Ayleid ruins (amongst other ruins) make no sense!

Tv Tropes: Ruins for Ruins Sake

The entire page, and all the examples they put up.

Game Review: Tales of Symphonia (GC) - Retrospective

This is a game I played a LONG while ago, almost four years. It took me around half a year to beat, and I played practically nothing else. The time it took was due to me having school to attend to as well as a social life to maintain, but that is neither here nor there.
So, after freshing up my memory as far as plot and characters are concerned (Thank you GameFaqs!), I sat down and wrote this little retrospective.

Game Review: God of War (PS2)

Brace yourselves for a tour through Bile-town, as I have some things to get off my chest after playing through God of War. Let's just begin with saying that an alternate title could have been "Overrated and overhyped". Yet, I have to say that GoW is by no means a bad game. But it isn't great either. It's a good game, despite all the horrible things I am about to write about it.

Format of my Game reviews

Of all the days to choose to publish this: Holocaust Remembrance Day. Political incorrectness, I am doing it RIGHT!

So, seeing as I am going to review God of War for PS2 in a bit, I felt it was an idea to write down the format I've chosen for my reviews.

It's all fairly simple:

Gameplay and Controls
Self-explanatory. Here I go through the game in itself; how it plays, puzzles and similar. I also go through controls, whether they are responsive or a flaming pile of arse.

Graphics and Sound
How the game looks and sounds. Nothing more, nothing less. Usually rated in relation to its platform.

Story
Also known as "why am I doing this?" or "why am I here?". If there's any kind f mythological creatures and such involved, this will get dissected here.

Summary
Pros and cons served up against each other with a final summation of whether the game was worth the hours it took to get through it.

And I will not give scores! Mostly because I suffer from a severe, life-long case of "cannot be arsed", but also because I think people should read the review and not just glue their eyes to a numerical score. Two games can get the same score on GameSpot from my experience, but have vastly different pros and cons.

This is more as an aid to memory for myself, so pay no attention to it if you don't want to.

A mission statement of sorts:

To piss creepy fanboys off.

Well, of sorts, I say.

Why this all of a sudden, and what fanboys (and a few girls, no doubt)?

He has a good point...

For all his dong jokes in Zero Punctuation, Ben Croshaw's first foray into mainstream media rams home a very good point.

Just wanted to say that.