Recent content by Voltano

I'm not sure this is a game meant for me anyways, but some of the design choices for this game seems weird -- for "role playing" purposes, to me. The claim of "doing meaningful things" seems subjective as the game only chooses to reward the player for doing X but not Y -- kind of like how a...

So, I'm confused. This game will reward little or no experience to help with leveling up and customizing your character after combat, but will reward loot (procedural or predetermined?) that is meant to help with combat? And the player is meant to do tasks for X NPCs because they need XP?

I like to grind in my video games. And I get annoyed when a game finds ways to stop me from doing this. I know grinding gets a bad rep from MMOs, some JRPGs, and free-to-play games. But I like grinding from a lot of older games that incorporated it into its exploration and challenges...

That's pretty much the catch-22 of the games industry and female protagonists: If we want to see more female protagonists, then maybe these games should be made more by women. But in order to get women in the games industry, there has to be some kind of interest FROM the women to get into the...

Slightly off-topic, but I'm not really sure what is the difference between a sexy character done "right" versus one done "wrong." My understanding of a sexy character is a person that causes sexual attraction towards them, which could come from any sense-based features on them, actions they do...

Good episode Jim, products like these should be openly criticized. However... I wonder if this is the whole Feminist-Youtube-Celebrity-that-shall-not-be-named person. The person you talked about in a Jimquisition a few years back (i.e. this one...

Let's see here... 1. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Yeah Konami wants to reboot this series, but putting this on Steam (or on GOG/Humble Bundle to get it DRM free) SHOULD earn them more money than what their reboot is (probably) earning them. Hell, charge $10 bucks for the game...

I don't think the protagonists in every "Borderlands" games count as a hero. They are treasure hunters looking for loot, similar to pirates or tomb robbers (quite literally with that last one). I guess you could say they are perceived as being heroic in the second game when going against...

I strongly disagree with this paragraph. That implies our "favorite" games are only enjoyable in the form of sequels, which presumably will adapt the "Free to Play" method. I still have a lot of favorite games from the SNES, GBA, GBC, and even the Sega Game Gear era that I can still "play"...

Well, it's true that a game developer (or an author, or a film director) can specify their target audience during creation of a game. However, I think a lot of game developers tend to make "assumptions" about their target audience then trying actually understanding them. I'm a white male...

"Power [https://www.google.com/search?q=power+definition&oq=power+definition&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2696j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=2&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8]", from my understanding, is the capability of doing something that causes change in an environment. For example in "The Hero's Journey" template...

I think one problem with Trevor -- and the tone of GTA these days, it seems like -- is that it seems like its going for a "black comedy" theme? I'm thinking of an old Jim Carrey film like "Cable Guy" where the humor is based upon ethically questionable actions that might be funny to some (Jim...

I understand one reason why journalists like FOX news avoids the topic of gun control is due to the 2nd Amendment in North America. A law that cannot be overridden unless by another Amendment. But video games are protected by the 1st Amendment. So would saying that the government regulate...

I was really surprised by the review. I don't really care for the GTA series as a player, but I found it fascinating from an intellectual point of view on how Mr. Tito reached his conclusion. I guess what this article is saying that while a problem is the characters are morally bad -- its...

Maybe people are happy with the photographs they picked because they didn't have a choice? I compare this knowledge with the whole "console wars" and "master PC race" slang in the video game industry and it seems true, but for different reasons. Of course a kid is going to be happy that they...