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I take Castlevania: LoS for a spin and shed some light on SoulEye's chiptunes. Oh, and Mega Man 2.5D's real. For real. I'm keepin' it real, really real.
Sunday, October 10, 2010 | Comments (2)
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You are in a dark room, surrounded by spikes, spikes and more spikes. The only exit is top-left, several meters above you. What do you do? Reverse gravity, of course!
Priceheadstone
Rapidly approaching the age where you won't really be touching the games you buy anymore? You betcha.
Getsitscottpilgrim
There must be a way to get these kids to buy more of our games... but what is it? It's impossible to tell how we could POSSIBLY SELL MORE COPIES OF GAMES, other than to sell them for less... hmm...
Guns
Dante's having a really, really bad hair day. Oh, gawd, I really hope nobody notices, I honestly had like, two minutes to get to the bus or I'd have to walk to exorcism school... Embarrassing!
2guys_1title
This psychic warrior puts his two cents in on the future of Microsoft's Campaign of Disappointment. XBL price hike? Brother, that ain't the half of it.
2guys_1title
The Console Wars drag on for what seems an eternity. This wandering vagrant recounts the glory days of the Playstation 2 and tearfully describes the traumatic way the Playstation 3 alienated him from his own kind.
2guys_1title
Did PC gamers ruin a good thing by pirating games?
COMMENTS BY THIS AUTHOR (480)
"See, I thought it was just the flamboyant multicolored hair.  Thanks for that."
Monday, May 14, 2012
"Keep in mind, most jRPGs are created with the understanding that, prefectures aside, the age of consent in Japan is 13.  It's disturbing here, but accepted there.  13 year olds don't just suddenly jump into dinner dresses and high heels, and they tend to still look "kiddie" because, well, they are.

Not implying I enjoy these things; quite the opposite.  I just understand why these things happen."

Monday, May 14, 2012
"It's idolatry, and I don't see anything wrong with it, as clearly the person PROBABLY doesn't run around like that every day (Unless it's a profession, mind you!) and it's generally viewed as abnormal, don't you think?  Most (mature) people don't look at a Tifa cosplayer and mentally assert "Yeah, look at that tight white shirt, that chick's a total slut f'real." and CERTAINLY the overweight male Tifa cosplayers don't run into the same problem.

I think that, until videogames permeate society so completely, so wholly that Cosplay IS literally something that everyone does on their free time, and they run around the streets making grunting noises as they do in the games and have de-evolved into characters so completely oblivious to the world around them that the line between the two literally CANNOT be drawn anymore, this is a conversation that doesn't really need to happen, and as that will probably never occur, I feel safe in assuming it won't.

The people that comment "HEY BABY, I WANT YOU IN THE BACKSEAT OF SOMETHING UNCOMFORTABLE" on Facebook pictures of Cosplayers ARE NOT SEXIST.  They are ASSHOLES.

There's another line."

Monday, May 14, 2012
"I think one of the biggest reasons I enjoy videogames is that I see it as a game.  Escapism.  I do NOT want to sit around thinking "Since her boobs are this big, is this painting an unfair picture on real women everywhere?" because I'm under the impression that it's a collection of pixels.  Does it speak to me?  Sure.  Is anything these pixels depict victimizing anyone?  Absolutely not.  They're not real.  They were made by real PEOPLE, but they are not real.

If, at ANY point, the game speaks to me in such a manner that I AM actually offended (which has not happened thus far) I will simply chose to not play the game.  So far, games haven't changed me in any way, shape or form.  They haven't made me look at women any more or less objectively than I'm not playing them.  

I am, and always have been under the impression, that if you are LOOKING to be offended by something, you will always find something to take offense to.  This holds especially true to people who, in fact, do not play video games, it seems.

I play videogames.  I'm mature enough to understand that what I am being presented with is, in fact, not real.  Therefore, the game never crosses the line of interacting directly with my reality (Unless Diablo 3 just got released and I have to work at 5 in the morning).  It is difficult for me to understand how someone could look at something as innocuous as a digital panty shot and huff and puff and throw words like sexism and opression around, I guess because I'm older than four years old?  That just seems like the height of immaturity to me, being unable to distinguish the difference between women in a videogame and women in real life, MAYBE because they are, in fact, viewing women as objects in both."

Monday, May 14, 2012
"I laughed my ass off.  I said pretty much the same thing on some social medium or another a few weeks back..  If it irritates you, it's working as intended."
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
"e bucks isn't good enough for me. I'm okay with the early adopters paying $60 for a game but six months down the road, chances are the company has made all the $60 sales they're going to. It's time to make as much money from whatever's left D possible, which means drop the friggin' tag. Steam hasn't de-valued games with heavy discounts; they've woken up and realized that if they can get ten or fifteen dollars for a stack of zeroes and ones sitting on a server, it's better than a kick in the ass. I do not approve of most digital distributions because they cannot come to terms with"
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
"I will never EVER understand this movement to online-only gameplay.

What is that?  What even is that?"

Sunday, April 22, 2012
"I feel so bad.  I pegged #5 as Donkey Kong Country.  Didn't know 4, 6 or 8 at all."
Sunday, April 22, 2012
"I'm disturbed.  That shot from Demolition Man looks like it's straight out of a Sierra game.

Like, put that sprite inside Space Quest 4, and we're still good."

Friday, April 20, 2012
"Well now, that would be an interesting parallel if we were talking about two similar industries.  Since one offers a mode of transportation and another offers recreational digital entertainment... one is widely viewed as a metal casing that houses hardware designed to get them from A to B, while another is several forms of art interwoven to tell a story and entertain...  It sorta makes your argument silly. UNLESS you view the videogame industry the same way you view the auto industry!  In which case, I fully understand the outrage.  I guess.  Doesn't make it justified when paired next to common sense though.

Also, don't fool yourself.  Kia and Hyndai went back on top because the economy was garbage and their prices were hot.  Just saying."

Friday, April 20, 2012
"See, now I don't have to type anything at all.  I can just go to work.

Thanks for that."

Wednesday, April 18, 2012