T w e n t y S i d e d
Jay Barnson, in talking about the difficulty in rating open-ended videogames, has this to say:
After all, how WOULD the ESRB rate, say, the Star Trek holodeck?
Geeze. I bet Riker has a few password-protected holodeck programs that would make Larry Flynt blush.
He also has some great observations on Oblivion. Read the whole thing.
Silent Hill Origins
Here is a long look at a game that tries to live up to a big legacy and fails hilariously.
If Star Wars Was Made in 2006?
Imagine if the original Star Wars hadn't appeared in the 1970's, but instead was pitched to studios in 2006. How would that turn out?
Bethesda NEVER Understood Fallout
Let's count up the ways in which Bethesda has misunderstood and misused the Fallout property.
Control
A wild game filled with wild ideas that features fun puzzles and mind-blowing environments. It has a great atmosphere, and one REALLY annoying flaw with its gameplay.
In Defense of Crunch
Crunch-mode game development isn't good, but sometimes it happens for good reasons.
Ayup. Flower-picking simulator is about right.
(Goes back to copying blogs from DoSed server to the one that just has a flaky boot drive…)
(Goes back to copying blogs from DoSed server to the one that just has a flaky boot drive…)
I swear, mu.nu is the website equivalent of the Millenium Falcon.
Yeah, well. It’s better than the old server. Hardware RAID-1. Both drives failed at the same time.
I dunno about Ryker, but Lt. Barclay sure must have. We saw a couple of them, in fact.
I dunno about Ryker, but Lt. Barclay sure must have. We saw a couple of them, in fact.
This is why it is always important to clear program history (and mop up) after using the holodeck.
BTW: Barclay was my favorite Star Trek character. He wasn’t one of the relentlessly beautiful, talented, highly-motivated super-people. He had flaws. He was far more real to me than most of the main characters.
Yeah, there were times when he was painful to watch, because I empathized with him too much. The one episode where he got to cut loose as a super-genius was funny, just for contrast.
Gotta agree with you, Shamus… Barclay was the only character with flaws (at least until one achieved the rank of Starfleet admiral and went insane) in the entire series. Most of the rest of the plastic, perfect people never really interested me, and I think it’s one of the reasons I never got into TNG very much. Other than Barclay, the only characters that seemed human were the ones who weren’t.