Jill Valentine in the Resident Evil Gamecube remake:
If Geoff Keighley has been reviewing games since 1992, as the internet informs me, you'd think he might have wanted to speak a bit more eloquently, perhaps in the many other outlets that he has, than filling his Twitter page with 'No sh*t Sherlock' one sentence posts.
I have played Uncharted and loved it- it looks superb, is atmospheric in a way that reminds me of greatness like Resident Evil and it has in-game action that often has better graphics than the the cut scenes. I got up to the part with the creatures that, to be honest, scared me. I loved playing it but the levels that I am most drawn to replaying are the ones with puzzle elements like the M Escher-type upside down staircases level or the levels with vehicles (don't mean to seem to criticise Un...
The only thing that I'm concerned with with the Uncharted series is that Naughty Dog don't seem to want to increase the number of puzzles. It seems like from Resident Evil 4 onwards, extensive puzzle sections have gone out of fashion with games designers. I can understand that they may have done this to keep the action flowing in the style of a Hollywood adventure but I think that puzzles will help replayability.
I quite like the name 'Gun'. It sounds very literal but it's so simple that you could interpret it to mean different things- name of a weapon, name of an action 'to gun down', name of a character. It sounds a bit like run as well. And bun. The name is no 'Red Dead Revolver' but who wants a dead revolver anyway?
Feel the magic XY / XX - Personally, I like the title but it still sounds like a name dreamt up by some marketing agency that is too pleased with itself.
The Wind Waker - so the wind was completely asleep before was it?
Wind accelerator and direction controller maybe.
Final Fantasy - but it never is, is it?
(I don't actually like that kind of game).
Bioshock - doesn't conjure up any of the mystery of the art deco underwater s...
How can they prove that discounted Wii games have had an effect on the number of Uncharted 2 sales? They can't. It's like saying there are less bananas being sold because people are buying more apples. But maybe people have just gone off buying bananas for some reason and some other people just happen to be buying more apples for some reason.
They have a stronger case when referring to the chart position.
I don't agree that this person is a good 'journalist'. I don't agree because I have read user reviews of all kinds of entertainment on various sites (and I have written some) that never had to use a swear word to put across a point. It's one thing using a swear word to put across a character in a work of fiction or to use one on the spur of the moment in anger but to say that I will be 'blown away', whether you qualify that with a swear word or not, is not exactly a work of insight. But if St...
"Government can't put away the PlayStation,"
Aye but a £425 price tag in a credit crunch era and an arrogant Sony who thought that exclusive games - or advertising games - wasn't that important with their market share (since diminished) any more, have to some extent. And those people who ever bought a Playstation console for simple fun found the Wii and the Xbox 360 much more catrered for their tastes. For too long the Playstation 3 looked a bit like a decadent W...
Visually maybe but a movie is not interactive so there is still a line there. It’d be good to see videogames put on in cinemas though and then the line may be regarded as diminished.
Entering Phenandra Drifts on Metroid Prime due to the beautifully delicate music, in contrast to the strident music of the previous section Magmoor Caverns:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
and the music of Underwater Frigate is just so beautifully alien:
What would you say is especially ground breaking about Super Mario World? The art style, the giant size of some of the sprites, the rotational/scanning/transparen cy effects and some of the sound effects at the time were distinctive I suppose. It's a relaxing game to play, partly due to the excellent weighting of Mario's character.
I'm not saying that Super Mario World doesn't deserve to be in the list but bear in mind that Donkey Kong Country incorporated 3D modelling effects ...
If it's inevitable, which I highly doubt it is because the monopolies commission would have something to say about it, then it's still not preferable. What next? Oxford and Cambridge won't bother racing each other- just have one team made up of the best from each place trying to beat its personal best?
The Max Payne games are excellent. The restaurant level in the first game and the fun house level in the second game are iconic to me.
The graphics are also superb and I was surprised that some magazines gave the games less than 8/10 because this series wears any cliches on its sleeve.
Woah- 6 disagrees. A lot of people who think that everything Miyamoto does is better than anything anyone else does eh.
Some gamers wouldn't be so depressed if the majority of people understood how innovative/artistic videogaming can be at its best- if they understood that talking about videogame icons that have been around for years is more important to us than talking about any 2 bit entertainer with a sob story who can make Amanda Holden cry on Britain's Got Talent.
The Wii is really the new NES- or 'Famicom'- A Family Computer with peripherals designed to extend its lifespan, with Gamecube-type graphics.
After they saw how popular the Wii was, Microsoft have tried to muscle in on this by turning themselves from being focussed on the hardcore to going all 'touchy-feely' with adverts about people watching movies together.
One of Sony's mistakes, I suppose, is that they've refused to climb down from that elitist pedestal the...
As soon as they called it Mario 2 it became an actual Mario game- and it was all the more interesting that the other characters were given the same prominence within it.
The Mario Kart series may have invented that genre but none of them are anywhere near as good as Naughty Dog’s Crash Team Racing on the PS1. CTR is a proper adventure with a variety of well designed tracks with multiple routes and interesting characters.
I found Mario 64 far too hardcore and un...
And yet it's still not as distasteful as the cliched view of masculinity equating to guns and biceps purported in much Xbox advertising.