Recent content by rolandoftheeld

Not true. I died once, and in another instance of Pigs doing something better than Descent, it forced me to replay the encounter. In Descent, if you died, you respawned pretty much on the spot, with full health and sanity, but the enemy that killed you was gone. That was my absolute number one...

I don't know what game you all were playing that I wasn't. The one I played was pretty great. To balance out all the negativity, here's some of the things I thought AMFP did not only well, but BETTER than TDD: Fewer dumb adventure game puzzles Less predictable enemy appearances (no more...

I think that's a matter of preference. I'd rather a game make me uneasy for 5 hours than terrified for 5 minutes. Again (at the risk of gushing) I'll hearken to Lovecraft - many of his stories have no real scare moment, no time of mortal peril. "The Picture in the House" and "The Outsider" come...

To everyone complaining that the lack of sanity makes it not scary, I'll remind you that Penumbra had no sanity penalty for sitting in the dark, and it was still tense as hell. Penumbra and TDD (and AMFP will be too, I'm sure) are all Lovecraft-inspired stories, and Lovecraft is all about...

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

You're not my real dad!

Sounds like a good idea, especially if you can't differentiate between "encase" and "in case."

"After this lengthy explanation, I will be quite surprised if there are still people who still don't get it," Prepare to be amazed.

Since when is FEAR a horror game? Was it when you shot 1,000 body-armored dudes in the face, or the giant laser-gatling bipedal robots? Or when you shot another 3,000 body-armored dudes in the face? I guess it was when everything was magically on fire for three seconds, right before you shot...

How about a new game that actually has new ideas in it? Maybe even without Zelda or Mario in the title? Maybe?

Looking forward to something New & Tasty!

And not a single shill for Jam. You'd think a review about post-apocalytic games would be the perfect place to shill a post- (or mid-) apocalyptic book. I don't know whether I'm proud or disappointed.

QFT. My thoughts exactly.

"Actually, thinking about it, the whole concept works a hell of a lot better as a 2D platformer." So, knowing nothing about this game, and after watching ZP last week, all the way up until reading this, I was certain that the game WAS a 2D platformer. Because that is the only possible arena...

This right here. Also, it may surprise you, but every single written work of fiction? Came right out of somebody's head. That could only hold significance within their own imagination, right? "Why didn't Huck Finn wear a black tie and cruise over the river on a magic carpet?" See, I just...