Right there with you man. Even today the game looks awesome IMO and even though I played it for the first time couple months ago, I was fucking blown away and not just in a “Wow cool for the time” way, I was hooked on the game completely and I still sing the reactor theme to myself at least once a day.

I played system shock and SS2 for the first time very recently actually. In my current streak of “hey I’m 36 years old and there’s a bunch of old games that everyone is raving about that I never played, so I’m gonna play them all right now” and so far after the Crusaders, Syndicates, Grim Fandangos, Strife quest for…

I remember being mesmerized by SS. I bought a CD-ROM extra edition version a year or so after it was released and for the time it immersed me into the game. It was just so well done, few games have equaled it to me.  

It takes a cowardly stance. They never came out and officially DENOUNCED the Nazis. They just dance around it and pretend like they weren’t talking about them because it would mean they had to take a stand against Germany officially. Cowards.

I’m still angry that FF VI didn’t own it’s politics on the use of poisons in war. It was clearly a reference to Boris III, the king of Bulgaria that was most likely poisoned by the Germans around August 28, 1943. Kefka and his poison are obviously standing in for the Nazi regime while the people of Doma Castle…

I thought this was a pretty meh taek when it appeared on Polygon a week or so ago and I think it’s even more meh now.

There’s too much nonsense going on and I’d say most people are playing a game to get away from the nonsense, to relax, to unwind, and enjoy whatever free time they have. I don’t agree with making every little thing on the earth political, and especially games.

It is not the job of the critic to force a creator to have an agenda. It is the choice of the creator to have one or not. This “all art is political” is post-modernist pseudo-Marxist drivel. Pac-Man did not have a political statement to make. Neither did Pong. Neither did Doom. Or Duke Nukem. Or Mortal Kombat. Or Tie…

Sorry folks, but I feel the total opposite. There’s room for politics in games, but it seems like you want any game that brushes up against politics (regardless of whether it’s left, right, or center) to make a grand statement on the issue. For the most part, people don’t play CoD, Watchdogs, the Division, or Ghost…

Hey, if it makes you happy, implose away, duderino.

The Mass Effect MAKO is back, baby!

I kinda feel this is going the way of body shaming. There are women out here in real life that do have these body types. I get that sure there are scantily clad large breasted women fighting. But is it because of what they are wearing or the size of their breasts? Because I dont see anything wrong with this, same…

Nice article. He really dodged those questions.

Well, they’re not the only ones to use scantily clad women to attract interest.

Well, just like with BF5, these folks choose to go for this direction. Nothing wrong with it. The guys are bare chested too and all that.