Recent content by wyldefire

I agree with Bob wholeheartedly and nothing ticks me off more than how many elites will outwardly revile Transformers, but defend New Trek, even though they operate at roughly the same level. That said, if I had to choose a Bay specific problem that makes me hate Bay's films, it would be his...

So this is totally unsurprising based on Gareth Edwards track record. Monsters was similarly well handled on a technical level, but also too much in love with delayed satisfaction, and the human element was lifeless and boring there too. I'm still seeing this, but god almighty, why pay for...

As an equally large Godzilla fan as you Bob, I think this's coming from your lack of trust in Gareth Edwards. After seeing Monsters I too was terrified at the prospect of this man taking over Godzilla, but I'm slowly coming around. I'm also not tired of the Nolan aesthetic yet. It gets...

I disagree completely and here's why. This wasn't the right kind of game for a big boss fight. In fact, final boss fights in very story driven games tend to break immersion by being too transparently gamey. The Last of Us actually does this twice with the mandatory bloater fights, both of...

Do you remember how much human on human killing took place on that show? The idea that humanity would continue on in some form was a broad hope in that series. But people in the show had no problem killing other humans when it needed to be done. And sometimes not even then. And BSG didn't...

In an Extra Punctuation he mentioned that the way Uncharted 2 treated setpieces (keeping them playable and allowing you to have gameplay layered on top of moving objects) was revelatory compared to the setpiece moments in other games in which you are locked into certain actions or have no...

Not to mention there's the Winter segment and the end level (which involve Ellie heavily and importantly). It's almost like Yahtzee didn't play the game proper, and just pieced together what happened from pre release video.

Typical Yahtzee review of a Naughty Dog game. Lot's of superficial critiques and asides, little discussion about the core game, bile for bile's sake since he finds giving positive reviews of well reviewed games boring. And then in several months he'll off handedly mention something about the...

Jim Sterling is going to have an aneurysm. Too bad, I liked that show.

For my money, Blomkamp would better serve the Star Trek universe than the Star Wars universe. Star Wars is meant to be light and breezy, and Trek to be slower, deeper, and more thoughtful. I can only imagine what Blomkamp would do with 200 million bucks and free reign to reinvent Star Trek.

I disagree with Jim's assessment of this issue and of his broader assertion that hardcore gamers hate the things they hate because of egocentrism Certainly that exists, but he's over emphasizing it. The Dark Souls backlash is a perfect example of this. With that game, complaints about the...

Barring ME3 I'd like to see Yahtzee do another of his dual episodes using Postal3 and Journey. The theme can be a comparison of gaming's lowest form of art versus it's highest form of art.

Oops. Well as long as I've shamed myself with a double post I might as well add I think Trekkies should start using the phrase "Shat or get off the pot." I don't know what for yet, but I'm confident someone will find a context where that makes sense.

This sounds pretty promising. Seems like the guy is looking to serialize the plot a little bit too. That was one of the things that worked well for Enterprise, one of the only things. Even though I have enough Star Trek nerd cred to potentially buy my own planet I actually would have been...

I don't know about anyone else but I'm getting a kind of masochistic pleasure in all this. Crytek has been making some very bold claims about how this game was going to max-out each system and set new benchmarks and instead it's lit the internetz ablaze with hostility. I think we're looking...