Recent content by Dire Trout

Does anyone else think that any attempt to remake this game is pretty much doomed to failure? Because I do. No matter what, fans won't be happy. If they leave it exactly as it was, people will complain that it's just a shinier version of the same game they've been playing for the past seventeen...

Why not both? I always wondered why, in just about every depiction of a magical fantasy world, the people are shown using the same old magic wands and cauldrons and stuff that they've supposedly used for generations. You'd think, at some point in those thousands of years of history, someone...

I hoped, personally, until I got to the gameplay videos. Like I said elsewhere, it seems like a waste, coming up with a bunch of unique characters and a well-designed world and lore and stuff, only to blow them on a "just run around and shoot people Team Fortress-style" game rather than actually...

...and no, not just because we have loads of those already (Team Fortress 2, Borderlands, Loadout, etc., etc.). I watched the cinematic trailer first, and I liked what I saw--there's this cool-looking, colorful setting, a world with an apparently well-fleshed-out backstory to it, lots of...

...well, it's new for Blizzard, I suppose. Seems to me that we're not exactly short on multiplayer shooters, though--in a world that already has Team Fortress 2 and Borderlands and Sunset Overdrive and who knows how many others, I'm not sure why this needs to exist. Hooray for not being...

Pretty much this. These are the same sort of people who go completely apeshit because some total stranger with no real authority assigned Game X an arbitrary number that was one-tenth less than the arbitrary number they thought it deserved. Seriously, who gives that much of a fuck? Just play the...

I don't think it's confusing, personally--it's just stupid. Thor is the character's name, not his title. This is like if Marvel announced that the Falcon was becoming Steve Rogers instead of Captain America. There's absolutely no chance that this is going to stick, of course; the smart money...

Yes. Fucking yes. There is justice, after all. Now hopefully the U.S. theater-going public will get with the program this time. (Seriously, U.S. theater-going public, you're at least partly to blame for the existence of four incredibly shitty Transformers movies at this point. If you must go see...

Well, okay, I did repeatedly and specifically refuse to buy an Xbone because of (1) the used-game nonsense, (2) the always-on DRM, and (3) the Kinect. Now that all three have been dealt with, all they have to do is make some games I'm interested in, and then we can talk about it.

I never thought that the "neural load" referred to the strain of moving the robot around, myself--like you say, they have actual controls for that. I thought that, instead, they needed to have their brains plugged into the robot so that they could perceive what the robot did, so that they were...

Fine by me. Here's hoping someone can arrange for a gay pride parade to circle the block during the funeral.

Exactly. I've always been in the "quality over quantity" school of thought, myself. It's why I don't get why some people were upset at The Stick of Truth for only being 10-12 hours long--at least they were 10-12 awesome hours. And I'm less worried about the length than I am about the...

...aaaaand I'm out. Seriously, EA, I don't know why I have to keep telling you to go stick your always-online games right back up your ass. I was sure you'd have gotten the message by now.

It depends on how well-known the character is, I think. The first Iron Man movie had to be an origin story just because, at the time, most ordinary schmucks had no idea who Iron Man was, so that was okay. Endlessly revisiting the origins of Superman and Batman and Spider-Man is completely...

So, when do we find out why conduits still exist? I know they said they're going with the good ending from Infamous 2, which I thought pretty definitely killed every conduit in the world...