Scop’s Blog

To be honest, going into this game, I thought BioShock 2 was a cash-in. After all, how can you recreate the success of a game that stood out for doing things differently? How do you follow up a story that pulls from social theory and the likes of Ayn Rand? While I never completely shook that feeling playing BioShock 2, the game worked awfully hard to convince me that it was fun and worthy in its own right.

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Knightengale (who has contributed to this site in the past) is quite skilled at, and I say this in the nicest possible way, annoying the crap out of me. One of his latest offenses was claiming to be disinterested in the sandbox genre. I was shocked.

In one sentence, he managed to dismiss many games I adored. Assassin’s Creed? Fallout 3? Gasp, Saint’s Row? Come to find out, he had an extremely narrow definition of sandbox games. He essentially restricted it to the GTA series and “clones” thereof, such as Saint’s Row. This cooled me down some, but as I prepared to revise his definition, I realized… mine was not very good, either.

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I was standing next to a Gears of War poster the other day (one of many), and it had Emergence Day written on it:  11.12.2006.  I found it hard to believe that the game was nearly three years old already.  It has even been eight months since Gears 2 came out, now.

Oddly for me, it got me thinking about how graphics have evolved in the past few years, or, rather, how they have not. (continue reading…)

I know the last post is still fresh, but this is just too good to pass up.

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So… apparently I have at least one person checking this site everyday.  How rude can I be, going a month without an update, eh?  How about my take on some of the games running the big summer ad campaigns, eh?

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