Recent content by Zigot66

This sort of, "Why couldn't they do this as well?" attitude has brought me to the conclusion that at some point, we as gamers are going to have to make a choice, are we just looking for mass media entertainment? Or do we actually care about the creator's intention for their work? If we...

I think if you could get the Extra Credits guys to work with Yahtzee, that would be the closest we could come to this with the people we currently have. Yahtzee's wit and critique mixed with Extra Credits' deeper analysis and generally more positive outlook would be fair and balanced while also...

I absolutely adore the TimeSplitters soundtrack, but the Western theme from TimeSplitters 2 is (in my opinion) the best of the whole series. I also have a special love for the Hook (SNES) soundtrack with this one in particular taking the top spot (followed closely by "Rogues Gallery")

I would argue that it is better than the Dead Island Trailer. The Metro that they created is not so different than this. If you include the books, this is painfully vivid. Dead Island had a great trailer but was let down by the game's actual content. I say though if they wanted to create a...

The Diablo 2 styled dungeon crawler Path of Exile has a currency system a bit like this where instead of monsters dropping gold coins they can drop Identify scrolls (or fragments of them) which you need to use to buy items or identify magic items. Monsters can also drop Orbs (or shards of them)...

Actually, you were always allowed to share Microsoft stuff, but you are not allowed to make money (ie ad revenue) off of it. They want the free advertising, but they want the revenue as well. Unfortunately most big companies follow this sort if thinking, though calling it thinking is probably...

You're making a lot of assumptions here, and I don't think they really hold up. I know tons of people with e-readers and people who routinely read off of their smartphones and tablets (just cut the brightness, it makes it easier to read and saves battery life) There will be people who don't care...

I saw that Sorceress and just kind of shook my head, but now that I've seen the other characters and how stylized they are, I'm actually ready to defend this design. I haven't read any of the surrounding controversy and I'm not going to comment on that, but if people have that much of a problem...

I would argue that Blizzard's early games (not counting console games, just to be clear) were only big steps for their genres because they took normally niche games and made them popular with a much broader audience. This trend held from Warcraft 2 (1995) to World of Warcraft (2004). Beyond that...

Two points here: 1) Blizzard has acknowledged that the Diablo 3 Auction House (and by extension, always on) hurt the game, and their sales. Also the AH used Player-to-Player transactions, not, strictly speaking, micro-transactions. 2) Blizzard isn't about advancement, they never have...

This is news, because this is Blizzard. No one seems to remember their stance on Starcraft 2 right up until it was actually announced. They were "interested in revisiting the series, but were not working on it at this time." They had actually been working on it for years. I wouldn't be too...

I have this too, but it's both my eyes and ears, so my whole face looks a bit crooked. I recently got glasses and thankfully they were able to reshape the frames to diminish the appearance of it.

What I want to know is this: did developers just forget about "Auto-manage" as an option? I like being able to tinker and tweak complex things, but I know not everyone else does. It wouldn't bother me if I just had to uncheck that box so I could have my fun, and most other people wouldn't...

I keep seeing people essentially giving the "caveat emptor" excuse that people should have known better, but that doesn't hold up here, and the reason it doesn't hold up is EA's own doing. They made Origin a "service" so you are buying a service, not a product. When you buy a product, and it...

I think this might be a bit off topic, but I'll let you guys decide. I am a rather shy guy, and over the last year I've found a few ways to approach girls, my issue though is with the question of just how ethical some of these methods are. To give you an example, until recently I had to take...