Recent content by Pingieking

"Tell me about yourself." Technically it's not a question, but 99% of all the responses to this inquiry is total bullshit. People don't know shit about themselves aside from some superficial stuff that makes no real difference if the questioner actually wanted to know something about the...

A lot of this. I'm considering two options: 1) Buy the game, then pirate a cracked version and play that. 2) Pirate the game. Option 1 makes me feel better because Bioware gets well deserved money, but then Ican't protest against the use of Origin. Options 2 allows me to protest against...

I love it when marketing people say "The new (fill in product name) will be the most ambitious yet!" No shit. I thought that since the last one was such a success, they would aim to do a shittier job for the next one so that it would be a worse game and sell less. Because, you know, it makes...

Not too sure about that. I remember seeing something about Canada not allowing Fox news start a Canadian branch because it doesn't legally qualify as "news" a few years back. I'd say that MSNBC probably sits in the same category, but CNN is quite a bit above that. In any case, it is still a...

This. The bystander effect is well documented and can be found across all nationalities. There was a story about 20 years ago in Taiwan where a high school girl was run over and killed. Her body was left in the middle of the road (with cars driving over it as if it wasn't there) for more than...

If you already have access to an X360, then go for it. My stance is that whenever you can get access to a bigger library, do it. No point in limiting yourself to the X360 library when you can add PS3 games to the mix.

Demon's Souls would have been my game of the year if only it wasn't so fucking depressing. Even winning doesn't really feel like winning in that game. Other than that, it was epic. Dark Souls looks like more of the same, with the depression dialed up to 11. So I'm not going to play it...

Good luck with that one. My bet is that Sony will "consider" it. And continue to "consider" it. And keep "considering" it. Eventually (like 4 years from now) they'll announce that they can't do shit about it because they have to get too much legal crap past too many publishers.

Ico + Shadow of the Colossus + Trophies = Epic Win And why is Halo on the list?

We are. I think we are the most amazing and the most useless species at the same time. So if you average that out, we actually end up being kind of so-so. But still, we're cool. Almost as awesome as lab mice and dolphins.

I don't know... Girl jerks tend to like backstabbing. And last time I checked, a punch to the face is a bit less fatal than knives in the back. Plus, at least I can see the punches coming and know who's throwing it. This happened to me once. I've never understood why she thinks that I...

For a purely console multiplatform, people are just crazy. For stuff like Diablo 3, there is legitimate concern because it's likely that gameplay quality will be compromised in order to conform to console control schemes.

Isn't DICE technically two studios as well? I thought that DICE was based in Stockholm and had a division in Southern Ontario in Canada. Also, DICE worked on the Frostbite engine during that time frame, while IW and Treyarch both used id Tech 3. So in terms of total game development time...

I'm curious as to why it took them this long to learn this particular lesson. I thought Nintendo demonstrated this quite well back in the last 80s.

Where are the games? The third party launch titles seems to be composed of ports from PS3 and X360 games. Not only that, a lot of them are ports of games that are coming out 6 months before the Wii U is released. I've heard next to no first party announcements. Super Smash Bros is...