Recent content by Provident

While I see your point, you're ignoring quite a few significant factors. Baldur's Gate had a fixed camera, used 2d sprites on a 2d pre-rendered backdrop and really didn't have a physics engine to speak of. Modern games like Mass Effect are real-time rendered 3d games in high definition with...

MMO player here. I'm a big RPG fan, so I tend to like games with long-term gratification and MMOs are pretty much the epitome of that. I do, however, have some issues with most MMOs. In my opinion, the #1 biggest flaw of most MMOs is that they propagate competition and elitism. Many other...

Fair enough that the concept of art is subjective and different to each individual, but Ebert's statement striked me as having a sort of absolute resonance, as if his opinion is more or less the be all and end all. Though this is expected coming from a critic. While we might say that we...