Recent content by BigNiceJohn

OK, so I'm a little new here to this thread, but thought I'd chime in anyways. There is a genre of poetry called Free Verse, which exists as a form of poetry entirely without meter, musical pattern, or rhyme. For examples, check out some works by e.e. cummings and Walt Whitman. Free...

Saints Row 2 and Mass Effect. The Sandbox is now an entire galaxy you can fling shit on. Psychonauts and Tetris. I have no idea how that would work, but my eyes are already bugging out at the thought.

I know I'm way in the minority on this one, but I dug 'The Duke'. It's size was perfect for my hands, and now I feel like every other controller I've used since then feels like I could rip it apart. I'm pretty unco-ordinated, and I found that I've had the easiest time with The Duke. I was...

The only CD's I buy anymore are from bands I see at a New Music Night show every week at a bar by my house. These are, for the most part, DIY bands, who even create their own CD artwork and covers, and while the sound quality on some of them isn't great, I'd much rather support struggling...

I got BigNiceJohn from quite a few places. First and foremost, I dig Johnny Cash, but I smile way too much to actually be BigBadJohn, At the time, I was 16 and pretty fat, so that made my screenname partly tongue in cheek. Oh, and my name actually is John. I just looked the name up on...

I was in the first Grifball tourny that the current season is based on, and I offer only a warning. Grifball will take your soul, it's waay too addictive, you'll spend hours thinking of things like where, exactly is far away enough to not get hammered down. I'm down for a game, though if...

Willie Nelson said something along the lines of "If you're doing something that you'd be embarrassed about if other people found out, you shouldn't be doing it." That goes for the Star Wars kid, sex tapes, and really anything.

Cyber bullying just seems so impotent. I couldn't agree more with John Galt. I've been on both the giving and receiving ends of it, and the experience is exactly the same. I don't understand why words on a screen seem to inspire so much passion. I know that marks me as being old...

I first met the woman who became my fiancee through some mutual friends she went to high school with. Then it turned out she was a member of the community over at Red vs Blue, as I was (and still am). I really dig the fact that there are these elite groups of gamer girls who routinely kick...

If the game is going to be made into a movie, it should involve people who have no (or very little) presence in the game. I think the city of Rapture has a tonne of stories to tell before the hero of Bioshock even gets there.

The female market for video games is undeveloped, for the most part. My fiancee, and several of my female friends are into games, and while they'll play the good games (Mass Effect, Portal, etc) they have no interested in the average ones where the simple goal is to shoot things (I don't know...

I was bullied for being a smaller kid, then I grew and beat the crap of the people who bullied me. It's beautiful in its simplicity, really. So what's the big deal?

RLH for the xbox. Graphically, it wasn't too much to look at, and even looking back at it, the story was a hodge-podge of different sci-fi ideas (trapped on a space station, enemy aliens, save the few allies left, etc.) but I just really dug it, and ended up playing it through three or four...

Playing a sports game, baseball, hockey, or boxing, it has to be punk, Pulley, Dropkick Murphy's or the Bouncing Souls. FPS's require a bit more, and I'll usually listen to Alexisonfire, Satanic Surfers, and 'the classics' (Metallica, Ac/DC, etc) Strategy/RTS/puzzle games... it's all Eels...

I used to just drink any beer that was available when I was younger, but now that I'm older (if oddly enough, less mature) I drink Canadian Club. With eveything.