Interesting, a blog theme based on something I posted about a day or 2 ago. So, I can expand and hopefully clarify something. Firstly I have to define my terms. To me, hype is not popularity. To me hype is deliberate, corperate fueled. Type hype into google and you get this defintion "Excessive or intensive publicity; exaggerated claim...
I love me some single player. I like co-op. However, while there are many mistakes SP games can make, when co-op goes bad, it really goes bad. This happens in various ways. To many players- Co-op can become a real mess when there to many players. Lets face it, Sven Co-op, 16 player mod for Left 4 Dead 2, all bad. People keep blocking each o...
It's easy to slam Kane and Lynch 2 because of it's rough history. As such those who already know it or just want to see how this game stands on it's own can skip the next paragraph. I should also mention I played this game in co-op and on PC. The whole thing started with Freedom Fighters. An underrated classic of a game on the P...
Some of you already know I don't like Moviebobs Game Overthinker and Extra Credits. For those who don't know, Extra Credits is a series of rants by a group of college students with nebulous ties to the games industry. (eg. One is a 'graphics designer', but that could be making the game graphics, or designing a letter head) T...
Like most people, my dreams were shattered by the cold hammer of reality. Unlike most, I knew I had the ability to do it. When I set out to learn programing for my games I was told that it was "Impossable to learn programing from a book". I said that was bollocks, that the only thing you cant learn from a book is how to read. Over time...
We get it. War is hell. You can stop ramming this stuff down our throats. ...What? War is cool now? Ok. Awesome let's blast some dudes heads off with- ...What do you mean I'm a monster? One trend in FPS games I've been playing recently is to have a serious message. Usually that war is hell, every death is an innocent needlessly ...
Halloween is dead, killed by the import of American culture, Christmas and simple laziness. When I was a kid I never went trick or treating, and neither did my friends. It could be because a friend at the time had his birthday on Halloween and so we would always do stuff then, but that still doesn't excuse the behaviour of people who ar...
"The cake is a lie" is a Portal reference. "Dakka!" is a warhammer 40,000 reference. "Giant Enemy Crab! Hit it's weak point for massive damage!" is an E3 reference. I mention this because one thing that has been getting on my nerves alot recently is people doing references and in jokes such as the ones ...
Two forums I post at (SFO and Co-optimus) have started pushing a user blog section, so I'll do it, but you should know that my main blog is here http://sabrext.livejournal.com/ and will share alot of the same content. One thing you should also know is if you choose to read this that it will not be the usual "got up and had a pi...