Recent content by coolguy5678

The ABXY buttons on the Steam Controller are more like start/back on an Xbox controller. If you look at the Portal 2 example, you can see that they're bound to stuff like push-to-talk, communication pings and so on. The fact that they're labelled the same as the Xbox face buttons is a...

http://steamcommunity.com/id/dota2bot/

It depends on what you mean by "believe". IT is a plausible an elegant explanation for the end of ME3, which otherwise makes little sense, so in that respect I believe that it's true. However I'm becoming more skeptical that Bioware intended it. One hypothesis is that Bioware plans to release...

I'm not sure I should point this out, but it's possible to pay $0... just type 0 into the box, then click "buy" now, and it skips the payment screen. If you do pay something, you have to pay at least $1.50 (to cover processing cost).

Yay, it's the first time I get to use this! http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9225-Critical-Miss-Highlanders-Anonymous For games I'm only vaguely interested in, I prefer to wait for a price drop. But if it's something I've been following before it's released...

On the video, part 2, 5:00 Shepard's health only partially regenerates, although his shield regenerates completely (it seems they've gone with the Far Cry 2 segmented health system underneath the shields). Also First Aid is back as a power. I like.

I'm sure there are plenty of people on the Internet who keep quiet about stuff they don't like. You just don't notice them, because they aren't posting anything...

I've never played a CoD game online and probably never will, but I see this as an improvement over dedicated servers with the level system. The server admin can just enable everything for everyone, and you have an even playing field, regardless of how long players have been playing the game for...

I call the black-and-white sphere a soccer ball. I call the egg thing an American football. If someone says "football", I'd think of the black-and-white sphere, but I personally use the terms "soccer" and "American football" to reduce ambiguity.

They say being a fanboy of something implies that you're biased towards it, unable to acknowledge its flaws, and unable to see past flaws of its competitors. Arguments from fanboys therefore carry less weight than arguments from those with an objective viewpoint. I'm not sure how valid that is...

If I remember correctly from the developer's videos, it's ay-kron. The name comes from "achronal", which means "not chronal", so it's pronounced similarly to words like "asymmetric". Or something. I read on the forums that there's an upcoming patch which will fix up the pathfinding, although...

I wouldn't use any game streaming service unless you could solve the input lag problem. I ping +350 to anywhere outside of Southern Africa, and that level of input lag would be unbearable for any real-time game.

Medieval mode usually ends at the same time as any other map. You were on a "24/7 server" which runs the same map non-stop. There are 24/7 servers for other maps/game modes, too (particularly 2fort, dustbowl, goldrush). Supposedly, the players on these servers are worse than the players on other...

People who look at game news websites are not a representative sample of the gaming public. Hence MW3 not being number 1.

From a game mechanics-orientated perspective, I've always decomposed FPS into the "Quake subgenre" and the "Counter-Strike subgenre", for lack of better names. Quake-FPS games have: * high mobility - often including advanced mobility techniques like bunny-hopping or rocket-jumping * high...