Recent content by Dylalanine

I'm not very torn about this. I'm too excited that the PS4/X1's self-updating and "always on/sleep mode" features will get me to my games faster than I can turn my TV and sound system, which is a serious problem with the X360 right now. Load main screen, sign online, select game, load game...

So, Postal III uses the Source Engine too. And Dota2, sure. That's a fine legacy it leaves behind. What I'm getting at is that Half-Life 2 is a vastly overrated game. When I say it stands on the shoulders of giants--yes, like Isaac Newton coined and/or used best--I say that it stands on...

Disagree. Completely disagree. This was a fantastic movie and I enjoyed it much more than the Dark Knight and the comic book-cheesy Avengers. The Avengers was much less substantive a movie than this one and even its sincere Iron Man character arc was trumped in DK Rises. Bruce needing to...

The orignal Half-Life did most of this already, and Half-Life 2 was a tangible evolution of many of its concepts and the concepts of other games, but it wasn't a revolution. No game uses the Source Engine that's not under the Valve francise. TF2 and L4D2 use the Source Engine, but those were...

Screw Half-Life 2 and screw the Valvangelest Church. Don't get me wrong; Half-Life 2 is a very good game. I think most of us can all agree on that. But I have two severe objections here, to two ugly trends that mold the online community into an amorphous blob of like-minded nerds guffawing like...