Recent content by Mike Richards

Agreed. The first one has this brilliant, borderline Shadow of the Colossus like structure where everything is folded into eliminating these specific targets and learning about how they fit into the overarching conflict and moral/philosophical debate as you go. Later entries made some great...

I took it as some kind of comment on her Demigod nature, something along the lines of the more she adopts the role the easier another God could notice. Considering Ares considers himself the God of Truth not War and as I understand it Diana has classically spent more than a bit of time in both...

Yeah, the full remake is still inbound. As far as we know it's still on track for fall this year. It looks like it's gonna have a lot of rebalancing and usability changes so I can't say I'd blame you in the slightest for skipping the original and just waiting for that. They actually recently...

Consider this recommendation coming with some significant caveats but all the more obvious answers were already covered. You might want to look into Pathologic. It kinda reminds me a lot of the best parts of Morrowind in a way but turned up to eleven. Unique and bizarre setting, a gameworld...

Yeah, ME was absolutely less of an RPG at the very least, if not something else entirely. Rock Paper Shotgun once called them "Guns and Conversation" and I really like that as a more accurate genre description. And I love that about them, I love the whole trilogy start to finish, even the EC...

Huh, Bioware doing a specifically non-RPG adventure? Can't wait for all the people complaining it isn't enough of an RPG and Baulder's Gate was better.

Were people expecting this? I'm actually not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious if people were expecting the shell to charge, because general controller setups don't work this way on any of the systems. Both PS4 and Xbox are set up to charge, unplug, play, plug back in. Neither of them...

I think the racism was more to do with it's exploration of Comstock than anything else.

Sorry but, none of that reads like lies to me, it just doesn't. Games change in development all the time. None of us were there, and none of us know how things went down, and I'd rather not speculate just because people didn't enjoy it. I don't see people saying Irrational lied to us because...

People keep saying that but they keep not saying what the lie actually was. Every last thing I saw that actually came from Hello or Sony said "Wander planets, discover things, and if you want it too this fucker will pretty much go on forever. There's some online stuff, some trading, some...

That's more or less what I mean. I keep hoping the precedent will start piling up too. The law is struggling to catch up to reality for a wide array of reasons, and for an equally wide array of reasons doesn't seem to be making much actual, helpful progress. If anything, the fact that a DMCA was...

God, there's something kinda beautiful about how much of a clusterfuck every last one of these cases ends up being. At this point it's pretty much a solid given that any time "DMCA" shows up in a sentence it'll be followed up by "Something really, really, really dumb." Of course, it's not...

The mobile port of Max Payne is surprisingly badass. For being entirely touch based they nailed the controls, and I find it works well for short bursts if that's something you look for in a mobile game. If you're already a fan I'd say it get now with zero hesitation. The GTA ports are also...

Here's my problem. However good this game ends up being, it has to be better then Open World Cyber-Punk Alien Bounty Hunter: The Game. That's what we were originally promised and that's sure as hell not what we're getting now. On it's own merits I'd like the look of it, and I love the...

I really like the idea of a more adventure game approach to Batman that highlights his detective work, both in and out of the cowl, considering we usually don't see as much of a focus on that as combat. (Com-Bat, amiright? Cause... you know... I'll show myself out.) There's still every chance...