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I think there must be an attempt to address the underlying issues in this statement. Game devs use PCs, of course. Most consumers don't need PCs to play the finished product, however. Console sales and digital distributions just whip that finished product right to the end user, no problem...

Because the real advantage of getting hammered is that alcohol is the most general of all neural pathway effectors. The reason we've been brewing the stuff for millennia is that it cuts right through all those little tiny inhibitions that you have, so that only your strongest (or most basic, in...

No worries. :) I am kind of getting the impression that, at root, 3D is to blame for this. When games were in 2D and you wanted to give one particular character a real face, it involved creating that persona from scratch and displaying separately from normal gameplay. But with 3D games, ALL...

That's exactly what I'm talking about. You have to either jump Three-Dog's link in the main quest chain, or do it for him. That's it. You can't intimidate him or bribe him or hack a terminal for the same information or anything, it's all-or-nothing. And the information he gives isn't even that...

I think Shamus is right. I'm so incredibly fed up with voice acting that doesn't make sense and quest-lines that get truncated into "either-or" scenarios. Take Fallout 3, for instance, in "The Replicated Man" quest (assuming you can get past the idea that the whole idea of this quest doesn't...

I think Shamus is right. I'm so incredibly fed up with voice acting that doesn't make sense and quest-lines that get truncated into "either-or" scenarios. Take Fallout 3, for instance, in "The Replicated Man" quest (assuming you can get past the idea that the whole idea of this quest doesn't...

Definitely just preference. If you like the fiddly little thumbsticks, then go nuts, but I'm old enough to remember when the key-mapping page was more than one screen in size. The key for me is in options. Options, options, options. There's only so much you can do with 14 buttons on a...

I have two computers: One, an age-old gaming legend of a desktop, with much in the way of graphical wisdom. I have dubbed it "Harold." The other, a tiny, spry netbook who accompanies me on my quest for fortune and fame. It is named "Micky." So, now, it's time to play "Guess that game!"

High School Musical is a musical, watched predominantly by high-school age people, about high school musical things. Problem Number 1 right there: It's perspective isn't ironic. We're supposed to take this happy-chappy, chirpy pop completely at face value. Culturally, this series is a mirror...

I was in Auckland and I saw the church where this first went up. Kiwis got in a big fuss about it, so it got taken down, but I think that the church that did it was just being really really innovative and pushing some theological boundaries. You know what? It works. It's really memorable and...

One more thing: The best part of Modern Warfare 2 was "No Russian." It was violent the way violence should be: hectic, confusing, sick, and disturbing. That's the kind of segment I WANT my kids to play. "Here you go, kids. Learn this." Exposing your kids to video games means taking them...

You're not going to explain sex to your children? Why is it that sex suddenly becomes an acceptable topic once we reach a certain age? Even if you kids don't really "get it" before puberty, you can still teach them, which will reduce their tension and fear around the subject and improve their...

I love games as an art medium and I would likewise want to expose my children to them as a part of cultural integration. Sadly, I would have to personally review every game that my children want to play. Why? Because the ESRB rating system itself is SCREWED. Saying a game is "M" or "T"...

First of all: Just because Yahtzee has a humorous approach, that doesn't mean that he's not a "legitimate" reviewer. In that sense, who is legit? The IGN hype-machine? Seriousness doesn't equal legitimacy. Second of all: As mature human adults, it should be possible for us to find ANY review...

Oh, hells yes. I remember this game. Were those characters really Maori...or just more vaguely Pacific Island-ish, leaning toward Maori? Was there any traditional Maori mythology in that game? I'm currently an American who lives in New Zealand and, I've got to say, I never realized before...