MERCH!
Giant Bomb - a website about video games and the people that make them

baillie's Articles

Voxophone #1 – Love the Sinner - Lady Comstock (April the 1st, 1893) Voxophone #1 After Booker has been released of the shackles on the red chair, you will walk out into a area flooded with water, turning left to be greeted by a large statue of a man with his beard billowing in the wind. Left of this statue is another room, walk in and to the right of a praying woman will be an area with a pain...

I know I am late to the party in finally getting around to playing, and completing, Journey and Saints Row: The Third , but after doing so I fail to see the hype. Both of which are GOTY contenders for their respective years and I am struggling to see how that appears to be the general consensus. I played Saints Row when it came out, had a few missions and found it boring. I felt as though the d...

My girlfriend is looking for a new game to play. She currently loves Plants vs Zombies and also enjoys playing Bejeweled 3 , Theme Hospital and SimCity games. Age of Empires is a series she has fond memories of, oh and the Dark Parables series - a photo hunt kind of game is also another sort of game she enjoys! So any ideas of what to recommend my girlfriend?

I have lost the drive to get achievements, all I do now is play Street Fighter X Tekken . I've got over 150 games, some of which I've barely touched, others are still in their wrappers. I'm pretty close to 100,000, so I want to actually make that happen, and that isn't going to happen without some kind of motivation. So, I ask you, Giant Bomb community, can you help me? I'd just like a member t...

After spending 40+ hours, almost constantly, playing Mass Effect 3 , I saw everything in one playthrough. I was a Vanguard, on Insanity, I had saved everyone from Mass Effect 2 , and I was ready to exhaust the world of every piece of information and narrative the universe could throw at me. From the very start, I was underwhelmed. The Reaper attack on Earth didn't seem 'epic' at all. I don't kn...

Hey guys, I've been itching to get back into playing Mass Effect, it's seriously like a drug. I think about playing it nearly everyday, so yesterday I decided I was going to go back and play through the games, and hopefully link it up with ME3 when that comes out. My biggest reason for coming back to the game, was to play as femshep, I've heard good things! Anyway, I have recorded and uploaded...

This sucks, lol. On the front page, nearly every forum post is about Skyrim, and I feel left out. I don't have the game yet, I'm not even sure when I'm going to bother picking it up - probably when a GOTY edition comes out ;) - so I feel at a loss. I have nothing to add to most conversations and I want to avoid any and all spoilers. I hope to see more duders talk about sandwiches or something,...

So for the past week or two, I have been playing a bunch of games, trying to finish them once and for all. Most recently it's been Red Dead Redemption . This game has a bunch of tough achievements, some of which are time consuming , whereas others are pretty damn frustrating to get. However, today I finally passed into legend , and got that almighty S-Rank.Ah, it feels good. Anyone else got a g...

I started playing Mass Effect 1 when it came out and I couldn't really get into it, don't know why. Anyway, I've had Mass Effect 2 since it was released but have been putting off playing it purely because I didn't think it would be right playing the sequel without ever playing the first. Now, a whole year after the game is out, I've decided to finally play it. I will keep updates on this after...

Making my list has made me realise that even though I bought a TON of games this year, I barely played them or some not even at all. I'd say Mass Effect 2 is the one I am most disappointed about not playing, purely because I couldn't get into the first one, even though I really, really wanted to. The start is way too boring. Ugh. Anyway, here's my list. Splinter Cell at number 1 was a tough cho...

I know, it's 2 days late but this quest has finally pushed me into doing this. I will setting tasks for myself to play (mostly) all my games *. I have way too many to keep track of, and will probably make a list here showing the ones I've completed, starting playing and still sealed. Anyway. Recently I've been getting back into playing Splinter Cell: Conviction . That game has still got it, it...

The Xbox 360's name came from the idea that it was a revolution in gaming. Having 720 completely defeats the purpose of the name and annoys me when anyone uses it. Rant over. What do you think Microsoft's new console should be named? Should it keep the Xbox name or move on to something more... marketable?