Recent content by Dexter S. Bateman

Dual Caestus and bitching moustaches let you get pretty close to a Major Armstrong from FMA/Dudley from Street Fighter look

So long as the story isn't pretentiously written with overdone and pointless allusion while trying to be Spec Ops: The Line with none of the creativity or subtlety, I might look into it.

This is why I imagine every issue being raised by an American on any side of anything as being filtered through a Today Tonight/A Current Affair lens and then trying to backtrack to the core of the argument and/or issue. Most people have something valid to say, but once predominantly American...

The fact that the 'geek world' still almost collectively hyperventilates whenever any sort of female or feminist issues raised in relation to geek culture demonstrates why such an article is relevant and, frankly, needed. It's not just about the outright loonies harassing Anita Sarkeesian - it's...

We tried to give you David Wenham, Richard Roxburgh and Ben Mendelsohn, but you took Sam Worthington so we gave you Jai Courtney.

I really like that Pitchford is taking this seriously, I can only imagine EA/Activision trying to dismiss it or whatever, but I am firmly on the "worrying precedent" side of this. I realise much changed from the trailer to the game (nearly all for the worse), but I also thought it was fairly...

I've been discussing her videos way too much in the last week, but here goes: Anita's videos describe problems. They may be causes, they may be symptoms, but they are problems. Something should be done to fix these problems. However, as we all agree that censorship is wrong (unless you assume...

That is stupid. There is a very high barrier to entry into that business - you might get a couple successful one man indie products on digital distribution - but your AAA titles have HUGE natural barriers to entry, i.e. games now cost MILLIONS to make. That is what enables them to price gouge...

Labor isn't an unregulated market, games selling is. One is an operating cost of the company, the other is to do with people buying games - two fairly separate things. Also, the higher Australian dollar doesn't reduce our prices for anything at all - CPI still increases, so lowering the minimum...

Australians being early adopters really feeds into I think. It's a pretty monopolistically competetive market (though I guess if you were to limit it to the AAA industry you could consider it oligopoly, making my points more salient), and that really allows from companies like EA and Activision...

I think part of the appeal of Gearbox is Randy Pitchford. I know with DNF and Aliens here Gearbox doesn't exactly have a stellar track record, but Borderlands really has a personality all of its own that is more than just how good the game is. Randy Pitchford's plugging of Gearbox's products...

I don't know if I can say I think of specific themes as you have, but I do have certain pieces of media/art that I like to fit to my mood. Whenever I feel down, a replay of Dear Esther is a must for me. The semi-randomised dialogue allows me to unfold and discover a new tragedy each time, and...

I can't say I've played the game, but I believe both the outlandish scenarios and the RNG not necessarily being crap... I've read the game has a fairly high number of bugs and glitches, couldn't it explain the RNG bugging out once in a while? So although the RNG might not pick 80 shots at 90/95%...

I only looked at this thread to see how quickly someone would say this. Thank you sir for not disappointing. No condescension intended. OT: Another Triple-A title as thought provoking as Spec Ops: The Line coming out this generation.

I think I'm normally a bit ahead of the curve on these things...but to me it's the same as 'lame'. No one thinks that anyone who says the word lame is trying to offend the injured/crippled, and likewise I don't think very many people at all who use the word 'gay' in its (now) most common sense...