Recent content by firemonk3y

now, I've played WoW, and I did quite avidly, until I got to Outlands, which left me with a sensation of "wait...I've been grinding my way through 60 levels, 40 of which were tedious just to do that all over again?" At this point my dedication to the game dwindled, and I can honestly say the...

using mac OSX 10.3 on my MacBook, and I love the stability. I'm using windows XP on my desktop...which is starting to behave oddly (again) and I've only had the installation on it for about a year, so I'll be looking at cleaning it up, and perhaps doing an xp/linux dual-boot, or just a simple xp...

Games shouldn't be about how many polygons you can cram down the consumers throat, but gameplay and fundamental design. To be honest, we'll keep on demanding more polygons, higher definition and more light sources, which will be supplied by companies such as Sony and Microsoft. I'm much more...

My greatest grievance with modern society is this movement toward blame shifting, and refusal of responsibility. The trend of the individual shirking his obligations is one that I find very unsettling, and is creating a lot of unjust witches to hunt. We see this in a lot of situations...

eggdog, they do ^__- you'd be surprised how much of the 'games are geeky' stigma is actually generated by us gamers. as speaking to a wide variety of people, as long as you don't start rambling about raids in WoW, or bunny-hopping in CS, they generally won't consider gaming that far removed...

or just personal opinion ^__-, albeit one I disagree with. and I agree that EA should just leave bioware to do their own thing, and throw money at them. It would be the best decision they've made in a while, since Bioware is perfectly capable of making great games as they've proven again and...

I know, it's unbelievable. how much crap did rockstar take for making GTA? realistically, the game is no worse than many 18 movies. Many parents would never let their 12 year old children watch these movies, however since GTA is "just" a video game, many parents didn't hesitate to buy them a...

Erin, as usual the article was well written and thought provoking, thank you very much. and ironically there's quite a similarity between social websites and MMORPGs in the sense that it's a grind to mastery, a journey overcoming obstacles and drudgery. And I think that the first step to take...