Recent content by LittleBlondeGoth

  1. LittleBlondeGoth

    How could Final Fantasy be fixed?

    I've been playing these games since the mid nineties, and I've always tried to take each one as it comes. You know, appreciate it for what it is and what SE were attempting to do. Doesn't mean some aren't better than others. Or that everything they tried worked. And I definitely have my...
  2. LittleBlondeGoth

    Collaborative Thought Experiment: what would a game targeted at Anita Sarkeesian look like?

    Honestly, I think the Mass Effect series is pretty damn close as it is. Shepard can be male or female, it doesn't stop him / her kicking arse and saving the galaxy. You can save your team mates. You can kill them. You can pursue romance with men, women, aliens or no-one. Your gender is almost...
  3. LittleBlondeGoth

    Charlie Booker to Jon Snow on videos games as a medium

    Actually, Charlie Brooker is associated with the games industry - he wrote for PC Zone many years ago, and is well known here in the UK for his views. In fact, only Saturday night, he had a 2 hour documentary on channel 4 titled "How Video Games Changed The World". He's a big fan. :)
  4. LittleBlondeGoth

    Why the "big boobs" "absurd female design" still exists?

    Easy. Alistair from Dragon Age. Now of course I'm not speaking for all of womankind here. There's plenty of ladies out there who hated him, and that's fine, since each of us likes different things. But I think that in general, the reaction to him as a character was positive. He was well...
  5. LittleBlondeGoth

    Saddest deaths in videogames

    Zack in FFVII Crisis Core really got to me, more so because I knew it was coming, but still somehow kept hoping it wouldn't. And then everything started to go haywire, and I lost it completely. I'm not ashamed. Aeris was a big moment as well, as that was the first time I'd had a lead character...
  6. LittleBlondeGoth

    Poll: Dragon age Origins, having trouble deciding.

    I found it a really tricky choice too. In the end, I just played all of them. Ah well. The human noble feels, in many ways, the best 'fit' for the Warden. You're tied up quite thickly in much of the central political plot, and especially so if you're a female who has the hots for Alistair. I...
  7. LittleBlondeGoth

    Binary Domain

    It also had very little in the way of promotion, so no-one knew it existed, certainly when compared to the big shooter franchises. Personally, I thought it was pretty decent. It was made by the same guys that do the Yakuza series, so it's very much an eastern take on a western style, if you...
  8. LittleBlondeGoth

    Terrible design choices in otherwise excellent games?

    I'd have to agree with most of this. Though I did enjoy my first runthrough of the Fade, because it was so different and weird and I had to puzzle my way through it to save Alistair (and some other guys I suppose). But the second time I just got the arse with it. And because I have it on PS3, I...
  9. LittleBlondeGoth

    Your favorite OST for a game and recommendations

    If game music is your thing and you haven't already, check out OC Remix. There's a massive range of tracks on there from arious games nd composers, well worth checking out. And favourite OSTs for me would be most of the Final Fantasy series, Wild Arms and Dragon Age. Origins over 2, I think...
  10. LittleBlondeGoth

    Square Enix is a ?Complete Failure?

    Need a minute to stop twitching from the bloke who said FFIX was forgettable... Shame on you, sir. In my book, they aren't a complete failure, not by a long shot. But this isn't to say they've not made some eyebrow raising decisions lately. I've actually enjoyed just about every Final Fantasy...
  11. LittleBlondeGoth

    Best Written Female character in Gaming?

    For me, it has to be FemShep, specifically because she's not written "as a woman". She is Shepard, an N7. Her gender is immaterial to her, she just does what needs to be done. Which is why I believe her. That and Hales' VA, of course. Honourable mention goes to Morrigan from DA:O, for being...
  12. LittleBlondeGoth

    Famous Franchises that do nothing for you...

    Mario. I have never been able to see the appeal, not even when I was younger. It wasn't that I didn't like platform games, I grew up with some great ones. You could happily find me playing Rainbow Islands or Zool on my Amiga. But Mario always left me cold. I've also got the same thing...
  13. LittleBlondeGoth

    What are your thoughts on multiple endings?

    Like anything, if they're done well then I'm all in favour of them. It's only when devices like this are implemented poorly that you start to run into trouble. I think DA:O did it particularly well. You played through, made your choices and then had to deal with the fallout. And at the end, I...
  14. LittleBlondeGoth

    Enemies That Make You Go "Oh Fuck This"

    Banshees in ME3, seems no matter what bloody class I'm playing, it's the complete wrong one for dealing with Banshees. What's that over in the corner? Oh yes, it's my face. Can I have it back please? Gah. For me on (the original) UFO, it was the Chrysallids that sent me loopy. Cyberdisks were...
  15. LittleBlondeGoth

    Unimportant Things In Games That Make You Grin And Think 'Neat'

    Ooh! Ooh! Also: "And then Isabela went to the Chantry, and saw that it was...boring. Canticle of Isabela, stanza one, verse one." It's just these occasional snide asides that really make me snigger.