Recent content by rpsms

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    Obsidian Does it Again

    Re: save games: Absolutely Steam-based problem. A Batch file which clears the steam cache folder before every launch OR write-protect that folder and your save game problems go away. Steam. I am with you on the playtesting though [edited some tpYos]
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    Best Buy Swindles Customers With $30 PS3 Firmware Update

    I think this is a scam to upsell opened or returned merchandise
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    Review: Dead Rising 2

    The timer is optional. Saving people is optional. The "needs a sandbox" thing left me scratching my head. In the original DR, there was an achievement for killing the town's population count of zombies (54 thousand). It pretty much takes the entire 72 hours to do. No survivors. This is...
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    Capcom Denies Snubbing PS3 Over Dead Rising 2 DLC

    Where I come from, gifts are free. (In soviet russia gifts get /you/.)
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    270: The 12-Year-Old English Kid Who Carried Us to Victory

    Even the people who aren't on a mic or even helping to tow the line can hear the intel on where and what the team is doing and where the other team is. So always speak up.
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    265: Punching the Baby Seal of PC Gaming

    I don't put *any* work into it and my pc games don't crash. Fallout 3? Stable. Crysis? Never crashed once. L4D2 mic works. draconian always on DRM? (Xbox 360) YES *per-user* subscription fee to use your own internet connection? (xbox 360) YES crashes during games? (Xbox 360) YES...
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    Total Recall Getting Total Remake

    If it is going back to the source material, it will be fine. Total Recall had very little to do with the Dick story: in the same way that "I, Robot" had nothing to do with the Asimov book(s)
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    No "Red Ring of Death" for the New 360

    They did this with windows xp: instead of a blue screen, they configured the default behavior to be an automatic reboot. Then they wrote ad copy that said "no more blue screens." Which was technically true in the default configuration (uncheck "automatically reboot" and the blue screen shows...
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    257: How Walt Disney Created Manga

    @#17: I certainly see how you might like to redefine a term in order to support your misconceptions, but again there are myriad examples of manga which do not support the idea that Disney was somehow the driving force behind japanese comics. It is not my intention to exhaust the...
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    257: How Walt Disney Created Manga

    Sorry to burst you bubble, but Manga goes a little further back than Disney. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai_Manga for instance
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    Arty Games

    The ONLY game I would classify as captial-A Art is Homeworld. The first one, excluding all sequels/expansions.
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    UPDATE: Bungie: Call of Duty Conversation "Might Come Up"

    The only good call of duty games are from IW. Even Treyarch's have been a pale, uninspired shadow of these: clumsily copying elements of IW games without any real sense of their proper use. Then again, MW2 was lacking in a lot of ways. The writing was scattered brained, the story itself was...
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    Settlers 7 DRM Problems Still Unresolved

    It is only confusing until you realize that this is not DRM: it is a beta implementation of a single-player pay-per-play subscription model.
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    Chris Taylor Has No Regrets With Dungeon Siege Movie

    To be slightly fairer to the movie, Rotten Tomatoes gives a 35% to "Krull," which is no better, if not worse in all repects. Uwe Boll casts a repulse aura on his movies, and people will automatically rate his movies lower than needed. Indeed the above posts go so far as to invoke his name for...