Recent content by Nordstrom

I was hopeful, but I see that the features/articles page is dead after all. I feel as though the site has been ruined. Goodbye.

I can understand the change. The weekly issue was looking pretty thin at times. I still love the articles, but the frustrating thing for me is that I can't find them. I rarely read anything else on the Escapist and almost never watch any of the videos. Now I feel buried in content that...

Agreed. There's no point fighting it. Sometimes the desire is there and sometimes it's not. There are too many other things to enjoy in life. Often, when I think I'm done with gaming, I find something new in it and I'm suddenly back in it again. It goes the other way too, I'll be deep into a...

The article provides a great description of immersion but, to my mind, it doesn't provide a satisfying explanation for why people grow bored of gaming. Tastes change as we get older, but there must be more to it than that. Maybe I shouldn't criticize because I've given the issue a lot of...

Interesting discussion Russ. Hope the Escapist doesn't stop publishing stuff like this because of a bit of negative feedback. There are lots of us that like it.

I very much love the pdf. Some of the borders of the pictures were not transparent in Mac OS X's Preview, but it looks absolutely beautiful on my PC. Lots of nostalgia for the old days. Cheers!

Blow didn't pay himself a huge amount of money while playing the game. Spread over three years, that's $66,000 per year to share between himself and Hellman. There were likely some business expenses in there too. So, I'm guessing that he couldn't be living on more than $40,000 a year during...

I read the text first and it spoiled the joke for me.

People's faces look very serious when they are reading too, but no one complains about it or thinks it strange. edit: I appreciate how the article captures the feeling of playing a game and why we find it engaging.

I'm inclined to agree with Mr. Blow. I'm always looking for a good story and feel consistently let down. When I look at the games that I really love, it's all about the game-play.

In my experience, Wii Music doesn't have much to do with making music, even less than Guitar Hero or Rock Band.

If you have to look at a walkthrough to complete the game, what difference does it make where you get it? Games shouldn't need walkthroughs, but most games aren't designed that way. I'm all for the existence of easy games, hard games, and everything in between.

If you're having trouble getting old games working, Freespace and some other space sim games are available at gog.com for cheap.

I have to say that this was very enjoyable.

Obviously, it's cool to transform a gaming obsession into a book. That said, the book sounds like it will be genuinely interesting.