Recent content by Bruce Edwards

Thinking through the CA requirements, the only periods that spring to my mind (and haven't been done yet) are either more modern (The Great War, and WWII) or more ancient (the wars between Greek city states). The Greek wars could be represented with the existing engine - even the Athenian...

This is frighteningly similar to my experience. With the caveat that I was never actually able to purchase AOEIII, as I live in New Zealand - which apparently means I'm only allowed to purchase games through the GFWL client, and not through the web store. WTF? And by the time I figured this...

Ouch. Are you ... is that you Michael? Anyway, I never meant to imply that fanboys are analysts. Certainly not stock analysts. However, a listed companies earnings and guidence information is freely published. Generally what Pachter does seems to boil down to judging whether or not, say...

Generally, I kind of enjoyed Black Ops. Although, unusually for Call of Duty, all of the best stuff is stacked towards the end. If you only played through the first two hours of gameplay I can understand a low review score. However, both the story and gameplay improve dramatically during...

I still fail to understand why Pachter gets so much attention. Sure, he's not a bad guy, but his predictions are no more or less accurate than those of most forum goers. Generally, I would expect an 'Analyst' worthy of reporting to provide much more insight than I can get from Google myself.

Well, I'd disagree with Russ's review score but agree with many of his points. The graphics are uneven rather than just 'bad'. Weapons, objects, particles - all of these are nicely done. However, character models of anyone except 'main' characters are sorely lacking. Generally the game has...

Sir, this post is made of win, and articulates my thoughts on the matter better than I could express myself. You hereby receive + 1 awesomeness points.

They should go knock on the door at MovieBobs place. I would pay cash money to see his reaction.

Well, I'm a well armed and armoured prison guard, surrounded by auto defences. I'm completely safe - even from that Riddick guy. Now, I'm just going to stand under this vent, near those shadows, and keep an eye on that well lit area to make sure no prisoners are loitering.

Thing is, I can't figure out whether Bob is an evil genius out to generate pageviews or a genuine guy who has zero objectivity. If he's an Evil Genius then targeting Halo with an argument that amounts to 'HALO seems racist' is brilliant. No more needs to be said. If he's a geniune guy...

I had a feeling that Bob, doing this on Halo, would put forward an intellectually dishonest devils-advocate rant that would serve to piss off many and generate traffic. Because he dislikes Halo and likes pageviews. ... and I fell for it. So, yeah, uh, well done again Moviebob. On a side...

Dear Valve; Please stop being so awesome. You are making yourself a monopoly by constantly offering so much value and quality. Love, Bruce. PS - I don't really mean it. If you ever get too big, Google will decide to compete with you, so it's all good.

I've asked this question before, and I guess I'm asking it again: Why does Pachter get press? He's harmless, but inevitably completely wrong about everything he says regarding the games industry. I mean, my father is a better predictor how how something will perform in the games industry...

Hmm. I see Fallout:NV is clearly one of his examples, but what are the other two? Is CIV V really that buggy? And I've been playing Reach a fair amount and haven't seen any bugs thus far. Or are there other AAA's that have come from MS in the last few weeks?