Recent content by Grimshaw

To be honest, the problem is Creative killing superior sound solutions to push proprietary EAX in the first place. EAX are the reason why high quality 3D positional audio was kneecapped. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureal_Semiconductor A3D was way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way...

Ghost Trick is something that seems "unfilmable" on the surface due to its protagonist being a ghost , but if you could pull it off, it would be sublime. Ghost Trick is one of those stories that seeds its mysteries right from the start, but unlike a lot of contemporaries, the payoff is good...

I was initially really interested in Insurgency: Sandstorm on account of this trailer. But then the campaign was cancelled, and since I'm not really interested in multiplayer shooters, I lost interest. (The chances of them ever picking up the campaign again are slim to none.) I understand that...

I felt it was overall a decent year for the genre, particularly in the AA and midrange space. (Including developers making lower budget spinoffs/sequels.) Ion Fury was excellent. The first commercial BUILD engine game since Duke Nukem: Zero Hour & WWII GI back in 1999, and they nailed it, IMO...

The thing about instruction manuals is that a lot of games had basically non-existent onboarding back in the day, especially on PC. So reading the manual was essential. I was reflecting on this when playing the original Mafia, where it doesn't bother telling you how to do pretty much anything...