Recent content by DirkBelig

Manly male man here who played the trilogy as FemShep. I once wrote a column for a now-defunct gaming site explaining why I would play as a female character based on a conversation I had with my girlfriend who asked me why I was playing as a woman, prompting me to reply, "Because I want to...

I was playing Dead To Rights on the original Xbox and the save points were so far apart after requiring brutal gameplay - though not Hunter: The Reckoning ridonkulous - that it led to this situation: There's a part where you have to both beat up a massive mob of inmates and then do some...

Keeping to the rockier side of things, meaning no pop like Rihanna or Avril TheVigne or girlie-girl music like Sarah McLachlin and Jewel, here's some good ones to check out: Old-School Ladies: * Ann Wilson (Heart) - Classic track: "Crazy on You" [http://youtu.be/V44HiAX91Hs] (Yeah, there was...

FTFYT.

Another vote for a female protagonist. Supposedly True Crime: Hong Kong was to have a Lucy Liu-modeled lead, but Activision nuked that idea on their way to nuking the game from their dance card. We've had Italian, gangsta, Eastern European, biker, and Hispanic leads, so why not a woman? I mean...

Good timing on this article because I just played it last week - I'm getting the feeling a LOT of people picked it up from the Kmart sale - and the story and performances were the best part. I was a big fan of Heavenly Sword as well - Nariko, babe, call me - and my interest in Fringe was less...

"It's bad enough you're bringing hookers home, but do you have to leave the bodies in our bed?"

Publishers like Activision and EA howl "PIRACY!!!" as the excuse for every title that doesn't sell as much as they wanted. Instead of taking a page from the decimated record industry which turned to concert and merchandising revenues (i.e. because you can't download a t-shirt) and offering an...

Word. On the CAG boards are a couple of dolts who post on EVERY game with DRM - no matter how lightweight, as the ones on The Witcher and others were - that they're not going to buy the titles. They are pompous arses who think they should get their purity rings polished by the Jonas Brothers...

The X360 has it so over the PS3 that it's hard to believe that the Sony fanboys still try to foist the idea that the Black Elephant is even a contender. And, yes, I own a PS3 - a 60GB model I bought as a future-proof Blu-ray player and because it was still backwards-compatible; a feature that...

I can't believe people are seriously wanting a feature-length version of this when it's already too long and slow-paced as it is. Starting with the abysmal "actors" - hey, kids, even Michael Bay takes a moment to get performances better than "Clerks" in his flicks - it just drags and drags and...

Epic Games has become the Metallica of game developers - it doesn't matter what the actual quality of their product is, they've become such pompous jackholes that we wish a Brumak would sodomize them just to shut them the fook up! I'm currently playing thru Gears of War 2 and it is quite...

There was an commentary called "Britney Spears: Galactic Commando" [http://www.ggl.com/index.php?controller=News&method=article&id=2232&page=1] a few years ago that tackled the whole bimbos vs. strong females conundrum. The short version is that women are generally portrayed in the most...

Wow. People hating on Star Wars. I've never seen that before. :-/ To all who are complaining about not being able to choose Light/Dark paths: ARE YOU AWARE THAT YOU ARE DARTH VADER'S SECRET APPRENTICE AND THUS NOT A GOOD PERSON?!?!? If you want to play as a goody-goody Jedi, then play another...

The new music and credits are TERRIBLE!!! The clever musical choices added wonderful icing to the Yahtzee cake and now it just sucks; slapping you in the face like the first time you watched Star Trek: Enterprise and heard, "It's been a long road/Getting from there to here..." For how long...