Recent content by shiajun

Hey, what's with the dig at Ethan Carter? Among scenery-touring, gameplay-light software where you bump into audio bits, it had the most interaction of all of them combined and then some, and that puzzle with the house layout house very clever indeed. It even had a context for why it all...

The Escapist is almost dead to me now: Lisa Foiles: gone Extra Credits: left and did their thing Robert Rath: gone Miracle of Sound: gone MovieBob's comic/movie reviews: gone (or at least, gone to patreon) Susan Arendt, Greg Tito, Paul Goodman, etc, etc (e.g. most of the staff that I...

If this leads to the very much need second season of Tron: Uprising, I'm all for it. That series was better at exploring the concept of this digital world than both movies combined. Awesome visuals, great voice acting, and scripts that didn't pull punches. Seriously, at least one program got...

Uumm....who tried to bite Beej's nose off? I couldn't focus on anything else.

Have you played the original game? This is exactly the same but with better models and graphics. There's not much explosions and things going one perhaps because the tone of the game was always a bit more sober than what you currently get in trailers, or they're just trying to emphasize the...

I find it odd that now the things that keep me coming are the things that brought me to the Escapist in the first place. Well written, thoughtful, or interesting columns and articles. In this case: Critical Intel, Experienced Points and Extra Punctuation. Most of shows I followed have gone...

I'd like to point out that what you propose strongly implies that you'll have to play over and over until you develop a strategy already knowing the game. You mention maps, but it's not always multiplayer. Single games also have this two-weapon limit and I'm certainly not going to replay an...

Aaaah! Thanks for that. I was genuinely curious about that, since I liked the city and almost bought the game for it, though a bunch of other considerations stopped me in the end. I guess Ubisoft is better at miniaturization than United Front (Paris, Venice, Kyrat, Chicago) but then again, they...

Thinking about your description I was thinking about that other Ubisoft games with "Dogs" in the title. I've only been to Chicago once, and only got to know the downtown area (although doing it by foot certainly gives you a better notion of the layout). How much did Watch_Dogs faithully recreate...

I'd like to be surprised at the level of navel-gazing mentality of "average gamers" displayed here, but I'd lie. The amount of simultaneous input required to move and interact with modern digital worlds in games is overwhelming for people who're used to using one finger to drag or poke a screen...

I'd like to only say "quote for truth" but then I'd get a low content warning. It's astonishing that console devs are struggling so hard to get back to the fluidity that games had 10 years ago or more. If the super magnificent shader you're putting into your games is throttling your framerate...

Well, I guess I don't need to make my reply about that correction now. So, err..... I agree with recasting. Ford just doesn't won't cut it anymore. Nevermind the action on screen, I fear he'd have some terrible mishap on set.Chris Pratt could work, since he has more or less the same...

Joystiq is shutting down??? Wow, I hadn't heard of this. That's awful.

I've been a fan of GK for yeeeears. While I find some things I didn't think worked out entirely well in the 20th anniversary remake, Tim Curry is not one them. The game is not a travesty. I also thought it would be, but it turned out to be a more than decent remake. Most of the voice actors do a...