Recent content by Sable Gear

I thought this as well, Prime 1 especially. This game came out in 2002 and honestly even on the GC it still looks and feels great. I agree completely that there's something about its balance of stylization and realism that keeps it from looking too dated. It seems like the visual team really...

Played and fell in love with Transistor. The art, the writing, the characters, the music. Fantastic game. Personally a little lukewarm on Bastion probably because I didn't play it first, and you can see how the features of Bastion evolved into Transistor's much more streamlined setup. As for...

I like the idea of stealth games (Dishonoured, Thief, etc) but I'm SUPER bat at them. I don't even understand HOW I'm so bad at them. I'm careful and aware, I take my time, plan and explore, and STILL can't ever make my way through a level without being spotted, cornered, and murdered a bunch...

Basically this^ but way less angry. Also this: I feel like a lot of writers get too caught up in the differences and forget to focus on the fact that we're all human (or intelligent extraterrestrial, anthropomorphic animal, whatever else you're writing about, etc). I'm working on a long...

I really like these, especially #5. It might be neat to have the game tap into your DS's calendar to calculate moon phases as well, maybe certain pokemon will only appear or be more common at certain phases of the moon? A tide engine would be super neat too, allowing for some beachcombing in the...

I predict... -Official sources will either keep referring to them as "Sun and Moon" and refuse to abbreviate (it's fair, they're one-syllable words, much less of a mouthful than "Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire") OR abbreviate to Pokemon "SuMo", because let's be honest, Pokemon "S&M" is a...

Agreement, with caveats: -Not just sewers, but really any tight tunnels/corridors with an abundance of 90-degree angles. I hate navigating these especially in 3rd-person games where the camera gets hung up on the walls. Mazes are no fun. Mazes with enemies, especially fast-moving or...

I think a lot of his stories could be great films if played from the suspense/psychological thriller angle rather than the cosmic horror they usually end up being in the end. Nothing wrong with that, but I fear most studios would pour their budget into animating cool cosmic beasties when they...

This sort of situation is part of my complicated relationship with Master Chief. I like John, I like him a lot, but I don't care for the world he's set in or the Halo games themselves (from a mechanical gameplay standpoint). I like to read his place in the Halo series as a bored, understated...

This, though I hesitate to say perfect. As much as I can love an album, there's always one or two songs I'll inevitably skip every time (I'm looking at you, "Signals" on the Transistor OST. That aside I spent an entire summer listening to Transistr's OST on the way to work). As for...

Depends, is the rest of you cute? =)

This about sums it up imo and my bf seems to agree. One might get into the discussion of splitting hairs between "cute" and "handsome," but OP just said "attractive" so here's my offering... (embed won't work) http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3013023744/nm1131557?ref_=nm_ov_ph# Matthew Grey...

The hollowing system in Dark Souls II. It was like the guys at From, after ignoring/rejecting all input from the original creator, said to themselves "Dark Souls 1 was hard, so let's make this one EVEN HARDER by taking away the one thing that made the trial-and-error learning curve possible...

I'd have to say... -The Boost Guardian miniboss from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. It's a frustrating damage-race in which the monster is frequently invulnerable. It hits way too hard, even harder than the area boss, you constantly take damage from the environment, and if you try to skip its...

Wow, nobody's mentioned the freeway fight scene in The Matrix: Reloaded yet? That's my favourite example of a diamond scene in a rough movie. Some people may argue even that scene isn't great but the choreography, music, and stunning use of SFX (consider the time period) were the essence of...