Recent content by Hair Jordan

Yeah, I don't care how popular it's become, Minecraft still does the job for me. Creative mode, no flying, deep cave exploration has a certain amount of inherent relaxation that few other games can compete with.

This is an irrelevant non sequitur substituting for a response. People's motivations or personal moral compass are irrelevant to a discussion of Konami's business practices. The level of "theatrics" involved in making an argument have no bearing whatsoever in whether or not the argument is...

The "entitlement" you describe is a fundamental tenant of market principles. Consumers will rightfully feel entitled to be offered quality products, that suit them, at a reasonable price. When those expectations are not met, you can expect some form of "market discipline". This takes a few basic...

I'm going to have to agree...after some consideration I was disappointed by DSIII as well. It's not just the story and lore though. It shows, quite a bit, that FromSoft put out three games in as many years. tl;dr - DSIII feels way too much like Bloodeborne + fanservice. Sorry about the...

Ok...but come on dude, that was a handheld spinoff. That's like saying that "Mario is Missing" was the worst Mario game. Other M was a direct Metroid game on their flagship console. As such, it's held to a much higher standard. They decided to hand it to a team that immediately...

Yeah, this thread could easily just be about the Souls games. Pretty much every boss, out of the dozens out there, is harder than any other boss from just about any other modern game. Try the third one, it's out now....

This may seem like a left-field kind of answer, but I'm going to point out Mario Paint, back on the SNES. I've seen very few "educational" games, since, aimed at children that had this level of artistry throughout their presentation. MP really bridged the gap between "entertainment" and...

I was simply making a refutation of your statement that ""anti-intellectual" and "anti-authoritarian" tend to be two sides of the same coin." That some intellectuals play an implicit role in reinforcing preexisting power structures, is not controversial. Your entire argument boils down to...

I close doors to places I'm never going to return.

I think this is a blatant misunderstanding of the role of "anti-intellectualism" in history. A fundamental aspect of every overtly totalitarian government has been the suppression or outright persecution, often murderously brutal, of the intellectual class. From the purges of the USSR or...

The argument is complex, and requires a pretty solid grounding in philosophy and Marxism. Short answer, for someone like Cait, yes this would apply to films, as well. However, CaitSeith's insistence on treating games as either a "product" or "works of art" is a false dichotomy, through the...

I know it's a long thread, so I'm going to try and not repeat too much of my other posts, but there's a difference between disliking something and disagreeing with it. Disliking things is a statement of preference. I dislike beets, for example. Disagreeing with things is a statement of...

But they're not reviewing the leather industry, per se (keeping in mind that it's your wording here, we're discussing the "essence" of your review, so let's not get caught in semanitcs), they're reviewing the seats - which are in the car. If we allow ideology into reviews, in opposition to...

I think by saying "you aren't reviewing the car" you're making an assumption. If a person, hypothetically, cares about animal rights more than any other facet of automobiles, then no other features of the car are going to be relevant if this overarching concern sits in violation. All of the...

I'd argue that it depends on the severity of the perceived issues, and the perspective of the journalist. That "review" potentially wouldn't be appropriate to a gearhead's website, and would generate a lot of distaste, but if it were published by PETA (who reviewed cars for some reason), I can't...