One cutscene that I thought was pretty creepy was where Pyramid Head was raping that pair of legs in Silent Hill 2.

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[QUOTE="maddog95376"]A few snippets: "But the more I play, the more I'm struck by an unavoidable realisation. Games are rubbish. Really, dismally, rubbish." "And they're boring. So, very, very boring." "And - here's the kicker - games aren't just boring, inconvenient, and over-priced. They're designed to make you feel like a failure." "Why on earth would you want to do this stuff?" "Games let you be a spectator in your own head. They're laboratories which let you contrive test after test - tweak a condition here and a parameter there - and give you a visible, beautiful read-out on just how smart your brain really is. And in doing that, they give you more insight into your own capabilities than I've ever found in any work of literature or any piece of music." First things first. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. The above is part of her opinion. The mass majority of people on Gamespot will probably disagree with her. That's their opinion. With that said, after reading her article and some other stuff she's written, I'm convinced that she is just another "mainstream writer" working for a corporation that doesn't know the first thing about gaming, and couldn't hire a "true game expert" if that individual walked into their offices and beat them to death with a Wiimote. The game she references in the article is Nintendo's "Brain Training," which doesn't even exist, or she's mistaking the titles for one of the DS "Brain Age" games. If that's the case, no wonder why she's bored, she's playing a boring game. Plug in Guitar Hero, boot up Unreal Tournament, pop in Burnout, do something other than poking at the DS with a little plastic stick. Now I know that this is her personal view on "Why She Plays Games" (which is actually a ridiculous theme for a column when you spend the entire time highlighting why you think games are boring), but, you work for BBC. Professional journalists shouldn't be allowed to post personal views on corporate news sites.donwoogie

Well, tbf, it is on the BBC website and they include a lot of random journalisms. But I did identify with her point on just playing games with instinct rather than thinking about them. During the peak of my gaming obsession with counter-strike, I would sometimes just play rounds without really paying too much attention to what I was doing but rather just drifting off and watching myself play (I did that all the time with maths homework since it was just repetitive bookwork :P)

Actually I find them quite relaxing. I'll put on some music, voice chat with everyone on the server and just enjoy watching my natural reactions take over int he game (mind you, I don't do as well in the game as I would if I was actually concentrating and focusing on getting headshots and more advanced tactics.

The developer of Haze (Free Radical) said in PLAY magazine that the reason why devs make sequels is for money to support their studios. But it is once in awhile devs do something original, like how they're making Haze instead of a Timesplitters sequel.

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[QUOTE="maddog95376"]A few snippets: "But the more I play, the more I'm struck by an unavoidable realisation. Games are rubbish. Really, dismally, rubbish." "And they're boring. So, very, very boring." "And - here's the kicker - games aren't just boring, inconvenient, and over-priced. They're designed to make you feel like a failure." "Why on earth would you want to do this stuff?" "Games let you be a spectator in your own head. They're laboratories which let you contrive test after test - tweak a condition here and a parameter there - and give you a visible, beautiful read-out on just how smart your brain really is. And in doing that, they give you more insight into your own capabilities than I've ever found in any work of literature or any piece of music." First things first. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. The above is part of her opinion. The mass majority of people on Gamespot will probably disagree with her. That's their opinion. With that said, after reading her article and some other stuff she's written, I'm convinced that she is just another "mainstream writer" working for a corporation that doesn't know the first thing about gaming, and couldn't hire a "true game expert" if that individual walked into their offices and beat them to death with a Wiimote. The game she references in the article is Nintendo's "Brain Training," which doesn't even exist, or she's mistaking the titles for one of the DS "Brain Age" games. If that's the case, no wonder why she's bored, she's playing a boring game. Plug in Guitar Hero, boot up Unreal Tournament, pop in Burnout, do something other than poking at the DS with a little plastic stick. Now I know that this is her personal view on "Why She Plays Games" (which is actually a ridiculous theme for a column when you spend the entire time highlighting why you think games are boring), but, you work for BBC. Professional journalists shouldn't be allowed to post personal views on corporate news sites.donwoogie

Well, tbf, it is on the BBC website and they include a lot of random journalisms. But I did identify with her point on just playing games with instinct rather than thinking about them. During the peak of my gaming obsession with counter-strike, I would sometimes just play rounds without really paying too much attention to what I was doing but rather just drifting off and watching myself play (I did that all the time with maths homework since it was just repetitive bookwork :P)