Recent content by bruunwald

Exactly. Why? This again, really? I know tons of girl gamers and not one guy who treats them poorly. Thus, my generalization cancels out the OP's, thus all generalizations are bad and untrue, thus we NEVER NEED ANOTHER "GIRL GAMER" THREAD AGAIN. EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

Baccano! I consider myself a smart person, so it wasn't that all the characters and the fast cuts and the not-giving-you-a-hint-about-what's-happening-so-you-have-to-piece-it-together-over-scores-of-episodes thing was over my head. It's just that I think it was executed poorly. No matter how...

I just wanted to stop by to praise the OP for knowing the difference between "than" and "then." Thanks!

He's talking out his butt re: Silent Hill. The three games play to totally different markets and different demographics. Downpour is for the people who regularly buy the new titles as they come out, and that's expected to be the big seller. Nobody at Konami expects the HD collection to...

Here's the problem. Devotion to a bad idea is still a bad idea. That one remains dedicated, or loyal, or unswerving is not in-and-of itself a value or a principle. QUALITY must come into question, and that is something that long ago was forgotten about in these conversations. Americans value...

Because we all know that anybody who accepts that same-sex relationships are a fact of life and doesn't totally wig out and hurt people over it, is an "extremist." You know, rather than a realist.

The notion that children "ought not be exposed" to reality has always completely baffled me. Fairy Tales were scary (not the modern, watered-down tripe, but the real deal in all its nasty, violent glory), precisely because our ancestors knew the world was weird, full of all kinds of things, both...

Yes, because my eleven-year-old son is a decent little guy who deserves life as much any unoriginal cynical poll-starter.

Firstly, Japan was suffering badly from the worldwide economic downturn even BEFORE a giant tsunami and earthquake caused devastation across the country. (You DO remember they have suffered great devastation recently, yes?) Secondly, there have always been scores, if not hundreds of titles...

I love being a nerd, precisely for the "versus" debates. I think if you go back to the days of the Greeks, you'll probably find unshaven dudes sitting around, arguing over who would win in a Hercules/Perseus match-up, citing any and all minutia from each demigod's barest related tales. (For the...

Rowsdower! ROWSDOWER! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6OPyfQxwDM

LOL - Nice attempt at making gamers sound like the second coming of Neo, but the study - if there is any merit to it at all - would not seem to indicate that gamers "use their brains differently." The study would seem to indicate that the human brain - whoever it belongs to, adapts to suit...

Pong Noobs.

I have no doubt there is life out there, and even intelligent life. No, I don't believe they have visited. It would require incredible technologies and power sources to get here from so far away. That suggests two things: 1. They likely would not try to conquer or kill us because they...

Or any other of the random sounds of crying, lockers slamming, things falling in the walls, etc. Silent Hill's fame is largely due to the amazing music and terrifying sound effects, to which no other game series anybody here can mention can ever hold a candle. But it's just not on the radar...