Recent content by Waffle_Man

Honestly, the less you listen to people complaining about how you play games online, the better. Picture yourself as a person who prides themselves on being able to twitch around with their mouse, and gets a warm fuzzy ego boost when they pull a massive flick shot off. Now imagine, after having...

^ You know, a lot of people on here might be technically right at times, but context can often be just as informative as the actually content. Sure, you can talk about how correlation doesn't equal causation all you want, but that doesn't stop people from flocking to it the second it...

Quite simply, it's because a lot of people use forums as a way to socialize, not to have exhaustive intellectual discussions. Hell, even this thread contains little more than a feedback loop of distaste not dissimilar from shouts of "YEAH SCREW THAT GUY" that one might hear in a bar when the...

It's not so much about difficulty as it is about engagement. See, the problem that people have with difficult games is that it often feels like the game will throw a challenge at a player that their level of control doesn't account for, or the solution takes away from how the mechanics are...

While I will say that having a more developed vocabulary to describe video games is a good thing, can you honestly say that your understanding of them would be improved simply by drawing artificial lines of... Fuck it, some subjects have been covered much better than I ever could hope to, so...

If you got over 70 hours of game time that you didn't have to force yourself through, I'd say it's doing something right. I've enjoyed most of the elder scrolls game for the time that I've played them, but I've never completed one. Likewise, I've played through fallout 3 and New Vegas, but...

AI that have any semblance of a consciousness capable of being motivated to any malice or make any plans for the advancement there of are currently so far out of the realm of possibility as to be absurd. Computers don't "think" in the way that a person does. Everything is ultimately a really big...

While there are valid reasons to hate Steam--and by extension Valve--from a practical stand point, I tend to think that a lot of the hate comes from the fact that every thing about steam is a source of dependance. Valve has done a lot to earn the trust of a lot of gamers (though not all of...

To actually do the best victory dance in the source/quake engine game of your choice, type the following commands in console: bind kp_home "say <(^_^<)" bind kp_uparrow "say " bind kp_pgup "say (>^_^)>" bind kp_leftarrow "say " bind kp_5 "say " bind kp_rightarrow "say " bind kp_end "say...

Honestly, the three big differences that I tend to notice: 1. Too many goddamn fucking sales. Both a massive benefit and problem of PC gaming is that sales are common. One might even say that sales are stupidly common. You will burn through so much money on the impulse to save it if you're...

Yes, there is a difference, and it is very noticeable, but only in certain ways. Some people have already mentioned that most monitors are only capable of putting out 60 frames a second anyway, so I'll just assume everyone is aware of this. There is no "frame rate" limit in the eyes, though...

Are you using a logitech keyboard? I don't know exactly what causes it (I think it has something to do with how the game handles polling, though don't quote me on that). I had that problem back when I had a logitech keyboard and I never solved it because I gave up and plugged in a crappy ten...

The problem with explaining or speculating about humor is that it's quite subjective. However, it's helpful to understand the foundation of what humor is. There are number of theories, but they all tend towards a general sense of humor being a way of coping with conflicting information. With...

I stopped playing my xbox 360 after I got a computer able to run games decently. I stopped caring about the multiplayer because I don't see my IRL friends enough to need more split screen games ever since I left college. I lost all of my interest in the campaign when I played through Halo 4 with...

Oh. My. God. Counter-Strike. Even in a perfectly lag free environment, shooting is such a *****. Bullets don't consistently go right where the crosshair is even when you stand perfectly still and tap. Nope, you have to burst in a way that will simply give you the greatest chance of a precise...