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My Favorite Things of 2008
01.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Games

Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games; Xbox 360)
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks; Xbox 360)
Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal; Xbox 360)
No More Heroes (Grasshopper Manufacture; Wii)
Left 4 Dead (Valve Software; Xbox 360)
Dead Space (EA Westwood; Xbox 360)
Braid (Number None, Inc.; Xbox 360 Live Arcade)
Rez HD (Q Entertainment; Xbox 360 Live Arcade)
Gears of War 2 (Epic Games; Xbox [...]
games, opinion
Reaching the Uncanny Valley
12.04.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

The most recent post, “Friends Like These”, on Duncan Fyfe’s Hit Self-Destruct concerns itself with the believability and limitations of NPCs. He uses a game that’s fresh in all our minds, Fallout 3, as a means of example, first considering the general NPCs scattered throughout the D.C. Wasteland, and then specifically the various companion NPCs, [...]