Recent content by Damian Domino Davis

Oh dear christ. I can't even play Halo CE on this machine without my computer suffering temporal discretion, but by God it's freaking liberating to design for it. Map layouts, weapon models, doesn't even matter. (Smug Maya grin.)

For the life of me I can't imagine why. What kind of mac is that, anyway?

"Should" is a terrible word for the question. And mostly irrelevant; when did thinking "Should I or shouldn't I" last change what you actually did? Yeah, it's allowed, and it ought to be; but we really ought to stop deconstructing the implications. Nobody's interested in the far-flung moral...

Will they make it. Of course they will. Nobody is going to let a mindless cash cow like Kingdom Hearts fade into obscurity with anything less than a complete flop to finish off the franchise.

Mixed emotions here. Part of me is thinking, "Gamefreak, you fools, remakes never gross as well as you want them to; and where's the innovation?" But then the other part of me compares the species designs through the years, and I'm relatively happy they stopped scraping the barrel for more...

It belongs in flight environments and other crap where three-dimensional high-speed movement is the norm, but anything else, and... well, yeah, burn her as a witch.

Guybrush Threepwood: I like mist! Mist is pretty. The Lost Welshman: Well SURE Myst is pretty, but egad is it dull.

I've had no troubles getting Grim Fandango to run on XP. From a disc image, no less. Speaking of long-lost lucasarts goodness, anyone remember The Secret of Monkey Island? That will be the ultimate adventure game for the rest of time.

The original God of War. Let me explain. You've come all this way through all this crap to give Aries what's coming to him, even beaten him up personally in collosal proportions. He even wins out against hordes of his own dark nature incarnate, after Aries traps Kratos inside his own head...

Anyting made in Spore. Also, Wretches from Gears one. Sorry, but those things creep me out, especially when they start to glow and explode and scream in dark mines.

I don't think the older Command & Conquers are much of a stretch. Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2 in a pinch.

I don't think the two are related, the characteristics of either being a sidescroller or being sold retail. A sidescroller is just an implementation of one kind of presentation, like so many others. What I think you ought to be asking, is, are sidescrollers falling out of favor generally, and...

Is sexism vanishing from the vidya. You best be joking. Whether or not it's right or wrong, let me lay out a little practical truth for you: as long as we have two genders, we will have functional differences between them in all sorts of ways; as long as we have genders, we will have...

Yeesss, I remember Bauldur's Gate. Oh my God that game left me irritated the whole time I was playing it, but in a good way, the same way we watch American Idol so we can rage at the people who suck. System Shock is a win as well.

Overall, I think you're just ticked with that store's staff, not GameStop. On pushing used games -- has to do with company policy to promote them, their corporate culture thinks they make more money off it, and generates longer-term interest among the clients. On copy switchout -- that...