Recent content by DRD 1812

Yes, award shows like Spike TV's and the thankfully extinct GPhoria do harm to the public appearance of "gamers", now more than ever. While I agree that the more extreme examples of any field WILL be ignored by the majority because they are blatantly ridiculous you have to keep in mind that that...

If I join the Publisher's Club or otherwise give the Escapist money can they serve me a link to the old, clean, readable site? Turning the news updates from a simple list of text to a bulky and disorganized mass doesn't make the site look any more "content rich." Study sites like Shacknews...

This has already stacked up to a little over two pages and has a lot of hi-larious Facebook comments associated, but did anyone think to double-check the "14.7% of the search engine market share" figure? A cursory glance at a few other sites shows that MS has about 30% of the market with half...

You know, all this discussion about comic books and continuity and franchises is interesting, but I think it would be best to keep some PERSPECTIVE on the REAL ISSUES and talk about CHILD STARVATION. Wait, I'm still thinking of the last video... oh well, Bob's point still stands, why should...

Fair enough, it is HIS column after all and Bob can do what he wants with it, but I'll still refute that this edition had value. I just don't see the point in saying something when you either expect most of your audience to agree with you (or at least be on the same page as you) or when you know...

This column can be seen as satire when viewed from two different angles. One of them leads to "bad" satire" and one leads to "good" satire. "Bad" satire: "The movie industry is stuck in the past, championing outdated views by peddling safe and uncontroversial crap to the slack-jawed masses...

Well this feels less necessary given the two posts above me, oh well. So Bob made a passive-agressive defense for being a Nintendo fanboy, something he clearly has a complex about given how often he brings it up in his videos, and then shouted, "HEY LOOK OVER THERE! AMIRITE?" And most of you...

I find the idea of trusting designers over franchises to be a backwards notion. True it saves you the heartache of discovering something like Bioshock 2 is a shadow of the original because superstar Ken Levine wasn't involved, but a specific designer's involvement is NO guarantee that a game...

Going to have to be the rare dissenter on the idea in its current form. As it is there are too many voices effectively shouting "I have an opinion!" "Me too!" with a little clumsy direct interaction. The concept would work better with two people having a kind of debate instead of the echo...

Somehow double posted. Actual post is down there.

Did I miss a memo or did Microsoft murder everyone's cat/dog recently? I would find it strange if MS bought Bizarre for the same reason I find the article's assertion that MS "needs a studio with solid racing credentials" loopy: They have Turn 10 Studios, you know, those guys that have been...

Carmine was the only character I liked in the Gears 2, so I vote for live.

It's very simple: An RPG is a game that allows you to guide your character's advancement. So yes, Diablo is obviously an RPG. Genres describe gameplay mechanics, not thematic elements. Argue about it if you like, but agency over a game's storyline (choosing to be hero or villian) is not what...

What does the used game market have to do with piracy? Saying that the used game market is damaging to developers doesn't somehow make piracy alright by comparison.

A charge for services rendered? Where is any of that mentioned in the bill? Anyway, these issues often boil down to a per-industry basis. As far as I know it has always been illegal to record music off of the radio. Take that one up with the FCC or RIAA or whoever. Recording off of the...