Recent content by BizRodian

Sounds like tuition would cost more money than I'll likely ever see. It's actually a good idea. If you go to school to get into an industry, that school should be like the industry. This is true in any field, but especially in something like game design of which so much skill is based on...

Haha. George Lucas has always seemed pretty smart when I've heard him discuss history. How does he think it'll end? I mean, if someone was to tell me the world will end because aliens will invade with help from the Queen of England, I'm much more likely to write them off as crazy then someone...

I'm not a PC gamer so much because I think it's the best system for games, I'm a PC gamer because I own a PC, and therefore have no need to buy another device just to play games. It just doesn't make economic sense to me. So if something doesn't come out on PC, I don't play it. Sometimes I miss...

I often turn the music off so I can listen to my own. I don't do this with all my games, but a lot of them. I remember this one time I wasn't playing any of my music, but the music in the game (Mass Effect, I believe) was still turned off... I got to a dramatic cut scene and seeing the...

I've switched to (mostly) digital distribution because boxed games just aren't worth it. If I buy a game on Steam it's easily accessed, organized, automatically updated, and I don't have to have a CD in the drive. If I buy the game boxed, I'm going to get a disc which probably uses awful DRM...

As others have said, this has been common knowledge for some time. There's a lot of scenes where it's pretty clear once you know. Back before the prequels on Star Wars forums I remember a lot of people criticized her performance in ROTJ (the whipping boy of the series, at the time) for it.

And I've still yet to play it. I remember eagerly anticipating it when it was a PC title, watching the video previews and all that. After Microsoft bought it out, it became a totally different game from what I can gather. Oh well, I think a lot of others are happy with how it all turned out.

It's funny how I have never really thought much about asymmetric co-op before now... but it's a great idea. If many AAA titles had an option to do some sort of more simple co-op play, it would be a great way to expand social gaming! I can't think of how many times I have had someone watch me...

The games I enjoy most are the ones with an excellent story or in lack of a story, an interesting "feel" or setting (like the first Unreal Tournament, way way back, or the Grand Theft Auto games). Games with interesting stories are really the only games I finish. If it's only the gameplay that's...

I'm a huge fan of the Watchmen book, and I thought the movie was pretty good. Thing is, I'd never need to watch it again, really, because I could just read the book and get a better experience. It's an okay companion to the book, but I agree with pretty much everything Elesar says. Just because...

I really enjoyed this game for a while, but the combat ruined it for me. I hope the sequel fixes the combat (which would be great) or just removes it (would be just fine).

That's the thing, those games all came out before Bioshock. It's not that Bioshock is a bad game or something, it's got a lot of great things going for it, but it still felt like it could be a lot better, and I'm just not going to get excited over a sequel if it's just more of the same. I'll buy...

I have fond memories of playing various Mario games, and spending a lot of time on them. Super Mario World occupied me for years. I found almost all the secrets by myself. It was great. That's not going to happen again. I get too frustrated if I get stuck, and will check online pretty quickly if...

I haven't finished most games I've bought. I get bored, then I stop. I've had my fun with them, and then that's it. I find I only really finish games with good stories, and as most games still have pretty shitty stories... I do hate the insane difficult parts of otherwise very good games...

It's hard for me to discuss a foreign movie/tv show with someone who is watching the dubbed version of it. Simply because it's often like they're watching a different show, since you're watching something with a changed script and different actors (totally different if we're talking about...