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Silent hill: a considered response.

It never ceases to amuse me how much acclaim is given to the silent hill series, as some kind of benchmark for storytelling in survival horror games. What utter ballssssssssss, when has silent hill ever had the semblence of a plot, only pretentious tossers can seriously believe that a story with so many blatant plot-holes, loosely tied together by dull set pieces constitutes a great narrative. With lead character's that control like such spastics, its not fucking with your head, only with your wallet and your dignity. In what other, meant-to-be-scary, horror series do you have protagonists that look like human size fraggles, running aimlessly around a town thats often too dark to see a fucking thing in!!!!!! You can often tell a game by the quality of its bosses, giant moths, big worm/catepillar fuckers, wwwwwwwwooooooooowwwwww, really pushing the boundaries of imagination there! Yes of course the situations are nasty, not because of the atmosphere or monsters, but because often ...

Bionic Commando Petition for the Wii

On some level I can not help but feel sorry for these morons . Take that back no I don't. I mean what is going on in the head of these idiots, "Duh why does my Wii not have all the cool games that the 360 and PS3 have, duh must be because the publishers have something against the Wii, yeah that's it duh" Well it's not, it's because the Wii processing power is about that of the chip inside the PS3 that controls the ejecting of the disk drive and this may come as a shock to you but that ain't going to run Bionic Commando. Oh yes we could just have all games written for the lowest commen denominator which makes the point of other more powerfull consoles or other consoles at all a bit rudundent. So if you bought a Wii for it's cool wavey interface and that you can't get enough of Spazzio games then fair enough, but don't come crying to me when it won't play games like Crysis, go crying to Nintendo sitting on their huge pile of cash, see what an...