Recent content by Bonaggy

Now, if only us poor peasabt pc gamers could be given the gift of the first game to play alongside the second, I'd be doubly chuffed!

A friend of mine recently visited France. She, like me, has a passing interest in military history and she thought this would be a great trip to check out what France had to say. She left with a smile and returned highly angry. On asking why, I was informed that France has nothing to say about...

1. Silent Hill [the series, really] 2. Deus Ex [choices that can actually change the game story] 3. Portal [need you ask?] 4. Mass Effect [a little micromanagement of armoury with loads to choose from] 5. Sniper Elite [yeah, I know it's pretty crap but I'm a sucker for a sniper rifle]...

According to popular wisdom [speaking of which, who are these invisible trend-setters?] the AK47 and family will always win out. They tell us it will fire after environmental abuse; you can get the ammo almost everywhere; and it does have a good rate of fire. In a L4D situation though, I'd pick...

I wonder, are women fed up with seeing hard-as-nails, man-magnets who either sneer or smother with understanding their male colleagues in television series? I feel the argument here does have a deeper point. Females in most games seem to be drowning in their chests or sucked into their...

Some people really need to extract their feet from their mouths, apologize, and actually do something that warrants them using all the oxygen on this world. Seriously, Valve are racist? All they've done is their best to accurately mirror the population in New Orleans. That makes them some type...

For anyone interested in time travel, worm-holes, unified field theory, and hyperspace I would recommend a book from Dr Michio Kaku entitled HYPERSPACE. It's a great read and covers a lot of questions raised by the man on the street. His writing is clear and concise, but best of all he doesn't...

The British Empire died through its own follies as well as the conditions set upon it by the USA in return for war aid. Didn't know that? Roosevelt implemented conditions such as total independence for our colonies into every treaty we had with them. The American politicians wanted to see the...

Thought I'd wade in about here. Since 2001 I've been: a) disabled b) handicapped c) differentially-abled d) mobility challenged e) a wheelchair user To me, this is load of hogwash. I can't walk, what is the problem with just saying that? That is what offends me. Some people feel they...

I remember an incident in my teenage years. I returned home from being out to discover two policemen rifling through my brother's bedroom. On enquiring with my parents WTF was going on, I was told my brother was in a police cell and the officers had served a warrant to search his room. The...

I can remember watching friends getting wound up by games and always the first to fly was the controller. Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox, it didn't matter. Like ripped clothing to the Hulk, getting angry with a game seems inseparable to flying controllers. Now I used to look down on it with a...

A genuine phobia can encompass anything--given the way our brains our wired the opportunity for something to become frightening is vast in scope. However, there is another point, sometimes people forget that a fear can cause someone to become too fascinated with what has scared them--the true...

How do? :) I just completed Silent Hill Homecoming [thanks only to the patch from Boris Vorontin] and I wanted to find out from Escapist forumites their views on the intellectual property and the direction they believe it needs to go next. I found the control system for SHH a lot better than...

There will never be one answer to whether computer use and/or gaming is/is not good for you. It is totally subjective. One study claims gamers receive boosts to their hand+eye coordination as well as memory and reflexes. Another will say all that time in front of a monitor will give you square...

So, Lord Carter feels it is legitimate to tax broadband users who have done nothing wrong to compensate for those who have committed piracy. This is just typical of government in the UK. They know so very little of the realities of the Gaming and Computer industry in general that ridiculous...