Posts by Taylor

I liked it when Kratos was angry. I also liked it when he was

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holding onto Pandora, Zeus taunts what a failure he is, so lets her go and runs over to punch him. Killing Pandora.

I still can't work that scene out.

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Soup of Cobra

Most talks labelled design are actually theorist rambles of no substance aimed at creative directors and, therefore, of little use to me. And I don't really want to do any 'networking.'

He resigned from IGDA. But the few vocal other board members were adamant they wouldn’t remove him and was doing nothing wrong.

I used Tim as an excuse not to go to one of their events once, though in reality I just couldn't be bothered.

I just got my Wii back out and brought loads of stuff for it: Silent Hill, Fragile Dreams, Muramasa, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.

Also got stuff for PS3: God of War 3, Yakuza 3, Final Fantasy XIII (which I have now traded back in).

Oh, and an ironing board. Woah.

I just finished it too, really good. Will certainly give it another play through later once Yakuza 3 and Espgaluda 2 are done.

On the subject of the ending- yes, the ending:

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Thoughout the credits I thought they had huge balls to kill off Claytoes... Though it would appear they haven't actually done that

Edit: Removed lame joke. Sorry whoever saw it.

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When my dad was "our age", he once walked into a school, told the teachers he was a psychology student writing a thesis on children's drawings and gave the kids a huge pile of papers and some pencils. A week later, he had so many children's drawings that he could use them as wallpaper for his entire hallway. I've seen pictures, it looked great. Love the shapes and the too cool to care attitude about 'm

I can see the sensationalist Daily Mail story forming in my head.

Nothing generates web traffic quite like platform comparisons.

I'm not sure if it's the first game to do it, but that's how QTE's were displayed in Viking.

Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta... Not grimdark enough for mapcore?

Surely in the worst case scenario they would be dead?

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Not to thread hijack but does anyone else lament the decline of the history channel? Everything now is either about nazis or stupid shit like STALIN VS THE ANCIENT GREEKS. A couple years ago I downloaded all the episodes of How It's Made and never looked back.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/sc ... es_to_dumb

Older versions of Photoshop are not that expensive.

Used to pirate music, but stopped after I got a job. Never really pirated games and grew up on consoles anyway... not insinuating it never happened on consoles or that I didn't attempt it, but the process was different: Your dodgy uncle got some guy he knew down the pub to fiddle with your console, meaning you lost it for a few weeks and it could come back as a brick, and you end up with a load of badly labelled CD's for budget titles you would never think of playing.

I still download some things that are impossible to get hold of.

Sounds like a culture of skepticism, pessimism, and fear.

Heh, no. He just wants some investment money. Though someone needs to release a game with a pyramid of pictured giraffes in it, maybe they could do it for the new Nintendos or Sonys.

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A lot of the scare-factor in older games was the fact your avatar handled like a wheelbarrow, making the act of fighting something scary instead of just the atmosphere around it. But there are other ways of making you feel helpless and underpowered than making you do a 3 point turn to run away.

I've been wondering if I should wait for a EU release, or just get the JP 360 version and hope I can understand the menus.

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*grinds teeth* Should just be called "Shattered Memories"...

I hear it's pretty good. Dodgy controls and cameras is never going to be fashionable again, I'm afraid!

I find the Mako exploration to be rather tedious to be honest. Bioware and Bethesda always do this stuff: Run across a (usually) height-mapped generated landscape for 20 minutes, enter a dungeon made of prefab parts you’ve seen a hundred times before, do 10 seconds of fighting or get your lockpick value tested, receive a quest log update and leave. Or, alternatively, you can run around aimlessly hoping something of interest pops up on the map so you can mark off one of the 80 pieces of special rock. I admit, some of these are well written but it’s hard to justify things like the Moon mission (where you clear 3 copies of the same station out in sequence) when the main story is so rich. You just know there was a big white board with a list of how many extra hours, planets and quests they needed, just in case they got called *gasp* linear.

I started playing Mass Effect 1 and I don't know why I didn't check it out before. My shepard is an asshole, which I always try and do in WRPG's but either end up being a white knight anyway or find myself too punished for it... But here it's all DON'T LIE TO ME, people being punched/shot in the face, and extra items I don't need and sell for about 2 credits. Awesome.