Recent content by bassdrum

Generally, I use my mouth. I'm open to other suggestions, though.

I saw a copy of Portal and Portal 2 working together to fling innocent people hundreds of feet into the air... all I could do was shudder, run the other way, and hope the ground disappear from beneath me.

Because Watchmen isn't a movie, at least not primarily. I'll agree with you--the film was too long, and a bit incoherent at times, and worked so hard to fit everything into one movie that it glossed over a huge amount of what made the comic so good. I finished reading the comic thinking that...

A friend of mine loves his, and I'll admit that the 3D effect is a lot less obnoxious than I thought it's be, but it's also been about half a decade since I last used a handheld for a period longer than I could borrow someone else's. I won't be getting one, but I can see why other people would/do.

I like having to reload--it's a basic tenet of shooter gameplay, and it means that you actually have to think/plan a little bit more than just 'SPRAE BULETTS AT BAD GAES'. A bottomless clip just gets boring for me after a little while.

Honestly, if it's pulled off well, it could be fun. There's a lot of stuff to the Mass Effect gameplay which seems well-suited to multiplayer; provided that Bioware designs it well, it could be fun. Consider me cautiously optimistic until I hear details.

I got halfway through signing up before the game told me that I wasn't old enough for it. That kind of killed that (and then I stopped caring enough to go back for it later).

Oldest that's still in my collection is Ocarina of Time, I believe (oldest I've since parted ways with was Frogger). Newest is The Witcher 2 (for a few more days until Deus Ex gets released). Hmm... well, I haven't had a chance to really get into the meat of The Witcher 2 yet, so it's not...

Do they need to be bands (which is to say, more than one person)? Oh, whatever, I'll just make two lists--and yes, this is indeed my clever way of making a top five list into a top ten list. For groups: 1. Radiohead 2. Ozomatli (their older stuff, at least) 3. The Bad Plus 4. Muse...

No warnings yet, and I'll figure out my post count once I post this (because I'm too lazy to check it first). Edit: This right here is post #775. So far, so good.

Yes. Yes, it bothers me that people think the casuals are killing gaming. Look, it's a matter of supply and demand--gamers demand a certain type of game, so companies supply it to them. Casual gamers demand casual games, so casual games get made. The thing is, though, the industry is big...

Well, obvious answer is Valve--there's a reason their games are universally acclaimed and everybody loves them. However, that's been said many, many times (as has Rockstar), so... I submit DICE. Sure, the Battlefield franchise has had it's fair share of sequels, but they've added some huge...

Just finished Watchmen, starting into Scott Pilgrim. During the course of the summer, I'm planning on getting through 'The Information', a book about information theory which is intriguing but also incredibly dense and difficult to truly settle into (it's fascinating, but you can only read...

Technically, I suppose it would be cheating... but it's not like it affects anyone but you, and it makes the game more fun for you, so I don't think it really matters. If it's bothering you, just put a good lightweight dagger in your inventory for when you run out of arrows (although I'd be...

I will never play it, and I find it's very concept disturbing and disgusting--but free speech is far more important than knee-jerk reactions to something unsavory. Banning ANYTHING based on its content is ALWAYS bad; it's a slippery slope to censorship (after all, if RapeLay is bad enough to...