Recent content by Casey Bowen

I was working at EB Games the holiday season this game came out. There were some 80 HUGE titles to come out between the PS2 and XBOX that year... and ya know only the top 10-15 of them had huge marketing so of course BG&E got lost in the shuffle since it wasn't marketed at all. If the suits...

I'm 40 and go back to PONG. I still game on pretty much a daily basis. That being said I don't buy as many games as before. Not always because they're just not great -- but because I'm a family man and that takes up a lot of time.... and that is time I wouldn't trade for playing games...

Two words: Wii Music.

I dunno about FL, but 15 months ago when my daughter was born my wife and I had to watch some videos about shaking babies and the 'purple crying' period before we could take our little one home. Sure, she gets in the way sometimes. She ejected the disc for ME3 twice while I was in the middle...

I'd say there is a growing hype. Certainly there hasn't been much until the last few months because they've kept it under wraps for 3 years. Then the Game Informer cover story started the ball rolling. It still struggles I think from a lack of stories and news. Sure, it is coming and can...

Fallout 3.... I was falling asleep through that game. The movement was clunky, the gameplay was stale, the VO was bad, the main story was un-interesting. Funny -- 'cause I loved FO3 for the most part. But I hated New Vegas. 'Tis interesting how people can react so differently to such a...

I may be lynched for this but Half-life and everything related to it. I tried playing it. I just can't do it. I don't mean that I am incapable of playing it, just that I am unwilling to subject myself to it. I just find it boring, uninteresting, dull and wholly uninteresting. The...

Had this happen last night, and it was on Bronze (hey I started the day before yesterday) and it was killing the VIPs. We were on our third and had 20 seconds left when I found and killed him... and the 4th as well with about 13 seconds. (With an assault rifle no less!) I get sometimes you...

Cutting price points has shown to spur sales in some things. Often hardware. So maybe it would make a few more sales for the new software. But will it make that much of a difference? Hard to say since software is a different beast. Make something worth your price. Give the people who are...

I don't buy the argument that used game sales = lost new game sales. At least not in the sense that every single used sale would have been a new one. That's just plain stupidity. Some people just don't buy new. Some people aren't going to risk the cash for an untried IP. Some people are...

Came out on the original PSX. Don't think it did for anything else console-wise. http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/572590-x-com-ufo-defense While I don't recall a lot of griping about it at the time, I don't know that it sold extremely well either. I didn't really care since I was playing the...

I am one of those long time Xcom geeks. Sure this one has some changes, but so far from what I have seen it looks like they'll work. I am hoping for more reports and videos over the next couple of months but I'm excited. More than any of the other titles I knew were coming this year. I've...

Ahh there it is. Took me a couple of days to find the GI issue that has the info. Here's the sidebar text: "The Super Heavy Infantry Vehicles (SHIV) are great examples of how players can shape their personal XCOM organization to their taste. Each SHIV can be outfitted with whatever...

I guess I don't understand all the hating on the 4 unit thing (which will apparently be upgradeable [upper limit unknown]. Sure, in the original you could take out a dozen (or more). More than half the time I just had one or two groups who didn't even up finding the UFO or the main section of...

Ahh, but there will be "heavy weapons platforms" that you'll be able to research and take out on missions.