Recent content by Maet

I agree that the missions feel repetitive, but in this case, I wonder how much of that is a result of the player. In my case, rigging light switches to open whatever door I needed was the simple solution that never failed, and as a result I experienced little incentive to get creative. Perhaps...

I'm actually of pretty much the same mind as Joe, but for somewhat different reasons. I too am level 30, play it pretty regularly, and don't show any sign of quitting. But I play for a social reason and not because I'm enamoured with the actual game. I used to play on the same TF2 server...

<color=green>Pipe Trouble (or: The Persuasive Power of Pipe Mania) When examining Dynamics: The State of the Art [http://pipetrouble.com/game.html][/I]. In about the middle of his presentation, he engages in an exercise where he leads his audience in a dynamic re-imagining of Tetris, an...

Don't you ever change. Hell, I'm half inclined to resurrect my birds avatar (Pixar's For the Birds), but I doubt anyone remembers it. Out of curiosity, I actually did a quick skim of the forum register dates of the posters in this thread. Only three people from 2007 and roughly a dozen from...

Thanks for the best layout/design feedback I've received thus far. I admit, the layout isn't perfect and there are a more than a few things I'd like to work with. Not to make excuses for myself, but this was done over two nights and has been my biggest design project so far. I used to edit a...

Perhaps, but I'd still wager not as pompous and silly as this little jab: :) But it does occur to me now, though, that I never mentioned that Blake figures out The Batman's identity in a snap, and that the entire point of that paragraph was to indicate the lunacy of a long time series...

Oh, now I remember what I was going to say about this review! Perhaps it's too soon to call this a tick, but this is the second consecutive time you've used the word "trichotomy" in a review. Mind you I'm not sure if it's appropriate since I haven't read the novella (although Indie Game: The...

I did have a purpose in mind writing the opening paragraphs the way I chose to. It was partly an effort to touch on some thoughts I've been having about the way people these days take in their media and pop culture, a way I see as being far from ideal for some of the reasons I mentioned (nothing...

Note: This review contains spoilers and presupposes that you, the reader, have seen the movie. If you have not see the movie, then my immediate recommendation is that you don't. If you have and want to know why I don't recommend the movie, then do read on. The Dark Knight Rises I've never...

I'd argue there's a difference between an ending offered by a feeling of closure and an ending actually offered by the game. I felt closure immediately after defeating Nyx in Persona 3, but the actual end of the game wasn't for another two months of in game calendar time, and this is in a highly...

Partially, yeah. Not out of jealousy or spite or anything like that, mostly because I'd like to see what someone else could do with the format and because I'd also be encouraged to develop another neat little something-or-other to call my own. Oh, and because laziness. But that's a pretty...

Blueberry Garden Serenity is an ideal that many game designers are not terribly interested in exploring. As a counterpoint or juxtaposition, sure, but as the core element? An experience that is entirely at peace, where there is little objective and direction beyond just breathing in the...

<color=blue>ROCKSMITH Back in the mists of the 2005, Guitar Hero thrust miniature plastic facsimiles of real guitars into our hands and before long had the world rocking low rent Elvis Costello impersonations to covers of iconic guitar songs in our basements. Nearly seven years later, a...

So what you're telling me is that I shouldn't waste time writing a couple of thousand words on Deus Ex: Human Revolution? Duly noted. :) As always, thanks to the judges for thinking that my nonsense is worth something. I'm simultaneously baffled by how I keep ending up being considered and...

<color=black>Indie Game Spotlight #9 <color=blue>Hero's Adventure Way back in 1999, I once had a curious thought while playing Final Fantasy VIII, a Japanese role playing game in the spunky-teenagers-save-the-world mould. This particular game features a rather prominent dichotomy...