Recent content by Novander

I preordered. My copy arrived this morning (PS4). I can't speak to the gameplay, having not got too far into it, but damn is Chicago beautiful. It's full of so many little details that really bring the city to life; if that's where all the extra processing went that stops the graphics reaching...

I'd say the opposite. Delaying games that aren't ready is absolutely the right call. Better a decent game next year than a bad one this year.

I don't want a PC in my living room. I work 50 hours a week between uni and my minimum wage, dull as hell job. When I get home I just want a box I can put a disk in and video games will happen, with minimum effort on my part. I've pre-ordered the Watch Dogs/PS4 bundle, so to me this (if true) is...

Is there some Marvel comics significance to Koenig's nickname "Lightning Foot"? I feel I was missing a joke there.

It's pretty hard to take that comment seriously when they didn't have any women speakers at the PS4's announcement.

Prototype. If I want me some casual, cathartic, abnegating violence there's nothing quite like tearing shit apart in Prototype.

Dragon Age was billed as a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate and turned out to be awesome. I love Sigil but I'd kick in for an Avellone-led spiritual successor to Planescape in a heartbeat.

"To make up for", you mean like balance out the karma? They could drown some kittens I guess, but I'd really rather they didn't. It's forty hours of the best writing ever seen in a video game, with ten disappointing minutes at the end. Yeah I wish they'd ended it differently but it's their...

Okay, first of all Dragon Age 2 is, in my opinion, BioWare's worst game and it still has awesome writing with awesome characters. If she doesn't like playing games, I don't care, she's a writer and she's clearly still bringing her A game to the job. Second - and I know she had nothing to do...

Dragon Age 2 wasn't a bad game, it was just a bad game by BioWare's standards. There were a lot of problems with it, such as the repeated maps and the re-spawning enemies but the one I had most issue with was simply that it was less epic. DA:O was a grand story, a tide of darkness sweeping...

While the Evening Standard are completely out of line blaming the riots on GTA, I think the headline here "British Media..." is just as misleading. When the Guardian start blaming the looting on Thief: The Dark Project, I'll start worrying but the Daily Mail's free little cousin? That's just...

I identify as a Gamer. It's a shorthand way of letting people know that not only do I play and enjoy video games, but I have at least a passing interest in video game news, culture, theory and all the rest. Yes, the label is very subjective and what I think it means might not be what someone...

I'm quite disappointed. Visually yes I'm impressed, but after the beautiful memento style trailer showing us the tragedy and horror of infection I hoped for something a little deeper than this. I know the walkthrough is meant to show off the technical aspects of the game, but there was something...

(Cross-posted from my blog. It comes to about two thousand words but if you're feeling lazy you can just read the last two paragraphs.) I've only been playing it for about thirty hours - which isn't a lot for a BioWare game - but I'm a little bored of Dragon Age II already. I'm going to talk...

I used to pirate video games if I didn't have the money for them or wasn't sure about them. To my shame Psychonauts is one such game. I have seen the error of my ways, I don't pirate anymore and I since I got so much enjoyment out of it I accept that I owe Tim Schafer and Double Fine a debt. I...