Recent content by geoff_hunt

I'm regularly upgrading because I'm a hardware enthusiast. Here's my current rig, though... ASUS Rampage Formula MoBo (LGA775 / Intel X48) Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale (Overclocked to 4 GHz) 8 GBs of Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066 MHz XFX GeForce GTX280 SupremeFX Audio card 2 Western...

I expect I am opening the door to a world of forum hurt here, but... ah screw it, here goes something. My vote goes to the Western school of RPGs on the whole, though there's some distinct merit to the Eastern school. Earlier in this thread, someone mentioned that Role Playing Games, by...

I'm basically the only PC game reviewer at GR at the moment, and I work another job, so I'm a little pressed for time. I did do a review of DoW:Soulstorm, Eyebrows, but it's somewhere in the midst of the editing process. When Duke gets back from his current trip, I'll check in with him about...

Lion tamer.

I think that would be a mischaracterization, jc. Victoly raised some perfectly reasonable points about my style of writing and the omissions I made; he's operating on a different set of expectations and assumptions than I do.

When I was handed DMC4, nobody said to me, "We stress the evolution of a series." Had that been something I'd been told, I could understand taking it into account. While I can see referencing past entries in a series as being a sort of credibility builder - I do it all the time in my reviews...

My word, an actual, well thought out reply! You raise some valid points about how the review was written, Victoly. I was well aware of the style rating system - I omitted it because it's not changed one iota from the previous games, and frankly, I never understood why people thought it was...