Recent content by Madmonk12345

Seconding the Mother 3 recommendation. If you've played it once, I'd recommend playing it a second time actually. Lots of little details are hidden in the background that completely change in meaning once the final big twist is revealed.

Which consumers? The consumers of the game in question? The consumer of the genre in question? Shouldn't these reviews appeal to people who haven't bought the game already, including people who perhaps don't buy games regularly in that genre, people who aren't "consumers" in that genre...

Actually, thinking about it, it's not just about the diminishment of the games. The definition of gamer is defined as people who play games. If we say certain genres of games(experiences, whatever) aren't games, we can say certain people aren't gamers and their makers aren't game developers...

That seems like a recipe for accusations of cherry-picking. What I'm trying to say is that both statistics are flawed (if they are flawed at all) in similar ways. If one is true or false, then so is the other statistic,depending on whether or not "casuals" count as gamers for the discussion. If...

You DO realize that you're citing the same study that says 48% of all gamers are women right? The same study GGers tend to discredit because it includes casual gamers? The same industry-funded study? Also, how do you know the most frequent game purchasers are core gamers? It would make more...

Don't worry about it. In the past, I've debated people who believed that Ninty wasn't capable of producing thoughtful games or anything beyond cliches, and your comment brought shades of that to mind. Though I could argue that Majora's mask to some extent puts narrative over fun, with a...

Actually, in the post he wrote, he said "never". That's why I started my post with, "Sorry to be the pedant here". :P The point I have is that they have the capability. There's little stopping Nintendo from looking back at those games and recapturing what it lost. Silent Hill 2, one of...

Sorry to be the pedant here, but this isn't strictly speaking true. Nintendo has certainly been involved in the development of games that aren't just pulp fun and aren't out to say anything. See Mother 3, Majora's Mask, Link's Awakening even. While they may have some pulp fun elements, they...

Easy choice for me. Mother 3 has always been and likely always will be my favorite RPG (unless Xenoblade REALLY impresses me when I find time to finish it). It's a good example of a game whose narrative just wouldn't have worked nearly as well with any other medium due to applying large numbers...

You know what, Gladys? I aim to target a person's argument instead of the person, because that is a critical distinction to make; assuming that they themselves and not their statements or actions are part of the problem creates a degree of permanence to their behaviors that lowers the odds of...

As I replied to the previous poster, there are women into coding; many just leave once they enter the industry because it has a culture to it that treats them poorly. Lots has been done to handle the inroads, but to some extent, once they land a job that support dries up. Also, quieter...

Apologies, poor phrasing on my part. I was referring to the previous point discussing biological tendencies/inferiority in my point 1, of which Yahtzee himself claims the former in the original quoted post. Inferiority was poor word to use and I should have grouped the two points together, I...

This keeps being said, and it keeps being nonsense for several reasons. 1. The number of women in technology has been steadily declining since the 1980s, where the number of women into tech industries and the number of women who graduated from such positions peaked at around 37%(see...

Kinda odd to comment on how the other publishers tended towards CGI trailers when Nintendo had few if any of those with actual gameplay on constant display, but I suppose one has to do a bit more work to de-hype Nintendo this time around relative to the rest. "De-hype is to the benefit of the...

Granted, I can understand feeling miffed about the game's ending, especially if one played it as a kid. I recall being miffed myself about it because it resolves very little, but if it had resolved things more tightly it would no longer pose a moral question and cease to take a neutral opinion...