Recent content by Skarvey

Wow, thank you, oddly enough, I've had someone praise my syntax in the exact same way before. One of my English professors said what you just said verbatim.

Haha, thanks, yeah, "bought and paid for" seems pretty succinct for that, however, I personally revel in being a blogging guttersnipe, I like the feeling that I'm a thorn in somebody's side, so in that instance, "blogging guttersnipe" was a term of endearment, I really like Yahtzee's reviews

Game critics today face a lot of problems in reviewing and previewing games, but what I think is the most pressing is acceptance. There's at least two very distinct sides to reviewing. There are the "respected" game reviewers, (see metacritic) and then there are the blogging guttersnipes (see...

Hah, you know, I've been pining over WoW the past few weeks, I quit when my girlfriend broke up with me because A.) I had hit 80 with my Paladin, but wasn't ready to leave my levelling guild and run with a raiding guild full of "hardcore WoW players" and B.) I needed to get my FXCKING priorities...

I don't foresee any major backlash. I mean, despite all the fun little "research" that's been done, Jack Thompson and whomever else is still out there lobbying against the videogame industry has never been able to tack anything to it firmly. Now, we can all debate the reasons for that, but the...

Washington, DC: Officially confirmed by Yahtzee to be the sleaziest, most debaucherous place in the U.S. Of course, we knew that already...that's where our government lives. But still, it's a shame that good sane people like Barack Obama, his family, and most of his cabinet have to be there...

I definitely want to acquire some graduate education and go on to teach Game Design and Production at a college or university level. Moreover, I want to be a Pokemon master....yeah...awesome

We don't need less sandbox games, we need sandbox games with a reason to explore them. If I go off the beaten path in a game, there had better be a great reason for me to do so because in doing so, I'm risking my own neck, probably stumbling across enemies or dangers that will challenge me as a...

I feel that this is an appropriate time to bring up Rage... umm...Whatchoo people thinkin' bout it? It seems in a way like it's a mash between Borderland's highly stylized gun frenzy with cars and Fallout 3's realism and RPG elements...and it's from the Doom guys! I'm not quite sure what to...

Thank you guys for representing Brick. I'll admit, from the first time I heard of this game, I was immediately drawn to Mordecai, but I gotta say these trailers have swayed me, there is not much better in this world than the wet thud of fist meets face. As much as I like Jethro er...

Most of you are right, Emilin Rose is being elitist against the MMOFPS. Emilin, the reason the genre got so popular was because it was so well designed, providing an environment with incentive and means for serious advancement and moderated for those who want to casually have fun (the...

Hey now, we only get one chance to be young and idealistic, I say run with it as long as you can, and as a hopeless romantic myself, I sympathize. I just got dumped from a 2 year long relationship, not only that but she let me down HARD, like "I don't enjoy your presence, our personalities...

Kill the person who penned, actually no, spewed the idea of Death Note out into the market of international media. The premise seems like something a repressed and violent teenager would write in his own notebook, in hopes that one day, all the people who gave him swirlies after gym class would...

I'm an explorationist to a fault. If there's a chance I'll find something awesome anywhere in a game, I'll go there. Doesn't matter how much I kill my player doing stupid things, or how dead empty a place is, I go in and scour the place till there is no gun unfound, no guy unkillified, no...

I agree with Yahtzee, the system of moral choice is too polarized between pure vomit inducing benevolence and almost cartoonish villainy. The problem is not only in the all good vs. all evil mechanic, but in the implementation of it in games, especially in moral grey areas where you're not fully...