Recent content by nerdpride

I don't think I learned anything historical from AC2 watching it on Spoiler Warning. Maybe since then they've done better? Still, I don't get the impression they should have a reputation as good history material. Also I feel the need to say "It's a me! Mario!" was unforgettably bad and...

Huh. Ludo means "play". Or something, I'm never sure. http://www.thegamecritique.com/recent-posts/in-defense-of-ludonarrative-dissonance/2283/ Tee Hee. He's defending ludonarrative dissonance.

Not impressive--it takes more work to make those screens in the first place. They do better as pixels than as wool or whatever in Minecraft, too. Stuff doesn't have to be 100% original, but a 1:1 copy of pixels is just a waste of time. Also, why must people joke about how much cancer...

The last videogame I bought came out in 2007. I got it off Amazon for five bucks, which felt like an OK deal. I won't be able to do this with Blizzard games from now on, they will be sold at much closer to full price even years after release. The last game I bought at full price was from...

I'd rather just stick with a hang glider. Marauding around the planet like a dropship trooper sounds fun, sure, but I still think jet packs are supposed to go with frictionless "space" environments. But whatever. ... DEY SEE ME PACKIN'. DEY HATIN'.

The issue itself seems pretty alarmist to me. By democracy, we have already thrown away so many censorship rights and submitted to government propaganda all the way since WWI, I doubt videogames will make much of a difference in this nastiness. And to be honest, I want to see another...

I do like the lore of this character. Recoiled at it at first, because yeah, Warcraft, but it's growing on me. I think I remember saying to someone that I'd like to see a demonologist character, but I was thinking of a more magical class than someone who actually uses demon blood to burn...

"Bungie dabbled in RTS". Bah. IMHO, the Myth games were the best thing Bungie ever did, although Starcraft and Total Annihilation got a lot more attention. Epic plot in it, too, and none of that cheap science fiction where the writers fail on physics (unlike Halo... Yeah, Sci-Fi in general...

QFT, I agree completely. But it's not just the comments. You can knock on Activision all you want for bad business (or bad games), but it's not a bad decision to prosecute to the full extent of the law. The amount of money sued is huge because Scapegaming had a huge number of users, something...

No. Sure, you could enjoy the company of the annoying sidekick character. It's an acceptable thing, unlike pedophilia. It will work on a mainstream level, too, OoT paves the way with rave reviews. The thing is, it doesn't enhance any of the things that games do really well. Developing a...

Forgive me for being Devil's Advocate again and again, but other forms of media appear to have been incapable of doing the whole "change the world for the better" thing. I think games are just a hobby for pleasure, even less enlightening than others, and also only appealing to a niche of society.

Yahtzee's game sounds fun, but I hope he reads up on sci-fi physics that's the intended background. Heat is more of a problem than cold (spacecraft have the biggest radiators).

I'm judging the final product of either form of media, of course. Efficiency in graphics technology is nice, but like you said, it's not a useful development for other fields of work. Remember, we're looking at things from the perspective of the Fortune 500 person. :) Interactivity is a...

Not a surprise at all. Gamers often discriminate against each other. Even when it's not RPG vs FPS vs RTS or casual vs hardcore. It could be something as dumb as e-peen fights. Some gaming webcomics even celebrate the stupid gamer types. And then there's the games themselves. You think...

The article is slightly misleading. It makes it sound like this is new. I was trying to do this 6 years ago, when I was fifteen. One of my highschool friends even put out a variant of Angband (do you call that success?), asking older people to fix bugs in his C+/- code every time he put out a...