Recent content by leeprice133

I dunno. Although Kingdoms of Amalur is by no means perfect, I really have a soft spot for that game. Do the mechanics get repetitive? Yeah, but that happens in every big open world game. I just didn't find anything in Fable 3 particularly entertaining.

In fact, when suits of plate armour were made for women, they weren't curve round the breasts individually like you see in games. There's a VERY good reason why you don't want your armour indented towards your heart.

This. As I keep saying, if people want to push this 'games as a service, not a product' stuff, they need to a) change their business model - if I pay £40 for a game I damn well want to be able to do what I like with it, and b} be prepared to have their games judged as services - even if the game...

I'm just disappointed that ANYONE is still defending the XBOne in the face of so much anti-consumer bullshit. Even if someone gets banned, that doesn't give Microsoft the right to deprive them of property that they paid for with their hard-earned fucking money.

It's because they want to own their customers' souls ;)

I guess a lot of us have gotten tired of disappointment. Look what happened with Prometheus. Ridley Scott doing sci-fi. With a great (imo) cast. And what happens? A visually stunning catastrophe with plot holes you could drive the HMS Ark Royal through.

Well, I guess if you don't like films you won't like this film.

Yeah, I'll concede that. Things do seem to be looking a little grim for the Wii U at the moment though. Selling badly because the games aren't there, and the games aren't coming because it's selling badly.

Ar that price I'd definitely say their worth it. They are pretty jump-scare centric, but they probably the most well-crafted jump-scares I've seen in any game. The first game, in particular, also nails the atmosphere, feeling claustrophobic in the same way that Alien does for me, as well as...

I'm not sure I think of the WiiU is a next-generation console - technically it seems to be only slightly beyond the 360 and PS3. Seems more like Nintendo have only just fully joined the current gen.

Most plants move to some extent - flowers tend to open and close in response to light, and many plants move their leaves to make efficient use of sunlight, then you also have plenty of examples of rapid plant movement like Venus flytraps, bladderworts, sundews, and Mimosa pudica, not to mention...

Hmm, I should probably have chosen a better title. I'm using aesthetics here to mean the overall visuals of a game, rather than graphical resolution. What I reject is the implication that photorealism is what visual design in videogames should always be aiming for.

Yeah, what I'm saying is that beautiful games were possible before the near-ridiculous levels of graphical fidelity you can get with thousands of dollars worth of graphics cards. I grant you that really beautiful aesthetics weren't really possible in the 16-bit era, or even the early era of 3D...

So, I was watching old episodes of the Jimquisition tonight (because I've been in work all day and need to watch a fat countryman ranting to unwind) and the 'Photorealistic Sociopathy' episode got me thinking. 2K's assertion that we need photorealistic graphics to create emotional connection...

ps I think there's a meaningful conversation to be had about the difference between graphics and aesthetics, if anyone wants to take that up.