That seems to be a theme with the game - for everything it gets right, it shoots itself twice in the foot.
Yeah, I'd forgotten about that. Claim dismissed.

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You know, in gaming horror is equivalent to gruesome. Alan Wake bucks this significantly - there's barely any blood, no body horror, no animated corpses… And it also tries to pay attention to more conventional horror storytelling mechanics. Not very successfully, mind you, but it does try.
So, yeah, what I'm…

The Cristopher Lee Musical is out, at least in the UK. And it's pretty amazing. Not very metal, though.

And a great interview, too. Awesome stuff.

Bah. He's just a poor man's Charles band. He even ripped off the name of Band's studio for his own.

As far as action RPGs go, I'm having fun with Nier. It's definitely got issues, though; give it a rental and see what you think. It's worth it if nothing else, for the forest of myth.
Risen is excellent. I played it on the PC, so I can't vouch for the console version, but it was pretty fucking great - one of my…

IIRC, it was reviewed here and the buzz was fairly good - I think it was under some festival coverage.
Here we go:
http://www.avclub.com/artic…

He's great in this movie, and has the best line in the whole thing.

Freaking bizarre, is what it is. I mean, a Mike Patton CD my mother will absolutely love? (cue inevitable your mom joke)

Oops…
Anyhow, the genre mix is a bit more extensive than the review might indicate - and the fact that there's a text adventure section pretty much sealed the deal for me (there's also a resident evil shoutout, Bullet hell bosses, and isometric dungeon crawls - and I'm not that far into the game).
The plot's not very…

I kind of like it.
Late, I know, just wanted to say I'm actually enjoying this. It's not very good, but the genre mix is a bit more extensive than the

Hmmm - I've kept away from Mosley's science fiction after the unholy pile of awfulness that Blue Light was, but what the hell, I'll give Futureland a go.

Yeah, amazing interview. I started quoting bits from it to coworkers, and ended up sending out the link.

I too love this column. It's led me lots of cool stuff I wouldn't even have heard of otherwise.

I find it impossible not to love Sierra - played too many of their games when I was just the right age. But I agree with the poster above. Pretty much anything Lucasgames/Lucasarts did was funnier and better written than anything Sierra ever did. You can make a case for the Sierra games themselves being better (I…

I just realized I forgot to mention the Legend games - the first few were more text adventures than proper graphical adventures (Deathgate and Homeworld!), but they also did the Blackstone Chronicles and Mission Critical, which were both excellent (and very underrated)

There's a lovely writeup of toonstruck up on eurogamer - it almost brought a tear to my eye. And apparently it's still broken on XP:
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar…

We tend to have a very similar discussion every six months or so, it seems : )
I'll just keep on recommending The Longest Journey to anyone who'll listen. Syberia, the first couple of Broken Sword games, and several that have been mentioned above - all excellent.
I'm a bit torn on Telltale; I get everything they do to…

Depending on which console you own, you should have one of the various Telltale series available as downloads. I'd recommend Sam & Max or the Strong Bad games.

I love this movie. Mostly for the action scenes, but one thing the review doesn't mention is just how damn funny it can be; The type of humor it has seems distinctly Korean - at least, it's the same kind you can see running through Bong Joon-Ho and Park Chan Wook's films.