Recent content by silvain

Thank you :) Yeah, Fallout 3 needed either less combat, better AI (and varied AI between enemy types), or very different feeling weapons to make it engaging throughout. The achievements killing cheats point, I should clarify, is for products like the code breaker, gameshark, and action...

You might want to wait more than a few weeks after Texas and New Mexico had huge, state-wide, week-long power and gas outages stemming from the fact that their utilities have been privatized to make this dumb statement. Unless you have a different definition of outperform? This wasn't...

I was under the impression that cheating was removed from the current generation for the addition of achievements, and if that were true, we got the wrong end of the deal. I don't cheat often, but I love cheating. There are many games, especially RPGs, where the game length outlasts the...

"gamers are savvy, skeptical and observant." lol Almost the perfect thing to say to manipulate people. You really are a marketer. Nice one.

Nice article, Jim. Other people are bringing it up, but I'd like to again mention that the hype train and soft influence (plane tickets to gatherings, booze, parties and the like) are probably more damaging to reviewers than MONEYHATs are. For some reason, many video game reviewers tend to...

There's a great saying that basically spawns from having companies that are no longer easily accountable to the people they were once designed to serve. "(By the time the consequences come around) You'll be gone; I'll be gone." The long term consequences don't matter when bonuses are on the...

Huh? Validity has quite a bit to do with it for me. I would certainly trust someone with a relevant technical frame of reference to give me a more useful description of a product than someone who didn't. Then again, I tend to be really choosy in which reviewers I consider more valid. I also...

wut? My friends usually don't have valid opinions on things they haven't played, whereas several reviews are generally posted by the launch date. This point is just bizarre.

You all are so focused on the score aspect that you're missing the point of the article. Even without scores, we get hyperbolic praise for mediocre titles, which still doesn't let the system accurately describe games the reviewers genuinely like. My impression is that hype is more poisonous than...

You guys are hilarious. It's like the Wii killed your pets or something. I'd just like to set this quote down right here: "The plural of anecdote is not data." So all of those "but no one I know..." statements aren't a comparator to the survey.

I know they are going to port some of the songs to the ps3, but I have pretty unusual taste so I'm not holding my breath on what comes my way.

This is the winning answer. The fact that shooting was in the game at all was a bit of betrayal to the flow of the game. The inevitability of violence thing is silly thing to put in a game; conflict will catch up, but you still can get out of it a different way. Just look at Ghandi. Anyway, I...

This thread makes me sad that I decided to buy GH3 and RB1 on PS3 so long ago. I've got way too much DLC now to give up the platform, but I'm starting to doubt the PS3 will see much of this content :(

Yahtzee, You may have heard about it, but I think you would get a kick out of Deadly Premonition. It falls in the "so bad, it's hilarious" plot, music, pacing and otherwise, but there are some gameplay innovations that blew me away, like the fact that the player interacts with the character...