On the fence about buying MGS V. On the one hand, it seems to be a phenomenal game, especially for a stealth addict like me. On the other hand, what I've read about the checkpoint system is worrisome. Having to redo 30 minutes of progress because of a hidden enemy or a misjudged jump makes it sound like the game can…

F.E.A.R. has the best such sound I know of. The core gameplay loop goes like this: see enemy, enter slow-mo, pump 10 bullets in head, exit slow-mo, and hear bullets fall while the enemy falls to the ground and you marvel at how destroyed the room now is. That "cling-cling-cling"/"whoosh" when exiting slow-mo is…

No wonder: it's all over the place. Fiend and friend are pronounced following their Germanic origins, while other Germanic words, like either or neither, can be pronounced, well, either as "eye" or "ee". And words that come from Latin, like "conceit" (Latin to Anglo-Norman to Middle English to English), are pronounced…

For my third playthrough of NV, I joined the Legion like you. César, my life-weary wrinkled killer, was the most treacherous guy in the Mojave. With the NCR being everywhere and in huge numbers, what I did was to complete many sidequests with them, so as to gain trust and resources. Then I killed them with the…

Let's try to count: COD, COD 2, COD 2: The Big Red One, COD 3, COD 4: MW, COD: WAW, COD: MW 2, COD: MW3, COD: BO, COD: BO 2, COD: Ghosts. By this reckoning, we're at 11 games.