Recent content by Dev Null

GFWL still looks like text speak for "godawful" to me...

"If the author of Snow Crash was given the Percy Jackson series." I would so read the hell out of that book.

"We (the gaming culture) don't exactly help with the launch-window issue; We will heap scorn on anything that doesn't meet a deadline, even if such a deadline is laughably unrealistic." Wait; if only there were some way they could make deadlines that weren't laughably unrealistic...

"I could dedicate an entire column to cataloging the comprehensive failures of GFWL." Oh wait; you already did. You could do it again though; its that terrible.

Holy crap; the "make.believe" think is their real advertising slogan. I thought you were just making fun of them. All you need to do is add the word "security" underneath.

Wait, I don't get it. I mean the ad I _really_ don't get. But Travis is offended because there's no way the game is _cheaper_ than his long-suffering, so shes worth less than thirty whatever-he-thinks-they-ares, but then he finds out the price is in pounds so shes worth more than thirty of...

Sounds cool. I'd play it, but I have some things I need to get done in the next year or two...

Bah! TLDNR. The secret to proper fanboyism is none of those things: it is incandescent incoherent rage. Period. This not about showing the idiot that his/her opinion is wrong, this is about showing the Interwebs that the idiot is worthy of eternal horrific torture for daring to have an...

"Don't go into business with people who have dealt poorly with their other business partners." Or the corollary: Sure, sell out to Activision: but then immeditately liquidate all your company stock, quit, and move to Bermuda.

I want to play Shoot Guy.

You lucky lucky bastard. Shaving sucks, but if I stop, the child sex crime unit of the local police start camping on my doorstep.

Even more irrelevant for me to comment on it now (and the link you posted has been pulled, so I can't even check my facts) but I thought that the change was only going to be about associating real names with forum posts. That way its not really a privacy issue unless you see the forums as a...

Ah. Alpha Protocol. You don't actually mention anywhere in the comic or the sidebar what game it is you're playing. I know the type though; if you're going to give me a stealth option, I'm _going_ to take it, so please make sure its at least somewhat viable...

So the bandits' cunning plan is to take vicious man-eating wargs and breed them with dogs to make them... what, exactly? Smaller? More cuddly? Better at playing fetch? If you're looking for killer beasts to invade with, and you've already got wargs, uhm... breed wargs? Maybe they should...

Because we're specifically talking about introducing non-gamers to "artlike" games, I have to go with Myst (or one of its sequels or clones, but why not start with the beginning of the story?) Its pretty. It tells a story. And most importantly for the uninitiated, its forgivingly easy to...