Recent content by MattyDienhoff

The Service Rifle in Fallout: New Vegas. I like it in theory; an AR-15 with wood furniture, nice! But its stats are garbage. Contrary to the unwritten rule that a rifle either be powerful/accurate OR rapid fire, it does nothing well. It's technically semi-auto, but its fire rate is capped so...

One of the final missions in Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, called "Search & Destroy". The goal is to destroy a heavily defended SCUD launcher before it can launch a nuclear missile. You can call in air support, but the enemy has AAA which shoots it down. You can call in tanks, but...

I can't speak for the others, but Max Payne and Commandos are pretty old games. As games age and hardware changes, sometimes new bugs pop up, and if it's been years since release it's unlikely these new bugs will be patched by the developers. This isn't the distributor's responsibility. I...

I'm really curious now whether Yahtzee knows No One Lives Forever (2000). That tongue-in-cheek homage to/parody of 60s spy flicks is the funniest and most enjoyable FPS I've ever played. It got great reviews and everyone I know who's played it loved it, but it's strangely obscure nowadays and I...

The super mutants in Fallout 3 qualify on both counts in my book. Their screams and taunts can be pretty intense in combat, but they also often make me laugh with their comments. :D While they're attacking me, for instance: "JUST - STAND - STIIILL!" "STOP MOVING, STUPID LITTLE MAN!"...

I did find that very odd in more ways than one. I thought perhaps it was meant to show how much power Tai-Yong Medical had over the media (that they could keep something so bad out of the news), but I'm really not feeling that. This was a massacre of at least a dozen people in a hotel in the...

That sounds great. I voluntarily do it much like that in Fallout 3 by only fast-traveling between settlements which are on trade routes. I find that to be a happy balance because it reduces the number of tedious journeys between settlements, but preserves the sense of adventure when I go on...

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Grand Theft Auto IV Minecraft Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis Flashpoint is by far the most obscure of those. It's a soldier simulator from 2001, and ArmA 2's predecessor.

Really? Even if you hate weapon jamming, there are far more important things wrong with Far Cry 2. I personally liked the weapon malfunctions for how detailed they were.

First shelter, or first home? :-P My first shelter would've been some unremarkable hovel which is why I don't remember it, but my first home was a series of natural caverns around a waterfall that I stumbled across while exploring and promptly claimed. It was sort of like a cave system, but...

Vito Scaletta from Mafia II. He's utterly dull and unlikeable compared to Thomas Angelo (the protagonist in the first game). His motivations for his actions are either frivolous or glossed over entirely. Just got back from the war? Get into organized crime! Why? Because regular work is for...

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis gets a free pass from me on its bugs and quirks, partially for its story, but mainly for its huge scale. This is a game in which massive battles can be fought on land, sea and air, with any combination of players and NPCs fighting on foot or in all sorts...

The Fiends in New Vegas seem to only have two taunts. "When I find you, I'm going to eat your spleen!" "YOU LIKE THE SIGHT OF YOUR OWN BLOOD?!"

It frustrates me to see people trivializing this issue by saying things like "Why don't you play on peaceful!". That's missing the point, because this isn't a difficulty issue, it's an aesthetics one. The mechanic doesn't effectively work as intended to increase difficulty. The idea of an...

The kind of cheats I always liked best were not mere 'cheats' that made the game easier to beat, but rather the ones that induced all sorts of oddball behaviour that isn't supposed to be standard gameplay but could still be a huge amount of fun. For instance, a lot of cheats in the earlier...