Recent content by jimplunder

It's sensible that a company would want reviewers to highlight the good and gloss over the bad. That's just good business practice. It's wrong to censor criticism, but any company would want to control the media around their product releases, not just Bethesda, EA, or gaming companies. But I...

What happened with Fallout 3?

YouTube is all about views and ads and if you can get a video up of the latest best-selling game with a ton of hype, then you get more views, more ads played, more money. It's a smart business decision. YouTubers make their living off of their videos so they have to get those views when and...

GameStop is in the downloadable game industry too. Thank Gilgamesh that their platform is absolute crap. They bought it off of Stardock when it was called Impulse. The only thing I've managed to see GameStop do with the platform that it had (and honestly, it was crap... any additional content...

The reason why PC digital distribution is way ahead of console's is because PC digital distribution doesn't have to worry about developing hardware. It's all software. Console companies have to develop their actual consoles and have to keep updating them as graphical and processing...

As one of the many who watched one of the first Escapist episodes of the Jimquisition, hated it, and then came back, I'm glad you've done something that many game publishers haven't... listened to audience feedback and made a better product. ^_^ Honestly, the episode that brought me back was...

Well, it made cost, sure, but studios aren't looking to just recoup their cost. They're looking to recoup their cost and then make a buttload of extra money for more big-budget projects. American "bombs" are usually considered so because their returns in America are not that good. We're an...

No need to defend this movie with me either. I've always liked Waterworld and I liked the setting and the premise. I've always wanted to see a more modern game made of it, but oh well... what can you do? (I have played Oil Rush, but it was kind of a clunky game to put in the Waterworld...

I rarely pre-order games. Thanks to Steam sales, I rarely buy games at full price any more either. I kind of think pre-ordering as a concept developed out of the fact that some companies were over budget on their games and needed the cash flow to finish it, or perhaps they spent so much on one...

I don't think I can write much that hasn't been written already. I read the first couple of pages of comments and pretty much anything that would have been "new" in my entry was already said. But I do have to say when Jim described the video, I didn't want to see it. What I ended up doing was...

Well, Gizmo, while that's technically true, once word of Jim's candidacy goes nationwide in the next presidential election, the Congress will run through a Constitutional amendment making an exemption to the "US-born" requirement specifically for Jim. Then after his first two terms, they'll...

I've never been a fans of MMOs. I liked the first GW, although I stopped playing it because everyone else who was playing it with me left for WoW or another MMO. And although I had tried other MMOs, none really grabbed my attention for more than 30 minutes. When GW2 was coming out, everyone...

There are a few old-time computer games I owned. One was a 3 on 3 Michael Jordan basketball game that was TONS of fun! (Made by EA before it became the devil corporation that it is now...), Stunt Island (a Disney game that's exactly what it sounds like... one mission had you in a flying bird...

I don't know if I ever remembered feeling remorse for killing an NPC... Probably felt bad when some died (or angry when some didn't) and it wasn't me behind the deed. Usually when I kill an NPC it's because I want them dead, the game wants them dead, or they got in the way of me shooting an...

I finally finished the main storyline of Skyrim and after "beating" the game, I kind of have to agree with a lot of the posts. The story just wasn't there. It seemed like every story was half-done and rushed. For the Companions and the Winterhold Mage College, there are only about 3 or 4...