Recent content by Scubamike1978

As a gamer and a member of the military on the ground assisting the police I'm getting up close and personal with the devastation spend a fair bit of time chatting to a lot of people at cordons. I don't think this has anything to do with respect. I think it has more to do with Sony getting...

At least the zombies are aware of what they are lacking.... And they won't find many on Xbox Live...

Too...many...words... Here are a couple. Succint. To-the-point.

As a Warfare Officer "peace" activists really piss me off. They live in their own rose-tinted little world and don't seem to realise that there are bad people out there to whom having a sit-in saying "peace and love" will result in the same thing as in-game. A whole bunch of wasted deaths...

I love spicy dips for my nachos but the store bought stuff is pretty bland. So I make my own (Recipe below). It's great, add it as a sauce for almost anything, use it as a dip, eat it from the jar with a spoon... So what's you perfect food? -------------------------------------------...

In New Zealand we have more options in classifying games (Not like Australia which can't classify anything higher than 'M' and therefore doesn't get the really hardcore stuff). The ratings also have a few lines of text for why a particular game has a particular rating. G - Suitable for a...

Turning Point: The Fall of Liberty Wow, what can I say Wow! Way to take a promising premise and really drive it into the ground. I mean in 20 years I've played some truly awful games but these guys started by aiming at Quake 4 and then dropped their sights by a good twenty or thirty...

Correct. A rather large, fairly hefty chunk of metal traveling very fast = lots of damage. A .50 cal round does a LOT of damage, it's not the sort of thing you shrug off and walk away from. And what is the native language of a "REAL Nazi"? If you think you're referring to German you'd get...

Given the diversity of online gamers, how exactly could you define any norms to deviate from? And how "normal" are those norms anyway? Seems like there is a lot of acting out going on. Think: Prepubescent Male trash-talking everyone they meet while using gangland slang and spouting about...

Half-Life Counter-Strike Day of Defeat Half-Life 2 Portal Team Fortress 2 Left 4 Dead Half-Life 2 Episode Two Did I miss any? :P

Exactly, look at Halo's Marines, we've got Aussies, Kiwis, Americans, Poms, you name it.

Personally I'm glad the wackos go for guns rather than bombs. 5 people killed out of a room with 140? That's much better odds than said wacko going in with a home-made nail-bomb or two. The prevalence of hand-guns / assault weapons in the USA is concerning. Hand-guns, machine pistols...

You'd think Americans would love the French. Especially with the whole War of Independence thing. If it wasn't for the French it'd be "Hail to the Queen" (Bless her), not "Hail to the Chief". But then they seem to know it subconsciously. Why else would you rename French Fries as Freedom...

Depends on what sort of "equality". I'm not saying people are equal and entitled to all the same privileges (socialism), I'm saying people should have an equal say, even if that means the opinion of people who watch Fox News if weighted the same as people who have a degree in the topic at hand...

This could be said of movies too. The big multi-million dollar block-busters don't have the same potential for run-away profits (Blair Witch Project anyone...), but they remain reliable earners. I don't think we will ever see an end to games like Call of Duty, Half-Life, Halo, etc. And...