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Taking a step back from "overrated" to "popular game that I personally don't enjoy": Final Fantasy 7. I never finished it. I thought the combat was boring, and the story was predictable when it wasn't being utterly nonsensical. I didn't care about any of the characters, I was completely...

In the past few months, Yahtzee has enjoyed a Final Fantasy game, lauded a Resident Evil game, and gotten immersed in a Zelda game. I am now buying plutonium, because I've apparently slipped into an alternate dimension, and I need a flux capacitor to get home.

For me, I think it's more in regards to standards. Technological limitations obviously means that an older game will not look as good as a successor 20 years on. So I don't think it's fair to judge an older game based solely on graphics or in-game physics or anything else dependent on processing...

I'm a skeptic - not because I don't believe aliens don't exist, but because of probability. You've heard this before: There are ~10 billion galaxies in the universe, and ~2-3 trillion planets per galaxy. What are the odds that only one of those planets, Earth, could have evolved life...

I can't see why you'd pay money to play either of these games when you can play any of the dozens of free flash games based on the exact same concepts. Sure, you could argue that a premium developer might take that basic game mechanic showcased in a flash game and enhance it into something...

I'll throw in my two cents and recommend a fairly old one - Vision of Escaflowne. Sort of a fantasy/mecha/war epic kind of thing. I'm not much into anime - partly due to lack of access, partly not having any time, partly because I've found so much of it disappointing. So take my opinion for...

I'm curious to know - exactly how much money do you imagine that the NOAA spent to have an intern draft up a five minute press release stating the obvious? The most amount of thought and time that went into this was probably a grad student looking up Wikipedia on a smart phone during his lunch...

That's .... extremely debatable. he reality is, that we don't know exactly what would happen if nuclear war came about. We have no practical real world example - only two nukes were ever detonated in anger and those were child's toys compared to the tonnage of modern nukes. So you're left...

What Half Life did well was its ability to immerse a player fully into a world and environment with the most barebones elements of plot. There is no extensive exposition, your character never speaks - you're literally dumped in medias res into the life of guy who, if it wasn't for the passing...

Not true - there was exactly one innovation after the original and that was AC2. AC1 was straightforward and clean and simple and the story hadn't gotten all crazy yet, but in terms of game mechanics, it had some major problems. The combat was both frustrating and difficult and too much of the...

Sort of tangential, but I'm curious - how do you quickly and reliably load any type of gun with just one hand?

You're comparing the worst possible outcome of one option versus a very light possible outcome of the other. The worst thing that could have happened if someone got tased was that they lose control over their nervous system and suffer major bodily harm. And I would say that the possibility that...

I prefer hearing the audio in the original language, for several reasons. There are some difficulties when it comes to translation - there's always some expressions, subtleties, that aren't quite captured in another language. And I don't trust the guys doing the translation to be the top in the...

Dragon Age 2 had many strong elements of a story, but it never really put them together. That there is a logical thread of progression between scenes doesn't mean that it's a particularly strong one. "A Day in the Life" is a weak thread for a story, because while yes, it's realistic, we're...

I guess the closest thing Assassin's Creed Revelations gets to bosses are those special assassination targets, so my boss would be Tarek, leader of the Ottoman janissaries, who, it turns out, kinda didn't deserve it, which would've been figured out before he got stabbed, if Ezio Auditore wasn't...