Over here in the UK, we only got Episode II, so I only played that. I reached a point where the main girl was separated from her teammates, and I couldn't reasonably level her up alone (might not have even been any encounters leading to the boss - I can't remember, it's been so long), and found that the next boss…

''Dumb' is a kind word for Heavy Rain's ending. I loathe and detest everything they did in those last moments, when the game breaks a basic rule of storytelling and reveals it's lied to you. There're some things a story should never do, and one of them is having a first person narrator withhold facts from the…

I made a comment the other day regarding gambling in games when it's invasive, rather than being optional. I hated that in Dead Rising 2, if you want to save everyone, you have to play a gambling game. I hated in Ni No Kuni - a game ostensibly for all the family, you have to gamble to gain access to pre-order rewards.…

I managed to play through Ni No Kuni, but as with a few other games here, the culmination of several NOPE moments throughout the game mean I won't touch them again. Most of those in Wrath of the White Queen were simply that as charming as it was, it felt hollow.

It says something that my good memories associated with the game meant that I used a character name from that as my default handle almost everywhere now (the one I use here in fact), even though I quit playing in January of 2011. My good memories will stay with me, including meeting a bunch of great people because of…

I have learnt a very important lesson thanks to Godzilla, and that's that History shows again and again, how history shows the folly of man.

Blizzard really missed a trick by not making all quest givers in such popular areas Paladins. They could have easily put in a code that triggered when they're ludicrously over-crowded and had them bubble-hearth whilst saying something flippant. Of course it'd be even easier for the game to just tell people about /…

I think L.A Noire suffered from not giving you RPG style responses and actions regarding his day-to-day interactions with those he met/cared about. The fact you are complicit in his adultery was a bad move, I feel, and removed you from the immersion. I still hold out for a police game where you can choose to be…

I bought Chinatown Wars not that long after it came out, and I suspect that a lot of people perhaps saw the graphics plus the console it was on, and felt it'd be a knock-off, low-rent affair. It's also very possible some people felt it wouldn't be a 'true' GTA unless made by Rockstar North (because as you say, the…

Reading those tweets, my guess is we're seeing images of her after something happened that forced her out of more appropriate attire: Something like a group of soldiers capturing, and then trying to force themselves onto her. She escaped them but without much in the way of clothing (having perhaps been cut away from…

I should say I do like the weathered aesthetic as it is much easier to tell the story of a ship if it looks like it's been used, rather than it staying pristine even if the crew have supposedly been using it for years. Bipedal life-forms is understandable in films as long as we have men in green suits. For computer…

Yeah, I have a soft spot for Tierkreis as it's one of the few games linked to the series that was released here, and it's not terrible. I get that a lot dislike the fact it's not a part of the ongoing storyline, but it's not like it's a terrible game because of that. V though just really drew me in, and though I felt…

You might be right about something happening later on, but it's a peculiar design decision as the hand stands out far too much. It also suggests that whereas his left arm is made of - likely - space-age alloys and is near indestructable, his right is flesh and blood and so can be affected by simple things like cold…

Is it just me or did others read those tweets imagining a playful grin on his face, wondering just how many people are taking him seriously? Though he's not trolling with regard to a silhouette or the way a character walks, I honestly can't see him caring that much about figure sales when fans will pretty much buy…

Being in the UK has denied me my ability to truly take in this series, and so I'v only played V (and Tierkreis), but I loved that game and want the olders ones to be released on the PSN (including V because I had to replace my fat PS3 with a slim after it died on me).

I was with a small group of mercenaries. They were all lost to a common foe. I'll join you!

''This new RoboCop? I'll buy that for a dollar!'' Well, only if it's half-decent and not as it appears via the trailer.

Peter Weller did a fantastic job as RoboCop. The fact that he practiced mime before the role to nail those movements is obvious (in a good way). This Murphy looks like 'Iron Man in Mega City One'.

What the hell is with an organic right hand? Why wouldn't he at the very least have a glove on there? I'm going to assume they've actually kept most of his body intact, compared to the original where they try and even the body out. You see too much of his face as well.

I would love to see someone do a science fiction game based around the turn of the last century, rather than the 'realistic' approach they use now. Though I'd also love to just see an open-world steampunk RPG with aliens in it, so perhaps I'm baised (it's probably no surprise that my favourite town/city in Ni No Kuni…