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On Carlos Alexandre's  Sonic CD: why so beloved?
"Sadly, I'd have to agree with you. I played Sonic CD a while ago, on a SCD emulator, on a whim from a friend who found it fantastic. Frankly I just found it quite confusing, with very poor level design and it didn't manage to hold my attention for more than five minutes. Which is basically the same thing I can say for most Sonic games of the past years, like Sonic Colours and such."
Monday, August 29, 2011
On AndrĂ© Bardin's  Five things that Kinect can't do (that Project Natal said it could)
"Haha, one of the funniest articles I've read all year... especially the comments about the generic demonstration videos for Kinect were hilarious. Great stuff."
Sunday, July 31, 2011
On Tristan Damen's  Collector's Editions: Lots of dollars, not much sense
"I'm frankly a sucker for collector's editions, especially if they are linked with a game that I've found out only years after its original release. A good example would be Morrowind, it had a nice regular edition here in Europe but the US collector's edition was even better with a soundtrack, a figurine and an art book.

I mean it all depends what you want out of a game. Back in the early nineties, many regular releases had bonus stuff thrown in, case in point would be Alone in the Dark, which had a nifty little booklet (for copy protection), a fake old newspaper and a letter. Sierra releases adopted this too, their regular releases were almost as good as a CE.

Nowadays CEs seem to pack lots of useless stuff just for the heck of it, which... is nice in a way, but you don't get much enjoyment out of it. I mean, is somebody gonna use the "Fable 3" playing cards? Or Duke Nukem Forever casino dices?"

Wednesday, July 20, 2011
On Sean Lefebvre's  My Local Video Game Store
"Here in Italy, Rome actually, there used to be lots of independent stores; most of them sucked anyway but at least you had some choice. Now it's all Gamestop everywhere, most stores I used to go to have closed down and I'm beginning to notice in this trend in most of the countries I've been to. Frankly, I don't like this one bit."
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
On William McEwan's  Whats The Dealeo: Fallout New Vegas
"Uhm... poorly edited and missing puntuaction. Sorry for being bitchy, but I was halfway through and I couldn't take it anymore."
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
On Matt Polen's  Video-game remakes: The business of nostalgia
"Actually for me, the main factor in remakes is hoping that, somehow, an already great game can be made even greater. It is actually the same for cover songs, sometimes a band manages to put out a cover song that is even better than the original.
So, it's not nostalgia that drives me but the fun that I can have with the game again, on some other console too. I really can't stress how much I'd love to play many games that I fondly remember from my Commodore64 on the PC or console. Unfortunately there have been some remakes already (like Space Taxi on the C64) remade on the pc by some cheap companies that managed to horribly butcher some very simple and basic gameplay. Like Space Taxi 2. My god, that was horrible. Even the remakes made on the retroremakes forum were better than that. Way better."
Thursday, January 27, 2011
On Jasmine Maleficent Rea's  9: The Last Resort is not a game for forgetful people
"Thanks for the heads up, it's on my long list of 'games I'll play one day'!"
Thursday, January 27, 2011
On Rob Savillo's  The Nintendo 3DS: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
"I fail to see the point in this useless Nintendo bashing that has been going on since the 3DS has been shown. Nintendo has to survive, in order to do so in this horrendous Hollywood-like hell that is the videogame industry in 2011, it has to be flashy. It has to be IN YOUR FACE. It has to grab people's attention with a sledgehammer, and I'm talking about the casual gamer, than maybe it can also give some attention to the "hardcore" gamer, but really, NO company, and I repeat, NO COMPANY can survive on the hardcore gamers alone. That is a fact.

And also, if Nintendo hasn't shown anything new... you mean some other company has? Actually I do remember two companies jumping on the 'motion controls' bandwagon... but maybe I'm wrong. I'm not even a Nintendo fan-boy, I'm just tired of people crying "Nintendo has forgotten the gameeeeerrrsss". And by the way, the 3DS is a solid handheld in it's own right, turn off the 3D effect and you're set."

Thursday, January 27, 2011
On Christian Davis'  Why we Don't Buy Games.
"Frankly, for me multiplayer is not an issue whatsoever. Actually I tend to flock towards games which have a great single player story. I already have too many obnoxious people around me, having to deal with them also in my free time would be an insult.

Anyway, here in the euro-zone, specifically in this god forsaken hole called Italy, videogames actually went down in price in the last few years. That's because everything else grew in price.
Games are now 50-60€, which is not a bargain by any means, but before we had the euro a videogame used to cost 100.000-120.000 Italian lire. Which in 1992, would be the modern equivalent of 120-130€. So there."

Tuesday, January 25, 2011
On Grant Pearsall's  It's Not You, It's Me: Breaking Up With a Game Collection
"This story reminds me of a lot of similar "god I'm obsessed with videogames" stories. Everything can be an addiction, and addictions are almost always very bad for you. So, getting rid of all your old games does not really solve an addiction, but instead it takes a conscience, a real sense of self and the will to go through the pain that it takes to see you from the outside, recognize who you really are and... CHANGE.

Still, shops that sold complete nes games for a dollar? I hate this god forsaken country I live in."

Thursday, November 04, 2010
On Hudson Turman's  Keep a Limit on Limited Editions
"only Collector Editions that have never disappointed me are the ones from Blizzard. Real expensive but real"
Monday, September 27, 2010
On Hudson Turman's  Keep a Limit on Limited Editions
"problem is not with being limited or not, that I don't really care, what bugs me is that most of those collector's editions offer a really weird experience. I mean, I've just spent a real hefty sum on a Civ V collector's edition and it has an art book, it has it's soundtrack, it has a making of dvd... it's all fine and dandy really. But, guys who have played any Civs in the past know what to expect from such a game, right? A very bulky manual, of course! And guess what? It's not there. Really. There's just a four pages depliant saying 'hey read the digital version'. I mean, what the heck? Seriously, I've spent a fortune on the thing and they don't even have the courtesy to print a manual? Oh yeah, they're trying to save our forests, right, that's probably why there's a 160 pages art book in"
Sunday, September 26, 2010
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