Recent content by Saladfax

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    The Upcoming (And Pointless) Console War

    The "competition" is going to get rather amusing, as I imagine, if/when 10-20 Steambox products are sitting on shelves not a stone's throw away from whatever Sony/Microsoft makes for their new consoleboxes. Consumers will quickly flock to whatever seems to provide the best price/experience...
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    Escape to the Movies: The Hunger Games

    I've come to the conclusion, correct or not, that Bob is very little more than a hardcore nostalgist. It's very evident from his preferences across media and all of his video series, including (especially) Game Overthinker. This is just the way he seems to enjoy his media: if it has some...
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    Escape to the Movies: The Hunger Games

    No work of anything is immune to criticism, hole-poking, or anything else. Your continued desire to express the weaknesses of The Hunger Games pretty much only shows that you dislike it, which makes your suspension of disbelief waffle against the little issues you see in them. I won't say I...
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    Escape to the Movies: Red Tails

    The anti fan rage portion of the review points to the main thing which bugs me about MovieBob in his attitude during all of his different shows. Most of the time, I agree with his viewpoints, but... Whether intentional or not, he tends to dismiss and even yell at most fan rage out of turn...
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    What's so great about Cthulhu?

    For one, the style of horror it establishes is one of atmosphere and tension rather than gore, shock, and jump-at-you. I also never found the written works to be all that frightening, but then again literature is the least captive and least direct form of media absorption. If you get too tense...
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    Recommend me some good metal of the death variety.

    Wintersun is melodic death metal with power metal and folkish tendencies; very very good if you like that sort of thing. I'll also second Opeth. Saw them live; their lead singer is hilarious.
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    Zero Punctuation: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

    Yeah... so criticisms can be summed up as, what, a bad tutorial? The game really does provide the necessary abilities to survive, even without some of the easy-mode leveling upgrades. It doesn't explicitly state how to do every little thing (or anything, I suppose), but five minutes of...
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    Zero Punctuation: The Witcher

    Not that this is remotely applicable, but... The sequence within Act 4, while breaking the climactic flow a little, was very much reminiscent of the storytelling style brought out by the books. Sapkowski's(I think that's right) first book, The Last Wish, was written as a series of vignettes...
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    Study Claims Anti-Game Research More Reliable

    Very very very important to note. It's not only that, though; a lot of the Bushman and Craig Anderson studies have demonstrated a vast and dismissive negativity to the entire medium. It borders on high-snobbery, and is not objective social science. They're also somewhat alarmist as well...
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    Poll: And now for my review of Yahtzee's reviews.....

    If you're keenly interested in finding out more regarding his actual points regarding game criticism, then read a few of the articles entitled Extra Punctuation. While still written in a fashion intended to entertain, he generally addresses points directly related to issues with games...
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    Half Life = Gamer's "Twilight"

    One could also more strongly argue that, in a purely interactive media, the blank slate protagonist approach is much more appropriate as actions are actually dictated by the person in control. Personally, I don't like the blank slate approach. It improves immersion but weakens the protagonist...
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    Games That Would Make for a Great Musical

    Clearly you've never seen 'Avenue Q.'
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    Left 4 Dead Racing!

    If you're tired of the same drab kill zombies coopathon, then try out a derivation of L4D simply known as racing. Here are the rules: http://www.examiner.com/x-1726-Minnesota-Games-Examiner~y2008m11d30-Run-run-run--Use-the-run-key
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    Zero Punctuation: Halo 3

    Simple statements: Just because you don't like and/or understand a story does not make it bad. There are certain, very simple elements that can make a story bad. Like dialogue that could have been written by a drunk George Lucas and characters that make the full cast of Cube look like...
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    CliffyB Doesn't Like MGS4

    Indeed we do, but I think it becomes clear that Yahtzee is as much of a comedian as he is a critic (not, of course, that he doesn't often come up with valid criticisms). MGS4 is a very well put together game experience, but, like they said, the amount of cutscenes "raised eyebrows." There's...