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So I just took a quick look at this sale and found something not quite thought out. Simcity digital deluxe is $44.99, Simcity is $39.99 and Simcity digital deluxe upgrade is $10. Buying the regular version then the upgrade is cheaper than just grabbing the digital deluxe version straight off...

What's the saying? "If you ever find that you're the smartest person in the room go to another room" Sounds like that might apply.

the best would probably be the 360. The worst was definitely the n64. Not because it was a weird shape, it was actually fairly comfortable, but it had the worst analog stick ever. Not only could you easily blister your thumb on the top of it, but the calibration was in constant need of...

I got 40%, somewhat high it seems, at least among my fellow Escapists here. A lot of it seemed to be that the questions are far too general to be answered with a simple agree/disagree. That aside I still understand all of the contradictions that it told me I have, but I've come to terms with all...

My dad used to play Mario with my brother and me back in the day. Occasionally he'd pick up a flight simulator too. But his favorite game was Goldeneye, which he called "the shooting game". Before I was born he had an Atari and a Colecovision, but I don't remember him ever playing them. Aside...

Of course it's useful to divide developers by where they are based. You can't go around saying one studio isn't as good as another based on where they are, but you can make some assessments about them. I think there is some truth behind Eastern developers lagging behind right now. Lagging isn't...

As a group no. Most of the individuals, or at least the ones you hear about, can probably be labeled terrorists. Most of them probably aren't worth the time and resources it would take to catch them anyway.

I think there's two groups of people who buy pokemon games as they come out. The first and simplest to understand is kids. Kids get a generation or two of the series, grow up a little, realize that the new games are going to be the same and move on. It's an inexhaustible supply of consumers. The...

I live in a little swamphole in the Willamette valley. It snows for a grand-total of 3 days a year, at least over the past 20 years or so. A couple of days before Thanksgiving we got maybe a quarter inch of snow and I don't know about the rest of the local government, but all the schools shut...

I think for this question to actually be worth anything you have to have a list of countries that might actually start World War 3, or at least all that would be likely to participate. Countries that might/could actually start World War 3 would include: USA, China, Pakistan, Israel, Egypt...

How do I help them know they have enough interest!?

I was pleasantly surprised to see X-Com on here. To me it isn't really genre defining, it's what should have been genre defining. Even the team behind it struggled to re-capture everything that makes it great. Sure there have been a few spiritual successors that have come close, but they all...

Sure they're racist. Whether they should be changed or not depends on where the money is coming from though. If it's a government grant then it certainly should change. The point is to give a hand to promising young people who would otherwise not have the means to a higher education, but that...

I actually don't like anything he wrote, but I still appreciate how he virtually created a genre. It's kind of like Jules Verne, his ideas were fun and inventive, but the writing is crap. I read Journey to the Center of the Earth and it was like reading a textbook filled with made up science. I...

This is stupid. Also there is a huge difference between a patent and a copyright.