Recent content by 616Nickel

This is why I devote most of my gaming time to TF2, despite the fact that I have yet to finish Half-Life 2 or any of its sequels, all of which I have paid for. I just don't have time to devote to a difficult game which requires repeated attempts at a segment before you can move forward...

CDs? What are those? Oh, right: those are the delicate little disks that you're forced to find, insert, and wait before your game will even consider running. Then when you've finished playing or want to put something else in the drive, you have to remove them and store them somewhere where...

Freelancer was maybe the first major space-sim to break with the joystick control, offering instead a mous-and-keyboard arrangement that felt natural to anyone used to FPSes. I remember it was pretty controversial at the time of release. It was the first space-sim I'd played since X-Wing and...

TF2 is astonishingly good. I played TFC back in 1999-2000 when I was a university student and had plenty of time, then gradually quit playing when my responsibilities began to add up. When I tried it again last year, I found the game had been taken over by elite bunnyhoppers and...