Recent content by Diogo Ribeiro

I'd like to see a A Mind Forever Voyaging remake.

I have to disagree with that. It's understandable to claim people to be more influenced by subjectivity than objectivity. But to claim objectivity is something beyond us? I find that's terribly narrow and dismissive of the human condition on a general basis. Well, this is a much more...

And, really, is there a better way to summarize the Olympics?

Arcade Fire, in the Super Bock Super Rock 2007 festival in Portugal. It wasn't as awesome as that concert - in Montreal, I believe - where they left the stage and went on playing through the streets, but the band knows how to draw the audience into them in a wonderful way.

The Psycho Half-Life of Jerichonauts?

Everyone knows that if you're 9 years old and don't play Call of Duty 4, then you suck at life.

Why not save generic bad guy x from the world?

Again, why? Who's to say my subjective experience with a game is more important or relevant to the end-user than how the game actually plays? Why is it worse to discuss how the game plays than how I feel about the game? Does it matter to the end-user that my experience with Metal Gear Solid 4 is...

Yes, but when you play 'Genericho' and your character walks onto the monitor to spout off how she's a lesbian every 15 minutes or so, we have seen that one before. And that kind of "atmosphere" isn't exactly Welles caliber.

Why?

I've yet to see any good argument as to why Braid is "art".

Sony didn't need to ask me that.

A decision that tugs at one's morals - forcing players to consider the consequences and ramifications of their choices - is only worthwhile if the morality is questioned later on. This simply isn't the case with Fable, which is why I have to disagree with that particular quote. It may have been...

Would it be less insensitive if the Space Invaders were attacking Guernica? Or less tasteless if it were simulating a raid over the Reichstag?

Does it matter the position as long as there is love?