Recent content by karpiel

There was literally zero problem with the old Doom system of just having medkits on the ground. Is there a mod for bulletstorm that replaces regenerating health with medkits?

ah yes, the history channel, a.k.a. the slightly-right-leaning nazi-gun-alien-hitler-apocalypse-driving around in alaska channel.

a 3D Realms game and an ID game at the top of gaming news - I love it.

Really it's better that the game come out now than ever - we need that bit of good old fashioned, 90s fun to kick us out of our modern gaming pretensions.

I was a big Duke3D fan, so this is a no-brainer.

If Halo made FPSes better, how come there has never been a better shooter than Deus Ex, which was released prior to Halo?

In additional to the usual suspects (all console FPSes), I'm gonna have to go with Crysis. I don't think I'd ever seen a company use so much to make so little as when crytek made that. That, and the somehow didn't get the memo that the non-human enemies were the worst part of the vastly...

The insane traffic in West LA as I try to move that same week/

I'm going to play a good guy, because I'm not a sociopath.

wow, this article pleases me immensely in that I did read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and absolutely loved the style of its prose.

I like how basically every post in this thread is proving his statements to be correct.

if you voted anything other than 1 or 2, you have Very Poor Taste.

To say that games are art now is to give intellectual credibility to the sorts of garbage and unoriginality that has dominated the popular imagination over the past decade. That is a travesty in and of itself.

I personally agree with Roger Ebert; Games are ultimately just collections of rules that dictate how they're supposed to be played, just as films are sequences of images and books are series of words. All other things that are in games are accouterments added to this, and are irrelevant in terms...

whoever decided to make an FPS out of X-com should be shot