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Worrying. If there's one thing people don't give two shits about, it's the Mirror's Edge 'Universe'. I'm worried that they're listening to the school of thought that said that the reason Mirror's Edge wasn't a critical darling was that it was a First Person platforming game. The relative...

No Minvera, but it's pretty good. The voice acting and music get points for effort, even if they're far from perfection. The first two levels were pretty dull Metrocop bashing in Sewers in truth, but the sniper / hopper / hunter sections were a lot better, with some good variation on the kind of...

Psychonauts - 8/10 My shelf (and now, my Steam account) is full of unplayed greats, and a few lesser titles. This has definitely been my favourite 'rediscovery' since I polished off the entire Thief series. Amazon tells me I purchased Psychonauts back in late 2007, my saved games archive tells...

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Aren't those games over a decade old? Terrain was just like that in 2000. Hawken looks sort of impressive, but mostly like just another desaturated multiplayer FPS with a fancy HUD. The gameplay probably isn't representative, but then, it has all the hallmarks of that very dry, very 'western'...

Oh wait, daily.

Don't a lot of JRPG translations get around similar problems by altering the fonts to allow 'characters' which actually contain more than one symbol? Or would doing that not work / involve editing the engine?

Saw one in the flesh yesterday. The 3D effect doesn't work over someone's shoulder (well, duh), but you can see the screen ok. Only saw the Augmented Reality cards in action though. All a bit shrug worthy, but I always wait for the games anyway.

I love how given a minute of video, Doctor Who still manages to be that little bit too far beyond profound. 'There are no monsters in the White House! Except NIXON'S BAAACCK!!!'. Proper looking forward to this anyway.

They really hit their stride with the last half of that half-season. 'The Late Philip J Fry' easily ranks with the best of the old show (I would have thought 'In The Year 2525' was beyond parody). They need to lose the faddish jokes though. 'Susan Boil'? Yeah, people are going to remember who...

This is kind of anecdotal, but I do specifically remember an issue of the UK-based PC Zone magazine featuring a letter from a person with impaired hearing who wanted to make it known that that he was under-served by the games on the market at the time. He specifically mentioned Half-Life, and PC...

It's been a while since we've seen a decent Fantasy FPS. Kind of odd when you consider that in the 90s, FP games with fantasy elements were consistently on the cutting edge of things (Ultima Underworld, Quake, Unreal, Thief). That'd be something for Valve to pursue. It'd be rather silly to...

A wall with twenty pieces of character art and five spaceships. 'Could be Homeworld?' Bravo sirs.

Christ. If you guys buy only pure-bred PC games, you must play all of two games a year.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - 7/10 Hmm. I just played through to the end of the game having failed to turn a character back onto my side, and I really couldn't give a shit. I'm taking that as a bad sign. The story as a whole is kind of intriguing, the mid-game twist not necessarily...

I lost where the sarcasm went in and out of vogue in the thread, but did you guys not buy your own machines when you were younger? I must have only been about 14 when I purchased my first PC with my paper round money Reminiscence over.

Seems pretty accurate. Just check out how casual mom brought up a list of 'recommended games like Bejeweled 2', shook her head and went back to Bejeweled 2. Turns out that the future involves: 1) Watching as Microsoft continue chasing hip new markets who don't contribute meaningfully to the...

Cansthma? That's terrible!

A year on and there still hasn't been any kind of DLC discount on the PC. I plan to play the whole lot to round off my character before ME3, but I'm not going to pay £20 to do so. That's just ****ing stupid.