Recent content by searanox

Borderlands is the definition of style over substance. Beneath all the colourful characters and pretty visuals lies a shallow, manipulative item grind, boring and repetitive fetch quests copy-pasted a thousand times over, and one of the least interesting character progression systems ever...

Creepy pervs who play creepy perv games want more creepy perv content? Shocking. At this rate I'm surprised Dead or Alive isn't just outright porn. It's more offensive than most of it out there already, that's for sure, and is insulting to the intelligence of fans and gamers by pandering in...

Too bad Netflix is losing content faster than it can get it, not to mention that in many cases they've promised content and never delivered it. I love idea in theory and the service is great for the content they do have, but telecoms and media cartels destroy its viability by insisting on...

Chrome is great, but I don't use it because of the Google spyware it contains (it gives your PC a unique ID and reports everything you do/visit/etc. to Google). It also has a poorer range of extensions than Firefox. I recommend using Chromium, the open-source basis for Chrome, instead. That...

"Obsidian" "hates" the used games market? Sensationalist reporting much? This is the individual opinion of a single person at Obsidian, not Obsidian's official line on piracy. But hey, I guess you get more hits of you bend the truth and completely distort the context and veracity of the...

That is not "your character." That is you.

WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP BRINGING UP FALLOUT 2 BETHESDA DID NOT MAKE FALLOUT 2 FALLOUT 2 IS NOT THE ONLY OR EVEN MOST PROLIFIC EXAMPLE OF BEING ABLE TO KILL KIDS IN VIDEOGAMES THERE WAS CHILD KILLING IN FALLOUT 1 AS WELL, WHY DOES NOBODY MENTION THAT WHEN FALLOUT 1 WAS PLAINLY A...

EA have been caught with their pants down too many times lately - genuinely degrading, sexist and offensive advertising, coercing reviewers and manipulating the critical reception of their games, and now the entire debacle that is Origin - for me to feel any sympathy for the scumbags running the...

I love you. Take me now.

There is online-only play, and then there is an obvious lack of basic features which limit playability, which only a truly untalented developer would make the mistake of omitting. Accidentally sell the wrong item, or spend a skill point the wrong way? Instead of loading a save you've backed...

Frankly, I'm of the opinion that if a turn-based system is fast to the point of being nearly indistinguishable from a real-time one... it becomes very difficult to in good faith call it turn-based anymore. Then it's just real-time gameplay with shitty controls, and the way you approach it is...

Turn-based combat is generally superior in games which rely upon heavy statistics and precise tactics, particularly wherein long-term planning is necessary over short-term reflexes and response. While it's possible to do this in a real-time situation, it is far more difficult, and almost...

Oblivion is terrible and it's baffling you'd want it. Get Divinity II, Risen, Gothic II or some other game that has both good exploration and good mechanics on top of that. The only thing that "redeems" Oblivion is its mod support, though that's generally spent on furry porn, so I guess it's...

Proof that BioWare's character designs are even more garish and impractical in real life.

FEAR is as much a tactical shooter as Mario Kart is a driving simulator.