inglorious

on video game UI & UX

Category: Game Genre

Games I’m going to play: LIMBO

I’ve always been a fan of games which choose to reduce visual imagery to it’s barest form. When I saw Playdead’s LIMBO I knew it’d be a game I’d want to checkout. It’s been popping up everywhere. But I have to admit after checking out the video on it’s site, and seeing many screenshots, I am [...]

Street Fighter IV on iPhone [Video]

Yeah, that’s as awful as I expected it too be.

To play Bioshock 2 on Steam…

I saw this group of tweets from @taleoftales stream on Twitter and I want to say I’m astounded at the absurdity of the installation process for Bioshock 2 on Steam. We speculate why people don’t play games on their PC as much anymore. This is why.

Mass Effect 2’s scaling issues.

I love Mass Effect 2. Story wise it’s great, and the UI is much improved over the last game. However the interface is not perfect, it seems while it looks great on an HDTV when it comes to SD televisions the onscreen text shrinks and is unreadable. I wish I could say this shocks me, [...]

Super Street Fighter IV is super pretty.

My friend Kevin Mangan likes to compare to Street Fighter IV to chess. With strategy happening in seconds opposed to drawing out over the length of your average chess game. He’s right, and for those of you gifted to have the hyperactive twitch skills to play this form of super-chess, Street Fighter is probably a [...]