Recent content by potatowave

It doesn't "calm" you so much as give you a mild head-rush. It makes you focus, basically. You can be stressed and tired at the same time, when I smoke at least, I'm focused on a single thing.

Everything the Soldier says in Team Fortress 2. "If God had wanted you to live, he would not have created ME!"

Only make mass judgments about people being stupid or evil if you're willing to say that you're stupid or evil too.

Always. Be. Closing.

I think Resident Evil 4 was still scary, but in a different kind of way. It was more of a tenseness. The original Resident Evils were "you only have a few bullets and you're trapped in a claustrophobic hallway," while RE4 was more "everyone in the village wants to put an icepick through your...

As a bit of a gun nut (yes, I'm American. Hooray for stereotypes!), it bugs me to no end when reloading just works like a bag of bullets, i.e. you can reload after just five shots and every time you'll have a full magazine 'til you run out of bullets. I can accept games like Borderlands and...

Basically, making a list of games that are art is the same thing as making a list of games that don't suck.

I think it's just Miyamoto being excessively humble. I mean, look at the guy. He looks like if you shot him in the face he'd apologize for standing in the way of your bullets. Edit: on-topic, I think gaming just needs a few more years to gain acceptance. It's easy to forget that...

Audio Logs are like sugar cubes: a little goes a long way. Take BioShock, which was very hit-and-miss. The biggest hit was Dr. Steinman. For one, he had only a handful of diaries: four or five, if I remember correctly. Secondly, they all made sense in terms of setting and character. Most...

I wish youtube still had this video clip from Fist of the North Star, there were these bad guys with sniper rifles that SHOOT KNIVES.

The beginning of God Hand was a masterpiece, because it does everything it can in the first five minutes to look like a shitty game: the intro cut scene is about thirty seconds long, the environments all look dull and gray, and the enemies all look generic. But then you actually start playing...

Best: Coach from Left 4 Dead 2. An hour talking to a fellow food-loving burger-phile? Sign me up. Worst: Squall Leonhart.

Even if 99% of Steven Blum's roles are "Gravelly-voiced angry person," he fits the part so damn well that I can't get angry at him. Even in the mediocrity of Prototype, when I heard Blum's character go "That's right, private, you're guarding a hole in the fuckin' ground, " I had to do a...