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Sony doesn't want Egoraptor using their show to promote himself, but it's clearly fine for The Tester to promote their show with his name and face. Huh.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 |
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Why's it so hard to be the bad guy in role-playing games like Mass Effect?
Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
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Nine great strips from Penny Arcade...don't miss them.
Sunday, January 10, 2010 |
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"ote]Yeah, I'd like to play the game with this art style.[/quote]
Well, we can always hope for the upcoming Pokemon Titanium game,"
Monday, January 25, 2010
", music from the Legend of Zelda is [b]rich[/b] ground for homages and cover tracks.
Also, I very much dig the SFII rock videos. It's infinitely better than most YouTube garbage that mashes up Linkin Park's "In the End" with [i]every Goddamn game ever[/i]. P4KO should do performances with Video Games"
Monday, January 25, 2010
"hael, excellent points through and through.
Even though many people tend to say that the Quick Time Event is the mark of lazy developing, I've been a fan of [i]correctly[/i] implementing that feature since the old days with Shenmue. Most games do it terribly now, and the result is always a Goddamn Game Over Screen. Why can't QTE Fails just result in de-powered stats, or just health bar loss?
Hands down, Resident Evil 4 still has some of the best QTEs, just because they made tense situations even more harrowing. Actually, I believe that MC Chris says it best. [b]"You don't have time to smoke a bowl! You still playin'! Jump Gypsy, Jump!"
Monday, January 25, 2010
", I'm really hoping that the new port of Transformers G1 Awakening cuts out those [i]terrrrrrrrrible[/i] loading"
Monday, January 25, 2010
". Even at $80 off, I doubt that people are suddenly going to start shelling out cash for a gimped Rock Band games, Beatles or no. What Harmonix/MTV [b]should[/b] do is throw in a free DLC"
Monday, January 25, 2010
"the Halo"
Monday, January 25, 2010
"I wish he'd used it on StarCraft:"
Monday, January 25, 2010
"and Three: There is no way that a studio can condense the 15-30 hour plot of Mass Effect into a single movie, unless they cut a lot of plot out of the movie (and we all know the dissatisfaction that [i]those[/i] edits would c"
Sunday, January 24, 2010
"pletely agree that a Mass Effect movie would be a huge mistake. As far as I can tell, almost no Mass Effect player, outside of the gaming press, uses the default male template for Shepard. That's hurdle Number One, as most gamers would likely balk at Hollywood trying to shoehorn some random actor into the role.
Two, there would be an obligation to make Shepard a hero, or at the very least, a gritty Space Batman.
Mass Effect is great because it lets us make our own stories, which BioWare was very careful"
Sunday, January 24, 2010
"shua Seconded. If anything, I hope to see a lot of collections on gamers' thoughts as we actually start playing the"
Saturday, January 23, 2010
"e and done. Bitmob has a truly unique angle on promoting good writing. As a grammar Nazi, I highly ap"
Saturday, January 23, 2010
"s interesting to see people take a deliberate stance against the numbers scene, especially when it's clearly an unpopular trend, like in gaming. With publications like GamePro (using the Star ratings) and EGM (letter grades), it's a slight attempt to buck the trend, but they're still boiled down to numbers. There's no escaping math, I"
Saturday, January 23, 2010
