Recent content by snave

Still waiting for the GotY release with 100% of the content in it. Anything before that these days I consider a beta purchase.

Didn't Deus Ex try this and get shamed into cancelling the whole pre-order bonus programme they had going? Either way, doesn't make a lick of a difference to me. In my book, any purchase before the complete, final product is released in full (aka the inevitable Game of the Year bundle) is a...

We're rapidly coming up on 20 years since Deus Ex and System Shock 2, and publisher-bollocks aside, the rebooting of the former seems to be well-received. I'm imagining an indie revival of long, intricate RPG shooters. Not shooters with upgrade paths or Diablo-style RPG mechanics, but actual RPG...

Home would be an adverb.

You cannot compare the complexity of those maps. Older titles generally relied on labyrinthine designs and tight corners for cover and mechanical depth. Modern titles have the technological advantage that allows them play around with verticality and freestanding cover a lot more. Not only is...

There'll be a kangaroo one for sure too. The page heavily hints at one island in the setting being modelled off Australia. The remainder of the islands seem to include a not-quite-Hawaii.

Putting a spoiler in the title, then putting that in a big flashing graphic on the front page is a dick move. Regarding the resurrection scene, the suspense was real for me. Game of Thrones is one of the few shows where an actual letdown could happen. Doubly so given the episode had already...

Depends entirely on the health of your prostate. There's a reason its often older guys.

For a game as beautiful as this, surely you could've included an actual gameplay screenshot or two in the review? The images up there are all from cutscenes or cut content. I found the keyboard and mouse to be actually quite functional. At times it can even be more precise. There was a...

Uhh... a 'dash' is one of the core types of vault. If you're going to make a game essentially about parkour, you might not want to redefine core lingo.

I've been feeling the same way of late. Then I started playing through older titles that I missed the first time around, and shorter tighter indie games and suddenly I felt the same way I did playing games up until now. Undivided attention, enthralled in the experience. I don't think you've...

Cliffhanger

The first Assassin's Creed. Not only is the mandatory tutorial atrociously slow, patronising and completely lacking in graphics, once the game proper begins, you get a regular old intro tutorial stage anyway. I swear I could feel the devs looming at me, breathing down my neck with their middle...

A shift away from video for the sake of video and back towards intelligently written, high-quality long form articles. Since The Escapist gave these up, the only outlet producing anything remotely close is Polygon, but I find most of their writers to be utterly insufferable.

This all boils down to context. In the context of our world, all the endings are terrible, but in the context of the world of Papers, Please, these two are pretty good. Consider this: if you side completely with the rebels or the regime, does your character's station in life improve by the end...