took the standard GTA gameplay and adapted it to the Cowboy world in a brilliant way. I don't really want a sequel however, that game did everything so well that it feels like there is nothing more to add. I guess Bully (which I haven't played...

Companies are going to keep releasing previous gen games for as long as the customer base exceeds the cost of porting it. As Call of Duty is the biggest selling franchise out there, its always going be the last one to leave. I'm a little confused by this statement, haven't all the CoDs been...

As other are basically saying, it sounds like you would eventually benefit from both. The thing is PC components are continually getting cheaper, so why not get the Wii U now, spend six months or so catching up on its catalogue and then see where you are financially for building a new PC then?

Eleven months of the year, I'm abroad in a country which doesn't have easily accessible console games - so digital copies are really useful for me. That said the usual digital price of anything on the XBox store is completely out of line which any concept of reality, that pretty much...