Recent content by targren

I disagree. GW2 doesn't remotely "do it right" and it suffers from the exact problems as console games like Jim mentioned here. The "Gem Store" has unabashedly sold power since day 1, and calling them "convenience items" doesn't change that fact. Paying $3 for an hour of double-XP or $10 for...

For me: Therapeutic uses only. For bathing purposes, they're a waste of time and water, and most bathtubs I've seen seem to be designed for people 5ft tall or less. The exception is when I've got one of my brutal, horrible, "I wish this was so tame as to be one of those headaches that makes you...

Not strictly true. Steam update? Expect to wait for that download before you want to play. Want to install your game on your laptop? Need to install Steam first. Unexpected internet outage before you set your games to "offline"? Well, there's always that book you've been putting off...

The last thing the legal system wants is for people to think about what is or isn't acceptable, or saner minds might actually realize that that throwing a kid in prison for 8 years for being flip is, not to put too fine a point on it, fucking ludicrous. There was no credible threat there, and...

I love these guys, and we need more like them. Not only do they own up to their own mistakes -- during the #NoDRM sale, their email "flyer" had the wrong cutoff time for a free game and they, shock of shocks, HONORED it, even extending the deadline to make up for the hoop-jump of having to go...

Even more reason to abandon the stupid idea before it's too late. Dump the Kinect bullshit, chop the MSRP in half, and dominate the crap out of this generation.

Ugh. I should have known. I'm not sure if the first half of the video was actually a premise to the bog-standard Moviebob hypoagency endorsement, or just a drawn-out strawman to line up the sites for another hamfisted guilt trip, but whichever it is, it's utterly bogus. To claim that...

Blood Omen 2, when you learned the identity of the Sarafan Lord...

You can build a middling gaming-PC, on par with console experience, for the same or less than the cost of an XBone. Irrelevant. Whether you build a gaming PC or buy the next gen of consoles, you won't be able to play those without the old console you already own. Unspoken, and not...

You don't have to put a kitten in a blender to power it? Other than that... I guess they didn't change the controller that already worked on the 360?

What, that using it wrong literally makes them look like idiots? I don't see the problem.

Technically, a port just means that the code was modified to work on a different system from the original. Just because game developers like to do dick moves like adding new features to later versions, doesn't make it implicitly part of the "porting" process.

Emphasis mine. Other media is regularly censored in this country, and you're ignoring the other inconvenient fact that, even if your idealism wasn't completely divorced from cold, hard reality, it would still be irrelevant to the gamers who don't live in the US.

You're joking, right? There's so many things wrong with that, I'm not sure where to start. Did you miss the part of History where the Constitution, even the 1st Amendment, is regularly being ignored or weakened with sophistry about "the public good","obscenity", etc.? Where books are still...

Jim, you've got a valid point here, without a doubt. Taking negative criticism to a game you like as an insult to yourself, your clan, your religion, and your country is, to put it mildly, a tad excessive. On the other hand, though, your admonition feels a bit one-sided (acknowledging that your...