Recent content by Southpaw Samurai

Great trailer. Not as tone-perfect as the earlier one, but doesn't diminish any of my hopes for the movie being fun. I do sort of wish they didn't recon (at least partially) Rocket's back story, as it would've made an insane spin-off movie if he were to become a break-out star. I'm hiding it...

Dark Forces/Jedi Knight and the X-Wing series are the given ones, as already stated, but I'll throw in a serious underdog: REBELLION: A really neat concept marred by poor pacing and a really, really clunky interface. The unbalanced sides (Empire employed brute force, the Alliance subtlety and...

Good for Adam! He's one of a handful of video game journalists that I have any respect for as a journalist as he's one of the few who is truly a gamer, has a well rounded knowledge and appreciation of the subject matter's history, and is intelligent, witty, and opinionated enough to provide any...

Dynasty Warriors' beat'em up lineage becomes blatantly obvious when one considers the bunch of Three Kingdoms manga based arcade side scrolling beat'ems up that came in the early 90's. Warriors of Fate is one of the American versions of the games. I don't remember if that's the one where the...

I'm a dinosaur dating back to local dial-up BBS forums, QuantumLink forums, and newsgroups. Sadly, some here are so young they'll have to look up any of these to know what I'm talking about. :-P

This is currently my favorite episode of the Jimquisition.

Everyone promoting Marty McFly's definitive win over Dr. Sam Beckett should remember that Sam would undoubtedly never appear AS Sam, but randomly would leap into any one of the game's other warriors (accompanied, of course, with Bakula's 'Oh boy...' line). So Sam could appear as anyone from Goro...

What I'd like to see is a remake of the old Commodore 64 (and it may have come out for other computers of the era) freeware/shareware Trashman, which was sort of like Paperboy (although not isometric, just straight top down) in that you rode through the neighborhood on the back of the garbage...

One of the reasons I enjoyed the Mako sessions of Mass Effect is that they kind of felt like a modernized version of the whole planetside landing/exploring/resource gathering of the Starflight series. Now I need to dust off my Amiga again to give the games a whirl...

Probably The Eidolon back on my C64, which technically qualifies as a FPS even though I don't think anyone at the time would've even thought of such a label.

Its roots aren't too surprising. A half dozen of us actually played the first third or so of the game together as one big party and as it was over a LAN so not as massive or online as, say, Ultima Online, but but definitely was a functional multiplayer RPG. It was quirky and tedious as you'd...

To those so adamantly against having anything but a white Spider-man because they should stick to the 'storyline', please explain to me what part of the Spider-man/Peter Parker mythos is race-specific. Some characters have backstories that tend to fit only certain groups (for Captain America...

Given my Scandinavian/Irish heritage, I'm feeling mighty masochistic right now...

My Jägermeister days were mostly back before Red Bull was widely available in the US, so that definitely both ages me and also skews my opinion since we didn't mix it with silly energy drinks back then. True story. We had a Christmas party at our boss's house one year and we all figured it...

My oldest physical, functional system that I still game on would be my Amiga 500. I have NES in a box in the closest, but don't know how well it still works since these days it's easier to emulate it than blow into catridges.