Recent content by Blaxton

There's an interesting point there about how the games on the old consoles are practically un-playable today, but I think it has less to do with graphics and more to do with other aspects of gaming that have changed. I tried Game-tap for a while as well as downloads from Wii's virtual console...

I always loved the editorials that were, at one point, 50% of the site's make-up (the other half being the forum). Sadly, the editorials don't really get home page exposure anymore. The "magazine style" presentation of the weekly articles gave a real sense of legitimacy to yet another outlet...

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_90/505-The-Lost-Generation

"The best game is that which governs the player's actions least..." Or something like that. But, seriously, I have to disagree with this article. While I won't speak to the quality of the experience had from going through "The Last Express" (as I have not heard of it till now) I'm very...

That makes me sad, I love the look of that movie. Throwing another trilogy out there: The Matrix

I don't play for them. I get them incidentally. My girlfriend is obsessed with them.

14 year olds can sometimes do stupid things. I remember doing stupid things when I was 14.

One day, babies will be arrested for being born naked. Nudity is so wrong... seriously, I mean, I know they're young but they should have put something on before coming out of the womb? But, really, if you step back from society for a second, it's really hilarious that nudity is illegal in...

Four letters: LOTR Now the roto-scoped LOTR animation movie from the 70s? Classic!

You've summed up all of my sentiments. The game is fun, not intense, but still presented in a serious way. It's a semi-core semi-casual game, something that fits perfectly in my life. I can play an hour and put it down, pick it up again in a few days and do the same. This is my "sudoku" or...

Of course there will be trade offs. But no one is saying this is going to become the ONLY distribution method for games. If you're big into modding and modded games then maybe this service won't be for you. At this point, we don't know how that will be handled anyway, so it's all just...

I agree with you there, part of the allure of a game like Crysis is the graphics. But even my laptop from last Christmas, with a GeForce8600M GS (not the top of the line but not terrible), can't run the game on any level. It struggles with anything less than a few years old (except for WAR...

I'm not going to say that you're worries aren't justified, but the service appears to be starting in the US. It may not work for you right now but that doesn't mean it won't work in the future when they are able to create data centers in the UK. Perhaps by that time things will have changed...

I wonder how many people thought that transmitting one's voice over a wire was impossible. How many people believed transmitting sound without wire was impossible. How many people believed that you couldn't transmit video over a wire, over the air, over a cable and on-demand. How many...

You're misunderstanding the point of my anecdote. The lead-in to my post was meant to show one example of how this kind of thinking can be used to empower weak hardware and allow it to perform duties otherwise only possible on a more robust system. There is a relevant point in there about...