All this recent hoopla in my head over the convergence of film and gaming, my two most beloved things, has led me to draw up a few ideal casting choices for some upcoming games-to-movies, namely BioShock and Metal Gear Solid, which has the added benefit of being 90% movie anyway.
Bioshock:
Protagonist Jack: You want someone who’s [...]
Too Human: The Story of Denis Dyack
Too Human. Two words. It is a game that has been in development over ten years. Originally slated for release on the PlayStation 1, Too Human has since gone through iterations on the Nintendo GameCube and the Xbox 360, where at long last it has seen release.
This story isn’t about the game, though. This story [...]
Peter Travers – The Anti-Ebert
As a lifelong fan of film and game alike, I’ve been increasingly frustrated in the seeming critical divide between these two art forms. Roger Ebert, famously has stated that games can never be art, my open letter to him drew a lot of attention, and has yet to yield a response from anyone at the [...]
How to Beat World of Warcraft
Every week I hear a new studio talking about how Licensed MMO X will topple World of Warcraft and ascend to the throne of MMO supremacy.
They’re all fucking morons and 100% wrong. They know it, too. Most of these people will be ecstatic should they breach 1 million subscribers.
World of Warcraft is far [...]
Go Buy Devil May Cry 4
That is all. More tomorrow when I’m not addled by fatigue.
(Hyper-late Edit: Obviously this never happened. I’ll try to make up for it with something fantasmically awesome.)
Chris Taylor is Wrong
So Chris Taylor, he of Total Annihilation fame, is demagoguing about how to “save PC gaming”. Of course, he’s got it wrong.
Putting aside the fact that he’s an irrelevant fucktard, a one-hit-wonder of a game developer whose library is a cavalcade of mediocrity, to ape the inimitable Yahtzee, he’s on the wrong path.
Taylor says that [...]
The Root of All Evil
Has anyone else ever noticed that the folk-devil trumpeted as “the reason our kids are all going to be evil baby-raping murderous sociopaths” changes several times per generation? It’s true!
In my generation, we’ve had rap, marylin manson (notable for being one of the few individuals declared to be the antichrist, although he was doing it [...]
The Pile Grows Ever Greater
I’ve been trying to play through more of my video games in the past week or so. My Pile of Shame as of right now is fairly significant, though I’ve made some progress in diminishing it.
First off, everyone who owns an Xbox 360 with an ideal or near-ideal setup (ideal being HDTV and 5.1, near [...]
The Chaos Fold’s Year in Review Pt. II – Buy Teh Haloz
While storytelling in video games has made a tremendous leap forward over the past year, not all games had grandiose storylines, eccentric writing, or clever twists. Most games didn’t. Perhaps most notably, Halo 3 ended up being, well, Halo 3.
It was Halo.
Halo 3 didn’t demolish the world under the weight of its code. Halo [...]
REVIEW: Assassin’s Creed (Or how I learned what not to do when designing a game)
My thoughts on Assassin’s Creed are rather bleak. The whole affair, from the insultingly cynical marketing, to the hype campaign, to the shoddy execution is just depressing.
The game’s a Molyneux, to coin a term. Simply put, it so desperately tries to innovate that it forgets all those things that make games worthwhile, like [...]
