Recent content by GnomeChompsky

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    Ubisoft: No New Games Unless They Can Be Made Into Franchises

    Watch Dogs seemed like it might be the game that would get me to break my ten-year Ubisoft boycott, but this just placed me firmly back in the "hell no" camp. Thanks, Ubi, for remaining true to yourselves!
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    The Big Picture: The New Originals

    It may be a new property, but I fail to see what's new in any way about Pacific Rim. Or Elysium, for that matter... The issue I see, moreso than retreading established franchises, is that the order of the day in filmmaking tends to be loud 'splosions and overwrought spectacle with nothing...
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    NSA can read your emails as you type them (not kidding)

    I have plenty to hide because I do plenty that's "wrong". The issue is with who's defining the word "wrong". Are you? I'm not. I don't much agree with those who are, either. They set the stage now to be able do do whatever they want, and you say it's fine because you're not doing anything...
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    Rumor: More Evidence Suggests Always-Online For Next Xbox

    There's never been any incentive for me to purchase an XBox, but this is certainly one more very significant reason to pass it up. Same for any other console that implements this feature. Count me in as a member of the "no way, no how" crowd.
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    Doing a survey for a research paper over violence in video games.

    -How long have you been playing video games? 33 years or so. -How many hours do you play video games a week? It varies, depending upon a great number of factors, but probably somewhere around 15. -Do the majority of your games feature some form of violence (extreme violence...
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    Dear Esther Artist Mulls "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Without Weapons"

    I've frankly been dreaming about this exact game for years. Colour me intrigued. And hopeful...
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    Hating Multiplayer Creep

    Entirely on board with this - I still haven't been able to bring myself to play Journey, despite the fact that I'd been looking forward to it for a very long time through its development cycle and even had it preordered. It's probably the one game in the last 5 years that I'd actually been...
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    30 year old gamers feeling disenfranchised?

    Play is everything to everybody. It's fine to be all adult and serious, but we tend to be at our most productive, paradoxically, when we're enjoying ourselves, no matter what we're doing. Everybody's brain is wired for play, at every age. Most advancements in consumer technology essentially lead...
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    Say something nice about the Star Wars Prequel. If you can.

    I can honestly say that the Prequel Trilogy has provided my entourage and myself with just as many hours worth of pure entertainment than the original trilogy ever did - just of a very different nature. Between walking home with a friend after TPM and lambasting Jar-Jar all the way, to...
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    Ever realised that in the plot line of your world, you're a villain?

    I'm in this camp - I've been more of an incidental bit player in my own circumstances.
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    Poll: General age and gender-groups on The Escapist?

    Ditto... And yes, it is.
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    S.T.A.L.K.E.R Soc Good ending?

    It's also been a while, but as best I can remember and in a nutshell: somewhere in the C.N.P.P., near the entrance to the Wish Granter, there should be a ladder leading to a higher level that opens into an antechamber with a locked door at the end. If you got the secret stash in Pripyat...