Recent content by pingnak

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    Zero Punctuation: Shadow of the Colossus

    So, I take it Yahtzee liked this one...
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    Zero Punctuation: Mass Effect 2

    I played it. Once. The game is too much like a #&*$ JOB. I mean, it's the year somethousand, and they have AI smarter than people, and they can't have the computer tediously scan the whole planet and show me where the resources and landing spots are? There are some resource drops, but...
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    Stonking Great Game Contest Now Live!

    If we submit, can the code be straight 'Open Source' with some suitable OSS license? It'd be easier to post a subversion repository link than to upload large amounts of code and data to your web site, anyway, especially when patching to fix a 'bug' or make small changes that The Escapist wants...
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    Zero Punctuation: Sonic Unleashed

    Loved the Sonic Review. Just the right amount of bile. Watched the 'Game Damage' pilot video. ALL OF IT. All three of them stare into the camera too damned much. When they talk together, they should just relax & face each other, not all sit there leaning towards the camera, unnaturally...
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    Zero Punctuation: Saints Row 2

    Come to think of it, body counts should be 'Achievements'. Start off with 'Thug' and work your way up to 'Total Genocide'. I mean, really, you'd think killing off a million people would put a dent in the traffic....
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    Zero Punctuation: Saints Row 2

    Hmm... call me slow, but I still haven't even finished GTA IV. Maybe that says something about the gameplay. I liked an earlier GTA better, where I looked at the stats toward the end of the game and discovered I had killed over 10,000 people. Well COME ON! The sidewalks are always less...
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    Poll: is a gun a good tool to have in a household?

    No! I say keep a CROSSBOW under your bed! Hard to mistake whether it's loaded. Too cumbersome for suicide. According to draw force, loading may be impossible for small children. Though perhaps still prone to some of the same kinds of 'accidents' you could pull off with a firearm, if you're...
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    Zero Punctuation: Age of Conan

    I really like that there's an 'Age Of Conan' ad slapped up behind this review. I personally loathe MMORPGs. A good RTS game is OK, but a game chock full of random nerdy griefing human garbage all able to 'interact' with you with a make-believe sword at will can never be much fun...
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    Zero Punctuation: Grand Theft Auto IV

    Loved the review. As always, GTA is controller-busting frustration and fun. I haven't gotten too far into the game, what with having a 'real job' to do. Well, OK, not a 'real job'. Just something people pay me for that's time consuming. Like prostitution. The game's crashed on me a few...
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    Zero Punctuation: No More Heroes

    Waah! This web site is slo-o-o-w today in California! All I can see is the forums - after a five minute delay.
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    Zero Punctuation: Army of Two

    For crying out loud, Yahtzee! Quit whining about how no games are available in Oz and get somebody in the U.S. and/or wherever else to pick them up and mail them to you. If your console is region locked, you could probably get your keepers at the Escapist to buy you a U.S. model, and...
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    Zero Punctuation: Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure

    Gods, he mentioned Roberta Williams. On the plus side for Ken & Roberta, they did get super-duper rich off all that dreck. Not that working for them was ever anything besides entertaining, if you have a macabre sense of humor. Certainly working at EA was much worse than S.O.L. ever was...
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    140: Programming as Art?

    This is what I've said before about 'programming is art' articles. Nobody appreciates it. At best it's invisible, and otherwise it has annoying bugs. You can make it 'open source', but nobody will look, because the only people interested in the code write code themselves, and most of them...
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    Zero Punctuation: Burnout: Paradise

    I played a couple of the previous 'Burnout' games, and I can say the trend in is definitely downwards, and that no quality was there in the first place. The only activity worth playing is the PvP smash-each-other-up mode, and at that the damned thing was never very good at detecting the cause...
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    Zero Punctuation: Sim City Societies

    You get BANNED for a 'first!' post? Sweet! :) On the original SimCity, after a couple of hours of playing it, I went into the save game file and just gave myself all the money in the world. It was just an RLE compressed raw dump of the game internals. After a little while of playing with...