Recent content by kirok

Well first for the particular examples: Naruto: it is not great, but is very popular and not horrible in my opinion. And like many other 30 minute animes it does not have time for plot or character development in all of its shows (many shows will simply be a big battle) but it doe make up for...

I would say for the most part lots of anime is not that great, and have similar art styles. But many great anime films/shows do exist.

Cave Story 3 hit points, minimum items. 3 hit points is the only way to play after you have beat the game a few times.

Do you blame them, to them used games are exactly the same as pirated games.

"It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms." (wikipedia)

"No games writing sticks in my craw worse than the assertion that the medium is somehow "still in its infancy." You probably have encountered one or more of its incarnations. Sometimes videogames are described as a disenfranchised teen, just waiting for that final growth spurt to mingle with the...

"Games are less magical, less unique as individual works of art, than they were during the 8- and 16-bit console era." I disagree, the gaming industry has matured, and now has huge companies on the top who have multi million dollar advertising budgets. and they in general shovel repetitive...

great article.

I do not that that games using that "Ubisoft method" are any cheaper (therefore they use both methods) and Ubisofts games were cracked on release day anyways, so saying you would prefer their method is akin to saying use no piracy protection.

Parents neglect and kill babys weather or not they game.

by your description she is not a hardcore gamer, unless she could compete reasonably well on the mentioned games against the best of the best. I would say their are variations but the real hardcore gamer should know some gaming history and have at least dabbled in all genres. And I would...

Inselkampf Oblivion Diablo 2

Well, like nearly every other single player game I am sure it will be available to torrent with all these DRM issues fixed on release day anyways.

Crash (2004) Ria: "My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. Neither one of those is Mexico." Graham: "Ah. Well then I guess the big mystery is, who gathered all those remarkably different cultures together and taught them all how to park their cars on their lawns?"

phantasmagorical - it is so specific it is basically unusable, but i did end up using it once in high school.