Recent content by Evil Tim

XBox Live is not a physical good, it's a service. Services mean big contracts; think lease documents, mortgages, credit agreements. If you're offered a contract, don't bother to read it and sign it, that's entirely your problem. If the contract you signed says you have given permission for it to...

Which works until his claim is thrown out for being frivolous and a waste of the court's time. The only question in this case is if the judge is bored enough to even bother to hear his arguments before throwing the case out. Do you really think this is going to cause people other than legally...

No it won't. The whole point of an end-user agreement is that you agree to the company's terms in exchange for use of their thing. Let's say Microsoft was offering unlimited soda if you agreed to certain terms; obviously, by drinking the soda you are implying you agree to the terms. If you don't...

I think you're confusing Nazis with Germans.

Using the word "irregardless" is a good way to make people ignore everything else you have to say, being as it's a pretentious word that actually contradicts itself on closer inspection (ir-regardless? So, we're with regard?). There is a difference between games being a form of art and games...

No, Max Payne 1 did that. 2 just killed everyone left over from 1.

I'm fairly sure the player knows that Germany lost.

A story to a game is like a frame to a painting; it puts everything else into perspective and, done right, can be the perfect finishing touch; equally, done badly it can detract from the final work. It is not, however, anything like as important as the painting itself. Your argument is like...

Did you anger a wizard who turned you into a terrible movie trailer?

1). Who didn't know that and 2). It was created by Steven Spielberg, it's rather hard to inspire yourself.

As opposed to the days of Castlevania or Contra when the average singleplayer game took...A few hours. I remember back in The Day people were complaining because Sonic 2 was over in less than three hours. Comparing like for like, do Chrono Trigger or Secret of Mana stack up well hours-wise...

By setting it on fire routinely and hunting the North American megafauna to extinction?

Yes, you were wrong about more or less everything you bought up and this is something you can blame me for, that makes a box of sense. No, I'm a player sitting in a chair. The game has to convince me I'm a soldier, and it does this by presenting me with more insight into my surroundings than...

Yay, I can have the realistic experience of playing as a soldier with no sense of direction, memory, idea how his weapon handles or clue what's in his own pockets. The purpose of the HUD is to give you easy access to information you should know as a soldier. Demanding the player remember all...

So you're saying it's ok to release a game called Portal 2 that doesn't actually have portals in it? When I go to buy two bottles of Coke, I don't expect one to be full of vinegar and the other gasoline because the Coca-Cola company decided they knew better than me what I wanted from my Coke...