Recent content by Hexley

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    The Big Picture: A Disturbance In The Force

    In the interest of honesty. I had tons of problems with Abram's Star Trek, and I'm not really much of a Star Trek fan, though I do have an interest in the universe. Everything wrong with it from my perspective mainly had to do with the narrative. My main issue with the idea of Abrams being...
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    The Big Picture: Is The Hobbit Too Long?

    I personally felt like the movie was playing out in a fashion that felt something like a tv show (albeit much shorter, since it all take place in the same movie), or perhaps some kind of miniseries. The bulk of the movie may be about the journey, but each separate section felt to me like an...
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    id Software Praises "Always On" in Diablo 3

    As far as piracy goes, stuff like this will *not* put a stop to it. It will only serve to bother players who pay for the game.
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    The Big Picture: Combat Evolved?

    I would agree with his point except for the fact that it never even seems like Halo makes a point of the fact that the covenant is composed of different races outside of the primary gameplay sense. Grunts = standard foot soldiers, Jackals = quick and nasty snipers/skirmishers, Elites/Brutes =...
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    274: Spoiled Rotten

    Spoilers can destroy and experience for me. Having something spoiled before the first time I've experienced it is completely different than when I go back and experience a second time. The second time I played through Bioshock I got to appreciate all the subtle things that were strewn about...
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    Trailer: Dragon Age 2's Possessed Hero Unleashed in March

    I'm definitely buying this game because I loved the first, but other than the whole; "Original combat system didn't work well on consoles" thing, I'm still scratching my head as to why they are going so far out of their way to completely revamp the gameplay of a brand new IP. It really is quite...
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    Game Stash: Microsoft?s Missed Opportunity

    "Windows, it runs your games well..." That's all I really care about as far as microsoft is concerned with PC gaming. @ Mangobaer In today's world ( where tech is evolving faster than the actual graphics in games are ), you can easily make a PC that will run virtually any game well for...
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    Hawking: It's Space Or Bust For Humanity

    Once we as a species have the ability to find and colonize ( terra-forming? ) other planets outside of the solar system our longevity will become virtually indefinite. But as long as we're stuck where we are with each passing century it's only a matter of time.
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    Social Games Rush in Where Hardcore Games Fear to Tread

    Social games draw from the non-gamer audience, the strictly casual gaming audience, as well as some of the hardcore gaming audience. While Hardcore games are generally only going to draw from the latter two with emphasis on the hardcore audience. It's not some sort of crazy mystery why Facebook...
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    Film These Heroes!

    Is it just me, or is anyone else also surprised to hear people keep saying that Iron Man was considered a relatively unknown property among the mainstream until his movie debut? I don't about anyone else, but even without being into comics I've always thought that Iron Man was just one of those...
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    Rumor: New Hulk Found for Avengers Movie [UPDATED]

    I'm not really seeing where all the Norton love is coming from. Sure the Hulk movie he starred in happened to be good, but it didn't seem like he revolutionized the role or anything. It mainly just seemed like he did his job right, and as long as the new guy can pull off being all conflicted and...
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    No More "Mean Mickey" in Epic Mickey

    My impressions of this game fall further the more info is released about it. From the initial concept art I actually thought this was going to be an "Epic" take on mickey. But now it's just 'Mickey Mouse in Paintland'. The first blow was the screenshots, which didn't seem to reflect the...
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    On the Ball: Like God of War, But ?

    There's too many flavors in the brawler genre that God of War can really be said to "define" the genre. Awesome games though.
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    Only 30 Percent of WoW Players Get Past Level 10

    I don't really care what anyone says, but 30% of trial accounts leading to at least a purchase of the game? I wanna see another mmo come close to boasting a stat like that. Just sayin.
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    View From The Road: Flash Frozen

    I personally think it would be best done by starting with the majority vote concept. In the sequence the rest of the party will kinda peer pressure the fourth into doing what they want. If this is a choice that isn't going to effect your entire journey from then on in some sort of large way it...