Recent content by Duraji

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    Poll: I Will Give You £500 to NEVER Play Atari Again!!!

    NEVER is a long time. I'd expect closer to 5,000 pounds for a demand like that!
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    Your "giant panda" of gaming.

    I haven't seen large open-ended platformers since the N64 days and the original "Jak & Daxter". They've pretty much given way to sandbox games, which are certainly not bad, but just aren't the same. If Rare hadn't turned into a shadow of a shadow of its former self (yes, two shadows), maybe...
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    Developers That Rub You The Wrong Way

    EA and Activision aren't developers, just publishers. Even THQ can only be considered a developer if you're talking about their wholly owned branch studios, such as THQ Montreal. I would definitely have to say the branch of Square-Enix that currently is developing Final Fantasy games. As neat...
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    E3: Fable: The Journey Demo Was a "Horrendous Mistake," Says Molyneux

    Oh, Molyneux. You are the king of horrendous mistakes. You keep overpromising and overhyping all of your games that whenever I get one and dislike it, I feel like I'm in an abusive or neglectful relationship. Quit overhyping everything and pay attention to what actual developers do to make...
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    US Military Spawns Stealthy Robotic Hummingbirds

    I see everyone else beat me to it. Yeah, they're way too loud, and therefore useless for actual espionage. Camera quality looks crap, too, why a fisheye lens?
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    What do you think is the greatest epic fail for humanity?

    Anything that causes immense amounts of pain and suffering without any rational necessity for it. I'd go with religion. Not spirituality, I'm talking about tight religious dogma that affects many people based on an extreme minority's interpretation of absolute authority. I suppose you could...
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    R.I.P Hitman series

    After the terrible Kane & Lynch titles, I'm honestly not sure I can even trust IO Interactive to deliver a good game anymore. Some companies just get stuck making really awkward decisions, like Rare for example.
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    If you could have one item from science fiction?

    Easy, I'd have a companion android, preferably one that can shapeshift at least slightly so that they're something new all the time. Can you tell I have commitment issues? :p Second to that would be a holodeck, of course, though in there nothing I actually do would matter in the real world...
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    People Are Jerks...

    I think it's because there's a survival instinct inside us that assumes that good things should happen and that bad things are even worse than a lack of great things. If that makes sense the way I worded it. Basically, the human mind expects things to be a certain good way in order for life to...
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    Thanks to the steam sales...

    Thanks to the Steam sales, I'm paranoid that any of the games I want that are already 50% off might go down even further, and thus I'm waiting for something huge before January 2nd. I wish there was a way to see the new sales before they happened, but since the prices are so good, I know they...
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    People Are Jerks...

    Oh? What's so bad about Rowan Atkinson? I'm honestly curious to know. With that said, though, I can only agree with this topic's title. There are so many stories about terrible customers I've dealt with in my three years of retail, and even more stories of people I thought were friendly...
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    SKYNET!! Don't Pursue!!

    What I'll never understand is why anyone thinks that the Terminator movies are sterling examples of logic and rationality on any standard. They were written as action movies first, keep in mind. James Cameron has already proven himself to be a hack as of late (Avatar), and thusly couldn't think...
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    That online moment that you were so proud of

    My proudest moment is pretty nerdy, but I was floored and still consider it to be one of my greatest accomplishments: getting third place out of ten thousand players in an Extended Play session of 1 Vs. 100. :D
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    Is gene-therapy wrong?

    To me, it's wrong in the sense that the rich will be able to make genetically superior children as compared to the poor, and that will lead to more cultural segregation between the "haves" and the "have nots". Given the majority of wealthy people, too, it could also mark the death of true...
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    Worst controls in a videogame ever

    I learned after several minutes of experimentation that you have to hold DOWN R2 while pushing the direction you want to go to actually go in that direction. Of course, the stupid part is that this portion of the game basically made you too afraid to hold down R2, encouraging you to press it in...