Jasconius

I don’t talk games very much so I am sorry if this analysis is fragmented.
If you thought DotA (Defense of the Ancients) was an unholy fount of bullshit, then you are like me. But the problem with DotA was not the game itself, but the people and the platform surrounding it. Warcraft 3’s creators could [...]

I’m surprised at how many games are now available for OS X.
It used to be just mediocre games with low system requirements… but now I am seeing games like Warhammer Online, and X3, which are both major system killers to this day.
Is Apple bribing these developers to ship clients for an OS where only a [...]

I have been playing X-Com: Terror from the Deep since I was in 4th grade. I’ve never beaten it. I come back to it annually to remind myself of a time when games were built to challenge, and not to merely hold your hand to the end. TFTD exudes elegance with simplicity, featuring gameplay mechanics [...]

With graphics getting progressively closer to photo-realism, games are tending to get shorter and less diverse. Gone are the days of making huge map sets with a 2D artist and some grit. 3D environments on the order that can be delivered on the PS3 require months and even years of meticulous hand crafting to get [...]

It’s laden with AI bugs. In addition to that, Sims 3 diverges from the core gameplay of Sims 1 and 2 pretty substantially. I’d watch some videos and read some pretty rigorous reviews before reaching for the wallet.
In short, it plays a lot more like Harvst Moon/Animal Crossing than like an actual simulator. This is [...]