Recent content by m64

This episode sounds largely like a distraction tactic. "Here's a much bigger issue, so this small issue here does not matter." Yes, Bob, I agree that using feminine traits to mark something evil is a horrible and perhaps even more insidious trend. But this does not change the fact that forcing...

IIRC this is an almost literal quote from Spec Ops: The Line, amiright?

I know this is an American website, but the 90's sucked view is so US-centric it almost hurts. 90's for Eastern Europe was probably the most important decade since the WWII - Soviet Union actually fell in 1991. For Japan this is The Lost Decade. Asian boost and crisis in 1997, 1998 Russian...

Personally I found the "Just go with it" comment a bit off putting if not racist. You are reviewing a spinoff of a series about a bunch of turtles who through some magical mutation became sentient humanoids and got trained by a humanoid rat to fight an army of absurdly stupid baddies led by a...

I think I may offer you an interesting take on the subject. You see, I live in Poland. Computers did not become widespread here until late 80's/early 90's - in 1992 still the most widely owned computer was C64. Consoles (initially NES clones) did not appear until around 1992 - the year that PC...

So, this guy has been suspended for THIS? I think you people will feel right at home with game censorship.

I think there is another reason to why zombies got so popular particularly as of late. It is "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks (and, later "World War Z"). This is a rather good book that took the old, almost comedic stereotype of zombie and made it serious and scary again. It got quite...

Glass. Wine glass in fact.

Well, this was more of a "mental shortcut" then a firm opinion. Sure, platforming can work in 3D - for example early Tomb Raiders had very platformy fill, almost like Prince of Persia. Speaking of which - Sands of Time. My point is that 3D platformers are very different beasts from 2D ones, to...

Since 3D and platformers do not mix well, mainstream developers have largely stopped making them. And if they do, then the 3D gameplay is very different from a 2D one. So the 2D bent devs choose platformers as the genre to avoid competition with the mainstream. Other genres have not changed that...

My personal problem with artsy 2D platformers is that they are largely based on jumping mechanics inherited from Mario (eg. jump on head to kill). Not owning a NES I've never mastered it as a kid - my favorite C64 platformers (like Rick Dangerous) all included "normal" straight shooting...

Perhaps that's not THE best game about time travel and my judgment is skewed by nostalgia, since this was one of the first games I played on PC, but considering probably no one else remembers it, here it goes - "Time Commando" by Adeline Software. It was a really cool beat'em up/shooter and...